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🚨 The funds hacked from Bitget include: 102.93M $XRP ($157.48M) 31,890 $ETH ($85.75M) 34.75M $USDT ($34.75M) 21.05M $USDC ($21.05M) 19.67M $USD ₮0 ($19.67M) 3,000 ethereum:0x68749665ff8d2d112fa859aa293f07a622782f38 ($12.82M) 12,719 $BNB ($9.88M) 821,012 $AVAX ($8.38M) 20.59M $TRX ($7.07M)

🚨 BREAKING: Bitget says user funds remain protected following a $351.6 MILLION hot wallet exploit. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says the entire loss will be covered by the exchange’s User Protection Fund, which holds more than $464 MILLION. According to Chen, the breach affected only a portion of Bitget’s hot and warm wallets, while cold wallets remain fully secure. Deposits and trading remain open, but withdrawals are temporarily paused as Bitget conducts a security review. “We will not run from this. Every dollar and every decision will be accounted for, transparently and in full.”

🚨 BREAKING: BlackRock, the $15 trillion asset manager, is partnering with Ondo to bring investment portfolios on-chain. Another major step toward bringing traditional finance onto blockchain rails. Wall Street is moving on-chain. 🇺🇸

🚨 JUST IN: Soccer's Liga MX is suing Kalshi for allegedly using its trademarks in an unauthorized manner on its “betting pages."

🚨 Eureka Labs co-founder and CEO Nir Magenheim argues Ethereum’s next execution frontier may not require a hard fork. “The block was a container, it does not have to stay one.” His thesis: the block-building phase itself can become programmable. Most Ethereum blocks are already assembled by external builders before validators propose them. Making that layer programmable could introduce intra-block credit, state-aware computation and guaranteed transaction placement for protocols, searchers and market makers. Crucially, Magenheim argues this can happen inside Ethereum’s existing proposer-builder separation architecture, without an EIP, hard fork or validator coordination. The idea is to turn block builders from passive transaction assemblers into an additional execution layer for Ethereum. alphawire.xyz/alphaclub/ethe…

Is Wall Street buying crypto’s breakout?

Crypto movers today Winners bitcoin-cash:native +31% $UNI +14% $ZRO +18% solana:2zMMhcVQEXDtdE6vsFS7S7D5oUodfJHE8vd1gnBouauv +14% Losers $AKE -23% $PUMP -7% $STX -6% BTC holding $86k after yesterday’s rip. Rotation day.

The Stablecoin FX Layer has now passed 14b in total volume. USDC, USDT, PYUSD, and RLUSD all have deep on-chain liquidity via USDS on Uniswap.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Spark’s stablecoin FX Layer has surpassed $12 billion in volume in under three months, with Ripple’s RLUSD now joining through a $375 million deployment. @hexonaut, co-founder and CEO of Spark, told AlphaWire the growth is being driven primarily by treasury capital rather than short-term “mercenary” liquidity chasing incentives. RLUSD’s $375M deployment is being split across three areas: • $250M for institutional capital deployment • $50M for RLUSD/USDS liquidity on Uniswap v4 • $100M to seed an RLUSD lending market on SparkLend MacPherson says the goal is to give stablecoins shared infrastructure across liquidity, capital allocation and credit instead of forcing each ecosystem to build everything from scratch. RLUSD/USDS alone traded more than $600M in its first week. alphawire.xyz/news/stablecoi…

🚨 DEEP DIVE: Bitwise launched its Dogecoin ETF with $2.5M. Less than 10 months later, it was shutting it down. The headline launch figure hid a bigger problem: the initial $2.5M came from a Bitwise affiliate, while sustained outside demand never followed. By September, BWOW had fallen to roughly $700K in assets, redemptions had cut its DOGE holdings, and trading activity had collapsed from its launch levels. At a 0.34% sponsor fee, that asset base produced only about $2,380 in annualized gross fees. We broke down what really killed Bitwise’s Dogecoin ETF, from its seed capital and stalled creations to the economics behind BWOW’s 10-month collapse. alphawire.xyz/deepdive/crypt…

What happens when Bitcoin tags an eight-month high the same week Congress kills its bill?

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Europe just took a major step toward putting traditional finance onchain. The ECB has launched Pontes, allowing tokenized assets to settle directly in central bank money, with Deutsche Bank, Santander and 11 other institutions joining the initial rollout. @edwin_mata, CEO and co-founder of Brickken, told AlphaWire that Pontes tackles one of the biggest missing pieces in institutional tokenization: “Tokenized assets become much more useful when the settlement infrastructure underneath them can move at the same speed as the asset itself.” The system links private blockchain platforms with the Eurosystem’s existing settlement infrastructure, bringing the asset and cash sides of tokenized trades together. Full rollout is expected by 2028. alphawire.xyz/news/crypto-ec…

🚨 BREAKING: Bitcoin Cash bitcoin-cash:native jumps to $300, while Uniswap $UNI breaks above $9 after CME confirms futures are scheduled to launch October 19. CME plans to offer both standard and Micro BCH and UNI futures contracts, pending regulatory approval. The contracts will provide regulated, 24/7 exposure without requiring traders to directly hold either token. CME already offers crypto futures tied to BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, LINK, XLM, AVAX and SUI.

Crypto movers today Winners $SUI +26% $SEI +31% bitcoin-cash:native +19% $PEPE +16% Losers $AKE -15% $STRK -11% $AI -12% BTC holding $85k–$86k. Broad green tape, memes and L1s leading.

🚨 JUST IN: Russia has launched crypto perpetual futures for the first time. Trading begins today, September 22, giving qualified investors exposure to BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and TRON without directly owning the assets. MOEX crypto futures have already surpassed 600 BILLION rubles in trading volume, with more than 72,000 investors participating.