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DeFi Development Corp Boosts Solana Holdings to 2M with $40M Buy

DeFi Development Corp (Nasdaq: DFDV) has solidified its position as a top corporate Solana (SOL) holder by acquiring 196,141 SOL for $39.76 million on September 4, 2025, pushing its total holdings to 2,027,817 SOL, valued at $427 million. This 11% increase from its August 28 purchase, funded by a $5 billion equity line (0.4% utilized), underscores the firm’s aggressive Solana …

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Bitcoin Shock: Legendary Wallet Moves $52M – Could Satoshi Be Active?

Dormant Bitcoin wallet from 2011, holding 479.44 BTC worth $53.56 million, transferred 0.25 BTC ($28,000), reigniting speculation about Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s elusive creator. Flagged by TheStreet, this “Satoshi-era” wallet, active when Nakamoto was online, stirred the crypto community, with some theorizing Satoshi’s return. The wallet, untouched for over 12 years, is among 1.75 million inactive Bitcoin addresses holding $121 billion, …

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$8.4M Flash-Loan Hack Hits Bunni — ‘Rounding Error’ at Fault

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Bunni suffered an $8.4 million hack due to a flash-loan exploit targeting a rounding error in its smart contracts, according to CryptoQuant. The attacker manipulated liquidity pools on Ethereum and Unichain, draining $1.33 million in USDC and $1 million in USDT from the weETH/ETH and USDC/USDT pools. Bunni’s post-mortem revealed the flaw stemmed from a rounding …

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Stripe’s Tempo Kicks Off Private Testing with Visa, Deutsche Bank & Standard Chartered

Stripe, the $92 billion fintech giant, launched private testing of its Tempo blockchain, a Layer 1 payments platform, on September 4, 2025, partnering with Visa, Deutsche Bank, and Standard Chartered, among others. Designed for high-throughput stablecoin transactions, Tempo targets over 100,000 transactions per second with sub-second finality, addressing limitations of existing blockchains that process 5–1,000 TPS. Stripe, handling peaks exceeding …

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Gemini Goes Big in Europe: EU Staking and 100x Perps Live After MiCA Approval

Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, has launched Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) staking alongside USDC-denominated perpetual contracts with up to 100x leverage for European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) investors. Announced on September 5, 2025, this expansion follows Gemini’s approval under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) by Malta’s MFSA in August, complemented …

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