The Liquid Network, a blockchain settlement layer used by several cryptocurrency exchanges to move Bitcoin, was hacked for $320 million. The network halted all transactions after the exploit, which was reported around September 7, 2026.

This is one of the latest major breaches to shake confidence in digital-asset security, and it exposes risks in the settlement infrastructure exchanges depend on. The incident may lead to stricter scrutiny of sidechain security and affect trust in exchange-related Bitcoin custody and transfer methods.

Liquid Network is a Bitcoin sidechain designed to allow faster and more confidential transfers between exchanges. CoinDesk reported that the hacker made a conditional offer, with the attackers claiming they were 'the good guys.'

Chilean crypto exchange Orionx has begun a permanent shutdown and frozen customer withdrawals after a forensic audit found that more than $7 million in customer assets were moved to wallets outside its control. The collapse comes less than a year after Tether invested in Orionx in June 2025, following an earlier investment by affiliated exchange Bitfinex in 2023.

This event highlights how fragile user protections remain in crypto markets, especially where a prominent stablecoin issuer like Tether has backed an exchange. Affected users face uncertain recovery because Chile's CMF says it cannot compel Orionx to repay assets, and the situation may further undermine confidence in custodial exchanges and their backers.

Chile's CMF rejected Orionx's registration and authorization application on June 19, ending the transitional arrangement that had allowed it to operate while the application was reviewed. The failure leaves more than 100,000 registered users in limbo; Orionx has notified prosecutors and filed a criminal complaint against former executives, but its closure tracker remains at the first of five stages, with balance reconciliation and approval of a restitution plan still required.

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old ringleader, pleaded guilty to heading an international social engineering scheme that stole approximately $245 million in cryptocurrency. The guilty plea marks a major breakthrough in the high-profile crypto crime case.

This case underscores the growing scale and sophistication of social engineering attacks targeting cryptocurrency holders, and it demonstrates how law enforcement is using racketeering charges to pursue digital-asset criminals. The outcome could heighten scrutiny on security practices and contribute to stricter regulatory and legal precedents across the crypto industry.

Lam led an international operation that used social engineering tactics such as impersonation and account takeovers to gain access to victims' cryptocurrency wallets. The $245 million figure places the case among the largest crypto theft prosecutions, and the charges reflect the organized, conspiracy-based nature of the scheme.

OpenAI announced a purported solution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Millennium Prize Problems, claiming the proof was produced by an internal AI system. The result asserts that the governing fluid equations can develop a singularity in finite time.

This announcement is a high-profile test of whether an AI system can make original progress on a famous open problem that has resisted mathematicians for decades. If the proof holds up, it could reshape expectations about AI-driven mathematical research and force new norms for verification, peer review, and early sharing of scientific work.

The claimed proof has not been independently verified or peer-reviewed, and the announcement is already being compared to previous disputed AI-generated mathematics. Community discussion also flags questions about provenance — including allegations that the work builds on another researcher’s unpublished findings — and notes the extremely short training timeline of the model involved.

Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaGenome Atlas, an AI-powered predictive map of every possible single-letter change in the human genome. The searchable catalogue contains molecular-effect predictions and AVI scores for roughly 9 billion single-nucleotide variants across coding and non-coding regions.

Most disease-associated variants lie in the non-coding 98% of the human genome, which previous tools struggled to interpret at scale. AlphaGenome Atlas turns those predictions into a searchable public resource that could accelerate rare-disease diagnosis, variant prioritisation and drug target discovery.

The underlying AlphaGenome model takes up to 1 megabase of surrounding DNA as input, avoiding the usual trade-off between sequence context length and prediction resolution. The Atlas covers around 9 billion single-nucleotide variants and is freely accessible online without requiring an institutional affiliation.

The 42 largest tokenized equities generated $1.01 billion in combined trading volume on Saturday and Sunday, roughly matching a typical Friday session, with an additional $398.3 million on Labor Day. Robinhood Chain processed $572.8 million of that weekend total.

This milestone underscores the growing demand for 24/7 trading and shows that blockchain rails can handle meaningful volumes of traditional stock-like assets. It signals accelerating convergence between traditional finance and crypto infrastructure, potentially drawing more institutions and retail users into tokenized markets.

A single tokenized Nasdaq-100 fund on BNB Chain accounted for $180.5 million of the weekend volume by itself. Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum-compatible Layer-2 built on the Arbitrum Orbit stack, handled more than half of the weekend trading.

Bybit has expanded its crypto derivatives account to include 24/7 trading of major FX pairs, allowing users to trade traditional currencies alongside digital assets. The announcement was reported by TradingView.

This move bridges traditional forex and crypto derivatives, giving traders diversified exposure without leaving a crypto-native platform. It reflects a wider trend where crypto exchanges are integrating traditional assets to attract institutional and retail liquidity.

Bybit's FX offering includes majors such as EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, AUD/USD, and USD/CAD, accessible within the derivatives account. The platform also supports CFD trading on currencies, metals, indices, and stocks via MetaTrader 5, with competitive fees and 24/7 customer support.

Robinhood announced a multi-year deal with OG.com to route its prediction-market event contracts through OG.com's CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange and clearinghouse. As part of the arrangement, Robinhood received minority equity stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com, with the rollout beginning Tuesday for eligible US customers.

The deal links a major US retail brokerage with Crypto.com's ecosystem and CFTC-regulated event-contract infrastructure, giving prediction markets deeper institutional backing. It also underscores how quickly Robinhood's prediction-markets business has grown, with event contracts overtaking equities and crypto transaction revenue in the second quarter.

Robinhood's stakes are priced at valuations set by an earlier Citadel Securities investment in the platforms, though the size and value of the holdings were not disclosed. OG.com was recently spun off from Crypto.com at a $5 billion valuation and plans to expand beyond prediction markets into futures and perpetual contracts.

Visa announced on Tuesday it is combining VisaNet settlement data with blockchain-based lending infrastructure, allowing lenders to use transaction records to finance stablecoin-linked card programs' working capital needs. Visa cited Credit Coop, which has financed over $2.5 billion in settlement volume since 2023, as an early example.

The initiative marks a significant step in institutional adoption by linking onchain credit with mainstream card payment settlement, effectively expanding decentralized lending beyond crypto-native markets. If successful, it could give fintechs and card programs easier access to working capital and deepen stablecoin's role in real-world commerce.

Visa reported that stablecoin settlement volume through its network has surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate, more than 15 times year-ago levels, and that stablecoin-linked payment volume is up nearly 200% year over year across over 160 card programs. The company also noted that onchain lending protocols have processed more than $694 billion in stablecoin loans since 2020, citing Visa's analytics dashboard.

The White House has issued a proclamation modifying the scope of Canadian products subject to additional duties first imposed under Proclamation 11048 of July 20, 2026. The duties were adopted to counter what the US determined to be Canada's discriminatory tariffs on US motor vehicles.

This action continues US enforcement against Canadian automotive trade practices and will affect automakers and parts suppliers whose supply chains cross the border. It also signals that Washington is willing to keep using Section 338 of the Tariff Act as leverage in bilateral trade disputes.

The proclamation operates under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1338). Proclamation 11048 had found that Canada's United States Surtax Order (Motor Vehicles 2025), SOR/2025-118, imposed tariffs only on US motor vehicles while treating other countries more favorably. The new proclamation refines the list of affected Canadian products.

OpenAI announced that its internal AI models, coordinated as roughly 10,000 agents over 88 hours, produced a Lean-verified proof that the Navier-Stokes fluid equations can blow up. Hours earlier, NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of trying to claim priority for work he and Anthropic's Levent Alpöge had already completed.

The Navier-Stokes problem is one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's seven Millennium Prize Problems, each worth $1 million, so a verified blow-up proof would be a landmark in mathematics and a striking demonstration of AI in formal reasoning. The priority dispute also raises important questions about research ethics and how AI labs handle unpublished work in a competitive research environment.

Buckmaster stated that he shared details of his unpublished proof with an OpenAI mathematician in September, after which OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck allegedly offered to coordinate publication but then pressured him, mentioning an internal 100-page proof of forced Navier-Stokes blow-up. OpenAI, Bubeck, and Sam Altman deny the allegations, and Bubeck published text messages that he says demonstrate good-faith offers for a coordinated release.