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IonQ, a publicly listed U.S. quantum computing company, unveiled its 256-qubit quantum computer, "Superion 256," on Sept. 8, though it does not pose a meaningful threat to Bitcoin security at its current level, Decrypt reported. According to the outlet, stealing BTC with a quantum computer by exploiting exposed public keys would require far more advanced technology capable of stable computation with error correction, and a 256-qubit system does not mean it can break 256-bit security. IonQ has begun taking orders for Superion 256 and plans to start shipments next year.

Crypto hacks and exploits have resulted in 333 incidents this year, with a total of $1.73 billion stolen, The Block reported, citing data from TRM Labs. Of that amount, the recent hack of Bitcoin layer-two sidechain Liquid Network was the largest this year at $319 million. The attacker returned about 85% of the stolen funds, but still holds around $47 million. TRM Labs has identified the attacker’s address and is tracking the remaining funds.

Digital asset recovery group DART said it, working with white-hat researchers, rescued more than 50 BTC from wallets exposed to a hardware wallet Coldcard entropy vulnerability by moving the Bitcoin to a secure location before an attacker could steal it. The BTC was transferred to Crypto Recovery Trust, a statutory trust established in Wyoming, which will hold the recovered digital assets and identify and verify their rightful owners.

KOSDAQ-listed BitPlanet has completed its acquisition of mining machines and is moving into BTC mining, The Asia Business Daily reported. In a filing on Sept. 9, the company said a tangible asset acquisition deal signed in June had been completed as planned. The total acquisition price was $9,999,228, or about 13.4 billion won. The 1,204 miners consist of 454 Bitmain "S21 XP Hydro" units and 750 "S21e XP Hydro" units, which have been deployed in Oman and Paraguay. The company plans to begin the initial phase of operations through a mix of outsourced operations and joint ventures, with a target of mining seven BTC per month and at least 84 BTC per year.

Dee Goens, co-founder of multichain social platform Zora, has become the company’s new CEO and plans to introduce ZORA token buybacks and rewards. Former CEO Jacob Samuel Horne is leaving the company. Goens said the buybacks and rewards are intended to return business performance to ZORA token holders, and added that Zora also plans to resume community incentive payouts. The company has reduced its workforce to fewer than 10 this year and recently expanded token issuance support to Robinhood and Solana, while also adding cross-chain trading that includes BNB Chain.

The European Commission has adopted a Delegated Act expanding the authority of member-state financial regulators to require crypto exchanges and virtual asset service providers operating across borders to designate a local Central Contact Point, AML Intelligence reported. The framework, previously applied only to electronic money institutions and payment institutions, has now been extended to the crypto sector. Through a local CCP, host-country AML/CFT supervisors will be able to monitor in real time whether overseas CASPs headquartered in other countries are filing suspicious transaction reports and complying with anti-money laundering controls. The change is expected to increase administrative and operational costs for crypto exchanges and service providers, including local compliance hiring and contact network setup, depending on each member state's requirements.

CoinMarketCap’s altcoin season index came in at 38, down 13 points from yesterday. The index is calculated by comparing Bitcoin’s price performance with that of the top 100 coins by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins and wrapped tokens. An altcoin season is identified when 75% of the top 100 coins outperform Bitcoin over the past 90 days, while the opposite is considered a Bitcoin season. A reading closer to 100 indicates stronger altcoin season conditions.

Deposits on Base in decentralized lending protocol MORPHO have surpassed those on Ethereum, Blockworks co-founder Michael Ippolito said on X. According to a chart Ippolito shared, deposits in the Base-based Morpho Blue market totaled about $6.19 billion from Aug. 31 to Sept. 6, exceeding Ethereum’s $6.09 billion. Ippolito added that while Base is facing heavy criticism, its direction appears different from Robinhood Chain.

Hardware wallet maker Trezor warned users to watch for fake security alert phishing emails after a third-party email service provider was hacked, Cointelegraph reported. Trezor said it is investigating the incident and urged users not to click links included in the emails. The phishing messages falsely claimed a critical security vulnerability had been found in the STM32 microcontroller used in Trezor devices. A similar phishing incident previously occurred at Swiss hardware wallet company BitBox.

xAI’s AI chatbot Grok now supports Coinbase account linking, according to a post on X. Users can view and analyze Coinbase balances and data within Grok chat, and can buy or sell eligible assets or cancel orders.

Swiss hardware wallet maker BitBox said a newsletter service provider it uses was likely hacked after phishing emails were sent to newsletter subscribers. The company said several Bitcoin firms using the same provider also appeared to have been targeted in the phishing attack. BitBox said it had sent warning emails to subscribers, reported the phishing domains, and found that most related links had already been blocked. Additional investigation is under way.

CoinMarketCap’s in-house Crypto Fear and Greed Index came in at 71, down one point from yesterday, with the market remaining in greed territory. The index indicates extreme fear as it approaches zero and extreme optimism as it approaches 100. CoinMarketCap calculates the index based on price moves among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, market volatility, derivatives-market indicators including put/call ratios, the stablecoin supply ratio (SSR), and CoinMarketCap’s own search data.

Spot CVD is an order-book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper panel shows a volume heatmap, while the lower panel shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The volume heatmap in the upper panel tracks trading volume by price range. The background color becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or moves sharply. Areas closer to brighter colors may act as support or resistance. - The cumulative volume delta indicator in the lower panel reflects buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the line in the corresponding color moves higher. The yellow line is based on orders of $100 to $1,000, while the brown line is based on large orders of $1 million to $10 million, among others.

Patrick Witt, executive director of the White House Crypto Council, said all senators, regardless of party, should vote in favor so debate on the CLARITY Act can begin on Tuesday and the legislative process can move forward, Cointelegraph reported.

DEX aggregator 1inch has never generated a profit despite facilitating more than $800 billion in trading volume, Cointelegraph reported. Sergey Kunz, a co-founder of 1inch, said the DeFi market remains too small to focus on profit generation.

Hunter Biden said a sniper was behind LAPTOP meme coin’s 99% price collapse and said neither he nor his team had sold the token, Cointelegraph reported.

Grayscale has filed for a 2x leveraged ZEC ETF.

Major exchanges have seen $110 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $379 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

A California man, Adam Iza, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for taking part in a 2024 Bitcoin-related kidnapping case, Cointelegraph reported. Iza, his brother and six men from Florida were accused of conspiring to kidnap the parents of a cryptocurrency investor to extort money, then stealing the victim’s Lamborghini and assaulting and detaining the victim. The U.S. Department of Justice said Iza used mobile phones and encrypted messaging apps to coordinate and finance the crime. Iza’s brother and the six other alleged participants also pleaded guilty and are awaiting trial.

Solana-based memecoin issuance platform Pump.fun now supports stock tokens as pairing assets for token launches. It had previously supported only SOL and USDC. The new pairing asset options include stock- and index-based tokenized assets tied to Tesla, Nvidia, Circle, Nasdaq, the S&P 500, Micron Technology and SK Hynix.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $78,000. BTC is trading at $77,945.29 on the Binance USDT market.

The three major U.S. stock indices closed lower today. - S&P 500: -0.48% - Nasdaq: -0.64% - Dow Jones: -0.77%

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged the Senate to move quickly on the Clarity Act. In a post on X, Bessent strongly urged all senators to stay at the negotiating table after returning from recess, reach common ground, and agree to begin floor debate so the legislative process can continue. Bessent warned that failing to do so could send a troubling signal to both U.S. allies and adversaries that the United States lacks the will to lead the future of digital assets and may forgo an opportunity to strengthen national security tools aimed at preventing the misuse of digital assets.

Kristin Smith, head of the Solana Policy Institute, said in an interview with Crypto in America that Smith remains positive about the chances of the Clarity Act passing, although confidence has eased somewhat from this spring. Smith added the crypto industry tends to think it can control the process, but that is not actually the case.

World, a Solana-based prediction market project, saw its XYZ website go down after launch as traffic overwhelmed the site, Crypto Briefing reported. World XYZ opened on Sept. 9 and within hours temporarily blocked user access. World said "All funds are safe and the platform itself is operating normally. This outage was a simple traffic issue, not a security problem." Earlier, World had announced plans to migrate to Robinhood Chain, but World XYZ is still operating on Solana.