Crypto security - Cronos halted its entire blockchain after an attacker drained roughly $75 million from lending app Tectonic The Crypto.com-linked network stopped block production on August 30 to contain the exploit, which hit its largest lending platform. A chain-level halt freezes every transaction on that network, including stablecoin transfers unrelated to the exploited app. - North Korean hackers are moving te…

Channel
Swapin News
@swapinnews
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
87subscribers
-2 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001662660959 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @swapinnews |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 September 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 8 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/swapinnews |
Topic
Crypto & trading — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 27 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 93% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Sept 2026, 07:58 | 87 | -1 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 11:23 | 88 | no change |
| 5 Sept 2026, 23:58 | 88 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 13:34 | 89 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 6 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 September 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
Weekly crypto/blockchain news: August 31 - September 6 Market snapshot - Bitcoin: $79,449 | Ethereum: $2,490 | Total stablecoin market cap: $305 B | USDT dominance at 60% Regulatory developments - Singapore proposed 100% reserve backing and a yield ban for stablecoin issuers, with the consultation closing October 16 The Monetary Authority of Singapore wants amendments to the Payment Services Act that bar issuers fr…
Two years of AEROAFFAIRES accepting crypto payments. We asked Hugo P. what changed. "The difference is striking, honestly. There is far less stress attached to the payment itself. With a crypto payment, it is instant. We do not have to deal with the bank, with opening and closing hours, with time zones, with any of the usual friction that comes with a traditional transfer." That speed decides whether a flight happe…
- A $1.1 million exploit on a crypto card product sent the issuer's AVICI token down 49% from its 24-hour high to a record low The token pared some losses after the drop. The attack hit the card layer that sits between a stablecoin balance and the merchant, not the underlying chain. - Kraken users were briefly locked out after a flood of sanctioned crypto transactions between August 17 and August 24 triggered account…
Weekly crypto/blockchain news: August 24 - 30 Market snapshot Bitcoin:$78,158 | Ethereum: $2,436 | Total stablecoin market cap: $304B | USDT dominance at 60.26% Regulatory developments - Britain will give the Bank of England a formal stablecoin objective Financial stability stays the Bank's primary duty, with annual reports to Parliament planned on the new objective. UK stablecoin supervision now runs through a ma…
- Bybit says AI screening blocked $700 million in withdrawals from compromised accounts The figure covers the year since Bybit lost $1.46 billion in the February 2025 hack. Exchange-side transaction screening is now a stated control at the venue holding the largest single crypto loss on record. More industry/market updates - Rain's CEO says stablecoin payments now reach more than 100,000 merchants who do not know i…
Weekly crypto/blockchain news: August 17 - 23 Market snapshot Bitcoin: $77,334 | Ethereum: $2,456 | Total stablecoin market cap: $303B | USDT dominance at 60.43% Regulatory developments - The US Treasury proposed federal definitions of what it means to issue a US payment stablecoin and who has to follow the rules This is the first proposal to put operational requirements behind the GENIUS Act, which became law in …
New interview: Sayan Kundu of Bluehills, on running operations for clients across 12+ countries from Tartu. Why he keeps humans in the loop, what he refuses to automate, and the €79 he lost on a €1,000 invoice before switching to crypto payments. Read more: https://www.swapin.com/bluehills-partners-with-swapin/
More than 1,700 unlicensed platforms had to stop serving EU customers when MiCA came into full force, against only 323 holders of a valid MiCA authorisation, and France's AMF, ESMA, and the Dutch AFM have all confirmed impersonation attempts using their names. MiCA investor protections apply only to the specific legal entity holding the authorisation, not to a parent group brand. - SafePal disclosed a data breach ex…
Weekly crypto/blockchain news: August 10 - 16 Market snapshot Bitcoin: $63,500 | Ethereum: $1,902 | Total stablecoin market cap: $300 B | USDT dominance at 60.84% Regulatory developments - The Senate Clarity Act vote moved to September, with stablecoin rewards being the unresolved clause Bank lobbyists reopened the stablecoin yield question weeks after a bipartisan compromise, and the bill now gets three weeks of …
→ Meanwhile, $116 million drained from hardware wallets and a payment server flaw hitting bitcoin merchants.
Weekly crypto/blockchain news: August 3 - 9 Market snapshot Bitcoin: $65,204 | Ethereum: $1,923 | Total stablecoin market cap: $300B | USDT dominance at 60.8% Regulatory developments - US crypto market rules cleared their first Senate vote in a rare Saturday session. The real decision point is now September Senate Majority Leader John Thune opened the first procedural stage of Clarity Act voting on August 8, right…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @swapinnews. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 27 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Swapin News” (@swapinnews), 87 subscribers as measured 27 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/swapinnews.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.