A West Virginia woman has been charged with multiple felony fraud counts after she allegedly spent more than $50,000 using someone else’s debit card and transferring funds to Cash App.

The case involves $52,928.33 in 204 approved charges plus 219 attempted charges on a Mountain Valley Bank card, reports The Inter-Mountain.

According to a criminal complaint filed by West Virginia State Police, Jessica Fay Michaletz, 36, of Elkins faces 10 counts of fraudulent use of an access device.

Investigators say a replacement debit card mailed to an outdated address was used for a wave of Cash App transfers, and the bank had flagged about $40,000 when it called troopers.

Search warrant records allegedly linked one Cash App account to Michaletz through her West Virginia operator’s license, home address, Social Security number and IP address, while a second account used another person’s details on the same device.

Says Michaletz,

“What did I do? I used it. I did. I used it.”

Michaletz allegedly told troopers she found the card on the ground next to a mailbox and told friends the money came from gambling winnings.

She is being held at Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a cash-only bond matching the alleged loss, with a preliminary hearing set for October 5th.

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A Connecticut bank customer has lost $89,000 after someone allegedly completed an unauthorized in-person wire transfer from his account.

Westport police charged a 38-year-old Brooklyn, New York man in the case, reports Patch.

John Hammonds, 38, was arrested Monday on first-degree larceny and third-degree identity theft charges and remains in custody in lieu of $70,000 bail.

Police say the victim’s bank alerted him that someone made an unauthorized in-person wire transfer of $89,000 from one of his accounts to an unaffiliated account in January of 2025.

Investigators identified Hammonds as a suspect after Westport police said he conducted the transaction at an M&T Bank branch in New York while representing himself as the victim.

Westport police obtained an arrest warrant, and on August 20th the department was notified that New Jersey authorities held Hammonds and planned to extradite him to Connecticut on unrelated charges.

After extradition, Westport detectives charged him and he was arraigned in Stamford Superior Court, with his next court date set for November 9th.

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Customers at a lender in Wyoming are still seeing surprise pending charges and balances that do not match a week after accounts came back from a cyberattack.

Hilltop Bank restored personal systems after an outage tied to the incident, but delayed transactions from that stretch are still posting, reports Cowboy State Daily.

Alyssa Schwindt of Casper said $519 in pending charges to her cellphone provider, AutoZone and Walmart showed up even though she had already paid those bills.

She tried to withdraw $1,500 for rent and was told only about $1,100 was available because of those floating transactions.

Annastacia Potter of Glenrock said a backlog of charges hit after the systems returned, leaving her husband unable to pay for a meal on the road, and that the bank canceled payments to wedding vendors.

Hilltop spokesman Bill Salvin said the charges were delayed in posting but should not have been a surprise.

“The charges were delayed in posting to accounts. However, they should not have been unanticipated.”

Salvin said customers who kept accurate records have not been affected, and the bank has no evidence customer data was compromised after the systems were restored.

The outage began on September 8th of 2026. Personal mobile banking returned on September 21st. Full personal systems came back on September 22nd.

The bank says it will work with overdrawn customers and reimburse late fees.

Its last update, on September 24th, said no further updates were expected now that systems are up.

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• Standard Chartered predicts Ethena’s ENA to reach $2 by the end of 2028, with targets of $0.42 for 2026 and $1.10 for 2027.
• ENA is trading above $0.25 after a strong September rally.
• Around 1.4B ENA tokens will unlock on October 5, adding selling pressure.

The leading global bank, Standard Chartered has made a first research coverage of Ethena’s ENA token and set a $2 price target for the end of 2028, putting the bank’s forecast at roughly seven times ENA’s current market price. The report, published on September 30, focuses on Ethena’s position across yield-bearing stablecoins, perpetual futures and tokenized real-world assets. The bank also forecasts ENA to reach $0.42 by the end of 2026 and $1.10 by the end of 2027.

The bank’s case is built largely around USDe, Ethena’s synthetic dollar stablecoin. Standard Chartered expects USDe supply to reach about $40 billion worth by the end of 2028. Right now Ethena issued USDe value stands at $4.98B, meaning the bank’s projection is about 8x higher. 

This comes as the bank expects real-world assets deployed on blockchains to expand from around $40 billion currently to $2 trillion over the same period, creating a larger market for Ethena’s tokenized-asset and yield strategies.

Ethena initially generated USDe’s yield mainly through the crypto basis trade, holding spot assets while shorting perpetual futures to hedge price exposure. The protocol has since expanded into institutional credit, tokenized U.S. equities and equity perpetual futures. 

As well as, its latest equity strategy uses Binance bStocks as tokenized spot exposure and stock perpetuals as the hedge. Since then, open interest in Binance’s equity perpetuals had surpassed $2.9 billion, while the reported six-month annualized basis return averaged 3.56%.

The ENA token’s economics are another part of Standard Chartered’s valuation argument. Ethena’s approved revenue-allocation framework links future ENA buybacks to USDe supply milestones. The first threshold is $7.5 billion in USDe supply. At that level, 5% of eligible net revenue is allocated to buybacks, rising to 10% at $10 billion, 15% at $15 billion and 20% at $20 billion.

ENA Regains Key Support as 1.4B Token Unlock Approaches

ENA is trading at around $0.2586 at the time of writing, according to CoinMarketCap. The daily chart indicates that ENA has pulled back after a sharp September advance, nearly to $0.3. Binance historical data shows ENA closed to $0.2566 on Sep, 28 and $0.2484 on Sep. 29. The Sep. 30 session has so far traded between $0.2441 and $0.2633.

Technical readings also hint that the short-term trend has slightly weakened. In the 4-hours EN/USDT snapshot, ENA is trading around $0.2586, a modest recovery after finding support near the $0.24-0.250 area. 

Zooming in, the recent candles indicate that buyers have returned, with ENA moving back above its 9-day MA at $0.2514. Still, the token is trading just below the 21-day MA at $0.2603, making that level an important near-term resistance.

That puts RSI at 54.55, moving back above the neutral 50 level. This suggests that buying momentum has improved, but the indicator is still well below the 70 overbought zone, leaving room for further movement if buyers remain active.

So, a sustained move above $0.2603 would strengthen the short-term setup and bring the next resistance around $0.2675 into focus. A break above that level could open the way toward the $0.275-$0.280 region, while the recent September high near $0.3 remains a larger resistance area.

But there is also a major supply event ahead. Around 1.4 billion ENA is expected to be released on October 5, bringing a large amount of previously locked tokens into circulation.

Due to that, if ENA price faces rejection, $0.2514 is the first support to watch, as it currently aligns with the 9-day MA. If ENA falls below that level, attention would shift toward the $0.245-$0.250 zone, where the latest rebound began. A clear break below that area would weaken the current recovery structure. 

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