Exchanges news
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Bybit Launches USDC-Funded Trading in More Than 1,000 US Stocks and ETFs
Alpaca executes trades and holds the underlying shares, giving eligible users a brokerage alternative to Bybit’s tokenized xStocks products.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Kraken parent clears Dubai’s final hurdle for dirham trading rollout
Payward received full market approval from Dubai’s VARA to expand its digital asset services in the UAE, building on the preliminary approval received in May.
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Kraken Plans UAE Launch After Securing Full Dubai License
The planned rollout includes dirham deposits and withdrawals, AED trading pairs, staking and xStocks, with retail investors covered by Payward’s license.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Trader nets $1.28 million on new 1,000x exchange Papertrade by moving Hyperliquid’s ETH prices
The same wallet later lost $450,000 when 30 short positions were liquidated on Saturday night after staying open for more than three hours.
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Coinbase Completes Deribit Integration for Institutional Traders
Former International Exchange clients gain Deribit's options suite and margin system, while US Prime options trading follows a separate rollout.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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PeckShield Traces $3.89 Million in Ledger Theft Funds to Binance Deposits
The reported Tron deposits offer investigators an exchange-account lead, but intermediary wallets handling other clients’ money complicate attribution.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Coinbase and Gennius Plan ONED Stablecoin Access Through Latin American Banks
The Argentina-first initiative would let customers convert eligible deposits into ONED USD, transfer it around the clock and spend through Visa.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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CFTC Proposes Explicit Swap Status for Event Contracts
The agency says existing exchange and trader duties would stay intact, while a separate rule excludes qualifying casino-style wagers.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin ETFs Shed $729M in Two Days as Investors Reverse Course
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin ETFs Shed $729M in Two Days as Investors Reverse Course U.S. investors this week reversed course, cashing out $729 million from spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds — putting downward pressure on the leading cryptocurrency’s price. Funds managed by BlackRock, Fidelity, Morgan...
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Crypto Biz: Wealthy investors are buying crypto, but their advisers aren’t sold
Wealthy investors are embracing crypto faster than their advisers, while OKX attracts new funding and Strategy shifts more capital toward preferred stock buybacks.
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Base creator Jesse Pollak says equities and non-dollar stablecoins will lead upcoming ‘tokenization supercycle’
Coinbase launched tokenized stocks on Base six weeks ago, with about $70 million to $100 million in daily volume, according to Pollak.
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UK sanctions three crypto exchanges tied to Russian illicit funds
The UK sanctioned crypto exchanges and payment processors, some of which were tied to thousands of Russian entities and the sanctioned HTX exchange.
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Thailand opens door to locally listed bitcoin and ether ETFs
Thailand’s new crypto rules taking effect Oct. 16. They allow Thai asset managers to launch crypto ETFs on the local stock exchange, with bitcoin and ether initially eligible.
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Thailand finalizes rules paving way for Bitcoin, Ether ETFs
The rules are set to take effect next week, allowing crypto ETFs to trade exclusively on the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
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Coinbase Cryptographer Calls Drake's 'Bunker Mode' Warning 'The Very Definition of FUD'
Vitalik Buterin said the risk from AI-accelerated math is real but pointed it at lattices rather than elliptic curves. A former Ethereum Foundation researcher said bunker mode would not help if the curves actually broke... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Google Wants Gemini to Be Your Next Coworker—Complete With Its Own Email Address
Google Cloud unveiled a single Gemini agent that takes goals instead of questions, works in the background for days, and can join a company as a staffer with its own inbox and calendar.
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WhiteBIT Integrates Lightning Network for Fast and Cheap Bitcoin Transactions
Bitcoin Magazine WhiteBIT Integrates Lightning Network for Fast and Cheap Bitcoin Transactions The Lightning Network continues to find use cases. Crypto exchange WhiteBIT announced on Thursday that the platform has integrated the network to help users quickly and efficiently move funds. Powered by...
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How MiniMed ended up with 99% of its float sold short
An anomaly appeared on the Nasdaq stock exchange yesterday when, per an estimate by data provider Ortex, 99% of the shares in public medical tech company MiniMed Group Inc.'s float were sold-short. In contrast to buyers, short-sellers borrow stock to sell first, hoping to repay shares at a lower...
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US Government Moves $1 Billion in Bitcoin Seized From Bitfinex Hacker
A government wallet holding Bitcoin seized from the Bitfinex hacker sent 12,267 BTC to a new, unlabeled address, according to Arkham data.
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U.S. government moves $1 billion in bitcoin from Bitfinex hack wallet, no sale indicated
Arkham data shows the 12,267 BTC went to unlabeled wallets rather than an exchange, a day after $383 million hit Coinbase Prime.
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Decrypt Money Accounts on Solana to Power The Information Exchange
One self-custodial platform to power Earn, Swaps, Predictions and Perps on Decrypt, as it builds out its financial and intelligence market.
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US government moves $1B in seized Bitcoin after $770M transfers
Blockchain analysts identified the US government wallet tied to the recovery of funds from the Bitfinex hack.
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Securitize Brings Nvidia, Apple and Amazon Onchain With Tokenized Stocks on Solana
The new Securitize Stocks product launches with 12 names backed one-to-one by real shares—preserving dividends and voting rights—trading first on Solana, with NYSE and OKX-ICE venues planned.
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US government moves $770M of seized Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime
The US government moved 9,261 Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime, including 2,456 BTC in newly discovered funds pointing to federal law enforcement seizures.
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Samsung Wallet to Add USDC on Sui in Late October
Bastion and Coinbase will custody the balances, while transfers to bank accounts in more than 60 countries will carry separate fees.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance Adds JPMorgan and Eli Lilly bStocks as Margin Collateral
Four equity-linked tokens join the collateral lineup, with 50% collateral ratios in Cross Margin and Portfolio Margin and a separate tiered schedule for Portfolio Margin Pro.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Wells Fargo in talks with Kraken parent Payward for crypto trading liquidity
The discussions would see Payward supply liquidity for crypto trading as major banks deepen their involvement in digital assets.
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Bitcoin Holds Below $84,000 Cost-Basis Level as Only Nine of 125 Top Tokens Rise
Bitcoin fell through $84,000 in two legs, the first in the Asia session and the second at the U.S. open, and has not reclaimed it. A Bitfinex research note circulated hours earlier had called that level the market's largest cost-basis cluster. Funding rates sat near zero across OKX, Deribit and......
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US Government Moves $103 Million in Seized Bitcoin and BNB, But Hasn't Said Why
Government-labeled wallets sent 833.6 BTC to Coinbase Prime deposit addresses and shuffled 40,285 BNB. No sale is confirmed, but the stash behind it is the largest any government holds in Arkham's ranking.
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Coinbase brings global crypto derivatives liquidity to US with Deribit integration
US institutions will gain access to Deribit’s options and perpetual futures through Coinbase, with US retail options expected later this year.