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SEC Staff Adds 'No Central Party' Limit to Token Buyback FAQ
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff amended its crypto FAQ on Sept. 28 to limit its assurance about token-buyback announcements to systems that are functional and have no central party. The Division of Corporation Finance’s revised answer to Question 2.5 says that, where both...
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Coinbase Teases Pokémon Card Packs Backed by Physical Collectibles
Coinbase teased a mobile trading-card feature on Sept. 28 that would let users open packs backed by physical cards and choose whether to keep their pulls in a vault or have them shipped. “Rip packs on your phone. Every pull backed by a real, physical card. Vault it or ship it,” the company...
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Citi Clients Can Now Take Stablecoin Payments Through Coinbase—Without Touching Crypto
Coinbase and Citi expanded an existing deal so Citi's institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments, while Coinbase business accounts run on Citi's banking rails.
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Citi and Coinbase Working Together To Build Stablecoin Infrastructure for Businesses
Bitcoin Magazine Citi and Coinbase Working Together To Build Stablecoin Infrastructure for Businesses Citigroup is working with America’s biggest crypto exchange, Coinbase, in its latest blockchain-based venture. The two companies said in a joint statement Monday that they were teaming up to allow...
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The year’s second-largest XRP hack is spilling over to Bitcoin and Ethereum
The D’CENT wallet hack, the year’s second-largest drain of XRP behind the Bitget crypto exchange hack , has spilled beyond the XRP Ledger onto additional blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Stellar. Hackers have drained more than 12.4 million XRP from more than 7,000 D’CENT wallets, still some...
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Bybit accepts Franklin Templeton tokenized funds as trading collateral
Eligible institutions can pledge Benji-issued fund shares for stablecoin credit lines while keeping the underlying assets in off-exchange custody.
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Citi expands Coinbase partnership to power stablecoin payments for businesses
Coinbase is expanding partnership with Citi to provide businesses with infrastructure connecting traditional fiat payments and stablecoins.
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce reflects on her time at the agency, what she still wanted to get done: ‘There’s no good time to leave’
After nearly a decade at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Hester Peirce is wrapping up her last week at the agency.
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Ondo Perps Adds Spot Trading for 12 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs
Ondo Perps launched spot trading for 12 Ondo tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds on Sept. 28, allowing eligible traders outside the U.S. to buy tokens and use them as collateral for perpetual futures positions on the same platform. Ondo Finance confirmed the launch, describing a... Read the...
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Bitget attacker tested risk controls with small transfers before $388 million theft, CEO says
Bitget's attacker ran two small test transfers half an hour before draining $388 million, CEO Gracy Chen says.
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Bitget CEO says $388M hack exploited third-party security vulnerability
Some stolen assets have been frozen, but Bitget has yet to disclose how much has been recovered as investigators continue to assess a possible North Korea link.
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DYORSWAP users tricked into sending 767 ETH to fake bridge contract
Crypto scammers managed to trick DYORSWAP, a multi-chain decentralized exchange, into integrating a spoofed version of upcoming blockchain GIWA over the weekend, leading to losses of $2 million. Over one thousand users eager to be early to a new chain sent a total of 767 ETH to the fake bridge...
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Citi Taps Coinbase for Corporate Stablecoin Payments: WSJ
Citi has tapped Coinbase to help its large corporate clients accept stablecoin payments from customers, The Wall Street Journal reported. Coinbase will provide the digital payment infrastructure, according to the report. The customer-payment use case builds on a collaboration that Citi and...
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Bitget Reopens Bitcoin Withdrawals After $387.5 Million Breach
Bitget said it resumed bitcoin withdrawals at 4 a.m. ET on Sept. 28, four days after a wallet breach the exchange estimates involved approximately $387.5 million in unauthorized transfers. The exchange's public API listed BTC withdrawals on Bitcoin and BSC as enabled when checked on Sept. 28,...
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Bitcoin ETFs Draw Nearly $3 Billion in Seven Sessions as 2026 Flows Turn Positive
U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds attracted nearly $3 billion over seven consecutive trading sessions through Sept. 25, lifting their net flows for 2026 back into positive territory. The funds took in $2.98 billion from Sept. 17 through Sept. 25, according to Farside Investors' daily flow......
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Fake GIWA Layer 2 Bridge Drained of 766 ETH
A fake Layer 2 impersonating Upbit-backed GIWA had 766.25 ETH, roughly $2 million, drained from its Ethereum bridge on Sept. 27 after decentralized exchange DYORSWAP mistook it for the genuine network. An Ethereum transaction records the transfer from the bridge at `0xbA9938…435ab2` to... Read the...
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THORChain rejects Bitget request to block hacker as $6 million moves to bitcoin
CoinDesk found 27 successful swaps moving about 2,390 ETH into 75.2 BTC, even as Bitget urged THORChain to stop serving addresses tied to the $387.5 million theft.
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Franklin Templeton Fund Shares Become Bybit Trading Collateral
Bybit clients will be able to pledge tokenized shares of a Franklin Templeton money market fund as collateral for trading credit, under a collaboration the two firms are announcing on Monday. The shares stay in custody rather than moving onto the exchange, and their value is mirrored inside...
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THORChain refuses to block Bitget funds, despite pausing after own hack
DeFi project THORChain has turned down a formal plea to “refuse service” to addresses associated with the recent hack of Bitget, a centralized crypto exchange which lost over $380 million on Thursday night. The decision comes four months after THORChain halted trading after it was hacked for $10...
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Bitget resumes Bitcoin withdrawals as hacker swaps ETH via THORChain
Ether withdrawals are scheduled to return Tuesday and USDt on Wednesday as Bitget restores services following last week’s $388 million hack.
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Crypto-friendly institution Franklin Templeton brings its tokenized collateral service to Bybit
Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market shares can be used as collateral for USDT or USDC trading credit lines on Bybit while earning yield on the underlying assets.
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Scammers steal $2M in ETH as fake GIWA network fools DYORSWAP
DYORSWAP said it paid more than 200 ETH in compensation, while Upbit operator Dunamu’s GIWA warned that its mainnet had not launched.
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Bitget starts phased withdrawal resumption following $388 million exploit
The exchange said it has patched the vulnerability, and losses from the incident will be fully covered by a user protection fund.
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South Korea weighs crypto market makers after JPYC trades at 4 times peg
Crypto market making is effectively restricted under South Korea’s manipulation rules, but regulators are reconsidering the approach after a JPYC spiked on Upbit this month.
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THORChain under fire over Bitget, ETH evolves beyond blockchain: Hodler’s Digest
THORChain refuses to blacklist addresses linked to the Bitget hack. Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum is evolving from being a mere blockchain, into a world cryptographic computer.
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THORChain Pushes Back on Bitget’s Demand to Block Hacker Addresses
THORChain pushed back on Bitget CEO Gracy Chen’s demand to block addresses linked to the exchange’s hack, invoking its permissionless design while an address flagged by Bitget continued swapping XRP for bitcoin. A transaction recorded at 3:14 a.m. ET on Sept. 27 sent 9,999 XRP from an address on......
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Kalshi loses appeal over Ohio and Tennessee sports betting laws, widening circuit split
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that Kalshi has not adequately shown its sports event contracts are swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act.
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Kraken’s parent Payward is betting billions on becoming financial infrastructure, not just a crypto exchange
Kraken parent Payward is unifying trading, payments, asset management and institutional services on common rails, co-CEO Arjun Sethi said.
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Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone
Google Vids now lets any Google account holder generate free HD AI video using Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with new scene, timing, and watermark controls.
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Binance deal gives Circle a boost in stablecoin race with Tether, analysts say
The five-year deal could strengthen USDC’s reach in emerging markets, though Tether’s liquidity advantage remains hard to dislodge, analysts told CoinDesk.