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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent champions dollar dominance across global markets and stablecoins
Bessent pushed back against a bearish assessment of the U.S. economy highlighting strong growth, foreign demand for American assets and continued dollar dominance.
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Polymarket faced $10 million fraud attempt as its CEO pushed growth over compliance concerns: WSJ
In a separate attack, hackers compromised nearly 500 users' accounts using stolen personal information, according to the report.
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How the Clarity Act's Defeat Handed the SEC and CFTC the Wheel on Crypto
The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting the industry’s focus to a new wave of action from the SEC and CFTC.
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Grayscale Is Making Its Red-Hot Zcash ETF More Affordable
The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade.
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Coinbase Files to List Single-Stock Perps on Apple, Tesla and Nvidia
The filing seeks CFTC approval for contracts giving US traders 24/5 leveraged exposure to individual stocks without ownership.
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CFTC Files Crypto Market Rulemaking With White House at Prerule Stage
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent a crypto market structure rulemaking to the White House on Thursday, two days after the Senate refused to take up the bill that would have written one into law. It is the only CFTC action pending White House review. Chairman Michael Selig said in...
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Coinbase Seeks CFTC Approval for US Single-Stock Perpetual Futures
Coinbase Derivatives has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to approve a suite of cash-settled perpetual futures tied to individual U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds, extending its domestic perpetual-futures push from equity indexes to single securities. U.S. customers...
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WisdomTree Opens Tokenized Treasury Fund To MoonPay's 35 Million Accounts
WisdomTree and MoonPay will build an access point letting U.S. investors buy shares of WisdomTree's tokenized government money market fund inside MoonPay's platform, and MoonPay will use the fund in the reserve management behind its stablecoin business, the two firms said on Thursday. The... Read...
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X Adds US 'Trade' Button to Cashtags With Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini
X launched a U.S. Cashtag Partner Program on Sept. 15 that connects supported stock, ETF and cryptocurrency pages to Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo. The new “Trade” option does not execute a transaction on X. A user taps a Cashtag to see its price chart and related...
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Blockworks Lets Exchanges Take Compliance Alerts Straight From AI Agents
Blockworks will let crypto exchanges and banks take compliance alerts directly from AI agents, without waiting for a human analyst to sign off. Analyst verification took roughly five minutes per development, the company said. A proprietary model trained on years of Messari analyst work now... Read...
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Bitcoin Round-Trips the First Fed Rate Increase Since 2023 as Zcash Runs to $1,383
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate on Wednesday for the first time since July 2023, and bitcoin traded through the decision little changed. The vote was unanimous, against three dissents for an increase at the July meeting, and the committee's own projections now point to one more...
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U.S. OFAC and DOJ Join Forces to Crack Down on Xinbi Guarantee, Restricting More Than $52 Million…
U.S. OFAC and DOJ Join Forces to Crack Down on Xinbi Guarantee, Restricting More Than $52 Million in Crypto Assets On September 9, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced coordinated enforcement actions against...