Crypto news
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Rain seeks US trust bank charter days after OCC sued over crypto charters
Rain joins a growing queue of crypto firms seeking federal trust charters, while community banks have just asked a court to overturn the OCC rules underpinning them.
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OKX eyes emerging markets with yield-offering stablecoin savings and payments app
OKX Money lets users hold, send and spend dollar-backed stablecoins, with qualifying USDG balances earning up to 10% APY.
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Solana Debuts Institutional Settlement Standard With J.P. Morgan Input
Built with input from J.P. Morgan, the open-source "DvP" program lets institutions settle trades atomically on Solana with finality in seconds instead of days.
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Chinese crime network laundered over $1B for Lazarus: ZachXBT
ZachXBT says he infiltrated the network by posing as a customer, gaining information that helped trace funds from the $1.5 billion Bybit hack.
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Strive Adds $169M Bitcoin in Its Biggest Buy in Four Months
The Nasdaq-listed bitcoin treasury company, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, paid roughly $169 million for 2,000 coins last week and now holds 29,462 BTC.
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DeFi Development Corp Adds $3 Million in Solana as SOL Buys Slow
Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp's latest SEC filing shows its Solana stash grew 1%, to about 2.56 million SOL and SOL equivalents—roughly half the prior week's gain and well below mid-September's pace.
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Crypto PAC announces support for 32 House candidates in US midterms
Fairshake said it would financially back 32 House candidates who all voted in favor of the CLARITY market structure bill in 2025, as the bill remains in limbo in the Senate.
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A Florida Woman Used Claude as a Diary. An Anthropic Employee Read It and Reported It to Police
Investigators say a Bonita Springs woman's Claude "diary" tripped Anthropic's safety filters. A human review team sent it to police, and Anthropic's own terms allow exactly that.
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Coinbase’s Ryan VanGrack: CFTC Approval “Opens Many Doors” for Bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase's Ryan VanGrack: CFTC Approval “Opens Many Doors” for Bitcoin The SEC's proposed custody rules could make it easier for investment advisors to help clients own Bitcoin directly. Coinbase's Ryan VanGrack explains why institutional capital tends to flow where there are...
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Coinbase Business Chief: Big Banks Increasing BTC Exposure | Shan Aggarwal
Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase Business Chief: Big Banks Increasing BTC Exposure | Shan Aggarwal New SEC rules could open the door for financial advisors to hold Bitcoin for their clients, and Coinbase is already at the center of that custody story. Shan Aggarwal, Coinbase's first-ever Chief Business...
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TD Cowen’s Lance Vitanza: BTC to $132k in 2027 & MSTR Price Outlook
Bitcoin Magazine TD Cowen's Lance Vitanza: BTC to $132k in 2027 & MSTR Price Outlook Institutions are no longer debating whether to own Bitcoin. Now the question is how. TD Cowen Managing Director Lance Vitanza explains why Bitcoin is evolving from a standalone asset into a capital markets...
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Lyn Alden: Nothing Stops This Train – BTC, AI Equities, Bond Market Analysis
Bitcoin Magazine Lyn Alden: Nothing Stops This Train – BTC, AI Equities, Bond Market Analysis Silicon Valley promises an AI-driven age of abundance, but does that mean an end to inflation? Lyn Alden separates AI price deflation from monetary inflation. AI can make white-collar services radically...
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Caitlin Long: Fiscal Dominance, Stablecoins & the Macro Case for Bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine Caitlin Long: Fiscal Dominance, Stablecoins & the Macro Case for Bitcoin Will tokenized bank deposits crowd out stablecoins? Caitlin Long, founder and CEO of Custodia Bank, says stablecoins are about $300 billion against roughly $5.7 trillion in traditional demand deposits, and...
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$1.3B iTrust Capital CEO: 50% of Clients are Buying Bitcoin | Kevin Maloney
Bitcoin Magazine $1.3B iTrust Capital CEO: 50% of Clients are Buying Bitcoin | Kevin Maloney Are investors putting cash back to work in Bitcoin? Kevin Maloney, CEO of iTrustCapital, says about $1 billion went to work on his platform last quarter, including a couple hundred million dollars from...
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FinCEN withdraws proposed crypto mixing rule over ‘legitimate activity’ concerns
The bureau under the US Treasury said it was withdrawing two proposed rules on unhosted wallets and crypto mixers ”as part of the Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda.”
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Why a 4chan Bitcoin Prophecy Says Today Is the End of Crypto Winter
An anonymous 4chan user called Bitcoin's October 2025 peak to the day way back in 2023. Could they be right again?
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VanEck’s Matthew Sigel: Path to $500k BTC Runs Through Gold
Bitcoin Magazine VanEck's Matthew Sigel: Path to $500k BTC Runs Through Gold Bitcoin miners with power contracts may own one of the scarcest assets in the AI economy. Matthew Sigel, head of digital assets research at VanEck, explains why AI changed the value of mining energy contracts, how 10 to 20...
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CryptoQuant: BTC “Bull Run Has Started” – 3x to 5x Cycle Outlook | Ki Young Ju
Bitcoin Magazine CryptoQuant: BTC “Bull Run Has Started” – 3x to 5x Cycle Outlook | Ki Young Ju Is the next Bitcoin move a 10x or a 3 to 5x? CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju says he expects about 3 to 5x from the lows, not another 10x, because institutional ETF and custody flows dampen volatility....
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Jim Rickards: Stabelcoins “Dangerous” for Bond Market – $10,000 Gold Outlook
Bitcoin Magazine Jim Rickards: Stabelcoins “Dangerous” for Bond Market – $10,000 Gold Outlook Why could gold hit $10,000 sooner than most analysts expect? Jim Rickards says it is “fifth grade math”: going from $9,000 to $10,000 is only an 11% move, much smaller than the jump from $3,000 to $4,000....
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CFTC Staff Clears Fast Track for Stock-Index Perpetual Conversions
Exchanges must give position holders five calendar days' notice and a chance to exit, while leaving other material contract terms unchanged.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Coinbase Asset Management President: Bitcoin to $300k by 2030 | Anthony Bassili
Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase Asset Management President: Bitcoin to $300k by 2030 | Anthony Bassili What's Coinbase's asset manager's Bitcoin price target? Anthony Bassili, president of Coinbase Asset Management, says his team's target is north of $300,000 by 2030. He also explains why he expects...
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Aave Raises Core GHO Borrow Rate to 4.5% Amid Thin Redemption Reserves
The GHO Risk Council also lifted Prime’s base rate, while Ethereum’s USDC conversion module remained nearly empty.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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ZachXBT Says He Fronted $349,700 to Infiltrate Alleged Laundering Ring
The investigator links his undercover work to a 442,000 USDT freeze after identifying a cluster he tied to Bybit and valued at more than $12 million.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Treasury Kills Crypto 'Unhosted Wallet' and Mixer Surveillance Rules
FinCEN withdrew a 2020 proposal to track transactions with self-custodial crypto wallets and a 2023 plan to designate crypto mixing as a primary money laundering concern.
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Modern Treasury seeks US trust bank charter for digital asset custody
The payments infrastructure company is seeking federal approval to offer stablecoin custody and related fiat services through a limited-purpose national trust bank.
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Aave Activates LlamaRisk Agents for Pendle Collateral on Plasma
The agents can adjust pricing and borrowing parameters for a principal token with $36.72 million supplied, subject to fixed step limits and cooldowns.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin ETFs Bring in $241M To Kick Start ‘Uptober’
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin ETFs Bring in $241M To Kick Start ‘Uptober’ Investors bought over $241 million in U.S. bitcoin exchange-traded funds last week, the third consecutive week of inflows that has helped keep the leading cryptocurrency’s price up during the start of so-called “Uptober.” Data...
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Stablecoin Development Corp price pumps for no reason
Stablecoin Development Corp, which has been trading around a minimal $50 million marketcap for months, has suddenly seen its price jump tenfold in a matter of two weeks for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Tether is a major investor in the company, whose primary business appears to be earning...
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Crypto's campaign arm, Fairshake, sets lists of U.S. House favorites it'll spend on
The super PAC shared a list of more than 30 incumbent candidates it's backing, with about a million dollars going to three names from each party.
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Ethereum Exit Queue Eases to 767,000 ETH After MetaMask Validator Exits
Nearly 1.44 million ETH is waiting to begin staking, down 31% from Sept. 1 but still facing a roughly 25-day delay.... Read the full story at The Defiant