Crypto news
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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
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Advocacy group pushes back on banks’ lawsuit against OCC over charters
CCI CEO Ji Hun Kim said that the organization “remains confident“ in the OCC’s approval of charters for crypto companies, despite a recent lawsuit and pushback from some lawmakers.
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Flying Tulip’s NFT Options Market Tops $5 Million in Volume, Cronje Says
Buying an ftPUT NFT transfers its remaining FT tokens and redemption rights, while spot FT purchases carry no such protection.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Trump administration is dumping money into cratering nuclear stocks
The stock prices of most publicly-traded nuclear companies that have received a loan, contract, or financial incentive from Donald Trump’s administration have declined since receiving that favor. Trump’s administration has handed the nuclear industry tens of billions of dollars of incentives in the...
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Crypto Sleuth ZachXBT Fronted $350K to Pose as a Client of Lazarus' Chinese Launderers
The on-chain sleuth says he posed as a customer of a Chinese crime syndicate, fronting $349,700 and eating 5% on every order, to track Lazarus Group's Bybit loot in real time.
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Base Vault Drained of About $6 Million in Aave Deposit Tokens
Six outflows followed a borrower-whitelist change. The proceeds were redeemed for wstETH, with some later entering bridge withdrawals toward Ethereum.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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ZachXBT poses as money launderer to infiltrate Lazarus network
Crypto sleuth ZachXBT claims he was able to infiltrate a Chinese organized crime syndicate that's laundered over $1 billion in crypto for North Korean hacker collective Lazarus Group. Last week, Zach uncovered multiple Chinese Telegram and Discord accounts looking for help with laundering funds...
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Compound Votes on Giving Governance Power to Cancel Treasury Operations
Proposal 612 would extend treasury delays from two days to ten, while a wallet linked to Humpy has cast 1.75 million COMP votes in support.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Anchorage Digital Cuts 17% of Staff, The Information Reports
The reported reduction follows a $100 million Tether investment and an expansion of the custodian’s institutional settlement business.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Japanese Bitcoin Treasury Metaplanet Sold BTC Last Quarter To Demonstrate Liquidity
Bitcoin Magazine Japanese Bitcoin Treasury Metaplanet Sold BTC Last Quarter To Demonstrate Liquidity It may have sold some of its stash last quarter, but Japanese bitcoin giant Metaplanet has said it was just to demonstrate to investors that it could if it wanted to. In a filing Monday, the Tokyo...
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ZachXBT Posed as a Client to Infiltrate Chinese Syndicate Laundering Bybit Hack Funds
The investigator says he fronted 349,700 USDC and lost 5% on every order to a broker who told him in advance where North Korea's stolen funds were going next... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OKX-ICE Plans Tokenized Stock Trading Through a Uniswap v4 Hook
The venue would restrict trading and liquidity provision to approved wallets on X Layer, with no current support for aggregators.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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SEC Clears 3x Bitcoin and Ether ETPs for Cboe Listing
Proposed tickers BITH and ETHK would use futures and reset leverage daily, exposing longer-term holders to compounding losses.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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SEC Clears 3x Leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum Funds for Trading
The agency approved a Cboe rule letting six Volatility Shares funds that triple the daily moves of Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, silver, oil, and natural gas list on a U.S. exchange.
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S&P Global brings risk assessments to growing crypto lending vault sector
S&P Global’s new framework evaluates digital asset lending vaults across six risk categories as deposits in the sector climb to about $10 billion.
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Top Bitcoin Blockchain Visualizers For Your Home And Office
Bitcoin Magazine Top Bitcoin Blockchain Visualizers For Your Home And Office Bitcoin is often talked about in very abstract terms: ‘cryptocurrency ’, ‘digital gold’, metaphors that attempt to make this digital wonder of a monetary system feel more physical, more real to normal people. How well...
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CFTC joins SEC in proposing crypto framework after failed CLARITY vote
CFTC Chair Michael Selig claimed that the agency was using its “existing statutory authorities“ to address crypto regulation after Congress failed to advance a market structure bill.
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CFTC Proposes New Crypto Oversight Rules
Bitcoin Magazine CFTC Proposes New Crypto Oversight Rules The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has proposed new rules to regulate digital asset transactions and markets. In a Monday release, the agency said that the proposed rules would allow U.S. crypto exchanges to opt into a federal...
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CFTC Seeks Comment on Crypto Rulebook That Leaves Spot Exchanges to the States
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking covering retail crypto trading on margin, leverage or financing, and a new exchange registration category built for it. Chairman Michael Selig called it a federal option rather than a mandate. The notice......
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Treasury withdraws crypto mixing rule, citing concerns over ‘chilling effect on legitimate activity’
FinCEN is withdrawing a proposal that would've designated crypto mixing a "primary money laundering concern" under the PATRIOT Act.
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More than 60 U.S. stocks including Nvidia and Tesla are headed onchain. Here’s how it works
The planned 24/7 venue will offer dozens of tokenized U.S. stocks, with trades conducted against stablecoins through blockchain-based liquidity pools rather than a traditional order book.
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Treasury yields at 5% threaten extending Bitcoin’s best quarter since 2017
Weak US jobs data has narrowed expectations for another Fed hike in October, offering Bitcoin some relief as investors continue to embrace the debasement trade.
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Umia raises $6.1 million at $18 million FDV to help crypto projects launch tokens
Umia raised $6.11 million through a seven-day auction of its UMIA token, with ten funds and nearly 700 individual bidders taking part.
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CFTC Unveils Plan to Bring Crypto Exchanges Under Federal Oversight
The CFTC is seeking public comment on a framework that would create a new federal license for crypto exchanges, with leverage offers as the trigger for oversight.
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Strategy Reports Quarterly Profit on Bitcoin Rally
Bitcoin Magazine Strategy Reports Quarterly Profit on Bitcoin Rally Bitcoin treasury Strategy is back in the black after the rising price of the leading cryptocurrency gave the firm paper gains of $21 billion last quarter, its founder and chairman Michael Saylor has said . The Nasdaq-listed company...
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Bitcoin Just Flashed a Second, Stronger Golden Cross: Here's What That Means
The Bitcoin rally keeps bumping into the same wall, but a classic bullish signal suggests the trend is built to last.
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CFTC proposes new federal framework for leveraged retail crypto trading
The CFTC launched rulemaking on leveraged and margined retail crypto trading, proposing Regulation CTX and CAM and a new "crypto asset market" exchange.