Crypto news
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NEXTPredict Founder: 'Nobody Was Serving' Prediction Markets' Enormous Audience
Reporters from CNBC and CNN are on the program beside the exchanges, two weeks before the midterms put the sector on air.
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U.S. CFTC joins SEC in proposing crypto regulations, though spot-market gap lingers
The derivatives regulator is proposing two rules meant to cover the waterfront of crypto activity and exchanges, as long as it's not simple, direct trading.
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Treasury Drops Crypto Wallet Surveillance Rules
FinCEN withdrew the 2020 unhosted wallet reporting proposal and its 2023 finding that crypto mixing is a primary money laundering concern. The agency said it will keep monitoring mixers and may act again... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin price fails to break higher after best weekly close in eight months
Bitcoin’s highest weekly close in eight months formed low-timeframe resistance at the start of Monday’s US trading session.
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Strive adds 2,000 bitcoin in biggest buy since June, closes in on MARA
Strive’s bitcoin holdings near 30,000 BTC as the race among the largest public treasuries heats up.
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Bitmine Buys $41M More Ethereum, Reaching 99% of Its 'Alchemy of 5%' Target
The purchase lifts Bitmine's stash past 6 million ETH—4.9% of supply and 99% of the way to its "Alchemy of 5%" goal—as chairman Tom Lee says Ethereum is "dwarfing" other macro assets.
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DeFi Development sees NAV per share more than doubling, holds 2.56 million SOL
DFDV says preliminary Q3 estimates show NAV per share more than doubled as its Solana treasury grew to 2.56 million SOL.
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Tim Draper's Firm Leads Strategic Round In Bitcoin Wallet Xverse
Trust Machines and Draper Dragon joined the round. Terms were not disclosed, and Xverse has not said what it raised or at what valuation.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OKX And NYSE Owner's Venture Files To Trade 63 Tokenized Stocks Onchain
OKXICE told the SEC it will run tokenized equity trading through permissioned Uniswap v4 pools on X Layer. Cerebras has already filed an objection to being included.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Safe Investor Greenfield Files Swiss Regulatory Complaint Over Foundation Governance
Greenfield says it asked the Safe Ecosystem Foundation to remove Gnosis co-founder Stefan George from its board and add independent members, and that every request was rejected... Read the full story at The Defiant
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S&P Global Puts A Letter Grade On DeFi Lending Vaults
The Vault Risk Assessment scores a vault from AAA(v) to D(v), and the curator running it can cap the result. S&P has not assessed a vault yet.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Plume Opens Tokenized Vault Backed By Fidelity's Bond ETF
The nBND vault holds shares of an actively managed ETF rather than short-dated Treasuries, pushing onchain fixed income into credit and duration.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Stripe to expand stablecoin cards to over 100 countries by the end of the year
The payments giant is planning a major global expansion for its stablecoin cards business, and is exploring tokenized deposits and DeFi use cases, new crypto head Henri Stern said.
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Live Nation doubles CEO pay target despite monopoly ruling
Live Nation last week approved a contract doubling its CEO compensation target to over $60 million per year, despite a federal jury in Manhattan ruling the company and its Ticketmaster subsidiary liable for unlawful monopoly practices. That contrast is notable given that just six months ago, CEO...
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Tom Lee says ether ‘dwarfing other macro assets’ as Bitmine adds 15,112 ETH
Bitmine added 15,112 ETH as Chairman Tom Lee said Ethereum outperformed the S&P 500 by 6,832 basis points in Q3.
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Could Polymarket reveal a crypto token at Token2049?
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan has fuelled rumors that the prediction market is about to launch its own token after teasing he may have “a little something to say” at Token2049. Coplan was responding to analysis that showed Polymarket made almost $10 million in revenue this weekend, dwarfing the $2.6...
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China P2P stablecoin wallets grew 43x despite crypto restrictions: Chainalysis
Unique wallets sending P2P stablecoin transactions in China grew 43-fold between Q1 2024 and Q2 2026 as crypto activity increasingly shifted toward direct wallet-to-wallet transfers.
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Strategy Posts $21B Q3 Gain, Buys $29M in BTC, Repurchases $176M in STRC
The firm's Bitcoin holdings hit a record 848,000 BTC, while the quarterly gain is a fair-value mark carrying $1.88 billion in deferred tax.
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Strategy opts for bigger spending on STRC buybacks over BTC purchases
Strategy bought 334 Bitcoin for $28.7 million last week while spending $176.3 million to repurchase about 1.77 million shares of STRC.
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Too big to pause: Could an AI slowdown crash the economy?
Calls to slow down development of the most powerful AI models are colliding with an $800 billion investment boom. Could an AI slowdown tank the US economy?
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Too big to pause: Could an AI slowdown crash the economy?
Calls to slow down development of the most powerful AI models are colliding with an $800 billion investment boom. Could an AI slowdown tank the US economy?
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Metaplanet reveals net income strategy to fuel Bitcoin accumulation
Metaplanet revealed a revised capital allocation framework proposing to allocate as much as 15% of total assets to strategic investments to fund its Bitcoin accumulation.
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An XRP treasury SPAC surges nearly 300% ahead of Evernorth merger
Armada Acquisition Corp. II rose about 270% last week, leaving the thinly traded shell at nearly four times its roughly $10.50 trust value before merging with Evernorth, an XPR treasury company.
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‘More orange than ever’: Michael Saylor’s Strategy buys 334 bitcoin for $28.7 million as total holdings top 848,000 BTC
Strategy's total holdings account for around 4% of the 21 million bitcoin supply cap — worth roughly $73 billion.
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Metaplanet sold 10,000 BTC in Q3 before buying back 11,000 BTC to ‘demonstrate liquidity’
Metaplanet added a net 1,000 BTC during the third quarter as its total bitcoin holdings reached 44,000 BTC.
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Metaplanet Sold 10,000 Bitcoin and Bought Back 11,000 to Prove a Point
Rating agencies ask if a Bitcoin company will actually sell when obligations fall due. "We answered by doing it," said CEO Simon Gerovich.
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Visa, CoinShares find growing crypto appetite among consumers and affluent investors
Visa and CoinShares surveys show rising stablecoin interest in Asia Pacific alongside strong digital-asset ownership among affluent investors.
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Morning Minute: Uptober Off to a Green Start
Crypto majors and alts are rallying to start October. What’s driving the early action and will it continue?
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Greek Soldiers Among Alleged Leaders of $8M Crypto Pyramid Scheme
An association for AI enthusiasts was allegedly the recruiting vehicle, and two anonymous tips to a government portal started the case.
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SEC approves a 3x fix for bitcoin and ether traders who miss the wild swings
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 5, 2026