Crypto news
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Coinbase receives DCO approval from CFTC, completing full derivatives stack
This completes Coinbase's derivatives infrastructure, allowing it to list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house.
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Coinbase Wins CFTC Approval for In-House Derivatives Clearing
Coinbase secured registration for its own U.S. derivatives clearinghouse on Sept. 28, giving it authority to clear fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps alongside its existing brokerage and exchange businesses. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s registration order......
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NEAR Intents says it blocked $50M tied to Bitget hackers
The cross-chain protocol said it actively prevents stolen funds from being laundered, drawing a contrast with THORChain’s position that it does not selectively censor transactions.
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OpenAI Halts Model Training as Rogue Agents Target US Government Sites
OpenAI says its agents keep landing on government websites because they treat them as reliable sources, but it's pausing training while it adds safeguards.
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A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto
A UC San Diego-led team impersonated a hardware security module without extracting its key.
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Belarus Approves the Country’s First Crypto Banks: Report
Bitcoin Magazine Belarus Approves the Country’s First Crypto Banks: Report The first crypto banks have opened in Belarus, according to reports, after the European country earlier this year created a legal framework for Bitcoin banks. While not yet named, the crypto banks will start operations after...
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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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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Blasts Nigel Farage’s ‘Bitcoin Account’
Bitcoin Magazine UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Blasts Nigel Farage’s ‘Bitcoin Account’ UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has appeared to slam Reform Party leader Nigel Farage’s use of Bitcoin. In a Monday speech, the finance minister said that Nigel Farage — a pro-crypto member of...
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Canadian ‘crypto king’ set to represent himself at fraud trial
Aiden Pleterski was allegedly behind a crypto Ponzi scheme between 2021 and 2022 that resulted in a kidnapping and related criminal charges.
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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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Blockchain.com eyes $500M IPO as crypto capital markets thaw: Report
The crypto company is seeking a valuation of up to $6 billion, well below its 2022 peak, as recently listed crypto stocks struggle to hold their gains.
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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price
Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.
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After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia's Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.
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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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Tether’s USDT at center of Iran’s shadow banking network, new Senate Report says
Tether and its stablecoin have become central in "Iran's shadow banking system," according to a new Senate investigation.
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Chainlink Launches CCIP 2.0 With Custom Verifiers and Faster Transfers
Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0 on Sept. 28, adding optional transaction verifiers, configurable settlement speeds and compliance checks to its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol for moving tokens and messages between blockchains. The release is available on mainnet, though versions vary by...
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Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out
OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government site, hacking their own tests, and going rogue during a security evaluation.
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US SEC follows CFTC in staff guidance for crypto
With the failed cloture vote on the CLARITY Act, the SEC announced updates on how federal securities laws could apply to token issuers, following similar guidance from the CFTC.
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Convicted cybercriminal arrested in connection with ShinyHunters group
A 24-year-old convicted cybercriminal was arrested in the Netherlands on September 16 on suspicion of aiding crypto hacking collective ShinyHunters. Krebsonsecurity reports that Pepijn van der Stap was detained by Dutch authorities for questioning in relation to ShinyHunters. Police claim he'll...
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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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Strive Buys $94.5 Million in Bitcoin, Pushing Holdings Past 27,000 BTC
Strive bought 1,107 BTC for $94.5 million last week, lifting its holdings to 27,462 BTC, with its SATA preferred stock supplying 85% of the capital.
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Polygon Plans Two-Month Boost to 7.7% Gross POL Staking Rate
Polygon says it will use 27.3 million POL in accumulated network fees to fund an estimated 7.7% annualized gross staking reward rate during a two-month window starting Oct. 1. The PIP-92 plan puts the baseline near 3% and schedules a return to the baseline reward setting on Dec. 1. The increase......
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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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Compound Foundation Denies V2 Reserve Misuse Allegation
The Compound Foundation on Sept. 28 rejected governance participant Ugur Mersin’s allegation that it misused 8.42 million DAI in the lending protocol’s V2 reserves, saying the assets remained DAO-owned and had not funded Foundation operations. In its statement, the Foundation acknowledged... Read...
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Goldman Sachs brings $100 billion Treasury fund into crypto’s institutional plumbing
The bank is bringing its roughly $100 billion Treasury fund to institutional crypto firms without creating a tokenized version of it.
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Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks
Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 lets banks run their own security checks on cross-chain transfers, five months after a rival's setup lost $292 million to hackers.
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Tether Says It Helped Freeze Nearly $550 Million in Iran-Linked USDT
Tether said Sept. 28 that it had helped U.S. authorities freeze approximately $550 million in USDT during 2026 across wallets authorities identified as connected to Iran’s central bank and sanctions networks. The disclosure coincided with a report from Sen. Richard Blumenthal and the minority...
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River has sued Blockstream Services Canada over bitcoin mining services
River Financial, the Peter Thiel- backed BTC brokerage led by CEO Alex Leishman, has sued the Canadian BTC mining services business spun out of Adam Back’s Blockstream. River’s complaint alleges Blockstream Services Canada, which was formerly part of Blockstream Corporation but now merely licenses...
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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.