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OpenAI Is Building a $500 per Month ChatGPT Pro Max Plan, Leaks Suggest
Leaked code strings and screenshots point to a new tier that would cost 25 times more than ChatGPT Plus, aimed at people who need the bot to work faster, not just longer.
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Crypto bros are hooked on dopamine shopping
Crypto bros with stagnating portfolios have turned to so-called “dopamine shopping” — pretending to buy luxury goods online — to get their kicks. Emerging in South Korea earlier this year, dopamine shopping involves going through the process of browsing and paying for high ticket items like luxury...
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Bitget clarifies $388M in assets affected by security breach
The Bitget breach announced on Thursday affected about $35 million more than previously reported, based on an analysis of assets on Zcash and TRON.
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Bitget Hack Losses Climb to $387M: Here’s What Happened, and Why North Korea Is a Suspect
An attacker faked internal transfer requests to drain $387.5 million from Bitget's hot and warm wallets, and the exchange's CEO says the fingerprints look like Pyongyang's.
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Bitget Raises Hack Estimate To $387.5 Million As Token Accounting Widens
Bitget raised its estimate of assets transferred to attackers in the Sept. 24 breach to approximately **$387.5 million**, up from $351.6 million, after expanding its accounting to include previously omitted Zcash and TRON assets. The exchange said in its Sept. 25 update that the increase...
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Strategy seeks shareholder approval for daily preferred stock dividends
Strategy’s proposal would move STRC and its three other preferred stocks to daily dividend payments, following a similar move by Bitcoin treasury firm Strive.
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Magic Eden Warns Old Ethereum NFT Listings Are Exposed to Payment Processor Exploit
A flaw in Limit Break's Payment Processor V2 put old Magic Eden Ethereum listings at risk, prompting a whitehat rescue of more than 23,000 NFTs.
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Legacy Magic Eden Approvals Exploited as White Hats Rescue NFTs
Attackers exploited Limit Break’s Payment Processor contracts to steal NFTs and tokens from wallets with legacy Magic Eden approvals, prompting a white-hat rescue across Ethereum and ApeChain. Yuga Labs’ vice president of blockchain, 0xQuit, said on Sept. 25 that the rescue team secured 23,155......
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Bitcoin Rally Slows as $15.6 Billion Options Expiry Hits—XRP and Solana Keep Climbing
Pullback or reversal? Here's what the charts suggest for BTC.
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Crypto Biz: Wall Street and crypto fight for the same turf
Stablecoins and tokenized assets are pushing banks, exchanges and crypto companies into the same markets, from payments to stocks and ETFs.
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Tether Says EQIBank Exposure Is Below 0.034% of Group Assets
Tether says assets held at EQIBank amount to less than 0.034% of its group assets, after The Information reported that some of the stablecoin issuer’s funds were stuck at the offshore bank, which faces liquidation risks following a U.S. asset seizure. A Tether spokesperson gave that percentage...
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Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Proposes Daily Dividends For Preferred Stocks
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Proposes Daily Dividends For Preferred Stocks Bitcoin treasury company Strategy wants to pay investors daily dividends on four of its preferred stocks. The largest corporate holder of bitcoin said Friday that it was asking shareholders to approve the move,...
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Is US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth a Bitcoiner? This Is What His Accounts Say
Bitcoin Magazine Is US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth a Bitcoiner? This Is What His Accounts Say U.S. Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth holds more cash than he does bitcoin. That’s according to his newly released 2025 annual financial disclosure, which shows he has between $16,000 and $65,000 in...
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Ethena Starts Equity-Basis Rollout for USDe With Binance
Ethena said Sept. 25 that it is beginning to allocate USDe backing to equity-basis trades through Binance, its first exchange partner for the strategy. The trades will pair bStocks tokenized equities with short positions in Binance’s USDT-denominated equity perpetuals. “Allocations begin today,”......
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Aave Adds Coinbase Stock Tokens as Collateral on Base
Aave has opened a market on Base where eligible non-U.S. holders of seven Coinbase-issued stock tokens can borrow USDC without selling them, bringing stock-backed lending to its V4 deployment. The Sept. 25 launch supports AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc and TSLAc—tokens representing......
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Binance-Owned CoinMarketCap Acquires CoinGlass
Binance-owned CoinMarketCap has acquired crypto data platform CoinGlass on undisclosed financial terms, adding its open-interest, funding-rate, liquidation and options analytics to the exchange group's market-data business. The purchase brings a provider of data about competing trading venues...
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Circle and Tether step in to freeze hacker wallet after massive Bitget crypto heist
The stablecoin issuer blacklisted a wallet holding about $318,000 in USDT and USDC. Most of the stolen funds sit in ether, which can't be frozen.
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Tokenization is moving faster than Washington
Regulatory clarity is not simply a legal or political issue, argues former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. It is an economic one.
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Tether confirms minimal EQIBank exposure following $89M US asset seizure
While Tether's stated ceiling places its maximum exposure under $64 million, the incident underscores lingering counterparty risks in fiat gateway networks.
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Strategy proposes daily dividends to bring STRC back toward $100
STRC has remained below $100 since May, despite a 12% dividend rate and roughly $1 billion in preferred share buybacks.
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Fed Proposes Capital Charges and Bank Approval Rules for Stablecoins
The Federal Reserve on Sept. 24 proposed rules requiring payment-stablecoin issuers it supervises to hold full reserve backing and capital against operational and certain credit risks, alongside an approval process for bank subsidiaries. The main requirements would cover approved subsidiaries of......
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Magic Eden legacy approvals leave $5.7 million in NFTs exposed to exploit before rescue
Magic Eden legacy approvals exposed $5.7 million in NFTs to an exploit before whitehats rescued 23,155 tokens.
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Aave V4 on Base adds Coinbase tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans
Aave V4 added Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, and four more tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans for non-U.S. users.
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Strategy proposes daily dividends for STRC, STRD, STRF and STRK preferred stocks
Strategy is seeking shareholder approval to pay daily dividends across its four U.S.-listed preferred stocks.
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Exchanges reporting crypto gains to IRS becomes tax nightmare
The IRS can now see your crypto gains, but has no idea about the cost-basis. That’s proving to be a big headache for some cryptocurrency investors.
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Strategy Wants Its Preferred Stock Dividends to Accrue 365 Days a Year
STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD would accrue dividends on weekends and holidays, in a move Strategy says will dampen volatility.
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Bitget’s eighth birthday ends with a $352M hack
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen has acknowledged that North Korea was likely responsible for the crypto exchange’s latest hack that stole roughly $352 million. Substantial withdrawals were spotted from addresses labelled as Bitget hot and cold wallets yesterday, setting off alarm bells across the community....
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Mitchell Askew Explains What 15M Inactive BTC Means for Bitcoin’s Next Move
Bitcoin Magazine Mitchell Askew Explains What 15M Inactive BTC Means for Bitcoin’s Next Move Bitcoin is rallying despite a Fed rate hike and the failure of the Clarity Act, and the on-chain data suggests sellers may be nearly exhausted. Mitchell Askew, Head of Blockware Intelligence, breaks down...
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Morgan Stanley Joins NEXTPredict as Prediction Markets Bet on 'More Institutional' Play
The bulk of prediction market trades are still sports bets, while valuations are predicated on rising institutional interest.
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Morning Minute: BlackRock Leans Deeper Into Tokenization with Ondo
The biggest financial institutions in the world are bringing more products onchain, and the pace is accelerating.