Crypto news
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StoneX lifts Strive price target 34% as new stock offering bolsters bitcoin strategy
StoneX has raised its price target for bitcoin treasury company Strive to $43 from $32 and reiterated its Buy rating on the stock.
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Ripple gains final OCC approval to launch national trust bank and bring RLUSD under federal oversight
Ripple's structure places reserve management and custody under federal supervision while leaving issuance with the New York-regulated entity.
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Keystone breach deepens: Hackers stole key used to verify wallets as genuine
Keystone initially disclosed a leak of customer information but has since disclosed that hackers also stole a key that could allow counterfeit wallets to pass authenticity checks.
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BlackRock joins SBI and Startale to link tokenized MMFs with Japanese yen stablecoins
BlackRock, SBI Holdings, and Startale will explore connecting tokenized money market funds with SBI's Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin JPYSC.
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Ripple wins final US approval for national trust bank
The approval clears the way for Ripple to manage reserves backing its RLUSD stablecoin and provide digital asset custody.
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Cold Storage Goes South: bitcoin++ Announces Antarctica Edition
Bitcoin Magazine Cold Storage Goes South: bitcoin++ Announces Antarctica Edition Bitcoin developers have gathered all around the world in places like Austin, Berlin, and Florianópolis, to name a few. In early 2028, a group of them plans to meet at the bottom of the world. bitcoin++ has announced...
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Ripple Wins Final OCC Trust Bank Approval for RLUSD Reserves and Custody
RLUSD will retain its New York-regulated issuer while the national trust bank manages reserves and provides fiduciary digital asset custody.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Canada’s Draft Stablecoin Rules Cap Redemption Fees at 1% and Ban Yield
Ottawa opened a 60-day consultation on draft rules requiring one-to-one reserves and fast redemption from stablecoin issuers, while keeping the ban on paying holders interest.
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Osmosis Ends OSMO Inflation, Shifting Staking Rewards to Revenue
The change removes an estimated two percentage points of issuance-funded staking APR and freezes about 51.9 million pre-minted developer tokens.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, Its Half-Good AI Model at Half the Price
OpenAI's mid-tier model now operates apps and screens more like a person would, with API prices 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra and an error rate that OpenAI says fell sharply.
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Akash Opens Vote to Move From Cosmos to Solana
Prop 346 would authorize a one-way AKT token conversion, while staking rewards would end at a later marketplace cutover requiring another vote.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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US OCC calls on community banks to become payment stablecoin issuers
The announcement followed the banking regulator finalizing its rules for the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin law to be implemented in January
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Injective launches onchain futures market tracking Nvidia GPU rental costs
The new index tracks rental prices for five Nvidia GPUs, offering leveraged trading and potential hedging against fluctuations in AI computing costs.
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Unitree Stock Jumps as Investors Bet Chatbot AI Will Finally Give Robots a Brain
Unitree's shares have jumped about 60% in under two weeks as investors bet OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra will give robots the brains they lack, turning the stock into an AI proxy.
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Blink Wallet Adds Inactivity Fee to Custodial Accounts, Accelerating Migration to Self Custody
Bitcoin Magazine Blink Wallet Adds Inactivity Fee to Custodial Accounts, Accelerating Migration to Self Custody Blink Wallet announced a new $1 a month inactivity fee, aimed at custodial accounts that have not logged in to the app in over 12 months. The decision was put into motion in early...
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Bitso Brings Morpho Lending to Its App With Bóvedas
The product moves USDC and peso-pegged MXNB into noncustodial lending vaults, with variable returns and no deposit insurance.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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NBA Embraces the CFTC on Prediction Markets as the NFL Fights It in Court
The agreement, which follows similar deals with MLB and NHL, establishes information-sharing to guard against insider trading as sports betting migrates to CFTC-regulated venues.
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Instinct Rolls Out Link Balance for AI Shopping With Spending Limits
Link says funded balances are held in USDC, while Tempo founder Matt Huang says stablecoins on its blockchain power the feature.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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South Korea Arrests Seven in First Big AI-Assisted Hacking Case
Police in Seoul say a 32-year-old with no IT background used AI tools to break into about 90 hospitals, schools and companies, then pressed victims for roughly $270,000 combined.
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Canada opens consultation on stablecoins, citing US GENIUS Act
As part of the potential implementation of its Stablecoin Act, the Canadian government will hear from the public on a proposed framework for tokens from non-financial institutions.
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CZ pitches BNB Chain’s role in AI as BNB Standard rings Nasdaq bell
CZ sees AI driving crypto use, while BNB Standard plans to expand beyond holding tokens in its treasury.
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AI Agents Found a Way Into Anthropic's Business Systems in Under 12 Hours
Cathedral, a startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says its AI agents found paths into Anthropic's sales, HR, and IT systems through third-party software.
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Coinbase Institutional Co-CEO: Bitcoin’s “Second Wave” of Institutional Capital has Arrived
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase Institutional Co-CEO: Bitcoin's “Second Wave” of Institutional Capital has Arrived Seven of the largest banks in the world are now running on Coinbase infrastructure, and Brett Tejpaul, Co-CEO of Coinbase Institutional, says they're having a “Kodak moment.” He joins...
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Why Prediction Markets Got the Brazilian Election So Wrong
Experts say Brazil's prediction market ban left the odds in the hands of traders with little knowledge about the election.
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AI company Anthropic announces IPO, expected as early as November
The artificial intelligence company disclosed more than $16 billion in revenue and an $80 billion net loss for the first half of 2026.
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Hyperliquid says Kraken parent Payward to be first CFTC-regulated HIP-3 deployer
Hyperliquid plans to make Kraken parent Payward the first CFTC-regulated HIP-3 deployer, a step toward regulated U.S. perpetual futures.
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SpaceX Locks Up $40 Billion for AI Chips as Musk Warns Most Neoclouds Will Die
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed a $40 billion chip deal with Apollo while lenders shut the door on smaller AI cloud firms, a split that could decide who controls computing.
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Keystone to destroy almost 19,000 wallets after device key leak
Keystone says it will destroy almost 19,000 unshipped hardware wallets after an attacker obtained the key it uses to verify its devices. First, Keystone took to X on Saturday to confirm a suspected breach of customer shipping information, including “names, contact details, shipping addresses, and...
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Y Combinator-backed Mochatrade raises $5.5 million to offer US stock perpetuals to Indian traders
The platform is in beta and plans to open to the public in the coming weeks, co-founder Chetan Manda told The Block.
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NBA names Kalshi, Polymarket preferred exchanges, signs CFTC deal
The US professional basketball league is expanding into prediction markets with official data agreements and safeguards against insider trading.