Crypto news
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Strive Buys $335 Million in Bitcoin After Investors Pour In $369 Million
The Nasdaq-listed bitcoin holder bought as warrant holders exercised, bringing in $369 million, and it now plans a $630 million sale of 15% preferred stock.
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Anthropic Gives 5% of Itself to the Public. Musk Answers by Giving Away SpaceX Shares
Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund, and within hours Elon Musk promised a SpaceX share to every American child.
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Solana treasury firm SkyAI sells all SOL holdings, launches $201M buyback
The former medical device maker has liquidated its Solana treasury and is offering to repurchase shares and warrants using its $223.8 million cash holdings.
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XRP Ledger Repairs Its Lending Protocol Before It Goes Live
XRP developers published a second amendment to repair the ledger’s new uncollateralized lending feature while the original still awaits validator approval.
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Crypto PAC pours $362K into California race voters essentially decided in August
A Fairshake affiliate is supporting incumbent Aisha Wahab through ads in November, but the congresswoman already won a special election in the district.
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Tether: Senator's investigation misses positive work that's led to lower Iran volumes
The stablecoin issuer's CEO, Paolo Ardoino, has been defending against accusations that the firm's stablecoins have fueled financial activity in Iran.
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Sentora’s OUSD Lending Vault Holds $42.5 Million on Tempo
The Morpho vault lends against cbBTC collateral, but nearly all its assets remain idle rather than deployed into loans.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Market participants weigh in on SEC’s proposed crypto regulations
The financial agency is scheduled to close public comments on its ‘Regulation Crypto Assets’ proposed in August.
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Hackers Are Running Apple's iOS on Android Phones for the First Time
Hobbyists are booting iOS 16 on Xiaomi and Nothing phones and posting the proof. It barely works, but it suggests Apple's software is no longer welded to Apple's hardware.
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The Architecture of Money: Mapping Financial Power in the Age of Bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine The Architecture of Money: Mapping Financial Power in the Age of Bitcoin Money determines where we live, what we can afford, and how wealth accumulates across generations. Yet the mechanisms that create and distribute it remain largely occluded, even as their consequences become...
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Super League Stockholders Approve Metaplanet’s 2,100 BTC Investment, Paving Way for ‘Superplanet’
Bitcoin Magazine Super League Stockholders Approve Metaplanet's 2,100 BTC Investment, Paving Way for ‘Superplanet' Super League stockholders have approved all proposals tied to Metaplanet ‘s 2,100 BTC investment, clearing the way for the Nasdaq-listed company to be renamed Superplanet and become...
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AI leads ‘longest losing streak’ for Chinese stocks
The Chinese stock market index CSI 300 lost 3.4% last week, its 10th consecutive weekly decline and its longest losing streak since the index’s creation in 2005, with AI leadership in the wrong direction. Chipmakers and AI companies that powered Beijing’s spring rally are leading the sell-off. The...
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Visa, Mesh partner to enable crypto spending at 175M merchant locations
Mesh will connect crypto and stablecoin wallets to Visa’s global payment network, allowing users to spend digital assets without a separate card.
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Mastercard Brings Its Fraud-Fighting Tools to Stablecoin Payments
Unveiled at Money20/20, the API-based tool combines payment and blockchain intelligence to flag fraud, scams and sanctions exposure before funds move on-chain.
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France’s Stablecoin Swap Tax Faces Oct. 20 Budget Vote
Deputies approved the amendment by one vote. If enacted, it would end tax deferral for conversions into single-currency e-money tokens from January 2027.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Mastercard launches stablecoin risk screening for banks and payment providers
The new service combines payment data and blockchain analytics to help banks detect suspicious stablecoin transactions before settlement.
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Justin Sun’s TRON stock nears delisting price
While Protos has repeatedly covered the bizarre entity that is Justin Sun’s TRON Inc., including its string of merchandise for children , the stock price has continued to tumble. Now, it's hovering minimally above the $1 threshold necessary to stay listed on Nasdaq. So what’s going wrong and is...
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Why Some of America’s Biggest Companies Are Objecting to Tokenized Shares
Nine companies, including Verizon, Broadcom and UnitedHealth, have objected to having their shares traded on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue.
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US Orders Civilian Agencies to Rip DeepSeek Out of Government Systems
The Department of Homeland Security told civilian agencies to remove China's DeepSeek and any service built on it, and banned buying more, citing the risk of sensitive data reaching Beijing.
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Rain Says Western Union's Stablecard Is Live in 37 Markets
The USDPT-backed Visa card is getting a Money20/20 promotion offering up to $40 in purchase-only credits, subject to in-person signup and approval.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Trump-associated ALT5 Sigma down 96% since WLFI deal
ALT5 Sigma, the WLFI digital asset treasury firm where Eric Trump was a board observer, fell 96% after its deal with WLFI was announced on Friday. Specifically, the firm, which is operated by AI Financial Corporation, saw its stock price fall from $8.97 before the deal was announced to $0.35....
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Pump.fun Adds Pre-IPO Tokens to Its Launch Pairings
The eight PreStocks assets offer economic exposure rather than shareholder rights and are unavailable to US persons.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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JPMorgan's JPM Coin Arrives on Ethereum, Putting Bank Dollars on a Public Blockchain
JPMorgan is rolling out JPM Coin on Ethereum for institutional clients, a token backed by dollars in its accounts that settles in seconds, any day of the week.
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Revolut secures Gibraltar crypto license to support global expansion
The UK-based fintech will use the authorization to offer crypto services in additional international markets, though it has not disclosed specific countries or launch dates.
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Lighter Launches BTC and ETH Binary Options on Core
The Up/Down contracts pay winning shares 1 USDC and require full funding, with no leverage or liquidations.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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STRK Sinks 38% in a Week as Starknet Rally Reverses
Starknet’s DeFi TVL fell a smaller 5.3%, while voting on research into an independent Layer 1 remains open until Oct. 22.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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U.S. CFTC rebuffs CME legal stance in consequential fight over perpetual futures
The future of perps in the U.S. may be at stake as the CFTC argues that CME hasn't shown the new policy is hurting it after the agency OK'd its first bitcoin perp.
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Stablecoin Development Corp goes boom then bust
Stablecoin Development Corp (SDEV), a company that's designed to essentially hold and stake governance token SKY, has seen its stock price rocket nearly 1,000% — and subsequently plummet 92% — in a matter of weeks. Why it pumped and dumped so quickly isn't clear. Protos previously reported on SDEV...
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Abandoned Bitcoin? Wallet Targeted by Noah Doe Lawsuit Moves $33 Million
A Bitcoin address dormant since 2013 moved 411.45 BTC worth about $33.4 million, according to Galaxy Research, and it’s among the wallets named in the “Noah Doe” lawsuit.
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Metaplanet to take 93.7% stake in Super League through 2,100 BTC deal
The transaction would give Metaplanet access to US capital markets, where it plans to use preferred stock offerings to finance additional Bitcoin purchases.