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Bitcoin surged past $81,000 on Friday, hitting an intraday high of $81,238, before settling around $80,800 with a $1.62 trillion market cap. CFTC Draft Rules Spark Rally Beyond $81,000 Bitcoin’s price breezed past $81,000 Friday amid reports th...
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U.S. bitcoin ETFs returned to inflows on Thursday with $159.45 million, led by a sharp rebound in Blackrock’s IBIT. Ether and XRP funds remained under pressure, while the recently launched Zcash ETF drew $46.56 million in fresh capital. Blackrock Dri...
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Bitcoin’s price ripped from the mid-$76,000s to nearly $81,000 on Friday at 10:45 a.m. ET, after traders spent the week absorbing a failed U.S. Senate crypto vote and two central-bank rate hikes. The final leg wasn’t simply buyers charging in....
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SBI Digital Practice and Kyobo Life completed a cross-border pilot that directly converted yen-linked test tokens into won-linked tokens. The trial examined whether stablecoin infrastructure could reduce delays, conversion steps, and costs in institu...
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Binance traders now hold more XRP in futures contracts than they did before the Senate sank the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, even with XRP still about 65% below its all-time high. The Number That Came Back Open interest, i.e. the total amount of futures...
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A small team of researchers chained three bugs with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and ended up inside OpenAI’s private code repository. The whole job took under 72 hours, and OpenAI paid $6,500 for it. The Chain, Link by Link A vulnerable ...
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The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to keep Binance out of the European Union. Three months after the bid collapsed, the world’s largest exchange is still locked o...
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Michael Saylor says the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new innovation exemption clears tokenized MSTR and STRC to trade onchain around the clock. It is the first live test of the digital credit pitch he has spent a year selling...
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Five XRP Ledger addresses that didn’t exist until about a day earlier now hold 100 million XRP each, and every one was created by the same Uphold wallet that filled it. The Alert That Lit up XRP Twitter A burst of posts on Sept. 17 flagged half...
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Crypto venture funding rebounded sharply in the second quarter of 2026, with investors deploying about $5.7 billion across 384 deals. The recovery was driven by larger, later-stage financings, while fundraising for new crypto venture funds remained u...
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A cross-party House of Lords committee has told the UK government to ban almost all gambling advertising as soon as it is “practicable” to do so, and to abandon its objective of growing the sector along the way. The industry’s lobby group, the...
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Heritage Auctions in Dallas traced a rare video-game hoard in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and sent partner Cris Bierrenbach to meet the seller without knowing what he would find. About 90% of the games in the Dallas-Fort Worth Collection were sealed,...
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Growing concerns over AI safety have sparked an intense debate on regulation. While Andrew Yang warns that rogue self-replicating code is already corrupting web training data, Sentient Labs argues that simply slowing down AI development is ineffectiv...
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John Reed Stark argues that the SEC’s new regulatory pretensions run counter to a decade of litigation and conflict with the major questions doctrine, stressing that Congress should discuss and regulate matters of such significance. Reed Stark...
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Brazil’s government is drafting a provisional measure that would prohibit online casino games and restrict sports betting, the Brazilian news portal UOL reported Wednesday, citing government sources. No text has been published, and the governme...
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Even after the CLARITY Act’s recent demise, Congress still discusses digital assets regulation. Rep. Tom Emmer is still hopeful for a new discussion and eventual CLARITY Act Passage before year-end, while Rep. Maxine Waters stresses that passin...
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Bitcoin may struggle to break decisively above $80,000 as tighter U.S. monetary policy and the CLARITY Act setback weigh on near-term conditions. Coinshares sees both headwinds delaying a stronger crypto recovery. Bitcoin’s $80,000 Breakout Fac...
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Bitcoin traders may have less to fear from the Federal Reserve’s latest tightening than during the last bear market, according to Grayscale. The crypto asset manager sees the current rate cycle as a limited adjustment rather than a prolonged po...
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The world now has 135,694 crypto millionaires, including more than 92,000 whose fortunes are tied to bitcoin, according to Henley & Partners’ Crypto Wealth Report 2026. The figures show how digital-asset wealth has broadened even as crypto remain...
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Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, officially began offering institutional custody for xU3O8 on September 16, 2026. The token represents physical uranium yellowcake stored in Cameco facilities...
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Revolut said it has received no direct ransom demands following a recent data breach. Certik analyst Jonathan Riss warned that mandatory know your customer (KYC) rules force platforms to store sensitive identity data, making them high-value targets f...
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According to an announcement shared with Bitcoin.com News, Wisdomtree and Moonpay aim to put a tokenized Treasury money market fund in front of a very large crowd. Moonpay’s network has more than 35 million accounts, and Wisdomtree plans to use that...
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It’s been 11 days since the so-called white hat hackers siphoned nearly 4,000 BTC from the Liquid Network. Since then, after the return of 3,400 BTC and a whole lot of onchain bickering, L-BTC to BTC peg-outs are still not functional on Liquid, and t...
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Just days before its closure, one of the oldest crypto exchanges, BitMEX, was hit with another lawsuit that repeats the same “God Access” theme. This time, it’s related to the collapsed crypto giant Celsius and is filled with accusa...
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) just opened a regulatory side door for software developers, allowing some to market derivatives, collect trading fees and avoid registering as brokers. The agency’s Market Participants Division ext...