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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Strive Buys $94.5 Million in Bitcoin, Pushing Holdings Past 27,000 BTC
Strive kept its Bitcoin shopping streak alive last week, though its cart was a bit lighter.
Read more →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.
Read more →Goldman Sachs brings $100 billion Treasury fund into crypto’s institutional plumbing
Goldman Sachs is putting one of its largest Treasury funds within reach of digital-asset firms without creating a tokenized version of it.
Read more →Quant Surges by 50%—Here’s What’s Driving the QNT Price Rally
Quant price surged over 50% as institutional tokenisation adoption, rising volume and short liquidations accelerated the breakout.
Read more →Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks
Chainlink today launched CCIP 2.0, the newest version of its cross-chain plumbing—the software layer banks and crypto projects increasingly use to move tokenized money, like stablecoins, wrapped Bitcoin, and tokenized f…
Read more →SEI Tests Upper Edge Of Falling Wedge, Can Staked SEI ETF Boost SEI Price Next?
REXShares and Osprey Funds updated their Staked SEI ETF filing with an October 23 effective date.
Read more →Crypto PAC spends $11M to oppose Sherrod Brown in Ohio
Fairshake pledged an initial $30 million on media opposing the Democratic candidate in Ohio’s Senate race in what some see as a repeat of spending by the crypto industry in 2024.
Read more →Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum
Ethereum's next upgrade will be the last one anyone from 2015 would recognize, its co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote in a post published on Saturday.
Read more →The restaking gold rush is over, and top protocols are barely making a profit
By the end of this quarter, ether.fi will have cut the last structural link between its staking tokens and restaking protocol EigenLayer. Protocol documentation put under 1% of assets still restaked as of August with Ei…
Read more →BGB Token Price Faces Fresh Pressure to Fall Under $1 After Bitget Hack
BGB token price remains below the $2.0-$2.20 resistance belt tied to the falling wedge.
Read more →Tether is a ‘lifeline’ for Iranian regime, Senate Dems say in new report
U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether is a go-to tool for the Iranian government to bypass sanctions, a new report from a group of Senate Democrats said.
Read more →CCIP 2.0 Goes Live With $84B in Cross-Chain Value Secured
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Read more →Bitcoin Falls Lower as Trump's Iran Snub Sends Oil, Yields Higher
The Bitcoin rally that sent BTC soaring in August is once again being slowed today by forces largely outside of the crypto market’s control. Bitcoin is currently trading near $83,000, down about 1.8% over 24 hours, afte…
Read more →Tether Helped Freeze $550M in Iran-Linked USDT, Reveals $4.9B Total Freeze
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Read more →Bitget CEO says $388M hack exploited third-party security vulnerability
Some stolen assets have been frozen, but Bitget has yet to disclose how much has been recovered as investigators continue to assess a possible North Korea link.
Read more →CEO Brad Garlinghouse Uses $150 Million Hack To Debunk The ‘Ripple Controls XRP’ Claim
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse rejected the claim that his company controls XRP, saying the assertion is false and is part of why Ripple ended up in a US government court case where it had to prove otherwise.
Read more →MiCA focus shifts from rulemaking to supervision, ESMA chair says
ESMA will focus on CASP resilience, outsourcing and reverse solicitation while pursuing harmonized reporting across national regulators.
Read more →Altseason is coming — and traders are more discerning this time
Altseason is almost here and early signs suggest traders are becoming more selective, with capital flowing into revenue-generating protocols across a number of different narratives.
Read more →Bitcoin slips to $83k amid pressure from high yields, Iran tensions
Will BTC price go back to over the $100K mark as the US China tariff war seems to have reached a negotiation point, and might end soon?
Read more →Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys Another $47M of ETH, Taking It to 4.9% of Ethereum Supply
Bitmine has staked 84% of its tokens, a position it projects will generate some $358 million a year in staking rewards.
Read more →Hong Kong Tightens Financial Rules for Licensed Crypto Firms
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Read more →CT Pool Review: How It Works, Fees, Withdrawals and Legitimacy
The post CT Pool Review: How It Works, Fees, Withdrawals and Legitimacy appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News CT Pool is a mobile platform-based mining service that lets users participate in cryptocurrency mining wit…
Read more →Strategy Sets New BTC Holdings Record After $143M Bitcoin Purchase
Michael Saylor's Bitcoin treasury firm bought 1,665 BTC last week, taking its holdings above its previous record to 847,666 BTC.
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