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us finance 7 8h ago 3 min read

Labor Department Sends Final 401(k) Alternative Assets Rule, Covering Crypto, to White House for Review

The Labor Department's final rule on adding private equity, real estate and crypto to 401(k) menus went to the White House regulatory office on Nov. 5, Bloomberg reported. It does not require any plan to offer digital assets. It sets the legal test employers would follow to get liability protection if they do.
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us economy 9 2d ago 4 min read

Banks, Crypto and AI Data Centers Face 2027 Oversight After Democratic Sweep as S&P 500 Rises 1.7% in Early Trading

Democrats take control of both chambers in January 2027, and banks, crypto firms and AI data-center builders are first in line for investigations and tougher Senate confirmation fights. The S&P 500 was up 1.72% by 9:46 a.m. ET today, Nov. 4. Trump's veto promise means most of what Democrats want on prices still needs his signature or Republican votes.
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us finance 5 3d ago 3 min read

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Post $398.6M Net Outflow on Nov. 2 as IBIT Sheds $405.3M

US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost a net $398.6 million on Monday, Nov. 2, their second straight outflow day, and BlackRock's IBIT accounted for more than all of it. BlackRock says the activity is fund housekeeping tied to investor redemptions, not a change in its view on Bitcoin. The next daily flow prints will show whether two bad sessions turn into a trend.
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us finance 7 4d ago 4 min read

Binance Posts $3.64 Billion Net Outflow After Reopening, Bitcoin Steadies Ahead of Midterms

Binance customers withdrew more than $4.6 billion and deposited just over $1 billion after the exchange resumed transactions Sunday, Nov. 1, a net outflow of $3.64 billion, or 2.1% of its $171 billion in assets. Bitcoin and ether ticked up Monday as traders turned to Tuesday's midterm elections and a heavy slate of central bank decisions. Binance has still not published its technical post-mortem or an updated Proof of Reserves.
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kp finance 7 4d ago 4 min read

Binance Loses $6.3 Billion in Hack, and Crypto Tracing Firms Point to North Korea

Hackers drained roughly $6.3 billion from Binance wallets on Oct. 29 and 30, and TRM Labs, Chainalysis and Pangolin Intelligence attribute it to a North Korean unit. Binance says it has replenished about 95% of affected assets from its own funds, but roughly half the stolen money was still unfrozen as of the exchange's last update. Pyongyang has denied past hacking allegations, and Binance's own investigation has not named a culprit.
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us finance 6 5d ago 4 min read

Crypto Liquidations Hit $12.5 Billion in October, 74% of Them Long Bets, as Binance Reports Breach

Forced closures of leveraged crypto positions totaled about $12.5 billion in October, with $9.213 billion hitting traders betting on higher prices. The heaviest day, Oct. 30, coincided with a suspected hack at Binance, though the sources do not settle whether the breach drove the selling. Binance's final loss figure is still unresolved.
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us tech 4 5d ago 4 min read

OneKey Founder Warns iPhone 11 and Older Models Have Unpatchable Flaws That Put Crypto Seed Phrases at Risk

OneKey founder Yishi Wang says iPhones from the 11 series and earlier carry chip-level flaws Apple cannot fix with software, and he urges crypto holders to move seed phrases off them. OneKey sells hardware wallets, and Wang himself says the flaws do not automatically hand an attacker the funds. Strong passcodes and limited physical access change the risk a lot.
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us finance 4 5d ago 3 min read

Texas Brothers Sentenced to 15 and 15.5 Years for Holding Minnesota Family at Gunpoint in $8 Million Crypto Robbery

Raymond and Isiah Garcia of Waller, Texas, were sentenced Oct. 29 to 180 and 186 months in federal prison for a nine-hour armed home invasion in Minnesota that ended with more than $8 million in crypto moved out of the victim's accounts. Both pleaded guilty in June. Prosecutors have not said how much of the money has been recovered.
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us finance 5 5d ago 4 min read

US Spot Ethereum ETFs Log 23 Straight Days of Outflows, Glassnode Says, With Over $1 Billion Out in October

Glassnode says U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs have posted 23 consecutive trading days of net outflows through October 30, the longest streak since the funds launched in July 2024. Daily SoSoValue figures, as reported by Altcoin Buzz, show a five-session run from October 26, so the streak's length is disputed. Either way, the funds still hold about $13.22 billion in net assets.
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us tech 9 6d ago 3 min read

FBI Formally Blames North Korea for $6 Billion Binance Theft, Says Hackers Are Converting Loot to Ethereum

Since the Oct. 29 Binance breach, the FBI issued a cyber alert today, Oct. 31, saying North Korea's TraderTraitor operation stole more than $6 billion. The agency, with the Secret Service and IRS Criminal Investigation, is telling exchanges to block wallets tied to the laundering. Roughly $2.4 billion sits in assets no issuer can freeze, according to TRM Labs.
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us finance 8 Oct 30 4 min read

Bitcoin Falls Below $78,000 After Binance Hack as Exchange Targets Resumed Withdrawals Within 48 Hours

A day after Binance disclosed about $6.3 billion in drained assets, bitcoin is trading near $77,000 and the exchange says withdrawals should resume within 48 hours. Freezing the money is the easy part: investigators say getting it back takes court orders and can take months or years.
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us economy 3 Oct 30 4 min read

Justin Sun says Trump gave crypto a two-year grace period to prove its value

Tron founder Justin Sun said at TOKEN2049 that the Trump administration has handed the crypto industry roughly two years to show it can deliver real-world value. The window is Sun's own characterization, and Congress has yet to pass market-structure legislation, leaving agency rules to set the terms.
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us politics 7 Oct 29 5 min read

DOJ Charges Five and Seizes $750,000 in Crypto in 'Operation Ghostbusters' Student-Aid Fraud Crackdown

The Justice Department unveiled Operation Ghostbusters on Thursday, announcing charges against five defendants and a seizure of more than $750,000 in cryptocurrency tied to a network associated with Kenyan nationals. Officials believe the fake-student scheme has run since at least 2021 and could total several hundred million dollars, but the FBI has so far identified $32 million in losses. The gap between the estimate and the documented number is what the 40-plus open cases have to close.
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us finance 6 Oct 28 4 min read

Bessent Says Treasury Will Back SEC and CFTC Crypto Rulemaking as CFTC Exchange Proposal Heads Toward Dec. 14 Comment Deadline

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday, Oct. 27, that Treasury will use its convening power with the SEC and CFTC to fill the gap left by the failed CLARITY Act. The CFTC's crypto exchange framework is still only an advance notice, with comments due Dec. 14, and SEC Chair Paul Atkins has said rules a future regulator cannot undo require legislation.
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us finance 5 Oct 28 3 min read

Coinbase Lists Ripple's RLUSD Stablecoin for Retail and Institutional Customers on Three Blockchains

Since launching in December 2024, Ripple's RLUSD has grown to about $2.6 billion in market cap, and as of today, Oct. 28, Coinbase customers can trade it on Prime, Exchange and the retail app. The listing puts RLUSD on the platform where rival USDC already has an established rewards arrangement. Coinbase has not said when Global Exchange customers get access or whether RLUSD balances will earn rewards.
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us finance 7 Oct 27 4 min read

Bessent Predicts Iran's Economy Will Shrink Over 25% as Treasury Pursues $1 Billion in Iranian Crypto

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview with Iran International on Monday, Oct. 26, that Iran's economy will contract more than 25% in the year ending March 2027 and that the next eight weeks of sanctions will be "even more intense." The $1 billion crypto seizure he forecast on Oct. 8 is still a stated goal, while the confirmed numbers so far are a Tether-reported $550 million in freezes and a Washington-cited $350 million.
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jp finance 6 Oct 27 3 min read

BlackRock, SBI and Startale Sign MOU to Study Linking Tokenized Money Market Funds to Yen Stablecoin JPYSC

BlackRock, SBI Holdings and Startale signed a memorandum of understanding on Oct. 27 to explore connecting tokenized money market funds with JPYSC, Japan's trust-bank-issued yen stablecoin. It is a study agreement, not a product, with no launch date or asset figure attached. JPYSC is still small, at roughly $131.5 million in circulation by one tally, against BUIDL's roughly $2.17 billion.
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us finance 7 Oct 26 4 min read

CFTC Chair Selig Says Agency Is Building Voluntary Federal Registration Path for Crypto Exchanges

CFTC Chairman Mike Selig said Oct. 26 that the agency is developing a voluntary federal registration route for crypto exchanges while Congress stalls on market-structure legislation. The framework is still at the advance-notice stage, and the agency says it cannot force every crypto asset onto registered platforms without a new law.
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us finance 6 Oct 25 3 min read

Circle CEO Says Democrats Won't Repeal GENIUS Act as OCC Finalizes Stablecoin Rules

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said on CNBC that a Democratic House would not reverse the GENIUS Act, pointing to its bipartisan votes. The OCC finalized its implementing rules the same day, Oct. 21, with the law and the rule both set to take effect Jan. 18, 2027. Anti-money-laundering rules and the date applications open are still to come.
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us finance 6 Oct 25 4 min read

SEC Approves Cboe Listing Rule for Volatility Shares' 3x Bitcoin and Ether Products, but Trading Awaits Registration

The SEC approved a Cboe BZX rule change on Oct. 2 that clears six triple-leveraged Volatility Shares products for listing, including 3x Bitcoin (BITH) and 3x Ether (ETHK). Neither can trade until the SEC declares its Form S-1 registration statements effective, and no timeline exists. The approval came through a regulatory structure that sidesteps the 1940 Act leverage limits the SEC had been enforcing on other issuers.
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us finance 5 Oct 24 3 min read

Tether Says 15 Bitcoin Mining Firms Have Committed to Its Open-Source MDK Toolkit

Tether announced Saturday, Oct. 24, that 15 mining operators, ASIC makers and pools, including Bitmain, Canaan, MicroBT and Foundry Digital, have committed to build and maintain integrations with its open-source Mining Development Kit. These are commitments, not finished products. The first stable release, version 1.0, is targeted for the end of 2026.
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us finance 6 Oct 24 4 min read

IRS Says It Will Cut Penalties and Target 120-Day Resolution for Voluntary Tax Disclosures, Crypto Included, Before December

IRS Criminal Investigation chief Jarod Koopman says a revamped Voluntary Disclosure Program will launch before December, with lower penalties and a 120-day resolution target. The IRS has given no penalty figures, and a separate House-committee bill would write specific crypto penalty rates into law. Taxpayers with unreported digital asset income are waiting on both.
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us finance 5 Oct 24 4 min read

Bitcoin Slips to Around $80,700 After BlackRock-Linked Wallets Send $355 Million to Coinbase Prime

On-chain records show wallets tied to BlackRock's spot ETFs moved 3,215 BTC and 38,882 ETH to Coinbase Prime on Oct. 23, a day after $635.6 million left spot Bitcoin ETFs. Bitcoin sits near $80,700 with Brent crude at $116.72 and the Fed meeting next week. A transfer to an exchange desk does not prove a sale, and nobody has shown where the coins went.
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us finance 5 Oct 24 4 min read

Kalshi and Polymarket Crypto Contracts Hit Record $2.7 Billion in a Week, Led by 15-Minute Bitcoin Bets

Weekly notional volume in crypto contracts on Kalshi and Polymarket reached a record $2.7 billion in mid-October, driven by 15-minute Bitcoin up/down bets. IG Group's CEO says notional volume is a poor measure of value and wants the industry judged on net gaming revenue. Midterm election markets, now past $1.4 billion, are the next test.
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us finance 6 Oct 24 4 min read

Chinese national Zheng Zhao extradited from Netherlands, charged with laundering money from $36.9M crypto scam, prosecutors allege

Zheng Zhao, 44, was extradited to Los Angeles and arraigned October 23 on a money laundering conspiracy charge tied to a Cambodia-based crypto fraud network that prosecutors say took $36.9 million from at least 174 Americans. Eight co-conspirators have already pleaded guilty, and Zhao's next hearing is November 30.
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us politics 7 Oct 23 4 min read

Circle Shareholder Sues Trump, World Liberty and Witkoff Over UAE Crypto Deals, Alleging Emoluments Violations

A Circle Internet Group shareholder filed suit Thursday, Oct. 22, in federal court in Washington. He alleges Trump took unconstitutional foreign payments through two UAE-linked deals worth more than $2 billion. The White House and World Liberty deny any wrongdoing, and Circle says it had nothing to do with the filing, so the first fight is likely over whether this plaintiff can bring the case at all.
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us finance 7 Oct 21 4 min read

CFTC and SEC Write Crypto Rules Without Congress While CFTC Staff Is Down 21% From Its Decade Average

With the CLARITY Act dead in Congress, the CFTC issued an Oct. 5 advance notice for federally registered crypto exchanges, and the SEC's proposed Regulation Crypto Assets drew about 140 comments. The CFTC would police these markets with 21% fewer staff than its 10-year average and nearly 80% fewer enforcement actions. Legal experts say agency rules are easier to overturn than a statute.
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us finance 7 Oct 21 4 min read

OCC Finalizes GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rule, Drops Presumption Against Third-Party Rewards

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued its final GENIUS Act rule today, Oct. 21, effective Jan. 18, 2027. It dropped the proposed presumption against third-party stablecoin rewards and will judge those programs case by case. Banks that lobbied for a hard line on yield and exchanges that run rewards programs will both have to wait for enforcement decisions to learn where the line sits.
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us finance 6 Oct 21 3 min read

JPMorgan Launches JPM Coin on Ethereum Mainnet, Institutional Clients Only

JPMorgan announced Oct. 19 that its JPM Coin deposit token now runs on Ethereum's main network, adding to its existing Base deployment. Access stays limited to approved institutional clients, and the bank has not said how much money has moved through the new route. The next test is whether clients actually use it.
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us finance 6 Oct 20 3 min read

Mastercard Launches Stablecoin Security, a Risk-Scoring Tool for Banks, at Money20/20

Mastercard unveiled Stablecoin Security on Monday, Oct. 19, a service that scores stablecoin payments for fraud, scams and sanctions exposure before funds move onchain. It launches in North America first, with worldwide availability expected in 2027. Mastercard has not published the scoring logic or an API reference, so how well it works is untested in public.
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us tech 6 Oct 19 4 min read

iVerify Details P7 DarkSword, a New iPhone Spyware Variant That Steals Keychain and Crypto Wallet Data

Security firm iVerify disclosed on Oct. 8 a new variant of the DarkSword iPhone exploit kit that pulls passwords, notes, photos and crypto wallet data and takes live commands from attackers. The exploit files target iOS 18, and Apple patched the original DarkSword in iOS 26.3.1, so the practical risk falls on phones that have not been updated.
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kr finance 5 Oct 19 3 min read

South Korea to Meet Five Crypto Exchange CEOs Oct. 20 as Bill Seeks to Push 22% Tax to 2029

South Korean finance officials are scheduled to meet the heads of the country's five largest crypto exchanges on Tuesday, Oct. 20, as a Democratic Party bill would push the 22% crypto tax from January 2027 to 2029. The government says it is still preparing for a January start, but any fourth delay would need National Assembly approval, with roughly ten weeks left.
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us finance 6 Oct 19 4 min read

Crypto.com and Novig Sue Missouri in Federal Court Over Sports Event Contract Orders

Crypto.com's exchange operator and Novig filed separate federal suits on Oct. 16 to stop Missouri from treating their sports event contracts as unlicensed gambling. Four other targets of the same cease-and-desist letters have not sued Missouri. The cases pit Missouri's voter-approved sports betting law against the platforms' claim that federal commodities law shuts the state out.
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us finance 7 Oct 18 4 min read

Stablecoin Payments Hit $482 Billion Through September While Supply Stays Flat at $305 Billion, Allium Says

Blockchain analytics firm Allium says stablecoin payment volume rose 45% to $482 billion in the first nine months of 2026, while total supply grew just 0.4%. In the same week, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Marqeta each announced new stablecoin products. Fees, merchant acceptance and full geographic coverage are still open.
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us finance 4 Oct 18 5 min read

CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis: Bitcoin Is Pseudonymous, and the Agency Uses It to Collect Intelligence

CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis said in a May 1, 2025 podcast that Bitcoin is not anonymous and that U.S. intelligence uses it to gather information on adversaries. The White House crypto council has since lost its last staffer, and the Senate failed to pass a cloture motion on the market-structure bill in September. Separately, a former senior CIA official has pleaded guilty to a $194 million fraud, with sentencing set for Jan. 28, 2027.
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us finance 6 Oct 17 3 min read

Brooklyn DA and FBI Take Down 241 Scam Domains and 112 Servers in Crypto Fraud Case, No Arrests Announced

Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI's New York office disrupted the infrastructure of an Eastern Europe-linked crypto investment scam that targeted Russian speakers, after a three-year investigation. Investigators put losses in the tens of millions of dollars, and about $300,000 has been recovered so far. Nobody has been arrested, and the DA's office says new scam sites have popped up quickly after earlier takedowns.
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us finance 6 Oct 17 4 min read

BIS Paper Links Higher Bank Deposit Rates to Slower Stablecoin Growth

A Bank for International Settlements working paper by Rashad Ahmed and Iñaki Aldasoro finds that a 1 basis point rise in bank deposit rates is associated with about 3 percentage points less stablecoin market-cap growth over 10 weeks. Growth slowed but never reversed, and the authors say the data cannot show how much money actually moved. The open question is whether yield-bearing stablecoins change the picture.
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us finance 5 Oct 17 3 min read

Coinbase Reports $2.3 Billion in Crypto-Backed Loans Outstanding

Coinbase says it has $2.3 billion in crypto-backed loans outstanding as of Oct. 17, 21 months after launching the product. A Cointelegraph post says 17 banks are part of the lending structure, but the banks have not been named. The book is backed by collateral that swings with the market, with Bitcoin at $81,557.
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us finance 5 Oct 17 4 min read

Ether ETFs Lost $320.1 Million Over the Week, Topping Bitcoin Funds' $228.4 Million, Farside Data Shows

Weekly tallies show Ethereum funds were the bigger drain for Oct. 12 to 16, losing $320.1 million against $228.4 million for Bitcoin. The five fund groups tracked by Farside lost $610.7 million, roughly half the prior week's pace.
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us finance 4 Oct 17 3 min read

US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Post $82.4 Million in Net Outflows Friday, $71.8 Million From BlackRock's IBIT

US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $82.41 million in net outflows on Friday, Oct. 16, and BlackRock's IBIT accounted for $71.8 million of it. A viral post framed that as BlackRock selling Bitcoin. The firm says the sales follow client redemptions, and month-to-date outflows now stand at $614.9 million.
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ir defense 8 Oct 16 4 min read

CENTCOM Says Blockade Has Kept $25 Billion in Iranian Oil Off the Market and Helped Freeze $350 Million in Crypto

Adm. Brad Cooper, the CENTCOM commander, said Friday that the U.S. naval blockade has cost Iran at least $25 billion in crude exports and left Tehran unable to pay workers, pensions and even IRGC salaries. Iran disputes who controls the Strait of Hormuz, tankers are still being hit, and Washington has not gotten the nuclear and shipping concessions it wants. Reported new strike options could land before or after the Nov. 3 midterms.
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us finance 6 Oct 16 3 min read

Schwab Opens Bitcoin and Ether Trading to All Clients, Adds Crypto Transfers, Plans Three More Coins by Year-End

Charles Schwab finished its retail crypto rollout, CEO Rick Wurster told investors on Oct. 15. Every client can now trade bitcoin and ether at a 0.75% fee, transfers into Schwab are starting, and three more coins are due by year-end. The fee is the revenue line Wurster is pointing to, and the new coins are the next test.
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us finance 7 Oct 16 4 min read

WSJ: Firm Co-Owned by Ex-Trump Crypto Adviser Bo Hines Received $6.3 Million From Tether During GENIUS Act Push

The Wall Street Journal reports that Nxum, a consulting firm one-third owned by former White House crypto adviser Bo Hines, received $6.3 million from Tether while he pushed the GENIUS Act. Nxum says Hines was passive, recused and took no Tether-linked money while in government. No charges or investigation have been announced, and the stablecoin law's rules are still being written ahead of its January 2027 effective date.
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us finance 7 Oct 15 4 min read

Bitcoin Miners With AI Plans Fall 10% to 12% as CPI Hits 3.7% and Gartner Warns on Neoclouds

Shares of IREN, Cipher Digital and Hut 8 dropped 10% to 12% on Wednesday, Oct. 14, while Bitcoin slipped only about 2%. The same day brought a hotter-than-expected inflation reading and a Gartner forecast that most independent AI cloud providers will not stay independent through 2030. Miners are borrowing billions to build AI data centers, and Cipher's $850 million convertible note offering is set to settle Friday, Oct. 16.
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us finance 7 Oct 13 3 min read

Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase Launch Open USD Stablecoin With $1 Billion in Committed Liquidity

Open USD (OUSD) went live Sept. 30 on Ethereum, Solana, Base and Tempo, backed by five payments and crypto heavyweights. It enters a $300 billion-plus market that Tether and Circle dominate, and it is betting on equity and rewards for partners instead of an issuer that keeps the yield. Whether that model pulls real supply away from the incumbents is the open question.
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us finance 6 Oct 12 3 min read

Stripe, Mastercard and Circle Buy Stablecoin Firms Bridge, BVNK and Tazapay

Three payment heavyweights have bought stablecoin infrastructure companies instead of building their own. Tallied with Bridge's reported price, the deals come to up to roughly $3.3 billion. Circle's $400 million Tazapay purchase has not closed and needs regulatory approval, including from Singapore's Monetary Authority.
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us finance 6 Oct 12 4 min read

FSB Tells G20 Stablecoin Crisis Plans Remain Untested, Days Before Thursday Finance Meeting

The Financial Stability Board warned G20 finance ministers and central bankers on Oct. 12 that no one knows how a major stablecoin would hold up in a severe crisis or insolvency. Only 11 of 28 surveyed jurisdictions had finished stablecoin rules in the FSB's 2025 review. G20 officials meet Thursday, Oct. 15.
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us economy 6 Oct 12 4 min read

Ex-CFTC Chair Pham Says Agency Needs No New Law to Regulate Crypto. Its Staff Is Down 21%

Former acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham, now a MoonPay executive, said Oct. 12 that the Commodity Exchange Act already covers crypto and Congress isn't needed. The agency she led is writing retail crypto rules with 21% fewer staff than its 10-year average and nearly 80% fewer enforcement actions than a typical year in the prior decade.
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us finance 5 Oct 12 3 min read

Solana Policy Institute president says crypto rules finalized before summer 2028 will be hard to reverse

Kristin Smith, president of the Solana Policy Institute, told Bloomberg that SEC and CFTC crypto rules finished before about summer 2028 would be hard to undo, a month after the Senate blocked the Clarity Act. Her own 18-to-24-month rulemaking estimate leaves little margin before that window, and Bitwise's Matt Hougan says a new administration could reverse agency rules from January 2029.
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gb finance 6 Oct 11 4 min read

Bank of England Deputy Says Central Bank Will Be 'the Banker to the Stablecoin' Under £40 Billion Cap

A Bank of England deputy says the central bank will act as the banker to sterling stablecoins, building on a June 22 policy statement that capped each systemic coin at £40 billion and let issuers hold up to 70% of reserves in short-term gilts. The Bank intends to finalize its Code of Practice by the end of 2026, with the regime slated to begin operating from 2027.
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fr economy 5 Oct 11 4 min read

French Assembly Committee Backs Tax on Crypto-to-Stablecoin Swaps and €800,000 Crypto Exit Tax

The National Assembly's Finance Committee adopted amendments on Oct. 7 and 8 that would tax crypto-to-stablecoin conversions and extend France's exit tax to crypto, both from Jan. 1, 2027. None of it is law. The full Assembly starts examining the 2027 budget Tuesday, Oct. 13, and the amendments must survive that floor debate.
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us finance 5 Oct 11 3 min read

Bitcoin ETFs Took In About $3 Billion in Late September, Then Shed $731 Million in Two Days

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs erased their 2026 deficit with roughly $3 billion of inflows from Sept. 17 to Sept. 25, then lost $731 million on Oct. 7 and Oct. 8. A $21 million inflow on Oct. 9 was the first since Oct. 6, and the next few sessions will show whether the money is long-term allocation or short-term trading.
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us finance 7 Oct 11 4 min read

Government-Linked Wallets Moved About $1.5 Billion in Seized Crypto in Two Days. Washington Hasn't Said Why

Blockchain analytics firm Arkham tracked roughly $1.5 billion in seized crypto leaving U.S. government-linked wallets on Oct. 7 and 8, mostly Bitcoin. No agency has said whether it is a sale, custody housekeeping or restitution. The stash is worth well under its October 2025 peak, and the sell-or-hold argument now has real numbers on both sides.
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us finance 7 Oct 10 4 min read

CFTC Chairman Selig Says He Is Disappointed in Congress, Moves on Crypto Rules Under Existing Law

Three weeks after the CLARITY Act failed in the Senate, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said the agency will regulate leveraged retail crypto trading and exchange registration under the statute it already has. The proposals are advance notices, not final rules, and spot-market oversight still needs Congress. House Financial Services Chairman French Hill says agency action is not durable enough, and NPR's reporting shows the CFTC doing this with a shrunken workforce.
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us finance 5 Oct 10 4 min read

One Year After the $19 Billion Crypto Liquidation, Bitcoin and Ether Order Books Are Deeper While Altcoins Lag

A year after more than $19 billion in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated in a day, CoinDesk Research finds Bitcoin's order book is about 75% deeper than on crash day. Altcoin futures interest is still far below its pre-crash level. Bitcoin's depth fell about 12% in a single day this week, which is the first real test of the rebuilt books.
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us finance 4 Oct 10 3 min read

US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Take In $21.1 Million on Oct. 9 After Two Straight Days of Outflows

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $21.13 million in net inflows on Friday, Oct. 9, according to SoSoValue, snapping a two-day outflow streak. BlackRock's IBIT supplied all of it, while Ether funds kept bleeding. The next test comes when US markets reopen Monday.
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us finance 6 Oct 10 4 min read

Bitcoin Trades Near $82,500 After Week of Liquidations Hit Leveraged Longs

Bitcoin fell from roughly $86,600 to an intraday low near $80,400 on Oct. 8 before recovering to about $82,500, as long-biased derivatives bets were forced closed. One tally puts the week's liquidations above $2.4 billion, and about $3.3 billion in shorts sit between the current price and $85,000 heading into a thin-liquidity weekend.
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us defense 7 Oct 9 3 min read

Bessent says U.S. may seize about $1 billion in Iran-linked crypto this week

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that officials know where roughly $1 billion in Iran-linked cryptocurrency sits and may seize it this week. A $61 million forfeiture case filed in New York last month shows how the government has gone after such funds so far, and the $1 billion would be about 16 times larger.
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us finance 6 Oct 9 4 min read

US Government-Linked Wallet Moves 12,267 Bitcoin Tied to Bitfinex Hack, Hours After $770 Million Sent to Coinbase Prime

A wallet labeled as US government-controlled and tied to the 2016 Bitfinex hack moved 12,267 BTC, about $1.01 billion, this week, following roughly $770 million in transfers to Coinbase Prime. Nobody in government has said whether any coins are being sold. The Bitfinex coins sit under a court-approved 2025 restitution order, and whether they are headed back to their owner or toward a sale is the open question.
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sg finance 5 Oct 8 3 min read

Standard Chartered plans crypto, stablecoin and tokenised asset custody for Singapore institutional clients

Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) announced on October 8 that it plans to offer custody for selected cryptoassets, stablecoins and tokenised real-world assets to institutional and accredited investor corporate clients. The service is subject to regulatory requirements, and no launch date has been given.
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Stories are added throughout the day, with recent ones near the top and each card showing its posting time and source count. Past bitcoin and crypto stories are in our archive, linked at the bottom of the page. The Sources page lists the more than 110 outlets in use; the Editorial Method page explains how they are chosen.

How do I see only the most important crypto news stories?

The filter at the top of the page sorts crypto coverage by importance. Choose Major for the most consequential stories, Notable for a wider selection, Skip Filler to remove minor items, or All for everything. A free account personalizes the feed further.