Former U.S. Rep. George Santos will pay $35,069.98 and accept a three-year trading ban to settle CFTC findings that he manipulated a Kalshi market tied to his own State of the Union attendance. A final order reveals he profited first from Yes contracts, then switched to No while continuing to tell the public he planned …
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Capital One is pushing back against claims of political bias in a federal lawsuit by seeking dismissal of the case tied to its 2021 closures of Trump Organization accounts. The bank attributes those actions to months of internal analysis by its anti-money laundering specialists following standard policies and regulatory requirements, reports The Hill. Attorneys for …
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The first US-Japan joint yen intervention in 28 years came amid record bond yields and worries about the yen carry trade. Joint currency interventions in the yen by Japan and the US could ultimately benefit Bitcoin (BTC) and risk assets. Key points: Read more Go to Source
Apple restored Telegram after the messaging platform removed content that violated its child safety policies and banned the user who posted it. Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after its review found content that violated its policies on child sexual abuse material, according to Bloomberg. The messaging app was later restored after Telegram …
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The ruling leaves New York’s case against Kalshi in place while allowing the CFTC to renew its request before Judge Victor Marrero. Judge Jed S. Rakoff denied without prejudice an emergency Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) request for a temporary restraining order that would have blocked New York from pursuing its enforcement case against prediction …
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The framework specifies how existing tax obligations apply to crypto disposals and rewards, with some withheld amounts payable in the originating token. Nigeria’s revenue agency has issued rules requiring crypto platforms and peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces to collect, report and remit taxes, including paying some withheld amounts in digital tokens. In its Guidelines on Taxation of …
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Strategy’s latest Bitcoin sale lifted its 2026 disposals to 5,258 BTC, the largest amount it has sold in any year since adopting the asset in 2020, as the company redirects capital toward supporting its preferred securities. The company sold 1,638 BTC for $104.7 million between July 27 and Aug. 2 and issued about 3.01 million …
Bitcoin miner Sphere 3D has up to $10.3 million of amended at-the-market stock-sale capacity for working capital, while its standing policy also permits mined Bitcoin sales for working capital or growth. At the assumed $2.35 share price in its July 31 prospectus supplement, full use of the facility would add 4,382,978 common shares and expand …
EU sanctions rules will bar direct and indirect transactions with HTX from Aug. 23 when those dealings fall within the bloc’s jurisdiction. For some individuals still needing to exit the exchange, an ordinary withdrawal will then require a narrow authorization from a national authority. Council Regulation (EU) 2026/1848 lists “HTX (HUOBI GLOBAL SA)” in Annex …
The latest Intesa Sanpaolo Bitcoin ETF filing shows a sharp second-quarter reset. Italy’s largest banking group cut the underlying-share amount of its reported iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF call position by 99.3%, while a 500,000-share-equivalent held put row appeared and its staked Ethereum ETF balance roughly tripled. The changes mark a reset in the Italian bank’s …
Armada Acquisition Corp. II, the SPAC behind the Evernorth XRP deal, has borrowed $135,000 from Arrington XRP Capital Fund. Arrington is both Armada’s sponsor and the subscriber behind a major XRP commitment to the transaction. Related Reading New US company completes $1 billion XRP purchase as Ripple celebrates price surge Institutional momentum builds as Evernorth …
Malicious smart contracts can make safety tools inside crypto wallets show a small gain even when the final transaction sends the user’s deposit to an attacker, according to a July 30 arXiv preprint that links the technique to 5,742 victim addresses and about $3.48 million in historical losses. The authors used SimGuard, a contract-bytecode detector, …
Trump Media’s Bitcoin holdings came under renewed scrutiny after the company moved 2,628 BTC on Aug. 2, bringing the sum of two recently reported transfers to within 3.43 BTC of the portion of its March holdings not identified as convertible-note collateral. The near-match puts the latest wallet activity at the center of a question about …
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Tokenized equities are attracting a fast-growing onchain audience as investors seek access beyond conventional market hours. Yet rising wallet counts have not resolved questions about liquidity, ownership rights or secondary-market depth. Jupiter Sees 360% Jump in Off-Hours Tokenized Stock Trading Tokenized stocks are moving from a blockchain experiment toward a broader trading market, with the …
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A study published in The BMJ used a BERT-based “scientific spam filter,” trained on 2,202 retracted paper-mill papers, to screen 2.6 million cancer studies from 1999 to 2024. Led by Queensland University of Technology biostatistician Adrian Barnett, the analysis flagged 261,245 papers, or 9.87%, with suspicious writing patterns, rising from about 1% in the early …
