A wallet linked to BIT, the firm formerly known as Matrixport, dropped another 1,000 BTC worth $81.06 million into Binance on Saturday, its second large deposit to the exchange this week. The Wallet in Question The address, which begins with ‘bc1qsz,’ sent the coins to Binance early Saturday, tracker Lookonchain reported. Other outlets carried and …
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Federal prosecutors have secured a guilty plea from a Texas man accused of depositing more than $15 million in fraudulent U.S. Treasury checks through fake accounts and stolen identities. Kendrick Lamont Fugett, 34, of West Dallas admitted to the charges on September 17th, 2026, before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor in the Northern …
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A widely followed crypto analyst on X is highlighting Ethereum’s (ETH) contained position in a four-hour channel for a potential major surge. Pseudonymous crypto strategist Ali tells his 166,400 followers that Ethereum looks bullish after holding support at around $2,375. According to the analyst, he sees Ethereum surging to as high as $3,000 if it …
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Bastion Platforms National Trust Company will offer stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure and white-label issuance from a single federally regulated entity. Stablecoin infrastructure provider Bastion said the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) had granted it preliminary conditional approval for a US trust bank charter. The charter adds federal supervision from the …
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TLDR: Ethereum price breaks above $2.63K as whale activity rises, and non-empty wallets reach a record 207.17M. More than 40M ETH is staked, while Ethereum DeFi holds roughly $50B in total value locked across markets. Analysts spot $2,800 and higher levels ahead, but those targets depend on resistance holding or breaking. Ethereum’s wallet, staking, and …
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Brazil’s central bank will bar virtual assets, including stablecoins, from settling one specific type of international payment flow starting Oct. 1. Resolution 561 targets the settlement leg between regulated foreign-exchange providers and their overseas counterparties, requiring that leg to run through a licensed FX transaction or a qualifying non-resident real account. Individual international transfers using …
Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $81,400 on Friday, approaching the low-$82,000 zone that has capped every recovery attempt since late August. US spot Bitcoin ETF shares stop trading once American markets close for the weekend. Any further push through that ceiling over the next two days would occur in continuously open crypto markets, without …
South Korean police spent five months identifying individual Polymarket traders through public blockchain records and booking them on suspicion of illegal gambling, all while the platform was still legally accessible in the country. The platform is now blocked in Korea entirely. The Nature of Predictions Remains Contentious The Gangwon Provincial Police Agency’s cyber investigation unit …
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Vietnam has built a pilot legal framework and plans to license its first crypto-asset service providers in 2026. Building Guardrails Vietnam reportedly plans to license its first crypto-asset service providers in 2026 under a pilot legal framework as the Southeast Asian country seeks to modernize its financial market oversight. Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen …
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SBI Group is backing Singapore-based Dtcpay as the regulated payments company expands its stablecoin merchant network and product suite. The investment extends Dtcpay’s Series A to $25 million and deepens SBI’s digital asset push across Asia. SBI Extends Dtcpay’s Series A to $25 Million Regulated stablecoin payment access is set to expand across Asia after …
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A major multilevel marketing company has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle federal claims it misled recruits about earnings and pressured them into buying products they were unlikely to sell. The proposed settlement requires Amway Corp., World Wide Group and Leadership Team Development to pay $225 million, nearly all of it …
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A New York couple has drained more than $150,000 from an elderly Delaware man by repeatedly tapping his bank account and pawning coins taken from his safe deposit boxes. Bonnie Stiner, 56, and Craig Stiner, 55, of Belmont, New York, each received two years in prison plus probation on August 31st of 2026 after pleading …
Former banking official gets four years in prison over false letters of credit and accepting $470,000 in cryptocurrency bribes. A former bank official in Hong Kong who falsely authenticated letters of credit for more than $1.6 billion was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to make restitution of more than $470,000 he received …
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says laptop AI is approaching a practical turning point. Wallet software still needs a much higher bar before it can hand an AI control over crypto assets. He said on Sept. 17 that Qwen 3.8 Flash and recent improvements in llama.cpp had brought local models close to handling a “large share” …
A roughly $5.15 million outflow from US spot XRP exchange-traded products on Sept. 17 interrupted a $192 million inflow month. The reversal creates the first clean test of whether recent demand is cooling, yet the broader flow pattern still favors the buyers. Maketo’s five-fund series remained about $10 million positive for the rolling week through …
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