British trade association UK Finance expelled U.S. crypto exchange giant Coinbase from its membership after an internal evaluation concluded that standalone crypto exchanges fail to meet core inclusion standards. Membership Termination In a clear sign of growing tensions between traditional banking institutions and digital asset platforms, UK Finance, a British trade association, has expelled Coinbase, …
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South Korea’s KB Securities has partnered with tokenization platform Securitize and The Optimism Foundation to bring tokenized securities to domestic institutional investors. Phased Rollout Plan South Korea’s KB Securities has entered into a strategic collaboration with digital asset tokenization platform Securitize and blockchain organization The Optimism Foundation to develop and distribute tokenized financial products for …
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A searchable archive of leaked documents taken from Curaçao’s gambling regulator opened to the public on Wednesday morning, a day after an international consortium published its first stories from the files. However, the named companies dispute the findings, and so does the regulator. Curaçao’s ‘Casino Secrets’ Go Public The Casino Secrets archive, which went live …
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Galaxy Digital has added $100 million of sUSDS, Sky Protocol’s yield-bearing savings token, to its corporate treasury and approved it as collateral for institutional clients, the companies said Sept. 23. Galaxy and Sky described the treasury position as complete, but their announcement gave no figure for client lending secured by sUSDS or the first completed …
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A new Cardano governance action proposes cutting the minimum from 170 ADA to 75 ADA, this time without the Plutus memory-limit change that brought stake pool operators into the previous ballot. The proposal drops one voting requirement that stopped the earlier action. Approval is pending, and each pool would still set its own declared fee. …
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Coldcard owners can publicly check whether white hats recovered coins from their wallets. Galaxy researcher Alex Thorn linked a Sept. 21 Bitcoin transaction carrying a Crypto Recovery Trust claims reference to roughly 52.37 BTC from Coldcard-related clusters. He directed owners to search their public Bitcoin addresses at the trust’s site. A match can begin an …
Almost one million trades of nearly the same size have moved through a single Kalshi market since August, and federal regulators are looking at them, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. Based on the exchange’s public data, the pattern is still running on Wednesday morning—and regulators are reportedly looking into it. One Order Size …
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Singapore has capped car ownership since 1990 with its Certificate of Entitlement, a permit required to register a vehicle that’s sold in twice-monthly auctions, lasts 10 years, and has recently cost more than $75,000. The policy is paired with heavy public-transit investment for the city-state’s 5.9 million residents, with about 80% of homes within 10 …
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A new Sports Illustrated index ranks the NBA players drawing the most attention from prop bettors—based on social chatter and search traffic rather than money wagered—with LeBron James clear at the top. An Unusual Index Putting Metrics Behind Marketing Player props have become one of the most heavily marketed corners of sports betting, and a …
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Iris Rabaya Au received an 18-month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to concealing more than $2.6 million she obtained through her former boyfriend’s criminal activities. The money moved through companies and bank accounts she established for Adam Iza, a self-styled crypto businessman. The Money That Reached Her Accounts Prosecutors said that more than $2.6 …
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Payward’s plan to bring onchain perpetual futures to U.S. traders could open a new market for Hyperliquid. Grayscale sees a potential benefit for HYPE, but that depends on regulatory approval and trading fees reaching the protocol. A US Market Could Expand Hyperliquid’s Reach Hyperliquid could gain access to U.S. futures traders under a plan from …
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An iPhone app promoted as a read-only crypto monitoring tool carried code capable of accessing other apps and sensitive wallet data, a new analysis found. A wallet identified as the attacker’s received nearly $580,000 in crypto. How FomoPeek Reached the App Store With Malicious Code People who installed FomoPeek to monitor crypto wallets may have …
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Bitcoin fell below $85,000 on Sept. 23 after stronger-than-expected US business activity sent Treasury yields higher and flushed leveraged longs. The reversal broke the momentum behind a rebound that had accelerated as Bitcoin pushed through a large concentration of short positions earlier this week. Selling intensified after S&P Global released its September flash purchasing managers’ …
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Circle has switched on 24-hour stablecoin foreign-exchange settlement on Arc, targeting a global FX market that moves nearly $10 trillion daily. The service, called StableFX, allows screened businesses to request competing quotes from multiple liquidity providers and settle both sides of a stablecoin currency trade simultaneously on Circle’s newly launched blockchain. Users can choose near-instant …
BlackRock says AI could create a new class of stablecoin customer: machines that spend continuously without human approval. The world’s largest asset manager sees increasingly autonomous AI systems purchasing data, accessing software, and acquiring computing resources on their own, potentially adding a new source of transaction demand to digital assets beyond trading and human payments. …
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