McDonald’s is facing a proposed class action lawsuit that claims a shared AI pricing engine pooled nonpublic franchise sales data and helped push menu prices higher. The complaint, filed October 2nd in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, accuses McDonald’s USA and McDonald’s Corporation of antitrust violations through a centralized machine-learning …
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California Resident Pleads Guilty to Laundering $597,000 From Government Impersonation Scam
Federal prosecutors have secured a guilty plea from a Chinese national accused of laundering proceeds taken from victims through a government impersonation scam. Binghui Liu, 33, a citizen of China formerly residing in San Jose while his asylum application was pending, pleaded guilty on October 5th, 2026, to one count of conspiracy to commit money …
Tether Is Facing Lawsuit Over Alleged $2,760,000 USDT Freeze Without Justification
A cross-border payments company is accusing Tether of seizing millions from its digital wallet without justification or notice. Conduit alleges Tether froze the entire $2.76 million balance in its Fireblocks USDT wallet on its own initiative. Conduit Technology, Inc. stored the working capital in May 2025, and the wallet processed 4,427 transactions totaling over $1.1 …
Florida Resident Pleads Guilty to Laundering $4,800,000 in TD Bank Bribe Scheme
Federal prosecutors have secured a guilty plea from a former bank employee accused of taking bribes to help launder millions of dollars in illicit funds to Colombia. Gerardo Aquino, 40, of Hollywood, Florida, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to launder monetary instruments and receiving bribes as a bank employee, says the U.S. Department of Justice. …
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Ethereum Tests 200 Million Gas Limit On Sepolia As Glamsterdam Moves Forward
TL;DR: Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet is testing a 200 million block gas limit as part of work around the Glamsterdam upgrade. The experiment is more than three times Sepolia’s previous 60 million target and is intended to show how clients and validators behave under much heavier Layer 1 execution loads. Ethereum developers have pushed Sepolia into …
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Ethereum ETFs Lose $201.9 Million As Bitcoin Funds Return To Inflows
TL;DR: US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $201.9 million in net outflows on October 6, according to Farside Investors. Bitcoin ETFs moved the other way with roughly $118.8 million of net inflows, creating a sharp one-day divergence between institutional flows into the two largest crypto assets. Ethereum’s US spot ETFs just suffered their heaviest day of …
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Cardano Brings Compliance Rules On-Chain With CIP-0113 Launch
TL;DR: Cardano’s CIP-0113 programmable token standard is now live on mainnet. It gives issuers the ability to build controls such as KYC requirements, sanctions screening and transfer restrictions directly into native Cardano assets, targeting regulated stablecoins, funds and tokenized securities. Cardano has launched a new token standard aimed squarely at one of the hardest problems …
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Ripple Prime Expands Brevan Howard Deal Into Multi-Asset Clearing And Financing
TL;DR: Ripple has expanded its relationship with global investment manager Brevan Howard, with Ripple Prime now providing multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing and financing services to Brevan Howard funds. The agreement pushes Ripple further into institutional market infrastructure spanning both traditional and digital assets. Ripple’s institutional ambitions are moving further beyond payments. The company has expanded …
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Robinhood Puts $25 Million Of Bitcoin On Its Own Balance Sheet
TL;DR: Robinhood has added $25 million worth of Bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet, marking its first proprietary BTC holding separate from customer assets. The amount is small relative to Robinhood’s roughly $100 billion valuation, but the company says that is partly the point: the purchase is intended as a signal of alignment with Bitcoin …
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Circle brings USDC, EURC payments to SAP customers through Tereina
The partnership with SAP-backed Tereina will let businesses send and receive Circle’s stablecoins from within the financial software they already use.
Warren Buffett’s Successor Abruptly Dumps Amazon, Pours Cash Into Favorite Tech Stake
Berkshire Hathaway has eliminated its Amazon position and grown its Alphabet stake more than sixfold under new CEO Greg Abel. Abel moved quickly on the conglomerate’s roughly $358 billion investment portfolio after Warren Buffett retired as CEO on December 31st, 2025. In the first quarter, Berkshire trimmed six holdings and sent 16 others packing, including …
Superform Activates Earn Strategies for Tokenized Stocks on Base, Powered by Aave
October 6th, 2026 – New York, New York class=”ql-align-center”>Earn Stocks turns supported Coinbase Tokenized Stocks into productive collateral through transparent, rule-based strategies automated by SuperformOS. Superform today announced the activation of Earn Stocks on Base, powered by Aave. The rollout begins with superNVDA, with additional Mag 7 SuperStocks to follow: superTSLA, superMSFT, superMETA, superAAPL, superAMZN, …
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New Jersey Man Drains Cash From Bank Accounts Across Florida Used Stolen Identities and Forged Passports: DOJ
A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison after using forged U.S. passport cards to withdraw money from victims’ bank accounts in Florida and South Carolina. Michael Scott Hillwig, 59, of Camden, New Jersey, was sentenced April 7th in the Northern District of Florida for bank fraud, aggravated …
NVIDIA, Tesla, SpaceX and Microsoft Among 60+ Stocks Set To Be Tokenized and Available 24/7 Under Proposal From OKX and Intercontinental Exchange
NVIDIA, Tesla, SpaceX, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet are among more than 60 prominent US stocks that could soon be available for 24/7 tokenized trading. OKXICE, the joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Sunday, notifying the regulator of plans to launch …
Bitcoin.de trading remains halted as German regulator rejects MiCA application
Trading on the platform has largely been suspended since June as its operator awaited MiCA authorization, with the company now looking to regulated partners to restart services. Bitcoin Group SE says it is seeking an alternative operating model for its bitcoin.de platform after the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) refused its subsidiary futurum bank …
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