TL;DR Binance is moving into round-the-clock FX perpetual futures. The first announced contract is USD/BRL against USDT. Trading is scheduled to begin September 21 with leverage of up to 100x. Binance is taking the crypto perpetual model into another traditionally closed market: foreign exchange. Binance Futures has announced a new line of 24/7 FX perpetual …
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North Korean cyber group WaterPlum targeted developers with fake jobs at crypto, AI and NFT companies, infecting at least 30,000 devices across more than 100 countries.
Crypto missed out CLARITY, but tokenized stocks were legalized and the Bitcoin Reserve advanced. Meanwhile Standard Chartered says Arbitrum’s price could increase 70 times by 2030. After a year’s buildup, the US Senate failed to pass a cloture motion on the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act. The motion received just 49 votes in favor …
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A long-dormant Bitcoin (BTC) wallet is awakening after holding funds untouched for over 14 years. The wallet received 100 BTC on November 2nd, 2011, and remained inactive until transferring the coins in block 967732. Galaxy Research highlights the move on X, attributing the sender to Noah Doe #3113 from address 1Mj5R3kbScUeccyiNKJnAMk6vhHppzsEq8. The research firm is …
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September 20th, 2026 – Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Monochrome Exchange, a multi-asset trading platform, has announced the Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) of its native utility token, MCR. The platform aims to consolidate crypto, equities, bonds, and real-world assets into a single venue where trades settle on-chain. The exchange is currently live, featuring over 260 …
Interest costs on US public debt have climbed to a record pace this fiscal year. The US Treasury says gross interest on Treasury debt securities reached $1.267 trillion in the first 11 months of fiscal 2026, through August. That is up from about $1.124 trillion in the same stretch of fiscal 2025. August alone carried …
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A New Jersey family has lost more than $10,000 after sending money to someone they believed was a real immigration attorney. NBC Philadelphia reports the family said contact stopped once the payment went through. Attorney Jesús Suday says his firm has heard from dozens of people from January through September who were targeted by impostors …
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Trump posted on Truth Social that his new project would manage the fast-growing sector without adding regulations that could slow innovation. US President Donald Trump said that he plans to create an “AI Force” and appoint an artificial intelligence czar. Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday that his new project would manage the fast-growing …
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SpaceX (SPCX) shares have fallen about 33% from their post-IPO peak, even as Morgan Stanley still sees room for the stock to almost double. Elon Musk’s space and artificial intelligence company went public on June 12th of, 2026, selling shares at $135 each and raising about $85.7 billion after costs. Its valuation climbed from an …
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A healthcare staffing agency chief operations officer in Indiana has been sentenced to federal prison after embezzling more than $400,000 from her employer. Heather Rene Armstead, also known as Heather R. Ashley, 52, of Evansville, pleaded guilty to access device fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District …
A longtime Wells Fargo customer has lost nearly $10,000 after an alleged unauthorized wire left his account, and the bank has denied his fraud claim. Lloyd Waldron of Bozeman, Montana, a 50-year Wells Fargo customer, says he saw confirmation emails for a wire he never started, reports KULR8. Waldron says the trouble began in August …
The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce other evaluators in forthcoming weeks with which it will also work. Anthropic said it has chosen Accenture as its first embedded evaluator to help slow the pace of AI development as proposed last week by CEO Dario Amodei. Amodei published a three-step proposal on Sept. …
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At the close of trading on Sept. 28, shareholders will receive two extra shares for each one they hold. Grayscale’s Zcash ETF (ZCSH) plans a 3-for-1 forward share split, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. At the close of trading on Sept. 28, shareholders will receive two extra shares for …
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TL;DR Parts of the EU Cyber Resilience Act’s vulnerability-reporting regime are now applicable. Manufacturers must issue early warnings for actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours. Commercial crypto wallets can fall within the broader category of products with digital elements. One of the more practical pieces of Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act is starting to matter for …
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TL;DR U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Iranian digital asset exchange BitBank. OFAC says the platform was part of a network tied to sanctioned financier Babak Zanjani. Treasury alleges the infrastructure helped move hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin connected to the IRGC. The U.S. Treasury has targeted another part of Iran’s crypto infrastructure, this time …
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