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Franklin Templeton has registered two Bitcoin dividend reinvestment ETFs for Nasdaq trading, bringing the $1.8 trillion asset manager closer to launching funds that automatically convert stock dividends into Bitcoin exposure. According to…
A new Senate tax proposal has joined a House bill already through committee. The measures address payments, fees and trading rules, but they have their own route to enactment and cannot settle…
The October 26 Hoodi test has been pulled, including its planned 200 million gas limit. Developers are examining a repricing proposal against contracts already on mainnet. Ethereum has called off a test…
The new cross-margin option lets positions draw on one balance. NEAR describes a confidential route into a dedicated Hyperliquid account, while the exchange still has to price and liquidate the trades. NEAR’s…
New York Attorney General Letitia James has secured nearly $6 million in settlements from four promoters of the NovaTech and AWS Mining crypto fraud schemes and asked a court to order an…
Pi Network’s scheduled Mainnet transition has passed, but its price remains below eight cents. The change gives developers new tools; proof of use will take longer to show up. PI was changing…
South Korea’s central bank has introduced new reporting requirements that will require domestic crypto exchanges to disclose the monthly holdings of users who have previously transferred digital assets overseas. According to an…
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has opened two consultations to clarify how decentralized finance businesses will be regulated and which crypto activities could qualify for exemptions when the country’s new framework takes…
A group representing major US commodity exchanges has urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to reject Kalshi’s proposed oil perpetual futures contract over concerns about market integrity. According to Bloomberg, the Commodity…
Aave has launched its first externally curated lending markets on V4 through a partnership with institutional DeFi platform Sentora, allowing users to borrow three stablecoins against selected crypto assets on Ethereum. According…
Casa chief security officer Jameson Lopp has urged Bitcoin holders not to abandon self custody in favor of ETFs and third party custodians following a series of cryptocurrency wallet security incidents. In…
The meme coin market is worth about $30 billion, and three coins hold most of it. For everything else the odds are poor: Bitquery data reported by crypto.news shows 79% of Pump.fun…
Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP are facing renewed uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s interest rate outlook after US initial jobless claims fell to 194,000, bringing layoffs close to their lowest level in 57…
An XRPL maintenance amendment is approaching activation on October 23, but the vault and lending proposals remain separate votes. The difference lies in what validators are being asked to authorize, and in…
Dogecoin Labs has gathered MyDoge, DogeOS and Such App under one company. Each product is at a different stage. The question is whether wallet reach, a testnet and a merchant beta can…
Webull plans to put Kalshi’s regulated perpetual futures in front of eligible American brokerage customers in November. The contract never expires, but funding, margin and a separate clearinghouse still determine what a…
The OCC has fixed January 18 as the start of its stablecoin rules, but it has not opened the application window. Its new waiver guidance explains how an existing issuer could keep…
Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX has denied allegations of a new security breach involving nearly $16 million in cryptocurrency transfers, although blockchain investigator ZachXBT has challenged the company’s explanation of the suspicious wallet…
Monero price is up more than 12% on October 22, climbing toward $650 as trading volumes jumped and renewed futures activity helped the privacy coin break through a key resistance level. According…
Chinese prosecutors have moved to confiscate more than 61,800 Bitcoin and other assets linked to a 40.38 billion yuan ($5.7 billion) investment fraud involving Qian Zhimin, who is currently serving a prison…
Railway has disclosed a security breach that blockchain investigator Taylor Monahan linked to approximately $371,000 in cryptocurrency drains across 19 EVM compatible networks. According to Railway’s October 21 security disclosure, the cloud…
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has warned cryptocurrency users to exercise extra caution when visiting websites over the coming days after two critical vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP, a programming language used by…
Pump.fun has launched a new crosschain trading service called Pump Bridge, which has replaced Relay as the default option for users trading across different blockchains through its mobile app. In an October…
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has finalized its regulations implementing the GENIUS Act which is set to come into effect on January 18, 2027. In an October 21 announcement,…
Standard Chartered has signed definitive agreements to acquire full ownership of digital asset custodian Zodia Custody that will bring the company’s regulated crypto custody operations into the bank’s existing securities services business.…
Solana has approached its October 21 Alpenglow activation near $106, far below where it began the month, after repeated U.S. fund withdrawals and the sale of a large corporate SOL reserve. The…
XRP has slipped from roughly $1.50 at the start of October to around $1.34 despite the Nasdaq debut of a large XRP treasury company and the arrival of Batch transactions on the…
France has proposed making regulated cryptocurrency platforms responsible for certain losses suffered by customers accessing decentralized finance protocols through their services, as part of proposed changes to the European Union’s Markets in…
Ethereum has approached November near $2,450, well below its early-October price, while U.S. spot funds continue to lose money and developers prepare another Glamsterdam test. ETH could work back toward $2,800 if…
Bitcoin has returned to around $83,000 ahead of the Federal Reserve’s October 28 decision, leaving November’s price outlook dependent on whether fund buying can outlast another shift in rate expectations. The October…
Binance US and Blockchain.com are the latest contenders looking to enter the U.S. prediction market industry and has reportedly applied for regulatory approval to offer event contracts. According to a Financial Times…
The Cardano Foundation is against bringing decentralized finance, staking and other blockchain activities under new European Union crypto regulations and argues that policymakers should rather focus on improving the existing Markets in…
Ripple has expanded its institutional brokerage business into 24/7 stock and commodity derivatives trading, but HSBC has warned that limited market liquidity could prevent large investors from making extensive use of the…
An institutional cryptocurrency holder has reportedly lost approximately $2.84 million in a suspected attack by North Korea-linked hacking group SquidSquad. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT disclosed the suspected theft on October 21, identifying October…
BNB Standard Corporation (Nasdaq: BNC) has announced plans to ring the Nasdaq opening bell on October 26, following its recent corporate rebranding and the appointment of Alex Odagiu as chief executive officer.…
MoonPay and South Korean cryptocurrency exchange operator Dunamu have agreed to explore a strategic collaboration covering international stablecoin payments among other things. In an October 21 press release shared with crypto.news, the…
Strive has closed an upsized $630 million preferred stock offering, introducing a new fixed dividend security as the Bitcoin treasury company expands its financing options beyond its existing SATA shares. According to…
Sophon plans to shut down its blockchain on November 30, but users have been told to withdraw their assets by November 25. Some of the websites and infrastructure needed to complete that…
CME has opened a regulated futures market for UNI, giving traders a way to take a position on the token’s dollar price without moving it between wallets. Standard and micro contracts are…
Kazakhstan’s Astana International Financial Centre Court has issued injunctions against six cryptocurrency platforms, including Coinbase and BingX for carrying out unlicensed activity. According to the Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA), the court…
Franklin Templeton executive Sandy Kaul highlights growth in decentralized identity, AI micropayments, and security. Analysts suggest XRP's utility could eventually…
Elara Winter3 min readLong-term holder Susan Anderson warned prospective buyers against trusting extreme XRP price predictions and social media hype, as commentators debate…
Elara Winter3 min readXRP is drawing serious attention from both institutional players and retail investors. Crypto commentator Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) recently laid…
Elara Winter3 min readCrypto researcher SMQKE explains how the newly implemented GENIUS Act by the OCC benefits XRP, driving supply burns through RLUSD…
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