Chinese crime network laundered over $1B for Lazarus: ZachXBT
ZachXBT says he infiltrated the network by posing as a customer, gaining information that helped trace funds from the $1.5 billion Bybit hack.
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Rain seeks US trust bank charter days after OCC sued over crypto charters
Rain joins a growing queue of crypto firms seeking federal trust charters, while community banks have just asked a court to overturn the OCC rules underpinning them.
Solana Debuts Institutional Settlement Standard With J.P. Morgan Input
The Solana Foundation is making a direct play for institutional finance, launching an open-source program designed to let banks settle trades on the network with the certainty they expect from traditional markets.
OKX eyes emerging markets with yield-offering stablecoin savings and payments app
OKX Money lets users hold, send and spend dollar-backed stablecoins, with qualifying USDG balances earning up to 10% APY.
Why Bitcoin Price Could Reclaim $100,000 This Year? Expert Reveals ‘Explosive Catalyst’
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A Florida Woman Used Claude as a Diary. An Anthropic Employee Read It and Reported It to Police
Investigators say a Bonita Springs woman's Claude "diary" tripped Anthropic's safety filters. A human review team sent it to police, and Anthropic's own terms allow exactly that.
DeFi Development Corp Adds $3 Million in Solana as SOL Buys Slow
DeFi Development Corp., a Financial services and asset management company known in the crypto ecosystem for having the second biggest Solana holdings in the world, just added 26,202 SOL, worth roughly $3 million, to its…
Inside the CFTC’s New Rules for Crypto Asset Markets
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Treasury Kills Crypto 'Unhosted Wallet' and Mixer Surveillance Rules
FinCEN withdrew a 2020 proposal to track transactions with self-custodial crypto wallets and a 2023 plan to designate crypto mixing as a primary money laundering concern.
Advocacy group pushes back on banks’ lawsuit against OCC over charters
CCI CEO Ji Hun Kim said that the organization “remains confident“ in the OCC’s approval of charters for crypto companies, despite a recent lawsuit and pushback from some lawmakers.
Strive Adds $169M Bitcoin in Its Biggest Buy in Four Months
The publicly traded company paid an average of about $84,422 per coin between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2, according to its a filing with the SEC. That works out to roughly $169 million.
Crypto PAC announces support for 32 House candidates in US midterms
Fairshake said it would financially back 32 House candidates who all voted in favor of the CLARITY market structure bill in 2025, as the legislation remains in limbo in the Senate.
Why a 4chan Bitcoin Prophecy Says Today Is the End of Crypto Winter
An anonymous 4chan user called Bitcoin's October 2025 peak to the day way back in 2023. Could they be right again?
FinCEN withdraws proposed crypto mixing rule over ‘legitimate activity’ concerns
The bureau under the US Treasury said it was withdrawing two proposed rules on unhosted wallets and crypto mixers ”as part of the Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda.”
Bitcoin Just Flashed a Second, Stronger Golden Cross: Here's What That Means
Bitcoin is starting the week on the front foot. It still can't clear the ceiling, but investors have reason to be optimistic.
U.S. CFTC joins SEC in proposing crypto regulations, though spot-market gap lingers
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is proposing a pair of rules on Monday to establish U.S. cryptocurrency oversight under its powers to regulate leveraged and margin-dependent trades, trying to fill in regulatory…
Modern Treasury seeks US trust bank charter for digital asset custody
The payments infrastructure company is seeking federal approval to offer stablecoin custody and related fiat services through a limited-purpose national trust bank.
Bitcoin Price Faces $84K-$87K Liquidity Zone as Bearish Setup Emerges
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Bitcoin Treasury Accumulation Hits 3,342 BTC as Liquidity Rotates
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SEC Clears 3x Leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum Funds for Trading
The agency approved a Cboe rule letting six Volatility Shares funds that triple the daily moves of Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, silver, oil, and natural gas list on a U.S. exchange.
S&P Global brings risk assessments to growing crypto lending vault sector
S&P Global’s new framework evaluates digital asset lending vaults across six risk categories as deposits in the sector climb to about $10 billion.
Crypto's campaign arm, Fairshake, sets lists of U.S. House favorites it'll spend on
The crypto industry's leading political action committee, Fairshake, released another list of candidates it's supporting for the November elections, backing 13 Democrats and 19 Republicans — all incumbents — in their U.…
3 Altcoins Ready to Break Out This Week – XRP, Quant (QNT) & Injective (INJ)
Altcoins are gaining momentum, with renewed buying interest pushing tokens higher as the broader crypto market turns constructive
NEXTPredict Founder: 'Nobody Was Serving' Prediction Markets' Enormous Audience
Reporters from CNBC and CNN are on the program beside the exchanges, two weeks before the midterms put the sector on air.