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CFTC Proposes First Crypto Market Rules as Congress Stalls on CLARITY
Today, a press release from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clearly outlined its intention to move forward with bringing clear rules for the crypto industry. The agency put forward its first proposed rules for the market and this comes a couple of weeks after the CLARITY Act failed to pass in the Senate in...
Mon, Oct 5
Hong Kong leans on the offshore yuan as its stablecoin rollout stalls
During a Legislative Council briefing, Hong Kong’s finance chief laid out a long list of measures to grow the city’s offshore yuan business. Meanwhile, two banks already hold stablecoin issuer permits, and the finance chief made a promise for a virtual asset licensing bill to come later this year. Will Hong Kong lawmakers introduce a...
Mon, Oct 5
Why crypto platforms are pairing human traders with AI and skipping leverage entirely
Crypto markets never really close. A price move can begin while someone is at work, asleep or simply away from their screen. For people interested in crypto but unwilling to spend hours watching charts, that creates a familiar problem: how do you participate without effectively taking on a second job? Automation offers one answer, but...
Mon, Oct 5
Metaplanet reveals it sold and rebought 10,000 BTC weeks after denying a sale
Metaplanet confirmed that it added a net 1,000 BTC during Q3 2026 in a Monday, October 5 disclosure that confirmed the purchase of 11,000 BTC after selling 10,000 BTC during the quarter. The announcement mentioned that the token sale was a practice round to prove that the Simon Gerovich-led firm could liquidate its Bitcoin treasury...
Mon, Oct 5
Strive outbuys Strategy 6-to-1 as it closes in on No. 2 public Bitcoin holder
Strive (NASDAQ: ASST) continued its march toward the number two spot on the corporate Bitcoin holders leaderboard as Matt Cole disclosed the firm’s third-largest Bitcoin purchase, paying $169 million to add roughly 2,000 BTC to its stack. Michael Saylor’s Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), on the other hand, bought 334 BTC for almost $29 million, pushing the...
Mon, Oct 5
Greek soldiers accused of involvement in $8 million crypto scam
Members of the Greek military are facing interrogations on Monday as part of an investigation into a major crypto investment scam in their country. Law enforcement authorities in Greece are still trying to unravel the structure of the criminal organization in which the soldiers were allegedly involved. Crypto investment scheme defrauds 10,000 investors in Greece...
Mon, Oct 5
Can ETH hold $2,700 as selling pressure rises?
ETH attempts to keep the $2,700 range, while facing increasing selling pressure on both derivative and spot markets.
Mon, Oct 5
OpenAI draws the line on AI risk challenging Anthropic’s safety approach
OpenAI believes the benefits of AI outweigh some of the risks, putting it slightly at odds with Anthropic’s safety-first rules. Chief Executive Sam Altman told reporters, “We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.” The executive further admitted there was an...
Mon, Oct 5
Wall Street puts a price on AI compute as miners pivot
CME Group has announced that the first compute futures contract will list on October 5, 2026, pending regulatory approval. This would provide the market with a public reference price for the input resource used by any artificial intelligence application worldwide. For Bitcoin miners that have been spending the last year transforming themselves into providers of...
Sat, Oct 3
Tokenized stock trading surges 10,164%, but liquidity tells another story
Tokenized stocks trading on decentralized exchanges reached $48.7 billion over the past year, according to on-chain data. This is an increase of 10,163.7% from the previous 12 months. Uniswap was the leader in trading volume, having traded $17.1 billion across the different v3 and v4 pools. The increase indicates that tokenized stocks are starting to...
Sat, Oct 3
Consensys founder says MetaMask wallets safe after security incident
ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin has reassured MetaMask users that there is no indication that the company’s recent cyberattack is affecting part of the MetaMask system. Lubin has confirmed that user wallets and private keys are completely safe. The update comes after MetaMask disclosed on September 30 that part of its infrastructure had been impacted by...
Sat, Oct 3
Apple tightens Mac data access as AI agents raise privacy concerns
On October 2, Apple announced that it would implement stricter controls on macOS in relation to applications that request extensive access to data on a Mac. This decision follows complaints about Meta’s Muse. In addition, it brings to light a broader issue that concerns the level of access that AI agents may have and by...
Sat, Oct 3
Amazon commits $1B to communities hosting its US data centers
Amazon will invest a total of $1 billion over five years in US communities that host its data centers for education, workforce development, conservation of resources, and community relations. This initiative comes at a time when people are becoming increasingly opposed to AI infrastructure due to factors such as energy costs, water consumption, and environmental...
Sat, Oct 3
Community banks sue OCC over crypto firms' national trust charters
A trade organization representing community banks in the US has filed a lawsuit against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), claiming the regulator overstepped its jurisdiction when it provided national trust bank charters to cryptocurrency companies. The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) initiated the case in the District of Columbia against...
Sat, Oct 3
Blast winds down its L2 as costs outrun revenue, testing rollup economics
Blast announced on Friday that it will be closing down its Ethereum Layer 2 network and returning its users back to Ethereum mainnet, claiming that keeping the network running is more expensive than its earnings. The decision has raised questions for the smaller rollups in the already over-crowded L2 space: can small rollups generate enough...
Fri, Oct 2
ARK's Winton says each Starship launch could add $700 million a year
Brett Winton, ARK Invest’s chief futurist, argued on Friday that investors are underrating SpaceX’s earning power. Winston estimates that every Starship flight could throw off more than $700 million in fresh annual revenue. On the same day, he made his post, SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) shares jumped due to a run of successful launches and expanding...
Fri, Oct 2
Anchorage Digital reportedly cuts 17% of staff despite $4.2B valuation
It has been reported that Anchorage Digital is laying off 17% of its workforce as crypto winter grips even one of the more well-funded regulated firms in the industry. If the headcount is still around the 400 employees reported by CEO Nathan McCauley to Congress in February 2025, that would entail approximately 68 layoffs. The...
Fri, Oct 2
NEAR Intents hacker returns all $3.8M stolen funds after encrypted talks
The attacker who drained $3.8 million from NEAR Intents has sent every dollar back, ending a standoff that began a day earlier when the cross-chain protocol froze its services and set a 48-hour deadline for the funds to be returned. The protocol had promised its users full reimbursement prior to the return. The incident is...
Fri, Oct 2
Quant Price Prediction 2026-2032: Is QNT a Good Investment?
Key Takeaways Following the return of Donald Trump to the White House and his crypto-friendly behavior, altcoins have gained momentum. Should the crypto market undergo a bullish reversal, the demand for Quant (QNT) could surge, potentially pushing its price beyond $100. Meanwhile, at the resistance levels of $100 and $90, bullish investors might find attractive...
Fri, Oct 2
Nvidia hits record high as Huang rejects AI safety regulation
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) shares touched an all-time high of $237.88, pushing the chipmaker’s market value past $5.7 trillion. The rally came on the back of the company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, telling the industry that AI needs no new safety laws despite the warnings from several big tech executives over the last few weeks. How much...
Fri, Oct 2
