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- Oct 6CryptoRain Seeks US National Trust Bank Charter for Stablecoin…Stablecoin payments provider Rain has applied to the OCC to create a federally chartered national trust bank in New York covering digital asset custody, reserve management and dollar-backed stablecoin issuance.
- Oct 6CryptoOKX Turns Infrastructure Partners into Investors at $25 Billion ValuationOKX has turned a group of its infrastructure partners into equity investors at a $25 billion valuation, leading a day of broker, platform and regulatory news.
- Oct 6CryptoBinance Bitcoin Outflows Hit 3-Year High as 23,137 BTC…CryptoQuant data show Binance lost a net 23,137 BTC in the week through Sept. 27, its largest weekly outflow since June 2023, while million-dollar stablecoin inflows rose above 40%.
- Oct 6CryptoBinance AI Pro Turns Trading Ideas Into Live Strategies for…Binance has grouped a personalized AI interface, a natural-language strategy builder and developer agent infrastructure into Binance Intelligence, with AI Pro priced at 19.99 USDC per month.
- Oct 6CryptoZachXBT says he fronted $349,700 to infiltrate alleged Chinese launderers tied to Lazarus, Bybit hackBlockchain investigator ZachXBT says he posed as a client and funded an address with 349,700 USDC to gather intelligence on a Chinese crime syndicate allegedly laundering funds for North Korea's Lazarus Group.
- Oct 6CryptoCFTC Lets Coinbase Turn 25-Year Index Futures Into Contracts That Never ExpireThe CFTC's Division of Market Oversight granted no-action relief allowing US exchanges to strip expiries from broad-based stock index futures, turning Coinbase Derivatives' long-dated contracts into perpetuals.
- Oct 6CryptoGemini Co-Founder Tyler Winklevoss Says ‘Clear Rules’ for…Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss says U.S. crypto regulation is shifting from enforcement-led ambiguity toward clearer market-structure rules, with Congress and federal agencies refining SEC and CFTC roles.
- Oct 5CryptoBinance Launches Retail AI Assistant, Repackages Existing Trading ToolsBinance has grouped its AI offerings under a new Binance Intelligence brand, led by a free retail assistant now rolling out in New Zealand alongside Agent OS and the existing AI Pro beta.
- Oct 5CryptoOKXICE plans 24/7 onchain trading of more than 60 US stocks, per OKX’s releaseOKXICE, the ICE–OKX joint venture, has notified the SEC it will run a tokenised US equities venue trading more than 60 stocks around the clock under a five-year exemptive order. No launch date was given.
- Oct 5CryptoOKX, NYSE parent ICE joint venture seeks to launch tokenized US stock trading venueThe OKX–Intercontinental Exchange joint venture told the SEC it plans a permissioned on-chain venue for tokenized US equities covering more than 60 listed companies, with a 30-day issuer opt-out.
- Oct 4CryptoGoogle Prices Gemini 4 Argon at $2. Alphabet Closed at…Google set introductory pricing for Gemini 4 Argon at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, but access is initially limited to trusted cyber defenders in its Fairwind Program.
- Oct 3CryptoBNY and Kraken Parent Explore Deal Linking Digital Assets…BNY and Payward, the parent of Kraken, are discussing a wide-ranging digital asset tie-up spanning custody, trading, payments and market infrastructure, though talks remain preliminary.
- Oct 3CryptoTHORChain Liquidity Earned $573,000 From Bitget-Linked…Researcher Andrey Sergeenkov traced at least $761,725 in fees paid to protocols and routing services as funds from Bitget's $387.5 million breach were swapped; THORChain accounted for 75.3%.
- Oct 2CryptoHyperliquid Policy Committee Submits Feedback to European…The Hyperliquid Policy Committee has submitted feedback to the European Commission on MiCA's evolution, urging regulators to assess DeFi control and decentralization by substance.
- Oct 2CryptoMyDoge Team Launches DogeOS Testnet to Bring DeFi to DogecoinThe MyDoge wallet team has launched a testnet for DogeOS, a Layer 2 network designed to add smart contracts and DeFi applications to Dogecoin without changing the underlying blockchain. Fees are paid in DOGE.DOGEUSD
- Oct 1CryptoHyperliquid Policy Center, Circle press EU on perps and stablecoin reserves in MiCA reviewThe Hyperliquid Policy Center urged the EU to regulate perpetual futures under MiFID II, while Circle targeted MiCA's stablecoin reserve floor, in responses to the Commission's review.
- Oct 1CryptoBinance’s EU Access Comes Under Pressure as Regulators…Regulators in France, Germany and Greece, with ESMA, are examining whether Binance can keep serving EU customers via the reverse solicitation exemption after missing the MiCA licensing deadline.
- Oct 1CryptoCrypto.com and Formula 1: The Miami Grand Prix Sponsorship,…Crypto.com's reported $100m Formula 1 deal, signed in 2021 and renewed through 2030, includes Miami Grand Prix title rights, trackside branding and the fan-voted Overtake Award.
- Oct 1CryptoIs "Reverse Solicitation" Under Scrutiny? EU Probes Binance’s Services after Wind-Down OrderEuropean regulators are questioning Binance's reliance on reverse solicitation after a wind-down order, while the FCA opens a crypto authorisation window and Polymarket adds trading safeguards.
- Oct 1CryptoEU Regulators Scrutinize Binance’s Use of MiCA ExemptionEuropean supervisors are checking whether Binance's use of MiCA's reverse solicitation carve-out meets the exemption's narrow conditions, as the exchange serves parts of the EU without a full CASP licence.
- Sep 30CryptoBinance Pay Enables Crypto Spending at PayPay Merchants…Binance Pay is connecting to Japan's PayPay merchant network via HIVEX, letting eligible overseas users spend over 100 cryptocurrencies with USDT as the settlement layer.
- Sep 30CryptoBitget Hacker Used Custom Withdrawal Tool to Steal $388M…SlowMist traced the earliest malicious activity in Bitget's roughly $388 million breach to an Aug. 31 zero-day in a third-party security product, with Mandiant findings matching the disclosed attack path.
- Sep 30CryptoBitget Hack Wallets Move $3.9 Million in Zcash Into…Wallets tied to Bitget's $387.5M breach sent 2,746 ZEC into Zcash's Ironwood shielded pool, complicating tracing of stolen funds.
- Sep 30CryptoHyperliquid Co-founder Jeff Yan says 24-hour clock is not onchain finance’s true differentiatorSpeaking at Korea Blockchain Week, Hyperliquid co-founder Jeff Yan said round-the-clock trading is not what separates onchain venues from traditional exchanges — custody and transparency are.