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Kraken now offers more than 7,000 US-listed stocks and 700 xStocks to EEA customers, competing with Crypto.com and Robinhood in the crypto-stock hybrid space.
China's central bank approved eight more commercial banks for direct e-CNY operations, bringing total to 30 as Beijing shifts focus from pilot to distribution infrastructure.
Kraken parent Payward gains access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 for vulnerability scanning. The AI model has found 1,596 bugs across 281 open-source projects. Payward plans to scan its own environment and alert maintainers of third-party flaws.
Blockchain.com entered Nigeria's SEC sandbox programme, allowing regulated crypto operations under the ARIP framework as the regulator assesses compliance and safeguards.
Binance provided Russian police with a donor's ID and transactions used in a terrorism case. CEO says exchanges must comply with lawful requests.
The Blockchain Association told the SEC that removing Rules 611 and 610(e) would let tokenized equities trade on public blockchains without regulatory friction. The comment period closed Aug. 17.
Trustee Carl Hamm says Knaken's 6,300 customers invested up to $13.9M before the July 16 bankruptcy. Prosecutors raised $2.55M from seized crypto.
The SEC canceled a crypto fundraising rulemaking after SIFMA weighed a legal challenge, according to a report. The Clarity Act vote and White House meeting are next.
Kraken adds 7,000+ U.S. stocks for EEA customers alongside 700 xStocks, pitting traditional shares and tokenized equities in the same regulated account. Volume hits $38B.
Edward Zimbardi, 59, faces federal charges after Fiji deported him over an alleged $165M crypto Ponzi scheme promising 25% monthly returns through fake ad packages.
Nasdaq's overnight session starting Dec. 6 cuts into Bitcoin's advantage as a 24/7 market, though crypto retains its weekend edge.
A single anonymous trader holds a $414,895 No position on the CLARITY Act, 2.6x the market's liquidity. A $100K buy order could reprice odds from 20% to 42%.
The Treasury Department proposed rules to enforce the GENIUS Act's stablecoin licensing, with a 60-day comment period and 2027-2028 deadlines.
Compound's DAO approved a $52M development budget, nearly nine times its $5.95M treasury and 22 times annual revenue, to build institutional lending infrastructure. The first $14M is tied to milestones.
Austria fines Bitpanda €70,000 for MiCA white paper and marketing breaches. First publicly disclosed penalty under EU crypto rulebook is legally final.
BaFin issued 24 series warnings in 2026 covering 639 domains. A third carry .de suffixes. The check: not the warning list, but the licence register.
Kraken is liquidating 56 tokens in three cycles. Withdrawals for 21 tokens close Aug. 27. Holders who miss the deadline face automatic sale at possibly minimal proceeds.
Three breaches in four days exposed 253,487 crypto customers. The data feeds a rising physical attack trend: 52 wrench attacks in H1 2026, $124M in losses.
CLARITY Act odds fell from 82% to 17% as stablecoin yield, DeFi classification, and ethics provisions stalled the bill. With 14 working days left, agency rulemaking may substitute.
Stablecoin issuance is now a commodity. The real battle is distribution. Open USD, HKDAP and World Liberty Financial each offer a different model. Which one wins will reshape the $316B market.
Nigel Farage's Clacton win reactivates a probe into an undeclared $6.3M gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, with a potential suspension that could force another by-election.
Edward Zimbardi promised 25% monthly returns on The Crypto Program, lost $34M on forex bets and spent $10M on personal expenses. Extradited from Fiji.
BiFu's BiNet network links crypto, forex, stocks, commodities, RWA, and prediction markets under one account. Traders get unified funding and KYC across six markets, but the single access point also concentrates risk.
The Justice Department is investigating whether a16z partners violated antitrust law by serving on boards of competing AI companies like Databricks and Fivetran. The inquiry could close without action, people familiar said.
Trump hosts crypto summit Aug. 19 with SEC and CFTC chairs. Stalled CLARITY Act faces deadline; agency rulemaking could follow if Congress fails.
The EU's 21st Russia sanctions package bans 14 crypto platforms and creates authority to block entire countries' crypto providers if jurisdictions fail to stop sanctions evasion.
Robinhood Chain TVL hit $542M in August, up 45% for the month. USDe stablecoin surged 50% to $286M, while tokenized stocks shrank to 6% of the total.
KuCoin's new rule triggers hourly funding settlement when a perpetual contract hits its cap or floor. The change can compress 36 funding events into 36 hours for affected positions.
Kraken's parent Payward is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 AI to scan for software vulnerabilities, after a U.S. government clearance. The earlier version found 10,000+ critical flaws.
Edward Zimbardi faces wire fraud charges after alleged $165M crypto Ponzi scheme promised 25% monthly returns; deported from Fiji to US. Commentary from Chris Skinner explains why crypto enables such fraud.