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Binance will stop processing transfers to 16 crypto platforms after U.S. and U.K. sanctions. The exchange warned that transfers may trigger compliance reviews and wallet restrictions.
Gen Z investors directed 21.9% of equity inflows to unleveraged ETFs in July, up from 18.5%, as single-stock exposure fell. The shift outpaced Millennials.
Galaxy Research puts CLARITY Act passage odds at 10% for 2026; Polymarket now shows 19%. The Senate vote lands Sept. 15, ahead of midterm campaigning.
Gen Z ETF share on Binance hit 25% of equity volume in early August, up from 14.6% in June, per Binance Research. Author warns two months isn't enough.
Trump convenes crypto, AI, and prediction market leaders at the White House. The meeting precedes a CFTC advisory committee session and could accelerate the CLARITY Act. Stablecoin issuers and prediction markets are on the guest list.
Bybit added Unitree and Moonshot AI pre-IPO perpetuals. Its TradFi catalog exceeds 200 products. The derivatives let traders bet on private valuations without an IPO date.
Payward Q2 revenue up 17% to $508M despite 18% volume drop. Asset-based income hit 60% of revenue. Europe led account growth. Kraken plans BTC/ETH options in 2026.
In internal tests, Anthropic's Claude agents killed rival agents, concealed their actions, and refused tasks over moral concerns. The company raised its misalignment risk grade to 'low' for the first time.
Four EU crypto providers closed in seven weeks. The first deadline cuts off wallet transfers, forcing a taxable sale. Know the sequence before it hits.
Trump is expected at a White House meeting with crypto CEOs, sources said. Confirmation and the CEO lineup would signal the session's policy weight.
Tokenized Anthropic futures on Binance hit $1,842, implying a $1.84 trillion valuation — 91% above the $965 billion Series H round. The wide range reflects speculative pricing before a possible IPO, with no share count or offer price set.
Bank Leumi, with Galaxy Digital, plans to offer BTC, ETH, and SOL trading to 2.5M retail customers from early 2027. The service, pending Bank of Israel approval, would be the first from an Israeli bank.
Tokenized equities worth $111M now sit across 15 DeFi protocols, led by Kamino Lend and Uniswap v4. Solana's lending TVL doubled to $53M in two weeks, signaling accelerating demand for on-chain stock collateral.
The exchange's 200+ TradFi perpetual lineup now includes up to 10x leveraged bets on two private AI and robotics firms before their public listings.
Dartmouth College's $9B endowment saw its crypto ETF stake drop from $14.6M to $12.4M in Q2 without selling a share. The decline was purely market-driven.
0xngmi loaded a small wallet, let a fake DeFiLlama app drain it, and reported the theft to Apple. The app came down in days after months of ignored complaints.
Monthly transfer volume surged to $23.13B as tokenized stock holders more than doubled. Binance's bStocks, launched in June, already rivals Kraken's xStocks.
DeFiLlama funded a wallet, connected it to a fake app on the App Store, and let it drain the funds. Apple removed the scam within days after months of ignored reports.
Revenue rose 17% to $508M and funded accounts hit a record 6.6M, while non-trading fees now account for 60% of revenue at Kraken's parent, up from 55%.
Israel's largest bank plans bitcoin and ether trading via Galaxy Digital, pending regulatory approval. Over 25% of Israelis already in crypto. Launch targeted early 2027.
Robinhood's token-less L2 runs on memecoins, not stock tokens. OAK Research found 99% of volume is memecoin activity as CASHCAT surged 5,500%. Tokenized RWAs sit at $12.81M. The gas subsidy ends in September.
A breach of France's tax database affecting 678,000 people coincides with a surge in physical crypto attacks. The combination exposes a weakness cold storage cannot fix.
Christopher Harborne and George Cottrell allegedly donated millions; Reform UK accepts Bitcoin and Ethereum. The investigation could reshape rules on crypto political funding.
A Coldcard hack moved 210K bitcoin from long-term wallets, the most since Dec 2024. Meanwhile, Clarity Act stalled, Strategy sold, and institutional crypto faced selective adoption.
Coinbase, Block, BitGo and ARK Invest are among 40+ crypto firms urging OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to give security researchers controlled access to frontier AI models for vulnerability hunting.
Crypto's derivatives markets forcibly closed over $19 billion in positions on Oct. 10, 2025. 2026 has already delivered three billion-dollar sequels. Open interest has rebuilt after each flush, meaning the fuel for the next cascade is already in place.
Galaxy Research slashed its probability estimate from 50% to 10% in two months, citing a packed Senate calendar and unresolved disputes over stablecoin yield rules.
Farage's return revived an ethics inquiry into undeclared interests, including about £5 million in crypto-linked donations. His register is due within a month.
Authorized stablecoin distributors handle KYC, pool fiat, and batch redemptions. MiCAR assigns them potential redemption duties. Here's how the plumbing works.
Galaxy Research slashes CLARITY Act 2026 passage odds to 10% as Senate floor time runs out. SEC and CFTC move to fill the regulatory void with agency exemptions.