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House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill said SEC and CFTC steps on crypto regulation are not enough without congressional legislation. He hopes the CLARITY Act can pass during the post-election lame-duck session, despite limited Senate days and vacancies at both agencies.
Coinbase has completed its Deribit integration, giving eligible US institutional customers a regulated route to the exchange’s options and perpetual futures through Coinbase Prime and Coinbase Financial Markets. Options access for US retail customers is expected later this year.
Armada Acquisition Corp. II, the SPAC merging with XRP treasury company Evernorth, fell 50.3% to $19.20 on Oct. 6. Evernorth delayed its expected Nasdaq debut to around Oct. 12, while investors await final redemption figures and the combined company’s share structure.
Gate has launched Gate Money, an app combining cash, crypto, stocks, gold, conversions and card payments. Founder Lin Han said the platform targets mainstream users, especially in Asia, as exchanges compete to become all-in-one finance apps.
AI is making it easier to link public blockchain wallets with real people, reviving concerns about permanent financial records. A Grayscale Research analysis highlights Zcash’s shielded transactions, rising usage and the regulatory questions surrounding selective disclosure.
Bitmine will stop buying Ethereum once its holdings reach 5% of circulating supply, chairman Tom Lee said at Token2049. The company is about 100,000 ETH short of the target, while its holdings carry roughly $4.5 billion in unrealized losses.
Robinhood plans to allocate $25 million of its own capital to Bitcoin, a move that gives the brokerage direct crypto exposure after earlier debates over whether a corporate treasury holding would benefit shareholders.
Kazakhstan’s central bank, Tether and Alatau City will study a possible tenge-linked stablecoin and a framework for tokenized real-world assets. The agreement is exploratory, with a pilot planned in Alatau City and Tether’s Hadron platform under consideration.
Polymarket’s Protocol V2 will leave existing Conditional Tokens Framework bets in place instead of moving them automatically. Users need no technical migration, but trading integrations must support both legacy CTF holdings and new PositionManager balances, permissions and order formats.
Europol says future quantum attacks are more likely to compromise exposed cryptocurrency wallet keys than destroy blockchains. The agency urged a phased move to quantum-resistant security, noting that about 6.9 million bitcoin sit at addresses with exposed public keys.
Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee says the Ethereum treasury company will stop buying ETH after reaching 5% of circulating supply. With more than 6 million tokens already held, Bitmine needs about 100,000 more before ending a weekly accumulation campaign begun in June 2025.
Daniel Rhyne, a former infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey industrial company, was sentenced to 32 months after pleading guilty to attacking the firm’s network and demanding 20 Bitcoin. Investigators linked the operation to a hidden virtual machine accessed through his company laptop.
GSR is committing $100 million, largely through a credit facility, to Hare, a new onchain vault business being built with Turtle. Hare will initially offer Aave-based yield products for dollar stablecoins and Paxos’ tokenized gold assets.
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan said the race to find the next 100x cryptocurrency token resembles irrational exuberance, as traders attempt to sell before prices collapse. He contrasted that speculation with prediction markets, where participants trade contracts tied to future events and defined probabilities.
OKX raised fresh funding from Circle, Ripple, Standard Chartered’s venture arm and Qube Research at a $25 billion pre-money valuation. The deal supports the exchange’s push into stablecoins, tokenized stocks and broader financial services as crypto markets weakened.
Robinhood has added about $25 million, or roughly 294 Bitcoin, to its corporate balance sheet. The purchase is the fintech’s first proprietary BTC holding and signals closer alignment with the cryptocurrency ecosystem, although its size is modest relative to Robinhood’s roughly $100 billion market capitalization.
Swift’s blockchain ledger can support round-the-clock cross-border transfers of tokenized bank deposits, but banks need permissioned ledgers, wallets and smart-contract systems to connect, Taurus co-founder Lamine Brahimi said. Recent live transactions show payments settling in minutes, including at weekends.
Swift’s blockchain ledger can support round-the-clock cross-border transfers of tokenized bank deposits, but banks must first provide permissioned ledgers, wallets, and tokenization and smart-contract systems to connect, Taurus co-founder Lamine Brahimi said.
