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Abstract will shut down Dec. 15, saying a chain focused solely on consumer crypto proved unsustainable, and is urging users to bridge their assets off before then.

The payments firm alleges Tether froze its treasury wallet on its own initiative over a Brazilian investigation it has no connection to—and has profited from the reserves while refusing to release the funds for more than a year.

The face of the “Don’t Die” movement now says retouching beats therapy for looking young. His transformation over the summer may explain why.

The proposed fund would hold ZEC directly, trade on Nasdaq under “WINK” with Gemini as custodian, and add the Winklevoss twins to a wave of institutional interest in the privacy coin.

Paris-based Mistral launched Large 4, a model nicknamed after a June internet joke. It tops GPT-6 Astra on one finance test, but trails Claude on others.

Bitcoin and Ethereum barely moved today, but Zcash and Monero are leading the largest coins over the last 24 hours.

Attacks grew more sophisticated and less predictable over the period, according to researchers who scanned more than 20 billion transactions.

A London quantitative hedge fund joins the round too, seven months after the NYSE’s owner bought in at exactly the same price.

Clear rules of the road are here. So what does it all mean and what is the overall impact?

The No Betting on Your Own Race Act also gives prediction markets cover to close accounts and report candidates to regulators.

Adam Iza used off-duty LA deputies to pull warrants and personal data on his rivals, then moved the proceeds through crypto custodians.

Built with input from J.P. Morgan, the open-source “DvP” program lets institutions settle trades atomically on Solana with finality in seconds instead of days.

The Nasdaq-listed bitcoin treasury company, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, paid roughly $169 million for 2,000 coins last week and now holds 29,462 BTC.

Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp’s latest SEC filing shows its Solana stash grew 1%, to about 2.56 million SOL and SOL equivalents—roughly half the prior week’s gain and well below mid-September’s pace.

Investigators say a Bonita Springs woman’s Claude “diary” tripped Anthropic’s safety filters. A human review team sent it to police, and Anthropic’s own terms allow exactly that.

An anonymous 4chan user called Bitcoin’s October 2025 peak to the day way back in 2023. Could they be right again?

FinCEN withdrew a 2020 proposal to track transactions with self-custodial crypto wallets and a 2023 plan to designate crypto mixing as a primary money laundering concern.

The on-chain sleuth says he posed as a customer of a Chinese crime syndicate, fronting $349,700 and eating 5% on every order, to track Lazarus Group’s Bybit loot in real time.

The agency approved a Cboe rule letting six Volatility Shares funds that triple the daily moves of Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, silver, oil, and natural gas list on a U.S. exchange.

The CFTC is seeking public comment on a framework that would create a new federal license for crypto exchanges, with leverage offers as the trigger for oversight.

The Bitcoin rally keeps bumping into the same wall, but a classic bullish signal suggests the trend is built to last.

Reporters from CNBC and CNN are on the program beside the exchanges, two weeks before the midterms put the sector on air.

The purchase lifts Bitmine’s stash past 6 million ETH—4.9% of supply and 99% of the way to its “Alchemy of 5%” goal—as chairman Tom Lee says Ethereum is “dwarfing” other macro assets.

The firm’s Bitcoin holdings hit a record 848,000 BTC, while the quarterly gain is a fair-value mark carrying $1.88 billion in deferred tax.

Rating agencies ask if a Bitcoin company will actually sell when obligations fall due. “We answered by doing it,” said CEO Simon Gerovich.

Crypto majors and alts are rallying to start October. What’s driving the early action and will it continue?

An association for AI enthusiasts was allegedly the recruiting vehicle, and two anonymous tips to a government portal started the case.

Filed under the SEC’s new Innovation Exemption, the notice lists more than 60 stocks, including Nvidia and SpaceX, paired with stablecoins.

President Trump named a new “Super Intelligence Force” to coordinate federal AI policy, with Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton at the helm. As SEC chair, Clayton launched crypto lawsuits including the agency’s case against Ripple.

The Independent Community Bankers of America argues the OCC’s national trust charters give crypto firms a “side door into the banking system” without the safeguards that bind traditional banks.