CFTC has sent new crypto market rules to the White House for review, days after the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate.
Binance launched 24/7 FX perpetual futures with up to 100x leverage.
Manual borrows are live on Hyperliquid, letting users borrow USDC and USDT against HYPE or BTC collateral, with $269M already borrowed.
Sam Altman’s World launched World Money, a stablecoin-powered finance app for holding, earning, trading and sending digital assets, rolling out in 150+ countries.
Coinbase has filed to list the first single stock perpetual futures in the US, building on its live US perps market.
Bank of Japan raised its policy rate 25bps to 1.25%, the highest level in about 31 years, in a 7-2 vote.
FBI and Japan’s NPA warned North Korea linked hackers infected 30,000+ devices across 100+ countries, stealing from 7,000+ crypto wallets and netting $10.71M by posing as recruiters at crypto, AI and NFT firms.
Polygon is deploying a change letting anyone in the community trigger the burn of 100M POL once it hits mainnet, with $24.5M in revenue YTD.
Circle’s Arc launched agentic payments, giving x402 builders a hosted Facilitator Service to accept USDC on Arc, Base, and Polygon without running their own relayer.
Bastion has received preliminary conditional approval from the OCC for a national trust bank charter.
Grayscale’s ZEC ETF announced a 3-for-1 share split under a month after launch, with $890M in net assets and $11B+ in cumulative volume as ZEC hit a new all-time high above $1,521.
VerifiedX joined Bitcoin For Corporations as an Executive member and became the exclusive custody-category partner for Bitcoin Magazine TV.
Neutrl opened redemptions for NUSD and sNUSD at a fixed rate based on disclosed liquid reserves, though an X user claims the effective rate is around 50%, unconfirmed by Neutrl.
NYSE parent ICE has spent the past year testing Avalanche technology to see how it could fit into exchange systems.
XRP treasury firm Evernorth secured a $30M convertible-note commitment from South Korea’s NH Investment & Securities, contingent on its SPAC merger closing.
Zcash’s NU7 upgrade targets a November 5 mainnet launch, cutting block times from 75 to 25 seconds, with testnet activation October 6.
SBI Group joined Singapore stablecoin payments firm dtcpay’s funding round, extending its Series A to $25M.
Crypto tech provider Haruko was hit by a targeted cyberattack affecting 15 clients, exposing exchange API details and trading data, with a small amount of client funds stolen.
ECB President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to block Binance’s MiCA license in Greece, citing concerns over dollar stablecoin use undermining the digital euro
