Citi Clients Can Now Take Stablecoin Payments Through Coinbase—Without Touching Crypto
Big businesses banking with Citi can now let customers pay in stablecoins without ever holding the tokens themselves.
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Bybit accepts Franklin Templeton tokenized funds as trading collateral
Eligible institutions can pledge Benji-issued fund shares for stablecoin credit lines while keeping the underlying assets in off-exchange custody.
A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto
Researchers at UC San Diego and France's Institute for Research in Computer Science impersonated a hardware security module—a tamper-resistant device that stores private keys and signs on request—with…
Crypto PAC spends $11M to oppose Sherrod Brown in Ohio
Fairshake pledged an initial $30 million on media opposing the Democratic candidate in Ohio’s Senate race in what some see as a repeat of spending by the crypto industry in 2024.
After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify
An apology and a supportive tweet won’t be enough to calm down Australia's parliament after U.S.-based AI agents hacked their government. Now, its parliament wants a word with the two men steering the…
Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum
Ethereum's next upgrade will be the last one anyone from 2015 would recognize, its co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote in a post published on Saturday.
Goldman Sachs brings $100 billion Treasury fund into crypto’s institutional plumbing
Goldman Sachs is putting one of its largest Treasury funds within reach of digital-asset firms without creating a tokenized version of it.
US SEC follows CFTC in staff guidance for crypto
With the failed cloture vote on the CLARITY Act, the SEC announced updates on how federal securities laws could apply to token issuers, following similar guidance from the CFTC.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Monday, an upgrade to Sonnet 5 from June. Anthropic says this middle-tier model runs more than 30% faster than its predecessor.
Tether Helped Freeze $550M in Iran-Linked USDT, Reveals $4.9B Total Freeze
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Bitget CEO says $388M hack exploited third-party security vulnerability
Some stolen assets have been frozen, but Bitget has yet to disclose how much has been recovered as investigators continue to assess a possible North Korea link.
CCIP 2.0 Goes Live With $84B in Cross-Chain Value Secured
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SEI Tests Upper Edge Of Falling Wedge, Can Staked SEI ETF Boost SEI Price Next?
REXShares and Osprey Funds updated their Staked SEI ETF filing with an October 23 effective date.
Bitcoin slips to $83k amid pressure from high yields, Iran tensions
Will BTC price go back to over the $100K mark as the US China tariff war seems to have reached a negotiation point, and might end soon?
Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out
Nvidia on Monday launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, built to solve a problem the AI industry spent this past year discovering the hard way: how do you physically stop an AI agent (a system that …
Strive Buys $94.5 Million in Bitcoin, Pushing Holdings Past 27,000 BTC
Strive kept its Bitcoin shopping streak alive last week, though its cart was a bit lighter.
MiCA focus shifts from rulemaking to supervision, ESMA chair says
ESMA will focus on CASP resilience, outsourcing and reverse solicitation while pursuing harmonized reporting across national regulators.
Strategy Sets New BTC Holdings Record After $143M Bitcoin Purchase
Michael Saylor's Bitcoin treasury firm bought 1,665 BTC last week, taking its holdings above its previous record to 847,666 BTC.
Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks
Chainlink today launched CCIP 2.0, the newest version of its cross-chain plumbing—the software layer banks and crypto projects increasingly use to move tokenized money, like stablecoins, wrapped Bitco…
Tether is a ‘lifeline’ for Iranian regime, Senate Dems say in new report
U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether is a go-to tool for the Iranian government to bypass sanctions, a new report from a group of Senate Democrats said.
Quant Surges by 50%—Here’s What’s Driving the QNT Price Rally
Quant price surged over 50% as institutional tokenisation adoption, rising volume and short liquidations accelerated the breakout.
Hong Kong Tightens Financial Rules for Licensed Crypto Firms
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Bitcoin Falls Below $83K as $1.16B BTC Leaves Binance in One Day
The post Bitcoin Falls Below $83K as $1.16B BTC Leaves Binance in One Day appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Bitcoin is falling below $83,000, but investors are moving large amounts of BTC away …
THORChain rejects Bitget request to block hacker as $6 million moves to bitcoin
CoinDesk’s analysis of THORChain’s public transaction records identified 27 swaps marked successful, exchanging about 2,390 ETH for 75.2 BTC. All the bitcoin payouts went to one address. Four addition…