Binance will block withdrawals and may hold or return deposits from Nov. 1 when Brazilian users skip a central-bank questionnaire on cross-border crypto. Resolution 521/2025 makes the exchange report those flows as foreign-exchange activity in a market Chainalysis put at $252.5 billion over twelve months.
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Ether's order-book depth slid to 35-45% of bitcoin's in the third quarter, CoinGecko found, while its price rose 70%. The slide came mainly from bitcoin's book growing by about half while ether's stayed near $13 million to $14 million.
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows a 2025 operating loss of about $8 billion on $4.59 billion of revenue, a fraction of its $42 billion net loss. For anyone building on Claude, Anthropic's $20.28 billion of year-end cash covers about two and a half years of that loss.
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Circle told the European Commission that only 3 of the world's top 25 stablecoins are authorized under MiCA, in its response to the law's review. Circle issues two of the three, and it ties the gap to bank-deposit and concentration rules it wants loosened.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in about $2.39 billion in their biggest week in a year while Coinbase priced Bitcoin below global venues for 29 straight days. The split means weekly fund flows were a poor guide to who was buying spot Bitcoin in September.
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ESMA and regulators in France, Germany and Greece are examining how Binance still serves EU users without the MiCA license it needed by July 1. The inquiry tests whether a narrow exemption can hold an exchange's European business while it waits for authorization.
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Coin Metrics has recomputed all daily and hourly Ethereum exchange-flow metrics from the first block, using the exchange wallets it knows today. Outflow backtests run on a fresh download can now count wallets nobody had identified on the trade date.
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Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks drew $5.6 million of net DeFi deposits in a week, more than Robinhood and Binance tokens combined, per Token Terminal. The tokens are moving into protocols, but one week at that size cannot yet tell a user base from a one-off allocation.
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Anchorage Digital is cutting about 17% of staff, an estimated 68 jobs, eight months after Tether's $100 million investment valued it at $4.2 billion. That price covered a roughly 2.4% stake, and Anchorage's own 2023 record points to a cost cut it has reversed before.
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ESMA asked the European Commission on September 30 to extend MiCA's ban on non-compliant stablecoins to custody and transfers. Holders who kept such tokens with EU custodians after the 2025 delistings would lose that last licensed option.
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US spot XRP funds took in $121.4 million in September, more than the roughly $104 million of open interest that left Binance between Aug. 22 and Sept. 17. With less leverage in the market, XRP's price now depends on whether that fund buying continues into October.
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Decentralized exchanges handled $48.7 billion of tokenized stock trades in a year, against roughly $3.2 billion to $4.4 billion of the stock in existence. Much of that trading ran through a few ETF-linked tokens, so the figure mostly measures churn in a small float.
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Britain's Financial Conduct Authority tells crypto firms to apply by 28 February 2027 to keep operating once its regime starts on 25 October. Existing firms that file in time may keep taking new business until they get a decision, so October binds mainly non-filers and firms the regulator refuses.
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Korea's licensed crypto exchanges lost 78% of operating income and a third of their combined market capitalization in H1 2026, a regulator survey shows. Bitcoin fell by the same third over the half, so the case for an exodus to offshore leverage has to rest on won deposits and turnover, figures that fit a move into Korean stocks just as well.
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Kazakhstan's July decree lets oil producers supply flared-gas power to crypto miners, as Crusoe did before assembling 10 gigawatts of AI projects. Crusoe sold those flare operations to NYDIG, so AI demand in Kazakhstan more likely lands on new grid capacity.
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Whales sent about $30 billion of stablecoins into crypto markets in September, yet Binance's reserves ended $1.8 billion below their September 8 peak. Much of it looks like trading collateral bound for derivatives venues while retail use shrinks.
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Bitcoin open interest rose $1.5 billion to $22.4 billion as the price climbed 3.4% past $86,000 before a US jobs report forecast at 90,000. Funding costs show the leverage plainly, but the claim that traders are leaving stablecoins rests on a market-share figure that any rally pushes down.
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Senate Democratic staff found 84% of 846 Iran-linked sanctioned wallets moved almost only in Tether's USDT. Most came from Israel's list, and any penalty rests with a Treasury and Justice Department that Senator Blumenthal says have enforced nothing.
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ESMA and French, German and Greek regulators are examining Binance's use of MiCA's reverse-solicitation exemption after it missed the July 1 licence deadline. Whether that deadline binds now depends on proving who initiated each customer relationship.
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Binance Research projects tokenized equities at $349 billion by 2030 in its base case, up from $4.43 billion on-chain as of September 15. Its low and high cases, $61 billion and $987 billion, sit sixteen times apart, so the base case is one guess inside a very wide range.
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- HIVEX converts Binance Pay users' USDT into yen before it reaches PayPay merchants
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Invest · September 29, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 29, 2026 · 1 publisher
- XRP's lowest Binance scarcity reading since January 2025 is measured against a shrunken reserve
Invest · September 29, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Robinhood matched BNB Chain's 500,000 tokenized-stock holders in about six weeks
Invest · August 16, 2026 · 2 publishers
- SafePal's breach came through an order-tracking plug-in, and that is the point
Product · August 16, 2026 · 3 publishers
- HTX dust or not, the sanctions tag makes inbound USDT the recipient's problem
Invest · August 18, 2026 · 1 publisher
- JSCeal drives the victim's own browser to take over their Google account
Security · September 8, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Three quarters of a day's Ether short liquidations landed inside one hour
Invest · September 12, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Prosecutors chase 4% of an alleged $1.5 billion Iran oil network through two Binance customers
Invest · September 14, 2026 · 5 publishers
- Binance's 97.3% Iran cleanup figure starts from a $4.19 million base
Invest · September 22, 2026 · 3 publishers
- Bitcoin's squeeze high stopped $409 short of the average ETF buyer's cost
Invest · September 21, 2026 · 8 publishers
- Two chains hold 72% of the 4.3 million wallets now carrying tokenized stocks
Invest · September 25, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Tether added nearly twice as many dollars as USDC on Binance since Circle started paying
Invest · September 23, 2026 · 14 publishers
- Bitget's $351.6 million breach equals roughly three-quarters of its user protection fund
Invest · September 24, 2026 · 1 publisher
- BitMEX's $50 monthly minimum costs a $6,000 leftover balance 10% a year
Invest · September 24, 2026 · 1 publisher
- ClickFix crews are staging the second stage inside Binance Smart Chain smart contracts
Security · September 23, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Circle will pay Binance a monthly fee on USDC held in its smart contract wallet
Science · September 22, 2026 · 2 publishers
- An $8 million sell order took USDe to 92 cents on Binance for four minutes
Invest · September 22, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Justice Department investigates whether Binance let Iran-linked trading run on its platform
Product · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher
- GRAM's Believers Fund still holds 44% of the token's circulating supply
Invest · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher
- X's cashtag button sent roughly $333m of trades a day to five partner brokers
Invest · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Binance closed a $1.2bn account seven months after the trades prosecutors now want seized
Invest · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher
- France logged fake crypto support calls five months before the tax breach began
Invest · September 21, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Binance Wallet pushes tokenized pre-IPO exposure into self-custody through PancakeSwap
Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Traders hold $79.27m of open interest in an Anthropic contract quoted at $2,147
Invest · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Declaring a 0.7 pass mark before the run turned a 0.59 Sharpe into a documented miss
Build · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
- WSJ puts Lagarde inside a Greek licensing call the ECB has no power to make
Invest · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Binance withdrew its EU license bid before the Greek regulator ever ruled
Leadership · September 18, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Taking 61.2m USDT into FBI custody requires Tether to burn it first
Invest · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
- DOJ's $61M forfeiture puts a Binance payment-services partner in the Iran oil chain
Product · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
- SDNY's $61M Iran forfeiture covers about 4% of the oil flow it describes
Invest · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Kazakhstan's 33-fold crypto growth flattens to an $11B annual pace
Invest · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Agentic AI's 2030 market more than doubles depending on who draws the category line
Product · September 14, 2026 · 1 publisher
- CME sues the CFTC over a market 21 times its own crypto futures book
Invest · September 13, 2026 · 1 publisher
- BitGo Korea clears the VASP gate on its own paperwork, and license resale values wobble
Invest · August 20, 2026 · 3 publishers
- Pakistan's crypto deadline: file by September 5 or keep trading as a criminal offence
Invest · August 24, 2026 · 3 publishers