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OKX has filed with the SEC to launch tokenized-stock trading in the US, Bloomberg reported, aiming at buyers barred from its 70-plus ticker offshore line. The SEC's new exemption admits only tokens with dividends and votes, so the synthetic product it sells abroad would need rebuilding first.
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US crypto holders on extension must file 2025 returns by October 15 or pay a failure-to-file penalty of 5% of unpaid tax a month. The percentage applies only to tax not paid in April, so the date costs most for filers who underpaid in spring and still cannot document their cost basis.
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Aave founder Stani Kulechov says the ECB and EBA want the Commission's MiCA review to ban stablecoin yield and tighten DeFi access. By his account, EU providers would keep DeFi access only for users who pass suitability tests, and perhaps only to protocols the authorities certify.
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Economist Victor Matheson puts 2025 US sports betting on prediction markets at $50 billion to $100 billion, handle that state regulators cannot see. Kalshi's pending federal appeals will shape whether that money stays outside state gambling law.
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Judge Martha Pacold on October 2 partly enjoined Illinois licensing of Kalshi and Coinbase sports contracts as likely preempted by federal law. Illinois' transaction fees went to further briefing, so the per-trade cost of serving the state is still unsettled.
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Coinbase won CFTC registration for its own clearinghouse on September 28, ten months after applying, covering only fully collateralized contracts. Its margined book and planned stock perpetuals still clear through partners, so the leveraged trading that dominates crypto volume stays outside.
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CFTC sent the White House two rules on Sept. 28 that would define event contracts as swaps and carve out casino-style gambling products. The agency is trying to settle by rule a state-federal fight that has split appeals courts and now sits before the Supreme Court.
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Fundsz operators Brian Early and Alisha Ann Kingrey must pay more than $31 million under a default judgment the CFTC announced on September 30. What investors actually recover depends on what the pair can pay, and the CFTC acknowledges that limit for orders like this one.
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Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise about $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation, 3.6 times the $11 billion it was worth in December 2025. Most of the volume behind that price comes from sports contracts, so the new investors are betting that regulators and courts keep allowing them.
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Robinhood is seeking approval to let customers trade a curated list of US stocks and ETFs on weekends, the 48 hours a week its 24 Hour Market is shut. Weekend prices will depend on whether dealers quote through those hours and on how the trades clear and settle.
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Former Representative Adam Kinzinger is under CFTC investigation over Kalshi bets on his own pardon that made him $823, Politico reported. Exchanges listing markets on named people must now decide whether being a contract's subject is enough to bar a trade.
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Kalshi will end its volume rebate on or after October 13 as the CFTC reportedly reviews over $5 billion in repeated ether perpetual trades. Kalshi says paid market makers produced those prints, leaving investors at a $40 billion valuation to judge how much liquidity was bought.
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Polymarket launched opt-in deposit limits, self-exclusion and mental-health referrals on September 30, six days after New York sued it over sports contracts. The tools come alongside its federal-court claim that commodity law overrides the state's gambling statutes.
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Polymarket has added deposit caps users cannot reverse, plus self-exclusion, after sports and parlays took over 98% of its September trading volume. Kalshi, which the CFTC regulates, already offered the same tools, so they help Polymarket defend itself in New York's gambling suit as much as they make it look like a sportsbook.
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Robinhood said eligible US customers will trade eight crypto perpetual futures in its app within months, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether. The product brings leverage US retail traders mostly found on offshore exchanges into a mainstream American brokerage.
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Blockchain Association founder Kristin Smith returns as interim CEO on October 17, days after the CLARITY Act failed a 49-50 Senate cloture vote. For investors waiting on a market-structure law, the Senate count matters more to the timetable than the change at the top.
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Hester Peirce exits the SEC on October 2, cutting it to two Republican commissioners with seven seats empty across the SEC and CFTC. Crypto Briefing warns that one recusal could then leave the commission short of a quorum on crypto and market rules.
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Polymarket, valued at about $21 billion, hired ex-Goldman partner Lisa Mantil to bring big traders onto its US exchange. She starts selling while federal investigators, House members and New York officials still dispute how its contracts should be policed.
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Coinbase won CFTC registration on September 28 for its own clearinghouse, limited to fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps. Its margined business and planned single-stock perpetual futures will keep clearing through outside partners.
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Coinbase won CFTC registration on Sept. 28 for its own clearinghouse, licensed for fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps. Margined contracts, including planned single-stock perpetuals, still clear through outside partners.
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