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Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange providing trading, custody, prime brokerage, and developer tools for digital assets.
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Webull joined X's Cashtag program on Oct. 2 as a sixth US partner, linking stock and crypto posts to its quotes and order ticket. Trades still execute at the broker, so its quickest converts are X users who already have a Webull login.
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Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm with a national trust charter, has cut 17% of its staff, according to people familiar with internal discussions. It is shrinking while it holds new investor capital and competes with rivals that have since won similar charters.
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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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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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Security firms traced about 1,783 wstETH, worth more than $6 million, out of a Base vault on Oct. 4 whose owner is an anonymous 3-of-7 Safe. With Base and Aave's core contracts not blamed, the loss lands on a custody setup whose seven signers no one has publicly identified.
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Crypto's 635-page Clarity Act stalled in the Senate with no realistic path back before year-end, Cato's Ryan Chan-Wei wrote. He blames an ethics dispute over conflicts at the highest levels of government, and that dispute will meet whatever bill the next Congress writes.
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Blast is closing its Ethereum layer-2 after the chain earned $1,793 last month, down from about $3.5 million in June 2024. Revenue fell far faster than deposits, a pattern that fits an airdrop-era chain better than an industry-wide squeeze.
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Open USD launched with Stripe distribution and $468 million of backed supply, about 0.15% of a dollar-stablecoin market led by USDT and USDC. Its share grows only if Stripe customers move payments and treasury balances into it beyond the liquidity its founders seeded.
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Executives from five digital-asset firms said the Bank of Korea's bank-led won stablecoin model gives banks little reason to build new payment networks. A won token has to settle payments more cheaply than existing networks to be useful, and the central bank's model gives issuance to the institutions that run those networks.
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ARK Invest bought about $24.7 million of CoreWeave shares days before Cathie Wood urged investors to track where AI agents spend money. For now ARK's money is on the compute agents consume, and the fight over which payment network they use is still being argued in papers and protocols.
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Minia2a checked its row in Coinbase's Agentic.market against its live 402 challenges and found two of its 20 endpoint prices frozen at values it no longer charges. Every endpoint still answered with the standard x402 challenge, so the payment rail held and the drift sat in the crawled listing.
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Hyperliquid's first AQAv2 payout, about $14.58 million in USDC reserve yield, is headed to the fund that buys and burns HYPE. That money is interest on deposits, so part of HYPE's buyback bid now moves with balances and rates as well as with trading.
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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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Cloudflare put its Monetization Gateway into closed beta, letting domain owners charge AI agents per request via HTTP 402, with four use cases in production. Cloudflare scopes it to APIs, tools and data, where each request is a single use.
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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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Base's Cobalt upgrade went live on September 30 with Validity Transactions, swaps the chain holds privately until set conditions are met. It continues the push toward trading and tokenized assets that Base began in July with its B20 issuer standard.
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Coinbase opened OUSD transfers on four chains on October 1, a day after the stablecoin it co-owns went live. Because Coinbase is one of its owners, the speed mostly shows Coinbase's own incentive; the case against USDT and USDC depends on venues and businesses that hold no equity.
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Coinbase will convert each VELO into about 0.044 of the merged AERO token, and old AERO one for one, from November 2 to 4. Velodrome's 5.5% of new supply matches its share of trailing revenue, and old tokens are frozen on the exchange while the swap runs.
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Coinbase-backed Stand With Crypto named its first three Senate endorsements two weeks after the Clarity Act failed 49-50. The group funds no campaigns itself, so its main Ohio pick depends on PAC money, starting with Fairshake's $30 million pledge for Jon Husted against Sherrod Brown.
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Stripe-owned Bridge is issuing the OUSD stablecoin on four blockchains, with reserves held at BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY. Open Standard has not said how much has been issued, so its list of more than 200 partner businesses is the only size figure on record.
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