US government wallets sent 9,261 bitcoin worth $770 million to Coinbase Prime in two days, according to Galaxy Research. With half from the Bitfinex hack and a 2025 order barring sales, custody or restitution fits the record better than a sale.
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Wells Fargo is in talks to source crypto trading liquidity from Payward, the $21 billion Kraken parent, two people told CoinDesk. A signed contract would let the bank offer crypto execution without building trading infrastructure and would put bank revenue behind Payward's price.
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Coinbase will relaunch Pro by the end of 2026 inside a Global Exchange built on Deribit, the derivatives venue it bought for about $2.9 billion. Whether that pays depends on high-volume traders joining one regulated pool while access is still opening region by region.
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US government wallets moved about $470 million of seized Bitfinex- and Alameda-linked crypto to likely Coinbase Prime addresses, Arkham said. Trump's reserve order lets officials repay victims from seized coins, so even a sale of this pool would say little about the pledge to keep reserve bitcoin.
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Coinbase opened a CFTC-regulated route for US institutions into Deribit, the $2.9 billion exchange it bought, with Prime options trading due within weeks. Desks that kept offshore entities to reach that market can now use a domestic broker instead.
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US government wallets sent 833.6 BTC, worth about $71.6 million, toward Coinbase Prime on Oct. 7, roughly 0.26% of the bitcoin they still hold. The risk that the stash comes to market depends far more on the executive orders limiting sales of reserve bitcoin than on transfers this small.
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LayerZero has spent about $3.7 million buying back 2.54 million ZRO, against roughly $279 million in open futures positions on the token. Its latest $347,000 buy was 0.2% of a day's spot trading, so traders and promised ATLAS fees are setting the price of a token up 41% in a week.
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