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Ten percent of Hill aides polled by Punchbowl News expect a digital-asset tax bill to pass before Dec. 31, 2026. Crypto firms and investors face year-end and 2027 under current rules while the House bill's $10 fee exemption and wash-sale extension wait on a crowded lame-duck Senate.
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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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DefiLlama's October 3 snapshot shows 399 of the 558 blockchains it tracks earned zero fees in 24 hours, while only seven cleared $100,000. For most of the field, user fees are too small to support a token price.
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South Korea replaced its Prosecutors' Office with two agencies on October 2, leaving prosecutors able to charge but no longer investigate. Anyone facing a serious-crimes probe now deals with investigators at one agency and a charging decision at another.
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FCC's Covered List has restricted new imports of humanoid and four-legged robots since July, in a market where Chinese firms ship 80 to 97% of humanoids. The cost to US builders turns on whether the list grows to cover the Chinese actuators and magnets they still buy.
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PancakeSwap is giving liquidity providers 90% of Infinity's pool fees on Robinhood Chain and Arc as cumulative volume passes $150 billion. Its own milestones show daily volume since April 2026 averaging about a third below the first year.
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MANTRA Chain holders vote by October 8 on Proposal #39, a plan to spend stablecoin fees from its NVNM validator on open-market buys of $MANTRA. Issuance, last reported at 8% a year, stays untouched, so the new buyer's size depends on how busy a separate network gets.
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Standard Chartered has initiated coverage on seven DeFi and onchain infrastructure projects since mid-June, with Ethena the latest. Each has its own revenue and token model, so clients still need a single yardstick to weigh the seven against each other.
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Nvidia's $500 billion plan to finance AI buildouts against its own GPUs had closed no deals by early October. The first transactions will show whether lenders are pricing the chips or the customers renting them.
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Prediction-market odds of a US diesel export ban by October 31 fell to 9.5% from 20% in a day, with diesel at nearly $6.50 a gallon, close to a record. Republicans want relief a month before the midterms, yet traders now price a ban before the contract settles as a long shot.
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Two Dallas men posed as delivery workers, one armed, to get into a San Jose home they believed held large crypto holdings, police say. The attempt ended when nobody answered the door. For crypto holders, the case points to security that covers the house and a low public profile too.
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Taiwan plans to spend $930 million on unmanned surface vessels built on local hulls with US software and hardware, aimed at defending Kinmen and Matsu. The industry money is now law, so the program's risk sits with the first prototypes and with whether local yards can build at volume.
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Bitfinex says bitcoin needs ETF buying back near $190 million a day to extend a September gain of more than 6.5%. About 1.39 million coins were bought between $84,000 and $86,500, and holders waiting to break even can sell into any climb.
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Circle released three kits on September 30 that let Arc apps sell USDC, offer Morpho yield and lend against Bitcoin without writing smart contracts. Apps that adopt them skip the contract work and take on a dependence on Circle, Morpho and outside KYC firms.
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Intel has added NVIDIA's Apache-2.0 OpenShell policy layer to its enterprise agent toolkit, putting sandboxing and kernel-level agent controls on Xeon. The feature ships switched off, so what it is worth to Intel depends on how many agent teams turn it on.
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Bitcoin gained about 6% in September as the dollar index rose nearly 2% and the 10-year Treasury yield passed 5%. Most of that gain came from a burst of ETF buying, so allocators who treat bitcoin as a bet against the dollar are really underwriting that flow.
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Brussels wants EU data center capacity to go from about 12 GW to over 27 GW in five to seven years, on roughly 200 billion euros of mostly private money. The sector's 2030 electricity projection fits a much smaller fleet, so grid connections that take years are the likelier limit on how fast that money is spent.
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Illinois has published draft rules for its 0.2% tax on the value of crypto transactions, owed from Jan. 1, 2027 whether a trade gains or loses. The carve-outs make a fee paid to a broker or protocol the trigger for much of the tax, so active traders on venues that charge fees would pay most of it.
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Huntress traced at least two of more than 40 ClickFix malware incidents to fake custom GPTs on OpenAI's chatgpt.com. On that route every hop before the PowerShell command sat on a Google or OpenAI address, so staff taught to trust familiar domains would click through each one.
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McKinsey Global Institute says redesigning work so people and AI share it could be worth up to $2.9 trillion a year by 2030. Its evidence that companies are choosing redesign over layoffs comes down to one gap between expected and actual job cuts.
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