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Kraken is a major cryptocurrency exchange offering spot and derivatives trading, expanding via acquisitions into regulated futures, FX, and stablecoin payments.
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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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Kraken parent Payward is joining Singapore Gulf Bank's SGB Net to settle dollars 24/7 for institutions in Asia and the Gulf. On a network reportedly clearing over $2bn a month, the link may do as much for the bank as for Kraken.
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BNY is in talks with Kraken parent Payward, valued at $21 billion when Nasdaq invested, over a custody, trading and payments partnership, CoinDesk reported. Nothing is signed. One source compares the talks to the infrastructure half of Payward's Nasdaq agreement.
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OpenPayd, a London payments firm with $73 million of revenue, expects its Titan merger to close by year-end and fund a US launch by April 2027. With 43 state licenses already bought, the listing mainly supplies cash and shares for the acquisitions its CEO says come next.
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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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SEC complaints say advisors sold retail investors phantom pre-IPO stakes in SpaceX, OpenAI and others, taking over $8.7 million from 35 people in one case. In that case, the SEC says, more than half the money raised for pre-IPO deals never reached them.
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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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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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Malwarebytes found 70 sites cloning Kraken's xStocks, Pendle and other crypto projects to push a fake rewards vote that opens a wallet prompt. The targets, it says, are projects whose users are used to hearing about rewards and allocations.
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SEC says Beyond Alpha Ventures put less than half of nearly $6 million raised for pre-IPO stakes into the deals, in one of two cases announced Wednesday. The Owen Meyer case turns on cash moved out of a fund account, so buyers must check who controls the money as well as who holds the shares.
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Ondo Finance is selling three BlackRock-modelled portfolio tokens issued by a British Virgin Islands entity that alone owes holders anything. A buyer paying for the BlackRock name holds Ondo's paper, and BlackRock's part is limited to designing the allocation.
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Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 cuts a transfer's default checks from two networks to one and lets institutions add their own verifiers back. Paying for the second check now falls to the bank or issuer, five months after a single-verifier bridge setup cost Kelp DAO $292 million.
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Selected Hyperliquid perpetuals would trade inside a CFTC-regulated venue Payward bought for as much as $550 million, which is about 14% of one day of Hyperliquid volume. The contract list is the product.
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The cheque is small enough to read as a partnership fee, and it arrives with a surveillance contract, a 2027 token launch date, and a quarter in which Payward's adjusted EBITDA fell to $23m on $508m of revenue.
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Crypto tax firms say the first 1099-DA forms left out basis and trades, reporting one client's $300,000-plus of stablecoin trades as under $100,000. Holders who moved coins between platforms now pay to rebuild that basis before they file.
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Bitmine holds 5,983,940 ETH, 4.9% of supply, and the 121,060 tokens still missing cost about $325m at its own reference price, a bill its cash balance covers twice over. Tom Lee expects institutions in the fourth quarter.
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The SEC's Sept. 17 order lets venues trade tokenized stocks in permissioned AMM pools without registering as exchanges, if the token passes the underlying's dividends and votes to the holder. Robinhood's 200 tokens are Jersey debt paper.
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Cryptobriefing puts about $1bn of volume through the program's first three days, split across Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo, with X introducing every order and the five filling them.
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Gemini's second-quarter exchange revenue fell 38% to $12.5 million and spot volume fell 66% to $3.8 billion while the stock sits just over $5 against a $28 listing. Two founders control 94.5% of the votes.
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Backed Finance's X Layer market cap grew 187.2% in a month to $172.8m across more than 900 tokenized US equities and ETFs. The largest single line is about $28.6m of that, and it comes with price exposure and no vote.
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