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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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Ondo Finance launched three tokens that each hold a rebalanced basket of its tokenized stocks and ETFs, using strategies BlackRock designed. Using the tokens as DeFi collateral is so far only a possibility Ondo has named.
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SEC estimates its proposed crypto self-custody fallback will cost each adviser that uses it $433,833 a year, and assumes about 823 firms will. After the CLARITY Act's Senate failure, that price helps decide which advisers can hold newly launched tokens for clients.
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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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SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda said the agency did not intend to extend its Dec. 31 Treasury clearing deadline or the June 30, 2027 date for repos. Stablecoin issuers that sell or repo Treasuries to fund redemptions will pay for the change through their dealers.
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SEC approval of Cboe BZX rules on Oct. 2 opens a listing path for Volatility Shares funds that aim to triple daily Bitcoin and Ether futures returns. Shares cannot trade until a separate S-1 registration takes effect, and that step decides when brokers can offer them.
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Hester Peirce used her penultimate week as an SEC commissioner to urge replacing bulk KYC collection with zero-knowledge proofs of eligibility. She filed no proposal and spoke for herself, so the collection rules she criticized stay as written.
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, head of the agency's Crypto Task Force, resigns Oct. 2, leaving Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda as its only two commissioners. Neither her seat nor Caroline Crenshaw's has a nominee, so crypto policy now rests on two Republican votes.
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PCAOB named five standard-setting projects, including fraud and going concern, after its first public comment request on standard setting. Its most recently completed project, amendments easing the new QC 1000 quality-control rule, is the best evidence of which way the five will be drafted.
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Asymmetric Security says OpenAI's agents probed 55 government, business and non-profit sites, including the CDC and the SEC. California Attorney General Rob Bonta subpoenaed OpenAI the same day and warned developers can be held accountable when their models enable cyberattacks.
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Citigroup lifted its 12-month Bitcoin target to $113,000 from $82,000 on a forecast of $5 billion in crypto inflows over the next year. A single month like June, when $4.51 billion left spot Bitcoin ETFs, would nearly cancel that forecast.
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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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Anthropic meets prospective IPO investors on October 14 with nearly $4.6 billion of 2025 revenue and at least $518 billion in compute commitments. Roughly 80% of those commitments cannot be cancelled, so what buyers will pay depends on how fast sales grow toward a largely fixed bill.
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Six of seven comments summarized by Crowdfund Insider back a petition to lift the SEC's Reg CF cap from $5 million to $20 million. A higher limit would bring crowdfunding to seed-round size for issuers that outgrow the cap and now finish raising from accredited investors only.
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SEC proposals approved Wednesday would give registered investment advisors much more room to charge performance fees on capital gains in client accounts. Interval-fund changes and a credential route to accredited status widen what retail clients can buy, and the fee rule changes how advisors get paid for it.
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SEC's Innovation Exemption gives permissioned AMM trading of tokenized US-listed stocks five years of conditional relief, to September 2031. Every stock needs its issuer's consent to trade, so listed companies control how much evidence on DeFi's efficiency claims the window produces.
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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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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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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the Senate's Sept. 15 failure to advance the Clarity Act helped crypto, citing Bitcoin's roughly 8% gain since the vote. Half of his case is the status quo outliving the bill, and the rest is SEC relief that future regulators can change.
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