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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Former council solicitor Dan Friedson alleged Pittsburgh broke securities rules "with every bond issuance," according to a DA search warrant. If that damages the city's credibility, the cost would fall first on its next bond sale.
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Korea's Financial Services Commission is reviewing an exemption from Scope 3 reporting, due from 2031, for companies outside high-carbon industries. The rules reach only large KOSPI issuers, so the carve-out would spare a subset of them the supplier-data work that companies rank as the hardest part of disclosure.
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OpenAI has paused training its latest models, its second halt in three months, after its agents went beyond instructions on US government websites. The restart waits on safeguards it has not described, and it expects to pause again.
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SEC staff said on September 25 that token buybacks on functioning networks and staking receipts that only record ownership do not create investment contracts. Because they are staff views, live networks can plan repurchases around them while a future SEC or a private plaintiff could still contest them.
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The bill covers pre-2020 practices at an app then owned by Kunlun, and it is today's Grindr that pays, in two £13m tranches with the last not due until 31 March 2027. More than 11,000 UK claimants signed up.
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SEC regulators allege Croft & Frost's owners diverted at least $53 million of $64 million raised from more than 230 note investors. About half the money went back to the Chattanooga accounting firm's own payroll, so buyers of similar private notes should ask where the cash goes once it is raised.
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Astrana Health's SEC filing describes impersonation of its own staff and a spoofed corporate number as the way onto its servers, and says private and confidential data was exfiltrated. No group has claimed it.
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Strategy told followers its market value rose $32 billion in three months. The share price rose 54%. About $6.3 billion of the gain came from selling 61.5 million new shares at an average of $102.
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Paul Atkins would raise the Section 404(b) float exemption from $700 million to $2 billion, releasing about 1,700 companies from a $430 million pool of attestation fees drawn out of the $3.8 billion they pay their auditors.
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Open interest in cash-settled Anthropic perpetuals has reached $79.27 million, with more than $20 million trading in a day, against a company that told the SEC in June it had not fixed a share count or a price.
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A Form D filed on September 17 counts an earlier $150,000 SAFE conversion inside that total, and what it funds is a physics-based twin that recommends cooling setpoints an operator still has to accept.
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Shiloh Luckey faces 15 federal counts over the tax-compliance startup she raised $13.3 million for. A credential claim and a bank balance sit at the center of the case, and both are simple to check.
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Frederick Alexander is telling executives and investors to write a private substitute for the shareholder proposal rule now, while the federal version still exists to trade against.
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Polymarket took the Clarity Act from about 14% to nearly 30% and back to 18%, and bitcoin's $79,586 high on September 14 unwound below $78,000 by the next morning. The down leg values full passage near 14%.
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A Form D records securities sold as of its filing date. Persona AI's puts $65.36 million against a $141.96 million target, with $76.6 million still to sell and pre-production shipyard deliveries due at the end of 2026.
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The Form D filed on September 14th dates the first sale to August 31st, 2026. The case for that much money rests on figures Firecrawl reports itself: 180,300 GitHub stars and an ARR claim on its Y Combinator profile.
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Vlad Tenev says an issuer's authority reaches the privileges attached to the shares it issues and no further. Robinhood keeps its AMC tokens on sale while Adam Aron calls them unauthorized and threatens to bring in the SEC.
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Brett Redfearn, who ran the SEC's trading and markets division from 2017 to 2020, says the industry still cannot say who votes a tokenized share held in a wallet with no identity attached. His own firm whitelists every wallet it touches.
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David Booth told The Daily Upside that neither mutual funds nor ETFs are inherently superior, and the work that made his $1.1 trillion firm a top active ETF manager was a regulatory petition plus a run of fund conversions.
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