President Trump is expected to name intelligence director Jay Clayton as AI tsar, six months after David Sacks left, with Clayton keeping his spy-agency job. The record points to pressure on firms that limit military use of their models, with Anthropic first in line, and little sign of a sector-wide crackdown.
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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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Fight Fight Fight LLC will seat the top 185 time-weighted holders of $TRUMP, a token about 97% below its peak, at a November 22 dinner with Donald Trump. Earlier rounds drew leaderboard buying that unwound once invitations went out, so the November 12 snapshot will test how much of the token's bid is for the seat.
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Blast is closing its Ethereum layer-2 after the chain earned $1,793 last month, down from about $3.5 million in June 2024. Revenue fell far faster than deposits, a pattern that fits an airdrop-era chain better than an industry-wide squeeze.
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Cboe is exploring a never-expiring VIX future, a design Robert Shiller proposed in 1993, though it has no contract specs or filing yet, Bloomberg reported. Holders would swap roll losses for funding payments, priced against an index that market makers cannot buy to hedge.
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Bitcoin rose to $86,757 after August core PCE came in at 3.0% against 3.3% expected and October hold odds jumped to 74% from 35.8%. The year's sub-$1 billion ETF total understates the buying, because a strong third quarter first had to cover first-half redemptions.
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CME FedWatch odds of an October Fed hike fell to 14% from 70% after September payrolls rose 29,000 against 84,000 expected. Stocks and Bitcoin rallied on what futures and prediction markets price as a one-meeting delay in the Fed's hiking.
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Community bankers sued the OCC, arguing it lacks National Bank Act authority for trust charters approved for 21 firms, at least 13 of them crypto companies. The charters matter most to stablecoin issuers seeking room above the $10 billion cap on state-qualified issuers.
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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg shaped the 300-word AI safety accord that six companies signed with Trump, sources told Semafor. For investors, that makes the White House pact a commitment its signatories wrote for themselves, with federal rules left for later.
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SEC proposed rule S7-2026-35 on October 1 to let qualified state-chartered trust companies hold client crypto for advisers and registered funds. Adoption would make that permission harder to revoke, though which trust companies qualify, and on what conditions, is still open.
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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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Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.34 billion in the third quarter as the coin rose nearly 43%, about $3.1 billion of it in a nine-day September streak. The money is real, but its late arrival leaves open whether it drove the rally or chased it.
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Tether-backed Utexo plans to issue USDT on Bitcoin and police the nearly $190 billion stablecoin there with a coin blacklist in place of address freezes. Utexo cannot freeze those coins, so a block holds only where exchanges and bridges check the list.
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Bitcoin open interest rose $1.5 billion to $22.4 billion as the price climbed 3.4% past $86,000 before a US jobs report forecast at 90,000. Funding costs show the leverage plainly, but the claim that traders are leaving stablecoins rests on a market-share figure that any rally pushes down.
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Suspected North Korean hackers have moved $3.8 million of Bitget's $387.5 million into Zcash's shielded pool, about 1% of the haul. About $24 million of stolen ZEC remains in transparent addresses that exchanges and police can still freeze.
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MetaMask is pulling its Ethereum validators out of Lido after an infrastructure compromise, putting the stake on a round trip Lido says can take up to 45 days. The stake earns no rewards on the way, and stETH holders share that cost, for an attack whose only documented theft so far is diverted block rewards.
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DogeOS opened a public testnet on September 30 that brings Ethereum-style smart contracts to Dogecoin, whose DOGE token has a $14.7 billion market cap. Until Dogecoin can verify the rollup's proofs, DOGE used as programmable capital would depend on the bridge's signers.
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Bitcoin gave back much of a softer-PCE jump to $85,500 and traded near $83,700 with the 10-year Treasury yield around 5.28%. Stock futures rose under that same yield, so the long-term holder supply Glassnode counts at $84,000 to $85,000 is the likelier ceiling.
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Petrobras is testing the Cardano blockchain in two research projects that track emissions claims on sustainable jet fuel and renewable diesel. With no fuel volumes or timeline attached, the test cannot yet be sized against Shell's Avelia registry, credited with more than 84 million gallons since 2022.
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