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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El Salvador drew $138 million from its $1.4 billion IMF loan after the Fund waived missed Bitcoin targets and kept state purchases barred. From here the reserve grows only through documented donations, so its dollar value now depends mostly on the Bitcoin price.
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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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Robinhood's Johann Kerbrat says its offshore stock-token turnover is already high enough to hit some caps in the SEC's September 17 Innovation Exemption. The larger obstacle is the product itself, a Jersey-issued debt note the order excludes, so a US version must first be rebuilt to carry full shareholder rights.
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Kazakhstan's July decree lets oil producers supply flared-gas power to crypto miners, as Crusoe did before assembling 10 gigawatts of AI projects. Crusoe sold those flare operations to NYDIG, so AI demand in Kazakhstan more likely lands on new grid capacity.
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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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Coinbase won CFTC registration on Sept. 28 for its own clearinghouse, licensed for fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps. Margined contracts, including planned single-stock perpetuals, still clear through outside partners.
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CFTC sued Panama-based Cash FX and three individuals, alleging the firm raised more than $950 million for a forex pool and traded less than 1% of it. Americans put in only about $27 million, so most of the case's US weight falls on an Oregon payment firm and a Florida promoter.
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Senators killed crypto's Clarity Act on September 15 when a procedural vote fell short of the 60 votes it needed. Any product that rests only on current agency posture now needs a costed fallback in next year's compliance budget.
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Tokenized stocks hit $4.43 billion by Sept. 15, up 390% this year per Binance Research, two days before the SEC introduced its exemption. About 7.5% of it is deployed on-chain, and the first US venue is expected as early as the fourth quarter.
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Regulation Crypto Assets borrows the JOBS Act structure for digital assets and preempts state registration, including on secondary trades. The preemption is the part that changes deal papering.
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The oracle deal is the part that lets Apple and NVIDIA tokens be liquidated, which is the part that lets them be borrowed against. The wrapper sits in Abu Dhabi, and US residents are excluded.
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The $480bn it waves at the SEC and CFTC is under a tenth of its own venue's volume, and the onshore category it wants to enter is one CME only reopened in July.
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A petition for a two-year delay reached the National Assembly's Strategy and Finance Committee with 51,004 names, and the finance minister nominee has told the committee that starting the 22% levy in January 2027 is desirable.
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The UK regulator has fixed the calendar for crypto authorisation. It says it will consult next month on updating the very perimeter guidance it has just published to help firms get ready.
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The SEC's September 17 Innovation Exemption runs five years and requires tokenized stocks to carry full shareholder rights, so the Jersey-issued debt securities Robinhood sells in 120 countries do not qualify as written, and issuers get a say in what does.
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Vlad Tenev told Jim Cramer that crypto-linked contracts already take a disproportionate share of Robinhood's event-contract volume, and the $156 million the segment billed in the second quarter works out to about 1.1 cents a contract.
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BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain took 88.2% of tracked tokenized-stock volume in September to date, up from 2.3% in June. The surge coincided with a zero-maker-fee campaign on Binance and Robinhood's Stock Tokens launch, so the test comes when maker fees return.
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Semafor's three sources put the Treasury secretary at the front of a four-name field for a post whose structure and authority Trump has not described. The White House calls unannounced personnel reporting baseless speculation.
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