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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CFTC proposed two crypto rules creating a narrower exchange license for leveraged, margined and financed trades, open to comment for 60 days. Plain spot trading falls outside the CFTC's authority, and officials say they cannot yet size that leftover market.
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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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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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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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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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Aztec Labs is bringing back zk.money as a private DAI wallet that caps every transfer at $2,500 and all users' deposits combined at $50,000 a day. Raising either limit means a new contract that each user must opt into. The caps arrive while US law on privacy wallets remains unsettled.
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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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CFTC staff cleared registered firms on September 24 to invest customer funds in tokenized forms of permitted investments and to keep their books on a blockchain. The update came days after the Senate stalled the CLARITY Act, but it only changes the form assets take and leaves the CFTC-SEC split to Congress.
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A White House remark about CFTC Chairman Michael Selig repriced HYPE and a Nasdaq treasury stock. No approval, no registration path and no timeline has been put on the record.
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Arc's mainnet went live Wednesday with BlackRock, DTCC, Visa and Mastercard among its founding validators, and the 10 billion ARC tokens Circle minted this week sit behind a presale that valued the network at $3 billion.
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Forced closures of bearish bets, counted at $648 million by Crypto Briefing and above $600 million by CoinGlass, carried bitcoin to its highest price since January. Glassnode puts the US spot ETF cohort's average entry at $85,638.
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Injective's stakers approved IIP-701 by roughly 99%, moving compliance logic out of applications and into the token standard on the chain's EVM. The regulated standards go live on September 24, 2026.
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Chase challenged a single misclassified Visa purchase. The network has told payment processors that the code covering e-books and music will not carry meme coin checkouts. The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate the same week.
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The Comptroller's conditional approval for World Liberty Trust is dated August 14, and its conditions are unpublished. Rivals get a template; senators debating conflicts get a fact on the ground.
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Open interest reached $14.669bn while builder-deployed HIP-3 markets shrank by about $200m, so core perps added roughly $4bn in a month, and core routes about 99 per cent of its fees into HYPE buybacks.
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The proposed Builders Bank and Trust would take no deposits and make no loans, which leaves custody fees as its only revenue line, and the applicant queue it joins suggests approval is measured in years rather than quarters.
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American Banker's survey of bank risk and compliance staff finds 26% of institutions cutting digital-asset exposure, more than commercial real estate or private credit, and 80% saying they would rather have predictable rules than lenient ones.
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Treasury's surprise move to at least double long-bond buybacks sold the dollar and lifted gold and bitcoin together. Bitcoin ran about 1.7 times gold's move off the June lows.
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Two records on the same August 19 session, eleven weeks after perps launched. Only one of them says anything about what traders were willing to hold overnight.
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