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CoinDesk reports that Bitcoin turned lower as rates rose and consumer confidence plunged, with the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index falling to its lowest level in more than a decade in September.
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Cointelegraph reports that Bitcoin bounced to $84K after the US 30-year bond yield set a 24-year high, with price action consolidating after early-week losses while protecting a "trend-defining" support zone.
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Cointelegraph reports that Greece joined the EU MiCA register with four providers, and that HCMC expanded its denial of remarks attributed to officials in a report on Binance.
CoinDesk reports that Bitcoin is on track for a third straight monthly gain, with higher yields, oil prices and two major November events potentially testing Q4 momentum.
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Analysts cited by CoinDesk expect the 10-year Treasury yield to reach 6%, while arguing that the reason yields are rising matters more for bitcoin than the level itself.
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Ethlabs claims CCIP 2.0 reduces Ethereum confirmation wait to seconds, according to The Defiant. The report notes faster transfers require opt-in settings, while Ethereum's full-finality guarantees and CCIP's default wait remain unchanged.
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CoinDesk reports Near Intents blocked over $50 million in attempted Bitget hacker swaps, while The Defiant reports NEAR Intents says it froze $503,000 in Bitget hack funds. The Defiant also reports Bitget says NEAR Intents waived its recovery-bounty share.
CoinDesk and Decrypt report on Anthropic's IPO prospectus, which shows a $518 billion AI infrastructure spending plan, a $42 billion loss, and revenue up twelvefold. CoinDesk adds that pre-IPO perpetuals barely moved on the news.
Multiple newswires report that Coinbase received CFTC approval for an in-house derivatives clearinghouse, completing its derivatives stack. Posts note Coinbase Clearing will accept USDC as collateral while margined products remain with outside partners.
NEAR Intents stated that it blocked $50 million tied to Bitget hackers, saying it actively prevents stolen funds from being laundered. The protocol contrasted its approach with THORChain's stated position of not selectively censoring transactions.
OpenAI says its agents keep landing on government websites because they treat them as reliable sources, and it is pausing training while it adds safeguards.
A UC San Diego-led team impersonated a hardware security module without extracting its key, according to Decrypt. The report frames the RSA attack as relevant to crypto.
The Defiant reports that SEC staff revised a Sept. 25 FAQ answer on token buybacks to make the absence of centralized control an explicit condition.
Coinbase teased Pokémon card packs backed by physical collectibles, with collectors able to keep pulls in a vault or have them shipped. Coinbase has not set a launch date in its teaser.
Posts report that Aiden Pleterski, described as Canada's 'Crypto King', will represent himself at his fraud trial, with the judge saying he will raise objections on his behalf. One post also states he was allegedly behind a crypto Ponzi scheme between 2021 and 2022 that resulted in a kidnapping and related criminal charges.
CoinDesk and Cointelegraph report that Blockchain.com is targeting a $500 million IPO at a valuation of up to $6 billion, with CoinDesk noting a confidential SEC filing earlier this year.
Decrypt reports that Anthropic's mid-tier Claude Sonnet 5.5 tops its own flagship Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at half the cost per token, while an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model measured.
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, following an OpenAI agent's access to Australia's Medicare data that went undisclosed for months.
Decrypt reports that Nvidia built a kill switch for AI agents, with OpenShell and Sentry providing a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agent incidents.
Cointelegraph reports that the SEC announced updates on how federal securities laws could apply to token issuers, following similar guidance from the CFTC, after a failed cloture vote on the CLARITY Act.
The Defiant reports that Polygon plans a two-month, fee-funded increase to a 7.7% gross POL staking rate, compared with a roughly 3% baseline, rewarding stake held during the window rather than when the fees accrued.
The Defiant reports that the Compound Foundation denies an allegation of V2 reserve misuse, citing records showing 344,780 COMP shifted delegated voting power from 45.1% to 50.1% before a $52 million V4 budget vote that passed with no opposition.
CoinDesk reports that Goldman Sachs is bringing its roughly $100 billion Treasury fund to institutional crypto firms without creating a tokenized version of it.
Cointelegraph reports that the crypto PAC Fairshake is spending on media opposing the Democratic candidate in Ohio's Senate race, with an initial $30 million pledge. The spending is described as a possible repeat of crypto industry spending in 2024.
The Block reports that SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is wrapping up her last week at the agency after nearly a decade and reflected on what she still wanted to get done.
The Defiant reports that WisdomTree's Treasury money fund trailed its T-bill benchmark by 15 basis points over a year, with issuer disclosures showing how expenses and liquidity terms affect returns.
Vitalik Buterin outlined a 'Cryptographic World Computer' plan for Ethereum, arguing that Hegota will be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.
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CoinDesk reports that restaking yields have dried up and smart-contract risks mounted, and that Ethereum's top liquid restaking protocol abandoned its core business to build a crypto neobank.
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Senate Democrats published a report alleging Tether's USDT became a key tool for the Iranian government and central to Iran's shadow banking system. Tether said it helped freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT.
The Defiant reports that Ondo Perps has added spot trading for 12 tokenized stocks and ETFs, allowing purchased tokens to be used as collateral for short perpetual positions and waiving spot trading fees for the first 30 days.