Circle Launches Arc Mainnet With BlackRock, DTCC and Visa as Validators
Circle has switched on Arc, a Layer 1 blockchain built for payments, trading and “agentic economic activity,” announcing the public mainnet on Wednesday.
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AI Pause Would Help Dominant Firms, Not Safety, Think Tank Warns
The libertarian Cato Institute is warning that a government-mandated pause in artificial intelligence development could shield dominant companies from competition and delay beneficial technology, as lawmakers and AI exe…
Read more →Revolut ID thefts highlight KYC’s dangers: Here’s how to fix it
Zero-knowledge technology could let companies verify who you are without storing your identity documents. So why isn’t it already standard practice?
Read more →FCA Guidance Lands Two Weeks Before UK Crypto Authorization Window Opens
Overseas firms serving UK retail customers need authorization too, and nobody trades under the new rules before October 2027.
Read more →Bernstein expects ‘aggressive’ rulemaking from SEC, CFTC, following CLARITY Act failure
Bernstein said the federal agencies will publish new regulations to compensate for the time lost negotiating the CLARITY Act, after its cloture vote failed on Tuesday.
Read more →Morning Minute: Clarity Act Vote Falls Short as Democrats All Vote ‘No’
It should not have come as a surprise given the odds, but crypto majors, alts and memes all sold off anyway in the wake.
Read more →Bitcoin Hovers at $76K as Analysts Argue the Fed Matters More Than Clarity Act
With Bitcoin sitting around $76,000, the argument from analysts is that dollar liquidity, not Congress, sets the floor from here.
Read more →Zcash holders back 25-second blocks, vote to keep ZEC halving schedule
Nearly 99% of ZEC holders voted to reduce block times to 25 seconds, while keeping ZEC issuance and halving schedules unchanged.
Read more →Circle launches Arc mainnet with USDC as native gas token
Circle’s Arc mainnet is live with USDC for transaction fees, support for more than 20 fiat stablecoins and links to over 20 blockchains.
Read more →Deutsche Bank awaits regulatory nod to launch institutional crypto custody solutions
Germany’s largest bank is awaiting regulatory approval to launch institutional custody solutions for Bitcoin, Ether and select stablecoins before expanding into tokenized assets.
Read more →Ethiopia cuts Bitcoin miners’ power by 77% amid hydropower shortage: Report
Bitcoin miners generated 35% of the state-owned power producer’s revenue last year, but declining reservoir inflows led the utility to prioritize households and manufacturers.
Read more →Italy investigates government email breach linked to Revolut data leak
Italy is probing the Revolut-linked breach after its cyber agency reported more than 650 cases involving abused or illicit certified email accounts.
Read more →Bitcoin's Coinbase premium sinks to one-month low, here’s why
The premium measures the difference between bitcoin’s dollar price on Coinbase and its USDT price on Binance. CryptoQuant’s Coinbase Premium Index tracks that gap as a percentage of price. Tuesday’s reading of around -0…
Read more →Bitcoin Coinbase Premium hits monthly low as CLARITY Act vote squeezes US demand
Bitcoin exchange demand on Coinbase declined after the US Senate voted against the CLARITY Act, while traders sent BTC to exchanges at an unrealized loss.
Read more →Two Robinhood engineers charged with insider trading using Hyperliquid perpetuals
“Misappropriating confidential information to trade in the derivatives markets for personal benefit is illegal,” McDonald said in a statement on Tuesday. “That is exactly what we allege Hefu Chai and Huaisong Xiang have…
Read more →UK Backs Money Laundering Crackdown With $676M and 500 New Officers
The Home Office names crypto alongside fintech and AI as drivers of a threat the NCA puts at £100 billion a year in the UK.
Read more →Tonkeeper Becomes Keeper as Wallet Adds Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron
Tonkeeper has rebranded to Keeper and added support for six blockchains beyond The Open Network, turning one of the TON ecosystem’s largest self-custodial wallets into a multichain product.
Read more →ECB seeks online merchants for 2027 digital euro pilot
Euro-area online and mobile merchants can apply until Oct. 27 to test beta digital euro payments in a 12-month pilot.
Read more →Crypto Exchange CoinEx Is Shutting Down After Nine Years, Giving Users Until December to Cash Out
Cryptocurrency exchange CoinEx said Tuesday it will cease operations and begin an orderly wind-down, closing the exchange on Dec. 22—nine years to the day after it went live in 2017. Users have until that deadline to wi…
Read more →FOMC Meeting Today: Fed Expected to Hike Rates 25 Bps – Will Bitcoin Drop Again?
FOMC Meeting today as Fed markets price a 92.5% chance of a 25-basis-point rate hike today.
Read more →Singapore Crypto Heist: Six Malaysians Sentenced Over S$4.9M Robbery
Six Malaysian men have been convicted in Singapore over a 2024 armed robbery involving cryptocurrency, cash and luxury items worth about S$4.9 million. The robbers targeted a luxury property in Bukit Timah where high-st…
Read more →Crypto India: Parliament Panel Questions Finance Ministry on Crypto
Indiaâs Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance is hearing oral evidence from the Ministry of Financeâs Department of Economic Affairs on virtual digital assets (VDAs) today. The hearing is part of the committee…
Read more →AI has been a ‘net negative’ for crypto: Phemex CEO
Federico Variola says AI has diverted capital from crypto and is empowering attackers, while rising cybersecurity costs could push the industry toward greater centralization.
Read more →CLARITY Act: CZ and Brian Armstrong Say Crypto Progress Will Continue
Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao said the CLARITY Act setback will not stop crypto development, arguing that technological progress will continue. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong also said the Senateâs failure to advanc…
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