Grayscale Seeks SEC Nod for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Hedera (HBAR) ETFs
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Grayscale filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday for three crypto exchange-traded funds, expanding its roster of potential offerings as issuers jockey for regulatory approval. The asset manager submitted an S-1 registration for a Litecoin LTC$111.76 ETF, a move that follows its earlier bid to convert the Grayscale Litecoin Trust […]

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Nebius-Microsoft $17.4B Deal Lifts AI Mining Stocks
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Nebius Group (NBIS) shares soared 47% in pre-market trading after the company said it signed an agreement to supply Microsoft (MSFT) with graphic processing units (GPUs) in a deal Reuters valued at $17.4 billion over five years. The contract is worth more than the Amsterdam-based company’s entire market capitalization, currently $15.29 billion. According to Reuters, […]

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Ledger CTO Warns of NPM Supply-Chain Attack Hitting 1B+ Downloads
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Charles Guillemet, chief technology officer at hardware wallet maker Ledger, warned on X on Monday that a large-scale supply chain attack is underway after the compromise of a reputable developer’s Node Package Manager (NPM) account. According to Guillemet, the malicious code — already pushed into packages with over 1 billion downloads — is designed to […]

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Backpack Opens Regulated Perpetuals Exchange in Europe After Buying FTX EU
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Backpack Exchange, a global cryptocurrency trading platform, said Monday that its European division, Backpack EU, is officially live. Operating out of Cyprus and licensed under the European Union’s MiFID II framework, the exchange is positioning itself as one of the first fully regulated venues in Europe to offer crypto derivatives, starting with perpetual futures. “As […]

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How Stripe’s Tempo and Circle’s Arc Fail the Decentralization Test, Explains Libra Co-Creator
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Christian Catalini, co-creator of Facebook’s Libra project, warned on Friday that Stripe’s Tempo and Circle’s Arc could succeed commercially but at the cost of crypto’s decentralization ideal. Launched in 2019, Libra was Meta’s bold bid to create a global digital currency backed by a basket of stable assets. The project promised to make payments as […]

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ARK Invest Snaps Up $23.5M in BitMine, Bullish Shares Across Flagship ETFs
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Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest stepped up its bets on crypto-related equities Friday, buying more than $23.5 million in BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) and crypto exchange Bullish, the parent company of CoinDesk, across three of its actively managed ETFs. Trade disclosures show the ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) and ARK Fintech […]

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Spot Ether ETFs Shed $952M Over 5 Days as Recession Fears Grow
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Spot ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) logged their fifth straight day of outflows this week, shedding $952 million in total and over $787 million in the four-day week alone. The withdrawals followed a record-setting August when spot ether ETFs pulled in $3.87 billion even as bitcoin ETFs saw $751 million in net outflows, according to SoSoValue […]

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If They Can Do it to Sun, Who’s Next?’ Say Insiders as WLFI Claims Freeze Was to ‘Protect Users’
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World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is defending its decision to freeze hundreds of wallets, including Tron found Justin Sun’s, saying the move was meant to protect users from phishing-related compromises, not to stifle normal trading. “WLFI only intervenes to protect users, never to silence normal activity,” the project wrote on X. We’ve heard community concerns about […]

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Legislation Steering U.S. Fate of Crypto Emerges in New Version in Senate
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The U.S. Senate’s work on the crypto industry’s top policy priority — a bill to establish the regulatory workings of crypto markets in the U.S. — advanced further on Friday with the private circulation of a new draft bill that further outlines protections for crypto developers and bankruptcy guidelines for some digital asset issuers. Despite […]

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BTC Nears $113K as Dominance Rises to 59%, A Two-Week High
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Bitcoin’s (BTC) price recovery has gathered traction in the lead up to Friday’s U.S. jobs report. The leading cryptocurrency by market value rose to $113,000, its highest level since Aug. 28, and recorded its first higher high since the mid August all time peak of $124,000, according to CoinDesk data. In technical terms, a higher […]

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World Liberty Financial Blacklists Justin Sun’s Address With $107M WLFI
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World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto protocol linked to Donald Trump and his family, on Thursday blacklisted Tron founder and key investor Justin Sun’s blockchain address, impeding him from transfering WLFI tokens. The move affects 595 million unlocked WLFI tokens held on the address, worth roughly $107 million at current prices, according to Arkham data. […]

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Attackers Are Now Using Ether Smart Contracts to Mask Malware
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Ethereum has become the latest front for software supply chain attacks. Researchers at ReversingLabs earlier this week uncovered two malicious NPM packages that used Ethereum smart contracts to conceal harmful code, allowing the malware to bypass traditional security checks. NPM is a package manager for the runtime environment Node.js and is considered the world’s largest […]

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