Haruko hack hits 15 crypto clients, with exchange API details, trading data and funds stolen

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The London-based firm provides portfolio, risk-management and trade-data infrastructure to institutional digital-asset firms. Its platform connects with centralized exchanges, custodians, blockchains and decentralized-finance (DeFi) protocols, giving clients a consolidated view of their positions, transactions and risk exposure. “GSR has not been impacted by any rumored breach,” a company spokesperson said. “3iQ was not affected by […]

CFTC sends crypto rules to White House to review as Congress stalls on Clarity Act

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“The CFTC is locked in and ready to ship its rules for the new frontier of finance,” CFTC chair Mike Selig wrote in a post on X following the vote on Wednesday.  The CFTC, on Friday, also published a no-action letter, giving certain software providers a way to connect users to regulated derivatives markets without […]

Kevin O’Leary says Congress will revisit Clarity next year as crypto tax bill advances

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Shark Tank host and veteran investor Kevin O’Leary said he’s convinced the Clarity Act will eventually advance in the Senate and could return as soon as the first quarter of next year. Speaking at the Avalanche Summit in New York on Thursday, O’Leary said he didn’t expect the bill to advance on Tuesday, when it […]

Crypto industry reacts after Clarity Act fails Senate vote

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The Senate’s failure to advance the Clarity Act on Tuesday was a major setback for the crypto industry’s push to lock market structure rules into law, but the reaction from industry leaders was notably measured. Crypto executives said the vote does not unwind the regulatory progress already underway at the SEC and CFTC, nor is […]

Crypto investors are looking past market-cap rankings and back to fundamentals

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Perpetual-futures volumes still run at a multiple of spot across most major tokens, while funding, positioning and liquidations set the tone intraday, he said Over the past 12 to 18 months, however, attention has moved from infrastructure toward applications and appchains that fit more familiar fintech and venture-capital frameworks, De Maere said. Fundamentals are starting […]

crypto derivatives traders on Hyperliquid price 4x upside on debut

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The contracts traded just 1.6% apart on average when both markets were active, and traded near $92 and $94 most recently, translating to a more than 300% upside from the IPO price. That fourfold premium also means Unitree could have a blockbuster debut and still leave leveraged bulls nursing steep losses. “Unitree can open at […]

Trump expected to attend White House meeting with crypto CEOs, sources say

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President Donald Trump is expected to be in attendance when the administration’s new innovation committee — a crowd of crypto CEOs and leaders of prediction market and AI companies — sits for a White House meeting on Wednesday, said people briefed on the planning. The chief executives of companies such as Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, […]

Wintermute plans $1 billion AI push beyond crypto: Bloomberg

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Crypto market maker Wintermute plans to invest about $1 billion in high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence data-center infrastructure over five years as it expands into stocks, commodities and foreign exchange. The London-based firm wants non-crypto markets to generate more than 50% of revenue by the end of 2027, up from 10% now, according to a […]

If crypto goes back to the congressional drawing board, 3 Democrat women loom large

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“I voted against the GENIUS and Clarity acts because they fail to adequately address abuse and instead open the door to corruption,” she said last year. “At a time when the current occupant of the Oval Office is personally benefiting from crypto and memecoin ventures, these bills do nothing to close conflict-of-interest loopholes.” But if […]

Brazil’s central bank orders exchanges to delay large crypto transfers abroad

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Brazil’s central bank will require crypto exchanges to delay some customer transfers to foreign platforms and self-custody wallets for up to 24 hours as part of new anti-fraud rules. The requirement takes effect Jan. 1, 2027 under Resolution BCB No. 584/2026, published Aug. 7. The rule applies when a customer deposits the country’s fiat currency […]

Here’s what could happen with the crypto market structure legislation

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In other words, no news on cloture on Wednesday night might just be no news. In one scenario, Majority Leader John Thune files cloture on Wednesday night, gets through all of the Senate’s other priorities by Friday, holds the first procedural vote on Friday night and then everyone goes back to their districts to meet […]

U.S. FBI intelligence agent arrested in connection with theft of $1 million in crypto

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A supervising U.S. FBI agent who worked in intelligence at the national headquarters has been arrested and accused in a federal court filing of stealing more than $1 million in cryptocurrency. The high-level special agent, identified as Patrick Steven Yarmoch, allegedly turned himself in to agency colleagues, reporting that he dug crypto keys from FBI […]