Fed leaves rates unchanged with two dissents seeking a hike; crypto slips as tech earnings rattle markets
The Fed held rates steady with two dissenters favoring a hike, and crypto declined alongside tech after weak Samsung and Alphabet earnings, with a December hike
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Bitcoin dips below $80,000, liquidating $356 million in crypto longs
Bitcoin slid under $80,000 in a leveraged selloff after earlier touching $81,000 ahead of the Fed decision, with whales turning bearish for the first time since
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Utah files criminal charges against Kalshi and executives over alleged illegal gambling
Utah escalated its fight with prediction markets by charging Kalshi and its executives, drawing a federal lawsuit seeking to shield the platform's betting opera
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DTCC launches tokenization for $30 trillion in stocks, ETFs and U.S. Treasuries
Wall Street's clearinghouse began tokenizing a massive slate of securities, while Janus Henderson and Centrifuge brought a licensed Nasdaq-100 fund onchain.
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JPMorgan, Coca-Cola, Dell among companies objecting to OKX-ICE tokenized stock trading plan
A growing list of major corporates and an unnamed Wall Street Journal ad campaign are pushing back on plans to offer tokenized versions of their shares.
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Robinhood misses Q3 earnings as crypto revenue slumps 55%
Robinhood's crypto revenue fell sharply and the quarter missed estimates, though Wall Street kept a bullish outlook and ARK bought the dip in its largest purcha
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Datavault AI shares plunge 50% after firm says it cannot access its bitcoin
The bitcoin treasury company said it cannot withdraw BTC tied to a $150 million deal, raising questions about disclosure and custody practices among corporate B
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Coinbase adds Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin across retail, exchange and Prime, as Ripple targets $900M product revenue run rate
RLUSD expanded its distribution through Coinbase and Robinhood after receiving an OCC bank approval and a Moody's A2 rating on the $2.6 billion stablecoin.
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Bithumb says hackers accessed internal system, leaking personal data
The South Korean exchange disclosed an employee-system breach as other Korean financial firms faced heightened cyberattacks.
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OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips as it looks beyond Nvidia, report says
The reported move, alongside Oracle's expanded Nvidia deal with Google and Cerebras options, signals a diversifying AI chip supply chain.
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NYSE owner ICE teams with Trade[XYZ] to bring Hyperliquid-based perpetual futures to the U.S.
The tie-up would push a decentralized perpetuals venue into the U.S. regulated market, a notable test of institutional appetite for onchain derivatives.
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SK Hynix posts record quarter as AI memory demand overwhelms supply, lifting chip stocks
Record AI memory demand pushed SK Hynix's operating margin to 80%, boosting Micron and SanDisk shares and sustaining the broader AI trade.
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Crypto braces for potential shift in congressional oversight after midterms
Industry participants are weighing how a changed Congress could affect pending market structure legislation and oversight of crypto.
The Block · +8 outlets
AI found a way to crash bitcoin nodes on Windows and Macs, and the flaw is now public
A publicly disclosed AI-discovered bug can crash Bitcoin node software on common operating systems, highlighting software supply-chain risk.
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Coinbase says user funds are safe after third-party analytics vendor breach exposed customer contact info
The vendor incident leaked customer contact details, adding to a string of data exposure events at major crypto platforms.
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Moody's rates Ripple's $2.6 billion RLUSD stablecoin A2, a day after OCC bank approval
The credit rating for RLUSD signals growing institutional acceptance of a bank-issued stablecoin backed by Ripple's expanding regulated footprint.
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Brad Garlinghouse calls CLARITY Act failure a 'disappointing evolution'
Ripple's CEO criticized the stalled market structure bill as the company touted institutional expansion and Treasury Secretary Bessent linked crypto to the U.S.
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Brazil's largest lender becomes first bank to formalize crypto brokerage under new rules
The bank's formal crypto brokerage launch under new Brazilian rules shows emerging-market banks moving ahead of Western peers on regulated digital asset service
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