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Crypto industry urges SEC to avoid blanket novel ETF restrictions
Grayscale, a16z, and the CCI asked the SEC to preserve existing classification rules and avoid treating novel exchange-traded products as a single category, while proposing different routes to clearer
Live updates: BlackRock's IBIT drives $236 million bitcoin ETF outflow
Bitcoin slipped below $77,500 and every major is red on the day. The smaller crypto ETFs kept taking money while the bitcoin funds gave some back.
Bitcoin ETFs notch best month of 2026 as BTC gains 25% in August
US spot Bitcoin ETFs reduced their year-to-date net outflows by 66% as Bitcoin gained about 25% in August, while Ether ETFs turned positive YTD at $732 million and XRP ETFs reached $502 million.
XRP ETFs pull in $170 million over eleven days. Goldman tops institutional holders
Spot XRP funds have logged nine straight sessions of inflows, while Q2 filings show Goldman Sachs, Jane Street and Millennium among their biggest professional holders.
A China indicator that greases risk-taking in stocks and bitcoin is flashing red
China's "credit impulse" is flashing red for risk assets.So far, bitcoin has mostly shrugged it off.
HYPE treasury firm Hyperliquid Strategies boosts equity facility to $2.5B
The Nasdaq-listed company previously raised $647 million through the facility and accumulated about 29.3 million HYPE tokens.
OpenAI says its new 'Astra' AI can build attacks without human help
Astra is the first OpenAI model to reach its “Critical” cybersecurity threshold, meaning it can find previously unknown vulnerabilities and develop ways to exploit them across hardened systems.
Solana, ether, xrp lead majors slide as Iran strikes drive a broad risk selloff
Every large-cap token fell over the past 24 hours, and the high-beta majors gave up roughly triple what bitcoin did.
Bitcoin withstands $90 oil and rising yields while gold slides. A firm dollar is the catch
BTC trades choppy as $90 oil and rising bond yields weigh on stocks and gold.
Core DAO plans emergency hard fork after validators drew excess rewards
Core says the incident is contained and its planned forward upgrade will not roll back the network or reverse previously confirmed transactions.
SEC proposes transfer agent rule, sets event to figure out round-the-clock U.S. trading
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued an agenda for its 24-trading roundtable and proposed a new transfer-agent rule with blockchain implications.
Crypto-backed PAC scales back ad spending in Massachusetts primary
The $189,000 in media spending to support Representative Jake Auchincloss marked Fairshake’s latest attempt to influence the 2026 elections with funds from the crypto industry.
Thailand adopts crypto Travel Rule with self-custodial wallet checks
Thailand adopted a crypto Travel Rule requiring digital asset operators to verify control of self-custodial wallets and retain transaction data for five years.
Binance expands TradFi push with options on 1,000 US stocks, ETFs
The launch gives eligible non-US users access to physically settled options on more than 1,000 US stocks and ETFs through a single Binance account.
UK crime agency froze $13.5M amid probe into Premier League crypto sponsor
UK authorities froze $13.5 million in cash following a January 2025 order from the Westminster Magistrates’ Court as part of an investigation into Sorare.
SEC proposes broad update to decades-old transfer agent rules with blockchain nod
The proposal would modernize rules largely unchanged since the 1980s, addressing blockchain-based recordkeeping, tokenized securities and increasingly automated market infrastructure.
Kalshi issues first lifetime ban for Republican politician over insider bets
The prediction platform permanently banned George Santos and issued a three-year suspension for Laurie Buckhout after investigations into using insider information on event contracts.
BofA, Citi, Goldman Sachs among 21 institutions planning stablecoin launch
The planned venture will initially focus on a US dollar stablecoin before expanding to other G7 currencies, with a euro-denominated offering next.