The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network withdrew two crypto proposals on October 5. One would have required banks and crypto businesses to report transfers above $10,000 involving self-custody wallets. FinCEN also…
A suspected ShinyHunters member was detained in Jordan this week and is cooperating with the FBI, Reuters reported. Saif al-Din Khader, who allegedly uses the nickname Rey, was detained by Jordanian authorities,…
EU regulators are pushing to broaden MiCA restrictions on stablecoin returns to cover lending, borrowing and staking. The European Central Bank and national central banks said such services can replicate interest payments…
The Reserve Bank of India’s net short dollar position rose to a record $200.1 billion in August, Bloomberg reported. The position increased $63.3 billion from July, according to calculations based on RBI…
The Bank of England warned Wednesday that risks of financial vulnerabilities crystallizing have increased, citing rising AI-related debt and geopolitical tensions. The Financial Policy Committee said higher oil and gas prices had…
Akamai Technologies signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud computing agreement with Anthropic on September 24. The deal supports Anthropic’s growing CPU workload demand through Akamai Cloud’s distributed infrastructure. The agreement could expand…
VanEck has rated Metaplanet “Bad” on executive compensation among the 10 largest digital asset treasury companies. The assessment, published September 18, found that Metaplanet failed all four of VanEck’s governance tests. VanEck…
Hyperliquid’s HYPE token reached a new all-time high near $90 on September 18. CoinMarketCap data showed HYPE trading around $90.13, up 12.83% over 24 hours. The token briefly reached about $90.09, surpassing…
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Tehran-based crypto exchange BitBank on Sept. 17, accusing it of moving hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Treasury also said BitBank…
Celsius Network’s bankruptcy estate has sued BitMEX over 6,360 BTC tied to liquidations during the March 2020 crypto crash. The estate filed the case on September 12 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for…
Circle launched the public Arc mainnet on Wednesday, September 16, bringing more than 100 institutional and ecosystem participants onto its new Layer 1 blockchain. BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, Mastercard, Standard Chartered and other…
Former Google DeepMind research engineer Bilal Chughtai warned on Sept. 14 that artificial intelligence could potentially kill all humans. Chughtai left DeepMind in July after working on AGI safety and alignment research.…
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