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The U.S. Department of Treasury’s NPRM on payment stablecoin issuance, offer, and sale (RIN 1505-AC95) closed its public comment window today, October 19, 2026. The 87 questions Treasury asked the industry to weigh in on span issuer licensing, foreign stablecoin access, reserve composition, and exch…
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has admitted that the collapse of the CLARITY Act hurt. He also says XRP no longer needs Congress to settle the question that hung over it for years.Speaking during celebrations for Evernorth’s Nasdaq listing, Garlinghouse said the bill’s failure “definitely stung.” He a…
Lighter, the Ethereum zk-rollup exchange known for perpetual futures, has launched binary options on Bitcoin and Ether on its Lighter Core platform, The Defiant reported on October 19.The Up/Down contracts let traders take a view on whether BTC or ETH will rise or fall over 15-minute price windows, …
CME Group has scheduled the introduction of Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures for October 19, giving institutional derivatives traders two more cryptocurrency markets to access through a regulated venue.TL;DR: CME previously announced BCH and UNI futures for an October 19 launch, subject to regulator…
Tom Lee, chairman of BitMine, thinks the next big move in Ethereum will come from treasury companies buying it up. He says firms that hold ETH on their balance sheets already own about 7% of its total supply, and he expects that share to roughly double to 15% during this bull cycle.Lee was asked abo…
By Joseph Wilkins and Kirk MaltaisBitcoin rebounded early in the day Monday, briefly crossing over $83,000 as falling U.S. Treasury yields and lower oil prices helped risk assets begin the week higher.The flagship cryptocurrency pared gains later in the day, rising 1.2% to $81,844. Today's price act…
Bitcoin rose 1% on Monday, recovering from a weekend low of $80,000 as equities rebounded.CryptocurrencyTickerPriceBitcoin$81,843.61Ethereum$2,396.97Solana$104.02XRP$1.30Dogecoin$0.07907Shiba Inu$0.054994Notable Statistics:Coinglass data shows 87,503 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for …
Germany’s Sparkassen savings-bank group is beginning a phased cryptocurrency-trading rollout inside its existing banking app, taking an asset class it once treated cautiously into a familiar retail-finance setting.TL;DR: The first participating Sparkassen banks are offering crypto trading from Octob…
From 21 October, Google will apply updated licensing requirements to ads for crypto exchanges, software wallets, CFDs and rolling spot forex targeting users in the United Arab Emirates.Firms in all four categories need a licence for the service they promote and separate Google certification before t…
Visa and crypto payments network Mesh have partnered to allow consumers to spend cryptocurrency and stablecoin balances directly from digital wallets at merchants across Visa’s global payment network.The integration will allow users of participating wallets to pay in stores or online without transfe…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to move forward with digital asset policies after Congress failed to pass legislation that would have established a framework for regulating cryptocurrency at the agency and across other parts of government.On Tuesday, the SEC will close to publ…
Payward, the company behind crypto exchange Kraken, has agreed to acquire Lithuania-based Saldo Bank, taking a route into European banking that goes beyond obtaining another exchange registration.TL;DR: The proposed acquisition would give Payward an existing licensed banking operation in Europe. The…