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UK crypto firms can now apply for authorization as of Sept. 30, bringing Bitcoin holders closer to a rulebook that will treat coins pledged as qualifying borrowing collateral differently from coins transferred into lending for yield. The distinction could matter when a platform fails: safeguarded assets and a contractual promise to return equivalent coins give customers different starting points for seeking recovery.The Financial Conduct Authority now allows firms to apply for authorization or vary their permissions through its Connect system. But the safeguards in the rules it finalized June 30 are forthcoming, with the new regime expected to begin Oct.…

Stablecoin card spending is accelerating to record levels, but the payment rail remains a fraction of the traditional card market.Paymentscan tracked about $1.17 billion in spending through Sept. 30, already above August’s completed total and the highest monthly figure in its displayed series.Cuy Sheffield, head of Visa’s crypto unit, described stablecoin-linked cards as being in “hyper growth mode,” as issuers increasingly connect dollar-denominated tokens to existing card networks rather than wait for merchants to accept crypto directly.Notably, the growth has continued even without a corresponding increase in payment frequency. Paymentscan recorded 11.0 million transactions in September, down from 11.07 million…

Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 network, kept producing blocks throughout its Sept. 4 disruption. A new full-day measurement corrects CryptoSlate’s earlier report that block production stopped for at least 14 minutes. Separate public-data analysis found that successful transactions through busy apps fell sharply for about 40 minutes, leaving users with a real disruption despite the continuing blocks.Glass Hull’s Sept. 29 measurement counted 854,255 blocks across all 1,440 minutes of Sept. 4 UTC. The longest gap between consecutive recorded block timestamps was two seconds. In the minute beginning 12:57 UTC, the reported start of the supposed halt, the chain produced 592…

Free trials let traders practise prop firm rules before paying. HyroTrader’s evaluation has profit and loss limits to manage. A trial can help traders identify costly mistakes before paying. Funded trading rests on a simple promise: prove you can trade by passing a test, and a firm gives you its capital to trade with. The test is called an evaluation or a challenge, and entering one costs money. That creates an obvious question for anyone new to the model. How do you know whether the test suits you before you pay for it? A free trial answers it: a practice…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission tightened its guidance for crypto token buybacks just three days after publishing it.On Sept. 25, SEC staff said a token issuer could announce a buyback without that announcement being treated as a promise to manage the token’s value, as long as the crypto system was already functional. On Sept. 28, the agency changed that answer by adding another condition: the system must also have “no central party.”It represents an important change to the guidance, as many crypto projects use buybacks while still giving people, companies, or committees some control over how those purchases happen.The…

From Sept. 29, Binance says Funding Accounts no longer accept direct on-chain crypto deposits. Users depositing crypto must use Spot instead. Binance Pay receipts and Convert order settlement also move to Spot, although existing Funding balances are being migrated on a separate timetable.The changes alter where users send assets and find them after a transaction. Binance’s account FAQ says most users do not need to move existing assets manually, while its migration announcement lays out the phased account changes. Related ReadingBinance deepens TradFi push with physically settled options on over 1,000 US equities Pay receipts move before Pay spendingIncoming Binance…

The US Department of Energy has opened an exchange for up to 40 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Its September 29 solicitation adds a possible source of oil later this year, but no barrels have been awarded under this offer. Proposals are due October 6 at 11 a.m. Central, with deliveries under awarded exchanges scheduled for November and December.The offer falls within the previously announced 172-million-barrel US release commitment. That figure describes the existing program, not another 172 million barrels announced this week. The 40-million-barrel ceiling is the volume offered in this round, rather than oil…

Coinbase, the largest US-based crypto exchange, has secured Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approval for its own derivatives clearinghouse, completing a vertically integrated US trading stack.On Sept. 28, the CFTC registered Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization, authorizing it to clear fully collateralized futures, options on futures, and swaps. The approval gives Coinbase control over a function that has previously depended on outside clearing partners.Coinbase now operates across the three main layers of the regulated US derivatives market: Coinbase Financial Markets as a futures commission merchant, Coinbase Derivatives as a designated contract market and Coinbase Clearing as a…

Bitcoin’s newly confirmed bull market is already showing signs that the rally powering it may be losing momentum.Last week, the top digital asset climbed to an eight-month high near $87,400 after reclaiming a long-term technical threshold that CryptoQuant says marked the start of a fresh bullish phase. Its Bitcoin Bull Score Index has since risen to 90 out of 100, a reading consistent with broadly favorable market conditions.In fact, data from Look Into Bitcoin shows that “Bitcoin sentiment has hit its greediest reading since July 2025.”Bitcoin Fear And Greed Index (Source: Look Into Bitcoin)But beneath that headline strength, the balance…

Bitwise’s NEAR ETF began trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker NRR on 29 September, which the firm calls the first US spot fund for the token. The fund’s prospectus says it intends to stake 100% of its NEAR and does not plan to keep an unstaked reserve for redemptions at the outset. CoinGecko put NEAR’s market value at about US$6.5 billion (AU$9.3 billion) on Wednesday, against US$3.1 billion (AU$4.4 billion) in the prospectus’s 15 June figure. Bitwise listed the first US spot NEAR Protocol (NEAR) fund on Tuesday, 29 September, pitching the token as infrastructure for AI agents that…