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The US sanctioned the Russia-linked A7 Network and proposed new restrictions to cut its crypto intermediaries off from global markets.On Oct. 1, the Treasury Department designated A7 as a significant transnational criminal organization, extending blocking sanctions beyond individual companies previously targeted by Washington to the broader payment network. FinCEN simultaneously proposed barring covered financial institutions from transmitting funds involving identified A7 sub-agents.The measures target a shadow-payment system Treasury says has helped Russian sanctioned entities, Iran’s central bank and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and other illicit actors move money through companies designed to make restricted transactions resemble ordinary commercial payments.FinCEN said…
Coinbase completed the migration of Coinbase International Exchange to Deribit on Oct. 1, ending trading on its former international venue. The old exchange is now read-only, with its trading activity moved to Deribit.Coinbase’s migration status report marked maintenance complete at 10:02 UTC on Oct. 1, 2026. For affected institutional clients, the switch makes new trading connections, a different settlement cycle and separate historical records immediate operational issues.Affected institutional accounts are limited to non-US institutions in selected jurisdictions. Coinbase says the consolidation pools derivatives liquidity previously split across the two venues. Available products and access still depend on account type and…
Donald Trump is the featured speaker at a 22 November gala at his Trump National golf club near Washington for the top 185 TRUMP holders. Rankings use time-weighted holdings up to a 12 November snapshot, with a VIP reception for the top 29 and 18-carat gold watches for the top four. Public Citizen estimated in August that about 1 million TRUMP buyers were down a combined US$3.2 billion (AU$4.6 billion). Donald Trump is set to appear at a 22 November dinner for the 185 top-ranked holders of the TRUMP memecoin, his third such event with the token’s top investors. The…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a custody framework on Oct. 1 that would let investment advisers and regulated funds hold crypto under rules written for it.It is the latest of nine agency actions since Aug. 18 that span most of an asset’s life, from fundraising to safekeeping. Two came before the Senate rejected cloture on the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, a 49-50 vote with 60 required, and seven came from Sept. 17 on.Their legal status runs from live exemptions to pre-rule White House review, and that status determines what a crypto business can use today.Raising money…
Evernorth expects to hold 473 million XRP after its merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II closes, subject to final conditions and Nasdaq approval. Trading is expected to begin under the ticker XRPN, positioning Evernorth as the largest publicly traded pure-play XRP treasury company. The firm plans to actively deploy its XRP into ecosystem infrastructure and strategies intended to increase XRP backing per share over time. Ripple, SBI Group, Kraken, Pantera Capital, GSR and Arrington Capital are among Evernorth’s shareholders. Evernorth is taking a leaf out of Michael Saylor’s playbook and will soon bring the crypto treasury model to XRP. In…
US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded US$148.7 million in net outflows on 30 September, ending nine consecutive days of inflows totalling US$3 billion. September still posted US$2.65 billion in net inflows, extending the sector’s positive monthly streak to three months. ETFs, governments, listed and private companies, and miners collectively hold nearly one-fifth of Bitcoin’s total supply. Bitcoin traded around US$85,468, up 2.1% in 24 hours and more than 10% over the past month, despite remaining below its record high. The recent run of inflows into US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has come to a screeching halt. After nine days of…
North Dakota’s banks and credit unions are getting a dollar settlement route on Solana as banking technology provider Fiserv brings its digital asset platform into production.In its Oct. 1 announcement, the company identified Roughrider Coin, an interbank payment token overseen by the Bank of North Dakota (BND), as the platform’s first live use case.Participating institutions will access it through Commercial Center, Fiserv’s online banking system already used for traditional interbank transfers. BND says initiation, approval, and settlement will run through the same operational channels banks use for ACH and wires, allowing staff to work through familiar banking systems.Fiserv says more than…
NEAR Intents lost about US$3.8 million (AU$5.5 million) on Thursday when an attacker exploited a bug between its Omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure and its smart contract. The flaw was patched within an hour, but the platform’s status page still showed open incidents on 11 networks at midday Friday AEST. General manager Alex Shevchenko gave the attacker 48 hours to return the funds, days after the platform blocked money linked to the Bitget hack. NEAR Intents halted its cross-chain trading service on Thursday after an attacker drained about US$3.8 million (AU$5.5 million) through a bug in its Omni deposit and…
Electrum’s latest security update fixes a Lightning backup defect, but some Bitcoin wallet users still need to replace saved backups.Older backups from wallets with non-deterministic Lightning keys lack information needed to reclaim funds from anchor channels, a Lightning channel type, after a remote close.Version 4.8.2, dated Sept. 11, remains the latest release listed on Electrum’s official website as of Oct. 1.The individual-backup fix adds payment-key information needed to claim the user’s balance from an anchor channel closed by the peer. Without that information, an affected backup lacks the key needed to sweep the output, meaning claim the coins on the…
A trader can get a better Solana (SOL) swap price while a passive pool depositor remains exposed to traders picking off stale quotes, and a Sept. 29 preprint measures that divide.For quiet-market SOL/USDC fills, propAMMs, pools controlled by professional operators, had a reference-relative execution cost proxy of 0.26 basis points versus 2.59 for public automated market makers (AMMs).The study covers Sept. 1, 2025, through Aug. 31, 2026, with shorter Base and Monad samples. It weights fills by notional against Bybit’s size-weighted top-of-book USDT microprice, converted with its USDC/USDT midpoint. Its authors list ETH Zurich and Category Labs affiliations.A swapper wants…