El Salvador gets $138M after IMF waives Bitcoin rule breach
IMF approved about $138M for El Salvador after waiving a Bitcoin accumulation breach and urged the government to reduce its crypto role....
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QNT gets 50x OKX futures after 178% weekly rally
OKX launched QNT perpetual futures with up to 50x leverage as Quant trades near $249 after a 178% weekly surge and 16% daily pullback....
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African businesses turn to stablecoins to cut payment delays, Kora CEO says
African businesses have increasingly turned to stablecoins over the past five years to address cross-border payment delays, dollar access, and settlement costs, according to Kora CEO Dickson Nsofor. Dickson Nsofor, CEO of pan-African payment infrastructure platform Kora, told crypto.news that…...
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Fed’s Jefferson signals patience as October rate hike odds fall to 23%
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson has signaled that officials may need more time before changing rates again, as Polymarket odds cited in the latest report have fallen to 23% for an October hike from about 70% last week. The…...
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Circle urges MiCA changes as only 3 of top 30 stablecoins comply
Circle has urged EU policymakers to revise MiCA’s stablecoin issuance and reserve rules after its EU policy director said only three of the world’s 30 largest stablecoins comply with the framework. Circle, in its Oct. 1 policy submission, called for…...
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Drift opens DFX recovery claims with initial payouts near 1% of losses
The Drift Foundation has opened DFX recovery claims and redemptions for victims of its April 1 exploit, with roughly 3.11 million USDT available and initial payouts near 1% of verified losses. The Drift Foundation announced on Oct. 1 that affected…...
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CLARITY Act could allow 11 crypto activities for US banks
The Congressional Research Service has identified 11 categories of crypto activities that the Senate-reported CLARITY Act would permit for U.S. banking organizations and credit unions, including digital asset underwriting and dealing. The Congressional Research Service published its analysis, “Crypto and…...
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Pump.fun price prediction: Can PUMP break $0.006 and reach $0.0074?
Pump.fun price has recovered toward $0.00584 after an intraday drop to $0.005383 on Oct. 1, putting the $0.006 resistance level back in focus as traders watch whether PUMP can extend its late-September rally. TradingView’s Binance daily chart placed PUMP at…...
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TRUMP memecoin launches dinner contest for top 185 holders as token falls 97%
TRUMP memecoin’s organizers have opened a contest offering 185 holders seats at a Nov. 22 dinner featuring President Donald Trump, with the token trading around $2.04 on Oct. 1, roughly 97% below its peak. Fight Fight Fight LLC, the company…...
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NEAR Intents resumes service after $3.8M exploit, pledges full compensation
NEAR Intents has resumed service after a $3.8 million exploit affecting USDT on BSC, with co-founder Illia Polosukhin promising full compensation for affected users. NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin said on Oct. 1 that the team had restored NEAR Intents and…...
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5 ways SHR Miner makes passive cryptocurrency wealth accumulation easier
Passive cryptocurrency income often comes with certain pitfalls. You may need to purchase hardware, lock up your cryptocurrency, or pay various steep upfront costs before seeing any returns. Even if someone else handles the technical aspects, significant upfront capital is…...
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NEAR price outlook: Can $4.69 support absorb the Intents selloff?
NEAR price fell below $5 on Oct. 1 following a reported $3.8 million exploit involving NEAR Intents, with the token trading near $4.94 as its recent rally met a sharp pullback. NEAR Intents said the incident involved a bug in…...
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Bitcoin’s October outlook hinges on $82K support, analysts say
Bitcoin has surrendered a post-inflation rally above $85,500 to trade around $83,500, according to ViaBTC’s Jeff Ko, as analysts have identified $82,000 as the key support level entering October. Jeff Ko, chief analyst at ViaBTC, and Lacie Zhang, research lead…...
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Illinois agrees to delay 0.2% crypto tax until July 2027
Illinois has agreed to seek a six-month delay to its 0.2% crypto transaction tax, moving the proposed enforcement date from Jan. 1 to July 1, 2027, according to an agreed court motion. The joint court motion asks for a preliminary…...
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Hyperliquid price outlook: Can HYPE break resistance as HPC seeks EU clarity?
Hyperliquid’s HYPE traded near $88.45 on Oct. 1, down 2.74% on the daily chart, as Hyperliquid Policy Center pressed European regulators to classify perpetual futures under existing derivatives rules. The token remained below its recent $97.88 peak, with the 4-hour…...
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XRP price tests $1.48 support as Evernorth’s 473M XRP deal advances
XRP price has slipped below $1.50 to trade near $1.48 as Evernorth’s proposed 473 million XRP treasury deal has cleared a shareholder vote, with the token holding just above its daily 20-day moving average. TradingView’s Binance XRP/USDT daily chart showed…...
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Bitcoin holders in Netherlands could face tax on unrealized gains from 2028
The Netherlands has moved closer to taxing unrealized cryptocurrency gains from 2028 as part of an overhaul of its Box 3 system, although a new government proposal could eventually move crypto to taxation at the point of sale. According to…...
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Ghana crypto market hits $21B, fifth in sub-Saharan Africa
Ghana’s crypto market handles about $21B a year, ranking fifth in sub-Saharan Africa as stablecoin use grows and new rules take shape....
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Bitcoin to $113,000? Citi raises forecast as ETF demand returns
Citigroup has raised its 12 month Bitcoin forecast to $113,000 and its Ether target to $3,028 as ETF inflows return and crypto markets recover from their midyear slump. According to Reuters, Citi lifted its Bitcoin estimate from $82,000 and raised…...
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PERPTools raises $8M with NEAR, Animoca Brands joining seed round
PERPTools has raised $8 million across two token funding rounds after its perpetual trading platform recorded $240 million in volume during private beta testing. According to an announcement shared with crypto.news, the team behind DEXTools raised $3 million in a…...
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Tokenized assets hit $34B as investors favor single stocks
Dune finds tokenized assets now exceed $34B, while single stocks dominate onchain equity holdings and equities lead spot trading....
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Chainalysis still faces Celsius case over $3.3B ‘audit’
Chainalysis defeated 15 Celsius claims, but a judge kept alive an aiding-and-abetting case tied to a disputed $3.3B asset “audit.”...
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Why is Midnight price up 22%?
Midnight price rose over 22% as privacy interest grew, with NIGHT now testing $0.045 after an 84% weekly rally and stronger momentum....
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CLARITY Act moves from the Senate floor to the campaign trail
Stand With Crypto endorsed its first three Senate candidates on September 30, two weeks after the CLARITY Act failed to clear a procedural vote. The three races do not map neatly onto three new votes for the bill. One endorsed…...
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The CFTC has sent prediction market rules to the White House. States are still in court
Two CFTC event-contract actions reached White House review on September 28. One would define swaps to include event contracts. The other, labeled an interim final rule, would exclude casino-style gambling products. Five days earlier, a federal appeals court held that…...
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Crypto loses $768M in worst hack month of 2026
Crypto hacks caused more than $766M in September, led by Bitget and Liquid, making it the worst month of 2026 for security losses....
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Why is Stacks price up 20% as Muneeb Ali becomes CEO?
Stacks price jumped over 20% as Muneeb Ali became Stacks Labs CEO, while Bitcoin staking expands toward a 500 BTC bonding round....
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Base Cobalt upgrade puts new controls inside tokenized assets
Base activated Cobalt on September 30. For issuers of its B20 tokens, the fork adds a way to schedule balance multipliers, seize balances with a record and combine transfer policies. None of that makes a tokenized asset a share in…...
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Coins.ph users can’t add money from banks after BSP order
Coins.ph users cannot add pesos through InstaPay or PESONet after BSP restricted DCPay’s inbound transfers, while cash-outs remain operational....
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Can XRP price break $1.54 after Ripple’s 1B unlock?
XRP trades near $1.50 after Ripple unlocks 1B XRP, while ETF inflows, Brazil adoption and XRPL upgrades put $1.54 in focus....
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What changes for Bitbank after SBI completes its takeover?
SBI Holdings has completed its takeover of Bitbank, making the Japanese crypto exchange a wholly owned subsidiary after the final share transactions were carried out on Oct. 1. According to Bitbank’s announcement on Wednesday, the exchange completed the repurchase of…...
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MetaMask is exiting validators. Where does the staked ETH go next?
MetaMask has started taking affected Ethereum validators offline after disclosing a security incident in part of its infrastructure. The company says client withdrawal keys are outside its control. That distinction matters, but it does not make the transition instantaneous: an…...
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Seven TRON addresses sanctioned over alleged Tren de Aragua ATM attacks
TRON has been pulled into another U.S. sanctions action after the Treasury Department added seven addresses on the network to its sanctions list over an alleged ATM jackpotting operation tied to Tren de Aragua. According to TRM Labs, the seven…...
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India beats Singapore and Australia in centralized crypto exchange inflows
India has remained Central and Southeast Asia and Oceania’s largest market for centralized crypto exchange inflows, receiving $88.4 billion through CEXs even as its overall crypto economy contracted 14.7% during the latest reporting period. According to Chainalysis, India recorded $135…...
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South Korea to let stocks, bonds and funds go onchain
South Korea proposes rules for tokenized stocks, bonds and funds, with a 100M won OTC limit ahead of the Feb. 4, 2027 rollout....
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Could Japan trigger another yen carry trade shock for Bitcoin?
The Japanese yen has fallen past 158 against the dollar after traders cut expectations for another Bank of Japan rate hike this month, keeping yen funded carry trades attractive for now while raising the risk of another abrupt reversal that…...
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Zcash price holds $1,400 as holders approve $8.4M grants
Zcash holders approved $8.39M in retroactive grants, including $1.5M tied to the Orchard bug, as ZEC trades near $1,400....
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Lloyds uses USDC to settle $750,000 with Visa in under an hour
Lloyds Banking Group and Visa have completed a seven day live stablecoin pilot that settled $750,000 in cross border payment obligations, with funds reaching Visa in under an hour even during the weekend. According to Lloyds Banking Group, the trial…...
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Ethereum price outlook as Joseph Lubin linked wallet moves 133,298 ETH
Ethereum price held above $2,700 on Oct. 1 as a wallet linked to Ethereum co founder Joseph Lubin moved 133,298 ETH, raising questions over whether the large transfer could eventually add selling pressure to the market. Onchain tracker Lookonchain reported…...
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Bybit users hold more Bitcoin and Ethereum as USDT drops 11%
Bybit’s 40th proof-of-reserves report shows $19.6B in covered assets, with BTC and ETH user balances up while USDT fell 11.46%....
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Can Binance keep serving EU customers without a MiCA license?
Binance is facing scrutiny from European regulators over its use of a MiCA exemption to continue serving some EU customers after entering July without authorization to operate across the bloc. According to a Financial Times report on Oct. 1, the…...
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MetaMask exits staking validators amid security probe
MetaMask is exiting affected Ethereum validators after an infrastructure security incident, while saying wallets face no immediate threat....
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Chainlink powers data for new Open USD stablecoin
Open USD is live on four blockchains with Chainlink as an official data oracle and more than $1 billion in launch liquidity....
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Bitcoin to $1 million by 2030? Arthur Hayes outlines AI credit risks
Arthur Hayes has reiterated his forecast that Bitcoin could reach $1 million by 2030, linking a potential acceleration in late 2027 or early 2028 to stress in debt-funded artificial intelligence infrastructure. Walter Bloomberg, the financial news account on X, reported…...
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Goldman Sachs shifts second Fed hike forecast to December
Goldman Sachs has delayed its forecast for a second Federal Reserve rate hike from October to December after August core PCE inflation came in near 3%, below expectations. Goldman Sachs has revised its rate forecast following the September 30 inflation…...
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Midnight price targets June resistance after 17% surge
Midnight’s NIGHT token has climbed 17.73% to $0.03812, breaking above its rising daily channel as traders assess Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson’s forecast that the privacy-focused network could eventually surpass Zcash. TradingView’s Binance NIGHT/USDT daily chart placed the token at $0.03812…...
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Bitcoin needs stronger spot demand after 42.5% Q3 rally, Bitfinex says
Bitcoin has gained about 42.5% heading into the end of Q3, but Bitfinex analysts have warned that another sustained advance will require stronger spot buying as leverage falls and ETF inflows slow. Bitfinex Alpha reported on Sep. 30 that Bitcoin’s…...
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Petrobras tests Cardano to track low-carbon aviation fuel and diesel
Petrobras has developed two research-stage applications with the Cardano Foundation and PUC-Rio to track environmental claims for sustainable aviation fuel and lifecycle data for its renewable-content Diesel R. The Cardano Foundation announced the projects on Sep. 30, describing applications developed…...
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XRP rebounds past $1.50 as Evernorth merger vote reportedly passes
XRP has recovered above $1.50 after falling below $1.47 on Sep. 30, as a reported shareholder vote in favor of Evernorth’s merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II has advanced the Ripple-backed company’s planned Nasdaq listing. XRP traded around $1.51, up…...
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DogeOS opens public testnet with DOGE fees and EVM smart contracts
DogeOS has opened its public testnet on Sep. 30, bringing an EVM-compatible application layer to Dogecoin with DOGE as its native transaction-fee token, following a $6.9 million funding round announced in May 2025. According to reports, DogeOS operates as a…...
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