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Crypto.com is a global cryptocurrency exchange offering trading, payment cards, and other digital-asset financial services to retail and institutional users.
Blockchain.com has applied to the CFTC for futures exchange and broker licences, one of 12 applicants this year against six approvals. Established venues such as Crypto.com and Gemini would gain another US rival.
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Binance released its free AI market assistant to all English-speaking users on October 12, after a company-reported beta of about 150,000 testers. The coverage names one rival, Crypto.com. It reports no results for either product.
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Solidroad is dropping the support-QA product it raised a $25 million Series A to build, after QA took about 90% of the company's effort. The startup is betting that its training simulations can carry the business on their own.
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Judge Edward Chen dismissed a cookie-tracking class action against Crypto.com operator Foris DAX, finding the users lacked Article III standing. Under the circuit law he applied, plaintiffs have to show trackers took sensitive data before an ignored cookie banner counts as harm.
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Crypto card spending rose 33% to $4.31 billion in the third quarter, Cryptopolitan reported. The outlet credits USDC with the growth, though its own September figures suggest the two big stablecoins paid for under half of that spending.
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CFTC proposed two crypto rules creating a narrower exchange license for leveraged, margined and financed trades, open to comment for 60 days. Plain spot trading falls outside the CFTC's authority, and officials say they cannot yet size that leftover market.
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Green Dot Bank will bar unverified Apple Cash users from reloading balances starting Nov. 9 and is keeping its 2024 ban on crypto transactions. Any crypto opening in Apple's wallet would have to come through its bank partners, and the banks behind both Apple Cash and Apple Card are changing.
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CFTC sent the White House two rules on Sept. 28 that would define event contracts as swaps and carve out casino-style gambling products. The agency is trying to settle by rule a state-federal fight that has split appeals courts and now sits before the Supreme Court.
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Kalshi lost its Tennessee injunction at the Sixth Circuit, putting states ahead 2-1 in appeals courts over its sports contracts. New York's suit against Polymarket prices a loss at the alleged gains plus a penalty three times as large.
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OG.com Markets asked the CFTC to approve cash-settled perpetual futures on single US stocks, trading 24 hours a day on weekdays at a 15.05% minimum margin. At about 6 times leverage they would sell the trade margin accounts now offer, so brokers will pick the winning venue.
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A unanimous panel decided that Kalshi's contracts on who wins a game are likely bets rather than swaps, which turns one federal registration back into a fifty-state licensing problem for the exchange.
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An attacker pumped TONIC roughly 100x in twenty minutes and borrowed against it, which is the 2022 Mango playbook run again, and the only reason most of the money stayed reachable is a validator cap of 100.
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BlackRock's fund is back at roughly $2.8bn, but the pool it leads has grown to $15bn to $16bn. A share that once ran 40% to 46% is now closer to 18%. The title has changed hands twice inside a year.
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A 20-minute push on TONIC's price bought the attacker $74 million in borrows against it, but only about $6 million reached Ethereum before Cronos stopped producing blocks and rewound its own state.
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Vlad Tenev told Jim Cramer that crypto-linked contracts already take a disproportionate share of Robinhood's event-contract volume, and the $156 million the segment billed in the second quarter works out to about 1.1 cents a contract.
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BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain took 88.2% of tracked tokenized-stock volume in September to date, up from 2.3% in June. The surge coincided with a zero-maker-fee campaign on Binance and Robinhood's Stock Tokens launch, so the test comes when maker fees return.
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The value was never published, so the only checkable numbers are Circle's: $73.3 billion of USDC in circulation, $14.8 trillion moved in a quarter, and one UK e-money permission a club's compliance file can read.
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Event contracts brought in $156m last quarter on 13.6 billion tickets, which is the arithmetic behind Robinhood buying equity in a contract supplier as well as listing its markets. OG.com's contracts go live on September 8.
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The brokerage takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com at Citadel Securities' $20bn and $5bn marks, and in exchange gets a fourth CFTC-regulated venue to route event contracts through without owning one.
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Robinhood is paying Citadel's July price for an undisclosed minority slice of the venue that will clear volume Robinhood can move at will, which makes OG.com a fourth supplier rather than an owned engine.
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