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Borderless.xyz says a $200 stablecoin-funded remittance costs a median $2 against $12.72 on the World Bank's average, an 84% saving. Payout completion runs from 73% in Costa Rica to 98.6% in Mexico, so a sender comparing fees also has to compare whether the money arrives.
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Pi Network says it has more than 300 Mainnet apps, 18.1 million KYC-verified users and 420,000 nodes, but it gave no app-level usage figures. The three numbers count different things, and none of them measures repeat use or payments in PI.
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Global Ledger counts $187.75 billion of high-risk exposure across 99 crypto exchanges from 2021 to 2025, in a report shared with crypto.news. Measured as a share of deposits, the ten biggest venues differ widely.
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Australia's Treasury released a draft bill on October 15 to write the OECD's crypto reporting framework into law, with comment open until October 28. Cross-border exchanges are planned for 2028, and the OECD counts 77 jurisdictions committed by 2029.
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StandX will close every remaining perpetual futures position at the mark price on January 15, 2027, after reduce-only mode starts October 20. The planned token is cancelled and replaced by a DUSD airdrop whose size StandX did not disclose.
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Crypto liquidations of $811 million cut open interest by only about 2%, to $140.9 billion, Bitget Research said before the US CPI release. Analysts quoted by crypto.news say a hot reading could force more selling and a soft one could squeeze shorts.
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Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said on October 14 that public trade data makes insider trading easy to catch, citing a case that drew about 100 complaints. The CFTC order against Santos was for manipulation, and New Jersey has asked the Supreme Court to review state authority over the contracts.
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Exchanges closed $483 million of bitcoin and ether futures over 24 hours as bitcoin fell below $81,000. CoinGlass data in two reports agree on the total, but only crypto.news ties it to the 3.7% September CPI and an 8% Kospi drop.
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Wirex CEO Pavel Matveev says foreign-exchange savings of up to 2% keep stablecoin card users spending longer than cashback does. The saving applies only to cross-border purchases, and the usage figures offered for it are averages from the issuer selling the card.
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Metaplanet spent about 19.31 billion yen on 73,981,400 of its own shares on October 14 while arranging a 52 billion yen convertible. Full conversion would issue about 153 million shares, roughly twice the count retired.
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US spot Ether ETFs recorded $542.2 million of net outflows in the week to October 9 as ETH stalled near $2,500, crypto.news reported. Resistance levels and continued BitMine buying sit in the same report, so the flows alone do not explain the stall.
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Pi Network set an October 13 node deadline for Protocol 28 and scheduled Mainnet activation for October 16. crypto.news reported that Pi has not published a node compliance count or an application usage result, so readiness cannot be checked from outside.
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Solana fell 9.34% in seven days to about $107 before its October 21 Alpenglow upgrade, according to crypto.news. The one ETF flow it cites, $1.04 million on October 13, is about 0.0017% of market capitalization.
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Hyperliquid's Assistance Fund has bought more than 48 million HYPE for $1.36 billion, yet the token fell nearly 5% to about $81.20 on Oct. 13. One down day cannot show whether the buying is enough, because only a cumulative total was reported.
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FSB's Oct. 12 note to the G20 proposes monitoring metrics and data coordination for a stablecoin market of about $300 billion. Issuers may not know where holders sit or where redemption demand will arise, so no single authority can observe it all.
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STX, the token of Bitcoin layer-2 project Stacks, has risen more than 50% in four weeks and outperformed bitcoin, CoinDesk reported. If the lock is set by value, a higher STX price means fewer tokens locked per bitcoin staked.
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DoubleZero added Binance spot and futures feeds to its Edge platform as the fifth venue in six months, the DoubleZero Foundation announced on Oct. 7. Co-founder Austin Federa's answer to the speed-advantage concern turns on the cost of a subscription, and crypto.news's report does not include a price.
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Truflation forecasts September US headline CPI at 3.6% and core at 2.4%, a tenth below the 3.7% and 2.5% consensus in its Oct. 9 report. The gap is wider on the monthly headline, 0.48% against 0.6%.
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US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $542.2 million of net outflows over Oct. 5-9, crypto.news reported, with ETH near $2,530. The report has flows for that week only, so a link to ETH stalling below resistance is inference.
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NEAR futures open interest rose 19.16% to $1.95 billion as the token neared $6, CoinGlass data cited by crypto.news showed. The contracts equal about 25.5% of the token's $7.65 billion market cap, though price alone explains much of the increase since August.
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