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MoonPay is a crypto payments infrastructure company enabling fiat-to-crypto transactions, serving over 35 million accounts and institutional partners.
Former CFTC acting chair Caroline Pham says the Commodity Exchange Act already gives the agency extensive crypto authority after its October 5 proposal. The CLARITY Act failed to advance in September, so regulators are left with existing powers while lawmakers weigh more legislation.
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Tonkeeper is now Keeper and supports seven networks, according to a dev.to post that treats key derivation as the main migration risk. The post argues a wallet UI can simplify steps but cannot remove blockchain boundaries.
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Franklin Templeton, a $1.79 trillion manager, asked SEC crypto staff on Oct. 9 whether exemptions could let tokenized money funds and ETFs trade in blockchain pools. Its questions concern the 1940 Act's rules on fund pricing and pooled assets, which sit outside the SEC's Sept. 17 relief for blockchain venues.
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Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson called rival tokenized funds "digital twins" at TOKEN2049, pricing BENJI transactions at $1.13 against roughly $150. Her January earnings call gave different numbers, so where a fund keeps its ownership record is the firmer test.
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MoonPay is pursuing stablecoin, remittance and payments work with KB Financial, Woori Bank and KakaoBank after opening a Korean entity in September. Its one-vendor pitch faces three other global entrants and four Korean firms, most of them selling banks a single layer of the stack.
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MoonPay's first public distribution of a tokenized fund attaches its 35 million accounts to WTGXX, a money market fund charging 0.25% on assets reported at somewhere between $765 million and $1.22 billion.
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CFTC Chair Mike Selig says his agency will write crypto rules under existing law, with two prerules already filed at the White House. Decrypt's newsletter argues the agency can reach leveraged products such as perpetual futures, while spot trading still needs Congress.
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The CFTC sent a crypto rulemaking to the White House the same day, both agencies working from authority they already hold. A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is arguing the states should keep theirs.
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QED led the round and MUFG joined as one of four new investors. Under Trust Fabric, a human reviewer has to approve a finding before later investigations can reuse it.
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PayBox stays non-custodial, so nobody else is holding the money; what is new is that one sentence can open a leveraged position on a $1.3bn protocol, and the plugin is barred in the US, UK, EU and Australia.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and MoonPay account for a sliver of the 500-plus peer acquisitions Crunchbase counts. The volume is coming from companies that cannot raise.
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