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USDT is the largest stablecoin by market cap, issued by Tether and pegged 1:1 to the US dollar; widely used for crypto trading and payments.
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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EBA has classified Circle's USDC as a significant e-money token under MiCA, with joint EBA and ACPR supervision from November 12. The EBA takes direct responsibility for Circle's own funds, reserves, liquidity and redemption plans.
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CryptoQuant says about $345 million of Binance ETH longs were liquidated on Oct 8-9, with funding rates near zero. It still rates conditions neutral because Binance USDT reserves fell 2.3% and the Coinbase Premium is not yet rising.
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Russia's central bank says its digital currency law bars transfers to non-custodial wallets and allows peer-to-peer crypto trades only until July 1, 2027. Licensed intermediaries, Sberbank among them, will handle everything after that.
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Qivalis, a consortium backed by 37 European banks, received a Dutch e-money institution licence and plans to issue a euro stablecoin in the coming months. It must still publish a MiCA white paper before it can issue.
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A7A5 stablecoin transfers fell to 14 a day on Tron and 18 on Ethereum after Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers. Elliptic's Tom Robinson ties the two, though the issuer's own explanation so far is technical problems.
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Russia's A7 will settle foreign invoices in USDT for a flat 0.3% fee, with recipients paid by SWIFT, 11 days after US sanctions on its network. It is aimed at businesses in international trade, the segment where US authorities say the network moved restricted payments.
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Binance's ETHUSDT open interest rose 2.27% in ether from Oct. 6 to Oct. 8 while its USDT value fell 6.58%, CryptoSlate reported. Ether's implied per-coin valuation fell almost twice as far as bitcoin's, so its book lost more dollar value while holding more coins.
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Visa and Mastercard took equal stakes with Coinbase, Stripe and Shopify in OUSD, a stablecoin the five founders back with over $1 billion. Its zero fees cover minting and redemption only, and the networks also back rival stablecoins, so the stake is one bet among several.
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Wallets tied to the US government moved 12,267 seized Bitfinex bitcoin, worth about $1 billion, to new unlabeled addresses. No exchange deposit was recorded, CoinDesk reported. Whether Washington is selling turns on the smaller sums it sent to Coinbase Prime.
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US government wallets moved about $470 million of seized Bitfinex- and Alameda-linked crypto to likely Coinbase Prime addresses, Arkham said. Trump's reserve order lets officials repay victims from seized coins, so even a sale of this pool would say little about the pledge to keep reserve bitcoin.
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US Senate investigators have named tether a key source of liquidity for Iran's shadow banking network in a new subcommittee report. A Septten lawyer says Gulf merchants paid in local currency stay exposed, though licensed exchanges carry most of the screening work.
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Bitcoin open interest rose $1.5 billion to $22.4 billion as the price climbed 3.4% past $86,000 before a US jobs report forecast at 90,000. Funding costs show the leverage plainly, but the claim that traders are leaving stablecoins rests on a market-share figure that any rally pushes down.
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Bitget customers pulled about $463 million in the first 24 hours after withdrawals reopened, more than the $388 million hackers stole on September 24. The protection fund covers the theft with about $76 million to spare, so the withdrawals now test whether the $5.7 billion left in reserves matches what Bitget owes customers.
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Binance Pay opened USDT spending at PayPay merchants across Japan to about 48 million eligible overseas users, with TBCASoft's HIVEX settling stores in yen. Shops see an ordinary PayPay sale, so volume depends on how many of those users actually travel to Japan.
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Sber says it will take USDT and Ether as loan collateral once the Bank of Russia permits public trading, which means the menu is set by the listing tests the central bank published on 11 August, not by the bank's appetite.
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Lee Hyoung-il told the National Assembly that virtual assets belong in the other-income category and that the National Tax Service will publish the operative rules by the end of this year, while capital gains taxation of securities waits for calmer markets.
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Binance bought $100 million of Circle stock and signed to promote USDC through September 2031. Customer USDC balances on the exchange are up fivefold at $7.13 billion; the USDT balance is up $10.9 billion.
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Binance paid $100 million for 1,237,011 Circle shares and signed a five-year USDC agreement whose incentive fee is a percentage of balances held in Circle's wallet product. The filing does not disclose the percentage.
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Ivan Chebeskov's 3.7 trillion ruble estimate covers coins and products linked to them, and the same ministry says at least 10 million wallets belonging to Russian citizens sit on foreign exchanges it wants back.
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