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The U.S. policy debate over how digital assets are classified and regulated, including which agencies oversee crypto trading, issuance, and stablecoins.
CoreWeave, Broadcom and Cerebras have each objected to OKXICE trading tokenized versions of their shares, on a venue that treats 30 days of silence as consent. Davis Polk says a company can object only to a venue that sends it a notice. Each no covers one platform.
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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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Wallets publicly attributed to exchanges added 83.94 million XRP over Oct. 13-15, taking the tracked total to 22.06 billion, CryptoSlate reported. The 0.38% rise raises a supply question, though balance data alone cannot show that anyone is selling.
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Tokenized US stocks took 99.3% of non-US onchain trading volume in a 30-day period, a total of $14.4 billion, cryptobriefing.com reported. Against an estimated market cap of $3 billion to $4.8 billion, the whole market changed hands three to nearly five times.
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Bitcoin bounced from an $80,308 low to about $83,770 on Oct. 11, stalling just under $84,000 resistance. CryptoSlate, citing Checkonchain, puts the largest holder cost-basis cluster at $84,000 to $85,000, with support at $77,000 to $79,000 if the breakout fails.
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Net outflows from U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs reached $681 million last week, according to SoSoValue, their highest since June. Small tokens rallied through it, and CoinDesk research says their order books are still thinning.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $729.0 million of net outflows on October 7 and 8, and Bitcoin now trades near $84,234. The $87,000 ceiling formed while the funds were still net buyers, so the outflows fit the dip better than the cap.
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CFTC staff let U.S. exchanges remove expiry dates from perpetual-style index futures on October 3, with five days' notice to holders of open positions. Contracts on other assets are excluded, so this is a narrow step toward bringing onshore a product that has mostly traded offshore.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in about $2.39 billion in their biggest week in a year while Coinbase priced Bitcoin below global venues for 29 straight days. The split means weekly fund flows were a poor guide to who was buying spot Bitcoin in September.
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Trump is expected to join crypto, prediction market and AI executives on the 19th, with CME, Nasdaq, ICE and DTCC also invited. The CFTC's new advisory committee meets the next day.
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The procedural motion failed 49 to 50, and with only 53 Republicans in the chamber leadership needs seven votes from a Democratic caucus that supplied none. The negotiations broke down over a divestment trigger.
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Cloture failed with 49 of the 60 votes needed. The two-agency perimeter the industry spent hundreds of millions to buy now falls to whatever the SEC and CFTC write on their own. Atkins still wants a statute.
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The Senate's 49-50 cloture vote leaves the question of when a token is a security inside SEC and CFTC rulemaking. Institutions weighing capital commitments now underwrite rules a future agency can rewrite.
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Ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote the White House is answering bank lobbyists with a scenario tool, while Fairshake's $30 million to Democrats is already spent and Republicans including John Cornyn weigh a no.
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Open interest reached $14.669bn while builder-deployed HIP-3 markets shrank by about $200m, so core perps added roughly $4bn in a month, and core routes about 99 per cent of its fees into HYPE buybacks.
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Two months past the July 1 cutoff, the exchange with more than 45% of global spot volume still holds no MiCA licence. The visible regulatory step so far: ESMA asking for confirmation that the wind-down is real.
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The aggregate says buybacks buy nothing, which is true of the median program and false of the two protocols that are almost all of the spending, one of them up 145% in a market down 11.9%.
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Five former SEC and CFTC officials told the agencies that miscalibrated rules keep pushing perpetual futures offshore, and they filed the argument while Congress is on recess and the definitions are still being drafted.
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Eight sessions of net buying is the strongest evidence yet that the bid is institutional, but daily size has fallen 62% from the peak and 72% of the money came from a single fund.
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One price level separates a paper loss from a paper profit at Michael Saylor's company. The cushion on 840,447 coins works out to $3,015 each.
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