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OKX Pleaded Guilty to Running an Illegal Money Business in the US. Now Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered Are Buying In
In February 2025 OKX admitted to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and paid $504M. On October 6, 2026, Circle, Ripple, QRT and Standard Chartered's SC Ventures invested at a $25B pre-money valuation, the same price ICE paid in March. The round size wasn't disclosed, and OKX is still paying for a DOJ-required compliance consultant until February 2027.
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The SEC Just Told Fund Managers They Can Hold Your Crypto Keys Themselves. The Catch: Every Quarter They Have to Write Down That Nobody Else Will
On October 1 the SEC proposed a crypto custody framework for investment advisers and regulated funds. Advisers could self-custody client crypto if they document, before they start and every quarter after, that no permitted custodian will hold the asset. Transfers need two people to sign off, every client gets a separate address, and state-chartered trust companies become qualified custodians. Three years ago the Gensler-era SEC proposed a custody rule that would have pushed advisers toward banks and broker-dealers. It was withdrawn in June 2025. The new one landed a day before the commission shrinks to two members.
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Two Weeks After Its Engineers Were Charged Over HYPE Perps, Robinhood Says It Will Sell HYPE Perps to Every American
At its HOOD Summit, Robinhood said US users will get perpetual futures on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK and HYPE within months: 10x leverage on BTC and ETH, 3x on the rest, 0.01% per trade through year-end, run through Bitstamp. It also announced 24/7 stock trading via Bruce Markets and AI agents that trade for you. On the same day, House Oversight sent Hyperliquid a letter about insider trading.
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Hackers Took $351.6M From Bitget Without Stealing a Single Private Key. They Forged the Transfer Orders and Bitget's Own Signing Machines Approved Them
At 18:31 UTC on September 24, Bitget detected unauthorized transfers from its hot and warm wallets. The final count was $351.6 million, the biggest crypto hack of 2026 so far. The CEO says no private keys leaked. The attackers got into a third-party tool Bitget uses every day, forged transfer instructions, and let Bitget's own signing system approve them. It's the same basic approach as the $1.5B Bybit heist. Here's what was taken, where it went, and why it matters for anyone working in exchange security.
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BitMEX Invented the 100x Perpetual Swap, Beat a Criminal Case With a Presidential Pardon, Then Lost to the Product It Created. Leave Money There Now and It Costs You $50 a Month
BitMEX stopped trading on September 23 at 04:00 UTC, 11 years after launch. It invented the perpetual swap in 2016 and once handled about 57% of all crypto derivatives trading. Perps did $61.7 trillion in volume in 2025, and almost none of it went through BitMEX. The company says it never lost user funds to a hack, but it still owes something: the Celsius estate filed a $490 million lawsuit over 2020 liquidations eleven days before the shutdown. Here's what happened, what users need to do before the fees start, and what it means if you work in derivatives.
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The Senate Needed 60 Votes to Give Crypto a Rulebook and Got 49. The CFTC Needed Zero, and Just Filed One With the White House.
Two days after CLARITY died 49-50, the CFTC quietly submitted 'Regulation of Crypto Asset Transactions and Crypto Asset Markets' to the White House regulatory office. The text is secret, but Chair Mike Selig already told us the plan: let unregistered crypto exchanges become CFTC-designated markets and offer leveraged spot trading to US retail under 'purpose-fit rules.' Selig on X: 'The CFTC is locked in and ready to ship.' The catch: a final rule may not land until late 2027, and the next commission can undo it.
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The Democrats Who Helped Write the CLARITY Act Just Voted to Kill It. 49-50. Crypto's Senate Bill Is Dead for 2026.
Seven Democrats spent a year negotiating the crypto market-structure bill. On Tuesday every one of them voted no, three Republicans joined them, and the cloture motion didn't even get a simple majority. Lummis: 'It's over.' Coinbase fell 8.65%, Polymarket odds of passage hit 7%, and the industry's hundreds of millions in lobbying bought a bill that never reached the floor.
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The Weekly Grind (Sep 7–Sep 14): FTX Creditors Get 120% Back, AI Slashes Bitcoin Crack Costs
FTX creditors recoup more than expected; AI cuts Bitcoin crack costs by 86%. Big week for crypto.
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Trump Made $1.4 Billion on Crypto Last Year. Republicans Just Sent Democrats a 'Final Offer' That Makes Him Give Up Control of It.
Sunday night, 635 pages, and a GOP aide calling it 'a final offer on the bill.' The new CLARITY Act text says federal officials, judges and their spouses must divest crypto or park it in a blind trust, and lets state attorneys general enforce it. Democrats have until 2:15 p.m. Tuesday to say whether that's enough. Nine of them need to say yes.
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Someone Emailed Revolut From a Real Government Domain. Revolut Sent Back Passports and Bitcoin Histories.
No malware. No exploit. A fraudulent data request from a genuine government agency mailbox passed Revolut's checks, and the bank handed over ID scans, selfies, IBANs and full Bitcoin transaction records for a 'limited' set of customers. ZachXBT says it looks targeted at whales. Mark Karpelès says he got the notification.
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FTX Creditors Got Up to 120% of Their Money Back. SBF Just Told the Supreme Court That's Why He's Innocent.
Sam Bankman-Fried's cert petition argues FTX was 'temporarily illiquid,' not fraudulent — and that the jury never got to hear customers would be made whole. He's also calling the $11 billion forfeiture an unconstitutional excessive fine. The Court grants about 1% of petitions.
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They Pointed AI Agents at Bitcoin's Encryption. Eight Weeks Later, Cracking It Got 86% Cheaper.
100+ researchers from the Ethereum Foundation, StarkWare and Trail of Bits ran an open bounty where AI coding agents ground down the quantum circuit that breaks secp256k1. The score fell from 10.75 billion to 1.5 billion — below Google's benchmark. The paper hit arXiv yesterday.
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A Bug Printed Bitcoin Out of Thin Air — and Liquid's Federation Wired Out $320M in Real BTC
Someone submitted 4,000 L-BTC that was never backed by anything. Twenty-three minutes later the Liquid Federation released 3,996 real Bitcoin. Then the recipient carved 'we are whitehats' into the blockchain and asked for a patch.
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The Weekly Grind (Sep 3–Sep 4): $1.32B Stolen and AI's Crypto Threat
AI threatens crypto; $1.32B stolen in hacks. 7,254 jobs cut, yet security roles soar.
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AI Is Coming for Your Crypto Job — And It Might Break Bitcoin Too
OpenAI's Astra, exploding compute demand, and quantum threats to encryption. The AI revolution isn't just taking jobs — it could unravel the foundations of crypto itself.
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Bitcoin ETFs Had Their Worst Month of 2026, Then Pulled In $626M in Three Days
July was the ugliest stretch for spot Bitcoin ETF flows all year. Then August flipped it. The whipsaw says something specific about who is actually buying — and it isn't retail.
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$1.32 Billion Stolen in Six Months and the Contracts Weren't the Problem
2026 is on pace to be the costliest year for crypto theft on record. Look at where the money actually left from and a pattern shows up that should terrify anyone still auditing only Solidity.
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You Did Everything Right and Lost It Anyway: The $116M Coldcard Hack
Air-gapped. Cold storage. Seed on steel. And 1,816 BTC walked out the door anyway — because the device stopped rolling real dice in March 2021 and nobody noticed for five years.
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Ledger Is Getting Sued for $500M — and Not a Single Private Key Was Hacked
A new class action claims Ledger's leaked customer list is still draining wallets years later. The device worked perfectly. The spreadsheet with your name and address is what got people robbed.
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The Weekly Grind (Jul 7–Jul 9): SEC's $75M Crypto Free Pass & $450M Liquidation Frenzy
SEC drops $75M crypto safe harbor; Trump triggers $450M in liquidations. Rust devs eye $300K in 2026 salaries.