Summary: A joint advisory reveals that the North Korean hacking group WaterPlum infected 30,000 devices and stole $10.7 million by impersonating recruiters for legitimate AI and cryptocurrency firms.
Summary: Visa is closing a loophole allowing meme coin purchases to earn credit card rewards by misclassifying them as digital media, following a challenge from Chase.
Summary: Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad attributes the failed cloture vote on the Clarity Act to a $200 million bank campaign and timing issues, signaling a regulatory shift toward agency action.
Summary: Strategy CEO Phong Le stated the company aims to become the "JPMorgan of Bitcoin" by providing liquidity and market-making for a digital asset economy.
Summary: Anthropic selected Accenture as its initial embedded evaluator to implement CEO Dario Amodei’s proposal for slowing AI development through independent oversight.
Summary: Grayscale will execute a 3-for-1 forward share split for its Zcash ETF, aiming to lower the per-share price and improve accessibility for retail investors.
Summary: Stablecoin infrastructure provider Bastion received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust bank charter.
Summary: Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Group has joined Singapore-based payment company dtcpay as a strategic investor, completing the firm's $25 million Series A funding round.
Summary: Coinbase Derivatives filed with the CFTC to list perpetual futures tracking individual equities like Apple and Nvidia, aiming for a launch later this year.
Summary: Coinbase Derivatives filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to list single-stock perpetual futures, aiming to provide US traders 24/5 exposure to equities without owning shares.
Summary: The CFTC filed a prerule-stage regulatory action on Sept. 17, signaling agency-led oversight following the Senate's failure to advance the CLARITY Act.
Summary: Bitcoin rose nearly 6% to exceed $81,000 on Friday, defying the recent procedural block of the Clarity Act and a Federal Reserve interest rate hike.
Summary: The CFTC submitted a pre-rule on crypto asset transactions and markets to the White House's OIRA for review, signaling intent to regulate derivatives without waiting for Congress.
Summary: The Federal Reserve Board executed consent prohibition orders against former employees of Northstar Bank, American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and Regions Bank.
Summary: Traditional banks now account for nearly one-quarter of EU MiCA crypto providers after doubling their presence to about 80 firms since late June.
Summary: The SEC approved an innovation exemption allowing qualifying venues to trade tokenized US stocks on public blockchains without registering as national exchanges.
Summary: Unsealed court documents from the New York Times lawsuit reveal a 2023 Microsoft memo warning that AI training on news content constituted unprecedented theft.
Summary: Singapore-based stablecoin payments firm Dtcpay completed a $25 million Series A round, backed by Japanese conglomerate SBI Group to expand its merchant network and digital asset corridor.
Summary: Binance declined to comment on reports of European Central Bank intervention in its failed Greek crypto license bid, reaffirming its commitment to operating under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation.
Summary: SpaceX's AI division is holding informal talks about purchasing customer and operational data from failed startups to train its Grok model.