Coinbase buys The Clearing Company, doubling down on prediction markets
Reuters / fastcompany - Coinbase said on Monday it will buy prediction markets startup The Clearing Company, its tenth acquisition this year, as the crypto exchange looks to expand beyond its core digital assets business.Prediction markets let users buy and sell contracts tied t…
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Terraform Bankruptcy Admin Sues Jump Trading for $4B Over TerraUSD Collapse: Report
Vince Dioquino / decrypt - Jump is accused of unlawfully profiting from and contributing to the collapse of Terra, in a lawsuit seeking $4 billion in damages.
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Coinbase rolls out stock trading, prediction markets and more in bid to become the ‘Everything Exchange’
Ian Allison / coindesk - Coinbase is dramatically expanding the assets available to trade on its platform, including novel cryptocurrencies, perpetual futures, stocks and prediction markets, starting with Kalshi.
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Crypto exchange HashKey's shares fall 5% on trading debut in Hong Kong
Sam Reynolds / coindesk - Investors questioned whether Hong Kong’s dominant licensed exchange can turn surging volumes and regulatory advantage into sustainable profits.
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Do Kwon, Crypto Entrepreneur Who Caused 2022 Crash, Sentenced to 15 Years
Emmett Lindner and David Yaffe-Bellany / nytimes - Do Kwon, who designed the virtual currencies Luna and TerraUSD, which plunged in 2022, had pleaded guilty to fraud.
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Bitstack Raises $15M To Build Europe’s Bitcoin Savings App
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Paris-based Bitcoin savings app Bitstack has secured $15 million in a Series A funding round led by 13books Capital, with continued support from existing investors including AG2R LA MONDIALE, Plug and Play Ventures, Serena, Stillmark and Y Combinator. Acc…
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European cops shut down crypto mixing website that helped launder 1.3 billion euros
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - Europol announced the seizure of Cryptomixer’s official website, as well as 25 million euros and 12 terabytes of data from the mixer's service.
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Bitcoin is sliding again as traders brace for a pivotal week of US data
Alex Daniel / qz - Important economic figures due in the next few days could help determine whether Bitcoin will stabilize or if it could still fall further
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DOGE Disbands With 8 Months Remaining in Charter
PYMNTS / pymnts - President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was supposed to last until next summer. Instead, the agency has essentially disbanded, Reuters reported Sunday (Nov. 23), bringing a close to a program that was designed to shrink the siz…
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Bitcoin Continues Steep Decline, Down 34% Since Early October
Matt Novak / gizmodo - The crypto bros are tired of winning.
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Deblock Raises €30M Series A To Grow On-Chain Banking Across Europe
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - French crypto-banking startup Deblock has raised €30 million in a Series A round led by Speedinvest, with participation from CommerzVentures and Latitude. Existing investors including 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures and Kraken Ventures also joined the ro…
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Bitcoin has sunk to a six-month low amid jitters over the Fed
Alex Daniel / qz - Traders have reacted to renewed uncertainty over whether the central bank will cut interest rates at its next meeting in December
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Bitcoin Drops Below $95,000 Amid Concerns About Interest Rates and AI Investments
PYMNTS / pymnts - Bitcoin reportedly declined for a fourth day on Friday (Nov. 14), dropping as low as $94,491.22 early in the day. Week to date, the cryptocurrency was down nearly 9%, CNBC reported Friday. The report attributed Bitcoin’s decline in part to investors selli…
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Trump claims not to know the crypto king he just pardoned
James Farrell / siliconangle - In a CBS 60 Minutes interview aired on Sunday, President Trump said he didn’t know who Changpeng Zhao was, the crypto billionaire with ties to the Trump family’s own crypto venture. Zhao was the co-founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency ex…
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Coinbase shares rise on strong quarterly results as trading volumes and revenue surge
Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Shares in Coinbase Global Inc. inched up more than 2% in late trading today after the cryptocurrency exchange provider impressed with revenue and earnings beats in its fiscal third quarter on the back of increasing transaction volumes and revenue. For the…
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Feds Seize Record-Breaking $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Alleged Scam Empire
Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg / wired - Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.
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Cloudflare unveils NET Dollar stablecoin secure transactions for the agentic web
Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced plans to introduce NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin that will enable instant, secure transactions for the agentic web. Cloudflare is aiming to make NET Dollar a core feature of a n…
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Tether in Talks to Raise at Least $15 Billion
PYMNTS / pymnts - Stablecoin issuer Tether is reportedly in talks with investors to raise between $15 billion and $20 billion in a deal that would value the company at $500 billion. The transaction would involve new equity, with the investors getting a 3% stake through a p…
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Google is Bringing AI Agents to Payments With New Protocol
Jon Swartz / techstrong - Google has introduced a new payments protocol that lets artificial intelligence (AI) agents make purchases on behalf of shoppers. The system, called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), is supported by more than 60 merchants and financial institutions. It i…
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Figure Takes in $787 Million After Pricing IPO at $25 Per Share
PYMNTS / pymnts - Blockchain-based lender Figure Technology Solutions has increased the pricing of its initial public offering (IPO) to $25 per share. That new figure, announced late Wednesday (Sept 10), is above an earlier pricing of $20 to $22 per share. The company sold…
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