October 5, 2026
FinCEN Withdraws Proposed Crypto Mixer and Unhosted Wallet Reporting Rules
The Treasury bureau is pulling a 2023 mixer proposal and a 2020 self-custody wallet proposal, citing a White House crypto report.
The preliminary figure came with a roughly $4.12 billion tax benefit, as Strategy added 334 BTC and spent $176.3 million buying back STRC last week.
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The preliminary figure came with a roughly $4.12 billion tax benefit, as Strategy added 334 BTC and spent $176.3 million buying back STRC last week.
The bitcoin treasury company now holds 29,462 BTC, and its CEO said 61.5% of the capital it raised came from its SATA preferred stock.
The Tokyo-listed bitcoin treasury company says the round trip was meant to show credit rating agencies and bond investors that it is willing to sell when needed.
A weak September jobs report lowered the odds of another Fed hike this month, and bitcoin’s rally toward its late-September peak ran out of steam short of $87,000.
OKXICE’s notice under the SEC’s new innovation exemption lists Nvidia, Tesla, Apple and 60 other stock tokens, to trade against stablecoins in Uniswap pools on OKX’s X Layer.
North Korea takes $388M from Bitget, a quant shows Kalshi’s perps volume was cooked, and Apollo warns AI agents are coming for your checking account.
Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the merger on Wednesday, putting the company led by former Ripple executive Asheesh Birla on track to start trading as XRPN on Oct. 8.
Hunter Biden walks through the $LAPTOP launch, when thin liquidity sent the token to a $317 billion market cap in a minute, and why he says it isn’t a scam.
The attacker sent the money back less than a day after NEAR Intents’ general manager posted “We have identified you, sir” along with addresses to return it to.
Affected users get one DFX per USDT lost, redeemable for about a cent at launch from a pool that grows with the rebuilt exchange’s daily revenue.
Arcus, which counts Robinhood Crypto as an investor, has market makers compete to quote each trade in more than 190 Stock Tokens.
The cross-chain protocol says the contract-side flaw is patched, and blockchain data shows about 3.87 million USDT left a contract it uses on BNB Chain in about six hours.
The Ethereum treasury company now holds 6,016,414 ETH, about 89,000 short of owning 5% of ether’s supply, as Lee pointed to a 21 million share buyback this year.
The network created by Blur founder Pacman is asking users to move their assets to Ethereum mainnet by Oct. 26, with withdrawals paused for about a week while it pulls its assets out of Lido.
zkAPI, built with the Open Anonymity Project and now live on Ethereum mainnet, uses zero-knowledge proofs so neither the AI provider nor the payment server can tie a user’s requests to whoever paid for them.
The co-authors of EIP-8363 say Ethereum’s issuance policy needs a dedicated process outside fork planning, and Lido has offered to help lead it.
Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.
OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.
The Treasury bureau is pulling a 2023 mixer proposal and a 2020 self-custody wallet proposal, citing a White House crypto report.
The Independent Community Bankers of America says the regulator has no legal authority to make non-fiduciary crypto firms national trust banks, and wants a court to vacate its March chartering rule and Protego’s conditional charter.
The six products are commodity trusts registered under the 1933 Act, while SEC staff pushed back on 3x funds governed by the 1940 Act in December 2025.
The official $TRUMP site is ranking holders for a Nov. 22 gala at Trump National, days after Democrats said they would investigate Trump family business deals if they win in November.
NU7 took effect at block 4,465,026 on Oct. 4, two days earlier than projected, leaving developers about two weeks of data before they set a mainnet activation height on Oct. 20.
Coinbase’s layer-2 network also lets traders attach conditions to transactions, which Base says keeps those transactions private until they are included.
With CCIP 2.0, institutions can run or hire verifiers that must approve each transfer alongside Chainlink’s 16-operator committee, and can build KYC and sanctions screening into the flow.
Misha Komarov, founder of [[alloc] init] and co-founder of =nil; Foundation, tells Laura Shin how the team is working to bring Zcash-style shielded transactions to Bitcoin, using a cryptographic primitive called PIPEs.