Unchained

Coinbase says the combined Coinbase Global Exchange will add options, spot margin and unified portfolios in the coming weeks.

The companies plan joint work with Korean financial institutions, with any products subject to regulatory approval.

Senior vice president Johann Kerbrat said the purchase is meant to align the brokerage with the crypto community and is small relative to the company’s size.

The $35 billion investment manager, which joined Ripple’s $500 million raise last year, will use the crypto firm’s prime brokerage unit across asset classes.

In this spicy post-Bitget hack debate, THORChain co-founder Chad Barraford says the protocol can’t block laundering. Taylor Monahan points to the halts it has used before.

Chad Barraford said on Unchained he will raise with THORChain’s Treasury the idea of sending some of THORChain’s developer fund income from the Bitget hack back to the exchange.

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.

Abstract says funds still on the chain after Dec. 15 will be inaccessible, ending a consumer-crypto bet that Igloo CEO Luca Netz says cost tens of millions of dollars.

Prysm’s v7.2.1 release sets its validators to Sepolia’s new 200 million gas limit by default, a number its previous version left at 60 million unless operators changed it by hand.

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.

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.

In this spicy post-Bitget hack debate, THORChain co-founder Chad Barraford says the protocol can’t block laundering. Taylor Monahan points to the halts it has used before.

The bill would also cover candidates’ spouses, children and campaign committees, and comes five weeks after Kalshi fined and suspended Davis’ Republican opponent for betting on her own race.

Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM would cover margined and leveraged retail crypto trades and offer exchanges a new, optional federal registration, while plain spot markets remain largely under state rules.

The Treasury bureau is pulling a 2023 mixer proposal and a 2020 self-custody wallet proposal, citing a White House crypto report.

Polymarket’s head of protocol said V2 replaces a stack of add-on contracts built over 2019 Gnosis code with one modular system, and a handful of live markets run on it through October.

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.