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View More NewsSo the protections stay what they are: at the federal level not law, but an interpretive notice sorting 16 tokens, a collateral pilot, a few no-action letters, a memorandum of understanding between two federal agencies, any of it revocable without a vote. The rest is left to the states, where investors get real protection in certain states, less elsewhere, and in some states none at all, none of it reaching a market that is national. The last great collapse already showed which protections hold and which give way.When FTX failed, its offshore exchange misused its customers’ assets for years. But…
Crypto market maker Wintermute has secured broker-dealer status in the U.S., giving the firm a regulated route into Wall Street as crypto trading and traditional securities markets draw closer together.New York-based Wintermute USA LLC registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The unit will operate as a proprietary trading firm rather than a retail broker.The registration lets Wintermute trade stocks and equity options, provide liquidity to exchanges and over-the-counter counterparties, and act as an authorized participant for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), including crypto-linked funds.Authorized participants create and redeem large blocks of ETF shares,…
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In this episode of Quillette Cetera, Zoe Sankey speaks with Jordan Lasker—better known by his pen name Crémieux—the bioinformatician and writer whose contrarian analyses of genetics, demographics and medicine have drawn a following of hundreds of thousands on X.They discuss why birth rates across the Anglosphere began falling after a Victorian obscenity trial, what Crémieux makes of the evidence on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and the panic over microplastics, and his own experience being mauled by a pit bull—which, he argues, is a question of nature, not nurture. They also turn to El Salvador’s transformation under Nayib Bukele, IQ testing…
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Bitcoin miner MARA swung to a net loss of $611.3 million from a year-earlier profit in the second quarter of 2026, driven primarily by…
In brief MetaMask has launched Agent Wallet, a self-custodial wallet designed for AI-powered crypto trading. Users can set spending limits, allowlist protocols, and choose…
Bitcoin (BTC) institutional investment vehicles have shed 10% of their BTC holdings since May as analysis warns of a “breaking” sector.Key points:Bitcoin institutional funds…
Wintermute said the registration allows the firm to position itself for the growth of tokenized securities in the US. Read the full article here
Bitcoin is sliding into a high-risk environment due to continued institutional selling, primarily from US spot exchange-traded funds, according to crypto analytics platform Swissblock.Swissblock…
A Colorado jury awarded former New Jersey investment manager Robert Dial $24 million after finding that a police detective wrongfully arrested him in connection…
Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman has died, the company said in a post on X on Tuesday, without disclosing the cause.”It is with profound…
Security for artificial intelligence-powered agents should be built into the entire system, not just around the model itself, to better prevent failures and attacks…
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Decentralized platform Hyperliquid is now competing with established betting platforms such as Polymarket, but with a differentiated mechanism for resolving bets. The leading decentralized…
Scammers have been using Google to deploy malicious phishing advertisements impersonating the crypto protocol Uniswap, which has reportedly netted the attackers at least $400,000. The…
The combined market value of all stablecoins has hit a record high of $322 billion, dwarfing the foreign exchange reserves of 95 countries, including…