Follow-upThe XRP Ledger’s Permission Delegation upgrade did not activate on October 5 as several earlier reports had projected, after its two-week validator approval clock was reset in late September.The amendment, PermissionDelegationV1_1, remains disabled. A fresh validator roll call at 17:16 UTC on October 5 showed support from 29 of the XRP Ledger’s 35 trusted validators,
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has begun a rulemaking process that could give cryptocurrency exchanges a federal route for offering leveraged, margined and financed crypto trading to retail customers, moving ahead under its existing authority after Congress failed to advance broader market-structure legislation.The agency on Monday issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking covering Regulation
Strive bought another 2,000 bitcoin for approximately $168.8 million last week, its largest purchase since June, lifting its corporate treasury to 29,462 BTC and bringing the company within roughly 6,100 BTC of MARA.The Nasdaq-listed company acquired the bitcoin between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2 at an average price of $84,422, including fees and expenses. The
The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is withdrawing two long-running crypto rule proposals that would have expanded reporting around cryptocurrency mixers and self-hosted wallets, ending measures first proposed in 2023 and 2020 without changing financial institutions’ existing obligations.The more recent proposal would have designated international convertible virtual currency mixing as a class of transactions of
The number of unique wallets sending peer-to-peer stablecoin transactions in China increased 43-fold between the first quarter of 2024 and the second quarter of 2026, according to Chainalysis, showing rapid growth in direct wallet-to-wallet activity despite the country’s continuing restrictions on cryptocurrency trading.Chainalysis recorded $104.1 billion across 18.1 million transfers involving self-custodied stablecoin holdings during
Metaplanet sold 10,000 Bitcoin and later repurchased 11,000 BTC during the third quarter, ending September with 44,000 BTC while using the unusual round-trip transaction to demonstrate that its cryptocurrency reserves can be converted into cash to meet financial obligations.The Tokyo-listed company sold 10,000 BTC for approximately $789.2 million, averaging $78,925 per coin, before buying 11,000
U.S. traders are set to get access to three-times leveraged Bitcoin and Ether products after the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a Cboe BZX rule change covering six Volatility Shares funds, pushing regulated crypto leverage beyond the 2x products currently available in the market.The SEC approved the proposal on Oct. 2 for the 3x Bitcoin
Bitcoin has slipped back below $87,000 after another attempt to break through the level failed, reinforcing the area as one of the most important near-term resistance zones for the world’s largest cryptocurrency.BTC climbed to approximately $87,000 during October 5 trading before retreating toward $86,000. CoinDesk reported that the move came within roughly $500 of Bitcoin’s
Zcash NU7 activated on the public testnet at block 4,465,026 on Monday, per CoinDesk, a day ahead of the roughly 6 October the Zcash Foundation had expected. The upgrade cuts target block spacing from 75 seconds to 25, routes 60% of every block’s transaction fees into a reserve, and retires the oldest shielded pool on
BYTEX, a next-generation agentic trading infrastructure company built by a Singapore-based technology group, has announced the appointment of Diana Pires as Co-Founder. Pires will lead the company’s commercial organisation, institutional partnerships and market strategy as BYTEX moves its open-source software into wider enterprise deployment.The appointment comes as BYTEX scales an infrastructure layer for AI, agentic