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What it changes for altcoins
Four altcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) begin trading on Oct. 28, marking the first wave of non-Bitcoin, non-Ethereum spot crypto ETFs in the US and potentially catalyzing rotation into altcoin after months of consolidation.Bloomberg…
What the U.S. shutdown tells us about market resilience
During the U.S. federal government shutdown that began on October 1, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) went into contingency staffing mode. Almost a hundred crypto ETF decisions got stuck in approval limbo as a result, and…
Fed opens a narrow payments door to stablecoin issuers, Arthur Hayes warns of bank fallout
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller proposed a new payment account on Oct. 21 that would grant stablecoin issuers and crypto firms direct access to Fed payment rails without full master account privileges.The announcement at the…
UK crypto investors face crackdown on unreported gains
For years, many UK crypto holders have flown under the HMRC tax authority’s radar. They convinced themselves that digital assets somehow sit outside the country’s tax regime. Well, if you’re a UK resident residing in a river near Egypt,…
XRP Ledger gains traction for $200 billion Japanese market
For nearly a decade, XRP has been the underdog of the digital-asset world, overshadowed by Bitcoin’s narrative dominance, Ethereum’s developer gravity, and Solana’s speed headlines.Yet while most of the market debated ETFs and exchange…
Debanked to rebanked? Redefining financial access in the age of executive orders
When the annals of 21st-century finance are written, there will be a special chapter (messy, political, and deeply consequential) dedicated to the saga of “debanking.”For much of the last three years, anyone working in crypto, from lean…
Can New York’s new crypto office thaw America’s coldest market?
New York City Mayor Eric Adams just built a new power center for crypto inside City Hall. On Oct. 14, he signed Executive Order 57 and created the Office of Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology, a unit that sits in the Mayor’s Office,…
US moves to seize $12B in bitcoin tied to ‘pig butchering’
The US government is moving to seize 127,271 Bitcoin worth about $14.2 billion, which investigators say was generated through a cross-border “pig butchering” scam operated by Chinese national Chen Zhi.If completed, the Bitcoin should be…
Will the Senate’s leaked DeFi bill drain what’s left of US liquidity?
A confidential draft bill circulating among Senate Democrats proposes sweeping new oversight of DeFi, extending Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) duties to DeFi interfaces, validators, and even node…
Will BoE’s ‘exemptions’ supercharge stablecoin rails into BTC and ETH?
The Bank of England (BoE) will exempt crypto exchanges and other operationally critical firms from proposed stablecoin holding limits, potentially supercharing money into Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).As Bloomberg News reported on Oct.…