OKX has added Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered's venture arm at the same $25 billion valuation it hit in March with ICE, right as OKX and ICE filed with the SEC to trade tokenized U.S. stocks.
Winklevoss Asset Services has filed with the SEC for a WINK fund holding ZEC directly, with Gemini as custodian and a 0.25% fee — the third spot Zcash ETF bid after Grayscale and Bitwise.
Brooklyn-based Reflection AI unveiled Beam, an open-weight model meant to rival China's DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi K3, which currently dominate the open-source AI race.
Investigator ZachXBT fronted $349,700 to pose as a client of a Chinese laundering ring tied to North Korea's hackers — and helped Tether freeze $442,000 linked to the Bybit hack.
OpenAI is rolling out invisible textGrain watermarks in ChatGPT and Codex output for EU users to meet AI Act transparency rules. The mark barely survives editing, and the detector isn't public yet.
FinCEN has withdrawn two rulemaking proposals from 2020 and 2023 that would have forced banks to track transfers to self-hosted wallets and crypto mixers, citing the risk of punishing ordinary privacy-minded users.
After the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate, the CFTC and SEC stopped waiting for Congress and proposed their own rules for leveraged crypto trading — though the gap in spot-market oversight is still wide open.
Seven South Korean banks and financial firms reported data leaks affecting tens of thousands of customers. Investigators suspect an AI-driven penetration-testing tool, though there's no definitive proof yet.
The US Treasury sanctioned two French charities and their organizers: money raised as Gaza aid was partly sent in crypto to a Hamas fighter, bypassing the banking system entirely.
The SEC has approved listing six 3x leveraged ETPs from Volatility Shares, pushing past the old 2x cap on US crypto funds for the first time. Trading won't start right away — a registration statement still has to clear.
OKX and Intercontinental Exchange filed with the SEC to launch a venue for tokenized shares of Nvidia, Apple and Tesla. Trading would run 24/7, with dividends and shareholder voting rights kept intact.
The EU's securities watchdog asked Brussels to close a MiCA loophole: exchanges could soon be barred not just from selling stablecoins like USDT, but from holding or transferring them for EU clients.
BitGo's Mike Belshe warns that the stalled CLARITY Act leaves US crypto exposed to a crash potentially worse than Lehman Brothers, as exchanges combine trading, brokerage and custody in one firm.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will chair a new White House task force on AI. The team of cabinet officials and advisers has 120 days to shape how Washington will approach regulating the technology.
El Salvador breached its bitcoin accumulation limit, but the IMF released $138 million anyway, accepting that the new coins came from private donations and handing the Chivo wallet to a private operator.
After the CLARITY Act died in the Senate, the SEC moved on its own: advisers and funds could soon custody crypto through state trust companies or, in narrow cases, hold it themselves.
Paradigm-backed Ethereum layer-2 Blast is winding down as costs outpaced revenue. TVL collapsed from $2.2 billion to $32 million, its token lost nearly all its value, and users have three weeks to withdraw.
OpenAI parted ways with three alignment researchers — Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni — after finding they shared internal information outside approved channels, amid an FTC probe into AI agent incidents.
A group representing thousands of small US banks sued the OCC, accusing the regulator of handing crypto firms light-touch bank charters without deposit insurance or full oversight.
Google unveiled Argon, the flagship model behind Gemini 4, six months later than planned. Access is limited to cybersecurity partners for now, with no public release date announced.