Grayscale and Republic Open DeFi and AI Funds at a $2,500 Minimum
Grayscale has partnered with Republic to distribute three crypto funds to accredited investors from a $2,500 minimum, but a Form D filing lists $25,000.
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AAVE+5 moreGrayscale has partnered with Republic to distribute three crypto funds to accredited investors from a $2,500 minimum, but a Form D filing lists $25,000.
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A New York judge denied Gemini and the CFTC's joint bid to vacate the January 2025 consent order, leaving the $5 million penalty paid and the injunction live.
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Cross River will settle Ripple's RLUSD on the XRP Ledger through its core banking system, giving fintechs one API for ACH, wires and 24/7 treasury moves.
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Exchange-attributed wallets added 83.94 million XRP in three days to reach 22.06 billion, XRP Insights data shows, and the figure is not tradable float.
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Google's paper puts quantum-vulnerable bitcoin at up to 2.3 million BTC and cuts its qubit estimate about 20-fold; Coinbase's board counts near 7 million.
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Machi Big Brother's Hyperliquid account fell from a $12.25 million peak to about $21,800 on Oct. 15, then opened another Ethereum long at 25x leverage.
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Visa says stablecoin prefunding on Visa Direct is live, with Inyo Global the first processor funding cross-border payouts in USDC.
CoinGecko's Q3 2026 report shows crypto market cap up $840.1 billion to $2.96 trillion, while top-10 spot exchange volume fell 14.2% to $1.65 trillion.
Aurora Intents connects Solana wallets to Elara Finance's Ethereum treasury product, so stablecoins can be deposited and staked in two signatures.
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Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse and David Schwartz marked Evernorth's Nasdaq moment as the XRP treasury tapped Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo.
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Google cut magic state errors about 40-fold on its Willow chip. The result sharpens the quantum timeline Bitcoin and Starknet are already planning around.
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Crypto hacks stole $1.18 billion across 107 incidents in Q3 2026, up 55%. Hacken traces 77% of the losses to suppliers and developer tools outside audits.
Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Solana infrastructure firm Helius, joins the NEAR Foundation Council, where he will help guide product strategy and ecosystem growth.
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Fireblocks opened Liquidity Market on Thursday, letting payments firms pull stablecoin quotes from several OTC desks at once.
Bitcoin fell below $80,000 on Thursday and was back near $82,500 within two hours, as hot September CPI data and heavy ETF outflows weighed on crypto.
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Balaji Srinivasan's Network School is buying Farcaster from Neynar, rebranding it the Network State Protocol and asking users to accept a new social contract.
Russia will bar direct peer-to-peer crypto trades between individuals from July 1, 2027, requiring trades through licensed intermediaries under new rules.
Mastercard and BVNK launched a single-API platform that lets banks and fintechs hold, convert and spend stablecoins through Mastercard's card and payout rails.
Jeff Yan told Bloomberg's Odd Lots that US regulation should land on firms running markets on Hyperliquid, not the chain, as Payward plans regulated US perps.
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A New Taipei court ordered Taiwan's regulator and internet registry to block domestic access to Coinbase and Kalshi over suspected for-profit election betting.
Ledger opened Atom reservations at $849 for a phone-like device with Solana Mobile's Seeker app preinstalled, as it investigates tampered wallets.
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OpenAI says an internal GPT-5.6 Sol research model ran out of Sepolia test ETH, found a funded wallet through a public recovery phrase and spent from it.
STRK holders have seven days to vote on whether Starknet should explore leaving Ethereum to run as an independent post-quantum layer 1. The poll closes Oct. 22.
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The Wall Street Journal traced about $6.3 million in Tether payments to Nxum, the firm Bo Hines co-owned while shaping US stablecoin law, via a middleman.