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BitMEX is in its final hours after 11 years, with trading already shut down and exchange services ending on Sep. 23. Once a giant in crypto leverage, it’s now a tiny player weighed down by fading volume and a long legal mess.
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Canada’s Big Six banks are testing a shared tokenized deposit rail to move bank money faster between regulated institutions, keeping the rails inside the system instead of handing them to stablecoin issuers. Promising on speed and automation, but the real challenge is governance, interoperability, and actually making it work.
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Microsoft Copilot is being used to sketch a bullish Bitcoin path to $140K–$180K by 2027, with $200K possible in a blow-off rally — but first BTC has to clear stubborn resistance and its prior high near $126,200. The forecast is interesting; the market still has to prove it.
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Coinbase has launched tokenized stocks on Base for non-U.S. users, starting with Nvidia, Meta, Apple, and Alphabet. It’s a big onchain finance move — but the legal structure, and whether holders get real ownership or just a wrapped claim, is the real catch.
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Coinbase Prime’s institutional staking product is confirmed, but TON support remains unverified in the supplied material. If TON is included, it could boost access for institutions — though it’s still just managed staking, not a magical stamp of decentralization.
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The SEC is moving toward new crypto custody rules that could finally give advisers and broker-dealers clearer guidance on holding digital assets, but the push still comes with plenty of regulation, gatekeeping, and fine print. It’s a shift from the Gensler-era squeeze — and a test of whether crypto can fit inside Wall Street’s rules without losing its edge.
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SoFi and Mastercard are using SoFiUSD for stablecoin settlement across a $25 billion card program, a back-end shift that could speed up payments without changing how customers or merchants pay at checkout.
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Coinbase has launched fixed-rate USDC loans backed by cbBTC, giving bitcoin holders a more predictable way to borrow without selling. The move expands its onchain lending push through Morpho and Base, but it’s still leverage — not free money.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs just logged five straight days of inflows totaling about $727.3 million, helping lift BTC back toward $66K. But the flashy $87K Bitcoin and $3T crypto market cap claims don’t hold up in the cited data, and shorts may have helped juice the move.
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With Congress still stalling on crypto market structure, the SEC and CFTC are improvising with temporary relief: an SEC innovation exemption for tokenized stocks, a CFTC no-action letter, and a new rule proposal. Useful breathing room, not real clarity.
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