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Korean Police Traced Polymarket Users Through the Blockchain
South Korean police spent five months identifying individual Polymarket traders through public blockchain records and booking them on suspicion of illegal gambling, all while the platform was still legally accessible in the country. The…
Vietnam and Austria Partner on Crypto Oversight
Vietnam has built a pilot legal framework and plans to license its first crypto-asset service providers in 2026. Building Guardrails Vietnam reportedly plans to license its first crypto-asset service providers in 2026 under a pilot legal…
SBI Invests in Singapore’s Dtcpay to Scale Stablecoin Rails
SBI Group is backing Singapore-based Dtcpay as the regulated payments company expands its stablecoin merchant network and product suite. The investment extends Dtcpay’s Series A to $25 million and deepens SBI’s digital asset…
Ripple Legal Chief Calls for Crypto Unity After CLARITY Act Defeat
Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty is calling for greater coordination across the crypto industry after the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate. He said the setback exposed divisions in messaging and political support…
21shares Sees XRP Demand Growing as XRPL Activity Expands Further
XRP demand could increase as payments, stablecoins, decentralized finance, and tokenized assets bring more activity to the XRP Ledger, according to 21shares. The asset manager says activity could support XRP demand through fees, reserves,…
Bitcoin Returns to Inflows With $159M as Zcash ETF Draws $46.6M
U.S. bitcoin ETFs returned to inflows on Thursday with $159.45 million, led by a sharp rebound in Blackrock’s IBIT. Ether and XRP funds remained under pressure, while the recently launched Zcash ETF drew $46.56 million in fresh capital.…
Bitcoin’s Price Rips Past $80K as Short Sellers Get Steamrolled
Bitcoin’s price ripped from the mid-$76,000s to nearly $81,000 on Friday at 10:45 a.m. ET, after traders spent the week absorbing a failed U.S. Senate crypto vote and two central-bank rate hikes. The final leg wasn’t simply buyers…
SBI, Kyobo Complete Japan-Korea Stablecoin Test With No Dollar Leg
SBI Digital Practice and Kyobo Life completed a cross-border pilot that directly converted yen-linked test tokens into won-linked tokens. The trial examined whether stablecoin infrastructure could reduce delays, conversion steps, and costs…
XRP Open Interest Is Back Above Pre-CLARITY Levels
Binance traders now hold more XRP in futures contracts than they did before the Senate sank the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, even with XRP still about 65% below its all-time high. The Number That Came Back Open interest, i.e. the total amount…
White Hats Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI in 72 Hours
A small team of researchers chained three bugs with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and ended up inside OpenAI’s private code repository. The whole job took under 72 hours, and OpenAI paid $6,500 for it. The Chain, Link by Link A…