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Recent issues
Coinbase's Top Cryptographer Calls 'Bunker Mode' FUD
Plus, Starknet weighs leaving Ethereum to reach quantum resistance by 2027
Bitcoin Falls Below Its $84,000 Cost Basis
Plus, BitMine says it will stop buying ETH at 5% of supply
Kalshi Lists a US Stock Index Perpetual Future
Plus, Abstract is the second Layer 2 to set a shutdown date in five days
Treasury Drops Its Crypto Wallet Surveillance Rules
FinCEN withdrew the unhosted-wallet reporting rule and its mixing finding, hours before the CFTC opened an elective federal rulebook of its own.
Blast Is Shutting Down Its Layer 2
Plus, Chainalysis ties the $387 million Bitget hack to North Korea
MetaMask Pulls Its Validators Out of Lido
Plus: the SEC would let investment advisers hold client crypto themselves
Base Writes a Seize Function Into Its Token Standard
ESMA wants to license DeFi front ends, and Abracadabra pays MIM holders four cents.
Robinhood Turns On 10x Crypto Perps in the US
Eight contracts, no expiry, one basis point a trade — and Coinbase gets its own clearinghouse the same day.
SEC Clarified Token Buyback FAQ: "No Central Party"
Plus: Bitget reopens bitcoin withdrawals, Tether says it froze $550M in Iran-linked USDT, and Citi picks Coinbase for stablecoin payments
SEC Staff Draws A Line On Token Buybacks and Liquid Staking in New FAQs
Plus, the Fed prices what it costs a bank to issue a stablecoin