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Bitcoin price eyes $74K as Fed rate-hike bets hit 96% after Waller speech
Bitcoin price action and stock futures trended lower after Fed governor Christopher Waller said that he would vote to raise interest rates by 0.25% at the December FOMC meeting. Bitcoin (BTC) fell toward $74,000, and US stock futures dropped on Tuesday as a senior Federal Reserve official voiced support for hiking interest rates. Key points: […]
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BitGo Q3 profit nearly doubles on crypto gains as revenue falls 51%
BitGo’s $71 million unrealized gain on its crypto holdings helped nearly double its net income, but revenue and earnings came in below preliminary analyst expectations. US-listed digital asset infrastructure company BitGo Holdings reported $44.1 million in third-quarter net income, nearly double a year earlier, as a rise in the value of its crypto holdings offset […]
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BlackRock Bitcoin ETF outflows hit $1.66B over seven trading sessions
US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $201 million Monday, with seven straight sessions of net withdrawals from BlackRock’s IBIT totaling $1.66 billion. US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended their losses Monday, with BlackRock’s flagship fund recording its seventh consecutive day of withdrawals. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), the largest US spot Bitcoin ETF by assets, […]
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Securitize agrees to buy River One to expand into asset-backed lending
Securitize agreed to buy River One to bring stablecoin funding to asset-backed lending and expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter of 2026. BlackRock-backed tokenization platform Securitize agreed to buy River One, a New York financing firm, in a deal that would expand the tokenization company into asset-backed lending, the company said Monday. […]
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Crypto exchanges need hard dollar caps on hot wallets, CertiK says
“Cold storage is a useful measure of online exposure, but it is not a standalone security score,” the cybersecurity firm told Cointelegraph. Crypto exchanges should impose hard dollar limits on their hot-wallet holdings rather than relying solely on cold-storage ratios to measure security, according to cybersecurity firm CertiK. The recommendation came as several crypto exchanges […]
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OpenAI builds kill switch to stop rogue agents within 35 seconds
Control Room cuts off model output for internal research jobs when people or automated monitors flag safety or security concerns. OpenAI has built a system that can cut off an AI research experiment’s access to model output, following several disclosures of its models acting beyond their instructions this year. In a blog post Monday, OpenAI […]