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On-chain liquidity distribution protocol Turtle has raised $5.5 million in new capital, bringing its total funding to $11.7 million. The project will use the fresh funding to expand its engineering team, develop its DeFi yield-earning product infrastructure, and deepen its integrations across multiple blockchain ecosystems, according to a press release shared with The Defiant. The funding round saw participation from institutional investors including GSR, FalconX, Anchorage VC, as well as founders from Polygon, 1inch, and Gnosis. Turtle describes itself as an infrastructure hub that moves liquidity across decentralized finance, connecting capital providers and protocols through a “coordination layer” that matches…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors rebound over the weekend, Bitcoin back at $110,700 Stripe’s Tempo raises $500M at $5B valuation Mr Beast files trademark for crypto exchange and payments service Huobi founder Li Lin shares plans for $1B ETH TreasuryCo OpenSea founder Devin Finzer shares SEA token plans, buybacks 🌊 OpenSea Says SEA Is Coming Q1 2026 OpenSea finally gave some confirmation on its SEA token launch. And…

As sentiment across the broader crypto market cools, leading altcoin Ethereum has fallen below the crucial $4,426 support level. With bullish momentum slowing marketwide, ETH could slip below the $4,000 mark, further testing traders’ confidence. Smart Money Turns Cold on Ethereum ETH’s price decline since the beginning of the week has triggered a lackluster attitude toward it from investors, and this is reflected by the dip in its social dominance since then. According to Santiment, this metric currently stands at 6.48%, down by 5% in the past five days. For token TA and market updates: Want more token insights like…

Pantera Capital believes an approved solana spot ETF in the fourth quarter could trigger a surge in institutional demand. The firm argues institutions are currently under‑allocated to solana compared with bitcoin and ether. Pantera Capital Forecasts Institutional Stampede for Solana According to Pantera Capital, a blockchain-focused asset manager, a solana ( SOL) spot exchange-traded fund (ETF)—which it expects to be approved in the fourth quarter—could trigger an institutional stampede for the digital asset. Pantera believes this will inevitably lead to a rise in SOL’s price and market capitalization, which stood at just under $121 billion as of Sept. 22 at…

The UK tax authority has ramped up its scrutiny of crypto investors, doubling the number of warning letters sent to those suspected of underreporting or evading taxes on digital asset gains. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) issued nearly 65,000 letters in the 2024–25 tax year, up from 27,700 the year before, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The letters, known as “nudge letters,” are designed to prompt investors to voluntarily correct their tax filings before formal investigations are launched. The sharp increase reflects HMRC’s growing focus on crypto-related tax compliance. Over…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving beyond chatbots and copilots, and the next frontier of this fast-developing industry is a world of AI agents. These autonomous digital actors can browse the web, negotiate contracts, make payments, and collaborate with other machines. The market supporting this shift is immense, with data from Statista projecting the global AI sector to surpass $1 trillion by 2031. Notably, the report suggests that a significant market share would be dedicated to agentic systems capable of independent decision-making. Yet one question dominates the conversation: How will millions of these autonomous agents trust, verify, and transact with each…

Societe Generale-FORGE (SG-FORGE), the cryptocurrency-focused subsidiary of the French bank, has chosen the European arm of crypto exchange Bullish as the first venue to list the lender’s USD CoinVertible (USDCV) stablecoin. The dollar-denominated USDCV stablecoin, which SG Forge introduced on Ethereum and Solana back in June of this year, will list on Bullish Europe, the companies said on Tuesday. Bullish Global is also the owner of CoinDesk. The arrival of regulations around stablecoins has caught the attention of the financial industry. SG Forge’s USDCV stablecoin, like its euro-denominated counterpart (EURCV), is regulated under the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation (MiCA). Although…

Russia should criminalize foreign exchange operations, including cryptocurrency transactions, according to a consultative body that monitors the legislative process in the country. The idea, which is likely to be met with serious opposition from free market proponents, is evoking associations with penalties that threatened citizens of the USSR who dared to touch the dollar or any other convertible currency. Civic chamber suggests criminal prosecution for crypto payments Government oversight will improve, in terms of cracking down on financial offenses, if illegal foreign exchange transactions, including those with cryptocurrencies, are criminalized. That’s according to Evgeny Masharov, a member of the Commission…

Hyperliquid co-founder and CEO Jeff Yan claimed that the way centralized crypto exchanges, and Binance specifically, report data is likely to underrepresent liquidations. In a Monday X post, Yan pointed to a documentation page on the world’s top crypto exchange, Binance, explaining that the platform will only include the latest liquidation happening in each second interval in the order snapshot stream. “Because liquidations happen in bursts, this could easily be 100x under-reporting under some conditions,“ Yan wrote. Yan’s statement echoed a Saturday X post from crypto data platform CoinGlass. The platform said that “the actual [liquidated] amount was likely much…

Ether prices fell sharply on Friday, October 10 as tariff concerns fueled losses in risk assets. The world’s second-largest digital currency by total market value plunged to almost $3,500, according to Coinbase data from TradingView. After rising to nearly $4,400 earlier in the day, this represented a roughly 20% decline, additional Coinbase figures from TradingView reveal. Interestingly enough, ether bounced back after reaching its intraday low, approaching $4,000 and trading close to $3,800 at the time of this writing. Equities also suffered declines, with the S&P 500 falling 2.7% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 1.9% for the day,…