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Crypto stocks saw mixed day of trading in the US on Monday as investors winced over crypto treasury firms’ latest buying, but still took well to new crypto pivots and acquisitions. Stocks tied to the crypto sector fell in early trading on the US and Canadian markets on Monday as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) dropped under $113,000 for the first time in nearly two weeks, as hype from the Federal Reserve’s rate cut on Wednesday faded. Crypto treasury companies, which buy and hold crypto, largely led Monday’s losses. Crypto treasuries fill Monday’s losers Medical device company Helius Medical Technologies…

Momentum is building fast in Washington as the U.S. Senate moves closer to reshaping crypto regulation, with powerful market structure legislation poised to bring long-awaited clarity to bitcoin and the digital asset ecosystem. Senate Weighs Game-Changing Crypto Market Structure Bill Growing attention on digital asset regulation in the United States has intensified as lawmakers seek to clarify how cryptocurrencies should be regulated. The U.S. Senate is now weighing new market structure legislation that could determine how agencies oversee bitcoin and other digital assets. The initiative, currently before the Senate Banking Committee, reflects mounting pressure from both the crypto industry and…

XRP Ledger continued closing blocks normally during the AWS outage, highlighting its resilience. The outage exposed the fragility of centralized cloud infrastructure, affecting platforms like Coinbase. XRPL’s decentralized validator network and initiatives like XLS 50 ensure operational continuity when clouds fail. Early Monday, a major AWS outage in the US-EAST-1 region caused service disruptions across the internet. Popular platforms like ChatGPT, Reddit, Fortnite, Coinbase, and even Amazon itself faced downtime. Yet, the XRP Ledger (XRPL) kept closing blocks as usual and the crypto community is noticing. Millions Disrupted as AWS Goes Down AWS reported “increased error rates and latencies for…

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…