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According to Normative Instruction No. 739, issued on Friday, VASPs will now need to undergo an audit by an approved third-party entity to obtain authorization to operate in Brazil. The requirement adds to an already stringent regulation, making the process of obtaining a license in Brazil more difficult. Key Takeaways: Central Bank of Brazil issued Instruction 739, forcing VASPs to get independent audits to secure licenses. Audits must ensure that each VASP is prepared to combat and prevent crypto-linked crime. Following the $5B Hidden Flow case, Brazil’s new rules will next tighten oversight to avoid crypto laundering. Central Bank Of…

Key points: Bitcoin is at a critical juncture, as a close below $76,000 may deepen the pullback toward $70,000. $HYPE and $ZEC are in an up move, but most other major altcoins are struggling to find support. Bitcoin ($BTC) has risen above $77,500, but the recovery is expected to face resistance in the $78,500-$82,000 range. The net outflows of $979.7 million from spot $BTC exchange-traded funds this week, according to Fireside Investors data, suggest that investors have turned cautious in the near term. Crypto analyst Ardi said in a post on X that the next retest of the $74,000 to…

Lido Finance, the leading liquid staking protocol for Ethereum, has officially unveiled Staking Router V3, a significant upgrade designed to improve the efficiency and scalability of its staking operations. The new system introduces a balance-based accounting method and raises the maximum validator limit to 2,048 $ETH, marking a technical shift in how the protocol manages validator deposits and rewards. What Staking Router V3 Brings to Lido Staking Router V3 is not a simple patch but a rearchitecture of Lido’s core staking infrastructure. The most notable change is the adoption of a balance-based accounting system, which replaces the previous method that…

Crypto investors keep making mistakes with their Anthropic investments, from paying 8,700% funding rates to buying tokenized securities of non-existent shares. Indeed, a lawyer for Anthropic just clarified that, despite promises by promoters of blockchain tokens, it never legally transferred shares that supposedly back many tokens like perpetual contracts (perps), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), real world assets (RWAs), and memecoins. Blockchain doesn’t fix stupid, and very few crypto AI investors were smart enough to read the fine print before purchasing. Anthropic, the multi-hundred billion dollar maker of Claude AI, updated its webpage today to reiterate that unauthorized share transfers are void.…

Bitcoin ATMs were (and still are) the most tangible and literal implementation of crypto. They turned the process of buying and selling crypto from an abstract act done on a screen and moved it into the real world, enabling people to buy Bitcoin without verification, a bank account, or any real understanding of how custody works. Scan a QR code, insert a few bills, and all of the $BTC you can afford lands in a crypto wallet in a few minutes. For a while, that physical aspect of buying a virtual currency with cash gave Bitcoin something exchanges couldn’t: the…

For the first time, retail crypto users can borrow against shares of a BlackRock or Apollo fund without ever leaving decentralized finance. Jason Barraza, institutional business development lead at RedStone, joined TheStreet Roundtable to walk through how it works. He joined RedStone in January 2026 after the oracle firm acquired Security Token Advisors, where he was COO and helped track more than 800 tokenized real-world assets. Why NAV oracles matter Net asset value, or NAV, is the per-share value of a fund. For a traditional fund, the administrator calculates it once a day and reports it to investors. That once-a-day…

Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, is now accepting Bitcoin as payment for his artwork on his official website. The homepage of Hunter Biden’s official website, hunterbiden.com, features his signature bright, large-scale floral paintings, while the footer now includes a simple but striking notice: “BITCOIN ACCEPTED,” listed alongside links to the site’s privacy policy, terms of use and “Verisart Authentication.” Verisart provides blockchain‑based certificates of authenticity designed to permanently record provenance and ownership of artworks, both physical and digital. Biden’s art career has been politically fraught from the start, with initial shows in New York and Los…

Bankless co-founder Ryan Sean Adams recently took to the X platform to heavily criticize the emerging “Ethereum not $ETH” narrative. Without its native token acting as a massive global store of value, the entire network is fundamentally a “failed project.” The “Ethereum Not $ETH” fallacy Adams expressed deep frustration with the growing sentiment that one can be bullish on the Ethereum network’s technology without being bullish on the $ETH asset itself. He noted that this exact “mental fallacy” is what triggered him to start writing and podcasting in the first place. “There is no strong Ethereum without an $ETH worth…

Bernstein has maintained its Outperform rating on Circle Internet Group with a $190 price target after the company’s $222 million $ARC token presale and continued $USDC growth helped offset pressure from falling reserve income. According to a Tuesday client note from Bernstein analysts led by Gautam Chhugani, the brokerage sees Circle’s expanding blockchain and payments business as supporting earnings visibility even as lower interest rates reduced reserve-related revenue during the first quarter. Circle shares closed at $131.76 on Monday, based on data from Yahoo Finance, leaving Bernstein’s target roughly 44% above the current level. The analysts said Circle generated $694…

Circle and Lighter have entered a strategic partnership that designates $USDC as the default and preferred stablecoin across the decentralized perpetuals exchange’s full product stack. The integration covers spot and perpetual trading, settlement, liquidations, and onboarding flows, Circle said in a Tuesday post on X. “As onchain markets scale, trusted dollar infrastructure becomes core market infrastructure,” the stablecoin issuer wrote, framing the deal as part of a broader push to embed its digital dollars deeper into onchain trading venues. Lighter responded that $USDC has been a foundational asset for the protocol and its traders since day one, adding that the…