Crypto Newsletter

• Franklin Templeton and Bybit expand tokenized investing

• Attacker tested controls before heist: Bitget

• Robinhood crypto volume up 24% in September

• Coinbase teased a new gacha product coming soon to its app

• Binance first CEX to list reflection memecoins

• Citi, Coinbase offer corp stablecoin payments

• ZachXBT tracks Bitget-exploit laundering requests

• Chainlink launches CCIP 2.0 for institutions

• The Bitcoin ETFs saw $31M in net inflows on Monday; the ETH ETFs saw $17M in inflows and Solana had $8M

• ETH Fast Confirmation Rule ships in CCIP 2.0

• Circle and Volante explore USDC bank payments

• Bitmine bought 17,362 ETH for about $47 million, taking its stake to 4.9% of all Ethereum

• Goldman takes $100B Treasury fund onchain

• Circle's USDC enters AI-powered bank rails

• Strive added 1,107 Bitcoin for $94.5 million, pushing holdings past 27,000 coins to 27,462, worth about $2.3 billion

• CFTC approves Coinbase Clearing for USDC

• Franklin Templeton and Bybit expand tokenized investing

• 84% of Iran-linked sanctioned wallets used USDT

• Crypto anonymity an 'illusion': China

• Spain exempts self-custody crypto from disclosure

• Goldman Sachs made its $100 billion Treasury fund available to crypto firms through the Lynq settlement network, without turning it into a token

• NEAR Intents said recovery bounty

• Apollo’s Torsten Slok warned AI agents could drain bank deposits by automatically moving household cash out of low-interest checking accounts into better-paying alternatives

• Apollo warns agent-driven deposits may pressure banks

• SEC FAQ: decentralized token buybacks may not be investment contracts

• Tether and Shiga plan self-custodial finance for Africa and GCC

AI & NFT

• OpenAI scraps model release on safety failures

• SuperRare adds artist update posts

• Anthropic files for IPO, flags existential risk

• Pump Fun earned $13.64 million in fees last week, up 25% and its second-biggest week since June, with Saturday setting a $846 million single-day volume record

• Anthropic releases second model in a week

• Claude Sonnet 5.5 beats Opus 5.5 at coding

• NFT leaders were slightly red; Punks even at 33.69 ETH, BAYC -1% at 6.2 ETH, Pudgy -2% at 3.2 ETH

• Identity MD (+23%) and Credits (+10%) led top movers

• Zuckerberg, Amodei to meet Trump today

• Samsung invests $1B in KKR-backed AI firm Helix

• Jupiter and Claynosaurz launch cashback card

• Binance backs SpaceX/QQQB airdrops for MARSCOIN, 牛来 holders

• Meta faces billions in penalties after NM verdict

• Walmart vows no AI-driven personalised

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