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Brazil's CSD BR mirrors BTG Pactual fund records on XRP Ledger
CSD BR, a Brazilian operator with more than 22 trillion reais (about $4 trillion) of registered assets, began mirroring BTG Pactual fund ownership records on the XRP Ledger, CoinDesk reported.
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Pump.fun co-founder outlines near-zero-fee app for Solana and crosschain trades
Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen described a mobile and social trading app charging roughly 0% on Solana trades and about 0.1% crosschain, with access to tokens on every chain, per Crypto Briefing.
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Hyperliquid's Jeff Yan pitches on-chain private markets at Korea Blockchain Week 2026
Hyperliquid co-founder Jeff Yan told Korea Blockchain Week 2026 attendees in Seoul that on-chain markets for institution-only asset classes are "socially beneficial," framing the idea as one of access, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Binance Pay links USDT wallets to PayPay merchants in Japan via HIVEX
Binance Pay has partnered with TBCASoft's HIVEX network so eligible overseas users can pay with USDT at PayPay merchants across Japan. Merchants get paid in yen, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Binance Pay opens USDT spending at PayPay merchants in Japan via HIVEX
Binance Pay said eligible overseas visitors to Japan can spend USDT at most PayPay-supported merchants starting Wednesday, with payments routed through HIVEX and merchants still settled in yen.
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Sentora proposes running isolated Aave V4 Hub for 50/50 revenue split
Sentora posted an Aave governance proposal on Sept. 28 to run an isolated V4 Hub for a 50/50 revenue split with the DAO. CryptoSlate's analysis says the Hub's suppliers would bear any bad debt.
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Unusual Whales launches Options Trader app on Robinhood's Agent Apps marketplace
Unusual Whales launched a $30-a-month Options Trader app on Robinhood's Agent Apps marketplace at the HOOD Summit in Houston, feeding its options flow data to Robinhood's AI agents, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Bitget reports 131% reserve ratio days after $387.5 million wallet breach
Bitget's September 29 Proof of Reserves snapshot showed a 131% overall ratio across 19 assets, according to Crypto Briefing, five days after a $387.5 million breach hit its hot and warm wallets.
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Aztec Labs relaunches zk.money wallet for private stablecoin payments
Aztec Labs relaunched its self-custodial zk.money wallet on Aztec Network three years after shutting it down. Users can send USDC, USDT or DAI privately using readable ENS-based tags.
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Volmex lists Bitcoin implied volatility perpetual futures on Hyperliquid
Volmex Finance listed perpetual futures on its Bitcoin Volmex Implied Volatility Index (BVIV) on Hyperliquid, with up to 5x leverage, hourly funding and a $2 million open-interest cap, Crypto Briefing reported.
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SEC and CFTC down to three commissioners total as Hester Peirce exits
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce leaves Friday, Cointelegraph reported. That leaves the SEC and CFTC with three commissioners between them and seven empty seats overseeing parts of a $3 trillion crypto industry.
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Bitget CEO 'not very optimistic' on recovering $388 million lost in hack
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said she's not very optimistic about recovering much of the $388 million stolen from the exchange. Bitget has launched a bounty, and NEAR Intents says it blocked more than $50 million in attempted transfers.
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Co-founder Cindy Leow exits Velocity DEX, formerly Drift Protocol, report says
Cindy Leow, co-founder of the Solana perpetuals exchange formerly known as Drift Protocol, is leaving Velocity DEX effective September 29, weeks after a relaunch that followed a $280 million exploit, Crypto Briefing reported.
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OpenAI unveils always-on 'dots' agents and GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay 2026
OpenAI announced more than 20 launches at DevDay 2026, including dots (always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers), a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol model and a confirmed $500 tier, Decrypt reported.
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Bitcoin ETFs extend inflow streak to eight days, add $2.95 billion in 30 days
U.S. Bitcoin ETFs logged an eighth straight day of inflows on Monday, pushing 30-day net inflows to $2.95 billion, according to SoSoValue data reported by Decrypt.
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BBC chief Matt Brittin calls AI-generated Doctor Who episode 'pretty good'
BBC director-general Matt Brittin said he was recently sent a 50-minute AI-generated Doctor Who episode and judged it "pretty good," while telling a Royal Television Society audience that AI won't replace humans.
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Bitwise launches first US spot NEAR ETF on NYSE Arca under ticker NRR
Bitwise has launched the first US spot NEAR ETF, which trades on NYSE Arca as NRR with a 0.75% fee. The fund will stake part of its holdings, and it arrives after NEAR gained about 167% in a month.
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General Compute buys Cerebras chip fleet to pair with Nvidia GPUs for AI inference
General Compute, an AI inference neocloud, said it's buying a large fleet of Cerebras wafer-scale chips to run alongside its Nvidia GPUs, with capacity for agentic coding due in Q1 2027, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Bitget CEO 'not very optimistic' about recovering $388M lost in breach
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said she isn't sure the exchange can fully freeze or recover the roughly $388 million lost in last week's breach, citing Bybit's 2025 hack, where only about 3.5% of funds were frozen.
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Treasury and IRS seek information on crypto ETF in-kind redemption tax strategy
The Treasury and IRS are seeking information on a tax approach some crypto and commodity ETFs use around in-kind redemptions, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pledged a crackdown on tax-dodging structures.
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Strategy's STRC sets Sept. 30 record date for $0.50 dividend, Crypto Briefing reports
Crypto Briefing reported a September 30, 2026 record date and October 15 payout for a $0.50 dividend on Strategy Inc.'s STRC preferred stock. LeoDex News couldn't verify the figures against a Strategy release.
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Metaplex launches MPL-3643 token standard for tokenized securities on Solana
Metaplex has launched MPL-3643, a permissioned token standard modeled on Ethereum's ERC-3643 that gives Solana issuers onchain compliance controls. It's in a limited-access alpha, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Sen. Tim Scott blames Democrats for Clarity Act stall in CoinDesk op-ed
In a CoinDesk op-ed, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) blamed Senate Democrats after the Clarity Act failed to advance. He wrote that none of them voted for it, even though the final proposal included over 120 changes they had requested.
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Solana hits 7,699 monthly active programs as funded wallets climb 38.5%
Solana recorded 7,699 monthly active programs in September, Crypto Briefing reported, while Solscan data showed funded wallets rose 38.5% month over month to 16.10 million.