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Binance has invested $100 million in Circle, acquiring 1.24 million shares, while renewing a five-year partnership to expand USDC adoption across global markets.

Handshake odds on Polymarket put a 10-15 second Trump-Xi greeting at 50%, while hug and kiss contracts trail at 5% and 1%, respectively. The post Trump-Xi Polymarket Odds for Handshake Hit 50% appeared first on Cryptonews.

CoinDesk found one $5,499 trade size accounting for 57% of sampled ether-perpetual volume, while recurring $2,500 and $5,000 trade sizes made up 54% of sampled bitcoin-perpetual volume.

The automatically rolling contracts track Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP and Tron prices, but settle in rubles and never deliver cryptocurrency. The post Moscow Exchange launches 5 crypto perpetual futures as demand tops 600 billion rubles appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Circle sold Binance $100 million in stock and agreed to pay monthly incentives under an expanded five-year partnership promoting USDC. Binance has invested $100 million in stablecoin issuer Circle as part of an expanded five-year agreement to promote USDC on the crypto exchange. Circle issued Binance 1,237,011 shares of its Class A common stock at $80.84 per share in a private placement on Sept. 17, according to a Tuesday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The purchase price reflected a discount to Circle’s market price before the transaction closed. New York Stock Exchange-traded CRCL shares were up more than 1.3% in Tuesday’s premarket activity after closing Monday at $94.29 apiece, according to Yahoo Finance data. Read more

Crypto is interesting again and that means attention is flowing back to the sector. And it’s starting to show in the data.

"Pi Network completes last step towards protocol v27 launch," X account BSCN disclosed.

Reap is preparing to add a Mexican peso stablecoin and is exploring Hong Kong dollar, euro, won and yen tokens for foreign exchange outside banking hours.

The two sides closed an equity placement and a five-year commercial deal on the same day, with money moving in both directions.

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Eligible U.S. users can request Oura shares at the offer price, but allocations remain limited and early exits may restrict future access. The post Coinbase pushes beyond crypto with retail access to $2.2 billion Oura IPO appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The ECB aims to gain firsthand DLT market experience by buying tokenized public-sector securities and settling the trades through Pontes. The European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing to invest a “small portion” of its own funds in tokenized public-sector securities. The purchases will be settled in central bank money through Pontes, the Eurosystem’s settlement system for distributed ledger technology-based transactions launched Monday. The ECB said in a separate announcement Monday that the initiative will give it firsthand experience across the full investment lifecycle, including trade execution, settlement, systems and portfolio management.  Read more

The ECB and EU central banks want to replace MiCA’s stablecoin bank-deposit requirements with liquidity thresholds, warning that sudden withdrawals could strain lenders. The European Central Bank (ECB) and EU central banks want to replace mandatory bank-deposit thresholds for stablecoin reserves with new liquidity requirements, arguing that large stablecoin deposits could create liquidity risks for banks. The European System of Central Banks (ESCB) called for removing rules requiring at least 30% of reserves, or 60% for significant stablecoins, to be held as bank deposits. The proposal came in the ESCB’s response, published Tuesday, to the European Commission’s review of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). Instead of the existing bank-deposit rules, the ESCB backed minimum liquidity thresholds for reserve assets maturing within one and five working days. It separately pointed to overnight reverse repurchase agreements (repos) and short-term sovereign bonds as alternative instruments issuers could ...

Circle sold 1.24 million shares at $80.84 each and will pay Binance a monthly fee tied to USDC held through its wallet infrastructure.

Bitcoin’s break above $86,000 has cleared a major pocket of bearish leverage and put $90,000 back in traders’ sights. The largest cryptocurrency climbed as high as $87,363 over the past 24 hours, its strongest level since January, before easing to $85,824 at press time, CryptoSlate data show. The advance pushed Bitcoin through a zone that […] The post Bitcoin clears $86,000 as $1B in shorts liquidated again – battle now shifts to $90k appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin traded near $86,000 as WTI crude dropped below $90 and strong stock markets supported risk appetite.

Glassnode's indicator compares BTC with a market-cap-weighted basket of 250 altcoins, excluding stablecoins, to track relative performance.

Four Republican senators who voted to advance the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15 also appear as named supporters on a bank-backed amendment seeking tougher restrictions on stablecoin yield. As Punchbowl News reported on Sept. 21, John Cornyn, John Curtis, Cindy Hyde-Smith, and Lisa Murkowski all voted “Yes” on the procedural motion, which fell short 49-50. […] The post CLARITY Act needs 11 more Senate votes, but 4 of the 49 it already has want the bill changed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

XRP trades near $1.52 after a sharp short-squeeze rally. Breaking down key resistance levels, bull/bear scenarios, and where traders are rotating next. The post Ripple Clears $1.50: XRP Price Prediction Says $2 Next? appeared first on Cryptonews.

WTI crude oil drops to $89 as reports suggest Iran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days.