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"If you build a cybercrime empire, we will find you, dismantle your operation, and hold you accountable," said US Attorney Pirro.

Fee-charging pools have the clearest modeled benefit, while proprietary market makers and validators face different trade-offs. The post Solana’s 300ms speed boost to outrun trading bots might come with a hidden cost appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Fields medalist points to a real race between OpenAI and Anthropic as proof: AI can now flatten a hard problem the moment someone starts working on it.

Jump Trading's Hyperliquid volume nears $150 billion, making the firm responsible for nearly 8% of perpetual futures activity overall.

The expansion gives institutional and automated traders real-time access to Kalshi’s political markets as election betting activity continues to grow. DoubleZero, a network for high-speed data distribution, has added real-time data from Kalshi’s election and politics markets as prediction market trading picks up ahead of the US midterm elections in November. The expansion adds Kalshi’s election contracts to DoubleZero Edge, which already carries data from the prediction market’s sports contracts and crypto perpetual futures, according to a Wednesday announcement. The feed includes top-of-book and trade data, along with aggregated order book data from Kalshi’s election markets. Andy Ross, head of institutional at Kalshi, said the integration is intended to make political market data easier to incorporate into institutional workflows as expectations shift around election outcomes. Read more

Tokenized stocks promise cheaper trading and wider access, while some products make speculation easier without passing shareholder rights to the buyer. Two people can open their investment apps, see the same company name beside a similar price, and still own different things. One holds shares in the company, and the other holds a token designed […] The post It looks like a stock and trades like a stock, but it isn’t actually a stock – what is it? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Crypto advocates and community bankers are targeting lawmakers in their home states as the Senate prepares for a September 15 procedural vote.

The restructuring will separate MetaMask’s consumer business from Consensys’ Ethereum protocols and institutional blockchain infrastructure operations. Consensys Software Inc., the Ethereum software company behind MetaMask, plans to split into two independent companies, separating its consumer business from its institutional blockchain infrastructure operations. According to Wednesday’s announcement, the separation is expected to be completed by the end of 2026, with Joe Lubin serving as chairman and CEO of MetaMask and executive chairman of the new Consensys. The new Consensys will house the company’s protocols and institutional infrastructure businesses, including Linea, Besu and Teku, and will be led by CEO Mike Kriak and President David Cunningham. The company will focus on Ethereum infrastructure and helping financial institutions deploy blockchain technology for tokenization, stablecoins and other onchain financial services. Read more

ADA has outperformed BTC and ETH on a seven-day scale.

Prosecutors say the group stole and laundered more than $245 million in crypto, spending proceeds on club parties, private jets and exotic cars. The post How 4,100 stolen Bitcoin bankrolled a life of private jets and supercars appeared first on CryptoSlate.

XRP holds near $1.42 as whale accumulation diverges from retail activity. Key levels, ETF inflows, and CLARITY Act odds shape this week's price path. The post XRP Price Prediction: Whales and Retail Traders Are Taking Opposite Sides appeared first on Cryptonews.

The company's first fall keynote under new leadership paired a Gemini-powered Siri overhaul with Apple's first 2-nanometer chip, plus a $1,999 foldable iPhone that won't ship until October.

The blockchain intelligence firm said its annual recurring revenue has quadrupled over the past three years as it expands its AI-powered investigations business. Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs has doubled its valuation to $2 billion following an expansion of its Series C funding round led by Blockchain Capital. The company did not disclose the size of the latest investment but said its annual recurring revenue has quadrupled over the past three years, according to an announcement Wednesday. The expansion follows a $70 million Series C in February, also led by Blockchain Capital. TRM provides blockchain intelligence and investigation software used by more than 600 government agencies and private-sector institutions across 75 countries, the company said. Prior to the February round, the company was valued at $930 million, according to data compiled by Traxcn. It breached the $1 billion valuation mark in the round that included Citi Ventures and Galaxy among the investors. Read more

Bitrace puts targeted Xinbi-linked holdings above $45 million as the sanctioned marketplace announces a USDD-only plan. The post How Tether’s $45 million crackdown drove Southeast Asian scam compounds into an ‘unfreezable’ decentralized stablecoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Blockchain sleuths at Elliptic traced the money, Treasury sanctioned the marketplace, and Xinbi—which ran $24 billion through a Telegram scam bazaar—called the freeze unfair.

The shrinking amount of ETH stored on exchanges and the solid institutional interest support the bullish thesis.

The company has built its first chips and begun testing prototypes as it seeks to manufacture quantum computers in larger quantities.

The pilot moved USBDC between the bank’s North American and European entities on the public Stellar blockchain. U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, has completed a live cross-border payment using its proprietary USBDC stablecoin on the Stellar blockchain. The pilot moved funds between U.S. Bank entities in North America and Europe, with USBDC issued and transferred on the public Stellar network. It also tested the stablecoin’s minting, redemption, freezing and clawback functions while integrating with the bank’s existing risk, compliance and operations systems. The transaction validated U.S. Bank’s internally developed Digital Asset Platform, which connects tokenized assets with its traditional banking infrastructure, the bank said Wednesday. The Minneapolis, Minnesota-based bank is exploring additional uses including cross-border treasury operations, liquidity management and moving collateral onchain. Read more

Bitcoin trended lower with US stocks on Iran escalation while US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent contributed to fears of a yen carry-trade unwind. Bitcoin (BTC) struggled below $80,000 on Wednesday as attention refocused on the Japanese yen. Key points: Read more

Mexican prosecutors allege suspects targeted Camilo Séptimo keyboardist Jonathan Meléndez and his family while searching for a cold wallet they believed contained millions in Bitcoin.