South Korea crypto exchange profits fall 78% in H1 amid trading slump
South Korean crypto exchange operating profits fell 78% in the first half of 2026 as trading volumes, market capitalization and customer deposits declined.
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Coinbase CEO: Banks May Push For ‘CLARITY 2.0’ In A Few Years
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said banks may eventually be the ones pushing the US to pass “CLARITY 2.0,” in an interview with Scott Melker published September 20. He agreed with former CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo that…
Near Intents Hacked for $3.8M Days After Denying North Korea-Linked Bitget Hacker
Near Intents, a tool for swapping crypto across different blockchains, stopped service on Thursday after an attacker drained about $3.8 million from it. The team says a bug in how its Omni deposit and withdrawal layer t…
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EU Presses Binance Over ‘Reverse Solicitation’ Exemption for Users: Report
European regulators are questioning how Binance continues to serve customers in the bloc months after failing to secure a license under its crypto rules, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the mat…
EU Regulators Scrutinize Binance Over MiCA ‘Reverse Solicitation’ Use
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Bitget Hacker Turns to Zcash Privacy Pool After Near Rejects $50M in Swaps
The hacker who drained $387.5 million from crypto exchange Bitget has started hiding some of the loot inside Zcash's private pool. On-chain investigator ZachXBT said Wednesday that the attacker began moving about 2,700 …
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Bitget ‘gradually back to usual’ as protection fund reaches $309M
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said that a protection fund created by the company in 2022 “absorbed the financial impact of the incident“ that resulted in $388 million in user losses.
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Could THORChain face prosecution over stolen Bitget funds?
THORChain will not — or can not — block addresses linked to the $387.5 million Bitget hack. Can the devs be prosecuted for money laundering? It’s complicated, says crypto lawyer Yuriy Brisov.
Binance Pay lets visitors spend USDT at PayPay merchants in Japan
Binance Pay will let overseas users spend USDT at most PayPay-supported merchants in Japan through HIVEX, while stores receive yen.
Bitget CEO ‘not very optimistic’ on recovering funds from $388M breach
Gracy Chen said she saw the 2025 Bybit hack as a “good reference point” for Bitget’s security breach, noting that only a small percentage of funds had been frozen or recovered.
Coinbase Ventures and CMCC Global close strategic funding round with trading firm Raven
Coinbase Ventures and CMCC Global closed a strategic funding round with Raven, a trading firm, at a $90 million pre-money valuation.
Morning Minute: Citi and Coinbase Just Made Stablecoins Invisible
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Greece gets first MiCA entrants as watchdog denies Binance-Lagarde claim
Greece joined the EU MiCA register with four providers as HCMC expanded its denial of remarks attributed to officials in a report on Binance.
Coinbase Now Owns Every Layer of Its Derivatives Stack After CFTC Approval
Coinbase has won approval to clear its own derivatives trades, completing a set of three federal registrations that lets the crypto exchange run a futures business end to end without renting any part of it.
Near Intents blocks $50 million in Bitget hacker swaps, here's what happened
Crypto swap platform NEAR Intents calls itself permissionless, open and uncensorable. Yet it slammed the doors when stolen funds from Bitget tried to move through the protocol.
Coinbase gets CFTC approval for US derivatives clearinghouse
Coinbase joins Kraken in bringing US derivatives infrastructure in-house, after Kraken’s parent acquired Bitnomial and its CFTC-regulated exchange, clearinghouse and brokerage in May.
NEAR Intents says it blocked $50M tied to Bitget hackers
The cross-chain protocol said it actively prevents stolen funds from being laundered, drawing a contrast with THORChain’s position that it does not selectively censor transactions.
Citi Clients Can Now Take Stablecoin Payments Through Coinbase—Without Touching Crypto
Big businesses banking with Citi can now let customers pay in stablecoins without ever holding the tokens themselves.
Bybit accepts Franklin Templeton tokenized funds as trading collateral
Eligible institutions can pledge Benji-issued fund shares for stablecoin credit lines while keeping the underlying assets in off-exchange custody.
BGB Token Price Faces Fresh Pressure to Fall Under $1 After Bitget Hack
BGB token price remains below the $2.0-$2.20 resistance belt tied to the falling wedge.
Bitget CEO says $388M hack exploited third-party security vulnerability
Some stolen assets have been frozen, but Bitget has yet to disclose how much has been recovered as investigators continue to assess a possible North Korea link.
Citi Partners With Coinbase to Enable Stablecoin Payments
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ZachXBT Says Bitget Hack Funds Are Moving Through Cross-Chain Bridges and Wasabi
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