Ethena Partners With Binance to Back USDe With a Tokenized Stock Basis Trade
DeFi protocol Ethena (ENA) announced a partnership with Binance and began backing USDe with stocks on Friday, essentially buying the exchange’s bStocks and shorting its matching equity perpetuals to earn the funding that leveraged longs pay. Ethena is partnering with @Binance as our first venue for the extension of...
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Crypto tax forms leave 1 in 5 US investors unsure of accuracy
A survey of US crypto investors has found that about one in five who filed or planned to file a tax extension received an incomplete 1099-DA or were unsure whether the form matched their trades. Awaken Tax’s August survey found…...
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Aave V4 adds Coinbase tokenized stocks, will AAVE price respond?
Aave has announced a Base equities market designed to accept seven Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans, with an initial borrowing cap of $21 million. According to a Sep. 25 X post, the Equities Hub covers tokens tied…...
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Canadian-Dollar Stablecoin CADD Goes Live On Solana
TL;DR Tetra Digital Group has expanded its Canadian-dollar stablecoin CADD onto Solana. CADD is designed to maintain a 1:1 relationship with Canadian dollars held as reserves. The September 23 rollout is a Solana expansion; CADD had already launched on other blockchain networks earlier in 2026. Canada’s regulated stablecoin market...
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Sequans ends Bitcoin strategy after selling its remaining BTC
Sequans Communications has sold its remaining 314 Bitcoin and fully exited its BTC treasury strategy after using earlier sales to cut debt and reshape its balance sheet. Sequans said on Sept. 24 that the sale covered all Bitcoin held on…...
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CRO Climbs 6% as Crypto.com Files With CFTC for US Equity Perps
The price of Cronos (CRO) rose about 6% this Friday after Crypto.com’s CEO Kris Marszalek announced the company has filed with the CFTC to list equity perpetuals in the United States. “Next step unlocked: We’ve officially filed with the CFTC for equity perps in the US, following our Form...
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Bitget raises breach estimate to $387.5M and launches recovery bounty
Bitget raised its breach estimate to $387.5 million, launched a recovery bounty and said the vulnerability has been identified and fixed. The post Bitget raises breach estimate to $387.5M and launches recovery bounty appeared first on Crypto Briefing....
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Altcoins Steal the Spotlight as Bitcoin Dominance Fades After $87K Rejection: Weekly Crypto Recap
It was a rather interesting and unexpected week for the cryptocurrency markets, especially since the setbacks suffered just ten days ago. Recall the market update from last Friday, in which we reported that BTC had somehow crossed the $80,000 barrier despite the failure of the CLARITY Act in the...
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Circle and Tether step in to freeze hacker wallet after massive Bitget crypto heist
The stablecoin issuer blacklisted a wallet holding about $318,000 in USDT and USDC. Most of the stolen funds sit in ether, which can’t be frozen....
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Tokenization is moving faster than Washington
Regulatory clarity is not simply a legal or political issue, argues former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. It is an economic one....
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