Market Watch: BNB Hits New ATH, BTC Eyes $117K Before FOMC

With just hours left until the highly anticipated FOMC meeting scheduled for later today, bitcoin’s price jumped to a new multi-week peak of just over $117,200. Most altcoins have failed to produce any big moves over the past day, while BNB charted a new all-time high, and HYPE has...
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BitGo Wins German Approval to Start Regulated Crypto Trading in Europe

Crypto custody provider BitGo said it secured approval from Germany’s financial regulator, BaFin, to expand into regulated crypto trading. The license extension allows Frankfurt-based BitGo Europe to offer both over-the-counter trading and an electronic trading platform for thousands of digital assets and stablecoins, the firm said in a Wednesday...
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UK FCA Plans to Waive Some Rules for Crypto Companies: FT

The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has plans to waive some of its rules for cryptocurrency companies, according to a Financial Times (FT) report on Wednesday. However, in another areas the FCA intends to tighten the rules where they pertain to industry-specific risks, such as cyber attacks. The financial...
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Is XRP Becoming A Privacy Coin? Ripple’s New Proposal Says Yes—And No

Ripple’s developer arm has floated a blueprint to bring privacy-coin-like functionality to the XRP Ledger—without abandoning the network’s long-standing emphasis on public supply integrity and compliance tooling. In a new XRP Ledger Standards (XRPLF) discussion opened on September 13, Ripple engineers Murat Cenk and Aanchal Malhotra propose “Confidential Multi-Purpose...
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Crypto Is The Money For AI, Says Economist As Coinbase CEO Teases Stablecoin-Powered Transactions Between Agents

Renowned economist Alex Tabbarok described cryptocurrencies as the “money” for artificial intelligence on Tuesday after Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) CEO teased a new feature that enables AI agents to transact using stablecoins. AI Agents To Use USDC For Quick Settlements Tabbarok’s remark was in response to Brian Armstrong‘s X post about the...
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