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In September 2024, Galois Capital, a now defunct crypto hedge fund, settled with the SEC for $225,000 over “custody failures” related to safeguarding clients’ crypto assets. While the amount may seem small, the implications for the Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) community, digital asset industry and custodians are significant. Read the full article here
A bank would use Visa’s new platform to purchase tokenized RWAs such as commodities or bonds with near-real-time settlement, using a token, the statement said. One of the first financial institutions to use VTAP will be Spanish bank BBVA, who expects to rollout a live pilot in 2025. Read the full article here
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Huddle01, which previously had raised about $6 million in traditional fundraisings from investors including Hivemind, Balaji Srinivasan, Stani Kulechov, Dan Romero and Juan Benet, describes itself in the litepaper as “a fully decentralized, self-sovereign, borderless and open network that will provide the necessary framework for performant, cost-effective and censorship-resistant real-time connectivity.” Read the full article here
Tornado Cash allows crypto users to exchange tokens while masking wallet addresses on various blockchains. The service, by itself, is not nefarious but is commonly used by criminals to clean an online trail that could lead to the identity of those moving stolen funds. Alexey Pertsev, Tornado Cash developer, was found guilty of money laundering by a Dutch judge in May and sentenced to 64 months in prison. Read the full article here
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According to the latest data from Farside Investors, bitcoin {{btc}} exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw an inflow of $136.0 million on Sept. 24. Leading this surge was BlackRock’s IBIT ETF, which experienced a significant inflow of $98.9 million, marking its largest inflow since Aug. 26. This brings IBIT’s total net inflows to over $21 billion, reinforcing its number one position in the market. Other notable contributors included Fidelity’s FBTC, with $16.8 million in net inflows, and Bitwise’s BITB, which attracted $17.4 million. Read the full article here
The Austria-regulated company holds both MiFID II and virtual asset service provider (VASP) licenses, and plans to upgrade to meet Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) standards, which would open the door to offering its services across the European Union. The platform is open to both retail and professional clients. Read the full article here
Bitcoin’s max pain level for Friday’s expiry is $59,000.”The current max pain point of $59,000, approximately 8% below the spot price, does create some potential downward pressure as we approach expiry,” Rick Maeda, an analyst at Presto Research, told CoinDesk. Read the full article here
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has helped India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED), the authority investigating financial crimes, in the arrest of four individuals in a gaming scam worth $47.6 million, the exchange said on Wednesday. Read the full article here