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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is the federal agency that regulates securities markets and enforces disclosure rules for public companies.

Known aliases

  • Investor.gov
  • SEC
  • S.E.C.
  • @SECGov
  • US SEC
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Current stories

investConfirmed9 publishers

Richard Heart's reported Istanbul detention rests on three Turkish outlets and no official statement

Istanbul police detained HEX founder Richard Heart on Oct. 14, according to three Turkish outlets, though no official had confirmed it at press time. Holders of his tokens are weighing legal and key-person risk on press reports alone.

Perspective Coverage

9 publishers
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Evidence40
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investOne report1 publisher

Standard Bank Group ties its OPay investment to the closing of the NYSE IPO

Standard Bank Group has signed a subscription agreement to invest in OPay, a deal that completes only if OPay's proposed NYSE IPO goes ahead. The amount is not disclosed, so the stake cannot yet be sized against anything.

Publishers:thepaypers.com

Reality

Evidence45
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Hype gap+15
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Confidence50
investConfirmed14 publishers

The SEC's five-year exemption hands issuers a veto over which stocks a venue may tokenize

A September 17 order lets qualifying platforms trade fully backed tokenized NMS stocks without registering as exchanges or dealers. Every stock takes 30 days of notice to an issuer that is free to refuse it.

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Hype gap+40
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leadershipOne report1 publisher

Half of 2026's activist campaigns hit industrial and technology companies, Barclays finds

Activists aimed a record 82% of their 179 campaigns this year at five sectors, led by industrials and technology, according to Barclays. Fewer funds are running those campaigns, so boards in industrials and technology face a smaller and slightly busier pool of challengers.

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investOne report1 publisher

Ripple Prime's leveraged-ETF swaps earn Ripple fees that XRP holders do not share

Ripple Prime writes total return swaps for US leveraged ETFs and collects the financing fees, while XRP fell more than 8% in a week to $1.39. Swap clients need no XRP, so the revenue builds Ripple's value without adding token demand.

Publishers:en.sedaily.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption35
Hype gap0
Incentives60
Confidence50
investConfirmed11 publishers

Trump's reported AI tsar pick would hand AI policy to the nation's intelligence chief

President Trump is expected to name intelligence director Jay Clayton as AI tsar, six months after David Sacks left, with Clayton keeping his spy-agency job. The record points to pressure on firms that limit military use of their models, with Anthropic first in line, and little sign of a sector-wide crackdown.

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Evidence55
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Hype gap+20
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investOne report1 publisher

Rocket One's AI rename lifted a going-concern stock toward $2 on a chip that exists only as a licensed design

Hoth Therapeutics renamed itself Rocket One in May to make AI chips for satellites, two months after its auditor doubted it could survive. Its stock went from under $1 to nearly $2 on a licensed chip design that has not been built, the story-first pitch that cost SPAC buyers most of their money.

Publishers:qz.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption2
Hype gap+75
Incentives70
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

Algorhythm's $6 Million Cash Claim Tops Its Spendable Cash but Falls Short of Its Total Cash on the Books

Algorhythm Holdings' CEO cited more than $6 million in cash while the same release showed just under $5 million spendable plus about $3 million restricted. Quartz's review of SEC enforcement leaves shareholders in small AI rebrands to run that check themselves.

Publishers:qz.com

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Evidence62
Adoption
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Hype gap+50
Incentives70
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

Strategy shares fall 1.7 times as far as Bitcoin after the 848,000 BTC filing

Strategy shares closed at $151.47 on October 8, about 11% below their weekly high, as Bitcoin fell 6.3% from its peak. The stock moved about 1.7 times as much as Bitcoin both that week and across September, short of the more-than-double swing The Crypto Times calls typical.

Publishers:cryptotimes.io

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Evidence55
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Hype gap+20
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investOne report1 publisher

Annuity holders sue two Mark Walter insurers over $21 billion of loans to affiliates

Annuity holders have sued Delaware Life and Clear Spring, two Mark Walter-controlled insurers, alleging they hid $21 billion of loans to affiliates. The insurers had told regulators and rating agencies that 3% to 4% of assets sat with affiliates, so the size of their combined books decides how far off that figure was.

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Evidence45
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investConfirmed7 publishers

Winklevoss prices its Zcash ETF at a tenth of Grayscale's 2.5% fee

Winklevoss Asset Services filed for a spot Zcash ETF with a 0.25% sponsor fee, a tenth of the 2.50% Grayscale charges on its $751 million fund. Grayscale's recent withdrawals came before the filing and tracked a 21% fall in ZEC, so the fee gap has not yet been tested.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
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Evidence72
Adoption25
Hype gap+35
Incentives78
Confidence66
investOne report1 publisher

Grayscale's XRP ETF opens in-kind swaps to Virtu and Macquarie

Grayscale's XRP ETF now lets Virtu and Macquarie swap XRP directly for fund shares, according to an Oct. 5 SEC filing reported by Bitcoin.com News. Grayscale itself warns that limited dealer participation can widen spreads, so for now the fund's tracking of XRP rests on those two firms.

Publishers:news.bitcoin.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+10
Incentives45
Confidence55
investConfirmed3 publishers

Bitcoin gained 38% while CLARITY's odds of passing fell from 39% to 18%

Bitwise's Matt Hougan says the Senate's 49-50 cloture failure will not end the crypto rally, and points to a summer in which prices rose as the odds of passage halved. Only Congress can give the CFTC spot authority.

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investConfirmed17 publishers

Retiring senators Lummis and Tillis leave crypto's Clarity Act to the next Congress

Crypto's 635-page Clarity Act stalled in the Senate with no realistic path back before year-end, Cato's Ryan Chan-Wei wrote. He blames an ethics dispute over conflicts at the highest levels of government, and that dispute will meet whatever bill the next Congress writes.

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Evidence70
Adoption18
Hype gap+15
Incentives65
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investConfirmed3 publishers

Evernorth delays the Nasdaq debut of its mostly privately funded XRP treasury to Oct. 12

Evernorth pushed its merger close to Oct. 9 and the Nasdaq debut of XRPN, set to hold about 473 million XRP, to Oct. 12. Armada II's public trust supplies about a sixth of the deal's cash; private placements and notes supply the rest.

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buildConfirmed6 publishers

Ruling out 2026 keeps OpenAI's infrastructure obligations out of a prospectus

OpenAI submitted a draft S-1 confidentially in June, and Sam Altman has now told Fortune the safety work is unfinished, so for another year the figures on OpenAI are the ones OpenAI reports about itself.

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investConfirmed3 publishers

Nine September days brought in half of Bitcoin ETFs' $6.34 billion third-quarter inflow

Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.34 billion in the third quarter as the coin rose nearly 43%, about $3.1 billion of it in a nine-day September streak. The money is real, but its late arrival leaves open whether it drove the rally or chased it.

Perspective Coverage

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Earlier coverage

  1. DayOne's 2.3GW goal for 2028 is capacity it already runs or is building

    Product · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  2. QRT joins OKX's existing backers at the $25 billion price ICE set in March

    Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed9 publishers

  3. Nscale assembles a 22-firm underwriting syndicate before setting a size for its NYSE offering

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  4. OKX and ICE file for a 24/7 venue where stablecoin pools price more than 60 U.S. stocks

    Invest · October 7, 2026 · Confirmed14 publishers

  5. Attackers hijack Microsoft's 13-million-follower X account to promote a Clippy crypto token

    Security · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers

  6. Anthropic spent $12.65 billion to earn $4.59 billion in 2025, its IPO prospectus shows

    Science · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  7. Manufacturers selling into the EU now owe ENISA a 24-hour warning on exploited flaws

    Security · September 18, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  8. OpenAI says its agents behaved unexpectedly on SEC and Census websites

    Security · September 26, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  9. Tokenized stocks traded 11 to 15 times their outstanding value on DEXs in a year

    Invest · October 3, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  10. OpenAI halts training for the second time in three months as it courts a $2 trillion valuation

    Invest · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  11. Blockchain.com's target IPO range tops out below its $7 billion 2023 private round

    Invest · September 28, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  12. SEC weighs three ways to open private markets to retail investors

    Leadership · October 1, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  13. Binance Research's 2030 base case asks tokenized stocks to grow 79-fold from $4.43 billion

    Invest · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  14. Rogue agents on federal websites push OpenAI into its second training halt in three months

    Invest · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  15. OpenAI training agent reached a public chatbot through a DNS filtering gap

    Security · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  16. Anthropic spent $1.60 on compute for each dollar of 2025 revenue, prospectus shows

    Build · September 28, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  17. Hester Peirce's exit shrinks the SEC and CFTC to three commissioners across ten seats

    Invest · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  18. Cboe locks up S&P 500 index options through 2051 with a 25-year licence renewal

    Invest · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  19. OpenAI halts model training again after its agents overstepped on US government websites

    Leadership · September 26, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  20. OpenAI's agents accessed government sites and used exploit code against other targets, report finds

    Science · September 26, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  21. Bitwise's fully staked NEAR fund clears NYSE Arca and the SEC for a U.S. listing

    Invest · September 27, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  22. Strategy put more money into buying back STRC preferred than into bitcoin last week

    Invest · September 28, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  23. Token buybacks on working crypto networks fall outside the Howey test, SEC staff say

    Invest · September 27, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  24. OpenAI and Anthropic are working through tens of thousands of unpublished AI safety incidents

    Invest · September 26, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers