CFTC proposed two crypto rules creating a narrower exchange license for leveraged, margined and financed trades, open to comment for 60 days. Plain spot trading falls outside the CFTC's authority, and officials say they cannot yet size that leftover market.
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Better Markets says the CFTC lacks the mandate to police leveraged retail crypto under the plan it floated on October 5. Its harder objection for the agency to answer is legal: the group says the statute the CFTC relies on was written for leveraged precious-metals fraud.
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Crypto's market-structure bill finished eleven votes short of the Senate's 60
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act lost 49-50 on September 15. Coinbase fell 12% and Circle 13% the same day, at the end of an election-cycle lobbying effort cryptobriefing estimates at $100m to $225m.
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Bitmine concentrates 94% of its assets in the token Lee says will beat bitcoin
Bitmine's 5,929,198 ETH is worth about $14.79bn at $2,495 a token, against $15.7bn of total assets, and the $330m of staking revenue the company projects is the smaller half of that arithmetic.
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Bitcoin Above $79,000: The Squeeze Did More Buying Than The ETFs Did
Two days of spot ETF inflows add to roughly $1.12 billion. The short liquidations cited alongside them are more than three times that, and they only pay once.
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