Richard Heart (Richard Schueler), founder of HEX and PulseChain, was detained in a dawn police raid in Istanbul, with luxury watches reportedly seized. He had been on Interpol’s wanted list, sought over fraud and violent-crime allegations
A 2027 budget amendment would tax crypto swapped into MiCA stablecoins — critics warn it just pushes traders to non-MiCA coins and offshore venues.
Eligible UAE clients can now buy BTC and ETH straight from their Standard Chartered accounts — a global systemic bank putting spot crypto on its own rails.
Headline CPI hit its fastest pace since May and core came in at 2.6% — both above forecasts, pushing back on near-term rate-cut bets.
$IBKR adds ETH staking through its Client Portal — rewards paid in staked ETH that compound — another TradFi venue folding crypto yield into the stack.
Developers can now spin up XRPL wallets inside Privy — signing XRP, RLUSD and x402 AI-agent payments — putting Stripe’s wallet rails on the XRP Ledger.
The exchange that custodies ~5% of all BTC is pushing the community to start quantum-proofing now — signature upgrades and fund migration won’t be quick.
The newly Nasdaq-listed XRP treasury vehicle (XRPN) will start putting 473M XRP to work this quarter, with lending and XRPL DeFi to follow.
DEX spot trading reached ~25% of centralized-exchange volume in September, up from ~18% a year earlier. Source: The Block (DefiLlama data)
