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Bitcoin climbed above $67,800 as stocks moved higher and oil prices declined following reports that Iran may be open to de-escalating conflict in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Nasdaq is accelerating index inclusion for companies like SpaceX and other large IPOs under a new rule, new research from Google suggests quantum computing could eventually crack the cryptography securing Bitcoin and Ethereum using fewer physical qubits than previously expected, and Interactive Brokers has expanded crypto trading across the European Economic Area to include BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP.

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News Roundup

Artificial Intelligence

  • Bluesky Users Revolt Against AI Tool Attie (Decrypt)

  • Audit Claude Platform Activity with the Compliance API (Claude)

  • Agibot Shipped 5,000 Humanoid Robots In The Last 3 Months (Forbes)

  • Chainalysis Introduces 'Blockchain Intelligence Agents' Trained on Millions of Investigations (The Block)

Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance

  • Mitsubishi Adopts JPMorgan Blockchain for Corporate Payments (Cointelegraph)

  • E*Trade in Talks to Lead SpaceX IPO for Retail (Bloomberg)

  • Nasdaq Speeds Up Index Entry for SpaceX, Large IPOs With New Rule (Bloomberg)

  • South Korea's KB Card Taps Avalanche for 'Hybrid' Stablecoin Credit Card (The Block)

  • Aerodrome Creator Boasts 80% Efficiency Gain by Becoming More Like a Prediction Market (DL News)

  • Ripple Prime Expands to Onchain Commodities Perps with Hyperliquid Integration (Mike Higgins)

  • Crypto Asset Manager Tesseract Unveils Compliance-Minded Yield Vaults (The Block)

  • Interactive Brokers Launches Crypto Trading in Europe, Including BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP (The Block)

  • Deloitte Audit Confirms Ripple USD is Fully Backed (U Today)

  • Plume Pilots Payroll System Allowing Employees to Receive Part of Salary in WisdomTree Tokenized Fund (The Block)

  • Tether Parts Ways With Ex-HSBC Gold Traders Amid KPMG Audit (The Block)

  • Ripple Partners With Former Western Union Unit to 'Enhance' Cross-Border Payments (The Block)

  • Mercado Libre shuts down Mercado Coin (CoinDesk)

Exchanges

  • Upbit Adds SKY and USDS Listings with KRW and USDT Trading Pairs (Upbit)

  • KuCoin Operator Ordered to Block US Traders, Pay $500,000 CFTC Penalty (The Block)

Exchange-Traded Funds

Infrastructure

  • Supply Chain Attack Hits Axios npm Releases, Users Urged to Rotate Keys (Cointelegraph)

  • Quantum Computers Need Fewer Qubits to Crack Crypto Than Thought (Cointelegraph)

  • Binance to Launch Prediction Market Feature Within its Wallet App via Predict.Fun (The Block)

  • Swift’s Blockchain-Based Shared Ledger Progresses to MVP Implementation (Swift)

  • Core Foundation Franchises Satoshi Plus Bitcoin Consensus Model for New Zcash Scaling Layer (The Block)

  • Google’s New Quantum Research Reignites Push to Harden Bitcoin (Bitcoin Magazine)

  • Dynamic Adds Embedded Wallet Infrastructure to TON for Telegram Apps (Cointelegraph)

Markets

  • Bitcoin Flashes 'Warning Sign' With Nearly Half of BTC Supply Sitting at a Loss (Decrypt)

  • Bhutan Government Moves Another $25 Million in Bitcoin (The Block)

  • Bitfarms Stock Rises 5% After Posting $284 Million Net Loss in AI Transition Year (The Block)

  • Nakamoto Shares Hit New Low After Bitcoin Treasury Firm Sells Off BTC (Decrypt)

  • Lido Jumps From All-Time Low as DAO Debates $20m Buyback Programme (DL News)

  • Stablecoin Market to Hit $2 Trillion in 2028 Even as Velocity Doubles (Decrypt)

  • Bitcoin, Stocks Rise, Oil Slides, After Report of Iran's Willingness to End Conflict (CoinDesk)

Politics & Regulation

  • Senators Introduce Bill to Boost U.S. Digital Asset Mining, Back Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (U.S. Senate)

  • Federal Prosecutors Explore Whether Prediction Market Bets Trip Insider Trading Laws (CNN)

  • US Department of Labor Proposes Rule That Would Allow Crypto Investments in 401(k)s (DOL)

  • Chainlink Labs, Anchorage Digital Back New Crypto Super PAC Ahead of Midterms (Decrypt)

  • Senator Raises Alarm Following Former SEC Enforcement Lead's Departure, Dropped Justin Sun Charges (The Block)

  • SEC Expands Collateral Rules to Include S&P 500 and Russell 1000 Equities (SEC)

  • Dubai's VARA Imposes Margin, Governance, and Disclosure Rules on Crypto Trading and Derivatives (The Block)

  • Massachusetts City to Weigh Crypto ATM Ban, Citing Financial Risks (Cointelegraph)

  • Russia Moves to Narrow Crypto Trading to Regulated Intermediaries (Cointelegraph)

Treasuries

  • Nakamoto Inc. Sells 284 BTC at $70K While Sitting on Higher-Cost 2025 Purchases (SEC)

Venture Capital

  • Starcloud Raises $170 Million Series A to Build Data Centers in Space (TechCrunch)

  • SC Ventures, Ripple Back Keyrock's Open Series C at $1.1 Billion Valuation (The Block)

  • Uniblock Raises $5.2M to Unify Blockchain Infrastructure (Decrypt)

  • A16z Crypto Leads $10 Million Round in Startup Developing Stablecoins' Missing Layer (The Block)

Other News

  • Maryland Man Charged in $54 million Uranium Finance Hacks Faces Up to 30 Years (The Block)

  • Donald Trump’s Net Worth Reaches $6.5B Fueled by Crypto, Licensing, and Real Estate (Forbes)

  • How a Criminal Network Dishes Out Vengeance For Crypto (DL News)

  • Encryption Supremacy: Zcash and Privacy in the Age of Scale (CoinDesk)

  • Tokenization Outlook 2026 (Centrifuge)

  • F2Pool Co-Founder Says Thailand Condo Bought for 2,900 Bitcoin sold for 7 (Cointelegraph)

Check This Out!

According to CryptoRank, multiple token unlocks are scheduled this week, with a large percentage of market cap for assets like EDGE (34%) and OPINION (20.4%), signaling potential volatility.

Source: CryptoRank

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