FATF Warns Crypto Misuse Fuels Illicit Finance, Urges Nations to Impose New Countermeasures

Key TakeawaysIran says Hormuz could reopen within 7 days if U.S. pressure and its blockade ease.Bitcoin traded near $84,000 as Treasury yields and $104 Brent crude oil weighed...

The action filed by state lawmakers followed a similar lawsuit against prediction markets company Kalshi in July that alleged the platform was running an illegal gambling operation. Source...

Mark Uyeda, who served as acting chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before Paul Atkins’s confirmation, said the agency dropped civil cases against cryptocurrency companies...

Key TakeawaysTrump-linked accounts bought Strategy on July 24 before MSTR climbed about 80%.Strategy held 846,000 BTC by Sept. 21 as its stock rebounded alongside bitcoin.OGE filings show 1,156...

MoonPay, a crypto payments company, agreed to acquire private-markets infrastructure provider North Capital, expanding into regulated US securities infrastructure as it builds out services for tokenized real-world assets...