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US Prosecutors Want $84.2 Million From a Bank Tied to Tether
The US Department of Justice wants to keep $84.2 million that, according to a civil forfeiture complaint, moved through accounts used to process payments for Tether. The complaint, filed July 15 in the Eastern District of California before Judge Dale A. Drozd, targets Capstone Ltd., a Montana-based payments firm. According to the complaint, Capstone operated as an unlicensed money transmitter—a business category regulators require a license for specifically because it moves other people's money—...
Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence
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Sep 25, 2026
Markets
Bitcoin Rally Slows as $15.6 Billion Options Expiry Hits—XRP and Solana Keep Climbing
Bitcoin slipped to around $83,600 on Friday, a pullback of roughly 1% from the prior close, as the week's rally took a breather. The dip follows an intraday high near $87,000—territory Bitcoin hadn't touched in months—after it broke out of the $75,000 to $81,000 range that had capped it for weeks. The move isn't spooking chart-watching traders, though. Bitcoin's daily setup still reads bullish with the 50-day moving average sitting above the 200-day in a pattern known as a golden cross. Myriad:...
Sep 25, 2026
Coins
Strategy Wants Its Preferred Stock Dividends to Accrue 365 Days a Year
Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy wants to pay dividends on its four U.S. preferred shares every day, including weekends and public holidays, executive chairman Michael Saylor said on Thursday. The proposal covers STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD. Dividends would accrue every calendar day and pay the following business day, with the economics otherwise unchanged. A preliminary proxy was filed the same day, a definitive proxy is due on October 5, and shareholders vote on October 28. Strategy is proposing...
Sep 25, 2026
Business
Morgan Stanley Joins NEXTPredict as Prediction Markets Bet on 'More Institutional' Play
Institutional interest in prediction markets has not been in doubt for a while. JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon told CBS in April that the bank was weighing an entry, while describing most of the activity as closer to gambling than investing and ruling out sports and politics outright. Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon had used the firm's January earnings call to disclose meetings with both of the largest operators. Thus far, however, there has been little in the way of concrete progress to spe...
Sep 25, 2026
Opinion
Morning Minute: BlackRock Leans Deeper Into Tokenization with Ondo
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our daily news show 'FOMO HOUR' covering all of the top stories and market action. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors rebound 2-3% despite yields rising; BTC at $84.5k Alts like Ondo and BP post monster moves on back of tokenization wave SEC Commissioner Pierce calls for zkProofs to replace legacy KYC BitGet confirms $350M...
Sep 25, 2026
Business
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase Wallet, Filing Shows
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase wallet, according to his latest annual financial disclosure, covering 2025 and released by the Office of Government Ethics. The Bitcoin appears under "other assets and income" as two separate entries inside a single Coinbase wallet, one valued at between $15,001 and $50,000 and the other at between $1,001 and $15,000. Disclosure forms report ranges rather than exact figures, so the combined holding sits somewhere between about $16,0...