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Valkyrie amends Bitcoin Fund S-1 filing with enhanced custody and valuation rules

Valkyrie Investments refiled an amended Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday for its Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund, adding more precise rules around custody, valuation, seed investments, and risks as the cryptocurrency investment vehicle awaits regulatory approval to trade on Nasdaq. The new filing updates the index used to value the fund’s Bitcoin from Lukka Prime to the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate – New York Variant, which calculates the reference rate as of 4 PM Eastern

Federated Hermes Targets $14B Tokenized Fund Market With Prometheum Q1 2027 Launch

Key Takeaways:Federated Hermes and Prometheum are set to launch the first tokenized fund product in Q1 2027.Prometheum will distribute, hold, clear and settle on the regulated U.S. broker-dealer platforms.The partnership aims to fund the money market...

Coinbase Maps Bitcoin’s Quantum Risks While Safeguarding 5% of BTC

Coinbase, which says it safeguards roughly 5% of all bitcoin, has laid out the technical and operational hurdles bitcoin must clear before quantum-resistant security can become practical. Its message is clear: swapping in a new signature algorithm wi...

Coinbase Joins 4-Day Crackdown on West Africa Crypto Scams and Asset Freezes

Key Takeaways:Coinbase participated in a four-day assault of scam networks in West Africa in London.Its Global Intelligence team tracked illicit crypto activity, aided asset freeze operations, and provided intelligence sharing with law enforcement.Th...

Bybit Expands Beyond Crypto as CEO Outlines Next Phase of Financial Platform

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire. Bybit Co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou has outlined the latest stage of the company’s expansion from a crypto exchange into The New Financial Platform, highlighting new products and collaboration...

Ripple and Privy Bring XRP Wallets to XRPL After $1T Moved Across 8M Accounts

Key Takeaways:With the collaboration of Ripple, Privy offers programmable wallet infrastructure to the XRP Ledger.Developers can create and develop using XRP, RLUSD and any other assets on the XRPL and develop embedded and server-side wallets.Over th...

Kraken’s Parent Company Moves to Acquire a Bank in Europe

Kraken’s parent company, Payward, is buying its way into European banking, striking a deal to acquire Lithuania-licensed Saldo Bank and its five-market footprint. The purchase would bring deposit accounts, lending, payment services, and card is...

Ripple Taps DriveWealth to Bring RLUSD Settlement to 100+ Global Investing Partners

Key Takeaways:Ripple is in a partnership with DriveWealth, to secure the integration of the RLUSD settlement, cross-border payment capabilities, digital asset custody and institutional equity financing.With the initial rollout of stablecoins set to b...

Ukraine’s ‘Kinetic Sanctions’ Disrupt Russian A7A5 Stablecoin Services: Elliptic

Another successful Ukrainian drone attack deep inside Russia, the country that has invaded Ukraine, has produced an unexpected victim: transactions involving A7A5, a stablecoin designed to evade Western sanctions, have collapsed. On the night of Oct....

Strive Buys $235M in Bitcoin, Knocks MARA Out of Fourth Place

Strive just leapfrogged MARA in the corporate bitcoin rankings, snapping up another 2,822 BTC for $235 million, barely a day after revealing a $280 million purchase. The back-to-back buying spree pushed its holdings to 35,595 BTC, worth nearly $3 bil...

Evernorth to Deploy 473M XRP With Ripple, Coinbase, Kraken and Bitgo

Newly public Evernorth is preparing to deploy its 473 million XRP treasury through institutional strategies with Ripple, Coinbase, Kraken, and Bitgo. Nasdaq-Listed Evernorth Activates 473M XRP Treasury Evernorth is wasting little time turning its mas...

CFD Market Share Slumps to 6.7% in Europe, Overtaken by Crypto and Equities: ESMA

Europe's cross-border retail investment market picked up about five million reported clients in 2025, and CFDs missed out on almost all of it.ESMA's latest annual report shows the overall total rising from 10.5 million to 15.5 million, while CFD clie...

US Inflation Reaches 4-Month High as Bitcoin Bulls Retreat

Bitcoin’s price tumbled below $83,000 Wednesday after U.S. inflation climbed to 3.7%, its highest reading in four months. Gasoline prices jumped 9.1% in September, rattling Wall Street and complicating the Federal Reserve’s next move as a...

Bitcoin whales accumulate ahead of crucial US inflation report as $744 million exits ETFs

Bitcoin whales are accumulating before Wednesday's US inflation report, despite $744 million in recent spot ETF withdrawals. According to an Oct. 13 CryptoQuant report, large holders have increased their combined Bitcoin holdings to 3.03 million...

Standard Chartered Launches Crypto Trading in UAE for Clients

Key highlights:Standard Chartered has launched a cryptocurrency trading service for wealthy clients, which is a global first for the bank and the first time an international bank in the UAE offers this kind of service.Professional Investor clients in...

HEX Founder Richard Heart Reportedly Arrested in Istanbul Dawn Police Raid

HEX and Pulsechain founder Richard Heart, whose legal name is Richard James Schueler, was reportedly detained during an early morning raid in Istanbul on Oct. 14, 2026. Turkish media described a sprawling seizure involving dozens of luxury watches, f...

Bitcoin Price Caught Between Bullish Averages and $84K Resistance

Bitcoin’s price range traded between $83,250 to $83,790 on Oct. 14, 2026, barely higher over 24 hours despite a strong showing from its moving averages. With 12 of 15 moving average indicators signaling bullish conditions, the market’s te...

Anthropic report finds robots can handle 74% of US physical tasks, but cost is the catch

The report highlights a future where economic feasibility, not just capability, will dictate the pace of robotic job displacement, impacting lower-wage workers most.The post Anthropic report finds robots can handle 74% of US physical tasks, but cost...

Evernorth taps Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo to put its $648M XRP treasury to work

Evernorth's active management of its XRP treasury could set a precedent for crypto firms, highlighting potential risks and opportunities in DeFi.The post Evernorth taps Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo to put its $648M XRP treasury to work appeared...

XDC Now Listed on Robinhood, Expanding Access to Millions of U.S. Users

New York, October 2026: Robinhood Crypto has integrated support for XDC Network, allowing eligible U.S. retail customers to trade the XDC token on its platform from now. The listing opens XDC, the native token of a Layer-1 blockchain built for trade...