Recent News on Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and Finance | Yellow

Senate Democrat Richard Blumenthal urges a federal probe of Tether, which says it froze nearly $550M in Iran-linked USDT this year.

New research pushed Michael Burry to shorten his AI bubble timeline and replace several stock shorts with leveraged put options.

New mid-tier model from Anthropic, Claude Sonnet 5.5, runs over 30% faster and trims task costs, though one benchmark disputes the savings.

After a Sept. 20 sandbox escape and agent activity on U.S. government sites, OpenAI froze training of its most capable AI models.

BlackRock expects computing power to trade as a financial asset, with exchange-traded compute futures and capacity claims pledged as collateral and settled on-chain.

Eligible institutions can pledge Franklin Templeton fund shares through ByCustody for Bybit credit while the assets keep earning yield.

Bitcoin continues to show a broadly positive structure, even though the market remains highly volatile.

Ethereum is consolidating below $2.7K after a failed push near $2.8K, while $2.4K support and network activity shape the next move.

A fresh $142.7M Bitcoin purchase lifts Strategy’s holdings to 847,666 BTC while the company keeps buying back STRC shares.

A $2.39B weekly surge pushed U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF flows back above zero for 2026 as other crypto funds also attracted fresh capital.