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The SEC issued temporary staff guidance that could exempt certain self-custodial crypto interfaces from broker-dealer registration, with direct implications for XRP Ledger's native DEX.

Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh filed a 69-page ethics disclosure showing assets worth over $100M, including stakes in Solana, Polymarket, and SpaceX.

Goldman Sachs filed for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF that sells options tied to BTC spot price, surprising analysts who say it could beat BlackRock to market.

Institutional crypto trading is shifting away from centralized exchanges as OTC and decentralized platforms gain share. New data shows a structural change in how liquidity, execution, and price discovery are evolving across digital asset markets.

Tether launched tether.wallet, a self-custodial app supporting Bitcoin, USDT, XAUT, and USAT, though its cloud-based key backup feature has already drawn scrutiny.

Rakuten adds XRP to its wallet and payments app for 44 million users, but merchants receive yen and most consumers won't directly hold the token.

Polymarket has launched an audit of copy-trading startups in its Builders Program accused of helping users replicate trades tied to suspected insider activity.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview solved 73% of expert-level cybersecurity tasks no AI had cracked before, prompting urgent meetings between US financial regulators and bank executives.

XRP perpetual open interest dropped 71% from 7 billion to 2 billion tokens while Binance trading volume fell to its lowest level since 2025.

RaveDAO's RAVE token pulled back from $14.97 after $43.75M in liquidations, with shorts accounting for $32M of forced closures in 24 hours.