Gemini plans to distribute crypto prediction markets through Apex brokerages

Crypto exchange Gemini and Apex Fintech Solutions have signed a non-binding letter of intent that would make Gemini Titan the exclusive regulated venue for crypto event contracts offered by brokerage firms through Apexs Futures Commission Merchant (FCM).  Under the proposed arrangement, participating brokerages would use Gemini for execution and clearing, giving Gemini a new distribution channel for its prediction-market business.  Apex provides trading and clearing infrastructure to hundreds of financial firms serving tens of millions of investors, according to the company. Gemini, meanwhile, has been building out its regulated prediction-market business since receiving approval by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate a designated contract market in December 2025 and clear derivatives in-house in April.  The companies already work together on stock trading, with Apex Clearing providing custody and clearing for Geminis zero-commission US equities offering launched in July.  The proposed partnership comes as prediction markets face mounting legal challenges at the state level in the US. Most recently, a Washington state judge ordered Kalshi to stop offering a broad range of event contracts in the state, rejecting the companys argument that federal commodities law preempts state gambling law.

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Coinbase tokenized stocks go live on Base with Chainlink price feeds

Coinbases tokenized US stocks went live on Base Monday, alongside a Chainlink integration providing price data to support their use across decentralized finance applications.  Chainlink Data Feeds will provide continuous pricing for Coinbases tokenized stocks, including Nvidia, Apple, Meta and Alphabet. The data allows DeFi protocols to integrate the assets into lending markets, decentralized exchanges and structured products, including as collateral for borrowing.  According to Chainlinks documentation, the feeds value each token using the underlying stock price and a Coinbase-supplied multiplier that accounts for dividends and corporate actions.  The stocks are issued as B20 tokens natively on Base, Coinbases layer-2 blockchain, and are available to non-US users in eligible jurisdictions. Each token represents a direct claim on an underlying share held with regulated broker and custodian Alpaca under an Abu Dhabi Global Market-supervised structure, according to Base. The tokens can be held in self-custody wallets and traded around the clock.  Base said the stocks can be integrated with existing DeFi infrastructure, including using tokenized Nvidia shares as collateral for loans on Aave or supplying tokenized Apple shares to decentralized exchanges. More Coinbase tokenized stocks are expected to launch on Base in the coming weeks.  The news comes as the broader market for tokenized equities continues

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Arcus launches tokenized perp positions on Robinhood Chain

Arcus, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built by the team behind dYdX, has launched a protocol on Robinhood Chain that converts perpetual futures positions into transferable ERC-20 tokens and allows tokenized stocks to be used as collateral for leveraged trading.  The launch includes products such as pBTC3x and pHOOD3x, offering 3x exposure to Bitcoin and Robinhoods HOOD stock token, respectively, the DEX announced in a Tuesday press release shared with Cointelegraph.  Its multi collateral feature initially supports SPY, QQQ and MAG7 Stock Tokens, each with a 50% loan-to-value ratio, allowing users to use tokenized equities as collateral for perpetual positions.  “Traditional markets have spent decades making sophisticated investment strategies easier to access through products like leveraged ETFs. We believe the next step is making those strategies native to blockchain infrastructure,” Arcus CEO Eddie Zhang said.  Arcus said it has recorded more than $250 million in trading volume since launching on Robinhood Chain, with average daily volume exceeding $33 million.  Robinhood Chain has grown to $596 million in total value locked since its July 1 launch, ranking among the top 15 chains by DeFi TVL, according to DeFiLlama data.

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A U.S. - Canada Trade War Would Bring Dire Impacts On Oil Trade

TOPSHOT – US President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on October 7, 2025. Carney‘s meeting comes as he hopes of convincing President Donald Trump to ease US tariffs that are negatively impacting Canada’s economy. (Photo by Jim WATSON AFP via Getty Images)  AFP via Getty Images  The sudden collapse of U.S. – Canada trade talks last week has the potential to devolve into harsh consequences related to the cross-border oil trade for both countries if cooler heads do not prevail. The simple fact is that both countries need to maintain heavy cross-border trade in oil, natural gas, and electricity to maintain healthy levels of energy security.  U.S. Canada Oil Trade Is A Bi-Lateral Imperative  While ongoing trade in natural gas and electricity are important for both nations, maintaining a healthy cross-border trade in crude oil is an absolute imperative. Upwards of 4 million barrels of Canadian crude oil flow into the U.S. every day of the week, 365 days per year, accounting for 63% of U.S. crude imports during 2025. Those same volumes also make up the vast majority of Canadian exports, for which there is no ready alternative

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Chainalysis identifies 7,700 suspect accounts in CSAM crypto operation

Chainalysis has generated 14,300 investigative leads after tracing 29,120 cryptocurrency addresses and digital identifiers linked to more than 100 child sexual abuse material platforms, forums and distribution networks.  SummaryOperation Lighthouse generated 14,300 investigative leads after tracing 29,120 crypto addresses and digital identifiers.More than 7,700 suspect accounts were identified across exchanges and payment platforms, including 16 linked to registered sex offenders.Suspects were identified across 125 countries as investigators targeted more than 100 CSAM platforms, forums and distribution networks.Eleven cryptocurrency exchanges and payment services were involved in the investigative leads generated during the operation.  Chainalysis said Operation Lighthouse identified more than 7,700 suspect accounts through cryptocurrency exchanges and payment platforms, including accounts associated with 16 registered sex offenders, while the suspects uncovered through the operation were spread across 125 countries.  The multi-day operation was held at the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance in New York and brought together investigators, cryptocurrency companies and specialist nonprofit organizations to examine financial activity connected with child sexual abuse material, or CSAM.  Months of data enrichment preceded the investigative sprint, allowing participants to work from existing crypto intelligence tied to suspected CSAM consumers, vendors, marketplace operators and administrators. The resulting leads were shared across 11 cryptocurrency exchanges and payment services for

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Sui Stablecoin Supply Holds Near $500M as Volume Tops $65B

Key TakeawaysSuis stablecoin supply sits near $478 million, still 69% below its $1.6 billion peak from May 2025.Mysten Labs zero-fee transfer feature has moved $65 billion since June 10, per network data.Community accounts tout a supply rebound, but onchain figures show a months-long plateau instead.  Slow And Steady  Onchain SUI trackers revealed recently that the network‘s total stablecoin supply had “reached $500 million again,” with Defillama corroborating the same and even suggesting that Sui’s circulating stablecoin supply had been hovering close to that mark for many months running.  Last year in May, Suis stablecoin balances peaked at $1.6 billion before falling to roughly $492 million by the end of H1 2026 (a drop of about 69%). The metric has seemingly stayed steady since.  The supply plateau stands in contrast to whats happening on the transaction side of things. In May, Mysten Labs, the core development company behind Sui, rolled out a protocol-level change that dropped stablecoin transfer fees to zero and removed the requirement to hold native SUI tokens just to move funds. The feature covers seven stablecoins, including USDC, USDsui, SuiUSDe, AUSD, FDUSD, USDB, and USDY.  The zero-fee model has since driven heavy usage as Sui processed over $65 billion in fee-free stablecoin transfers

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Why major crypto asset manager’s 25% buyback plan might recycle shares to employees instead of shrinking supply

The proposed CoinShares buyback authority would cover up to 25% of its ordinary shares. But because CoinShares could keep any purchased stock in treasury and later transfer it through employee awards, the proposal cannot by itself guarantee a permanent reduction in the share count.  CoinShares filed notice of a Sept. 15 virtual extraordinary general meeting with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 24. The package combines two forms of capital flexibility, buyback and treasury-share authorities, with adoption of an employee equity plan whose share-reserve size shareholders had already approved.  Under the meeting notice and proxy, Resolution 1 would let CoinShares repurchase as much as 25% of its issued ordinary shares excluding treasury stock. The filing lists 131,780,209 shares in issue and no shares in treasury at that time. It sets a purchase-price range of $0.01 to $20 per share.  Related Company CoinShares Digital asset investing platform  However, those figures are ceilings rather than an execution plan. The CoinShares buyback authority is not a commitment to use the full amount. CoinShares said it does not currently intend to use the full authority; any purchases would depend on market conditions, its financial position and competing investment opportunities.  What the CoinShares buyback authority would allow  Resolution 2

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Some Bitcoin holders tax bill is now set when they leave the country instead of when they sell

In Canada, Australia, and a handful of other countries, leaving now triggers a tax bill on Bitcoin gains that have never been sold. Both countries treat the moment someone stops being a tax resident as a disposal, calculating the gain at that days market price whether or not a single coin ever changes hands.  Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $79,057.88 24-hour change: up 0.05% 24H Up 0.05% 7D Up 23.30% 30D Up 22.81%  Jeremy Savory, CEO of the relocation firm Millionaire Migrant, said more of his clients in Canada, Australia and the UK now want to move before an expected Bitcoin rally, well before any decision to sell.  He told CryptoSlate:  “The planning question has moved from where to when.”  Why residency has become the variable for Bitcoin holders  Automatic exchange sends transaction data to the jurisdiction where a holder is officially considered tax resident. That is a distinct legal status from simply holding a tax identification number somewhere, and Savory calls conflating the two the biggest misconception among his clients.  Under the CRS and the newer Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), the reporting obligation sits with the provider, the bank or exchange itself, so the report follows the person regardless of where the asset itself moves.  The

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Bitmine extends 14-month ETH buying pace as Ether breaks above $2.5K

Tom Lees Bitmine Immersion Technologies continued its accumulation of Ether last week, adding to its holdings as the cryptocurrency staged a sharp breakout following a prolonged downturn.  The company disclosed Monday that it purchased 32,447 Ether (ETH) last week, bringing its total holdings to 5,847,611 ETH, or roughly 4.8% of Ethereums circulating supply. Bitmine has acquired ETH every week since launching its Ethereum treasury strategy on June 30, 2025, extending its buying streak to roughly 14 months.  The companys NYSE-traded shares were up about 8.7% to open the week, poised to extend their almost 28% gains over the past six months.  Bitmine is now 97% of the way toward its stated goal of owning 5% of the ETH supply. It has also staked 5.07 million ETH, representing about 87% of its holdings, and reported combined crypto, cash, securities and other investments of $14.9 billion.  The latest purchase coincided with a sharp rally across Ether and the broader cryptocurrency market. ETH has outperformed Bitcoin since last Wednesday, when the US Treasury announced plans to double its monthly purchases of certain longer-dated US Treasurys to $4 billion from $2 billion beginning next month.  Ether has gained more than 32% since the announcement, breaking above $2,500 for the

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US targets Irans crypto sector, cites over $100M in oil-linked payments

The US Treasury has expanded its Iran sanctions framework to cover the countrys digital asset sector, citing more than $100 million in crypto payments allegedly used to facilitate Iranian oil sales.  On Monday, the Treasury said the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued sectoral sanctions determinations covering digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping. The agency also sanctioned nearly 60 entities, individuals and vessels across nuclear, missile, cyber and oil networks.  The digital asset determination allows OFAC to sanction foreign individuals and companies that operate in or provide services supporting Irans digital asset sector. The Treasury said Iran increasingly uses crypto as a “tool of choice for sanctions evasion,” including for transactions linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and government insiders.  It alleged that UAE-based Ukrainian broker Ivan Obukhov processed over $100 million in crypto payments since 2023 to facilitate oil sales on behalf of the IRGCs Quds Force. OFAC sanctioned Obukhov and his UAE-based company, Foscom FZE.  US widens crypto enforcement against Iran  The sector-wide measure follows a series of US actions against named crypto exchanges and wallets linked to Iran. In January, OFAC sanctioned UK-registered Zedcex and Zedxion, marking its first Iran-related designations of digital asset exchanges.  On June 3, the

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