🚨 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs Returns as Largest XRP ETF Holder

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🔔 Ethereum price holds $2,500 as bulls target $3,000 next

➡️ Ethereum price held above $2,500 on Aug. 27 after strong US spot ETF inflows, improving global liquidity conditions, and a historic short squeeze supported its weekly breakout. According to data from cryptonews, Ethereum price traded near $2,507 at the time of writing, up about 7.8% from its Aug. 21 opening price of $2,326. The token briefly reached a weekly high near $2,566 before settling into a narrow range around the psychological $2,500 level.

🔖 The move followed a sharp breakout from the $1,875–$1,950 range that had contained ETH for much of August. Buyers pushed the price above its February-to-May resistance area and have so far prevented a deeper return to the former range. Ethereum’s daily chart shows the price trading almost exactly at the $2,500 Murrey Math resistance. Chaikin Money Flow stood at 0.24, remaining well above zero and showing that buying pressure continued to outweigh selling pressure.

🌐 Holding above $2,500 would turn the former resistance into support and strengthen the case for another leg higher. A rejection, however, could leave the breakout vulnerable because ETH has moved more than 30% from its pre-rally consolidation zone without a major correction.

📌 Bitfinex Securities lists 5 tokenized Bitcoin treasury products

🔖 Bitfinex Securities has listed five tokenized products tied to four publicly traded Bitcoin treasury companies and Strategy’s STRC preferred stock. Bitfinex Securities said in a Sept. 1 announcement shared with cryptonews that the five products are the first tokenized Bitcoin treasury securities admitted to secondary trading on a regulated tokenized securities exchange.

📣 The notes cover Strategy, Metaplanet, H100 and Capital B common stock, while a fifth product tracks the economic rights attached to Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, known as STRC. Issued through separate compartments of ORO (II), a Luxembourg umbrella securitization fund managed by SICOS Securities, each note is backed by shares held with regulated financial institutions. Investors receive exposure to the financial performance of the relevant stock rather than direct ownership of shares in the underlying company.

⭐️ All five products were approved by El Salvador’s Comisión Nacional de Activos Digitales, or CNAD, according to the announcement. The securities were issued on Liquid Network, a Bitcoin sidechain designed to support asset issuance, settlement, and compliance controls. Eligible investors can trade the notes against U.S. dollars, Tether’s USDT stablecoin, and Bitcoin. Bitfinex Securities said each product carries separate eligibility rules and minimum investment requirements.

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🔔 Sweden orders six crypto firms to pay $56M in additional taxes

📌 Sweden’s tax authority has ordered six crypto companies operating in Boden to pay nearly 540 million Swedish kronor (approx. $56 million) in additional taxes after finding that the firms used business structures to obtain tax benefits they were not entitled to. Patrik Lillqvist, head of intelligence at Skatteverket, said the arrangements were designed to secure tax advantages that would not have been available if the businesses had been classified as crypto miners.

⚠️ “The companies that we have inspected often have a special arrangement to conceal that they are engaged in mining,” Lillqvist said, according to a translation of his remarks. “The purpose is to obtain tax advantages that the companies are not entitled to.” The latest assessments form part of the agency’s review of the crypto industry between 2024 and 2026. Nine companies have received tax adjustments totaling more than half a billion Swedish kronor during that period, with six of them operating in Boden.

🌐 The latest Skatteverket cases concern how companies described the nature of their businesses for tax purposes. According to the agency, some firms presented operations in a way that hid their role in creating new units of cryptocurrencies through mining. SVT’s earlier investigation into Sweden’s crypto industry found in 2024 that companies had deprived the state of around 1 billion Swedish kronor in taxes, with most of the cases concentrated in Boden. The new assessments show that disputes involving the sector continued through 2026.

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❗️ FCA cracks down on illegal peer to peer crypto traders in London

⚠️ The UK Financial Conduct Authority has targeted three London premises suspected of running illegal peer to peer crypto trading businesses, extending an enforcement campaign against unregistered digital asset activity. Peer to peer crypto trading involves people buying and selling digital assets directly with one another. Personal transactions do not require FCA registration, but anyone conducting the activity by way of business in the UK must have the appropriate registration. No peer to peer crypto trading businesses are currently registered with the regulator.

➡️ The FCA said unregistered operators can provide a route for criminals to move and launder illicit funds because businesses operating outside its registration system avoid controls designed to detect and prevent money laundering. “Working with partners, we continue to track and disrupt illegal crypto activity,” Steve Smart, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said. “Anyone running an unregistered peer-to-peer crypto business should assume we are looking at them.”

⭐️ During the April 22 operation, the FCA worked with HMRC and the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit. Cease and desist letters were issued at all eight locations, while evidence collected during the inspections was retained for criminal investigations. The regulator said evidence gathered during that operation is now being used to support ongoing criminal investigations and other enforcement action. Like the September action, the earlier inspections were conducted under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017.

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🔖 Lighter price gains as Bitwise launches LIT staking ETP on Xetra

📊 Bitwise has launched its first exchange traded product tracking Lighter’s LIT token on Deutsche Börse Xetra, giving European investors access to the asset through conventional brokerage accounts. According to Bitwise, the Bitwise Lighter Staking ETP began trading under the ticker BLIT on Sept. 23 and tracks the Kaiko Lighter Reference Rate. The product carries an annual total expense ratio of 0.85% and is issued by Bitwise Europe GmbH in Germany.

🔗 BLIT is physically backed by LIT held in cold storage, meaning the product holds the underlying cryptocurrency instead of providing synthetic exposure to its price. Bitwise data showed 202,594 ETP units outstanding as of Sept. 23, backed by 1.01 million LIT. Assets under management stood at approximately $4.74 million, with each ETP unit representing just under 5 LIT. The structure allows investors to gain exposure to LIT using a regular brokerage account without directly holding the cryptocurrency or managing private keys and wallets.

📣 LIT serves as the native token of Lighter, an Ethereum layer 2 decentralized exchange focused on perpetual futures and other onchain markets. The platform uses zero knowledge proofs to verify order matching and liquidations while processing transactions away from Ethereum before submitting proofs to the network.

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⚠️ Metaplanet directors defend CEO share plan after backlash

🔗 Metaplanet’s independent directors have defended the company’s executive share plan after weeks of shareholder criticism, arguing that management took financial risk when the rights were created and that the board has since cut the potential share pool by roughly 41%. Metaplanet’s Sept. 29 letter said the Series 10 stock acquisition rights were created when the company was a struggling hotel operator with an uncertain future. Management bought the rights at what the directors described as “fair value” using personal funds, while accepting multi-year vesting conditions and lower cash compensation than the board says comparable executives received.

🔔 The independent directors were not serving on Metaplanet’s board when the plan was approved. Their latest statement follows a Sept. 11 restructuring that cut the number of shares tied to the rights and introduced tighter exercise conditions extending through 2031. The directors argue that the Series 10 rights should be viewed partly as equity tied to Metaplanet’s turnaround, not simply as ordinary executive pay. The rights were introduced before the company adopted its Bitcoin treasury strategy and while its financial position was under pressure.

‼️ Shareholders approved the original arrangement at an extraordinary general meeting on Feb. 7, 2023. Including EVO, which was Metaplanet’s majority shareholder at the time, more than 98% of voting rights supported the proposal, according to the board. Excluding EVO, support stood at 78.3% by voting rights, with 27,413 votes in favor and 7,619 against. Measured by shareholder headcount, 985 holders supported the plan and 150 opposed it, giving an approval rate of 86.8%.

🔔 What happened to Kelsier’s $300M crypto stash?

📣 LIBRA-linked wallets tied to Kelsier Ventures have fallen from nearly $300 million in tracked holdings in February 2025 to about $2 million, according to blockchain analytics firm Arkham. Arkham said on Oct. 5 that it had identified more than 1,000 addresses belonging to Kelsier Ventures and Hayden Davis when it first published the wallet cluster in February 2025. At the time, the addresses held close to $300 million, with most of the value coming from LIBRA tokens. Arkham now puts the remaining value across the tracked cluster at approximately $2 million.

⭐️ The change in wallet value does not by itself show where the difference went. Token prices, transfers between addresses, sales, liquidity movements and changes in Arkham’s tracked holdings can all affect an entity balance. Arkham’s Oct. 5 post did not provide a transaction-by-transaction breakdown explaining the decline. Its original analysis divided the identified addresses between a LIBRA entity containing wallets tied to the token and a separate Kelsier Ventures entity for addresses not directly associated with the project.

📊 Across both groups, Arkham valued the holdings at nearly $300 million. Most of the amount consisted of LIBRA, while approximately $100 million was held in USDC and SOL that Arkham said had been removed from LIBRA liquidity pools. Arkham described itself at the time as the first blockchain analytics service to publish the full set of more than 1,000 linked addresses. LIBRA launched on Solana on Feb. 14, 2025. Argentine President Javier Milei posted the token contract and promoted the accompanying Viva La Libertad project shortly after launch, according to the subsequent federal court record.

📌 Evernorth completes merger with 473m XRP ahead of Nasdaq debut

📊 Evernorth has completed its merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II, holding approximately 473 million XRP and raising about $300 million in gross cash proceeds ahead of its expected Oct. 12 Nasdaq trading debut. According to the announcement, its backers include Arrington Capital, SBI Group, Ripple, Pantera Capital, Kraken and GSR. Armada, the merger partner, was a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Arrington XRP Capital Fund, LP.

⚠️ In its closing filing, Evernorth confirmed that the transaction was completed under the business combination agreement signed on Oct. 19, 2025, and amended on Aug. 12, 2026. The agreement involved Evernorth, Pathfinder Digital Assets, Ripple, Armada, and two merger subsidiaries.

➡️ Under the transaction mechanics described in the Form 8-K, Pathfinder and the former Armada entity became wholly owned subsidiaries of Evernorth. The filing also records Armada’s move from the Cayman Islands to Delaware on Oct. 8, when it adopted the name Arrington Capital SPAC I Inc. The closing followed Armada shareholders’ approval at their Sep. 30 extraordinary general meeting, according to the company’s disclosures. Evernorth had initially scheduled the merger closing for Oct. 7 and the start of Nasdaq trading for Oct. 8.

⚠️ Three Canadian soldiers arrested in Toronto crypto kidnapping investigation

❗️ Seven people, including three members of the Canadian Armed Forces, have been arrested in a Toronto kidnapping investigation involving an attempt to steal cryptocurrency, with police filing 82 criminal charges. According to a CTV News report citing Toronto police, the investigation began after a man was abducted on July 25 near Finch and Bayview avenues, where suspects allegedly assaulted him and tried to gain access to his digital assets and business security systems.

➡️ Police later recovered approximately 2,500 rounds of ammunition belonging to the Canadian Armed Forces, along with firearms, illegal drugs and tracking equipment. The three military personnel were identified as Talarambage Fernando, James Moreau and Jack Miley. Investigators are examining their connections to the other four accused, although police have not established any links to an organized criminal gang.

🌐 Toronto Police Superintendent Joe Matthews said the victim was approaching his vehicle when the suspects confronted him, placed him in handcuffs and assaulted him. During the abduction, the suspects demanded access to his cryptocurrency holdings and security systems connected to his business. The victim was eventually released after being warned not to contact authorities. Police did not disclose the value of the cryptocurrency involved or confirm whether any digital assets were successfully transferred.

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⚠️ Why is Aerodrome Finance price falling today? AERO drops 6%

🔔 Aerodrome Finance has fallen nearly 6% below $0.80 on October 22, extending its retreat from recent highs following the launch of Aero, a unified exchange combining Aerodrome and Velodrome across seven blockchain networks. According to the Aero team’s announcement, the new platform brings together the decentralized exchanges previously operating on Base and OP Mainnet, with existing AERO and VELO tokens migrating into a common token system.

⭐️ According to the Aero team’s announcement, the new platform brings together the decentralized exchanges previously operating on Base and OP Mainnet, with existing AERO and VELO tokens migrating into a common token system. The decline follows a rally that briefly carried prices toward $1.00 in October. Traders have since struggled to defend the $0.80 region, leaving the token near its latest daily lows. Importantly, the merger introduces changes to token ownership and the exchange’s operating structure, although there is no confirmed evidence that the announcement itself caused the selloff.

🌐 The new platform covers Ethereum mainnet, Base, Robinhood Chain, Ink, OP Mainnet, Arc and Arbitrum. Dromos Labs, the developer behind both exchanges, said those networks collectively handle approximately $120 billion in monthly decentralized exchange trading.

🔔 Ripple’s RLUSD launches on Coinbase with support for XRP Ledger, Base and Ethereum

📊 Ripple has launched its RLUSD stablecoin on Coinbase for retail and institutional customers, bringing the dollar-backed token to three blockchain networks as the company expands its distribution through major financial platforms. The launch covers the XRP Ledger, Ethereum and Coinbase’s Base network, with Ripple committing to provide liquidity for RLUSD on Base. Coinbase plans to make the stablecoin available to its Global Exchange customers later, including for collateral purposes, although neither company disclosed a timeline for those services.

➡️ Through Coinbase Prime, institutional customers will gain access to RLUSD alongside existing execution, settlement and custody services. Retail customers can trade and manage the stablecoin through the exchange’s consumer application, subject to the availability of supported services. The companies did not publish a complete list of trading pairs, eligible countries or transaction fees in Wednesday’s announcement. Coinbase has likewise not announced a rewards program for RLUSD balances, leaving its treatment different from the exchange’s existing USDC rewards arrangements.

📌 Jack McDonald, Ripple’s senior vice president of stablecoins, said institutional demand for regulated dollar-backed tokens has created a need for access through established financial platforms. “Our partnership with Coinbase meets that demand head on,” McDonald said, describing the agreement as a way to connect institutions with execution, settlement and custody through one platform.

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📣 Democrats prepare to investigate World Liberty Financial after House win

⚠️ Democrats have secured control of the US House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections, putting President Donald Trump’s family cryptocurrency businesses in line for congressional investigations once the new Congress takes office. According to NBC News and MS NOW projections, Democrats won enough seats on Tuesday to regain the House majority, with Representative Robert Garcia of California expected to lead the House Oversight Committee and pursue investigations into the family’s financial dealings, including World Liberty Financial.

❗️ The committee’s planned investigations include cryptocurrency transactions, potential conflicts of interest involving foreign investors, and government contracts awarded to companies with ties to Trump’s relatives. Democrats have previously sought information about several of these arrangements, but their new majority will give them the authority to issue subpoenas for documents and testimony without requiring cooperation from the White House.

🔔 Among the businesses facing potential investigation is World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company associated with Trump and his family, which has attracted attention from Democratic lawmakers over its investors and financial arrangements. The investment has raised questions among Democrats because of World Liberty’s plans to establish a federally regulated trust bank that would handle its USD1 stablecoin.

☄️ Strategy buys 1,036 Bitcoin, repurchases $188M in STRC

🌐 Strategy has purchased 1,036 Bitcoin for $81.9 million and repurchased $188.3 million of its STRC preferred stock, bringing its Bitcoin holdings to 850,364 BTC as the cryptocurrency trades below the company’s average acquisition price. The announcement followed a weekend hint from Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, who shared the company’s familiar Bitcoin accumulation chart shortly before its scheduled weekly disclosure.

⚠️ On Sunday, Nov. 8, Saylor published an X post carrying the words “Connecting the dots,” alongside a chart tracking Strategy’s Bitcoin purchases. At the time, Strategy held 849,327 BTC, while Bitcoin traded near $75,900. The company had repurchased $208.2 million of STRC preferred stock during that earlier period. Saylor confirmed the latest purchases on Monday, giving investors details of the company’s Bitcoin accumulation and preferred-stock transactions.

👀 Bitcoin was trading near $74,800 following the announcement, leaving Strategy’s total holdings slightly below their average acquisition cost. At that price, its Bitcoin treasury was worth approximately $63.6 billion, compared with the $64.16 billion the company spent acquiring the coins. The latest 1,036 BTC purchase was larger than the previous week’s 811 BTC acquisition but remained smaller than some of Strategy’s purchases earlier in the year.