🇺🇸 TODAY: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urges the Fed to remain open-minded on interest rates, citing AI-driven productivity gains and deregulation as key factors that could help keep U.S. inflation in check.

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🇺🇸 UPDATE: President Trump will deliver a statement from the Oval Office on Monday at 2 PM ET.

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🚨 BREAKING: Bitget has started reinstating withdrawals following the September 24 security incident, beginning with $BTC on the Bitcoin network.

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🔥 BREAKING: Citigroup teams up with Coinbase to launch stablecoin payments for institutional clients.

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🔥 JUST IN: Strategy purchases 1,666 $BTC, increasing total holdings to 847,666 $BTC.

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🇮🇷 JUST IN: A U.S. Senate investigation revealed that 84% of wallets sanctioned for links to Iran conducted transactions almost entirely in Tether’s USDT, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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🚨 BREAKING: Polymarket has introduced 15-minute Bitcoin up-or-down markets on its U.S. app, enabling users to trade based on rapid price fluctuations.

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🇺🇸 UPDATE: Kalshi’s live American Power Index currently shows a Democratic lead of 3.8 points.

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🚨 NEW: Trump announced Mesabi Metallics’ plan to build a $15 billion steel plant in Iowa, a project expected to create 1,750 permanent jobs.

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🚨 BREAKING: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are set to join President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson for a luncheon this Tuesday.

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🇺🇸 BREAKING: Trump denies allegations that he suggested lifting sanctions on Iran or releasing its frozen assets, dismissing the Axios report as "false." Learn more

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🚨 UPDATE: OpenAI has reportedly canceled the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra for ChatGPT and Codex, citing safety concerns raised by researchers during internal testing.

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🚨 BREAKING: The CFTC has officially approved Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization. This green light allows Coinbase to settle fully collateralized contracts using USDC, with the ability to process settlements 24/7.

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🔥 BIG: Goldman Sachs is moving its $100B Treasury fund onchain through Lynq, powered by Avalanche — enabling institutions to earn yield around the clock, even when traditional markets are closed.

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🚨 TODAY: NEAR Intents reports its SHIELD system intercepted over $50M linked to the Bitget hack, successfully freezing $503K during transit.

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🔥 NEW: Ondo Perps introduces 24/7 spot trading for tokenized stocks and ETFs, enabling traders to use their holdings as collateral for perpetuals—and execute basis trades—all on a single platform.

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🔥 INSIGHT: Altcoin trading volume has surged to nearly 4x Bitcoin’s — the highest ratio in the past year.

Historically, such spikes have often aligned with local price peaks for $BTC, data from Glassnode shows.

#Altcoins #Bitcoin #OnChainData

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🇬🇷 BREAKING: Greece has officially added its first four crypto asset providers to the EU’s MiCA register.

The country’s financial regulator has dismissed claims that a vice chair disclosed Binance’s Lagarde requested Greece’s prime minister to block the approval process.

https://ct.com/news/greece-first-mica-entrants-hcmc-binance-lagarde

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🔥 NEW: Morgan Stanley has launched a Digital Asset Lab to explore stablecoins, tokenization, and DeFi applications, according to Bloomberg.

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🔥 NEW: Cboe and S&P Dow Jones Indices have extended their partnership through 2051, with plans potentially including collaboration on tokenized options contracts.

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🇺🇸 INSIGHT: Former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo cautioned that without a clear strategy, AI could wipe out tens of millions of jobs and spark a major economic downturn—long before it starts generating new opportunities.

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