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The XRP Ledger switched on a feature late Thursday that lets an account owner give another account permission to do specific jobs without handing over the keys that control the account.The feature, called PermissionDelegationV1_1, activated on Oct. 8, according to monitoring site XRPL Dashboard. Upgrades require more than 80% support from trusted validators, the operators who confirm transactions, for two straight weeks. With the current list of 35, that means at least 29 supporters.Delegation’s countdown reset in September after support slipped below that level, as CoinDesk reported.Businesses making routine crypto transactions need signing keys available throughout the day, but keeping…

Reason to trust Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Created by industry experts and meticulously reviewed The highest standards in reporting and publishing Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. TL;DR: Hashi, Sui’s native Bitcoin finance infrastructure, will begin a phased mainnet rollout later this month with more than $500 million in committed capital. Anchorage Digital has joined the launch coalition, giving institutional clients routes into Hashi through qualified custody and self-custody infrastructure. Sui is preparing…

Other prediction markets critics included the guy who ran the CFTC when Dodd-Frank was implemented, Gensler. The ex-regulator (who also ran afoul of the crypto industry when he later led the Securities and Exchange Commission) contradicted the CFTC’s current chairman, Mike Selig, to argue there was never an intention to override state gambling laws.”Congress did not transfer jurisdiction over sports betting from the states to the CFTC,” Gensler wrote in his brief. “When Congress amended the [Commodity Exchange Act] through Dodd-Frank, it was addressing the causes of the recent financial crisis, not undoing federal policy against sports betting and displacing…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Binance has launched a Meteora spot trading competition running through October 15, with 400 BNB in token vouchers allocated to the main prize pool. Eligible users must register and trade at least $500 worth of MET pairs to qualify. Binance is using a sizeable BNB prize pool to push trading activity around Meteora. The exchange launched a new spot competition on October 8 built around MET, with a total of 400 BNB allocated to the main rewards pool. The event runs through October 15. Eligible traders…

A modest early decline in bitcoin BTC$81,371.20 on Thursday has accelerated, the price falling to about a one-month low just above $80,000Bitcoin is down 4% over the past 24 hours, and is now lower by more than 8% since nearly hitting $87,000 just four days ago. That’s masking far uglier action in the rest of the sector, with ether and XRP lower by about 6% over the past day and solana off 9%. All are down double-digit percentages over the last week.The fast selling comes as the one-year anniversary of the October 10, 2025, flash crash nears. It was on…

Mighty Coconut takes an interstellar journey with its new paid add-on course, Escape From Planet Xylodon in a new update that also brings mulligans and experimental hand tracking to Walkabout Mini Golf. Escape From Planet Xylodon is the forty-second course for Walkabout Mini Golf and the fifth of a planned six new courses for 2026. Along with the standard lineup of 18 collectible balls on the Easy course and the Foxhunt for the themed putter on the Hard course, Xylodon also brings two new avatar heads and five sci-fi-styled customizations for the base avatar head. Course Inspirations & Special NotesWe…

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission continues to advance Project Crypto and its ambitious goal of moving U.S. capital markets onchain. In April, the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets clarified when certain user interfaces may operate without registering as broker-dealers. In June, the SEC proposed rescinding Rule 611 of Regulation NMS, which would remove a significant obstacle to the development of onchain securities markets. And last week, the SEC released its “Innovation Exemption,” exempting certain trading venues — Tokenized Securities Venues (TSVs) — from the definition of “exchange” under the Exchange Act and certain liquidity providers from the definition…

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Key TakeawaysStaked FXRP supplies the backing for Sentora’s newly covered products.Five independent firms validate covered events before payouts.Operator fees fund XRP rewards, while contributors absorb eligible losses. XRP Gains a Role in Funding Exploit Recovery Depositors in selected Sentora products now inherit safeguards against defined failures without separately purchasing a policy, Firelight announced Oct. 6. Sentora, a platform designing and managing decentralized finance investments, initially enabled the service on its USD Protected Vault and Protected RWA Vaults. These products pool funds across strategies; RWA stands for real-world assets represented on a blockchain. The newly activated safeguards on Sentora’s covered products…