Fidelity’s $500,000 crypto settlement leaves IRAs outside wallet-transfer terms
The California agreement requires notice if Fidelity ends its retail transfer feature, while preserving security restrictions and IRA exclusions. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The…
Crypto doesn’t need your party to win, just its candidates
The crypto industry has finally found a way to participate in America’s partisan warfare without committing to either of the (only) two available parties: help elect people who agree with it about crypto, then let them argue about everything else.…
MapQuest Now Shows Drivers Where Flock Cameras Are Watching
MapQuest’s app now offers an optional map layer that plots known license plate readers from Flock Safety and other vendors, as backlash against the cameras grows.
Two Aave stablecoin backstops shrank $12.4 million as reward rates rose
Two tracked Ethereum V3 Umbrella stakes fell 9.7%, while their implied annualized reward run rate stayed near $2 million. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
JUST Completes 5th JST Buyback & Burn: Over 170M Tokens (~$23.53M) Burned Ahead of Major Deflationary Upgrade
On October 17, JUST, the leading DeFi infrastructure in the TRON ecosystem, announced the completion of its fifth buyback and burn of its native token JST as scheduled. Over 170M JST were burned in this round (approx. 1.72% of total supply), backed by…
Bitcoin ETFs Shed Nearly $1 Billion in Two Weeks as Uptober Stays Red
Bitcoin ETFs lost a net $228.6 million this week, following a $681.1 million drain the week before and pushing October deep into the red.
Claude unpicks an NSA mystery behind Ethereum passkey security
Anthropic’s timestamp recipe reconstructs P-256’s public seed, adding provenance evidence while leaving selection criteria and base-point origins unexplained. Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch…
Stablecoin supply stalls, but payments jump 45% as Visa, Mastercard and Stripe connect crypto to cash
Analytics firm Allium said stablecoin payments hit $482 billion this year so far, up 45%, as card spending surges and global payment firms add crypto rails.
Banks Hold a Lever Over Stablecoin Adoption, BIS Economists Say
A Bank for International Settlements working paper found that stablecoin growth slows when U.S. banks raise deposit rates, with Circle’s USDC most sensitive.
Trump waives new Russia tariffs as October 18 oil deadline arrives
The waiver has no fixed expiry, and any Bitcoin benefit depends on how it affects inflation and financing conditions. Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox