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Binance finance chief Kaiser Ng to leave after five years, Yi He says
Binance's chief financial officer, Kaiser Ng, is leaving the exchange after more than five years, co-CEO Yi He said. Justin Yek, formerly of Airwallex, will replace him.
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CFTC moves to classify event contracts as swaps
The US derivatives regulator has proposed expanding the definition of a swap to cover event contracts, as it fights state gambling regulators over prediction markets.
MetaMask exits Lido validators amid security incident probe
MetaMask says it is investigating a security incident affecting part of its infrastructure and is exiting affected staking validators as a precaution, while Lido warns of lost rewards and downtime pen
MSCI operating assets test could eject Strategy, paper says
A Bitcoin Policy Institute paper says MSCI's proposed screen for non-operating companies could remove Strategy, Metaplanet and Yellow Cake from its indexes, with a decision due by 16 October.
Base launches Cobalt upgrade with new transaction controls
Coinbase-incubated Ethereum Layer 2 Base has gone live with Cobalt, its third major network upgrade, adding conditional transactions and expanded token-issuer tools.
Bitcoin holds near $83,700 as Bitfinex says leverage has cleared
Bitfinex analysts told Bitcoin.com News that futures open interest is at its lowest since March and implied volatility near a one-year low, with the next sustained move needing spot-market leadership.
US government chatbot America.gov lags on crypto policy, test finds
Bitcoin.com News compared America.gov with Claude and ChatGPT on 12 crypto policy questions and found the government tool missed recent legislation and hedged its answers.