
Coinbase Impersonator Who Stole $15.9M Gets Four to 12 Years
Ronald Spektor pleaded guilty to all 31 counts and drew the term his plea promised. Prosecutors had asked for seven to 21 years and were overruled.
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Ronald Spektor pleaded guilty to all 31 counts and drew the term his plea promised. Prosecutors had asked for seven to 21 years and were overruled.

The two signed a memorandum of understanding, not a contract. The NYSE venue it depends on has not launched, and no date, price or country list was given.

The AUSD issuer Agora and two other applicants won preliminary conditional OCC approval for national trust banks. None can open yet.

Two new ratios would hold a bank's crypto exposure to 1% of own funds, with a 1,250% risk weight on its own positions. Reporting starts in January 2027.

The Argentine platform judged Brazil's licence capital disproportionate to its local scale. Accounts close on 16 October, two weeks before the filing deadline.
Memecoin card purchases through Crossmint were coded as digital media, which earns points. Chase queried one, and Visa told processors to stop.

Permissioned automated market makers may trade tokenized NMS stock without registering as exchanges. The caps on symbols and volume carry no published figures.

The 2026 policy address also puts tokenized gold in front of the SFC and sets the monetary authority a year-end test of tokenized Exchange Fund Bills.

A bill approved 28-21 would move roughly 324,527 bitcoin already in federal hands into one reserve and bar any sale for at least 20 years. It now goes to the full House.

Prosecutors in Manhattan say the pair traded perpetual futures on tokens Robinhood was about to list. Each allegedly cleared more than $50,000.

Bitcoin fell from an overnight high of $79,530 to about $77,400 on Tuesday, hours before the Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. The procedural vote needed 60. A widely shared post puts the later price far lower.

Applications close at 17:00 CET on 27 October. Selected merchants take beta digital euro payments from central bank staff, for no fee and no remuneration.