🏦 Coinbase wins massive CFTC approval

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BTC $84,108 (0.7%) | ETH $2,723 (1.2%) | SOL $121 (1.2%)

• Coinbase receives CFTC approval to launch its own US crypto derivatives clearinghouse — Becomes first crypto firm to hold exchange, broker and clearinghouse registrations with USDC collateral and 24/7 settlement

• Anthropic IPO filing warns its models could pose “existential risks to humanity” and potentially resist shutdown

• Clearing House taps Quant to power bank tokenization network, QNT rallies 158.3%

• Blockchain.com targets a $500 million US IPO at $4-6 billion valuation

• ZachXBT says Chinese actors are laundering $387M Bitget exploit funds for DPRK attackers — NEAR Intents blocks over $50M in Bitget hack flows, waives bounty share

• AMD agrees to acquire World Labs in $8.2 billion all-stock deal

• AI startup Instinct raises $1B Series C, valuation quadruples to $10B

• Solana launchpad Paid launches claim portal after X Money blocks fee payouts, token drops 38%

• BitMine buys 17,362 ETH, lifting total holdings above 6 million ETH

• Bitcoin ETFs log $31.1 million in inflows, extending streak to eight days

• Senate investigation finds 84% of sanctioned crypto wallets use USDT for Iran — Tether says it helped freeze nearly $550 million in USDT linked to Iran

• Meta launches Meta Enterprise Platform to sell AI tools to businesses

• OpenAI reportedly cancels GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety concerns

• Claude launches Sonnet 5.5 — Runs over 30% faster and costs up to 30% less than Sonnet 5 for most work while beating Opus 5.5 on some coding benchmarks