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◆ JPMorgan’s Scott Lucas and Franklin Templeton’s Sandy Kaul named as co-chairs of CFTC’s #crypto advisory panel.

◆ #MetaPlanet becomes a top 5 corporate #Bitcoin holder, reaching 85% of its yearly target.

◆ CFTC appoints crypto leaders from Uniswap, Aptos, BNY, and Chainlink to its Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee (DAMS).

◆ Crypto. com faced a phishing hack by Scattered Spider before March 2023, leaking limited user data but no funds. CEO Kris Marszalek confirmed on Sept 22 that regulators were informed in 2023, only a few users were affected, and no customer assets were lost.

◆ Revised Responsible Financial Innovation Act (RFIA 2025) proposes protections for DeFi builders and classifies airdrops/staking as non-securities.

◆ Digital Asset Treasury firms raise $20B in 2025, with $10B in July alone; analysts warn the funding wave may have already peaked.

◆ Kaia & LINE NEXT announce “Project Unify”, a stablecoin super-app on LINE Messenger targeting 200M users across Asia.

◆ Crypto-related attacks surge in 2025 — Forbes reports 48 incidents so far this year, up 33% from 2024, with 35 new violent cases since late February; France accounts for 14 of them.

◆ Arthur Hayes cashes out HYPE — The BitMEX co-founder sold all of his 96,628 HYPE, turning his investment into $823K profit (19.2% gain), just weeks after predicting a 126x rally.

◆ Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao’s edutech project Giggle Academy collected 1,311 BNB (~$1.3M) in donations within half a day, driven largely by trading fees from the new memecoin $GIGGLE.

◆ OKX pauses perps DEX — CEO Star Xu says OKX built a perps trading platform in 2023 but held back launch due to CFTC regulatory concerns, while rivals Hyperliquid and Aster grow rapidly.