What to expect in the second week
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What to expect in the second week

The second week of the Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried FTX fraud trial will commence its hearings again on Monday, Oct. 9 with one of the main focal points anticipated to be testimony from Caroline Ellison.  Ellison, former romantic partner of SBF’s and CEO of FTX-tied Alameda Research is set to testify this upcoming week, possibly as soon as Tuesday. She was…

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SEC Approves First Leveraged Bitcoin Futures ETF
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Bitcoin ‘Main Beneficiary’ as Crypto Investment Hits High Not Seen Since July

CoinShares latest investment report revealed a surge of investment into the market, with a total of $78 million pouring into the sector. This is the second consecutive week of positive inflows, with almost a four-fold increase from $21 million in the previous week, and also the largest week of inflows since July this year, as noted by the report’s author…

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Crypto investment products see largest inflows since July: CoinShares
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Crypto investment products see largest inflows since July: CoinShares

Digital asset investment products have continued to see significant inflows last week, reaching the highest volume levels since July 2023, according to a new report. Crypto investment products saw inflows for the second consecutive week, totaling $78 million, crypto asset management firm CoinShares reported in its weekly analysis report on Oct. 9. According to CoinShares, the volumes of crypto exchange-traded…

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New York Times Pushes Back Against Sam Bankman-Fried Gag Order
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Gary Wang Affirms FTX Insurance Fund Sum Was a Fake Number

In his Friday testimony, FTX co-founder Gary Wang said the crypto exchange’s insurance fund balance differed from the actual funds held by the exchange. “For one, there is no FTT in the insurance fund,” Wang reportedly said, according to a retranscription of the trial’s fourth day posted on Twitter by BitMEX Research. “It’s just the USD number. And, two, the…

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Debanking Row Revived By UK Regulator Review
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Here’s How Crypto Firms Are Bracing for New Rules in the UK

Coinbase, Revolut, and Binance have made updates to their mobile and web applications to comply with the new United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) marketing rules, which took effect on October 8. Over the weekend, Coinbase and Revolut notified their customers via email about these changes, including additional “risk disclaimers” for crypto transactions, and asked their users to update the…

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EU mulls more restrictive regulations for large AI models: Report
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EU mulls more restrictive regulations for large AI models: Report

Representatives in the European Union are reportedly negotiating a plan for additional regulations on the largest artificial intelligence (AI) systems, according to a report from Bloomberg.  The European Commission, European Parliament and the various EU member states are said to be in discussions regarding the potential effects of large language models (LLMs), including Meta’s Llama 2 and OpenAI’s GPT-4, and…

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