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The spring contest allowed eligible duplicates to earn rewards, while Bhatt's retrospective links repeated discoveries partly to slow review. Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Eligible institutions can collect rebates funded by matched redeemers, whose auction fees are capped at the Express rate. Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Crypto exchange Kraken has withdrawn intrusive compliance demands sent to Monero customers after its co-CEO admitted the requests were unjustified. On Oct. 24, Arjun Sethi said that customers who purchased and withdrew Monero (XMR) had received emails requesting information about their employers, sources of funds, and intended use of the cryptocurrency. He acknowledged that no… Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Arthur Hayes has exited Maelstrom's directional crypto positions, and on-chain analysts are tracking about $26 million in token sales. In an Oct. 24 statement, Hayes said he had taken profits on Ethereum (ETH), Ethena (ENA), Uniswap (UNI), and other cryptocurrencies, citing mounting macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty. The decision follows blockchain analytics firm Santiment's Oct. 23… Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

The company that owns the New York Stock Exchange wants people to be able to buy stocks 24/7. Given the trading volume crypto and other tokenized assets have seen in the past year or so, the decision to introduce stock tokens comes as no surprise. People want to trade all the time, and now institutions… Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

A Circle shareholder sued President Donald Trump, alleging UAE-linked cryptocurrency payments enriched his family and diverted business from USDC. The complaint, filed Oct. 22 in Washington federal court, challenges a $500 million investment in Trump's World Liberty Financial and a separate $2 billion transaction settled using its USD1 stablecoin. The lawsuit alleges that “No president… Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Bitcoin Core merged a policy amendment on Oct. 22 that lets developers backport fixes for easily rediscovered vulnerabilities to every maintained release line and publish an advisory alongside them. A network snapshot from Oct. 18 shows that 3,671 of 8,422 self-reported Bitcoin Core peers (43.6%) ran release lines that had already reached end of life.… Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

About 169,770 ETH left centralized exchanges on net in one day, Santiment reported Oct. 23, the largest daily withdrawal in more than four months and worth about $407 million at the $2,400 reference price. The last bigger episode came June 5, when roughly 223,800 ETH left exchanges near what Santiment calls a local buying opportunity.… Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Wall Street has found a use for blockchain that involves neither memecoins nor replacing the banking system. It's now helping institutions borrow billions between breakfast and lunch, usually because they have government bonds but not enough cash when a payment comes due. Getting a bill paid on time might be the technology's least glamorous selling… Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Tether faces US Senate scrutiny over multimillion-dollar payments to a consulting firm co-owned by a former White House crypto adviser. On Oct. 22, Senator Richard Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, demanded records on the stablecoin issuer's reported payments to Nxum, a consulting firm co-founded by Bo Hines, who helped… Read the full story on CryptoSlateUnderstand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox