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Blockchain.com is seeking approval in the U.S. market to launch prediction markets and crypto derivatives trading.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that more small-scale governance experiments or innovation regulatory sandboxes are needed at the U.S. federal level. Debating every reform on a national scale would lead to excessively high trial-and-error and learning costs, resulting in slow progress.
Coinbase Markets announced that, following a recent review, Coinbase will pause trading for Balancer (BAL) and Tensor (TNSR) at 3:00 AM Beijing Time on November 10. The BAL and TNSR order books have switched to price-only mode, and users can continue to withdraw their assets normally.
According to Coinbase's official blog, Coinbase announced that it will provide stablecoin services for Samsung Wallet, with USDC launching as the default U.S. dollar stablecoin in the U.S. market during the last week of October 2026. When users deposit into their stablecoin balances, USDC will automatically appear as the default option. The related assets will be held in custody by Coinbase Prime Vault through its NYDFS-compliant custody service, operated in collaboration with licensed stablecoin infrastructure provider Bastion. To date, USDC's circulating supply has already grown by 72% in 2025 to exceed $75 billion, and the number of wallets holding the asset has increased by 59% to nearly 7 million.
Molly Abraham (@mollyisonchain), a member of Coinbase’s legal team, posted that Coinbase filed an appellate brief today with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, requesting the court to confirm the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) exclusive regulatory authority over prediction markets. Molly emphasized that the crux of the dispute is not whether prediction markets should be regulated—they are already governed by the Commodity Exchange Act—but rather whether they should be uniformly overseen by the CFTC, which brings more than 50 years of experience managing derivatives markets, or subjected to disparate regulation across all 50 states. According to Coinbase, Congress has already answered this question clearly, and this filing seeks judicial confirmation of that ruling.
According to Cointelegraph, the crypto political action committee Fairshake, backed by Coinbase, Ripple Labs, and Andreessen Horowitz, announced it will fund 32 House candidates in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, including 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats. As an initial round, Fairshake will contribute $1 million each to the campaigns of six of these candidates, totaling $6 million. All 32 candidates previously voted in 2025 to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act). The bill had earlier failed to pass a crucial procedural vote in the Senate, and its subsequent progress remains uncertain.
Odaily News: Bitwise Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan stated that after the Senate declined to advance the CLARITY Act on September 15, stablecoin platforms retain room to offer balance rewards to customers, and exchanges such as Coinbase also continue to maintain existing state-level licenses and advantages in integrating trading and brokerage operations.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a five-year exemption for tokenized stock trading on September 17, allowing qualifying platforms to adopt permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools for testing. Hougan listed Securitize, which provides services for BlackRock, Apollo, and KKR tokenized funds, as a beneficiary.SEC staff updated token buyback guidance on September 28, stating that for networks that are already functional and have no centralized party, buyback announcements do not constitute a promise on which purchasers rely for expected profits; the guidance does not have legal effect. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to Ariel Givner, Judge Pacold of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a ruling supporting a partial preliminary injunction in a lawsuit involving Coinbase, Kalshi, and the U.S. federal government/U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) against Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, thwarting Illinois' attempt to classify sports event contracts on the prediction market platform Kalshi under the state's gambling regulations in its initial legal push.
Coinbase affiliate Stand With Crypto announced its list of supported candidates for the Senate and House in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. Analysis indicates that if Democrats regain control of Congress in 2027, it could reshape the legislative process for crypto bills such as the CLARITY Act.
Odaily News: Coinbase-backed crypto advocacy group Stand With Crypto (SWC) has announced its first batch of Senate candidate endorsements, including Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted, as well as Iowa candidate Ashley Hinson and New Hampshire candidate Chris Pappas.Previously, the U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act in a procedural vote on September 15. SWC Executive Director Mason Lynaugh stated that following this vote, the organization will shift more of its focus toward elections. SWC also announced expanded support and advertising spending for certain House candidates. The organization had previously said it would factor senators' performance on key CLARITY Act votes into candidate records. (The Block)
According to CBS Atlanta, Mercedes Henry, a 35-year-old woman from Stone Mountain, Georgia, who formerly worked as a bank teller at Ameris Bank, is charged with, between September and November 2021, without authorization, linking six customers' bank accounts to the cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase and, in collusion with others, transferring approximately $931,000 into a Coinbase account controlled by her. A federal grand jury has brought multiple charges against her, including bank fraud, access device fraud, and bribery. Henry was arrested on September 25 and appeared in court, and the case continues to be actively investigated by the FBI.
Odaily News: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit on September 28, seeking the forfeiture of 110,300 USDT seized from a Binance account. The case involves phishing text messages impersonating Coinbase, which led to the theft of 33.7 bitcoins, worth approximately $900,000 at the time, from a beneficiary and their family trust held in the same Coinbase account.Investigators said that between June 5 and June 15, 2023, 11.2 of the stolen bitcoins were traced to the Binance account and were quickly converted into Monero. When the FBI requested the account be frozen, it held approximately 758.55 Monero; Binance transferred 110,300 USDT to a government-controlled wallet on August 3, 2026. (Bitcoin.com News)
Martin Carrica tweeted that he will join Coinbase as Head of Stablecoins to expand stablecoin coverage and influence. Previously, Martin Carrica led the development of regulated stablecoins at Mountain Protocol and Anchorage.
据布鲁克林地区检察官 Eric Gonzalez 宣布，布鲁克林男子 Ronald Spektor（23 岁）因实施大规模 Coinbase 网络钓鱼诈骗，于 2026年 9月 23 日被布鲁克林最高法院判处 4至 12 年有期徒刑。 Spektor 冒充 Coinbase 客服代表，以"账户遭黑客攻击"为由，诱骗全美约 100 名用户将加密资产转入其控制的钱包，累计盗窃金额约 1594.4 万美元。被盗资产随后经多个加密交易所反复兑换洗钱，最终流向赌博平台、礼品卡及数字资产购买渠道。 Spektor 在 Telegram 频道"Blockchain enemies"中以 @lolimfeelingevil 为昵称公开炫耀犯罪所得，并招募他人协助实施社会工程攻击。调查人员通过区块链分析、数字取证及多项搜查令，将其家庭 IP 地址与多个被盗钱包关联，最终锁定其身份。 Spektor 已就全部 31 项指控认罪，包括一级洗钱罪、一级重大盗窃罪等，并被命令没收逾 50 万美元资产，同时赔偿受害者近 1600 万美元。
According to Bloomberg, sources familiar with the matter said that after reviewing its membership framework, the UK financial services industry organization UK Finance determined that cryptocurrency exchanges do not meet membership standards and has terminated Coinbase's membership, which the latter may appeal.
SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda disclosed that the agency withdrew civil cases against companies such as Coinbase and Ripple in early 2025 to avoid conflicts with new regulatory policies and preserve the credibility of the courts. This move has been viewed by some critics as a reward for supporting Trump's campaign.
US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has had its membership terminated by UK Finance, the UK financial services lobbying group. Sources familiar with the matter said the UK Finance board wrote to Coinbase last week to notify it of the termination. The report noted that the move comes as the digital asset industry's influence in UK policy discussions is growing. (Bloomberg)
Bernstein believes the exchange model transforms sports betting into a traffic-driven business, operating without house positions and utilizing a global order book with institutional market making. The firm assigns an Outperform rating to Robinhood (HOOD) and Coinbase (COIN), recommending focus on regulatory progress and the pace of institutional adoption.
Odaily reports: The U.S. Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on September 15 with a vote of 49 in favor and 50 against, and with limited remaining legislative sessions before Congress's 2027 term, the bill's chances of passage have diminished.Fairshake, a political action committee backed by Coinbase and Ripple Labs, plans to spend $30 million in the Ohio Senate race to oppose Sherrod Brown. Fairshake spent over $130 million on advertising during the 2024 election cycle and approximately $41 million opposing Brown.Stand With Crypto, an advocacy group launched by Coinbase in 2023, said it will mobilize supporters to participate in the 2026 midterm elections based on lawmakers' voting records on the bill. As of Monday, Fairshake and its affiliated political action committees had not disclosed any new spending following the vote. (Cointelegraph)
Brian Armstrong posted on X platform stating that The Wall Street Journal is preparing an article that blames Coinbase and himself for the CLARITY Act's failure to pass. Armstrong said that in January, he opposed a draft bill submitted for committee vote because it still had major issues regarding DeFi, tokenization, CFTC jurisdiction, and stablecoin rewards; after collaborative revisions from multiple parties, all four of these issues were resolved, and the revised draft passed committee review approximately four months later. Armstrong stated that he strongly supports the final version of the CLARITY Act submitted to the Senate and will continue to push for cryptocurrency regulatory rules.