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Tether Says KPMG Issued Clean Opinion in First Full Audit of USDT Financials
Tether announced that it engaged a Big Four firm to complete a full audit and framed the exercise as setting a new quality standard for the digital asset economy, in its own announcement . For related coverage, see Tether Treasury Transfers 500 Million USDT to Binance, Signaling Fresh Liquidity .
Tether Big Four Audit Claim Puts USDT Reserves Back in Focus
Tether says it has completed the long-promised Big Four audit of the finances backing its USDT stablecoin, the company's first full financial audit and the central credibility test for a token it reports at roughly $180 billion in size.
SEC Staff Clears Franklin Funds to Use Onchain Money Fund as Cash and Collateral
The clearance came through the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management, which published a staff no-action and interpretive letter addressed to Franklin Templeton. For related coverage, see Artificial Intelligence Summit –Malaysia 2026 .
CFTC Sues Goliath Ventures Over Alleged $397M Ponzi
The CFTC brought its case against Goliath Ventures as a civil enforcement action, according to the regulator's announcement . The filing is a lawsuit seeking to establish liability, not a criminal conviction.
GRVT Plans $100M USDY Position in Ondo Finance Tie-Up
The plan centers on USDY, the tokenized asset issued by Ondo Finance . GRVT is the derivatives exchange that has recently expanded its market presence, including a listing on OKX spot .
Two Prediction Markets Shut Down as Kalshi and Polymarket Reach 93% Volume
The two closures landed in close succession, a timeline that frames the news as a market-structure development rather than a pair of isolated company updates, according to The Defiant . Neither event was a product launch or a promotional push; both were market exits.
DeFi Week of Nov. 13 Recap: What the Weekly Roundup Covers
The DeFi Week of Nov. 13 recap is a weekly roundup of decentralized finance developments, published in The Defiant's newsletter format to summarize the most relevant DeFi news from that reporting window.
DeFi Alpha Call #28 Recap: Key Themes, Protocol Watchlist, and Market Signals
This recap has to stay unusually narrow because the research package preserves only one directly relevant page and no verified notes from it. The brief points to The Defiant recap entry , but it does not retain a transcript, timestamped agenda, guest list, or speaker quotes from that source.
BTC at 63K Again? What July 2026 Says About Bitcoin After 2021 and 2024
The core observation is simple. In 2021, Bitcoin traded through the low-$60,000s during that year's bull phase, a level visible in daily BTC-USD price history for 2021 .
Bitcoin Bottom Range in 2018, 2022, and 2026
A bottom print is the single lowest price a cycle records. A bottom range is the broader zone of sideways trading that tends to form around it, where sellers are exhausted but buyers have not yet taken decisive control.
BTC Correction in August? Why Traders Want to Enjoy Meme Season First
Bitcoin traders are being urged to lean into the current meme-season momentum while staying alert to a possible BTC correction in August, a month that historical seasonality data has repeatedly flagged as one of the weaker windows of the year for the largest cryptocurrency.
GRVT Listed on OKX Spot: What the Exchange Listing Means
GRVT has been listed on OKX Spot, adding a direct spot trading market for the token on one of the largest centralized exchanges.