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Plenti Raises $3M From Tether, Verda Ventures to Expand Across Latin America

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Plenti Raises $3M From Tether, Verda Ventures to Expand Across Latin America

Colombian FinTech platform Plenti has raised $3 million in a seed funding round led by Tether with participation from Verda Ventures.

Plenti has built a global multicurrency account used by more than 150,000 people and businesses across Colombia to move digital dollars, fund international brokerage accounts, and invest fractionally in U.S. stocks and crypto assets.

Founded in 2022, the platform has processed more than $3.1 billion in annual transaction volume to date. Having proven the model in Colombia, Plenti is now expanding into Peru and Bolivia.

The company plans to use the funds to consolidate its operations in Colombia and finance its expansion into Peru and Bolivia.

Tether’s investment comes as digital dollar platforms gain ground across Latin America amid continued volatility in local currencies. As of the end of the second quarter of 2026, Tether reported approximately $184.6 billion in USDT in circulation, representing more than 60% of the global stablecoin market.

“Having Tether come in now as an investor validates what we’ve built and lets us strengthen the platform’s liquidity and security to bring this model to more markets in Latin America,” said Martín Peláez, co-founder and CTO of Plenti.

Plenti competes in the multicurrency accounts and retail investment category alongside platforms such as ARQ (formerly DolarApp), Littio and Bitso. Its offering includes international transactions, yield on balances of up to 8% EA, and fractional investing starting at $6 in U.S. exchange listed stocks, ETFs and crypto assets.

“We raised $3 million for an operation that already moves more than $3.1 billion a year. We didn’t need capital to grow in Colombia, we raised it to accelerate and bring the model to new markets,” Peláez said.

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Crypto Industry Urges SEC to Avoid Blanket Novel ETF Restrictions

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Crypto Industry Urges SEC to Avoid Blanket Novel ETF Restrictions
Latest NewsPublishedSep 2, 2026

Grayscale, a16z, and the CCI asked the SEC to preserve existing classification rules and avoid treating novel exchange-traded products as a single category, while proposing different routes to clearer and faster reviews.

Crypto industry participants urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to avoid a blanket restriction on “novel” exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and instead evaluate products based on their individual risk parameters.

Venture capital firm a16z asked the SEC to evaluate novel products according to their underlying characteristics, coordinate fund-registration and exchange-listing reviews and adopt more predictable timelines. Digital asset investment manager Grayscale and the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) supported optional confidential pre-filing processes.

All three opposed changing existing investment-company classifications in ways that could automatically sweep products holding non-securities into the Investment Company Act framework.

The letters were dated Aug. 31 and posted by the SEC around the close of a 60-day public-comment period on its request for feedback concerning novel ETFs.

The SEC opened the consultation window on the next generation of ETFs on June 30, seeking feedback on whether existing regulations are adequate, how such funds should be regulated and whether changes to the registration process are needed.

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Crypto industry stakeholders urge SEC for more regulatory clarity on novel ETFs

A16z argued that crypto-based ETPs now benefit from more developed market infrastructure, including exchange-approved listing standards and established disclosure requirements, and therefore should not be grouped with products holding private assets or using other novel strategies.

Grayscale similarly argued that digital asset products with established compliance and disclosure records should not face new portfolio conditions or disclosure regimes merely because they are characterized as novel. CCI called for comparable regulatory efficiencies across ETFs and non-ETF ETPs while preserving existing investor protections.

The commenters broadly opposed categorical regulatory changes that could impose additional requirements or delay product launches. However, their recommendations differed on classification, approval procedures and terminology.

One clear disagreement concerned the ETF label. a16z proposed that the term ETF should be reserved for funds under the Investment Company Act of 1940, while Grayscale said that the term ETF should describe economic characteristics regardless of the legal wrapper.

Meanwhile, CCI urged the financial regulator to create clearer registration-status disclosures rather than radically changing the current approval framework.

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DOJ says Hamas crypto seizures reached $560,000 as FBI took over fundraising sites

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DOJ says Hamas crypto seizures reached $560,000 as FBI took over fundraising sites

FBI agents took control of domains and servers, specifically Alqassam.ps, to intercept donations and prevent further fundraising for the Al-Qassam Brigades.

G20 members tout ‘clear pathways’ for digital asset innovation

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G20 members tout ‘clear pathways’ for digital asset innovation

Officials in the G20, under the US’ presidency, recognized that digital assets could support “broad-based economic growth” and called for improvements in cross-border transactions.

New Jersey Officials Petition US Supreme Court over Prediction Markets

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New Jersey Officials Petition US Supreme Court over Prediction Markets

New Jersey’s Attorney General and the state’s interim director for the Division of Gaming Enforcement have officially petitioned the US Supreme Court to hear a case aimed at resolving whether state authorities or federal agencies have jurisdiction over prediction market companies.

On Wednesday, Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and gaming enforcement interim director Mary Jo Flaherty filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court over New Jersey’s enforcement against prediction market platform Kalshi over sporting event contracts. Officials cited civil cases brought by gaming authorities in “at least 20 states,” seeking the highest court in the US to decide whether prediction market companies could be in compliance with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) while violating state laws.

“Companies like Kalshi claim to offer legal sports betting in all 50 States, but they refuse to follow the gambling laws of any State,” said Davenport. “These companies have no right to offer their sports bets without following state law, which is why dozens of States across the ideological spectrum have opposed them […] We’re calling on the Supreme Court to resolve this issue and recognize that Congress did not silently make the sports-betting industry immune from state law.”

Source: New Jersey Attorney General

Citing New Jersey’s enforcement against Kalshi, the petition presented the Supreme Court with the question of “whether the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act preempted States from regulating sports bets that occur within their jurisdictions if those bets are offered on markets registered with the [CFTC].” Cointelegraph reached out to the CFTC for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

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The petition challenges an April opinion from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in which judges ruled 2-1 against New Jersey’s gaming authorities, saying Kalshi’s argument that the company had a ”reasonable chance of success” in claiming that the CFTC’s Commodity Exchange Act preempted state law. It specifically challenges the CFTC’s claim that sports bets on prediction market platforms amount to “swaps” under the agency’s purview and argued “federal law does not preempt state sports-gambling laws regardless.”

What are the potential consequences for Kalshi and other prediction markets?

“Because federal law prohibits trading swaps off CFTC-registered markets, a victory for Kalshi would mean that all sports gambling off such CFTC-registered markets would seemingly become illegal even if state law allows it,” said the New Jersey AG’s announcement on the petition.

Kalshi spokesperson Dani Lever told Cointelegraph that the company disagreed with New Jersey’s decision to appeal to the Supreme Court, saying that it could not be “regulated by 50 different regulators.“

”We remain confident in the lower courts’ rulings, and nothing in New Jersey’s filing today changes our view,” said Lever.

Event contract on when the US Supreme Court will hear a prediction markets case. Source: Polymarket

Whether the Supreme Court justices will take up the issue of prediction markets is unclear. Many experts have been speculating that the justices could weigh in on a case that went to the appellate court in Nevada. Whether the court chooses the Kalshi case in Nevada, the one in New Jersey or an enforcement action against a different company down the road, any potential decision could decide which authorities can regulate prediction markets.

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US Officials Work with CrowdStrike to Fight Malware behind Crypto Theft

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US Officials Work with CrowdStrike to Fight Malware behind Crypto Theft

Federal law enforcement officials, working with cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike, announced action against entities behind malware that enabled the theft of $150,000 in cryptocurrency.

In a Tuesday notice, the US Justice Department said it had disrupted the Sality botnet and malware in an international effort with Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian officials, as well as private sector partners CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation. US officials said that Sality was responsible for installing malware on compromised devices since 2003, resulting in crypto theft and cyberattacks. 

CrowdStrike reported that in the previous eight years, the entities behind Sality used EggJagger, a “clipjacking tool that monitors the clipboard for cryptocurrency wallet addresses and silently replaces them with addresses controlled by the operator,” to steal at least 12.1 million rubles, or about $150,000, in cryptocurrency. According to the company, the value of the “never-spent” digital assets peaked at about $1.5 million in January 2025.

“When a victim copies a Bitcoin or Ethereum address to make a payment, the funds are redirected,” said CrowdStrike, explaining the technique behind the theft.

According to CrowdStrike, the criminals behind Sality “lost the ability to communicate with infected machines” as a result of authorities’ efforts to disrupt the network. US officials and the company said Sality was used to steal crypto, while about 15,000 infected computers formed part of a peer-to-peer botnet that checked whether its systems were online every 40 minutes.

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New Jersey becomes first state to ask Supreme Court to weigh in on prediction markets

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New Jersey becomes first state to ask Supreme Court to weigh in on prediction markets

After multiple appeals courts ruled differently about whether states can crack down on prediction markets’ sports products, New Jersey asked SCOTUS to step in.

Kraken parent Payward delays IPO to second quarter of 2027 at earliest

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Kraken parent Payward delays IPO to second quarter of 2027 at earliest

The crypto exchange operator, which confidentially filed for a U.S. listing last November, had already put its IPO plans on hold amid difficult market conditions.

Ondo Says US Rules Can Support Stock Perpetual Futures

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Ondo Says US Rules Can Support Stock Perpetual Futures

Ondo Finance is urging US regulators to bring perpetual futures tied to individual stocks onshore, arguing that the products can already operate under the country’s existing security futures framework without new rules.

In three Aug. 24 comment letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Ondo argued that existing rules can accommodate perpetual stock futures while also accounting for modern margining practices and onchain market data.

Ondo said its Panama-based affiliate already offers stablecoin-settled perpetual futures on individual US-listed stocks outside the United States, with the platform recording $8 billion in cumulative trading volume as of Aug. 14, around six weeks after its launch.

Ondo ranks fourth among tokenized RWA managers by distributed value. Source: RWA.xyz

The company argued that scheduled funding payments can keep perpetual contracts aligned with the price of their underlying stocks, performing a similar function to expiration in traditional futures.

“Nothing in the statutory definition of a security futures product requires a fixed expiration date,” Ondo said in its product-classification letter.

Ondo also noted that many of the stocks underlying offshore perpetuals are principally traded on US exchanges. “Bringing that activity back to the U.S. should not be an open question; it’s something both agencies should actively pursue,” the company said.

Ondo is among the largest managers of tokenized real-world assets, ranking fourth with about $2.6 billion in distributed value as of Wednesday, according to RWA.xyz data.

Related: Ondo shifts from layer-1 blockchain plan to offchain execution network

US regulators look to modernize market rules

Ondo’s proposal comes as US regulators reconsider how existing market rules apply to onchain products, including perpetual futures and tokenized securities.

President Donald Trump said in August that CFTC Chair Michael Selig was working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States in a “fully compliant and legal fashion.” Hyperliquid is best known for its onchain perpetual futures market, though neither the CFTC nor Hyperliquid has publicly detailed how US access would work.

HYPE, the native token of Hyperliquid, jumped more than 20% following Trump’s comments and has gained nearly 49% over the past month to trade around $81 on Wednesday, according to CoinGecko data.

HYPE has gained nearly 49% over the past month. Source: CoinGecko

The SEC, which oversees securities markets, and the CFTC, which regulates US derivatives markets, have also stepped up coordination this year, signing a memorandum of understanding in March to harmonize oversight in areas where their jurisdictions overlap.

On Tuesday, the SEC proposed overhauling its decades-old transfer agent framework, citing growing demand for blockchain-native recordkeeping and tokenized securities in US markets as the agency reexamines rules built for older market infrastructure.

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Crypto made new friends in U.S. primaries, but focus now shifts to general election

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Crypto made new friends in U.S. primaries, but focus now shifts to general election

Adding Massachusetts incumbent Auchincloss to the list of winning primary candidates Fairshake supported, the industry’s influence moves on to November.

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