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Lead story · Rules

SEC Establishes Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit in Enforcement Division

The SEC established a Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit within its Division of Enforcement to detect and investigate accounting fraud.

  • The SEC established a Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit within its Division of Enforcement to detect and investigate accounting fraud.

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What happened

The SEC established a Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit within its Division of Enforcement to detect and investigate accounting fraud.

Why it matters

The SEC established a Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit within its Division of Enforcement to detect and investigate accounting fraud.

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24h breadthMixed · 53/100
Latest available market pulse.A compact snapshot of whether BTC, ETH, SOL moved higher or lower over the prior 24 hours.
Lower50 = flatHigher

Tracked assets were close to neutral overall.

Breadth starts at 50, adds three points for each 1% of average 24-hour movement across the tracked assets, and is capped between 0 and 100.
BTC$64,969.00+0.50%
BTC was 0.50% higher than the provider quote 24 hours earlier. Snapshot: 10:43 UTC.
ETH$1,919.85+0.40%
ETH was 0.40% higher than the provider quote 24 hours earlier. Snapshot: 10:43 UTC.
SOL$74.93+2.30%
SOL was 2.30% higher than the provider quote 24 hours earlier. Snapshot: 10:43 UTC.

CoinGecko snapshot at 10:43 UTC. Prices and 24-hour moves refresh automatically without rerunning the newsroom.

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@nikhileshde@nikhileshde.bsky.social

The U.S. Senate has filed cloture on the Clarity Act, setting it up for an initial vote almost as soon as it returns next month https://t.co/e2TCaWoIfm

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@laurashinLaura Shin

"The thing that the largest fintechs are doing today is mostly onchain lending" Veda CEO Sun Raghupathi explains why vaults won't stay just an onchain lending product "That's what Robinhood, Coinbase, Kraken, MetaMask, a number of these other companies are building today with vaults, getting exposure to protocols like Morpho, Aave, on the Solana side Kamino, Jupiter" "But increasingly, as more assets move onchain through things like tokenized funds, tokenized equities, that increases the universe of products that can be built" "Vaults are really this very flexible primitive that today have found significant PMF in the onchain lending world, but my view is long term that this will evolve"

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@EleanorTerrettEleanor Terrett

Tova is one of the best in the crypto comms space! I’ve truly loved working with her over the last few years. Hire her!

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What moved, and by how much.

This panel compares each provider quote with the quote 24 hours earlier. Editorial stories remain in the Editor-in-Chief’s priority order instead of being repeated or pulled into this fixed data region.

Mixed · breadth 53/100. A score of 50 means the tracked assets were flat on average.

24-hour price changeLatest · 10:43 UTC
Each row compares the current provider quote with its quote 24 hours earlier. Bar length is scaled to the largest move shown.
BTC$64,969.00
+0.50%BTC was 0.50% higher than the provider quote 24 hours earlier. Snapshot: 10:43 UTC.
ETH$1,919.85
+0.40%ETH was 0.40% higher than the provider quote 24 hours earlier. Snapshot: 10:43 UTC.
SOL$74.93
+2.30%SOL was 2.30% higher than the provider quote 24 hours earlier. Snapshot: 10:43 UTC.

Exact percentages are printed beside every row; color is supplemental.

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