SEC Talks Privacy 👀

What we’ll cover today:

✨ MemeCore’s 230% altcoin party

🎭 XRP stuck between $2.80 and $3.00

🏦 Bybit goes corporate with B2B unit

SEC Talks Privacy in Crypto 👀

The SEC (big US market boss) and Commissioner Hester Peirce are hosting a roundtable on Oct 18 to discuss crypto privacy.

🚨Breaking News: SEC will hold its 6th roundtable on Oct 18, focusing on financial surveillance and privacy tools like Tornado Cash.

⚡Wire Simplified

• Hester Peirce says privacy is “critically important” for Americans.

• Talks follow cases like Tornado Cash co-founder facing charges.

• Trump’s admin is being friendlier toward crypto rules.

• SEC + CFTC even exploring “innovation exemptions” for DeFi.

• Joint SEC CFTC meeting on Sep 29 to discuss more ideas.

• ✔️Straight to the Point: SEC finally sounds like it wants to protect your right to private transactions. But will regulators really loosen up?

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Christie’s Closes NFT Department 🎨🚪

Christie’s (fancy UK auction house) is shutting its NFT department. CEO Bonnie Brennan wants to “reformat digital art sales.”

🚨Breaking News: Christie’s closed its NFT unit, laying off staff, but will still sell digital art under its main art categories.

⚡Wire Simplified

• Christie’s entered NFTs in 2021, made $69M from Beeple’s Everydays.

• New CEO Bonnie Brennan cut the NFT team in Aug.

• NFTs now moved to 20th/21st century art division.

• NFT sales dropped 22% just last week.

• Global art market slowdown also played a role.

✔️Straight to the Point: NFTs aren’t dead, but even Christie’s thinks they don’t deserve a whole department anymore. Welcome back to the “real art” world.

First SEI ETF Filing in the U.S. 📈

The SEC has acknowledged a filing from Cboe BZX Exchange for the first U.S. SEI ETF, starting the review clock.

🚨Breaking News: Canary Staked SEI ETF could soon launch in the U.S., giving investors exposure to staked SEI tokens for the first time.

⚡Wire Simplified

• Cboe BZX filed the ETF, SEC acknowledged on Sep. 8.

• Canary Capital is the sponsor.

• SEI trades at $0.32, support at $0.26–0.28.

• Resistance levels: $0.36–0.39, could hit $0.43.

• 21Shares also filed its own SEI ETF recently.

✔️Straight to the Point: ETFs keep expanding, after Bitcoin and Ethereum, SEI is next in line. Another win for crypto entering Wall Street.