According to Foresight News, seven Labour MPs who chair parliamentary committees have urged the UK government to prohibit cryptocurrency political donations in the forthcoming Election Bill. The letter, co-signed by Liam Byrne, Chair of the Business and Trade Select Committee, and six colleagues, highlights concerns that crypto donations undermine the transparency, traceability, and regulatory effectiveness of political funding. The MPs argue that cryptocurrencies can obscure the true source of funds, facilitate numerous small donations below disclosure thresholds, and expose UK politics to the risk of foreign interference. The Electoral Commission has warned that current technology makes these risks challenging to manage.

According to ChainCatcher, Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK) has officially approved and issued a license to ICEx, making it the country's second cryptocurrency exchange platform.

Monero has officially surged to a new all-time high of $545, marking its strongest price level ever as traders shift away from Zcash. source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/monero-hits-an-ath-as-investors-flee-zcash/

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1. Spot gold rises to $4,600 for the first time; 2. Powell: The threat of criminal prosecution from the US Department of Justice is due to the Federal Reserve's independent interest rate setting; 3. BitMine adds 109,504 ETH to its pledged portfolio, bringing the total pledged ETH to 1.19 million; 4. Federal prosecutors launch a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Powell; 5. A whale sells $912,000 worth of WHITEWHALE tokens, still holding $4.24 million worth of tokens; 6. BitMine's total pledged ETH surpasses 1 million, with a total value of approximately $3.36 billion; 7. A new address withdraws $1.55 million in ZEC from Binance; 8. Michael Saylor releases Bitcoin Tracker information again, possibly increasing his BTC holdings again; 9. Tether successfully registers the trademark for its asset tokenization platform Hadron in Russia; 10. A user's 25x leveraged ETH long position is showing a floating loss of 28.7. The unrealized profit of US$10 million has been withdrawn by more than US$2 million from its peak.

UK committee chairs are calling for a ban on crypto donations to political parties. source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/uk-urge-total-ban-on-crypto-donations/

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is threatened with criminal charges, raising concerns about the Fed's independence. source: https://coincu.com/news/federal-reserve-powell-doj-threat/

According to ChainCatcher, U.S. Republican Senator Thom Tillis has stated that no Federal Reserve nominees, including the chair, will be confirmed until the legal case involving Jerome Powell is resolved.

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A freer, more open, and vibrant digital civilization, supported by decentralized protocols and jointly built and governed by autonomous intelligent agents and humans, is on the horizon.

The four-stage model of the debt crisis has been historically proven, stark and inevitable. The United States is already deeply mired in expansion, triggering its effects and increasing the risk of further damage.

Jinse Finance launches its daily cryptocurrency and blockchain news bulletin, "Jinse at 8 AM," issue 2934, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.

Golden Weekly is a weekly blockchain industry summary column launched by Golden Finance, covering key news, mining information, project updates, technological advancements, and other industry dynamics.

Vitalik Buterin published an open letter on Friday in support of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, who was convicted in August of conspiracy to commit illicit currency transfers and faces up to five years in prison.

Paragraphs 4 and 5 of the introduction provide an overview of the Bitcoin system and the Bitcoin protocol.

Zhou Investment took advantage of the pullback to buy Broadcom, while reducing its holdings in Palantir and Rocket Lab.

This week, 10 blockchain startups raised $613.5 million in funding. Rain raised $250 million in its Series C funding round, the largest round of funding this week.

With oversubscription of 14 times, many players on Polymarket questioned whether the project team manipulated the project.

Prediction markets have become mainstream, and by 2026, with their integration with cryptocurrencies and AI, their scale, reach, and intelligence will only increase further, while also bringing new and important challenges to their builders.