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Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 after hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation data, then bounced back above $82,000 within hours as buyers stepped in. Now traders are
Ledger has unveiled Atom, an Android-based, phone-like device that runs everyday apps alongside a protected mode for crypto. It is planned for mid-2027, as Ledg
A three-year investigation by the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office and the FBI has knocked out 241 scam websites and 112 servers behind a crypto fraud networ
Patrick Witt, executive director of the White House Crypto Council, has left as his temporary assignment ended. He was the council's last remaining staffer, and
Australia's financial watchdog wants crypto exchanges to hold more capital, report their wallets every quarter and stop trading against their own customers. Con
Bitcoin treasury company Strive plans a $500 million offering of a new preferred stock called SATS, with a 15% fixed dividend. The raise is proposed, not comple
Solana's Alpenglow upgrade is scheduled to go live on mainnet-beta on Oct. 21, replacing TowerBFT with Votor and targeting finality of about 150 milliseconds, d
BNY and Citadel Securities settled a tokenized two-year Treasury note in minutes, then used it as collateral in an overnight triparty repo, a first for a major
Ripple has partnered with Stripe-owned Privy to bring embedded wallets to the XRP Ledger, letting apps offer XRP and RLUSD payments without building wallets fro
Bitcoin climbed toward $84,000 in Asian trading after New York Fed President John Williams said he sees no need for rate hikes in 2027. Now all eyes are on Thur
Your seven-day catch-up: 22 stories from Oct 5–11, 2026, from Bitcoin and regulation to security and the CANDY ecosystem, in one five-minute read.
A decade-old overflow flaw in XRPL's payment engine could have created XRP from nothing. It was fixed on Sept. 25, and RippleX says there's no sign anyone explo
The IMF says tokenized equities have found real users, many trading fractions of a share after hours, but thin liquidity makes them about 1.5 times as volatile
Ledger says one user's device carried an unauthorized hardware implant. The units came through a Southeast Asian reseller, and losses remain unconfirmed.
Michael Saylor posted his familiar Sunday chart with 117 purchase markers and "room for more orange." No buy has been confirmed, and a holiday may delay the SEC
Jeonbuk Bank now lets businesses pledge Bitcoin for Korean won loans, a first for the country's banks. Pricing details are still unknown, but the legal groundwo
Candy RWA (rwa.candychain.io) will turn gift card value into branded tokens backed 1:1, plus CANDY rewards. Phase 1, rewards tokenization, is coming soon; real
Tether has signed an MoU with Kazakhstan's central bank and the Alatau City Authority to study a tenge-backed stablecoin pilot and tokenization. It's explorator
Solana DEX Orca and lender Loopscale have merged into Formation, led by CEO Luke Truitt, with plans to support assets from issuance and financing through to tra
Ethereum developers are pushing the Sepolia testnet's gas limit towards 200 million, more than triple its old level, to stress-test the Glamsterdam upgrade. No
CoinDesk reported that Cointelegraph is looking for a buyer after a Google penalty hit its traffic. Cointelegraph says it is not for sale and has asked for a co
Bitcoin slid to about $82,783 as Brent crude moved towards 02, the 10-year Treasury yield held above 5.3% and more than $550 million in crypto bets were liqui
BaFin has rejected a MiCA licence for futurum bank, the bank behind Bitcoin.de. Parent Bitcoin Group plans to restart trading within weeks with regulated German
Abstract, the Ethereum Layer 2 built by Pudgy Penguins parent Igloo, will shut down on Dec. 15. Funds left on the chain after that date will be lost.
The Cardano Foundation has launched CIP-0113, a token standard that lets issuers of stablecoins, funds and bonds restrict recipients and freeze or seize holding
Bitcoin fell below $84,000, dropping about $2,000 in minutes, as oil jumped above 01 after reported tanker attacks and a firmer dollar and higher yields hit r
The CLARITY Act's Senate defeat hasn't stopped crypto M&A. Disclosed deal value hit a record $9.7 billion in the first half of 2026, and bankers expect deals to
The IMF approved a 38 million disbursement for El Salvador, granting waivers after the country missed a condition on bitcoin accumulation, citing corrective m
Early Safe investor Greenfield Capital has filed a complaint with Switzerland's foundation supervisor, seeking independent board oversight at the Safe Ecosystem
Japan has added Garantex, a Russia-linked crypto exchange tied to more than $96 billion in transactions, to its asset-freeze list as part of expanded Russia san
Bitcoin pushed towards $87,000 again but ran into selling, retreating from near $86,950 as ETF inflows cooled and traders took profits.
Zcash's NU7 upgrade has gone live on testnet, cutting block times from 75 to 25 seconds. Developers will decide on mainnet activation on Oct. 20, targeting Nov.
Nearly 1.5 million ETH is lined up to become staked on Ethereum, with a wait of about 25 days. Meanwhile the exit queue has jumped after MetaMask began pulling
OKXICE, a joint venture of OKX and NYSE owner ICE, has filed with the SEC to launch 24/7 trading of tokenized shares in 63 U.S. companies, with dividend and vot
India-based users sent $88.4 billion to crypto exchanges in a year, but Chainalysis says Indian platforms received only 0.7% of it, with taxes a likely factor.
Russia's Finance Ministry has paid some staff salaries in digital rubles for the first time, a voluntary step that marks the CBDC's first use for regular govern
Bitcoin briefly reached about $87,200 on Oct. 2 after the U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, well below forecasts, cooling rate-hike fears and pulling bo
Two days after an exploit drained about $3.8 million, NEAR Intents says the attacker has returned the full amount following an ultimatum and on-chain negotiatio
The Independent Community Bankers of America has sued the OCC, arguing it overstepped its authority by letting crypto firms obtain national trust bank charters.
Paradigm-backed Blast says running its Ethereum Layer 2 now costs more than it earns. Users should move assets to Ethereum mainnet by October 26 to use the norm
Victims of April's $295 million Drift hack can now claim DFX recovery tokens, one per dollar lost. Each is initially redeemable for about $0.0104, and further r
Illinois has agreed with crypto industry groups to push back its 0.2% crypto tax by six months, to July 1, 2027. A judge still has to approve the delay.
Citigroup has lifted its 12-month bitcoin target to 13,000 and its ether target to $3,028, citing returning ETF inflows and a more supportive backdrop.
Bitcoin briefly topped $86,000, touching about $86,885, as traders positioned ahead of September's U.S. jobs data, despite multi-decade highs in bond yields.
In the EU's review of its MiCA crypto rules, the Hyperliquid Policy Center wants perpetual futures regulated under MiFID II, while Circle wants stablecoin reser
The Ethereum Foundation has launched zkAPI, an experimental system that lets people pay for AI models and other APIs without revealing who they are.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in about $2.65 billion of net inflows in September, their second-biggest month since October 2025, despite a choppy market.
The SEC's new innovation exemption opens a path for tokenized U.S. stocks, but its volume caps and ownership rules don't fit Robinhood's current offshore stock
The SEC has proposed a custody framework that would give investment advisers and regulated funds a clear way to hold crypto, including state trust companies as
Cross-chain swap protocol NEAR Intents paused services after a bug led to about $3.8 million in losses. It has patched the flaw, resumed operations and pledged
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MetaMask is exiting affected Ethereum validators in its staking operations as a precaution after a security incident hit part of its infrastructure. It says the
A Florida federal court entered a default judgment of about $31.5 million against two people tied to Fundsz, an alleged crypto and precious-metals scheme that p
The CFTC has sent two rulemakings on event contracts to the White House for review, as a fight with U.S. states over who regulates prediction markets continues.
A wallet linked to the Bitget hack moved 2,746 ZEC, about $3.9 million, into Zcash's Ironwood shielded pool, where transaction details are hidden.
The FCA has opened applications for its new crypto regime. Firms that apply by February 28, 2027 can keep operating while they're assessed; the regime takes eff
Standard Chartered has started covering Ethena with a $2 year-end 2028 target for ENA, about seven times the level in its report, on the back of USDe growth and
Brazil's state energy giant Petrobras is testing Cardano in two research projects to track the green claims behind sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diese
Coinbase-incubated Base has activated its Cobalt upgrade, adding transactions that only execute when set conditions are met, plus new controls for tokenized ass
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