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Strive Buys 6,182 Bitcoin for $511 Million, Lifting Holdings to 43,000 BTC
The purchase increased its bitcoin balance by 16.8% during a period that included the closing of a $630 million preferred-stock offering.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Blast Reaches Withdrawal Interface Deadline With $40 Million Still in Bridge
Blast has published contract-level exit guides, but withdrawals still require proofs, a one-day wait and, for USDB, a separate DAI claim.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Consensys Warns Ethereum Operators of eMudhra Signing Risks
The teams identify vulnerable Java trust stores and configuration-dependent exposure. Default setups are unaffected, while some Web3Signer deployments need immediate access-control changes.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Foundation Links Passport Phishing Emails to Compromised Cloudflare API Keys
Recipients reported personal and purchase details in the messages; the company said Passport hardware and funds were safe.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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How a DAO Vote Becomes a Treasury Transfer
Uniswap’s executed funding proposal shows the difference between a sentiment poll, a binding vote and the contract authorized to release tokens.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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How to Check a Software Wallet—and What the Checks Cannot Prove
Fake Firefox extensions targeted recovery phrases; Electrum patched a genuine-client flaw that could trick users into signing a substituted payment.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Why Tokenized Stocks Can Trade Away From the Share Price
A closed-market buy-and-exit example shows how spreads and trade size affect execution. Minting and redemption follow a separate clock.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tokenized Deposits vs. Stablecoins: What JPM Coin and USDC Holders Own
USDC holders can transfer tokens without a Circle Mint account, but direct dollar redemption requires one. JPM Coin limits participation to approved institutional clients.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Dogecoin Foundation and House of Doge End Exclusive Brand Deal
House of Doge keeps limited investment-product rights, while a separate deal would exchange Such App assets for $4 million in Dogecoin Labs stock.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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X100 Exploit Proceeds Split Into Four 400-ETH Wallets
The first exploiter swapped about 4.75 million USDT into ether, while the distribution wallet retained another 423 ETH.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Keystone Website Breach Exposes Customer Addresses and Order Details
The hardware-wallet maker says it blocked access and fixed the vulnerability. Payment details, recovery phrases and private keys were not exposed, according to the company.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Electrum Patches Wallet Flaw Exploited Through Malicious Servers
A malicious server can substitute a fake payment, then trick the user into signing it while raising the transaction fee. Developers say one user reported losing money.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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ARB Touches Four-Week Low as Losses Outpace Bitcoin and Ether
OP and POL also lost more than a quarter over matched four-week windows, while Arbitrum One's active-address count rose.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ether Falls Below $2,300 as 28-Day Loss Reaches 14.7%
ETH lagged bitcoin by 9.15 percentage points over matched nearly four-week windows, while US ether ETFs recorded another outflow on Oct. 22.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Third X100 Exploit Transaction Pulls 550,000 X From Uniswap Pool
A different sender routed about 549,916 X and 1,909 USDT to a new beneficiary, while the affected pool held less than 200 USDT.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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X100 Exploit Nets 4.85 Million USDT After Governance Takeover
Two transactions turned treasury tokens and liquidity positions into USDT; Blockaid warned that the Ethereum attack was ongoing.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Shaw Publishes Daos.fun Reconstruction, Claims Critical Flaw
The repository reports matching captured and rebuilt binaries. Daos.fun says it no longer maintains the platform, though existing tokens remain tradable.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Hyperliquid’s Yan and CME’s Duffy Split Over Who Must Bear US Compliance
Yan favors oversight of market deployers rather than the blockchain, while Hyperliquid’s interface still bars US-based users and VPN circumvention.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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API Key Rotation: What Revocation and Redeployment Actually Change
Scheduled replacement can let two keys overlap. Suspected exposure makes that overlap a security decision, not just a way to avoid downtime.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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UNI Slides 29% in Four Weeks as Uniswap Liquidity Holds Steady
The token has underperformed bitcoin and ether, while Uniswap still holds about $4 billion in liquidity.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Arthur Hayes Says He Sold Maelstrom’s Directional Book
Hayes-linked wallets transferred 8,000 ETH and six other tokens, contrasting with his Oct. 15 declaration that he was long Bitcoin and Ether.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Kraken Scraps Monero Withdrawal Questionnaires, Keeps XMR Listed
Source-of-funds checks remain, but co-CEO Arjun Sethi says asking what clients will do with withdrawn coins is unacceptable.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Argentine Judge Dismisses LIBRA Criminal Case Against Milei and 10 Others
The ruling also covers Karina Milei and Hayden Davis. A New York investor class action was separately dismissed in September.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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IRYS Surges 1,200% Past May Listing Peak
The latest price implies a circulating valuation near $561 million, with just 20% of the token’s total supply in circulation.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Arbitrum Proposal Would Reopen Stylus Activations With Foundation Sign-Off
Existing active contracts and renewals would remain permissionless, while the DAO could revoke the Foundation’s signing authority.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Netanyahu Says He Requested Blockchain Plan for Potential Banking Sanctions
The Israeli premier called blockchain one of several alternatives as Britain threatens action against businesses supporting settlement construction.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tether Blacklists USDT Wallets Linked to CoinDCX Outflows
AMLBot puts the frozen sum at about $2.2 million, after CoinDCX acknowledged losses from a failed process for securing deposits to retired addresses.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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AI-Agent Payments Explained: Mastercard Agent Pay, AP2 and x402
AP2 records spending authority, while x402 carries payment requests. Mastercard’s machine-payment pilot shows why a signed voucher and final settlement are different steps.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Agora Says Initia Exploit Hit Third-Party Product Using AUSD
Ethereum records show 1.4 million AUSD left a bridge adapter, while Agora says it has no smart contracts deployed on Initia.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Lighter Adds weETH as Perpetual Futures Collateral
Lighter counts 70% of weETH’s index value toward trading margin and caps platform-wide collateral supply at 1,000 weETH.... Read the full story at The Defiant