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Anthropic Says Claude Traced NIST Curve Seeds to 1990s Timestamps
The finding is not a cryptographic break; published code covers five NIST prime-curve seeds and four binary-curve seeds.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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SEI Perpetual Futures Trade on CFTC-Regulated OG.com Markets
The dollar-settled contracts have no expiry, a 100-SEI minimum order and funding calculated every eight hours.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Karpelès Reports Ledger Implants in Devices From Two More Resellers
Ledger says German stock inspections found no tampering and it has not verified a drain tied to a device bought outside Southeast Asia. Its authenticity check cannot detect the added hardware.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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STRK’s L1 Bet: Eli Ben-Sasson on Starknet’s Exit Plan
Starknet says it is “actively considering becoming an L1” — leaving Ethereum to become what it calls the first fully quantum-resistant network, with 2027 as the target. StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson joins Camila Russo to explain the plan. The announcement came as a post on X on...
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NEAR Intents Postmortem Links $3.8 Million Exploit to Deposit Bug
The protocol removed deposit notifications after another critical bug report and says all affected users were made whole.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Deutsche Bank Plans Crypto Custody Launch Within Weeks
The European offering will serve corporate and institutional clients, with expansion into Asian financial centres targeted for 2027.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Mizuho, MUFG and SMBC Complete Joint Yen Stablecoin Pilot
The July trial covered issuance, transfer and redemption for Mitsubishi Corporation, while the banks have targeted commercial transactions in fiscal 2026.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance.US Seeks Up to $100 Million at $1 Billion Valuation, Bloomberg Reports
Trump-affiliated World Liberty Financial was made aware of the fundraising but is not participating, according to Bloomberg.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Network School Takes Over Farcaster With New Posting Rules
The new social smart contract gives the core team authority to update conduct rules, with humans and AI already reviewing posts.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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AMC CEO Says Company Won’t Consent to Robinhood Stock Tokens in US
Robinhood’s offshore tokens do not convey shareholder rights, while the SEC’s new US trading framework gives issuers a limited right to object.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Unagi Puts Persona and Ultimate Champions Up for Sale in Liquidation
The sale includes Persona’s intellectual property, a treasury of 957 NFTs and the UNA token contracts, with offers due November 2.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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INJ Surges 27%, Outpacing NEAR and Sei
INJ outpaced NEAR, Sei and Cosmos Hub over 24 hours, while a proposed 21Shares fund would hold the token directly and allow discretionary staking.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Coinbase and Marqeta Expand Partnership for Enterprise Stablecoin Cards
The planned offering would let businesses fund card programs around the clock, with Coinbase holding balances and Base providing onchain settlement infrastructure.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tokenized Equities Reached $3.8 Billion This Year, DWF Labs Says
The report puts weekly spot trading on decentralized exchanges at $2.54 billion, 55 times the January level, with Ondo's issuer share down to 26% from 56%.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Filecoin Plans to Shift Block Rewards Toward Paid Storage
Under FIP-0118, the consensus share of each block reward falls from 95% toward a 50% floor over about nine quarters, and any service share left unearned is burned.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Nasdaq-Listed Perpetuals Files to Trade Tokenized US Stocks Under SEC Exemption
The company run by former FTX Europe head Patrick Gruhn says it has published a notice of intent to rely on the SEC's five-year relief. A 30-day waiting period follows.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Jupiter Says YOLO Hit $1 Billion in Volume in Under 24 Hours
The unaudited beta counts leveraged trading exposure, while winners depend on a separate house pool funded by trader losses.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Solana Postpones Shanghai Event, Citing Registration Surge
The official tour site still lists three more China stops, but registration pages for Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Beijing show sign-ups closed.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Celestia’s TIA Climbs 59% in Four Weeks as Blob Demand Slips
Daily blob data fell during the rally, while Celestia’s new Fibre throughput benchmark remains separate from mainnet usage.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Solana's Shanghai Event Halted With Officers Present, Attendees Say
The interruption follows a new Shanghai office and skyline promotion at the start of the foundation’s four-city China tour.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Judge Rejects Gemini-CFTC Bid to Lift Settlement Restrictions
Gemini has already paid the $5 million penalty. A permanent injunction and restrictions on publicly denying the case's findings remain in place.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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CoreWeave, Broadcom Join Objections to OKX-ICE Stock Tokenization
The venture now discloses nine issuer objections, each of which bars the affected stock token from trading under the SEC’s conditional exemption.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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MSCI Adopts Rules Putting Strategy and Metaplanet at Risk of Index Removal
A May simulation flagged both companies for deletion and SharpLink for a watchlist. MSCI will publish its final list on Nov. 11.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Google Cuts Quantum Magic-State Errors 40-Fold on Willow
The Science result reaches about 99.99% state fidelity, validating a technique already assumed in quantum resource estimates.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Pirate Chain Says Exploit Created 39.8 Million ARRR
The network remains operational, but users have been asked not to move funds while developers work on recovery.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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bOSMO Bug Leaves Little Backing, Prompts Holder Compensation Plan
The contract still allows cheap minting, putting liquidity pools at risk. bOSMO bought after the snapshot will not be compensated.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Aave V4’s Arc Markets Connect Dollar-Euro Loans to Shared Liquidity
The deployment launched Sept. 16 with four reserve assets. Its Forex market lets borrowers pledge EURC, which is not eligible collateral in Arc’s Main market.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ledger Was Hacked — Who Do You Trust With Your Keys Now?
The Defiant Livestream | Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1:00pm ET Up to $93M drained from more than 300 wallets, and the software was never touched. Ledger confirmed a physical implant inside signers sold through reseller CryptoBilis, reading recovery phrases off the screen at setup and sending them out...
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IPX Exchange, the Agentic OS and Tokenized Exchange for IP, Closes $4M Seed Round at a $125M Valuation
IPX, an agentic operating system and tokenized exchange for intellectual property built on Base, closed a $4 million seed round at a $125 million valuation. Bitsurge Holdings led the round alongside YICIPX Holdings Family Office.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ripple Prime Rolls Out Traditional-Asset Perps Linked to Trade.xyz, Bloomberg Reports
The reported rollout builds on Ripple Prime’s existing Hyperliquid access, which lets institutions combine onchain derivatives with other exposures in one margin framework.... Read the full story at The Defiant