Crypto news
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Bitcoin breaks below $83,000 as oil jumps on Iran strike-plan report
Bitcoin has slipped under a level FxPro says opens a "quick path to $80,000." Brent crude climbed above $102 and pushed Treasury yields back toward their highest since 2002.
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Hyperliquid Labs-Labeled Wallet Distributes $330 Million in HYPE
Five intermediary addresses forwarded the tokens to one wallet, which returned 1.25 million HYPE to staking.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Samsung to launch USDC transfers on Solana for US Galaxy users
The South Korean tech giant said the feature is built into Samsung Wallet, with fiat on- and off-ramps, rather than a separate crypto app.
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Samsung Wallet to Add USDC on Sui in Late October
Bastion and Coinbase will custody the balances, while transfers to bank accounts in more than 60 countries will carry separate fees.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Justin Drake Urges 'Bunker Mode' Migration to Fresh Crypto Addresses
His personal warning about an AI-assisted cryptographic break drew pushback from Ledger’s CTO, who said a mass migration could cause costly mistakes.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto news site Cointelegraph seeks buyer after web traffic plunges
The amount of money the crypto media firm has been shopping itself for was not revealed.
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Justin Drake urges crypto ‘bunker mode,’ as AI could break wallet security within months
The Ethereum researcher said crypto users should consider moving funds to fresh addresses, warning AI could threaten private-key security before quantum computers do.
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Solana’s Orca merges with Loopscale in push to finance AI, robotics and defense
Orca and Loopscale unite as Formation, targeting financing for AI, energy, robotics and defense.
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OpenAI Says a Secret AI Model Cracked Hundreds of Open Math Problems in One Prompt—Mathematicians Want Receipts
OpenAI posted 722 AI-written math manuscripts from an unreleased model, saying most came from a single prompt. Some mathematicians call the claims unverified.
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Ethereum Researcher Says AI May Break Encryption Before Quantum Does
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged holders to calmly move funds to unused addresses, warning that AI-driven math could break crypto signatures before quantum computers do.
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Circle brings USDC, EURC payments to SAP customers through Tereina
The partnership with SAP-backed Tereina will let businesses send and receive Circle’s stablecoins from within the financial software they already use.
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Anthropic Launches Haiku 5.5: Its Cheapest and Fastest Claude Model Yet
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs about 75% less to run than its predecessor and targets high-volume jobs like summaries and live customer support. It arrives 15 days after Opus 5.5.
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Binance Adds JPMorgan and Eli Lilly bStocks as Margin Collateral
Four equity-linked tokens join the collateral lineup, with 50% collateral ratios in Cross Margin and Portfolio Margin and a separate tiered schedule for Portfolio Margin Pro.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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CFTC Chair Says New Crypto Rulemaking Will Prevent Another FTX-Style Collapse
Bitcoin Magazine CFTC Chair Says New Crypto Rulemaking Will Prevent Another FTX-Style Collapse Pro-crypto regulator Mike Selig has said that pushing ahead with new rules will stop another collapse like FTX. Speaking on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co. show Wednesday, the Commodity Futures...
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SEC and CFTC Crypto Rules 'Fall Short' of Clarity, Says Rep. French Hill
The House Financial Services chairman credited the SEC and CFTC for stepping in after the Clarity Act's collapse but said only "permanent law change" can secure U.S. leadership.
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Tether Signs Deal With Kazakhstan's Central Bank to Explore a Stablecoin and Tokenized Assets
Tether, issuer of the USDT stablecoin, will help Kazakhstan's central bank study a tenge-pegged token and put real-world assets on a blockchain.
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US Investors Want to up Their Crypto Holdings: Charles Schwab
Bitcoin Magazine US Investors Want to up Their Crypto Holdings: Charles Schwab Forget stocks — U.S. investors are more interested in upping their bitcoin holdings, according to new research. Charles Schwab ’s 2026 Modern Wealth Survey dropped on Wednesday, and showed that current cryptocurrency...
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SecondFi offers $8 for every unrecoverable NFT lost in $21M hack
Cardano wallet firm SecondFi finally launched a recovery portal for victims of the neo-finance platform’s $21 million hack , but will only pay roughly $8 for every unrecoverable NFT taken. SecondFi says victims looking to recover their assets will be assessed with an “incident snapshot” based on...
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Hackers Used AI Agents to Raid a Megachurch's Database, Exposing 850,000 Members
Seoul's Yoido Full Gospel Church says data on 850,000 members may be compromised, and a security firm found signs AI helped run the attack.
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Wells Fargo in talks with Kraken parent Payward for crypto trading liquidity
The discussions would see Payward supply liquidity for crypto trading as major banks deepen their involvement in digital assets.
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Black Thursday revisited: MakerDAO keeper exploited for $500K
A legacy MakerDAO auction-keeper contract has been exploited for over $500,000, with the exploit reaching back to Black Thursday in 2020. Specifically, a CertiK analysis details how an attacker was able to remove 200 ETH from a contract described as a “legacy auction-keeper.” This auction-keeper...
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Grayscale says crypto ETF market is entering new phase as Zcash ETF tops $1 billion
Grayscale's Krista Lynch says SEC listing standards cover about 15 tokens, letting crypto ETF issuers get selective beyond bitcoin and ether.
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Inside EQIBank’s $84M seizure
EQIBank, used by Tether, had 80% of its assets frozen as part of a seizure targeting Capstone Limited, according to reporting from the Financial Times . According to the reporting, the relationship between Tether and EQIBank was related to Marlin Capital Partners. This reporting further claims that...
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Google Lets You Build a Video Game by Typing a Description
Google's Playground turns a typed description into a playable, shareable game, no coding required. It's live for U.S. adults, with creation access tiered by Google AI subscription.
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Hunter Biden confirms LAPTOP token ‘not a rug pull,’ just trolling Trumps
“Trump’s coin was max extraction, and I wanted to troll every grift like it,“ said Hunter Biden in a breakdown of the memecoin launch and fallout.
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Sui tunnels hit 40.6M TPS in live AI agent test
The layer-1 blockchain said its programmable offchain tunnels reached the milestone during a live stress test designed to simulate high-frequency activity between AI agents.
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Bitcoin Holds Below $84,000 Cost-Basis Level as Only Nine of 125 Top Tokens Rise
Bitcoin fell through $84,000 in two legs, the first in the Asia session and the second at the U.S. open, and has not reclaimed it. A Bitfinex research note circulated hours earlier had called that level the market's largest cost-basis cluster. Funding rates sat near zero across OKX, Deribit and......
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Ethereum researcher Justin Drake calls for ‘bunker mode’ planning over private key recovery risk
Justin Drake recommended moving crypto assets to fresh addresses that keep their public keys hidden behind a hash.
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Trader Frogman Drained of $4 Million on the First Morning of TOKEN2049
Onchain records show the tokens left his Solana wallet at 4:14 a.m. Singapore time and were sold in four equal lots over the nine minutes that followed. The trader says he has found no sign of a breach on his phone or email... Read the full story at The Defiant
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US Government Moves $103 Million in Seized Bitcoin and BNB, But Hasn't Said Why
Government-labeled wallets sent 833.6 BTC to Coinbase Prime deposit addresses and shuffled 40,285 BNB. No sale is confirmed, but the stash behind it is the largest any government holds in Arkham's ranking.