Crypto news
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Crypto Docs Host GitBook Hit by AI Agent Security Breach, Urges Users to Rotate Keys
GitBook says attackers accessed infrastructure credentials in an AI-assisted breach, prompting a shutdown and emergency token resets.
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US midterms: Prediction markets favor Democrats in key crypto races
Kalshi and Polymarket price a 75% chance of a Democratic sweep, days after markets misjudged Brazil’s runoff.
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Stellar's Bell Upgrade Goes Live on Testnet Ahead of Mainnet Vote
Wallets and indexers must update their software, while smart contracts gain optional post-quantum signature verification.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Sei's Autobahn Consensus Vote Clears Quorum
SIP-6 would let validators propose transactions simultaneously, but a public testnet and security audits must precede activation.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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CFTC Lets Traders Bet on Stocks With Crypto-Style Perpetual Futures
Chairman Michael Selig said “equity perpetual futures” can now trade on CFTC-registered exchanges, extending a crypto-native instrument to traditional stocks.
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Cboe-Backed Group Sues CFTC Over Single-Stock Perps Approvals
The complaint targets Coinbase, Kalshi and Bitnomial and seeks emergency relief to prevent their contracts from being listed as security futures.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto survived cybersecurity awareness month… just
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is thankfully over. An already bumper month, which saw a PHP vulnerability threaten an estimated 70% of websites and Ledger devices drained for $90 million via spyware implants, ended with a bang as Binance suffered the biggest hack (or theft of any kind) in history....
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XRP treasury firm Evernorth Holdings falls to record low
Evernorth Holdings, the XRP digital asset treasury firm whose shareholders include Ripple Labs, Arrington XRP Capital, and SBI Holdings, reached a record low close since its merger became effective of $11.70 yesterday evening. This is down 44% from its first-day high of $21 on October 9. The...
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Prediction markets bet on Democratic sweep of House, Senate in midterm elections
Ahead of polls closing across the U.S., bettors on prediction markes are increasingly pricing in Democrats taking both the House and Senate.
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What Are Euro Stablecoins? EURC, EURR and Redemption Explained
Both tokens disclose a right to redeem at €1, but issuer accounts and exchange sales have separate access conditions.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Brazil's Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Says It Will Refund Users After a $40 Million Hack
Mercado Bitcoin says customers won't pay for a hack that drained tens of millions. Withdrawals on the exchange remain frozen with no restart date.
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Bullish Picks Solana, Aptos and Ethereum for Tokenized Shares
BLSH already trades in tokenized form on Solana; the announcement gave no launch dates for Aptos or Ethereum.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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THORChain Refused to Block the $387M Bitget Hacker. Here’s Why | Chad Barraford
Bitget lost $387.5 million in a hack and asked THORChain to block the attacker’s addresses. THORChain said no. Weeks later, Tether froze four THORChain vaults on Tron holding 1.45 million USDT, then unfroze them three hours later. And in May, THORChain itself lost $10.7 million to a GG20 flaw...
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Tether Holds 150,000 Bitcoin CEO Says, 50,000 More Than Its Reserve Report Shows
Bitcoin Magazine Tether Holds 150,000 Bitcoin CEO Says, 50,000 More Than Its Reserve Report Shows Tether holds about 150,000 bitcoin, worth some $11.5 billion at current prices, CEO Paolo Ardoino said, a figure that exceeds the holdings implied by the company's latest reserve attestation by roughly...
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Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX Block Their Stock From OKX-ICE Tokenized Venue
Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Netflix, Lam Research, and SoFi objected to trading of their shares on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, bringing the total to 56.
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TD Cowen: Democratic Congress Would Sink CLARITY Act for Two Years
Bitcoin Magazine TD Cowen: Democratic Congress Would Sink CLARITY Act for Two Years A Democratic sweep of Congress would end the CLARITY Act's chances for the next two years and sour the political climate for crypto, TD Cowen's Washington analyst Jaret Seiberg wrote to Bitcoin Magazine and clients...
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Live: What stock traders are saying about US midterm elections
Halfway through the current US presidential term, the country is holding midterm elections to determine the balance of power in Congress and many state capitols. Polls are open, and traders are reacting to an influx of election news by repricing financial assets. Today, voters will elect...
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LIVE: What traders are saying about US midterm elections
Halfway through the current US presidential term, the country is holding midterm elections to determine the balance of power in Congress and many state capitols. Polls are open, and traders are reacting to an influx of election news by repricing financial assets. Today, voters will elect...
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Five Ways North Korea Breaks Into Crypto Firms—and How Binance Was Hacked
From AI deepfakes to poisoning code libraries: here's how North Korean hackers get inside crypto companies.
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GitBook Revokes All Personal API Tokens After Breach
The company says an attack used AI agents and may have exposed integration credentials and questions submitted by documentation visitors.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Epidemic of Hacked Freezers Spreads Across Europe
A suspected hacking wave has pushed supermarket freezers into defrost mode across ten European countries, with temperatures reportedly hitting 50°C. Nobody knows who's behind it or why it spread.
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Justin Sun seeks sanctions against Trump-linked World Liberty Financial over UAE ties
The Tron founder says World Liberty failed to disclose its UAE ties until months into his lawsuit over $45 million in WLFI tokens.
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South Korea's president says country needs a ‘cybersecurity czar’ following $6.3 billion Binance hack
Lee Jae Myung said he wants a government-wide agency to tackle cyberattacks as AI raises security concerns across financial institutions and critical infrastructure.
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Binance Says $6.34 Billion Hack Began With Fake Job Interview
Bitcoin Magazine Binance Says $6.34 Billion Hack Began With Fake Job Interview The $6.34 billion theft from Binance began with a fake job interview and ran for five months before a single coin moved, the exchange said Tuesday in its first public account of the Oct. 29 attack. Another initial...
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Binance traces $6.3B hack to fake job interviews, compromised AI tool
Hackers exploited compromised employee computers and stolen credentials to breach Binance’s wallet infrastructure, according to the exchange’s investigation.
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Amazon, Tesla and SpaceX Join Objections to OKX–ICE Tokenized Stocks
Disclosed opt-outs cover 50 of the venture’s 63 originally proposed symbols, leaving 13 without a published objection.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Amazon, Tesla and SpaceX join OKX–ICE tokenized stock objections as deadline looms
Objections have reached 56 companies, with nearly 80% of the venture’s initial stock selection opting out.
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Stablecoin governance group behind OUSD sets out management fee, offers equity earning pool
Governance group Open Standard will charge a 0.1 basis point management fee on payment volume, capped at at $0.01 per payment.
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UK Says AI-Powered Ransomware Attack on Critical Infrastructure 'Highly Likely' by 2028
The National Cyber Security Centre said AI will expose security flaws "tolerated for far too long," and called time on "tech on the cheap."
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Justin Sun seeks sanctions against World Liberty, alleging Trump-linked firm hid UAE ties
Sun says World Liberty Financial hid its UAE citizenship to escape federal court, and plans to refile his $45M lawsuit in California state court.