Crypto news
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BitGo Adds Stacks Bitcoin Staking in Qualified Custody
Eligible institutions must pair BTC with STX worth 5% of their Bitcoin position for roughly six-month bonds funded by Stacks miners.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Société Générale Accepts $10 Million in DTCC-Tokenized Treasuries as Collateral
The controlled Canton transaction used the bank’s existing collateral systems, while recurring movements and repo financing remain planned steps.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin price defends $76K lows as analysts see stocks pricing in ‘political gridlock’
Bitcoin made modest gains at the start of Wall Street trading on Tuesday as markets awaited cues from the US midterm elections.
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CFTC approves individual stock perpetual futures trading in US for the first time
The CFTC approved the ability for exchanges in the U.S. to offer perpetual futures contracts tied to individual stocks.
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Binance says hackers used fake job interview, internal AI tool in $6.3 billion breach
Binance's incident report said hackers used a fake job interview and an internal AI tool to gain access to systems involved in the theft.
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Kalshi’s Tradable Midterms Index Settles to Pyth Values
The gauge combines 13 election events, with payouts tied to a time-weighted index reading rather than a race call.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Andrew Hohns: Why Bitcoin Can Fix America’s Debt Spiral
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Andrew Hohns: Why Bitcoin Can Fix America's Debt Spiral U.S. federal debt has grown 40x in 45 years, from $1 trillion in 1981 to over $40 trillion. Andrew Hohns, founder and CEO of Battery Finance, explains why he doesn't expect tax hikes or spending cuts to fix it, and how a...
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CFTC clears perpetual futures on stocks, bringing crypto trading model to Wall Street
CFTC Chair Michael Selig said the move gives U.S. traders a regulated alternative to “offshore, and often unregulated, venues.”
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Fake Job Interview Opened Path to $6.34 Billion Hack, Binance Says
Attackers used an internal AI tool to reach wallet engineers, while persistent onchain permissions complicated containment.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview, exchange says
North Korea-linked attackers spent months compromising Binance employees and internal systems before exploiting its hot-wallet signing infrastructure through Ethereum's EIP-7702 mechanism.
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CFTC Opens U.S. Stock Market to Equity Perpetual Futures
Bitcoin Magazine CFTC Opens U.S. Stock Market to Equity Perpetual Futures Perpetual futures on individual stocks can begin trading on U.S.-regulated exchanges for the first time, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday, extending a product that was confined to offshore crypto venues a...
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Binance Details Months-Long Campaign Behind $6.34 Billion Hack
The exchange says 98% of impacted tokens have been replenished; its report explains why pausing withdrawals did not stop every outflow.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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South Korea asks its biggest banks how a major crypto hack would hit them
In its first such survey, the BOK also asked about a crypto price crash, losses at another firm, and each firm’s crypto teams, budgets and investments.
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Binance sits to benefit from First Digital listing
First Digital Trust, the firm behind the FDUSD stablecoin, announced early last month that it had signed a business combination agreement that would result in it being publicly listed, with a closing expected next year. The announcement comes after the market capitalization of its flagship product,...
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New Jersey Drops Coinbase Staking Order After Three Years
Bitcoin Magazine New Jersey Drops Coinbase Staking Order After Three Years New Jersey's securities regulator has withdrawn the 2023 cease-and-desist order that barred Coinbase from offering staking to new customers in the state, ending a three-year standoff that cost residents an estimated $15...
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CZ warns of more AI-driven hacks following Binance’s historic $6.4 billion heist
While investigators found no evidence that AI agents laundered the stolen Binance funds, Zhao stressed that automated tools are lowering the barrier for complex breaches.
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Crypto Recovery Services: What to Check Before Paying
Tracing stolen crypto is different from getting it back. US consumers should verify a provider’s identity, written deliverables, fees and access to sensitive data.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Aztec Launches Tierra Upgrade With Faster Ethereum Messaging
The new rollup requires contract recompilation and new addresses, while V5 gets roughly 30 days of funded migration support.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ethereum Privacy Network Aztec Rolls Out Major Security and Speed Upgrade
The “Tierra” upgrade resolves a critical bug from the prior version, adds formal verification, and an AI-powered testing harness.
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Ethereum Layer 2 Aztec gets Tierra V6 upgrade to support faster private apps
Aztec Foundation has rolled out Tierra V6, saying it fixes earlier security issues and doubles the speed of private transaction proof generation.
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LO:TECH raises $12 million to expand crypto trading into U.S. and Asia
LO:TECH is betting on round-the-clock tokenized stock trading but didn’t say if it trades them now; a WFE study found stock exchanges still set prices.
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What’s at stake for crypto as the US votes in the 2026 midterms?
Crypto groups spent about $176 million ahead of the US midterms, with control of Congress and the future of crypto legislation at stake.
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Bitcoin Price Trades Near $77,500 as Midterm Voting Begins
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Trades Near $77,500 as Midterm Voting Begins Bitcoin price traded near $77,500 on Tuesday morning as polls opened for the U.S. midterm elections, down about .6% on the day and roughly $30,000 below its price one year ago, according to Bitcoin Magazine Pro data. The...
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Wall Street killed Bitcoin’s wild rallies: 10x’s Markus Thielen
Markus Thielen sees Bitcoin reaching $90,000 by year-end, questions institutional ETF demand and says Ethereum must do more for holders.
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Moscow Exchange to launch Bitcoin, Ether and USDT trading in December
Moscow Exchange plans to launch crypto trading on Dec. 1 under Russia’s new law, with annual purchase limits for non-qualified investors.
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Morning Minute: Tom Lee Calls the Binance Hack Bullish for Ethereum
Meanwhile, both the BTC ETFs and ETH ETFs bleed outflows in the Binance hack aftermath, dragging down prices.
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AI companies rush to borrow cash as stocks crash
AI companies have announced over $200 billion worth of new cash borrowing and equity financing deals during the second half of this year despite the PHLX Semiconductor Sector shedding a quarter of its value in the same period. Created in 1993 by the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the PHLX...
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Binance net outflows reach $5.3 billion after record hack. CEO says recovery underway
Nearly $11 billion left the exchange over 46 hours, although CEO Richard Teng said hourly deposits were beginning to exceed withdrawals.
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NEAR token sinks 7% as proposal to cut annual token issuance passes
The proposed issuance cut would prevent 11.8 million NEAR from entering circulation over two years, worth about $45 million at today’s price.
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Bitcoin is breaking a midterm election pattern going back to 2014
Your day-ahead look for Nov. 3, 2026