Crypto news
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Ethereum Name Service Queues Upgrade That Closes Its Old Registry to New Names
Migration would have no deadline and would be irreversible, while some names are excluded from automatic reservations in the new system.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Galaxy Digital swings to $323 million quarterly profit, announces new $200 million share buyback
Galaxy returned to profitability in the third quarter as trading volumes and lending increased, with a new $200 million buyback authorized.
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Crypto Midterm Election Spending Reaches $176 Million as Industry Builds for the Next Congress
Bitcoin Magazine Crypto Midterm Election Spending Reaches $176 Million as Industry Builds for the Next Congress The crypto industry has spent about $176 million across more than 100 midterm races this cycle, according to a Reuters review of campaign spending. The money is part of a plan to build a...
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Bitcoin mining infrastructure firm Luxor raises $16 million to expand AI business
The company plans to expand its AI business and hire about 12 people by year-end, COO Ethan Vera told The Block.
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McDonald's McRib Doesn't Actually Boost Bitcoin's Price, Sorry Everyone
Crypto traders think the McRib’s return to McDonald's means a Bitcoin pump is coming. Experts say there is "no correlation at all."
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Polymarket Investigated 'Dozens' of Midterm Bets, NPR Reports
At least two investigations were referred to the CFTC, NPR reported, as the platform's House-control market approached $24 million in cumulative trading volume.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Nasdaq-100 comes onchain as Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launch first licensed fund
The $500 billion asset manager is launching an issuer-sponsored fund on Stellar, taking a different approach from third-party stock tokens.
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Crypto Market Structure Explained
Crypto market structure is the architecture behind digital asset markets. It explains who participates, where trades happen, how liquidity forms, how prices are discovered, how derivatives and funding rates work, and how market design affects execution, fairness, risk, and resilience.
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CF Benchmarks brings Wall Street pricing infrastructure onchain, including data used by BlackRock
The new service could help developers build blockchain-based index funds, tokenized portfolios and derivatives using established financial benchmarks.
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Bitcoin Mining Firm Luxor Raises $16 Million to Scale AI Compute Trading and Hardware
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Mining Firm Luxor Raises $16 Million to Scale AI Compute Trading and Hardware Seattle-based Luxor Technology Corporation announced a $16 million strategic investment round on Tuesday. CMT Digital, the venture capital arm of Chicago-based CMT Group, led the round. Canaan,...
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Polymarket Has Investigated 'Dozens' of Midterm Election Bets: Report
The firm's new head of investigations says its surveillance system flags hundreds of alerts a day, with at least two cases sent to the CFTC.
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Bitget Wallet Brings USD and EUR Virtual Accounts to 100 Million Users
Bitget Wallet launched Virtual Account, giving users personal USD and EUR account numbers from licensed partner Noah inside the self-custodial wallet. Incoming deposits via ACH, Fedwire, SEPA and SWIFT convert automatically to USDT or USDC.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Predict Fun users lose $260K in ‘likely’ ongoing draining incident
Users of BNB-based prediction market Predict Fun have lost roughly $260,000 in a draining incident that's likely to claim even more. On Tuesday, crypto analyst “Dethective” claimed they'd been drained for roughly $5,000 in an incident linked to Predict Fun. The funds were bridged to Ethereum and...
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Crypto could outperform AI stocks: Wall Street veteran Jordi Visser
Former Morgan Stanley and Weiss executive Jordi Visser says AI agents are boosting demand for crypto as he expands his holdings beyond Bitcoin, Ether and Solana.
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Deloitte’s Rob Massey: What Bitcoin Investors Need to Know About The Changing IRS Tax Guidance
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Deloitte’s Rob Massey: What Bitcoin Investors Need to Know About The Changing IRS Tax Guidance Bitcoin tax rules have evolved, but the self-assessment system hasn't changed. Rob Massey, who has advised on crypto taxes at Deloitte since 2012, explains why using Bitcoin as money...
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SBLOC vs. Margin Loan: How Borrowing Against Shares Differs
A securities-based credit line restricts how borrowers can spend the cash. Both products can expose investors to forced sales without a guaranteed response window.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Common vs. Preferred Dividends: What MSTR and STRC Holders Can Claim
STRC’s unpaid dividends accumulate and restrict payments to common shareholders, but its preferred status gives holders no collateral claim on Strategy’s bitcoin.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin Security Expert Jameson Lopp: Cyberattacks on “Exponential” Path
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Security Expert Jameson Lopp: Cyberattacks on “Exponential” Path Bitcoin Core just changed its security policy because AI can find bugs with a simple prompt. Jameson Lopp explains the bigger trend behind it: two and a half months of exponential growth in vulnerability...
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Stop-Loss vs. Stop-Limit: Why a Trigger Is Not a Fill
A matched price-gap example shows why one order may sell below its trigger while the other leaves tokens unsold. Onchain swaps add liquidity and transaction checks.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Janus Henderson Announces Tokenized Nasdaq-100 Fund on Stellar
JQQQ targets non-US professional investors with a 100,000 USDC minimum, while Centrifuge's investment portal says subscriptions are not yet open.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin miners' move into AI is creating a new market for trading computing power
Luxor raised $16 million to expand into AI hardware and trading, betting that computing power will become a market where companies can hedge costs and prices.
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UTXO’s Duke Waldrop: Bank of Japan “Liquidity Shock” Could Impact Bitcoin
▶ Bitcoin Magazine UTXO's Duke Waldrop: Bank of Japan “Liquidity Shock” Could Impact Bitcoin Bitcoin fell to $79K this weekend, and this week both the Fed and the Bank of Japan decide on rates. Duke Waldrop, Head of Asia Markets at UTXO Management, joins Grace Remington and Sean Hagan to explain...
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Hayes details FLOP’s AI compute derivatives vision after selling his altcoins
Arthur Hayes revealed the derivatives market design for Flop Network and how he expects its native token could transform AI compute into a tradable commodity.
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Bitcoin Mining Firm Luxor Raises $16 Million to Scale Its AI Compute Push
The CMT Digital-led round, which drew mining-hardware makers Canaan and MicroBT, will fund Luxor’s expansion into AI compute trading, hardware and derivatives.
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Luxor raises $16M from CMT Digital amid AI-Bitcoin miner convergence
Luxor aims to use the proceeds to scale its existing AI infrastructure business and expand its GPU sourcing services as global chip supply chains become constrained.
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Morning Minute: Tokenized Stock Battle Looms Over Robinhood’s Earnings Call
One of crypto’s primary growth sectors for this upcoming cycle is under attack. Will Vlad Tenev speak up on today’s Robinhood earnings call?
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SoFi Reports $161.6 Million in Q3 Crypto Revenue, $1.6 Million Net
Net crypto transaction revenue rose 38% from Q2 but represented just 0.3% of the bank operator's financial-services segment revenue.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin price analysis sees ‘strong rally’ as old coins become dormant
A decline in the share of Bitcoin’s realized cap held by coins unmoved for 18 months or longer points to the ‘early stages’ of a bull market, analysis says.
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Anthropic was keeping its IPO share price secret — footnote reveals $71.43
Anthropic filed its IPO prospectus on Monday with the share price left blank but a footnote reveals that its board of directors thought the stock was worth approximately $71.43 barely a month earlier. Even though Anthropic wanted to keep its formal share price quiet as of the end of the third...
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Zcash co-founder proposes ending grants subsidy, citing $125 million treasury
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposed ending automatic grants funding, citing a treasury valuation of more than $125 million.