Crypto news
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Bitcoin Price Hovers Near $80,000 as Traders Await Fed Decision
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Hovers Near $80,000 as Traders Await Fed Decision Bitcoin price traded near $80,000 on Monday, after falling about 2% earlier in the session. The price has dipped below that level several times in recent days and recovered each time. Selling pressure has been...
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Hyperliquid Tests Permissioned Markets for Payward's US Perps Plan
Optional onchain allowlists would leave existing markets unchanged; the proposed US contracts still need regulatory approval.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin Wallet Fixes Critical Flaw That Redirected Funds to Attackers
A confirmed exploit let rogue servers replace Electrum’s pending transactions, tricking users into redirecting Bitcoin to attacker addresses.
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Aave Raises USDT Borrowing Costs at High Utilization
The Ethereum pool now enters its steeper rate tier at 92% utilization, giving borrowers an earlier incentive to leave liquidity available for withdrawals.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Buying Pre-IPO Shares vs. Funds: What US Investors Actually Own
Direct trades can put buyers on a company's shareholder register. Fund interests offer indirect exposure, with separate fees and exit rules that an IPO does not automatically remove.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OKX Offers 10x Anthropic Valuation Bets After IPO Filing
Eligible EEA traders get cash-settled exposure, not shares or an IPO allocation, with a share-count adjustment designed to preserve position value.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Prediction markets and derivatives drive Bernstein’s crypto stock outlook for Coinbase, Robinhood and Circle
Bernstein cuts Coinbase’s target while raising Circle’s as new products shift their earnings outlook.
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India’s CoinDCX Confirms $16 Million Loss Days After CEO Called It a ‘False Alarm’
The Mumbai-based exchange says 15.99 million USDT was drained from wallets it retired after last year’s $44 million hack, bringing its combined losses to nearly $60 million—and it’s absorbing the hit.
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Pump Fun offers $2.5M prize as traders boycott its missing airdrop
Crypto traders are boycotting the memecoin platform Pump Fun this week over the firm’s lack of airdrop, numerous rug pulls, and its chaotic token launch with the crypto trader Kimchi. Users across X have been sharing the “BOYCOTTPUMPFUN” hashtag, along with its own graphic, in an attempt to hold...
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NBA becomes third league to sign CFTC prediction market pact, taps Kalshi and Polymarket
The CFTC and NBA have agreed to put in place standards to protect the integrity of the game when it comes to prediction markets.
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Chainlink Introduces CustodySync With Anchorage for Custodied DeFi Borrowing
The system uses shared price data to align loan valuations, while Anchorage retains collateral and manages margin and liquidation.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Anthropic IPO Live: 7 people will control voting power
Anthropic filed on Monday to go public on the Nasdaq using the ticker symbol ANT. Although the public will soon be able to buy ANT and exercise one vote per share, no one will be able to outvote CEO Dario Amodei and six other people who will have 50.1% voting power over the company. The Claude AI...
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South Korea lawmakers mull pushing crypto tax implementation to 2029
The Seoul government is reportedly weighing another delay for a 2020 income tax policy on digital assets, citing concerns with receiving data from US officials.
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PrimeRevenue Announces Solana Tokenization of Corporate Payment Drafts
The platform reports more than $300 billion in annual payment transactions, while broader access for eligible onchain investors remains a future ambition.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tom Lee's Bitmine favors share buybacks to ether purchases as crypto declines
The Ethereum treasury firm spent $46 million buying back shares as Chairman Tom Lee said crypto has held up better than AI stocks during the recent market pullback.
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Brazil’s Stock Market Crashes After Lula’s Upset Victory
The iShares Brazil ETF fell as much as 26% after Lula da Silva beat Flávio Bolsonaro, who prediction markets had at 80%, while the dollar jumped as much as 12% against the real.
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NBA joins pro sports leagues on CFTC prediction markets bandwagon while NFL balks
The U.S. derivatives regulator, which has championed the arrival of prediction market firms such as Kalshi, has been gathering allied sports leagues.
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Kalshi strikes deal with S&P Dow Jones Indices to expand financial event contracts
The agreement adds S&P Dow Jones gauges to a growing list of Wall Street firms expanding their involvement in prediction markets.
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Balancer Says Review Found Over $500,000 in Overlooked User Assets
The findings include buffer positions linked to Ethena and Gauntlet, and legacy LDO rewards for Gnosis DAO and its stakeholders.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OCC calls on community banks to enter the stablecoin payments market
The U.S. banking regulator is encouraging smaller lenders to develop stablecoin services as new federal licensing requirements approach.
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Strategy (MSTR) Pauses Bitcoin Buying and Spends $205 Million on Preferred Stock
Bitcoin Magazine Strategy (MSTR) Pauses Bitcoin Buying and Spends $205 Million on Preferred Stock Strategy reported no bitcoin purchases or sales during the week of October 19 through 25. The company continues to hold 848,517 BTC, acquired for $64.02 billion at an average price of $75,446 per...
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Tom Lee's Bitmine Keeps Buying Ethereum But Pivots to Record Share Buybacks
The firm added 10,452 ETH to reach 4.95% of supply, but its bigger move was repurchasing 2.04 million of its own shares—part of what it calls the largest equity buyback any crypto treasury company has run.
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'Privacy Horror’: Researcher Uncovers Extent of Samsung Smart TV User Tracking
AI-powered reverse engineering could make it "easier and faster" for researchers to uncover and explain how devices collect and share data.
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Sony-Backed Soneium Plans Native Token in Tokenized-IP Push
The Soneium Portal features Moriusa, while royalty-backed vaults and K-pop concert bonds are slated to follow.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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South Korea weighs fourth delay on its crypto gains tax, pushing it to 2029
Officials are concerned users of domestic exchanges would bear the tax burden because the U.S. won’t share crypto trading data until 2029.
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Arthur Hayes sold ENA 98% below his profit target
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has promoted Ethena (ENA) for years — including repeated $10 price predictions since early 2024 —yet he waited until below $0.20 per ENA to finally admit to selling. On Saturday, he posted his total exit from his investment fund, Maelstrom’s so-called directional...
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Bitcoin’s Bear Market Is Over, Galaxy Says
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin’s Bear Market Is Over, Galaxy Says Galaxy Research believes bitcoin’s bear market ended in June and that the asset has entered an accumulation phase, according to a research alert from the firm. “We believe now is an attractive time to buy and hold bitcoin,” the report...
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Keystone to Destroy 18,835 Wallets After Device-Authentication Key Theft
Owners of old-key devices received after Oct. 20 need additional authenticity checks, even if the wallet passes Keystone's online verification.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Base Promotes 'Tokenized Anthropic Shares' as Trade.xyz Opens Pre-IPO Bets
Trade.xyz's new ANT contract offers up to 10x leverage without equity ownership, while Base's pitch identifies no issuer or token contract.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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PHP flaw shows AI ‘vulnerability apocalypse’ is on schedule: Immunefi CEO
Mitchell Amador warned internet users that websites could remain compromised for weeks, particularly smaller websites slower to adopt the emergency upgrades.