Crypto news
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Latvia targets tokenization rules in 2027 with commercial property in focus
Economics Minister Viktors Valainis says rules could arrive in the first half of next year, but an overdue assessment remains unfinished and no sovereign-bond issuance was identified.
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Bitcoin ETFs Snap Two-Week Losing Streak Despite Late-Week Slide
Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with about $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week losing streak, even as two straight days of outflows kept October in the red.
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Why Tokenized Stocks Can Trade Away From the Share Price
A closed-market buy-and-exit example shows how spreads and trade size affect execution. Minting and redemption follow a separate clock.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tokenized Deposits vs. Stablecoins: What JPM Coin and USDC Holders Own
USDC holders can transfer tokens without a Circle Mint account, but direct dollar redemption requires one. JPM Coin limits participation to approved institutional clients.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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UK banks face 10,000 complaints in 3 months over crypto restrictions
The U.K. claims to aspire to become a global cryptocurrency hub, an ambition that would appear to be at odds with the attitude to crypto purchases of its major banks.
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Netanyahu floats use of blockchain as solution to potential financial sanctions
Ahead of elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel could turn to blockchain and crypto to skirt potential international sanctions, to the dismay of opponents and the country’s central banker.
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Dogecoin Foundation and House of Doge End Exclusive Brand Deal
House of Doge keeps limited investment-product rights, while a separate deal would exchange Such App assets for $4 million in Dogecoin Labs stock.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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X100 Exploit Proceeds Split Into Four 400-ETH Wallets
The first exploiter swapped about 4.75 million USDT into ether, while the distribution wallet retained another 423 ETH.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Keystone Website Breach Exposes Customer Addresses and Order Details
The hardware-wallet maker says it blocked access and fixed the vulnerability. Payment details, recovery phrases and private keys were not exposed, according to the company.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Electrum Patches Wallet Flaw Exploited Through Malicious Servers
A malicious server can substitute a fake payment, then trick the user into signing it while raising the transaction fee. Developers say one user reported losing money.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto longs lose $404 million in four hours as bitcoin briefly slips below $80,000
Spot bitcoin ETFs lost $773 million on Thursday and Friday after three days of net inflows, per SoSoValue data.
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Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
A policy change effective Oct. 16 carves out an exception to Google’s long-standing pledge—letting connected Gmail, Drive, and Photos data personalize ads through its Personal Intelligence AI features.
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ARB Touches Four-Week Low as Losses Outpace Bitcoin and Ether
OP and POL also lost more than a quarter over matched four-week windows, while Arbitrum One's active-address count rose.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Argentine judge clears Milei and 10 others in LIBRA case, finding no ‘criminally relevant deception’
The judge's 60-page ruling concluded Argentine President Javier Milei's post promoting the LIBRA token did not, by itself, establish fraud.
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Sweden's Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude, Keep Microsoft Copilot
Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, steering civil servants to Microsoft Copilot as the only AI that passed its security review.
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Strategy, Strive face balancing act between bitcoin buying and preferred stock dividends
The securities have financed purchases of nearly 136,000 bitcoin, opening a funding channel that analysts expect to complement the larger ETF market.
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Ether Falls Below $2,300 as 28-Day Loss Reaches 14.7%
ETH lagged bitcoin by 9.15 percentage points over matched nearly four-week windows, while US ether ETFs recorded another outflow on Oct. 22.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Block's new voice AI sounds eerily human, sparking awe and scam fears
Reactions split between amazement at how human it sounds and fears it could fuel scams and deception, with CZ eyeing uses in children’s education.
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Third X100 Exploit Transaction Pulls 550,000 X From Uniswap Pool
A different sender routed about 549,916 X and 1,909 USDT to a new beneficiary, while the affected pool held less than 200 USDT.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto under weekend pressure, bitcoin slides below $80,000 on U.S. Middle East evacuations
Bitcoin has sunk to its weakest level in more than one month.
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Game Publishers Have Pushed to Cut Discs Since 2007, Infinity Ward Veteran Says
Robert Bowling, who spent six years working on Call of Duty, told Decrypt that Activision suggested cutting discs nearly two decades ago.
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Why McDonalds, Microsoft and Google saying no to tokenized stocks isn't a dealbreaker
Some of the world's biggest companies objected to being listed on the first tokenized securities trading venue under the SEC's innovation exemption. But the early pushback may say more about issuer caution than about rejection of tokenization itself.
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X100 Exploit Nets 4.85 Million USDT After Governance Takeover
Two transactions turned treasury tokens and liquidity positions into USDT; Blockaid warned that the Ethereum attack was ongoing.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Argentina drops criminal probe into President Milei over crashed memecoin LIBRA
The judge found that Milei's promotion of LIBRA did not constitute fraud, despite the attention his support drew to the token.
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Shaw Publishes Daos.fun Reconstruction, Claims Critical Flaw
The repository reports matching captured and rebuilt binaries. Daos.fun says it no longer maintains the platform, though existing tokens remain tradable.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Hyperliquid’s Yan and CME’s Duffy Split Over Who Must Bear US Compliance
Yan favors oversight of market deployers rather than the blockchain, while Hyperliquid’s interface still bars US-based users and VPN circumvention.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell among latest firms objecting to OKXICE's tokenized stock plan
Six more companies have objected to listing tokenized versions of their stock on the venue, Reuters reported, bringing the total to 22.
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Bitcoin’s wealthy holders turning to loans and yield as investment habits mature: Xapo CEO
Borrowing against bitcoin and earning income to build their BTC holdings are becoming priorities for long-term investors, Xapo Bank CEO Seamus Rocca told CoinDesk.
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Bitcoin’s wealthy holders turning to loans and yield as investment habits mature: Xapo CEO
Borrowing against bitcoin and earning income to build their BTC holdings are becoming priorities for long-term investors, Xapo Bank CEO Seamus Rocca told CoinDesk.
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API Key Rotation: What Revocation and Redeployment Actually Change
Scheduled replacement can let two keys overlap. Suspected exposure makes that overlap a security decision, not just a way to avoid downtime.... Read the full story at The Defiant