Crypto news
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Lighter Adds weETH as Perpetual Futures Collateral
Lighter counts 70% of weETH’s index value toward trading margin and caps platform-wide collateral supply at 1,000 weETH.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Agora Freezes AUSD Account Linked to Initia Exploit
Agora says it has no contracts on Initia; the targeted Ethereum account had already swapped 1.4 million AUSD for ETH.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin Core Ends Long Embargoes for Bugs AI Can Rediscover
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Core Ends Long Embargoes for Bugs AI Can Rediscover Bitcoin Core has changed its security disclosure policy to speed up fixes for vulnerabilities that large language models can find with little effort, ending the months-long embargoes those bugs once received. Maintainers...
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Initia halts network after security incident as attacker reportedly mints tokens
Onchain data shows a $2.7 million ether transfer as Initia investigates the scope of a security incident.
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Bitcoin ETFs Lose Over $635M In One Day Following Oil Price Spike
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin ETFs Lose Over $635M In One Day Following Oil Price Spike U.S. investors quickly reversed course on Thursday, cashing out over half a billion dollars from spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds as risk-off sentiment surfaced again. A total of $635.6 million left the funds on...
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Crypto Scammers Who Used Prayer Groups to Lure Victims Must Pay $1.3 Billion, Says New York
New York’s attorney general asked a court to order NovaTech’s founders, who fled the country, to pay about $1.37 billion, and settled with four top promoters for nearly $6 million.
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Pump Fun’s Kimchi partnership has turned into chaos
A crossover token launch between prominent crypto trader Kimchi and memecoin platform Pump Fun has descended into chaos after users were left wondering whether or not Kimchi had been hacked. Pump Fun and Kimchi, real name Clayton Kim, have been working together to promote Pump Fun’s “Pill Your...
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Initia Halts L1 and Rollups After Reported Mint Exploit
Analyst Spreek estimated $2.6 million had been cashed out; Ethereum records show stablecoin swaps and a later 1,135.5 ETH transfer.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Extended Plans November XTEN Launch With 30% for Points Users
Eligible participants will receive tokens in self-hosted Arc wallets. Full tokenomics will follow a MiCA white paper expected on Oct. 31.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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SEC flags tokenization as high-risk area in 2027 market examinations
The SEC’s latest priorities highlight tokenization as an emerging market risk, while cryptocurrencies remain absent as a standalone examination category.
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Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $636 Million as October Turns Red Again
Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $635.6 million on Thursday, their biggest outflow of the month, pushing October flows back to a loss of about $176 million as Ethereum and Solana funds also bled.
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Franklin Templeton Clears Final Hurdle For ETFs That Turn Stock Dividends Into Bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine Franklin Templeton Clears Final Hurdle For ETFs That Turn Stock Dividends Into Bitcoin Franklin Templeton has taken the last regulatory step before launching two exchange-traded funds that convert stock dividends into bitcoin. On October 22, Franklin Templeton filed a Form 8-A with...
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Bitcoin seeks support above $81K as Brent crude oil hits highest level since March
Bitcoin dipped below $81,000 as stocks fell and Brent crude hit its highest level since March, leaving the 50-day moving average in focus.
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China Sets 2030 Target for National Blockchain Network
The plan prioritizes trade and finance in the Yangtze River Delta and industrial applications in Chengdu-Chongqing, alongside continuing restrictions on crypto business.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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SEC Adds Tokenization to 2027 Examination Priorities
Clearing agencies and entities covered by Regulation SCI face explicit tokenization scrutiny, while transfer-agent technology reviews continue from 2026.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Succinct Patches SP1 Bug That Could Let Invalid Proofs Pass
The flaw affected native Rust verification in versions 6.0.0–6.8.0. Onchain Groth16 and Plonk verification through Solidity verifiers was unaffected.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bank of Korea Wants Stablecoins Written Into Forex Law as Crypto Bill and Tax Fight Come to a Head
Bitcoin Magazine Bank of Korea Wants Stablecoins Written Into Forex Law as Crypto Bill and Tax Fight Come to a Head The Bank of Korea plans to draft an amendment to the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act with the government before year-end that would regulate stablecoins as a means of payment,...
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Robinhood sees surge in bitcoin, gold prediction markets as traders move beyond sports
The company's head of futures and prediction markets said bitcoin, gold and oil contracts are among its fastest-growing prediction markets.
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Stand With Crypto Director: The Crypto Vote Will Decide the Midterms | Mason Lynaugh
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Stand With Crypto Director: The Crypto Vote Will Decide the Midterms | Mason Lynaugh The midterms are November 3, and a shift in congressional power could reshape Bitcoin and crypto policy for years. Mason Lynaugh, Executive Director of Stand With Crypto, joins Grace Remington...
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Morning Minute: a16z Drops 'Crypto' From Its Fund
The name change is symbolic of the fund’s future investing focus, though the firm will continue investing in crypto.
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Parker Lewis: Bitcoin Will Settle 100% of Global Payments
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Parker Lewis: Bitcoin Will Settle 100% of Global Payments Parker Lewis says Bitcoin will settle 100% of global payments, and that the credit system pushing people toward it is straining under a $107 trillion debt stack. The Gradually, Then Suddenly author joins Grace Remington...
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Block Releases THE Bitcoin National Ad Campaign
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Block Releases THE Bitcoin National Ad Campaign Block just launched “Bitcoin Does,” its first-ever mass-consumer Bitcoin advertising campaign, aimed at the 60 million Americans who are curious but haven't taken the first step. Maria Pesce, Head of Bitcoin Marketing at Block...
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China targets 2030 for its national blockchain network buildout
China’s five-year digital development plan calls for wider blockchain use in trade and manufacturing alongside stronger technical standards.
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Interpol Recovers $105M in African Cybercrime Sweep That Shut Illegal Crypto Mines
Operation Serengeti III led to 1,462 arrests across 21 countries, while Angolan police seized more than 2,000 crypto mining devices.
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Bloomberg’s Mike McGlone: AI Risk Could Force Bitcoin Drawdown to $10,000
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Bloomberg's Mike McGlone: AI Risk Could Force Bitcoin Drawdown to $10,000 Mike McGlone was one of the few Wall Street analysts to call $100K Bitcoin. Now the Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist says Bitcoin “can easily drop a zero” to $10,000. In this interview...
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Phantom rolls out Kalshi prediction markets to US users, says it’s ‘confident and comfortable’ amid state lawsuits
Phantom users will fund trades with CASH stablecoins, with market restrictions applied in Michigan, Nevada and Washington.
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Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand central banks expand cross-border stablecoin initiative involving Ripple, Visa and Mastercard
Malaysia and Thailand have joined Singapore's BLOOM initiative for cross-border stablecoin and tokenized deposit settlement.
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New York AG seeks $1.37B from NovaTech founders over Ponzi scheme
The request follows an August 2025 default judgment, with the AG also announcing nearly $6 million in settlements with four promoters.
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Bitcoin consolidates after 3% loss as AI fears stoke fresh stock-market weakness
Bitcoin price volatility cooled as stock markets battled another day of resurgent AI fears during Friday’s Asia trading session.
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Bitcoin Core changes security rules as AI makes finding code bugs dangerously easy
Developers merged a policy change that ends the months-long embargo for flaws a chatbot could rediscover, after a summer in which AI found hundreds of bitcoin bugs before the humans did.