Crypto news
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Rent a car, launder crypto: Italian police bust $76M mafia scheme
Italian police have busted a mafia-linked crypto laundering ring that moved €68 million ($76 million) out of the country under the guise of a Milan-based car rental company. According to Il Sole 24 Ore , the operation, carried out by the Guardia di Finanza and Monza Brianza, has seen 30 individuals...
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Beyond HODLing: How Bitcoin-Backed Loans Can Unlock New Financial Opportunities
Bitcoin Magazine Beyond HODLing: How Bitcoin-Backed Loans Can Unlock New Financial Opportunities For long-term Bitcoin holders, accessing capital has traditionally presented a difficult choice: sell a portion of their holdings or leave that value untouched. Bitcoin-backed lending offers another...
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Trump to throw spotlight on overseas crypto abuses at White House event
The president is hosting a cybercrime event that will highlight U.S. authorities' efforts to crack down on crypto scams run by foreign criminal organizations.
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Sunrise Brings Backpack’s Tokenized Meta Shares to Solana
Redemption requires an eligible, verified Backpack account, and transfers from Backpack to another brokerage are not yet supported.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Musk’s SpaceX-Tesla Merger Would Create a Bitcoin Treasury Behemoth
Musk said both boards formed committees to weigh a tie-up that would combine Tesla’s 11,509 BTC and SpaceX’s 18,712 BTC—roughly $2.5 billion worth—onto a single balance sheet.
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Kalshi Pushes Deeper Into Crypto Derivatives With Bitcoin-Backed Margin Loans
Bitcoin Magazine Kalshi Pushes Deeper Into Crypto Derivatives With Bitcoin-Backed Margin Loans Kalshi is doubling down on its bid to become the regulated U.S. home for crypto perpetual futures, pairing a new bitcoin-backed lending arrangement with digital-asset custodian BitGo alongside a...
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Chainlink, Cardano, other blockchain groups push SEC for clearer crypto rules
Six major blockchain organizations urged the SEC to formally recognize digital commodities as non-securities in its proposed regulatory framework.
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Abracadabra breaks its DAO to shut down protocol
Abracadabra DAO, the DeFi project behind the long-depegged Magic Internet Money (MIM) stablecoin, has passed a controversial proposal to wind down the protocol on its second attempt after reducing quorum requirements from 3 billion to 300 million SPELL , worth just $26,000. The proposed “orderly...
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Bitcoin Nears $85,000 as SpaceX Earnings Reignite Risk Appetite
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Nears $85,000 as SpaceX Earnings Reignite Risk Appetite Bitcoin’s price rose above $84,500 on Wednesday as investors flooded back into risk-on assets — particularly tech-related stocks. The leading cryptocurrency was recently priced at $84,461 after rising nearly as high as...
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What Is a Bitcoin-Backed Loan? Borrowing Against BTC Explained
Bitcoin-backed loans let holders borrow cash or stablecoins without selling BTC. Here's how collateral, LTV and liquidations work.
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PHP Panic: Two Critical Bugs Put 70% of the Internet at Risk, and Everyone Is Freaking Out
Two critical bugs in PHP, the language running most of the web, let strangers take over servers without a password. The patch is out, attacks started early, and governments pulled the plug.
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How a16z-backed DATA is rethinking its blockchain strategy after $30 million Sui deal
The startup is retiring its own blockchain and moving to Sui with a $30 million investment as it narrows its focus to AI training data.
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Bitcoin price tags $84.6K as US stocks head higher on SpaceX Q3 earnings beat
Bitcoin extended gains to approach $85,000 after US stock markets reacted to higher-than-expected SpaceX earnings.
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Grayscale expands in-kind subscriptions to 10 crypto ETFs and trusts
Grayscale expands in-kind subscriptions to 10 crypto funds, letting eligible investors swap tokens for shares without selling for cash.
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Bybit will look for big broker partnerships to take on Robinhood in the U.S.
When it comes to the U.S., Bybit will look to work with with someone like Interactive Brokers (IB), for example, said CEO Ben Zhou.
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Japan's Prime Minister Urges PHP Patching, Suggests Temporary Site Shutdowns
Fixes are now available for two critical flaws that can let attackers run code on web servers without logging in.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto Long & Short: Why real-world assets need fixed-rate loans onchain
Real-world assets already back the largest stablecoins, yet borrowing against them onchain still runs through variable-rate pools. Peter Gaffney of O2O Capital Partners explains why fixed-rate, fixed-term lending is the missing piece, and how a 5% shift in Sky and Ethena reserves could create $1.8...
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President Trump to Highlight Crackdown on Overseas Crypto Scams
Bitcoin Magazine President Trump to Highlight Crackdown on Overseas Crypto Scams President Donald Trump will use a White House event on Wednesday to spotlight his administration's push against foreign criminal networks that lure Americans into fake crypto investments, a White House official told...
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Anza’s Alpenglow goes live on Solana, cutting finality to 150 milliseconds
Solana activated Alpenglow, replacing TowerBFT and cutting transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds.
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Solana Alpenglow Goes Live in 'Most Ambitious' Upgrade Since Ethereum's Merge
The new consensus protocol retires TowerBFT, which had run Solana since its 2020 launch, after a handoff on the live network.
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Polkadot Warns Fearless Wallet Users to Move Funds After Private-Key Leak
Chrome still listed an affected extension version with 6,000 users as the foundation urged holders to create fresh keys.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Solana’s Alpenglow launches on mainnet, targets 99% faster finality
Solana’s first major consensus upgrade is targeting 99% finality reduction, seeking to offer users near-immediate transaction settlement and more responsive applications.
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J.P. Morgan Reveals First-Ever Bitcoin Price Forecast in Long-Term Capital Market Report
📺 Watch Video Bitcoin Magazine J.P. Morgan Reveals First-Ever Bitcoin Price Forecast in Long-Term Capital Market Report J.P. Morgan just named Bitcoin the best-performing asset in its long-term outlook. In its 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions, J.P. Morgan Asset Management projects Bitcoin...
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Strive’s SATS: How 15% Yield Becomes A Bitcoin Accretion Machine
Bitcoin Magazine Strive’s SATS: How 15% Yield Becomes A Bitcoin Accretion Machine Strive’s newly IPO’d SATS perpetual preferred stock introduces an interesting opportunity: the company could potentially issue preferred equity above its $100 stated amount and grow Net Bitcoin Per Share (Net BPS) in...
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Blockchain.com CEO: “Crypto Spring” has Arrived – Institutions Driving the Market
📺 Watch Video Bitcoin Magazine Blockchain.com CEO: “Crypto Spring” has Arrived – Institutions Driving the Market With the midterms just weeks away, how much political support does crypto really have? Blockchain.com Co-CEO Lane Kasselman says the digital asset sector has the most bipartisan support...
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Ondo Perps Adds 3x OpenAI Pre-IPO Contract
The perpetual has its own pricing and hourly funding payments, unlike the fully funded OPAIPon spot note. US persons are excluded.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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“Massively Undervalued” – Samson Mow on MSTR & Bitcoin Treasuries
📺 Watch Video Bitcoin Magazine “Massively Undervalued” – Samson Mow on MSTR & Bitcoin Treasuries Are Bitcoin treasury companies being overlooked? JAN3 CEO Samson Mow says a lot of them, especially Strategy (MSTR), are massively undervalued right now. He explains why treasury companies act as...
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Jeff Walton: Where the Next Trillion Dollars for Bitcoin Comes from, $SATS IPO Update
📺 Watch Video Bitcoin Magazine Jeff Walton: Where the Next Trillion Dollars for Bitcoin Comes from, $SATS IPO Update While CCC high-yield credit spreads were blowing out, Strive still raised $700 million for Bitcoin. Jeff Walton, Chief Risk Officer at Strive, explains what that tells us about the...
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Doodles' DOOD Token Surges 212% to a $38 Million Market Cap
The collection's NFT floor rose 7.4% in ETH, while reported token trading volume reached $213 million over 24 hours.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OCC Finalizes GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rules, Leaves Rewards Fight Open
Bitcoin Magazine OCC Finalizes GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rules, Leaves Rewards Fight Open The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Wednesday finalized its rules implementing the GENIUS Act, becoming the first federal regulator to complete the stablecoin framework Congress passed in July 2025....