Crypto news
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Bitcoin price steadies around $82K after Fed’s Warsh avoids rate-hike hints
Bitcoin held above $80,000 as South Korean tech stocks recovered from a sell-off and traders lowered their expectations for a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike.
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Three Canadian Armed Forces Members Charged in Kidnapping of Crypto Exchange Owner
Police seized guns, silencers and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition, nearly all of it allegedly stolen from the Canadian military.
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Deutsche Bank Plans Crypto Custody Launch Within Weeks
The European offering will serve corporate and institutional clients, with expansion into Asian financial centres targeted for 2027.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Mizuho, MUFG and SMBC Complete Joint Yen Stablecoin Pilot
The July trial covered issuance, transfer and redemption for Mitsubishi Corporation, while the banks have targeted commercial transactions in fiscal 2026.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance.US Seeks Up to $100 Million at $1 Billion Valuation, Bloomberg Reports
Trump-affiliated World Liberty Financial was made aware of the fundraising but is not participating, according to Bloomberg.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Network School Takes Over Farcaster With New Posting Rules
The new social smart contract gives the core team authority to update conduct rules, with humans and AI already reviewing posts.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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AMC CEO Says Company Won’t Consent to Robinhood Stock Tokens in US
Robinhood’s offshore tokens do not convey shareholder rights, while the SEC’s new US trading framework gives issuers a limited right to object.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Unagi Puts Persona and Ultimate Champions Up for Sale in Liquidation
The sale includes Persona’s intellectual property, a treasury of 957 NFTs and the UNA token contracts, with offers due November 2.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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INJ Surges 27%, Outpacing NEAR and Sei
INJ outpaced NEAR, Sei and Cosmos Hub over 24 hours, while a proposed 21Shares fund would hold the token directly and allow discretionary staking.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Circle details USDC revenue split, says $819 million went to partners and costs in H1 2026
Circle breaks down its USDC revenue: about $1.4 billion in H1 2026, $819 million to partners and transaction costs, $473 million reinvested.
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Big Tech's AI auditors will only see what they're shown
If the White House accord's audits are going to be worth anything, auditors should be able to choose what they test, writes Samuel Vance-Law, head of research at the Decentralization Research Center.
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Coinbase and Marqeta Expand Partnership for Enterprise Stablecoin Cards
The planned offering would let businesses fund card programs around the clock, with Coinbase holding balances and Base providing onchain settlement infrastructure.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tokenized Equities Reached $3.8 Billion This Year, DWF Labs Says
The report puts weekly spot trading on decentralized exchanges at $2.54 billion, 55 times the January level, with Ondo's issuer share down to 26% from 56%.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Filecoin Plans to Shift Block Rewards Toward Paid Storage
Under FIP-0118, the consensus share of each block reward falls from 95% toward a 50% floor over about nine quarters, and any service share left unearned is burned.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Nasdaq-Listed Perpetuals Files to Trade Tokenized US Stocks Under SEC Exemption
The company run by former FTX Europe head Patrick Gruhn says it has published a notice of intent to rely on the SEC's five-year relief. A 30-day waiting period follows.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Strategy conditionally declares daily dividends as STRC hovers below $100
Strategy conditionally declared daily dividends on STRC, which continued to hover below its $100 par value.
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Ledger’s early implant warnings deserved more action, Karpelès says
Ledger was contacted about tampered hardware wallets risks months before its latest security crisis, with former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès questioning its response.
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Crypto Analyst Lark Davis: The Bitcoin Bull Run has Begun
Bitcoin Magazine Crypto Analyst Lark Davis: The Bitcoin Bull Run has Begun Bitcoin has been trading sideways in the $80Ks, but Lark Davis says we’re on the cusp of the next major cycle. The crypto investor and YouTuber joins Grace Remington and Sean Hagan to explain why a dozen on-chain and...
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Deutsche Bank prepares German crypto custody launch, eyes Asia: Report
Germany’s largest bank reportedly plans to expand its digital asset custody services to Asian financial centers due to the growth of the digital asset economy.
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How Ethereum Works
The focus is how Ethereum works under the hood: how it tracks and updates state, how transactions flow through the network, how computation is priced through gas, how smart contracts and token standards make Ethereum programmable, and how other Layer 1 blockchains approach the same problems in...
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Math Professor Warns of Threat to Bitcoin from AI Pivot
Bitcoin Magazine Math Professor Warns of Threat to Bitcoin from AI Pivot Could anyone actually break Bitcoin? Micah Warren, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon and author of Bitcoin: A Game-Theoretic Analysis, joins Grace Remington and Sean Hagan to break down Bitcoin’s...
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OpenAI agent questions its own ethics after going rogue and stealing crypto
OpenAI revealed its AI agent was left questioning its own ethics after it embarked on an unauthorized search for publicly known recovery phrases and stole testnet ETH from a developer wallet. The incident, shared on OpenAI’s Alignment Research Blog , involved an internal research model that was...
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Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg: The Digital Gold Investment Case for Bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg: The Digital Gold Investment Case for Bitcoin Bitcoin’s digital gold case is “a pretty strong rationale,” says Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg. But she wants to see Bitcoin trade more like gold and less like risk assets. She discusses Bitcoin’s...
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Sazmining Brings Proto’s Immersion Hashboards to Individual Owners, With 0% Financing From $1,397 Down
Bitcoin Magazine Sazmining Brings Proto’s Immersion Hashboards to Individual Owners, With 0% Financing From $1,397 Down SHERIDAN, Wyo. — October 16th, 2026 — Sazmining today began offering Proto immersion hashboards to individual and institutional buyers through its mining-as-a-service platform....
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Scammer Lost $4.8M in Bitcoin to Tampered Ledger Wallets: Chainalysis
The funds came from a task scam that paid people to fake product sales and reviews, then demanded deposits before releasing their pay.
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Morning Minute: Google Clears a Major Quantum Hurdle, Bitcoin Still Safe
Plus, crypto majors rebound despite hot PPI and Saylor’s Strategy is at risk of removal from a major index.
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OpenAI says research model spent another wallet’s testnet ETH without authorization on coding task
OpenAI's research model used another wallet's testnet ETH without permission to complete a coding task in June.
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Strategy dips on bad MSCI World Index news
Strategy's stock price dipped 4% in after-hours trading yesterday as traders speculated about its removal from the MSCI World Index. The stock indexation giant announced on Thursday that it will adopt rules removing “non-operating companies” from its Global Investable Market Indexes, including its...
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Visa Direct moves USDC prefunding into commercial production with Inyo Global
Visa Direct has brought USDC prefunding into commercial production with Inyo Global as its first commercial enabler.
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Solana’s Liu says Shanghai event postponed over registration surge
Solana Foundation President Lily Liu said registrations quadrupled overnight, exceeding the attendance limit registered with local authorities.