Crypto news
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Binance Is Shutting Down Its Bitcoin Mining Pool After Six Years
Binance will discontinue Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, and other related services in a retreat from mining infrastructure.
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Most tokenized stock trading on Solana, BNB Chain occurs outside US market hours
Tokenized equities have reached nearly $3.3 billion in value as investors embrace round-the-clock access beyond Wall Street hours.
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Bitcoin Whale That Sat Through Every Crash Since 2020 Just Moved $377M
A wallet that received 4,581 BTC in March 2020, worth about $40 million then, moved its stash today when it was worth about $377 million.
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DOJ Announces Two Arrests in North Korean ‘Laptop Farm’ Crackdown
Prosecutors allege a scheme affecting more than 70 US employers generated about $3 million. The Ohio indictment describes cryptocurrency transfers.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Parlays Drive Kalshi’s $3.9 Billion Trading Days, Analysis Finds
Combos supplied roughly 70% of weekend notional volume, according to Bitcoin.com’s analysis, but that measure is not cash spent by buyers or a count of new users.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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JUP Rises 51% in Four Weeks as Jupiter Fees Decline
JUP outpaced bitcoin and ether despite a 5.6% weekly pullback. Fees across Jupiter’s products fell to $16.82 million in the latest complete 28-day period.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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APT Gains 51% in Four Weeks, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether
The token's weekly return is nearly flat, while DefiLlama's tracked stablecoin market cap on Aptos has fallen 17.5% over four weeks.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Robinhood Opens Social Trading Feed to Eligible US Customers
Users can share charts and portfolio allocations, while a rollout on the Legend desktop platform is planned in the coming weeks.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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MediaMarktSaturn Pulls Ledger Products Amid Tampering Reports
The retailer says the withdrawal covers all its countries. Ledger says no fund losses were reported in the German case and directs existing buyers to support.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Trezor reduces resellers as a ‘preventative step’ amid Ledger tampering reports
CCO Danny Sanders said he had notified certain hardware wallet resellers that they would be removed from Trezor’s list of authorized entities starting Jan. 1.
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Blockchain.com Seeks CFTC Licenses for US Derivatives and Prediction Markets
The company is seeking both exchange and futures-broker registrations to serve retail and institutional customers. The proposed US offering still requires approval.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Base Introduces Earn & Borrow With Aave and Morpho
Apps can embed variable-rate stablecoin lending and crypto-backed loans, while borrowers remain subject to the underlying protocols’ liquidation rules.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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cirBTC Borrowing on Morpho Tops $190 Million as Arc Liquidity Tightens
About 97.4% of supplied USDC is borrowed in the main market, compared with 8.1% when Circle Mint opened access on Sept. 21.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Avalanche Highlights KSD Links Ahead of Korea’s 2027 Tokenization Rollout
KSD’s platform is being built to connect with Avalanche, Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Fabric, with Samsung SDS targeting completion in February 2027.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Kalshi and Polymarket won’t be part of FTC sports gambling probe, report
Rival prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket will reportedly be excluded from the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) probe into deceptive practices in the $167 million online sports gambling industry. The two crypto-linked firms aren’t a focus of the FTC probe, which will instead set its sights on...
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Strive Buys $280 Million in Bitcoin, Its Largest Purchase in Months
The Nasdaq-listed asset manager bought the Bitcoin at an average of about $84,500 during a rough week for the market, lifting its total stash to 32,773 BTC.
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Broadcom CEO calls AI ‘a casino’ after co-founder dumped $750 million
When Broadcom CEO Hock Tan called AI investors gamblers behaving “like they are in a casino” on Monday, he failed to mention that his company's own co-founder has sold roughly $750 million worth of AI stock to AI investors this year. Tan told a Singapore conference on Monday that AI investors are...
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AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palantir Exec
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says many AI researchers have taken up smoking to signal their faith in AI.
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XRPN took shareholder vote with no knowledge of XRP inflation bug
Shareholders of Ripple and Arrington Capital’s XRP treasury stock Evernorth Holdings would have surely loved to know that hackers could have inflated the supply of XRP by trillions of new tokens before they decided last month whether to move forward with a plan to take an XRP crypto treasury...
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UK Court Rules Chinese Law Governs Victims’ Claims to 61,000 Bitcoin
The roughly $5.1 billion holding remains contested after victims lost their bid to rely on English law to establish ownership.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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9/11 victims claim bitcoins seized from Chinese-Iranian mining pool
Victims and families of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack filed a statement of interest in BTC previously seized by the US government from the LuBian.com mining pool. The filing references another suit that claims that LuBian was operated by the Iran and China Investment Development Group.' The...
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The Amount of Bitcoin on Exchanges Is Shrinking. Is a Rally Imminent?
Bitcoin Magazine The Amount of Bitcoin on Exchanges Is Shrinking. Is a Rally Imminent? Bitcoin’s price could be due a move upwards as the supply of the leading cryptocurrency on exchanges shrinks. That’s according to a researcher at data firm CryptoQuant, who wrote in a Monday report that bitcoin...
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MNX Launches Futures on AI Lab IPOs and Revenue
The contracts offer leveraged exposure rather than shares, with settlement tied to IPO filings, private-market valuations or revenue estimates.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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How the SEC’s lack of leadership could facilitate crypto rulemaking
A recent change in the SEC’s rules on quorum could make it easier for the agency to amend its approach to crypto regulation in the absence of a market structure bill.
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Bitcoin Shakes Off Spooky Season Jitters: Can Bulls Keep It Going?
Bitcoin dipped below $81,000 before buyers stepped in, but the Fear and Greed Index says traders aren't convinced yet.
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Mezo Sets Oct. 13 Bridge-Out Deadline for swBTC and USDe
SolvBTC and xSolvBTC withdrawals will close Oct. 29. Deposits are already suspended for all four tokens.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Trezor Cuts Its Resellers After Ledger Finds Spy Implant in Crypto Wallets
Trezor is ending reseller authorizations on January 1, 2027, after Ledger confirmed that wallets sold by a Southeast Asian retailer carried a hidden implant that sent out users' recovery phrases.
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Trezor Reduces Number of Resellers Following Ledger Drainage Incident
Bitcoin Magazine Trezor Reduces Number of Resellers Following Ledger Drainage Incident Hardware manufacturer Trezor has said it has reduced the number of resellers it works with following supply-chain incidents related to its competitor Ledger. The Prague, Czech Republic-based company added in a...
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Ripple, Stripe-owned Privy partner to bring embedded wallets to XRP Ledger
Developers can now build XRPL wallets into apps via Privy, with support for XRP, RLUSD, AI agent payments and x402.
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Strive reports $208M in warrant exercises as Bitcoin holdings jump 11%
Strive is now the fifth-largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holder, with 32,773 BTC, as it continues to expand its treasury through equity financing.