Crypto news
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Tokenized SanDisk bets saw more liquidations than XRP as Asia’s chip rout wipes out $800 million
About $800 million in leveraged positions were wiped out over 24 hours, 86% of them bullish. Chip-stock contracts on crypto exchanges took a chunk of the damage.
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Binance to shut down crypto mining pool services in November
Binance will discontinue its mining pool and related services on Nov. 10, urging miners to move to alternative pools before the shutdown.
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Once-largest Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur is shutting down after volumes collapse 99%
Blur will close its website on Nov. 12 after monthly trading fell from about $1.43 billion at its 2023 peak to under $7 million, ten days after sister project Blast announced its own shutdown.
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Crypto Trader ‘Realist’ Reports Knifepoint Robbery at UK Home
The trader valued the robbery at about $800,000. Transaction records show the Solana address he identified received nearly 719,000 USDC, which later moved on.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin whale moves $378 million in BTC after six years of dormancy: onchain data
The wallet originally received 4,582 BTC in March 2020, when the holdings were worth roughly $40.8 million.
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Bitcoin rebounds above $83,000 as it decouples from tumbling Korean stocks and Nasdaq futures
Bitcoin climbed back above $83,000 after an early dip, decoupling from a sharp slide in Korean chip stocks and weakness in Nasdaq futures ahead of Thursday’s US CPI report.
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South Korea moves to block 27 crypto websites, including KuCoin, MEXC
Authorities said the restrictions are aimed at unregistered exchanges and have acknowledged that customers could have difficulty withdrawing assets.
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Bitcoin slides below $82,000 as crypto liquidations surge past $770 million
Crypto liquidations amounted to $771 million over the past 24 hours, including $685.6 million in long positions.
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Meta launches Muse Wonder AI models, challenging top rivals
Meta co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said its newest models are a step toward “personal superintelligence.”
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Aptos rolls out Encrypted Mempool to curb frontrunning, sandwich attacks
The optional feature hides transaction details until their order is finalized, preventing bots from exploiting pending trades.
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Moscow Exchange to Launch Bitcoin Trading, Testing Underway
Bitcoin Magazine Moscow Exchange to Launch Bitcoin Trading, Testing Underway The Moscow Exchange plans to let clients trade cryptocurrencies starting in December and has begun testing operations with professional market participants, a senior executive said last week. “We are actively testing. We...
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South Korean Lender Jeonbuk Bank to Offer Bitcoin-Backed Loans
Bitcoin Magazine South Korean Lender Jeonbuk Bank to Offer Bitcoin-Backed Loans Jeonbuk Bank has become the first bank in South Korea to offer won-denominated loans backed by bitcoin, according to reports. The subsidiary of JB Financial Group has started offering the loans, according to exclusive...
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Blur to shut down frontend next month as NFT trading volume dwindles
The NFT marketplace's frontend next month while the protocol stays onchain. The BLUR token fell more than 20%.
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AI Will Hit 40% of Jobs, IMF Warns. Young People Are First in Line
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI investment is holding global growth near 3%, with Asian chipmakers winning big, while warning of a 'slow-moving tsunami' for young workers.
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Standard Chartered Will Hold Ripple's Stablecoin in Dubai—And Let Clients Trade With It Without Moving It
The bank's Dubai branch now offers custody for Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin and plans a link with LMAX that lets institutions post it as trading collateral while the coins stay put.
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FTX’s crypto mining venture is now used to advance AI
The defunct exchange acquired a 20% stake in Genesis Digital Assets before FTX declared bankruptcy in November 2022.
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CFTC’s new crypto framework could face 2028 election deadline, says TD Cowen
Newly proposed rules for leveraged and margined crypto trading may be too late as the 2028 election cycle looms, according to TD Cowen.
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Meta's New Muse Wonder Finally Puts Zuckerberg in the Frontier AI Race
Meta's new flagship beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude on memory, legal and marathon coding tests, but independent rankings still put Anthropic's Opus 5.5 on top.
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Robinhood Reports $15B in Stock Token Trading as Chain Passes 100 Days
The company says its stock tokens have reached 200,000 holders, while Morpho’s dashboard shows about $1.1 billion deposited on the network.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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IMF Finds Most Tokenized Equity Trading Happens Outside Regular Hours
The fund says demand for round-the-clock access is real, but building deep, liquid and resilient markets remains a challenge.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Canton Records Over $155 Million in Q3 Fees, CertiK Says
The network burns Canton Coin to pay for services, while its recorded daily fee pace was below the 30-day snapshot Converge reported in June.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Citi Details Stablecoin Checkout With Coinbase and Fiat Payouts
The US-first expansion would let institutional merchants receive fiat without holding digital assets. General availability and supported tokens remain unspecified.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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From GTA V on iPhone to Free Photoshop: This AI Tool Is Upending Software
REA, a free toolkit that hands AI agents the keys to reverse engineering, crossed 100,000 GitHub stars in a week as AI-decompiled game mods, console ports, and Adobe clones flood the internet.
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Bitcoin Extends Slide — Can ‘Uptober’ 2026 Beat Last Year’s?
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Extends Slide — Can ‘Uptober’ 2026 Beat Last Year’s? Bitcoin’s price dipped further on Monday, sliding 2% over a 24-hour period to trade at a little over $82,423. The coin over the past week has dropped by 3%, and so far this month, it’s trading down. October is usually a...
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Solana Treasury Firm DeFi Development Keeps Buying SOL as CHAD Preferred Stock Hits Record
The Nasdaq-listed company now holds about 2.59 million SOL, but its weekly purchases keep shrinking.
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Crypto PACs report $2.7M spending blitz on House races as midterms loom
With just 22 days until the US midterm elections, a crypto-aligned committee has announced another major ad expenditure to support “pro-crypto” candidates in 2026.
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Binance launches AI trading tool after 150,000-user beta
Binance rolled out Binance AI, a free generative-UI trading interface, to all English-language users after a beta with about 150,000 testers.
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US accounting overhaul could make stablecoins more attractive to corporations: Tempo
A Tempo report examines how proposed US accounting rules could change corporate stablecoin holdings, with direct redemption rights determining which tokens qualify as cash.
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Ripple-Backed Evernorth Hits Nasdaq Holding 473 Million XRP Worth Far Less Than It Paid
Evernorth's XRPN shares began trading Monday after its SPAC merger closed, but 80% of SPAC investors cashed out first and its XRP stash is worth roughly 40% less than at signing.
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XRPL branded ‘cheap’ for paying infinite XRP exploiter just $250K
Crypto sleuth ZachXBT says the XRP Ledger Foundation (XRPL) can potentially look forward to losing upwards of $100 million next time it's hacked after the company paid a whitehat hacker just $250,000 for uncovering and reporting an infinte supply XRP bug. ZachXBT claimed XRPL “cheaply” paid the...