Crypto news
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Liquid Bitcoin Redemptions Remain Frozen With 85.8% Reserve Coverage
The reserve gap is about 603 BTC. Liquid says peg-outs require full backing and completed security reviews before they can restart.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Papertrade Says It Is Tightening Trading Limits After Manipulation Allegations
The team says it is restricting exposure onchain and through relayers. Its statement does not confirm claims that a trader was blacklisted or prevented from closing positions.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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President Trump declares 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine
"[It's] news for me," said Ukrainian President Zelensky, "but if Russians agree to an energy ceasefire, Ukraine will agree."
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PeckShield Traces $3.89 Million in Ledger Theft Funds to Binance Deposits
The reported Tron deposits offer investigators an exchange-account lead, but intermediary wallets handling other clients’ money complicate attribution.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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XRP Ledger Discloses Decade-Old Bug That Could Mint Trillions
The flaw was fixed in xrpld 3.4.1 on Sept. 25. Developers found no evidence it was exploited on a public network.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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US Bitcoin ETFs Shed $679 Million in Weekly Reversal
Withdrawals on Oct. 7–8 drove a $920 million swing from the preceding week, leaving the two-week flow total negative.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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How Zcash Plans to Hide Your Keys From AI and Quantum Attacks
Zakura, a Zcash full node developer, says it expects hash-based signatures to land in Zcash in January, and is rolling out a privacy tool for rotating transparent addresses this week.
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IMF finds demand for tokenized stocks, says the market is still volatile, illiquid
Investors are using blockchain-based shares for smaller and after-hours trades. The IMF says liquidity, legal rules and settlement systems have not caught up.
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Coldcard says it’s investigating how phishing link appeared on its X account
Company advised users not to visit or interact with the link in question and said it will share any further verified updates.
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COLDCARD Warns of Phishing Post on Its Official X Account
The company says it found no matching login record. A researcher found the fake migration site was built to collect wallet recovery phrases.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ledger confirms unauthorized hardware implant; losses may exceed $86M
Ledger said the incident appeared to be isolated to a single reseller and its Southeast Asian market.
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CFTC proposals aimed at separating prediction markets from casino gambling
The two measures attempt to set the stage for a potential US Supreme Court battle over federal and state jurisdiction.
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Filecoin Nears End of Six-Year Vesting, Removing 68 Million FIL in Annual Releases
At the latest mining pace, annualized additions from vesting and block rewards would fall from about 89 million FIL to 21 million. Storage-provider rewards continue.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Papertrade Faces Oracle-Manipulation Allegation as House Pool Shows $3.14 Million
The cited wallet showed about $1.73 million in realized trading gains on PaperDash. Papertrade’s loss-funded pool pays winners, with unpaid profits queued if cash runs short.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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SUI Gains 54% in Four Weeks, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether
Sui’s DeFi liquidity also expanded, but more slowly than its token price, while a recent pullback interrupted the rally.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Pump.fun to Tie Callout Rewards to Followers’ Profits
Low-cap token recommendations will earn less under changes starting with the Oct. 10 payout, co-founder Alon said.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Kalshi is investigating bets on Trump’s press secretary pick placed before announcement: WSJ
Three bets totaling about $173 were placed before news outlets reported Zacharia's pick and are expected to pay out roughly $9,600 combined.
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Papertrade Traders Lose $18.2 Million as Staking Rewards Reach $12.6 Million
Reported staking rewards equaled about 69% of net trading losses, but the payouts redistribute money to PAPER stakers rather than reimburse each losing trader.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ledger Says Affected User’s Device Contained Hardware Implant
CryptoBilis has stopped selling all hardware wallet inventory pending the investigation, according to Ledger, widening an earlier pause request limited to Ledger devices.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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CFTC Draws the Line Between Prediction Markets and Gambling in New Rules
A proposed rule would expressly fold event contracts tied to sports, politics, culture and weather into the “swap” definition, while an interim rule excludes casino-style gambling—sharpening the agency’s claim to exclusive jurisdiction.
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Papertrade Shows $10.3 Million in Staker Rewards Hours After Launch
The 1000x-leverage venue’s dashboard showed roughly $5 million in its house pool and no queued payout debt as trading losses funded PAPER rewards.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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This Sam Altman-Backed Life Insurer Runs Entirely on Bitcoin, and Just Raised $37.5 Million
The Bermuda-based insurer, which runs entirely on Bitcoin, drew the funding from existing backers led by Bain Capital Crypto after a record year driven by demand from wealthy families in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
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Ether ETFs extend outflow streak to nine days as Solana funds snap record 14-week inflow run
Spot bitcoin, solana, and ether ETFs all logged weekly outflows following last week's trading, a notable shift for some of the funds.
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Here’s a Way to Predict When AI Chatbots Will Turn Bad
Physicists at George Washington University say a formula can estimate when an AI chatbot will flip from good answers to bad ones, and early tests on small models back it up.
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Papertrade Draws Reported $3 Billion in Positions in First Hour
DefiLlama tracked $137.1 million in trader balances and house liquidity combined. Those funds are not all available to pay winning trades.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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French Committee Backs Stablecoin Swap Tax and Crypto Exit Tax, Then Rejects the Budget
A National Assembly committee adopted amendments taxing stablecoin swaps and crypto exits by wealthy holders, then rejected the 2027 budget's revenue section.
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StarkWare Calls Starknet L1 Shift Its 'Clearest Path Forward'
Starknet still settles on Ethereum, and its official account described an L1 move as 'a question, not a decision' a day earlier.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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One year after 10/10, bitcoin and ether liquidity have rebuilt, but other altcoins still face risks
Bitcoin and ether order books are deeper than before the crash, while altcoin liquidity keeps eroding and spot trading remains well below its October 2025 peak.
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Tokenized commodities look beyond gold as lending and oil open new markets
Paxos Labs, Theo and Energy Substantiation execs see growth coming from putting physical assets to work, with precious metals leading and energy presenting a tougher test.
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Justin Sun says Tron’s post-quantum cryptography has gone live on testnet
“We’re ready to bring quantum resistance to mainnet at any time,” Sun said in a post on X.