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BTC price risks $80K loss into FOMC, earnings: Three things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin bulls fought for $80,000 support over the weekend ahead of a heavy week of US tech earnings and inflation data.
Securitize’s tokenized stock value halves as Circle widens lead
SECZ’s onchain market cap fell to $208.6 million as Circle-linked tokens reached a combined $383.6 million across several issuers in the $3.3 billion tokenized equities market.
South Korea weighs fourth delay of crypto gains tax, eyes 2029 start: report
The delay reportedly aims to align with the U.S. schedule of integrating CARF, the OECD's international tax framework for digital assets.
Bitcoin ETFs break 2-week outflow streak with $301M comeback
US spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with $301 million in net inflows after a strong three-day start gave way to heavy withdrawals.
LND Tests A Guardrail Against Extreme External Bitcoin Fee Estimates
LND's October 22 release candidate brings attention to a quiet source of wallet risk: outside fee estimates that software treats too generously. The 0.21.5 development notes descri…
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Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
Musk warns over 200 AI neoclouds face ‘guppy-level death’
The warning comes as Gartner forecasts that more than 80% of specialist cloud providers will cease operating independently by 2030.
Reflect Makes Branded Token Issuance Easier While Leaving The Collateral In Charge
Reflect's Create launch, promoted by Solana on October 22, offers a fast route to issuing a branded yield-bearing token. The interface can simplify issuance, but the economics stil…
Ripple Swell Preview: The Evidence To Watch When Finance And Developers Meet
Ripple's Swell conference is scheduled for October 27–29 in New York, combining its institutional event with the Apex developer gathering. Ahead of the opening, the useful question…
Hong Kong names Nasdaq-listed Solana Company a strategic enterprise
The Nasdaq-listed firm said it plans to establish Solana validator operations in Hong Kong.
World ID Brings Human Verification Into The Banking Fraud Debate
World launched its banking-and-finance offering on October 18. For a bank considering human verification, the useful question is narrower than whether an interaction looks authenti…
Keystone says website breach exposed hardware wallet buyers’ addresses
A security researcher warned that the leaked shipping details could expose crypto holders to targeted scams and physical attacks.
UNDP And Blockchain For Good Put Public-Service Security Ahead Of New Payment Rails
UNDP and the Blockchain for Good Alliance announced a two-year cybersecurity programme on October 19. The initiative brings a practical question into blockchain adoption by public…
A16z Frontier Broadens The Pitch For Crypto As Investors Look Across Technologies
Andreessen Horowitz is expanding its crypto team's investment brief. Chris Dixon's October 22 announcement renames a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier, with the new fund able to pursue a…
Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint says it’s not rushing retail stablecoin
The Standard Chartered and Animoca Brands joint venture previously targeted retail access as early as the end of 2026, but its CEO declined to reaffirm that timeline.
Robinhood Sets A 2027 Middle East Launch Target After DFSA Authorization
Robinhood announced DFSA authorization and a Dubai International Financial Centre headquarters on October 22, with a Middle East rollout planned for 2027. Regulatory permission pre…
Circle Match Gives USDC Desks A New Fee Trade-Off And A Separate Funding Balance
Circle's October 22 update on Match describes a service for connecting institutional USDC flows. A consequential detail sits in its funding documentation: money prepared for a mint…
AI agents help rescue ETH’s Glamsterdam fork, ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ site: Hodler’s Digest
Similar to the Hugging Face hack, Ethereum researchers have set up an AI Agent message board to help rescue the Glamsterdam fork. ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ site successfully hacked.
Grayscale Looks Beyond AI Tokens To The Data And Credit Behind Computing
Grayscale's October 23 research note looks at a more specific crypto-and-AI proposition than a general bet on smarter software: who supplies training data, who finances hardware an…
Lido Puts Liquidity Buffers At The Center Of Ethereum ETP Yield Debate
An Ethereum investment product can advertise staking exposure without putting every unit of its ETH to work. Lido's October 23 comparison of European exchange-traded products bring…
CoinDCX confirms $16 million loss from retired wallets days after CEO called breach reports a ‘false alarm’
CEO Sumit Gupta had told X users on Wednesday that early reports of a breach sounded like "a false alarm."
Wells Fargo, Cisco, Intuit Among 6 More Companies Objecting to Tokenized Stocks
Twenty-two companies have now objected to having their shares traded on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, after Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell, Arm, Moderna. and Intuit joine…
Keystone customers say breach exposed data the hardware wallet maker promised to delete
Keystone has said it deletes customer information 180 days after their orders in most cases, though X users have cast doubt on that claim.
ECB official sees digital euro as key to protecting EU ‘sovereignty’
Piero Cipollone said the bloc is on track to test real transactions in 2027 and roll out a digital euro as early as 2029, pending legislation this year.
Bitcoin ETFs Snap Two-Week Losing Streak Despite Late-Week Slide
Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with about $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week losing streak, even as two straight days of outflows kept October in the red.
Netanyahu floats use of blockchain as solution to potential financial sanctions
Ahead of elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel could turn to blockchain and crypto to skirt potential international sanctions, to the dismay of opponents and the…
Crypto longs lose $404 million in four hours as bitcoin briefly slips below $80,000
Spot bitcoin ETFs lost $773 million on Thursday and Friday after three days of net inflows, per SoSoValue data.
Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
A policy change effective Oct. 16 carves out an exception to Google’s long-standing pledge—letting connected Gmail, Drive, and Photos data personalize ads through its Personal Inte…
Argentine judge clears Milei and 10 others in LIBRA case, finding no ‘criminally relevant deception’
The judge's 60-page ruling concluded Argentine President Javier Milei's post promoting the LIBRA token did not, by itself, establish fraud.
Sweden's Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude, Keep Microsoft Copilot
Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, steering civil servants to Microsoft Copilot as the only AI that passed its security revie…
Game Publishers Have Pushed to Cut Discs Since 2007, Infinity Ward Veteran Says
Robert Bowling, who spent six years working on Call of Duty, told Decrypt that Activision suggested cutting discs nearly two decades ago.
Hong Kong’s Biggest Bank Puts a Stablecoin in 3 Million Wallets
HSBC switched on its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin inside PayMe on Friday, testing whether a bank-issued token can become everyday money.
Wells Fargo and five others object to OKX-ICE tokenized stock listings: Report
As of Friday, 22 companies had filed objections as part of the joint venture’s proposed tokenized stock platform under the SEC’s innovation exemption.
Netanyahu Considering Crypto Plan to Dodge Banking Sanctions on Israel
Days before Israel’s election, Netanyahu said he has asked for a blockchain plan in case banks are hit with sanctions, and told Israelis to prepare for a rainy day after Trump.
IRS plans lower tax disclosure penalties, including for crypto: Forbes
The US tax agency is targeting faster resolutions and more flexible payment options for taxpayers voluntarily disclosing past tax violations under a planned program overhaul.
Senate Democrat Probes Tether Payments to Ex-White House Crypto Adviser’s Firm
Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanded Tether’s records on payments to Nxum, a firm co-owned by former White House crypto adviser Bo Hines.
SpaceX Filing Gives Elon Musk the Final Word on Tesla Merger He Says He’s Staying Out Of
SpaceX’s latest 10-Q filing quietly confirms any Tesla combination requires sign-off from its “controlling shareholder.”
SEC Flags AI 'Super Intelligence' and Tokenization as Systemic Market Risks
The regulator's Division of Examinations named "super intelligence and other advanced technologies" as a focus area alongside tokenization risks.
Initia halts blockchain after exploit reportedly drains over $2.6M
The blockchain suspended its layer-1 network and rollups after security researchers identified unauthorized token minting and millions in assets transferred to Ethereum.
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