News

Patrick Witt announced his departure from the White House last week.Read More

Wall Street’s fear gauge, the VIX index, spiked on Friday as stocks dropped. History says Friday panics usually fade on Monday. Seasonality and calm bitcoin suggest the same.Read More

Parliament passed a law taxing crypto withdrawals above deposits rather than individual trades, featuring a one-time declaration mechanism.Read More

Analytics firm Allium said stablecoin payments hit $482 billion this year so far, up 45%, as card spending surges and global payment firms add crypto rails.Read More

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.Read More

The prediction market industry enables people to bet on US ‌elections and sporting events.Read More

The security firm found that 77% of third-quarter losses involved compromised suppliers, delayed fixes or systems outside the latest security reviews.Read More

Bitwise sees a potential return above $100,000, while LO:TECH expects a narrower trading range as interest-rate uncertainty weighs on the market.Read More

Private-sector partners flagged $11 million in funds that could be frozen, while officials reported cryptocurrency seizures without disclosing their value.Read More

Cysic said the incident was limited to bridge message processing and minting and did not affect the mainnet or other operational systems.Read More

Police alleged the suspect was involved in cryptocurrency and foreign-currency exchanges for criminal groups across more than 133 accounts.Read More

A 10-minute flush hit round-the-clock chip-stock contracts while U.S. markets were shut, leaving traders with no real share price to lean on.Read More

The round brings AIsa’s total funding to more than $9 million.Read More

Coinbase, Circle’s largest USDC partner, also backs Open USD, a rival network that passes reserve income to partners after a management fee.Read More

The largest banks in the world are eyeing new trading opportunities, speeding up payments and a role for advisers as tokenization takes root in Wall Street.Read More

The influential research firm says real-world assets could finally give blockchains a clear role in finance. For investors, the next challenge is figuring out which companies, networks and protocols capture the revenue.Read More

CEO Marc Boiron said the Coinme acquisition will help Polygon control customer relationships and capture revenue that previously went to payment intermediaries.Read More

Solana has had no reported mainnet outages in two years, but concentrations in stake, hosting and client software should be monitored, according to a report.Read More

A BIS working paper found a 1 basis point rise in U.S. bank deposit rates predicted slower stablecoin growth, cutting ten-week growth from 15% to 12%.Read More

Markets in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East see increasing demand for stablecoins.Read More

“The digital euro will further stimulate innovation and competition in retail payments,” according to the ECB president.Read More

Bitget says user funds are safe and exchange will continue to operate during the change.Read More

Numbers the spy agency handed over in the 1990s, long suspected of hiding a backdoor, turn out to have come from a basic computer program. Bitcoin was never on that list, and its quantum problem hasn’t gone anywhere.Read More

Google says its Willow chip can prepare the special quantum states needed for advanced calculations with about 40 times fewer errors, reducing one of the hardware bottlenecks behind any future attempt to crack bitcoin wallets.Read More

At least two industry-aligned PACs have poured more than $52 million into opposing Sherrod Brown’s return to the Senate.Read More

Borderless.xyz data shows major savings on cross-border business payments, with stablecoin transfers also settling faster than traditional international bank wires.Read More

Tokenized stocks are drawing trading activity beyond Wall Street hours, while Bitcoin miners confront costly AI expansion and new accounting rules could benefit stablecoins.Read More

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.Read More

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.Read More

Strategy conditionally declared daily dividends on STRC, which continued to hover below its $100 par value.Read More

Ledger was contacted about tampered hardware wallets risks months before its latest security crisis, with former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès questioning its response.Read More

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.Read More

Solana Foundation President Lily Liu said registrations quadrupled overnight, exceeding the attendance limit registered with local authorities.Read More

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 16, 2026Read More

The stablecoin issuer’s CEO Jerermy Allaire told Reuters demand for digital dollars is growing across Asia, Africa and Latin America as banks and payment firms.Read More

Nine crypto companies launched the Quantum Alliance to jointly prepare for quantum attacks, but they disagree on when the threat will arrive and whether vulnerable BTC should be frozen.Read More

Volume in Hyperliquid’s Tesla contract hit $47 million in one hour after Elon Musk’s flying Roadster demo, up from $2.8 million, with U.S. stocks closed.Read More

Celestia jumped 16%, injective rose 7.7% and layerzero added 7.3% while bitcoin held little changed near $82,100 and Fed Chair Warsh gave no sign on interest rates.Read More

Panelists at Cointelegraph’s Singapore CONNECT event explored opportunities in tokenized markets, the future of everyday stablecoin payments and the evolving landscape for crypto investors.Read More

Chainalysis says a fraudster who tricked people through fake online jobs became one of the biggest victims of the compromised hardware wallets.Read More

The crypto exchange already paid up, but a court order and restrictions from its 2025 settlement will not be lifted even though the CFTC said the case should have never been presented.Read More

Bitcoin’s market cycle signals tool showed BTC price action copying history, possibly preparing to reclaim a key moving average before testing new highs.Read More

The rules proposed in August would see companies that exist mainly to hold investments as no longer eligible for index inclusion.Read More

Europe’s second-largest Bitcoin treasury raised $30 million and increased its Bitcoin holdings by 11% in the first half of 2026, despite reporting a $75 million Bitcoin impairment loss.Read More

Judge ruled changes in CFTC enforcement priorities and allegations of misconduct by its enforcement division were insufficient to overturn Gemini’s January 2025 settlement.Read More

An OpenAI research model checked 362 wallet addresses, questioned whether using the funds was ethical and proceeded with a transaction it later omitted from its final task summary.Read More

Network School founder Balaji Srinivasan wants to turn Farcaster into a haven for well-mannered techno-optimists. He had to do a bit of housekeeping first.Read More

Strategy, Metaplanet and Upexi were previously identified for deletion under the methodology, with MSCI set to announce its final list on Nov. 11.Read More

Australia is among 77 jurisdictions committed to adopting CARF, with its first international exchanges of crypto tax data expected in 2028.Read More

TL;DR: Research attributed to Castle Labs puts Solana’s real-world asset market at about $4.3 billion, versus $700 million a year earlier. Ethereum remains substantially larger, but the gap has narrowed sharply. Solana’s next growth story may have less to do with meme coins and more to do with assets that already exist in the traditional…Read More

TL;DR: Sazmining is offering individual Proto immersion hashboards at $4,187 each, with financing and managed hosting. The arrangement lowers the upfront hardware purchase but does not remove Bitcoin mining‘s ongoing costs or profitability risk. Buying into industrial Bitcoin mining usually means dealing with noisy equipment, electricity contracts and cooling infrastructure. A new offering built around…Read More

TL;DR: Stock-linked tokens deployed in DeFi reached an estimated $262.4 million across blockchains at the end of September, up nearly 18-fold from the start of 2026. Base accounted for about $16 million, not the entire total. Tokenized stocks are starting to do more than sit in digital wallets. A September 30 snapshot put approximately $262.4…Read More

TL;DR: Fidelity’s technology research team says Solana has operated for more than two years without a major mainnet outage, while maintaining roughly 99.7% vote success. It also warns that validator and infrastructure concentration remain important concerns. Solana’s reputation was once shaped by how often the network stopped. A new assessment from Fidelity’s Center for Applied…Read More

The first round of BTT repurchased with decentralized service revenue has been completely burned, as BitTorrent leverages its reimagined architecture to pivot toward Web3 and AI infrastructure.    BitTorrent, a cornerstone of decentralized infrastructure in the TRON ecosystem, entered a new phase of growth driven by dual engines: the rollout of its long-term BTT buyback-and-burn…Read More

Over the past year, JUST has completed five consecutive large-scale buyback-and-burn rounds, permanently removing 1.88B JST tokens from circulation and pushing cumulative deflation toward 19%. Following this milestone, the buyback and burn mechanism is set to undergo a comprehensive upgrade.   On October 17, JUST, the leading DeFi infrastructure in the TRON ecosystem, announced the…Read More

Washington, D.C., October 18, 2026 — The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing clear and ethical public policy, research, and education related to emerging technologies, participated in Nacha’s Payments Innovation Alliance Fall Meeting, where DSA Senior Policy Advisor Molly Woodman joined industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies, regulatory developments, and the…Read More

HONG KONG, October 18, 2026 – As quantum computing advances, the challenge extends beyond Bitcoin’s cryptography to the financial infrastructure built around it. Quantum computing is emerging as one of Bitcoin’s long-term security challenges. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could theoretically compromise the digital signatures protecting Bitcoin transactions, potentially exposing funds associated with vulnerable public…Read More

TL;DR: Babylon Labs has advanced a proposal to bring native Bitcoin collateral to Aave V4 without requiring wrapped BTC or a central custodian. The plan still faces community review, risk analysis and governance votes. Bitcoin could become collateral for Aave loans without first being handed to a custodian or converted into a freely traded wrapped…Read More

TL;DR: Uniswap generated approximately $14.81 million in protocol revenue during September, with Robinhood Chain contributing about 53% of the total. Tokenized-stock trading is changing where the exchange earns its fees. Uniswap’s strongest reported revenue month has come from an unexpected direction: a relatively new network associated with a mainstream brokerage. September protocol revenue reached approximately…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Poetic Justice: Scammer Lost $5M in Bitcoin After Being Targeted by Ledger Thieves Chainalysis has revealed that a victim of last week’s Ledger theft was a scammer themself. This post Poetic Justice: Scammer Lost $5M in Bitcoin After Being Targeted by Ledger Thieves first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine BFFS26 Denver: Joseph Kelly on Bitcoin Custody and Credit; Alan Lane on Banking Lessons CPAs, wealth advisors, and lenders gather in Denver for BFFS26, featuring Patrick Lowry on public-company Bitcoin treasury reserves and Wyoming Deputy Secretary of State Colin Crossman on regulatory outlook. This post BFFS26 Denver: Joseph Kelly on Bitcoin Custody and…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Sazmining Now Sells Jack Dorsey’s Proto Immersion Hashboards  Block’s Proto mining hashboards are now available on Sazmining’s mining-as-a-service platform. This post Sazmining Now Sells Jack Dorsey’s Proto Immersion Hashboards  first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo.Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Hot Inflation Data Puts Bitcoin Under Pressure, but ‘Difficult’ Isn’t ‘Bearish’: CoinShares Bitcoin is still reacting to weekly data but long-term investors shouldn’t be worried, according to the European asset manager. This post Hot Inflation Data Puts Bitcoin Under Pressure, but ‘Difficult’ Isn’t ‘Bearish’: CoinShares first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Deutsche Bank To Debut Bitcoin Custody Within Weeks: Report The German lender is moving fast with its crypto custody service. This post Deutsche Bank To Debut Bitcoin Custody Within Weeks: Report first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo.Read More

Bitcoin Magazine MSCI To Move Forward With Proposal That Could Exclude Strategy From Index MSCI has adopted new rules that could push Bitcoin treasury Strategy out of its global equity benchmarks. This post MSCI To Move Forward With Proposal That Could Exclude Strategy From Index first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Crypto Analyst Lark Davis: The Bitcoin Bull Run has Begun Bitcoin trades sideways in $80Ks, but Lark Davis sees a major cycle ahead. He explains on-chain signals, whale accumulation, and a $57K market bottom. This post Crypto Analyst Lark Davis: The Bitcoin Bull Run has Begun first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Math Professor Warns of Threat to Bitcoin from AI Pivot Could anyone actually break Bitcoin? Math professor Micah Warren applies game theory to explain why miner incentives and strong security prevent attacks. This post Math Professor Warns of Threat to Bitcoin from AI Pivot first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg: The Digital Gold Investment Case for Bitcoin Bitcoin’s digital gold case is strong, says Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg, but she wants less tech risk correlation and more gold-like trade behavior. This post Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg: The Digital Gold Investment Case for Bitcoin first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Sazmining Brings Proto’s Immersion Hashboards to Individual Owners, With 0% Financing From $1,397 Down Proto immersion hashboards, built for efficiency and long service life, are now available for outright purchase through Sazmining’s mining-as-a-service platform, with mining rewards paid directly to the owner’s wallet. This post Sazmining Brings Proto’s Immersion Hashboards to Individual Owners,…Read More