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Ex-NCA Officer Must Pay Back $2.4M After Stealing Seized Bitcoin

A former U.K. National Crime Agency officer, Paul Chowles, has been ordered to repay approximately $2.38 million for stealing 50 bitcoin seized during the investigation of the Silk Road 2.0 dark-web marketplace. Dark Web Theft and Asset Launde...

Ripple Partner SBI Completes Takeover of Japanese Exchange Bitbank

SBI Holdings has taken full ownership of Bitbank on Oct. 1, folding one of Japan’s busiest XRP markets into one of Ripple’s oldest partners in Asia. The Deal The final share transfer went through on Oct. 1, making Bitbank a wholly owned s...

South Korea Opens $5 Trillion Market to Tokenized Stocks, Bonds in 2027

South Korea is laying the regulatory groundwork to bring stocks, bonds, funds and fractional securities onto blockchain infrastructure from February 2027. New FSC Rules Aim to Move Stocks and Bonds Onchain South Korea is preparing to move a significa...

The Next Generation of Banking: W Group Connects Web2 and Web3

W Group is pleased to share the next stage in the development of hashbank, a fully licensed universal digital bank that combines traditional banking services with the infrastructure of the open Web3 economy in one app. This level of integration remai...

Bitcoin Lightning Nodes Targeted as Core Lightning Sounds Alarm

Core Lightning operators running version 26.06.7 or earlier are being actively targeted, the Bitcoin Lightning Network node software project warned on Thursday evening, roughly 10 days after a security patch landed. The team hasn’t identified which v...

Blackrock Drives $103M Bitcoin ETF Rebound as BTC Price Tops $86K

Bitcoin ETFs returned to positive territory on Thursday with $102.67 million in net inflows, led by a powerful day for Blackrock’s IBIT. Blackrock Inflow Offsets Fidelity Outflow Bitcoin wasted little time finding buyers again. A day after its nine-s...

Ripple Moves 35M XRP and the Mystery Wallet Forwards 6.5M Within Hours

Ripple sent 35 million XRP, worth about $52.4 million, to an unlabeled wallet early Friday, and within three hours that wallet had passed 6.5 million XRP down the line. A Look at the Transfer The alert came from onchain sleuth Whale Alert during the...

Bitcoin Price Is up 13% Since the Rate Hike Trump Says the Fed Got Wrong

President Donald Trump told Time the Federal Reserve should not have raised interest rates, yet bitcoin’s price has climbed roughly 13% since the Sept. 16 hike he is complaining about. ‘This Just Happened?’ The exchange came during...

IMF Waives El Salvador’s Bitcoin Breach to Unlock $138M Payout

The IMF praised El Salvador’s performance, declaring that its economy continued to perform strongly amidst ongoing security improvements and efforts to reduce imbalances. Nonetheless, the institution highlighted that the bitcoin goals were not...

Bitcoin Price to Reach $90K in October? Polymarket Sets Odds at 60%

Polymarket traders give a 59.5% chance that bitcoin touches $90,000 before October ends, and a 49.5% chance that it drops to $80,000. The Contract Polymarket’s odds stand at 56% for a contract that says bitcoin will be “above $90,000 this...

Young Crypto Voters Slam Trump Token Sales as Greedy Cash Grabs

Recent opinions from participants in focus groups and reports from investors in Trump’s own crypto endeavors signal a shift in the views of the crypto crowd about his crypto dealings, even as he has supported clear regulations for the crypto in...

US Judge Dismisses Libra Crypto Class Action Against Kelsier

Judge Jennifer L. Rochon dismissed all alleged charges against the defendants, including fraud, violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, violations of the New York General Business Law, and unjust enrichment. Rocho...

Sam Altman Stares Into a Bright Light Every Morning and Fasts 15 Hours a Day. Here’s Why

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, starts many mornings by spending about 10 to 15 minutes under a full-spectrum LED light while clearing email, a routine he once called “a ridiculous gain for me.” A 2026 BBC Science Focus Magazine comment piece also not...

CFTC Wants Event Contracts Defined as Swaps, but Not Casino Games

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sent the White House two rules that would redraw the legal definition of a swap. That definition is at the center of prediction markets’ fight with the states. One rule would bring event contracts in...

50,000 Europeans Reportedly Collide With EU Central Banks Over Stablecoins

European crypto asset advocacy group Stand With Crypto EU claims more than 50,000 people emailed the European Commission asking it to allow various stablecoin perks that European central banks asked last week to remain banned. Stand With Crypto EU (S...

The $459,000 Bot Hacker Was a Customer First, Researchers Say

Researchers traced a $459,000 wallet drain to an address that previously funded 27 trades through the same bot, raising questions about how its private keys escaped. Bitquery Traces $459K Tradewiz Drain to Wallet Used in 27 Trades Before collecting s...

Bitfinex Lists 17 Macro Catalysts That Could Move Bitcoin in October

Bitcoin’s October gains may depend on continued buying as higher Treasury yields compete for investors’ money, according to Bitfinex. Its outlook tracks 17 economic releases and recurring indicators, with inflation and the Federal Reserve...

SEC Proposes Letting Advisers and Funds Self-Custody Crypto Assets

Investors could gain access to a wider range of crypto strategies under an SEC proposal. The plan would update longstanding safekeeping requirements for investment advisers and regulated funds under federal securities laws. Advisers and Funds Could H...

Arkham Says It Tracks 78% of Strategy’s 847,666 Bitcoin Holdings

Strategy’s bitcoin holdings are increasingly visible through blockchain tracking, with Arkham identifying approximately 78% of the company’s 847,666 bitcoin treasury. Its Oct. 1 update separates labeled wallets from assets tagged within F...

XRP Sentiment Turns Bearish as Bullish-to-Bearish Ratio Hits 0.67

XRP social sentiment has fallen to its lowest level since August, with bearish comments outnumbering bullish discussion as October begins. Santiment views the pessimism as a potential contrarian setup, while cautioning that an immediate rebound is no...

Evernorth Won Shareholder Vote, Putting 473 Million XRP Near Nasdaq

Evernorth’s XRP treasury merger has won shareholder approval, moving investors closer to stock market exposure to the cryptocurrency. The transaction combines cash financing and token contributions ahead of a planned Nasdaq debut under the tick...

Bitcoin Core Dev Peter Todd to Oversee MARA’s Private Mempool Service

Veteran Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd has joined the MARA Foundation as lead maintainer of Slipstream, the organization’s private Bitcoin mempool service for submitting transactions directly to MARA Pool. Todd Joins MARA Foundation Slipstream a...

Prediction Markets Hit $68B in a Month as Sportsbook Stocks Sink

Trading on sports prediction markets nearly doubled in the month football returned, while shares of the two biggest U.S. sportsbook operators fell to multi-year lows. Kalshi still dominates the market, though rivals are growing faster. A $68 Billion...

New York, Wyoming Crypto Deal Targets 6-Month Licensing Fast Track

New York and Wyoming are linking their separate crypto regulatory systems through a newly announced agreement. The arrangement connects New York’s virtual currency licensing framework with Wyoming’s digital asset oversight while retaining...

Metamask Pulls Validators as Meager ETH Theft Sounds Big Alarm

Metamask began pulling Ethereum validators after a security incident apparently diverted less than $1,000 in block tips, while outside researchers estimate roughly 17,000 validators holding about 523,000 ETH were sent toward the exits. Metamask says...

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