XRP Ledger patched a bug that could have minted 18 trillion XRP
The flaw sat in the payment engine since 2015. An AI agent found it, the fix shipped in three days without an amendment vote, and The Block reported a $250,000 bounty on October 11.
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Ledger finds a hardware implant in a wallet sold by CryptoBilis
Ledger asked reseller CryptoBilis to stop shipping on October 9, then confirmed an implant in one affected device a day later...
ESMA sets a January 8 deadline for non-MiCA stablecoins in the EU
The opinion covers custody and transfers, not only trading. Firms may keep sell, convert, withdraw and transfer-out functions...
Hyperliquid's 3.75M HYPE OTC batch clears, half goes to five wallets
The team said one institution bought the batch over the counter. On-chain trackers counted five receiving wallets and 1.25...
Binance adds 4 tokenized stocks as collateral, 19 since September 9
Spot trading opened at 12:00 UTC, and two bStock tickers move to a 60 percent collateral ratio on October 9. A September 28...
FinCEN withdraws its $10,000 self-custody wallet and mixer proposals
Neither proposal was ever final. FinCEN says it will take no further action on the wallet rule, and it cut the mixing finding...
Polymarket rolls out V2 and pUSD collateral, targeting November 2
pUSD is a collateral wrapper, not the POLY token. CEO Shayne Coplan announced no token at Token2049 on October 7, so the October...
CFTC opens crypto exchange rulemaking after Clarity fails 49-50
The notice would let exchanges offer leveraged retail crypto trading under federal rules, but plain spot trading stays with the...
Liquid Network pauses after an Elements bug drains 3,996 BTC
A bug in Elements let someone mint L-BTC from nothing, and the federation paid out real bitcoin against it. The holder claims to...
Zcash passes $1,000 as $34.5 million of shorts are liquidated
ZEC opened near $828 and printed $1,023, its first trip above $1,000 in nearly a decade. About $36.6 million of leveraged...
Polymarket launches perps at up to 20x leverage across ten markets
POLY is confirmed but has no criteria, and leveraged volume is the activity farmers are most likely to over-read. Polymarket has...
A $1.5 billion unlock week opens September, and $797M of it is HYPE
Bitcoin enters September near $78,000 after the strongest ETF month of 2026. The unlock calendar is dominated by one line: 9.92...
Binance delists six tokens from spot, its fourth round of 2026
Spot pairs for Across Protocol, Hashflow, PIVX, Vulcan Forged, Vanar and Viction closed at 03:00 UTC on August 17, and open...
KII opens on Bybit and Kraken the same day with a thin float
Bybit teased the KII listing on August 13 and opened spot trading a day later. Public sale tokens sit behind a one year cliff...
SEC cancels its Regulation Crypto vote a day before the meeting
The notice cited a scheduling issue and gave no new date. A White House roundtable follows on August 19 and a CFTC committee...
Strategy sells 1,690 BTC for $108.6 million to buy back STRC
The sale averaged $64,262 per coin, below Strategy's $75,385 cost basis, and followed a record 3,588 BTC sale in July. It is the...
Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade heads into its final devnet
Devnet-7 held up under heavier transaction loads, and devnet-8 is expected to be the last developer network before the Sepolia...
Senate leaves without a Clarity Act vote, and passage odds fall to 13%
Thune says the bill will be queued up first when the Senate returns on September 14. Polymarket's odds of 2026 passage fell from...
Bitcoin ETFs take in $170M as Hashdex's DEFI becomes first to close
Seven funds took in money and none lost any on August 4, days after the complex closed July with a weekly outflow. Hashdex's...
Coldcard flaw lets attackers drain 1,816 BTC, about $116 million
A random number flaw in 2021-era Coldcard firmware let attackers sweep about $116 million in bitcoin without touching a device...
Lorenzo Protocol's BANK falls 57.8% in a day, 86% below its peak
The July run began with an unexplained foundation wallet transfer and has unwound without an explanation either. BANK is about 86...
GRVT trades on KuCoin and Bitget as Bybit confirms its listing
Grvt had not named its exchanges in advance. On TGE day KuCoin and Bitget opened GRVT/USDT trading, Bybit confirmed its listing...
BitMart announces a wind-down after nine years, and BMX falls 58%
BitMart was still reporting $1.6 billion in daily volume when it announced the wind-down. It gave no specific reason, and users...
EU sanctions bar dealings with HTX and 13 other crypto platforms
The package also adds four designations around the A7 payments network and its A7A5 stablecoin, and a framework to ban...
Argentina drafts a bill letting investment funds hold digital assets
The draft also covers tokenized securities and legal standing for smart contracts. It is an early text with a long road ahead...
Hyperliquid will let anyone open prediction markets for 500,000 HYPE
Hyperliquid said on July 19 that HIP-4 will let anyone deploy a prediction market against a slashable 500,000 HYPE stake, with up...
Polymarket's World Cup final market tops $4 billion, a record
More than $4.25 billion has traded on Polymarket's World Cup winner market, passing the 2024 US election. Spain and Argentina...
T. Rowe Price launches TKNZ, the first active multi-token crypto ETF
A $1.9 trillion manager now picks the tokens itself. The fund holds 40.75 percent Bitcoin down to 6.45 percent HYPE, and its fee...
Circle wins final OCC approval for a national trust bank
The charter starts with digital asset custody for Circle and its affiliates and is built to bring USDC reserve management under...
Strategy sells 3,588 BTC, its largest sale ever, to pay dividends
The July 6 filing covered second-quarter dividends on four preferred stocks and the June payment on a fifth. Bitcoin popped to...
Jupuary is postponed indefinitely, and no 2027 airdrop is scheduled
The Jupiter tracker entry called Jupuary approved through January 2027. The DAO's Net-Zero Emissions vote passed with 75.3...
Robinhood Chain goes live and picks Lighter to run its perps
Eligible Robinhood Wallet users can trade perps on Lighter, with gas covered for 90 days and $11 million in LIT set aside for...
The 2026 airdrop season is fewer, smaller and slower than promised
January threads sold 2026 as a five billion dollar airdrop season. By July, OpenSea had delayed its token, and MetaMask and...
OpenSea still has no SEA token date three months after the delay
Three months after OpenSea pushed back its SEA launch on challenging market conditions, there is still no new date. The 50...
Binance's June listings lean toward real-world assets, led by Re
Re (RE), the tokenized reinsurance protocol, listed on Binance spot on June 18, extending a run of RWA additions that has...
CLARITY Act slips again and helps drive June's crypto sell-off
The US market-structure bill meant to settle which tokens fall under which regulator slipped again, and the certainty trade that...
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