The best crypto writing from the last 24 hours.
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ZachXBT Flags $20M XMR Laundering Ring on Hyperliquid
ZachXBT traces over $20M from hacks and ransomware through FreedomXMR, a Monero swap service on Hyperliquid where 87% of inflows are illicit.
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FINMA Approves First Swiss Retail Bitcoin ETF
Switzerland's FINMA approved its first retail bitcoin ETF, with custody safeguards and volatility warnings required.
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Issuer Blacklists Recovered Nothing in 60 Crypto Exploits, Blockaid Finds
Blockaid data shows issuer blacklists recovered only $9.8M of $1.18B traced across 60 exploits, with recoveries coming only via governance or validators.
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FINMA approves Switzerland’s first Bitcoin ETF for retail investors
Swiss regulator FINMA approved the country's first bitcoin ETF open to retail investors, with more fund applications pending.
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Swiss Financial Regulator Gives Green Light to Country’s First Bitcoin ETF
Switzerland's financial regulator approved the country's first Bitcoin ETF, opening access beyond institutional investors.
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Drift-Linked Wallet Sends $54.8 Million in ETH to Tornado Cash
Wallets linked to the April Drift exploit sent $54.8M in ETH to Tornado Cash, while about 84,164 ETH remains in exploiter wallets.
Also covered by Cointelegraph, Decrypt - 7
Crypto’s 2026 shutdown wave claims 82 projects. What went wrong?
Around 82 crypto projects have shut down in 2026, driven by falling revenue, depleted funding and security breaches.
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Extended Plans Oct. 22 Settlement Move From Starknet to Arc
Extended is moving its settlement from Starknet to Arc, and its notices give conflicting deadlines for converting or withdrawing USDT and wBTC in sub-accounts.
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Teens from a Paraguayan children’s foundation studied Bitcoin for months, then toured our hydro-powered mine to see it in person
A Paraguayan miner hosted students from a foundation at its hydro-powered Bitcoin data center in Valenzuela. It is a company-authored visit story.
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The Coinbase allegations expose Bitcoin's corporate governance gap
Argues bitcoin corporate adoption will stall until companies can prove who controls, approves and holds their bitcoin.
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Strategy buys another $22 million of Bitcoin, increases planned share buybacks
Strategy added 267 BTC (over $22M) last week and increased its planned share buybacks.
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Stablecoin transfers quadruple to $891B as US banks expand adoption: Report
Coinbase data shows stablecoin transfer volume quadrupled to $891B as banks and businesses adopt, though market cap is flat.
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Tokenization On Solana: The Companies Behind The Chain's RWA Growth
A data-driven overview of Solana's real-world asset market, showing $4.37B in distributed RWAs concentrated among a few products.
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Ethereum staking hits record as yields fall and Solana activity grows: Bitwise
Bitwise data shows record Ethereum staking of 43.8M ETH in Q3 as yields fell to 2.63%, and record Solana staking.
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Optimum Says Block Propagation Layer Is Live on Ethereum Mainnet
Optimum's mump2p block propagation layer is live on Ethereum mainnet with 16 operators and about 1.4M ETH, with ether.fi adopting it.
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Quantifying Support and Resistance: Proximity-Weighted CBD
Glassnode introduces Proximity-Weighted Cost Basis to turn cost basis distributions into support and resistance signals.
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OKX Extends Shield Program to U.S. Users With up to $500,000 in Reimbursements
OKX extends its Shield reimbursement program to U.S. users, with up to $500,000 for upper VIP tiers. Its terms call Shield discretionary goodwill, not insurance, which matters for anyone relying on it.
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ERC-8449: Credit history for ERC-8004 agents
Draft ERC-8449 proposes a way to record loan repayment and default history for ERC-8004 agents using existing reputation feedback entries.
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French lawmakers have voted to tax crypto investors who move their profits into stablecoins, just as protests over living costs have erupted into some of the country’s worst riots in years.
French lawmakers voted to tax crypto investors who move profits into stablecoins, a notable policy move.
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Celestia Activates Fibre, Opening Direct Validator Uploads for Rollups
Celestia activated Fibre, letting validators accept direct rollup blob uploads at 128 MiB per blob in its initial release.
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Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs join objections to OKX-ICE tokenized stock trading
Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs have objected to being listed on OKX's planned tokenized stock venue, bringing the disclosed objection count to 16.
Also covered by Unchained - 22
French Lawmakers Back Stablecoin Swap Tax by Just One Vote
French lawmakers narrowly backed a amendment making swaps into euro or dollar stablecoins taxable from 2027, measured coin by coin.
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Kazakhstan court bars Coinbase, five others from unlicensed crypto services in Astana International Financial Centre
A Kazakhstan court barred Coinbase and five others from offering unlicensed crypto services within the Astana International Financial Centre.
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What Drives Stablecoin Supply Growth?
Regression analysis of macro and onchain drivers of weekly stablecoin supply growth; useful data-driven research.
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Stablecoins move over $400 million per hour on average as off-hours transfers dominate, Coinbase and The Block study finds
A Coinbase and The Block study finds stablecoins move over $400M per hour on average, with off-hours transfers dominating, and projects $1.5T quarterly volume by end of 2027.
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If your agent's limits live in the system prompt, last week's incidents say that's the wrong place
Recent incidents show AI agents reaching live systems and wallets via exposed credentials, so limits belong in enforced controls rather than system prompts.
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Lloyds and Barclays among UK banks named in crypto transfer complaints, advocacy group says
Stand With Crypto reports thousands of complaints about UK banks limiting or banning crypto transfers ahead of the 2027 regime.
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France's parliament approves vote to hit stablecoin trades with 31% capital gains tax
France's parliament approved a amendment taxing stablecoin swap gains at 31% and ending deferral for MiCA-compliant stablecoins from January 2027.
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Kazakhstan court orders curbs on Coinbase, BingX and four others
A Kazakhstan court ordered access curbs on Coinbase, BingX and others, while nine platforms voluntarily restricted app access and the regulator dropped claims against them.
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JPMorgan sees 10% annual bitcoin returns, topping stocks, bonds and gold over next decade
JPMorgan's research gives a 10% annual return range for bitcoin over the next decade, its first such range, while the bank stays cautious on portfolio role.
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Mt. Gox pushes creditor repayment deadline to 2027 in sixth extension
Mt. Gox extended its creditor repayment deadline to 2027, with about $2.8B in bitcoin still undistributed due to incomplete creditor procedures.
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Bitget plans Thai crypto exchange acquisition weeks after $388M hack
Bitget is proposing to buy a locally licensed Thai exchange, weeks after a $388M hack, giving it a route into Thailand.
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BlackRock Files for 'Buffer' Bitcoin ETF as IBIT Draws $665M in a Day
BlackRock filed for a buffer bitcoin ETF that uses options on IBIT to cap losses in exchange for giving up some upside.
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Almost half the AI tool vendors I checked forbid benchmarking
A reader-built grading site found almost half of 674 AI tool vendors restrict benchmarking, many via copied Oracle-style clauses, including Coinbase and LangSmith.
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CFTC Says CME’s Own Crypto Futures Data Shows No Harm From Perpetual Futures
CFTC court filing uses CME's own data to argue perpetual futures have caused no harm, citing 621,570 contracts of volume growth.
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SlowMist Says Qubic Wallet Keys Could Be Recovered From Six Network Samples
SlowMist says Qubic wallet keys could be recovered from six network samples; a patch separates new seeds but leaves header generation unchanged.
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Lido Engineer Warns of Staking Deposit Hijack at Glamsterdam
A Lido engineer warns of a staking deposit hijack risk at Glamsterdam; the related consensus issue was closed as not planned.
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Blockchain Association says Treasury’s GENIUS Act rollout needs clearer DeFi, foreign issuer rules
The Blockchain Association's comment letter asks Treasury to clarify DeFi and foreign issuer rules under the GENIUS Act stablecoin rulemaking.
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Bitcoin rally could revive treasury buying, but easy-money days over
Bitfinex's derivatives head expects treasury-company capital raising to stay selective even if Bitcoin rallies.
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Papertrade Keeps PAPER Non-Transferable, Citing Perp Attack Risks
Papertrade keeps its PAPER token non-transferable, citing perp attack risks, while holders who earned it through losses can stake for USDC. A useful design-tradeoff story.