Bitcoin treasury Datavault AI plunges 50% after firm says it can’t access its BTC
The company said the accounting correction will cut reported assets by $92.2 million at the end of 2025 after bitcoin held on Bico…
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Bithumb hacked through employee system as South Korean financial firms face cyberattacks
The breach hit an internal employee system that Bithumb says is separate from its trading platform, while the exchange is still de…
Bitcoin nears $81,000 ahead of Fed decision as ZEC jumps 8%
Majors outpaced bitcoin across the board as tech stocks extended a climb.
Coinbase says user funds are safe after third-party vendor exposes customer contact info
The crypto exchange says an incident at analytics firm Amplitude exposed some customer contact information, but insists its own sy…
Treasury's Bessent sees crypto as America's next tool for keeping the U.S. dollar on top
Speaking at Ripple's conference, the U.S. Treasury Secretary said the SEC and CFTC action could help fill the gap left by the Clar…
Robinhood's crypto revenue fell 55% from last year, but topped Street forecasts
Crypto trading volume fell 38% from year-ago levels, but the firm's overall blockchain business gained traction.
U.S. agency hits Utah with lawsuit to shield Kalshi's ability to offer betting there
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has pursued more than a dozen legal actions to protect what its chief sees as its so…
Intel, Oracle, IBM join growing list of firms objecting to OKX–ICE tokenized stock plans
The latest notice added four objections, bringing the total to 26 as the joint venture prepares to test the SEC’s new framework fo…
Brazilian companies turned to stablecoins on election day to dodge a currency crash
USDT volume on crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin jumped nearly 800% and bitcoin volume surged 865%. Binance’s USDT/BRL market triple…
Robinhood taps Ripple’s $2.5 billion RLUSD stablecoin despite backing rival USDG
Robinhood helped launch a rival dollar-backed token, USDG, but will also offer Ripple's stablecoin to retail customers later this …
Nasdaq-100 comes onchain as Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launch first licensed fund
The $500 billion asset manager is launching an issuer-sponsored fund on Stellar, taking a different approach from third-party stoc…
CF Benchmarks brings Wall Street pricing infrastructure onchain, including data used by BlackRock
The new service could help developers build blockchain-based index funds, tokenized portfolios and derivatives using established f…
Bitcoin miners' move into AI is creating a new market for trading computing power
Luxor raised $16 million to expand into AI hardware and trading, betting that computing power will become a market where companies…
Bitcoin shows signs of weakness while Ripple's bank win fails to bolster XRP
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 27, 2026
Live updates: Bitcoin holds below $80,000 as AI buildout draws investor attention and capital
Interest rates and oil are slipping and equities are rising, but crypto remains under pressure.
Japan's top yen stablecoin falls short of its target in a disappointing first year
CEO Noritaka Okabe blamed a 1 million yen per-transaction cap for Type II funds transfer providers, which has slowed corporate ado…
Bitcoin drops below $80,000 as crypto ignores Asian tech rally, Fed meeting begins
Bitcoin fell 0.4% to around $79,700 since midnight UTC while Asian tech stocks rallied. The DeFi index dropped 1.8%, and the Fed i…
Crypto wallet maker Keystone to destroy almost 19,000 devices after security breach
The breach exposed 25,964 buyer records, some kept past Keystone’s 180-day deletion policy after an automated tool failed without …
Investor who called for AI pivot in 2023 says bitcoin is going to $57,000
Jason Calacanis wants investors to sell bitcoin and back artificial intelligence. He is also holding TAO, the cryptocurrency behin…
Now is the time to accumulate bitcoin, Galaxy says
Galaxy argues improving price trends, resilient ETF demand and rising U.S. debt support bitcoin’s recovery towards its previous hi…
An AI label alone no longer wins lenders, JPMorgan says
As default insurance on several AI-linked firms hits record costs, companies must show they can finance investment, service the de…
Solana bug reports now cost 1 SOL as AI floods security teams with spam
Researchers must now permanently burn 1 SOL for every submission after a monthlong contest drew 809 reports, with AI believed to h…
Ethereum fixes Glamsterdam bug that could have sent staking deposits to builders
Developers initially rejected the change before reversing course, as testing delays gave them more time to examine a flaw in Ether…
Zcash co-founder proposes ending grants funding, citing $125 million treasury
Sean Bowe’s proposal would send the committee’s 8% share of newly created ZEC to a reserve for future miners. The committee would …
Ripple gets a final go-ahead to launch its own U.S. national trust bank
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has approved Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB), Ripple's CEO Brad Garlinghouse annou…
Tom Lee's Bitmine favors share buybacks to ether purchases as crypto declines
The Ethereum treasury firm spent $46 million buying back shares as Chairman Tom Lee said crypto has held up better than AI stocks …
NBA joins pro sports leagues on CFTC prediction markets bandwagon while NFL balks
The U.S. derivatives regulator, which has championed the arrival of prediction market firms such as Kalshi, has been gathering all…
OCC calls on community banks to enter the stablecoin payments market
The U.S. banking regulator is encouraging smaller lenders to develop stablecoin services as new federal licensing requirements app…
South Korea weighs fourth delay on its crypto gains tax, pushing it to 2029
Officials are concerned users of domestic exchanges would bear the tax burden because the U.S. won’t share crypto trading data unt…
Canada opens consultation on draft stablecoin rules, maintains ban on yields
Under the draft rules, non-bank stablecoin issuers must back tokens 1:1 with reserves held at qualified Canadian institutions and …
AI giant Anthropic files for blockbuster IPO
The maker of Claude reported $16.3 billion in first-half revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss as it aims to price its offering in…
A $68 million bitcoin bet is targeting a post-midterm election breakout to $90,000
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 26, 2026
Bitcoin holds near $80,000 as oil retreats and the Fed decision looms
Bitcoin was little changed near $80,400 since midnight UTC while the DeFi index was the only CoinDesk index to gain, with the Fed …
Live news: Bitcoin barely holding $80,000 ahead of Fed on Wednesday, tech earnings this week
Brazilian stocks are expected to plunge at the open as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva unexpectedly secured a fourth term in o…
Calpers pulls back from big tech as AI jitters deepen neocloud sell-off
California’s pension fund shifts toward private equity as investors question tech valuations and the payoff from soaring AI spendi…
Fed, ECB and BOJ interest-rate decisions, Coinbase earnings: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what's coming in the week starting Oct. 26.
Over 11 million bitcoin has no known owner. Here's what it means
The large number of coins held in unidentified wallets shows that retail investors have been in this market for years, observers s…
India's largest crypto exchange absorbs $16 million loss from internal process failure tied to retired wallet
The Mumbai-based exchange initially dismissed reports of suspicious outflows as a false alarm. It now says it lost $16 million and…
Bitcoin wallet bug let rogue servers steal funds when users tried to speed up payments
Attackers replaced legitimate transactions with fake ones, then waited for users to approve higher fees. At least one person lost …
Bitcoin slips under $80,000 as traders de-risk ahead of Fed meeting
Ether and XRP led losses among the majors as the AI trade took another hit in Asia, where Goldman Sachs cut its Kospi target by 25…
Elon Musk issues a warning for 'AI neoclouds' as SpaceX borrows $40 billion for chips
SpaceX has raised $40 billion in debt to buy GPUs, while Musk predicts a major shakeout among smaller AI cloud providers.
Latvia targets tokenization rules in 2027 with commercial property in focus
Economics Minister Viktors Valainis says rules could arrive in the first half of next year, but an overdue assessment remains unfi…
UK banks face 10,000 complaints in 3 months over crypto restrictions
The U.K. claims to aspire to become a global cryptocurrency hub, an ambition that would appear to be at odds with the attitude to …
Strategy, Strive face balancing act between bitcoin buying and preferred stock dividends
The securities have financed purchases of nearly 136,000 bitcoin, opening a funding channel that analysts expect to complement the…
Block's new voice AI sounds eerily human, sparking awe and scam fears
Reactions split between amazement at how human it sounds and fears it could fuel scams and deception, with CZ eyeing uses in child…
Crypto under weekend pressure, bitcoin slides below $80,000 on U.S. Middle East evacuations
Bitcoin has sunk to its weakest level in more than one month.
Why McDonalds, Microsoft and Google saying no to tokenized stocks isn't a dealbreaker
Some of the world's biggest companies objected to being listed on the first tokenized securities trading venue under the SEC's inn…
Argentina drops criminal probe into President Milei over crashed memecoin LIBRA
The judge found that Milei's promotion of LIBRA did not constitute fraud, despite the attention his support drew to the token.
Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell among latest firms objecting to OKXICE's tokenized stock plan
Six more companies have objected to listing tokenized versions of their stock on the venue, Reuters reported, bringing the total t…
Bitcoin’s wealthy holders turning to loans and yield as investment habits mature: Xapo CEO
Borrowing against bitcoin and earning income to build their BTC holdings are becoming priorities for long-term investors, Xapo Ban…
Bitcoin’s wealthy holders turning to loans and yield as investment habits mature: Xapo CEO
Borrowing against bitcoin and earning income to build their BTC holdings are becoming priorities for long-term investors, Xapo Ban…
U.S. Clarity Act failure gives Asia and Middle East a competitive edge, says Apex Group CEO
Apex Group CEO Peter Hughes warned that the failure of the U.S. Clarity Act will drive digital asset businesses toward faster-movi…
Franklin Templeton adds $150 million in fund shares to XRP Ledger, all in one wallet
Two subscriptions on Thursday nearly quadrupled the fund’s tokens on the network. The receiving wallet shares its authorized signe…
Robinhood sees surge in Bitcoin, Gold prediction markets as traders move beyond sports
The company's head of futures and prediction markets said bitcoin, gold and oil contracts are among its fastest-growing prediction…
Bitcoin Core changes security rules as AI makes finding code bugs dangerously easy
Developers merged a policy change that ends the months-long embargo for flaws a chatbot could rediscover, after a summer in which …
Bitcoin's price is as jumpy as Nvidia's and eight times more turbulent than the euro
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 23, 2026
Live updates: Bitcoin holds above $81,000 as the AI rout fades and oil climbs
Bitcoin went quiet after a week of big swings, with tech futures steadying and Brent hitting its highest level since early May. Th…
Bitcoin steadies near $81,700 as altcoins rebound, pepe climbs 13%
Bitcoin rose 0.5% to around $81,700 since midnight UTC while the CoinDesk 80 gained 1.4% and memecoins climbed 2.9%.
Bitcoin appears to have decoupled from midterm cycle bottom history
Previous bitcoin bear-market lows followed U.S. midterms, but this year’s recovery raises the possibility that the bottom arrived …
HSBC rolls out its first stablecoin to over 3 million everyday app users
HSBC and Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint received Hong Kong’s first stablecoin issuer licenses in April. Anchorpoint began roll…
Sweden’s central bank revives e-krona debate as stablecoins and digital euro loom
The Riksbank sees an e-krona as critical to securing national payments and monetary control.
India's largest exchange denies hack after sleuths pointed to $16 million in suspicious outflows
CoinDCX denies its active wallets were hacked after sleuths flagged $16 million in outflows from addresses linked to the India-bas…