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BitTorrent Burns Its First Revenue-Funded BTT Batch, but Won't Say How Much

5 days ago

BitTorrent Burns Its First Revenue-Funded BTT Batch, but Won't Say How Much

BitTorrent has burned the first round of BTT it repurchased using revenue from its decentralized services, tying token supply to actual operating income rather than treasury reserves. That's the right funding model. The disclosure around it, though, is thin enough to be a problem.

Bitcoin Open Interest Slips to $7.68B While Solana Drops 4.25%: Weekend De-Risking, Not Capitulation

5 days ago

Bitcoin Open Interest Slips to $7.68B While Solana Drops 4.25%: Weekend De-Risking, Not Capitulation

Bitcoin futures open interest fell just 0.69% to $7.68 billion on Saturday while funding stayed positive at 0.0035%. Solana's open interest dropped roughly six times harder. The divergence tells you more about where risk actually came off than any headline number does.

BlackRock's ETHA Drove 93% of a $320M Ethereum ETF Exodus

5 days ago

BlackRock's ETHA Drove 93% of a $320M Ethereum ETF Exodus

US spot Ether ETFs lost $320.1 million in the week ending October 16, worse than Bitcoin's $228.4 million in outflows. BlackRock's ETHA accounted for nearly all of it, and the concentration is the real story.

Cysic's Bridge Minted 10M CYS From Nothing. The Mainnet Was Never the Point.

5 days ago

Cysic's Bridge Minted 10M CYS From Nothing. The Mainnet Was Never the Point.

Cysic halted its bridge after an unauthorized mint of 10 million CYS, and the team was quick to say the mainnet is fine. But bridges are where supply integrity lives, and a phantom mint is a supply problem no amount of mainnet uptime fixes. Here's the sequence, the damage, and what to watch next.

BlackRock's ETHA Drove 93% of Ether ETFs' $320M Outflow Week

5 days ago

BlackRock's ETHA Drove 93% of Ether ETFs' $320M Outflow Week

US spot Ether ETFs lost $320.1 million in the five sessions ending October 16, worse than the $228.4 million that left Bitcoin funds. Nearly all of it came from a single product, and that concentration is the real story.

A 50% APR on a Cardano Stablecoin Comes With a Catch

5 days ago

A 50% APR on a Cardano Stablecoin Comes With a Catch

RealFi's Cardano stablecoin is offering near 50% APR on Strike Finance, and Bodega Market now lets you bet on whether it clears $1 million in deposits. The yield isn't the story. The loss waterfall is. Here's what most people are skipping.

Bangkok Cops Nail Alleged $75M Crypto Launderer With 133 Accounts

5 days ago

Bangkok Cops Nail Alleged $75M Crypto Launderer With 133 Accounts

Police in Bangkok arrested a Chinese national accused of running crypto and foreign-currency exchanges for crime groups across more than 133 accounts. The operation moved $75 million. And it's a reminder that the laundering problem isn't crypto, it's the people using it.

Michael Burry's Supervolcano Isn't a Crash Call. It's a Duration Call.

5 days ago

Michael Burry's Supervolcano Isn't a Crash Call. It's a Duration Call.

Michael Burry says the next bear market could last a long time, and a century of inflation-adjusted S&P 500 data backs the setup. The real risk in thinning breadth isn't the eruption. It's how long the ash stays in the air.

Tether Just Backed an AI Agent Startup. The $9 Million Number Is Louder Than It Looks

5 days ago

Tether Just Backed an AI Agent Startup. The $9 Million Number Is Louder Than It Looks

Tether came in as strategic investor on AIsa's seed extension, pushing total funding past $9 million. That's pocket change for a company that cleared $13 billion in profit last year. Which is exactly why it matters: Tether is buying a seat at the table for machine-to-machine payments, and it's doing it before anyone else shows up.

Vitalik Built a 'Paranoid Mode' for His AI Agent. Here's What It Still Leaks

5 days ago

Vitalik Built a 'Paranoid Mode' for His AI Agent. Here's What It Still Leaks

Ethereum's co-founder rolled out a privacy layer for his personal AI agent on October 16, wrapping prompts in Tor, zero-knowledge payments, and local rewriting. He's upfront that it's slow and incomplete. The targeting is right, even if the tool isn't ready for anyone else.

Anthropic's Junk Rating Just Put Bitcoin in the Room With Treasuries

5 days ago

Anthropic's Junk Rating Just Put Bitcoin in the Room With Treasuries

Kroll handed Anthropic a BB+ rating in June, and it only went public in October. Adam Back says that makes Bitcoin the hurdle rate. He's onto something bigger than people realize.

Fission's $10M Raise Attacks Tokenization's Ugliest Problem: The Exit

5 days ago

Fission's $10M Raise Attacks Tokenization's Ugliest Problem: The Exit

Pantera Capital led a $10 million round into Fission, a firm building secondary-market liquidity for tokenized private funds. Circle Ventures joined in. The pitch: a token isn't a buyer, and the industry still hasn't solved the part where investors want their money back.

China's 13-Foot Robot vs. Tesla's Optimus: Two Very Different Bets

5 days ago

China's 13-Foot Robot vs. Tesla's Optimus: Two Very Different Bets

A Chinese firm rolled out a 13-foot humanoid that lifts over 1,100 pounds, and Elon Musk answered by joking that Tesla's Optimus will one day build Optimus Prime. Strip out the theater and you get the clearest look yet at two very different bets on where the robot business actually makes money.

108 Straight Days: TRX Supply Grew Every Single Day From July 1 to October 16

5 days ago

108 Straight Days: TRX Supply Grew Every Single Day From July 1 to October 16

Tron's burn never beat its block rewards for 108 consecutive days, and the chain printed roughly 49.8 million new TRX in the process. The stablecoin volume is real. The deflation story isn't. Here's the math holders keep skipping.

Circle Keeps 8 Cents Of Every Dollar: The $819 Million Problem Inside USDC

6 days ago

Circle Keeps 8 Cents Of Every Dollar: The $819 Million Problem Inside USDC

Circle pulled in about $1.4 billion in the first half of 2026 and handed $819 million of it to distribution partners. That ratio, not the size of USDC's float, is the real story of the stablecoin business, and it's why the Gulf's licensing shops are circling.

Crypto.com Wrote $37M to Trump PACs. The $210.5M Total Is the Real Story

6 days ago

Crypto.com Wrote $37M to Trump PACs. The $210.5M Total Is the Real Story

A Public Citizen report from October 8 links roughly $210.5 million in political donations to companies that also saw federal enforcement actions cancelled or scaled back. Crypto.com accounts for $37 million of it. The correlation proves nothing, but the size of the checks tells you everything about how fragile this business model still is.

Crypto Just Put $46 Million on One Ohio Senate Seat After a Fresh $7 Million Ad Buy

6 days ago

Crypto Just Put $46 Million on One Ohio Senate Seat After a Fresh $7 Million Ad Buy

A new FEC filing shows Fairshake's Senate affiliate dropped roughly $7 million more into ads against Ohio's Democratic senator, pushing its total past $46 million in a single race. Days earlier, the PAC widened its map to 32 House races. Here's who actually pays for that, and why game studios should care more than they do.

Binance.US Is Raising $100M at a $1B Valuation, Down 78% From Its 2022 Mark

6 days ago

Binance.US Is Raising $100M at a $1B Valuation, Down 78% From Its 2022 Mark

Binance.US is in talks to raise up to $100 million at roughly a $1 billion valuation, a steep markdown from the $4.5 billion it commanded in 2022. The cash would go to compliance and product, but capital alone won't bring traders back to a thin order book.

Arbitrum Pitched €800B of European Money. Nobody Signed Anything.

6 days ago

Arbitrum Pitched €800B of European Money. Nobody Signed Anything.

Arbitrum reps spent October 16 in rooms with European institutions controlling over €800 billion in assets. The pitch wasn't the token, it was the fee business. Here's why that distinction matters more than the headline number, and what would actually count as progress.

Nine People, One Deadline: Crypto's Quantum Claims Finally Get a Real Test

6 days ago

Nine People, One Deadline: Crypto's Quantum Claims Finally Get a Real Test

A nine-member standards group modeled on the IETF is building open tests for quantum-resistance claims, and it's arriving just as forecasts put the first practical quantum attack in the late 2020s. The people selling 'quantum-proof' badges won't love what a test suite does to their marketing.

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