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Curve Went Non-EVM. It Picked Stellar, Not Solana.

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Blink's $1 Dormancy Fee Just Billed 100,000 Accounts Holding $800K in Ghost Bitcoin

5 days ago

Blink's $1 Dormancy Fee Just Billed 100,000 Accounts Holding $800K in Ghost Bitcoin

Blink Wallet started charging $1 a month to custodial accounts that haven't logged in for a year. The first pull brought in about $45,000 from roughly 100,000 dormant wallets. That number tells you everything about how crypto onboarding actually worked, and why self custody is now the only exit.

Solana's 29-Millisecond Trade-Off: SIMD-0675 Tests Geography Against Randomness

6 days ago

Solana's 29-Millisecond Trade-Off: SIMD-0675 Tests Geography Against Randomness

A new study models a geo-aware validator leader schedule across 6,250 synthetic networks built from Solana's 124 known validator locations. It finds roughly 29 milliseconds of handover savings in one configuration, then spends most of its time explaining what that costs. The misreporting problem is the part nobody has solved.

Canada Opens Its Stablecoin Consultation, and the GENIUS Act Is Already Doing the Talking

6 days ago

Canada Opens Its Stablecoin Consultation, and the GENIUS Act Is Already Doing the Talking

Ottawa wants public input on a Stablecoin Act framework, and the discussion paper leans hard on the US GENIUS Act. That tells you more about who sets the rules than any press release will. Non-bank issuers are the whole ballgame, and the compliance math is brutal.

Aviva Puts Another £50 Million of Cash Fund Shares on XRP Ledger, Bringing Its Total Past £86 Million

6 days ago

Aviva Puts Another £50 Million of Cash Fund Shares on XRP Ledger, Bringing Its Total Past £86 Million

Aviva just moved £50 million ($66 million) into a tokenized share class of its Sterling Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger, pushing its combined XRPL exposure past £86 million ($116 million) across two offerings. Money market funds are the least exciting corner of finance, and that's precisely why tokenization is working there first.

The OCC Just Put a Date on Stablecoin Compliance: January 18, 2027

6 days ago

The OCC Just Put a Date on Stablecoin Compliance: January 18, 2027

The OCC's final GENIUS Act rule drops October 21 and takes effect January 18, 2027, covering reserves, redemptions, custody and audits. The AML piece is still missing, and that's where the real cost sits. Here's who pays and who gets the rails.

A Retired Wallet Leaked $16 Million, and the Exchange Is Quietly Eating the Bill

6 days ago

A Retired Wallet Leaked $16 Million, and the Exchange Is Quietly Eating the Bill

A Mumbai-based exchange says 15.99 million USDT was drained from wallets it had already retired after last year's $44 million hack. That pushes combined losses toward $60 million, and the company says it's absorbing the hit. The interesting story isn't the theft. It's who pays, and why 'retired' has quietly become crypto's most dangerous word.

Treasury Dealers Sit on a Two-Year High in Bills, With October 30 Circled in Red

6 days ago

Treasury Dealers Sit on a Two-Year High in Bills, With October 30 Circled in Red

Dealer financing capacity is the number to watch, not the headline figure. A crowded bill book, an October 23 funding update, and a hard October 30 checkpoint set up the real test for anyone betting on Bitcoin's liquidity story. The spillover is conditional, and that word is doing a lot of work.

10,452 ETH Got the Headline. The 2.04 Million Share Buyback Is the Real Story

6 days ago

10,452 ETH Got the Headline. The 2.04 Million Share Buyback Is the Real Story

A crypto treasury company added 10,452 ETH and now sits at 4.95% of supply. But its 2.04 million share repurchase, billed as the largest equity buyback any crypto treasury firm has run, tells you far more about how these vehicles are priced.

South Korea's 22% Crypto Tax Has Slid to 2029, and Washington Is the Reason

6 days ago

South Korea's 22% Crypto Tax Has Slid to 2029, and Washington Is the Reason

Seoul is weighing a fourth postponement of its crypto gains levy, with 2029 now the number lawmakers and industry groups are rallying around. The holdup isn't the rate. It's that the U.S. doesn't start sharing crypto transaction data until 2029, which would leave Korean exchanges' users holding a bill nobody else has to pay.

Michigan's Long-Run Inflation Gauge Is Stuck Near 3%, and Bitcoin's Rate-Cut Trade Hates It

6 days ago

Michigan's Long-Run Inflation Gauge Is Stuck Near 3%, and Bitcoin's Rate-Cut Trade Hates It

The University of Michigan survey came back with steady sentiment but long-run inflation expectations still hanging near 3%, well above the pre-2020 baseline. That quietly caps how far real yields can fall, which is the one number Bitcoin actually trades on. Here's what it breaks, who gets hurt, and the two releases to watch next.

Strategy Skipped Bitcoin and Spent $205M Buying Back Its Own Preferred Stock

6 days ago

Strategy Skipped Bitcoin and Spent $205M Buying Back Its Own Preferred Stock

Strategy made zero Bitcoin purchases last week and burned $205 million repurchasing its STRC preferred shares, cutting its dollar reserve 46% to $242.4 million. That's a capital structure story, not a coin story, and it tells you where the treasury trade is heading next.

Bitcoin's Nasdaq Ratio Ended a 235-Session Drought, and the Track Record Says 84%

6 days ago

Bitcoin's Nasdaq Ratio Ended a 235-Session Drought, and the Track Record Says 84%

The Bitcoin-to-Nasdaq ratio reclaimed its 200-day moving average on September 18 after 235 straight sessions below it, and it hasn't closed under that line since. One year after similar reclaims, Bitcoin finished higher five of six times, with a median gain near 84%. The skeptics still have a case, but it's getting thinner.

One PHP Bug, Three Countries Offline: What the Cyber Pandemic Talk Means for Crypto Allocators

6 days ago

One PHP Bug, Three Countries Offline: What the Cyber Pandemic Talk Means for Crypto Allocators

Government portals in France and Finland went dark. Hospital sites in the Netherlands followed. Cloudflare logged attack traffic, and the UK's cyber agency told organizations to pull systems they couldn't patch in time. Here's the sequence, the impact, and why Bitcoin's slow engineering culture suddenly looks like a feature.

BTCPay Server's October 19 Fix Isn't in the Release You're Running

6 days ago

BTCPay Server's October 19 Fix Isn't in the Release You're Running

A permission-tightening merge landed in BTCPay Server's codebase on October 19, but the newest tagged release predates it. That means store-scoped API keys can still reach further than merchants think, and the people most exposed are the ones who chose self-custody precisely to avoid this kind of surprise.

Bernstein Holds $160 HOOD Target While Prediction Markets Add $1.7B by 2028

6 days ago

Bernstein Holds $160 HOOD Target While Prediction Markets Add $1.7B by 2028

Bernstein lifted Robinhood's revenue estimates through 2026 and 2028 but left its $160 price target untouched. The number that matters inside the revision is $1.7 billion in prediction market revenue, a line item projected to overtake crypto trading by 2028.

Metaplanet Buys a U.S. Wrapper for Preferreds as Bitcoin ETFs Add $1B in Three Sessions

6 days ago

Metaplanet Buys a U.S. Wrapper for Preferreds as Bitcoin ETFs Add $1B in Three Sessions

Metaplanet couldn't sell preferred stock at home in Japan, so it bought a U.S. company to issue it in dollars. That puts it in the same capital pool Strategy and Strive are already fighting over, and the structure is where the real bitcoin-per-share math lives.

Crypto Paid for the PHP Exploit. Nobody Budgeted for the Patch.

6 days ago

Crypto Paid for the PHP Exploit. Nobody Budgeted for the Patch.

A researcher cracked a PHP hacking challenge, proved a critical flaw was exploitable, and got paid even after a wallet mistake. The demonstration worked. The fix doesn't exist yet. That gap is crypto's real security problem, and it's about to get expensive.

Strive Buys 6,182 Bitcoin at $82,732 With Money That Costs 16.67% a Year

6 days ago

Strive Buys 6,182 Bitcoin at $82,732 With Money That Costs 16.67% a Year

Strive (ASST) picked up 6,182 bitcoin for $511.4 million and pushed its treasury to 43,000 BTC. The average price was $82,732 a coin. And the way it funded the buy is more interesting than the buy itself.

66.3%: The Fed's Inflation Data Is Missing a Third of Its Prices

6 days ago

66.3%: The Fed's Inflation Data Is Missing a Third of Its Prices

September's commodities-and-services inflation data came back with a quote collection rate of just 66.3%, and nobody can tell you which way the hole skews the number. That matters way more than the headline CPI print, because the Fed is setting rates off a survey with a third of its inputs missing. Crypto is the asset class that pays for that uncertainty.

XT Earn Splits Your Crypto in Two: Rent Money and Diamond Hands

6 days ago

XT Earn Splits Your Crypto in Two: Rent Money and Diamond Hands

XT Exchange's new Earn product draws a line between assets you need next week and assets you're holding for months, and pays you differently on each. It's a simple idea that most yield products get wrong, and that's exactly why it matters.

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