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Uniswap Wallets Hit a 4-Year High While UNI Bleeds 25%. Something's Off.

Oct 24, 2026

Bloomberg Flagged 1,700 Funds for Crypto Risk. Half Don't Say So Out Loud.

Oct 24, 2026

Bybit Lands a Dubai Licence. Notice What's Missing.

Oct 24, 2026

BTCC's $387 Billion Quarter Is Big. The $16.3 Billion Slice Is the Story.

Oct 24, 2026

JST's Buyback Gets a Third Revenue Line and a $50M Cushion

Oct 24, 2026

Bitdeer Mined 1,355 BTC in September. The Coin Count Isn't the Point.

Oct 24, 2026

Bitdeer Mined 1,355 BTC in September. The AI Pivot Is the Real Signal.

Oct 24, 2026

NIP Group Bought 4.47 EH/s With 247 Million Shares. Mining Is the Cover Story.

Oct 24, 2026

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Zero Grandfathering: The GENIUS Act's Final Rule Traps Every Stablecoin Rewards Program Built Since July 2025

1 day ago

Zero Grandfathering: The GENIUS Act's Final Rule Traps Every Stablecoin Rewards Program Built Since July 2025

The OCC's final GENIUS Act rule dropped the affiliate presumption, kept the issuer yield ban, and gave existing stablecoin rewards programs no grace period at all. That last part is the story almost nobody is trading on. The programs built over the past year don't get to sunset gracefully. They get reviewed.

Four Licenses and a Google Badge: UAE Crypto Ads Reopen October 21

1 day ago

Four Licenses and a Google Badge: UAE Crypto Ads Reopen October 21

Google's updated UAE ad policy went live October 21, and it demands two separate things from crypto advertisers: a license from one of four local authorities and a certification from Google itself. The firms that already paid for compliance win. The offshore brokers and affiliate shops that built their growth on cheap clicks lose.

Zcash Has 12 Days to Move Node Operators Off Zebra 6.4.x

1 day ago

Zcash Has 12 Days to Move Node Operators Off Zebra 6.4.x

Zcash's Zebra nodes were stalling near the chain tip after release candidate 7.0.0-rc.0. The fix is merged into the development branch, but nobody's running it yet. With Zebra 6.4.x designed to stop around November 2, operators are on the clock and the clock started 12 days ago.

Dune Just Wired 200 Onchain Venues Into Wall Street's Plumbing. Here's Who Gets Trapped.

1 day ago

Dune Just Wired 200 Onchain Venues Into Wall Street's Plumbing. Here's Who Gets Trapped.

Dune's new real-time feed covers 200 onchain trading venues and targets institutional systems. Everyone's calling it institutional validation. I think it's the moment the last real edge in onchain trading gets arbitraged away, and the venues left off the list are the story nobody's writing.

A $371,000 Theft Allegation and the Credential Reset That Fixed Nothing

1 day ago

A $371,000 Theft Allegation and the Credential Reset That Fixed Nothing

Railway told users to replace their stored credentials after a security scare. Separately, Taylor Monahan pegged alleged crypto theft at roughly $371,000. The password policy isn't the story. The custody decision is.

Bitwise Sent the SEC Two Letters in 48 Hours. Both Ask the Same Unanswered Question.

1 day ago

Bitwise Sent the SEC Two Letters in 48 Hours. Both Ask the Same Unanswered Question.

Bitwise wants the SEC to say when a fund manager can legally rely on somebody else's token-status filing. Its October 21 supplement to docket S7-2026-27 is a liability request dressed up as a paperwork question, and the answer decides whether registered funds can hold these assets at all.

The Winklevoss PAC Spent $81,000 in Texas. That's the Whole Point.

1 day ago

The Winklevoss PAC Spent $81,000 in Texas. That's the Whole Point.

A committee tied to Gemini's co-founders just made its first Texas ad buy of the cycle, and the number is small enough to be dismissed. It shouldn't be. Here's what $81,000 actually buys in a Senate race, why Texas is the tell, and what would have to happen next for this to matter.

Standard Chartered Takes Crypto Custody In-House. The Two-Part Zodia Split Is the Real Story

1 day ago

Standard Chartered Takes Crypto Custody In-House. The Two-Part Zodia Split Is the Real Story

Standard Chartered is folding crypto custody onto its own balance sheet, with integration following deal completion and the software carve-out from May still intact. The move looks defensive on the surface. It's actually the most confident custody bet a bank has made this cycle.

MoonPay and Dunamu Want Stablecoin Payments. They Just Won't Say When

1 day ago

MoonPay and Dunamu Want Stablecoin Payments. They Just Won't Say When

MoonPay and Dunamu are teaming up to explore stablecoin payments, corporate treasury tools, and global reach for the GIWA blockchain. But the announcement has no product, no launch date, and no named customers, which tells you exactly how early this is.

The VC Behind Coinbase and Solana Is Chasing AI Now. Crypto Should Be Nervous.

1 day ago

The VC Behind Coinbase and Solana Is Chasing AI Now. Crypto Should Be Nervous.

The venture firm that backed Coinbase, Solana and Uniswap is widening its mandate beyond blockchain into AI and general tech. That's not a side hustle. It's a signal about where the smart money thinks the next 10x actually lives, and the token trade should feel it.

BitGo Labs Launches With Gokubu: A Custodian Bets It Can Win Consumer Apps

1 day ago

BitGo Labs Launches With Gokubu: A Custodian Bets It Can Win Consumer Apps

BitGo spun up a research and product unit on October 21 with an initial focus on AI plus crypto, and its first release is Gokubu, a live consumer finance app. The custody giant just traded a back-office role for a storefront, and the revenue math is still a blank chart. Here's what actually matters.

73% of Stablecoin Volume Now Runs on TRON, and the ETF Crowd Finally Noticed

1 day ago

73% of Stablecoin Volume Now Runs on TRON, and the ETF Crowd Finally Noticed

TRON settled $2.21 trillion in stablecoins last quarter, holds 73% of stablecoin transfer volume, and just got its first U.S. spot staked TRX ETF. The case against it's real but tired. The case for it's a run rate, not a spike.

Bitcoin Core 32 Broke Multisig Co-Signing, and the Fix Is Buried in an RPC Flag

1 day ago

Bitcoin Core 32 Broke Multisig Co-Signing, and the Fix Is Buried in an RPC Flag

Bitcoin Core 32 flipped its wallet to PSBT v2 by default. Older signers can't read the new format. There's a flag to force v0 output, but you've to know it exists, and in a mixed-version multisig quorum that knowledge gap costs you a signing round. Here's what broke, who eats the cost, and what to check before your next transaction.

Dogecoin Labs Swallows MyDoge, DogeOS and Such App: 3 Teams, 1 CEO, No Equity Number

1 day ago

Dogecoin Labs Swallows MyDoge, DogeOS and Such App: 3 Teams, 1 CEO, No Equity Number

House of Doge just handed its wallet, payments and app-layer operations to a newly formed Dogecoin Labs in exchange for an undisclosed equity stake. The org chart finally makes sense. The numbers don't exist yet, and that's the part worth watching.

Ireland Fines Coinbase $3.6M, and the Price Tag Is the Least Interesting Part

2 days ago

Ireland Fines Coinbase $3.6M, and the Price Tag Is the Least Interesting Part

Coinbase's Irish entity accepted the Central Bank of Ireland's findings on oversight and client asset safeguarding failures, and now owes roughly $3.6 million pending High Court approval. The number is small against Coinbase's revenue. The precedent, and the remediation work behind it, isn't.

Bitcoin Hashrate Hits a Seven-Month High as the AI Pivot Fails to Cool the Mining War

2 days ago

Bitcoin Hashrate Hits a Seven-Month High as the AI Pivot Fails to Cool the Mining War

Bitcoin's hashrate just printed a seven-month high even though half the industry says it's pivoting to AI. BlocksBridge's latest mining data shows difficulty still climbing, and the reason is simpler than anyone wants to admit: big miners sell their rigs, they don't scrap them. Here's who actually gets squeezed.

Solana Just Cut Finality From 12.8 Seconds to 150 Milliseconds. The Trade Around it's the Problem

2 days ago

Solana Just Cut Finality From 12.8 Seconds to 150 Milliseconds. The Trade Around it's the Problem

Alpenglow went live at slot 459,653,000 and retired TowerBFT after years of build-up. The engineering is genuinely impressive. The way the market is trading the headline isn't. Here's what actually changed, what didn't, and the one number I'd watch instead of 150ms.

$579M in Liquidity, 22.6 USDC in the Pool: Solana's Fake Volume Math

2 days ago

$579M in Liquidity, 22.6 USDC in the Pool: Solana's Fake Volume Math

A Raydium pool displayed roughly $579 million in liquidity on Oct. 22 while holding about 22.6 USDC in actual stablecoin. A Solana bot reportedly turned $12,000 into $1.4 billion in reported volume, and the gap between those numbers is the whole story. Volume is a marketing asset now, and the trackers displaying it should be held to the same standard as the bots generating it.

Bitcoin's $81,500 Line: Why the ETF Cost Basis Is the Only Number That Matters

2 days ago

Bitcoin's $81,500 Line: Why the ETF Cost Basis Is the Only Number That Matters

Bitcoin dropped 3% as stocks fell on Trump's Iran comments, and the price landed right on the spot ETF complex's blended cost basis of roughly $81,500. That's not a coincidence, it's the level where the marginal holder stops being a buyer. Here's the mechanics, the stablecoin tell, and what I'd actually do with it.

Bitcoin's $86,700 Traffic Jam: Three Metrics, One $1,500 Band

2 days ago

Bitcoin's $86,700 Traffic Jam: Three Metrics, One $1,500 Band

Glassnode's October 21 snapshot puts a cluster of cost-basis holders, resting sell orders and margin positions in the same $85,000 to $87,500 zone. The overlap is the story, and the $80,200 treasury cost basis underneath it might matter even more.

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