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Solana ETFs Just Had Their Worst Day Since December. SOL Is Still Fighting for $100.

Oct 28, 2026

Coinbase Puts a Hard October 26 Deadline on BLAST. Miss It and Your Tokens Stay Stuck.

Oct 28, 2026

Coinbase Sets an October 26 Deadline for BLAST Holders. Miss It and Your Tokens Stay Stuck.

Oct 28, 2026

Four Leaks in One Day, and CZ's Security Advice Is the Bare Minimum

Oct 28, 2026

Bitcoin ETFs Added $286M in Two Days. October's Still Down $26M.

Oct 28, 2026

Bitcoin Sits Near $80,000 Into the Oct. 28 Fed Call. The Rate Decision Isn't the Point.

Oct 28, 2026

Coinbase Says It Wasn't Breached. An Analytics Vendor Leaked Contact Data Anyway.

Oct 28, 2026

A Fed Hold Isn't a Pivot, and Morgan Stanley Knows It

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Capital Research Crosses 11.11% of Metaplanet. The Buyback Did Half the Work.

4 days ago

Capital Research Crosses 11.11% of Metaplanet. The Buyback Did Half the Work.

Capital Research and Management's reported Metaplanet voting stake hit 11.11% as of October 16, disclosed in an October 23 notice. The jump past 10% came from two places at once: a bigger holding and a shrinking share count. Investors should read it as portfolio math, not activism.

Sygnum Splits Your Bitcoin Keys Three Ways. That's the Point.

4 days ago

Sygnum Splits Your Bitcoin Keys Three Ways. That's the Point.

Sygnum and Debifi launched MultiSYG on October 23, a Bitcoin lending service that spreads collateral keys across the borrower, the bank and independent institutional key holders. The structure attacks the rehypothecation problem, but it doesn't change the loan math.

Amex Beat Earnings and Fell 3.6%. The Market Was Reading a Different Paragraph.

4 days ago

Amex Beat Earnings and Fell 3.6%. The Market Was Reading a Different Paragraph.

American Express beat Q3 profit estimates and still closed 3.62% lower on Friday. The reason sits in a $336 million restructuring charge and a plan to cut about 5% of its 77,000-person workforce ahead of AI. The stock reaction says more about positioning than about the card business.

Sygnum's MultiSYG Splits Bitcoin Collateral Three Ways. It Won't Save You From a Margin Call

4 days ago

Sygnum's MultiSYG Splits Bitcoin Collateral Three Ways. It Won't Save You From a Margin Call

Sygnum Bank and Debifi launched MultiSYG on October 23, putting Bitcoin collateral into segregated multisig wallets with keys spread across the client, the bank, and independent holders. The custody upgrade is real. The credit risk is untouched, and the three numbers that actually decide the loan weren't in the announcement.

Eleven Blue-Chip Issuers Said No to the First SEC-Sanctioned Tokenized Trading Venue

4 days ago

Eleven Blue-Chip Issuers Said No to the First SEC-Sanctioned Tokenized Trading Venue

The first tokenized securities venue operating under the SEC's innovation exemption launched without some of the biggest names in finance on its board. The refusals look like rejection. They're really a pricing negotiation dressed up as a legal concern, and that distinction matters more than the venue itself.

Bloomberg Wants to Find the Crypto Hiding in Bank Balance Sheets

4 days ago

Bloomberg Wants to Find the Crypto Hiding in Bank Balance Sheets

Bloomberg has added Basel crypto exposure classifications to its analytics, tagging indirect holdings inside funds, derivatives and corporate securities. It's a data product, but it's also a preview of where capital rules are heading. Banks that can't see this exposure now have a bigger problem than they did last week.

Franklin's Bitcoin DRIP Is the Sneakiest Crypto On-Ramp Yet

4 days ago

Franklin's Bitcoin DRIP Is the Sneakiest Crypto On-Ramp Yet

Franklin Templeton just filed exchange registrations for two ETFs that pair US stocks with a Bitcoin sleeve funded by dividends. It's a different buyer than the spot ETF crowd, and the rebalancing mechanics cut both ways.

BTF Is Dead. Its Options Just Got a Deadline.

4 days ago

BTF Is Dead. Its Options Just Got a Deadline.

CoinShares' Bitcoin and Ether ETF now has a fixed cash value, and the OCC notice confirming it pulls every later-dated BTF option forward to a November 20 expiry. The payout is the boring part. The accelerated clock is what traders keep missing.

The AI Trade Cracks, and Switzerland Quietly Wins October

4 days ago

The AI Trade Cracks, and Switzerland Quietly Wins October

Swiss blue chips are beating euro-area peers by almost 8 percentage points this month, the widest gap since March 2020. The reason isn't that Switzerland got better. It's that investors want cash flows they can see, not cash flows they've been promised.

Wall Street Is Quietly Clearing $359 Billion a Day on Blockchain and Nobody Threw a Party

4 days ago

Wall Street Is Quietly Clearing $359 Billion a Day on Blockchain and Nobody Threw a Party

Tokenized government bonds are now collateral for intraday repo trades, and the volume is already at $359 billion a day. No memecoins, no hype cycle, just banks paying bills on time. This is the most boring and most important thing crypto has done in years.

Bitcoin Core Cut Its Bug Secrecy Window on Oct 22. AI Forced the Issue.

4 days ago

Bitcoin Core Cut Its Bug Secrecy Window on Oct 22. AI Forced the Issue.

Bitcoin Core merged a new disclosure policy on October 22 that fast-tracks fixes for vulnerabilities anyone can rediscover, including with a single AI prompt. It's a quiet admission that the old embargo model was built for a world where finding bugs was expensive. That world is gone.

Bitcoin Lost $83K. Now $80K Is the Only Thing Holding This Market Together

4 days ago

Bitcoin Lost $83K. Now $80K Is the Only Thing Holding This Market Together

Bitcoin failed to hold $83,000 and is sliding toward $80,000 with a make-or-break weekly close coming October 25. Benjamin Cowen says a close below $83K locks in a bearish rest of 2026. I think he's right about the close, and wrong about what it means.

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

4 days ago

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

UNI is down 25.75% in a month and sitting at $6.93. But Santiment just logged 2,295 new Uniswap wallets in a single day, the fastest clip since November 2022. Price and users are telling two very different stories.

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

4 days ago

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

Bloomberg's new Basel-aligned crypto exposure tool found roughly 1,700 funds relevant to bank capital rules, and about 850 of them don't disclose crypto in their stated strategy. That disclosure gap is the real story, not the product launch.

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

4 days ago

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

Bybit's Dubai entity secured a VARA virtual-asset service provider licence covering spot exchange services. Derivatives are still on the wish list, and that's where the actual economics live. The credential matters more than the revenue right now.

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

4 days ago

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

BTCC says it moved $387 billion in futures volume during Q3 2026, with $16.3 billion coming from contracts linked to traditional markets. The headline number is impressive. The small slice inside it's the part that actually tells you where crypto derivatives are heading.

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

4 days ago

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

JUST upgraded its JST buyback and burn program to pull revenue from GasFree alongside JustLend and USDD, backed by a $50 million treasury reserve and roughly $20.34 million in unlocked legacy surplus. The mechanics got wider, but the real test is whether GasFree fees scale.

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

4 days ago

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

Bitdeer's September production tripled year over year to 1,355 BTC, but the hash rate split and a pipeline of Malaysia data center deals tell two very different stories. One is realized cash flow. The other is a promise about 2027.

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

4 days ago

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

Bitdeer's September update shows 1,355 BTC produced, about 45 coins a day. But the more telling detail is the data-center and AI capacity being built alongside the hashing fleet. Here's why power, not Bitcoin, is the number to track.

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

4 days ago

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

The esports company behind Ninjas in Pyjamas just agreed to pay up to 247,091,740 Class A shares for Bitcoin miners that are already running. No cash, no published dollar figure, no closing yet. This is a financing story wearing a hashrate costume, and the dilution is the price of admission.

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