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October 21, 2026

OCC’s Final Stablecoin Rule Backs Off Yield Test, Scraps Automatic Redemption Extension

The national bank regulator’s rule keeps a two-business-day redemption window, replaces an automatic seven-day extension with one issuers must request and sets a $5 million capital floor for issuers it oversees.

PODCASTS

October 21, 2026

How Crypto Can Survive If AI or Quantum Computers Break Its Cryptography

Justin Drake says crypto should brace for AI breaking elliptic curves before Q-Day. Project Eleven’s Alex Pruden and Conor Deegan weigh in on what’s actually at risk.

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October 20, 2026

Why Crypto Is Holding Up as the AI Trade Starts to Crack

The chip index fell 11.4% and the KOSPI had its worst week since 2008, yet Bitcoin finished flat. Coinbase’s John D’Agostino and Agora’s Nick van Eck join the Bits + Bips crew to explain why.

Episode #1250 | October 16, 2026

Ledger Wallets Were Drained of $100 Million. Is Self-Custody Still Safe?

October 15, 2026

Uneasy Money: Why Ledger’s Supply Chain Became a Nearly $100M Target

October 15, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Ledger Hardware Implant, a Listening Device at OpenAI, Papertrade’s 1000x House, and the Death of Technical Moats

Episode #1247 | October 14, 2026

Why Crypto Buybacks Are ‘the Wrong Way to Allocate Capital’

October 13, 2026

Is Crypto Security at ‘Max Vulnerability’? Chris Perkins Thinks So

October 10, 2026

The Chopping Block: Live at TOKEN2049 with Balaji Srinivasan and Arthur Hayes on Kazakhstan, Crypto Bunker Mode, and the L2 Shutdowns

Episode #1245 | October 9, 2026

How NEAR Intents Identified a Suspect and Got Its Stolen Funds Back

October 8, 2026

How OpenAI’s Math Dump Has Crypto Rethinking Its Cryptography: Uneasy Money

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Bitcoin

October 21, 2026

JPMorgan Asset Management Sets a 10% Base Case for Bitcoin, Still Sees No Clear Portfolio Role

The firm’s 2027 long-term return outlook gives bitcoin a range of outcomes for the first time, while its authors call BTC a speculative asset that does not yet work as a diversifier.

October 21, 2026

How Crypto Can Survive If AI or Quantum Computers Break Its Cryptography

Justin Drake says crypto should brace for AI breaking elliptic curves before Q-Day. Project Eleven’s Alex Pruden and Conor Deegan weigh in on what’s actually at risk.

October 20, 2026

BlackRock Files for Bitcoin ETF That Trades Capped Gains for a 10% Loss Floor

The proposed iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF would use options on IBIT to limit each tranche’s starting loss to about 10%, in exchange for a ceiling on gains.

October 19, 2026

Strive Lifts Bitcoin Holdings to 36,818 BTC Ahead of $700 Million SATS Settlement

The bitcoin treasury company added 1,223 BTC late last week, finishing a 4,045 BTC week, as its new 15% preferred stock heads to settlement on Tuesday.

Business

October 21, 2026

Dogecoin Labs Launches With MyDoge, DogeOS and a Dogecoin Foundation Partnership

The new company, led by MyDoge and DogeOS founder Jordan Jefferson, takes over DOGE's wallet, app layer and payments app as House of Doge steps back for an equity stake.

October 21, 2026

Standard Chartered Signs Binding Deal to Buy All of Crypto Custodian Zodia Custody

The bank's non-binding offer from May is now a set of definitive agreements, with Zodia's software arm headed to a new SC Ventures company backed by seven named investors.

October 21, 2026

Founders Fund Made Polymarket CEO Coplan Repay Expenses; ICE Joins Push for COO: Report

Founders Fund reportedly made Coplan repay company-paid jet flights and rent before investing in 2025.

October 21, 2026

Webull to Roll Out Kalshi-Listed Bitcoin Perpetual Futures to US Customers in November

The online brokerage says eligible futures customers will be able to trade the no-expiry crypto contracts from their existing accounts, with wider access expected before the end of 2026.

DeFi

October 19, 2026

Hackers Still Hold $287 Million in Stolen Crypto That Can’t Be Frozen, Blockaid Report Says

Across 60 exploits this year, attackers started moving funds a median 17 minutes after a hack, and less than 1% of the $1.18 billion taken had reached victims by September, the security firm found.

October 15, 2026

Ledger Moves Beyond Signers With $849 Atom, a Device That Runs Everyday Apps

The hardware wallet maker opened reservations for a data-only device that splits Android-based apps from a secure chip, with delivery estimated for 2027.

October 15, 2026

PancakeSwap Floats Handing Liquidity Providers 88% of Swap Fees While Cutting CAKE Issuance

The proposal, still up for forum discussion, would also shrink daily CAKE emissions by about 69%, and early forum replies show holders worried about the token's burn.

October 14, 2026

Why Crypto Buybacks Are ‘the Wrong Way to Allocate Capital’

ARK Invest’s Lorenzo Valente says quantum fears and the Ledger hack are speeding up the death of self-custody, that Ethereum has to pick a lane, and buybacks are “crazy.”

Ethereum

October 21, 2026

Fhenix Goes Live on Ethereum and Arbitrum, Letting Contracts Compute on Hidden Balances

The privacy startup said its encryption coprocessor is now in production with dual-mode tokens and two launch apps, and that Consensys Diligence audited the system.

October 21, 2026

How Crypto Can Survive If AI or Quantum Computers Break Its Cryptography

Justin Drake says crypto should brace for AI breaking elliptic curves before Q-Day. Project Eleven’s Alex Pruden and Conor Deegan weigh in on what’s actually at risk.

October 20, 2026

Ether.fi Mandates Optimum’s mump2p for All Its Node Operators

The MIT-born startup says 16 node operators now run its mump2p software on Ethereum mainnet for more than 1.4 million ETH in stake, and that blocks arrive faster than over Ethereum's default gossip layer.

October 19, 2026

JPMorgan Picks Ethereum for JPM Coin, Citing the Network’s Liquidity and Client Use

The bank’s dollar deposit token, which debuted on Base last year, is aimed at large crypto firms and financial institutions, a JPMorgan blockchain executive told Bloomberg.

NFTs

October 13, 2026

NFT Marketplace Blur Is Retiring Blur.io on Nov. 12, Keeping Its Contracts Live Onchain

Blur set Nov. 12 as the date it retires the blur.io interface, saying the marketplace protocol stays live onchain and the BLUR token keeps control of its fee switch.

September 1, 2026

StonkBrokers Are Popular on Robinhood Chain. But Is the NFT a Security or Collectible?

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

August 4, 2026

POAP Winds Down After Five Years and Nearly 7.6 Million Onchain Badges

Co-founder Isabel Gonzalez said POAP could not build a sustainable business without undermining what made the project matter, ending a protocol used by Coinbase, Amex, and Warner Music Group.

July 2, 2026

Melania Trump Raked in Over $6 Million From NFTs and Collectibles in 2025

The first lady's annual financial disclosure shows nearly $17 million in total earnings, driven by her Amazon documentary, memoir, and a booming NFT business.

Regulation

October 21, 2026

Kazakhstan’s AIFC Regulator Turns to Apple and Google to Enforce Coinbase, HTX Injunctions

After a court declined to order Apple and Google directly, the regulator of Astana's financial center says it will serve them the injunctions it won against Coinbase, HTX and four other unlicensed platforms.

October 21, 2026

French Authorities Push EU to Make Crypto Exchanges Screen DeFi Protocols for Users

In a joint response to the European Commission's MiCA review, France's Treasury, AMF, Banque de France and ACPR said platforms should be liable for certain client incidents when they open DeFi access without adequate checks.

October 21, 2026

OCC’s Final Stablecoin Rule Backs Off Yield Test, Scraps Automatic Redemption Extension

The national bank regulator’s rule keeps a two-business-day redemption window, replaces an automatic seven-day extension with one issuers must request and sets a $5 million capital floor for issuers it oversees.

October 20, 2026

Blockworks Asks SEC to Make Token Projects Disclose Market-Maker Deals and Promoter Payments

In a comment letter on Regulation Crypto Assets, Blockworks said it wants line items from its own disclosure framework written into the rules, plus a new kind of SEC-recognized filing agent.

Tech

October 21, 2026

How Crypto Can Survive If AI or Quantum Computers Break Its Cryptography

Justin Drake says crypto should brace for AI breaking elliptic curves before Q-Day. Project Eleven’s Alex Pruden and Conor Deegan weigh in on what’s actually at risk.

October 19, 2026

Charles Hoskinson Reveals Work on a Cardano Programming Language Using Groth16 Proofs

The Cardano founder is writing the language with Lucas Rosa, a co-creator of the Aiken smart contract language, and has not shared a name, code or launch timeline.

October 19, 2026

Zcash Builder Zakura Proposes Per-Swap Viewing Keys to Close a Quantum Privacy Gap

The design, still in review, would give each shielded address posted during a NEAR Intents swap its own key, so a future quantum attacker who breaks one sees only that swap.

October 16, 2026

Ledger Wallets Were Drained of $100 Million. Is Self-Custody Still Safe?

A hidden implant read Ledger seed phrases off the screen and sent them out over an eSIM. Mark Karpelès and SEAL 911’s Jonty discuss what that means for self-custody.

In Case You Missed it

October 15, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Ledger Hardware Implant, a Listening Device at OpenAI, Papertrade’s 1000x House, and the Death of Technical Moats

The boys regroup after TOKEN2049. Ledgers sold through CryptoBilis, an authorized reseller in Malaysia, came with an LTE implant that read seed phrases off the screen, an OpenAI engineer was caught with a listening device, Papertrade launches 1000x perps where losing money mints you tokens, and the hosts argue over Nikita Bier’s claim that technical moats are dead.

October 10, 2026

The Chopping Block: Live at TOKEN2049 with Balaji Srinivasan and Arthur Hayes on Kazakhstan, Crypto Bunker Mode, and the L2 Shutdowns

Balaji explains why Network School moved to Kazakhstan and why most countries are small enough to deal with, OpenAI’s drop of 700 AI-written math papers has Justin Drake calling for crypto bunker mode, and Blast and Abstract shutting down raises the question of whether crypto overbuilt its L2s.

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