NEWS

October 5, 2026

Strategy Estimates a $20.9 Billion Q3 Bitcoin Gain, Reversing Its Second-Quarter Loss

The preliminary figure came with a roughly $4.12 billion tax benefit, as Strategy added 334 BTC and spent $176.3 million buying back STRC last week.

PODCASTS

October 2, 2026

The Chopping Block: Bitget’s 388 Million Dollar Hack, Kalshi’s Cooked Perps Volume, and Agentic Bank Runs

North Korea takes $388M from Bitget, a quant shows Kalshi’s perps volume was cooked, and Apollo warns AI agents are coming for your checking account.

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Bitcoin

October 5, 2026

Strategy Estimates a $20.9 Billion Q3 Bitcoin Gain, Reversing Its Second-Quarter Loss

The preliminary figure came with a roughly $4.12 billion tax benefit, as Strategy added 334 BTC and spent $176.3 million buying back STRC last week.

October 5, 2026

Strive Buys 2,000 Bitcoin and Discloses a Buyback Facility for Its Preferred Stock

The bitcoin treasury company now holds 29,462 BTC, and its CEO said 61.5% of the capital it raised came from its SATA preferred stock.

October 5, 2026

Metaplanet Sells and Rebuys Its Bitcoin in a Bid for a Credit Rating

The Tokyo-listed bitcoin treasury company says the round trip was meant to show credit rating agencies and bond investors that it is willing to sell when needed.

October 5, 2026

Bitcoin Stalls Above $85,000 as Weak Jobs Report Cuts Odds of an October Rate Hike

A weak September jobs report lowered the odds of another Fed hike this month, and bitcoin’s rally toward its late-September peak ran out of steam short of $87,000.

Business

October 5, 2026

Nvidia, Tesla Shares Head for 24/7 Onchain Trading Under OKX and NYSE Owner’s Venture

OKXICE’s notice under the SEC’s new innovation exemption lists Nvidia, Tesla, Apple and 60 other stock tokens, to trade against stablecoins in Uniswap pools on OKX’s X Layer.

October 2, 2026

The Chopping Block: Bitget’s 388 Million Dollar Hack, Kalshi’s Cooked Perps Volume, and Agentic Bank Runs

North Korea takes $388M from Bitget, a quant shows Kalshi’s perps volume was cooked, and Apollo warns AI agents are coming for your checking account.

October 2, 2026

Ripple-Backed XRP Treasury Evernorth Wins Shareholder Vote, Heads to Nasdaq Next Week

Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the merger on Wednesday, putting the company led by former Ripple executive Asheesh Birla on track to start trading as XRPN on Oct. 8.

October 1, 2026

Is Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP Coin a Scam? He Says the Wallets Prove It Isn’t

Hunter Biden walks through the $LAPTOP launch, when thin liquidity sent the token to a $317 billion market cap in a minute, and why he says it isn’t a scam.

DeFi

October 5, 2026

NEAR Intents Says Exploited $3.8 Million Is Back, Closes Its Hack Investigation

The attacker sent the money back less than a day after NEAR Intents’ general manager posted “We have identified you, sir” along with addresses to return it to.

October 2, 2026

Solana Perps Exchange Drift Opens Recovery Token Claims for Users Who Lost Over $290 Million

Affected users get one DFX per USDT lost, redeemable for about a cent at launch from a pool that grows with the rebuilt exchange’s daily revenue.

October 1, 2026

Robinhood Wallet Can Now Route Stock Token Trades Through the Arcus Exchange

Arcus, which counts Robinhood Crypto as an investor, has market makers compete to quote each trade in more than 190 Stock Tokens.

October 1, 2026

NEAR Intents Pledges Full Compensation After a Bug Lets an Attacker Drain $3.8 Million

The cross-chain protocol says the contract-side flaw is patched, and blockchain data shows about 3.87 million USDT left a contract it uses on BNB Chain in about six hours.

Ethereum

October 5, 2026

Tom Lee’s Bitmine Slows Ether Buying for a Second Straight Week, Adding 15,112 ETH

The Ethereum treasury company now holds 6,016,414 ETH, about 89,000 short of owning 5% of ether’s supply, as Lee pointed to a 21 million share buyback this year.

October 2, 2026

Ethereum Layer 2 Blast Is Shutting Down, Saying Costs Now Exceed What the Chain Earns

The network created by Blur founder Pacman is asking users to move their assets to Ethereum mainnet by Oct. 26, with withdrawals paused for about a week while it pulls its assets out of Lido.

October 2, 2026

Ethereum Foundation Launches Privacy Tool That Cuts the Link Between AI Prompts and Payers

zkAPI, built with the Open Anonymity Project and now live on Ethereum mainnet, uses zero-knowledge proofs so neither the AI provider nor the payment server can tie a user’s requests to whoever paid for them.

October 2, 2026

Authors Withdraw Ethereum Staking Reward Burn Plan From Hegota Upgrade, Seek Separate Process

The co-authors of EIP-8363 say Ethereum’s issuance policy needs a dedicated process outside fork planning, and Lido has offered to help lead it.

NFTs

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.

March 17, 2026

OpenSea Shelves Token Launch as Its Quiet Pivot Away From NFTs Stalls

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

Regulation

October 5, 2026

FinCEN Withdraws Proposed Crypto Mixer and Unhosted Wallet Reporting Rules

The Treasury bureau is pulling a 2023 mixer proposal and a 2020 self-custody wallet proposal, citing a White House crypto report.

October 5, 2026

Community Bankers Sue Federal Bank Regulator to Overturn Crypto Trust Charter Rule

The Independent Community Bankers of America says the regulator has no legal authority to make non-fiduciary crypto firms national trust banks, and wants a court to vacate its March chartering rule and Protego’s conditional charter.

October 5, 2026

SEC Clears Cboe to List Volatility Shares’ 3x Bitcoin and Ether Funds

The six products are commodity trusts registered under the 1933 Act, while SEC staff pushed back on 3x funds governed by the 1940 Act in December 2025.

October 2, 2026

Trump Memecoin Offers Dinner Seats to Top 185 Holders as Democrats Eye Probes

The official $TRUMP site is ranking holders for a Nov. 22 gala at Trump National, days after Democrats said they would investigate Trump family business deals if they win in November.

Tech

October 5, 2026

Zcash Activates NU7 on Public Testnet, Opening a Trial Run for 25-Second Blocks

NU7 took effect at block 4,465,026 on Oct. 4, two days earlier than projected, leaving developers about two weeks of data before they set a mainnet activation height on Oct. 20.

September 30, 2026

Base’s Cobalt Upgrade Lets Token Issuers Move Seized Balances Instead of Burning Them

Coinbase’s layer-2 network also lets traders attach conditions to transactions, which Base says keeps those transactions private until they are included.

September 28, 2026

Chainlink Upgrade Gives Institutions Their Own Sign-Off on Cross-Chain Token Transfers

With CCIP 2.0, institutions can run or hire verifiers that must approve each transfer alongside Chainlink’s 16-operator committee, and can build KYC and sanctions screening into the flow.

September 24, 2026

Can This Bring Zcash-Style Privacy to Bitcoin Without a Fork?

Misha Komarov, founder of [[alloc] init] and co-founder of =nil; Foundation, tells Laura Shin how the team is working to bring Zcash-style shielded transactions to Bitcoin, using a cryptographic primitive called PIPEs.

In Case You Missed it

October 2, 2026

The Chopping Block: Bitget’s 388 Million Dollar Hack, Kalshi’s Cooked Perps Volume, and Agentic Bank Runs

North Korea takes $388M from Bitget, a quant shows Kalshi’s perps volume was cooked, and Apollo warns AI agents are coming for your checking account.

September 17, 2026

The Chopping Block: Clarity Dies on the Senate Floor, Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP Rug, and the AI Pause Pact

Clarity fails cloture 49-50. Haseeb, Tom, Tarun, and Robert break down what’s next, Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP collapse, the Robinhood case, and the AI pause.

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