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October 28, 2026

Bitcoin Shrugs Off a Hawkish Fed as Volatility Bets Barely Budge

Deribit’s bitcoin implied volatility index ended the afternoon where it started and bitcoin gained 0.33% on Coinbase, even as December hike odds rose after Kevin Warsh’s Fed held rates at 3.75% to 4%.

PODCASTS

October 27, 2026

How AI Agents Are Exposing a Bank Business Model Built on ‘Laziness’

Banks are blocking AI agents in the name of safety. Jim Bianco asks who they are really protecting, and what $4 trillion in zero-yield deposits has to do with it.

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Bitcoin

October 29, 2026

Bitcoin Core Skips Usual Embargo to Disclose Three Bugs an AI Scan Found

Patched releases went out Oct. 27 and 28, and the advisories followed on Oct. 28 because Core classed all three flaws as “easily discoverable.”

October 27, 2026

Jason Calacanis Predicts a ‘Brutal Year’ for Bitcoin, Urges Holders to Shift to AI

The early Uber investor predicted more ETF outflows and a retest of a “57k low” within a year.

October 26, 2026

Strategy’s Weekly STRC Buyback Climbs to $205 Million While Its Bitcoin Stack Stays Put

The repurchases cut Michael Saylor's company's USD Cash by nearly half and leave $956.8 million of room under its newly raised $3 billion preferred buyback cap.

October 26, 2026

Strive’s Bitcoin Treasury Reaches 43,000 BTC as It Files a $1 Billion SATS ATM

The bitcoin treasury company bought 6,182 BTC last week for about $511.4 million and can now sell up to $1 billion more of its 15% SATS preferred stock at market prices.

Business

October 28, 2026

DTCC Turns On Its Tokenized Securities Service for 20 Clients, Meeting Its October Target

Clients of the Depository Trust Company can now tokenize securities it holds on Canton or a private Besu network, with 34 securities eligible at launch, according to DTCC.

October 28, 2026

Google Pitches Banks on Splitting Crypto Keys Across Clouds With New Custody Service

A bank can keep one key share on its own hardware so no single provider, Google included, ever holds a full key; Google is targeting a broad release in early 2027.

October 28, 2026

Datavault AI Stock Jumps 31% Even as Its Bitcoin Sits Stuck at Biconomy

Its restatement takes every reported bitcoin off the books, including 837 BTC Scilex agreed to buy in June. No definitive deal has been disclosed.

October 28, 2026

Strategy Shareholders Approve Daily Dividends on Its Four Preferred Stocks

STRC moves to a daily record date on Nov. 1 and STRF, STRK and STRD follow on Jan. 1, once the amended share terms are filed and take effect.

DeFi

October 28, 2026

Flash-Loan Attacker Drains About $1 Million in USDC From Avalanche-Based Tranche Vault

Security firm Blockaid says the attacker used borrowed funds to mint inflated shares and cash out the USDC held by a vault it said was related to Valinor Digital and Fence.

October 27, 2026

Hyperliquid Tests Access Controls, and Kraken’s Parent Wants to Use Them

An optional onchain allowlist is available on Hyperliquid’s testnet, and Payward wants to be the first CFTC-regulated firm to run markets with it through its own units, pending regulatory approval.

October 23, 2026

Swell Freezes swETH and rswETH Withdrawals Until It Corrects Their Exchange Rates

Holders can't redeem through Swell for now, and on DEXs the tokens fetch well below the inflated rate their contracts report.

October 23, 2026

Delphi’s Jason Pagoulatos Says Papertrade Is ‘Kind of Bait and Switching’ PAPER Holders

The Delphi Digital head of markets said Papertrade has the attack risk right, but that rewriting the rules once roughly $140 million had come in is "a bad look."

Ethereum

October 27, 2026

Ethereum Developers Merge Glamsterdam Fix to Keep Validator Deposits Out of Builder Accounts

The change keeps validator deposits pending at the Gloas fork from being credited to a builder that shares the same key, a scenario its author called a conditional finding, not a live exploit.

October 26, 2026

Bitmine’s Holdings Value Dips to $15 Billion Despite 10,452 ETH Buy

Tom Lee's Bitmine is now about 58,000 ETH short of its 5% supply goal after spending roughly $46 million on its own stock last week.

October 23, 2026

Austin Griffith Demonstrates How Fast Bots Can Drain Weak Ethereum Keys

The Ethereum Foundation’s Austin Griffith put about $1 behind an easy-to-guess private key, and bots tried to take it within seconds.

October 23, 2026

Ether ETFs Are Having Their Worst Month of 2026. Who Buys Once Bitmine Stops?

Spot ether ETFs have lost $1.2 billion in October and Bitmine is weeks from its 5% cap, leaving ETF flows to decide who absorbs ether’s new supply into year-end.

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 28, 2026

Itaú Files Crypto Notice With Brazil’s Central Bank, Days Before Banks’ Window Shuts

Brazil's crypto rules let banks already offering digital assets keep going by filing a formal notice, and Itaú used that route for its trading and custody services.

October 28, 2026

JPMorgan, AMD and Coca-Cola Join Objectors to OKX-ICE Stock Tokens as Count Hits 33

A revised notice dated Oct. 27 adds seven issuers to the venue's objection list and names Amazon Web Services as cloud provider in its service-provider table, which no longer lists Alibaba Cloud.

October 27, 2026

Binance Shuts Brazilians Out of New Loans and Margin Ahead of a Licensing Deadline

The exchange says it applied to Brazil's central bank last Friday, days before an Oct. 30 deadline, as Brazilian users lose access to eight products and 22 tokens on Tuesday.

October 27, 2026

Ex-CFTC Chair Calls White House Plan Letting Firms Hack Cybercriminals ‘Just About Right’

The former CFTC chairman, who proposed reviving letters of marque against crypto hackers in 2025, said on Unchained that the White House's narrower, government-run program is "a very mature, thoughtful document."

Tech

October 27, 2026

Why America’s New Cyber Privateers Can’t Go After North Korea

Can the US fight AI-powered hackers and North Korea by deputizing its private sector? Two government veterans explain why the answer is yes and no.

October 27, 2026

Hidden Code in Udesk Chat Script Swaps Crypto Deposit Addresses, SlowMist Says

The payload grabbed login data on any page that loaded it and rewrote deposit addresses on three trading sites, the security firm said.

October 22, 2026

Starknet Opens Layer 1 Research After 93.5% Poll Vote, Targets Quantum Safety by 2027

StarkWare and the Starknet Foundation will jointly study leaving Ethereum's layer 2 model, though the poll commits Starknet to nothing yet.

October 21, 2026

Project Eleven CEO Calls it ‘a Fact’ that Quantum Labs Are Withholding Results

On Unchained, Alex Pruden said quantum labs told Project Eleven directly that they are not publishing some results to avoid panic, expanding on remarks he made in an Oct. 8 livestream clip.

In Case You Missed it

October 24, 2026

The Chopping Block: Black October, Banks Blocking AI Agents, Hyperliquid’s Blockchain-Not-Bitcoin Moment, and the Visa-Fireblocks Rumor

Rob Hadick guest-hosts in Haseeb’s seat with Tom, Tarun, and Robert. A 48-hour wave of disclosures that security experts are calling Black October hit PHP, Node, Railway, and the Linux kernel, banks from JPMorgan to Schwab start blocking AI agents while Bernie Sanders calls to pause AI, Joe Weisenthal comes around on Hyperliquid, and Visa is rumored to be buying Fireblocks.

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.

For Beginners

wbtc alternatives

September 16, 2024

Top Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Alternatives You Should Know About

Several WBTC alternatives have emerged to bring Bitcoin liquidity to DeFi ecosystems across the cryptoverse. Discover the most prominent ones in this guide.

based rollups

July 3, 2024

What Are Based Rollups and How Do They Work?

Based rollups are an exciting new addition to rollup scaling solutions.

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