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October 29, 2026

Stan Druckenmiller Confirms Trade.xyz Stake, Says He Plans to Use Its Hyperliquid Perps

Druckenmiller said he is “excited” to back trade.xyz, whose ICE-run U.S. market for 24/7 perpetual futures still needs regulatory approval.

PODCASTS

October 29, 2026

Bitcoin’s Price May Have Bottomed. One Reason Is the AI Debasement Trade

Galaxy’s Alex Thorn argues Bitcoin bottomed in late June. While macro funds exit, sovereign wealth funds buy and AI pushes debasement, he says now makes a good entry point.

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Bitcoin

October 29, 2026

Bitcoin’s Price May Have Bottomed. One Reason Is the AI Debasement Trade

Galaxy’s Alex Thorn argues Bitcoin bottomed in late June. While macro funds exit, sovereign wealth funds buy and AI pushes debasement, he says now makes a good entry point.

October 29, 2026

Galaxy’s Alex Thorn Says Bitcoin Held Near $80,000 Because Hedge Funds Had Already Sold

Galaxy's research chief pointed to 13F data showing trading-driven hedge funds and bank desks had already pared their spot bitcoin ETF positions by June.

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.

Business

October 29, 2026

Stan Druckenmiller Confirms Trade.xyz Stake, Says He Plans to Use Its Hyperliquid Perps

Druckenmiller said he is “excited” to back trade.xyz, whose ICE-run U.S. market for 24/7 perpetual futures still needs regulatory approval.

October 29, 2026

Binance Says User Funds Are ‘Completely Safe’ After $3.5 Billion Drains From Its Hot Wallets

Binance says “user funds are completely safe” as Unchained’s own count shows about $3.5 billion left wallets Etherscan labels as Binance’s, on Ethereum alone.

October 29, 2026

Westpac to Limit How Much Customers Can Send to Crypto Exchanges, With No Exceptions

Australia's Westpac says that from Dec. 1 it may reject payments to the crypto exchanges it identifies once a customer has sent A$10,000 in a calendar month, and it will stop supporting them in branches.

October 29, 2026

Polymarket Resumes Trading, Vows to Reimburse Traders After Third-Party Provider Compromise

Polymarket has not put a number on Thursday’s losses, which outside estimates based on blockchain data put at about $2.2 million to $2.65 million.

DeFi

October 29, 2026

zkLink Nova Goes Offline After Hacker Steals More Than $780,000 From Its Bridge

zkLink, the team behind Nova, said Thursday it had halted the network, patched the affected contracts and switched off withdrawals, after security firms said an attacker faked withdrawal approvals to drain funds from its bridge to Ethereum.

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.

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 29, 2026

Coinbase Files to Keep Operating Under Brazil’s New Crypto Rules

Starting Nov. 6, Brazilian banks and payment firms can't carry out crypto operations with providers that aren't authorized, and the amended rule no longer exempts firms still awaiting a decision.

October 29, 2026

HTX Gives the High Court a Five-Year Pledge on UK Crypto Promotions as FCA Case Settles

HTX, formerly Huobi, had already posted an Oct. 16 notice keeping UK accounts restricted, 11 days before a consent order stayed the regulator's lawsuit under a confidential deal with no admission of liability.

October 29, 2026

Walmart, Eli Lilly and Cigna File Objections to ICE and OKX’s Tokenized Stock Venue

The joint venture's Oct. 28 notice adds Walmart, Eli Lilly, Cigna, Carnival and Arcos Dorados to the companies that don't want their shares traded on its tokenized stock venue.

October 29, 2026

Kalshi Slapped With Criminal Charges in Utah Over a State Agent’s Sports Wagers

State prosecutors say an investigator kept betting from Utah after federal courts refused to pause the state’s gambling ban, days after the CFTC sued to stop Utah’s case.

Tech

October 29, 2026

Singapore Police Link S$3.5 Million in Losses to Ledger Wallets Bought From Local Stores

Preliminary findings point to malicious hardware inside Ledger devices sold at some Singapore retailers, and police say Ledger is reviewing the cases.

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.

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

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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.

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What Are Based Rollups and How Do They Work?

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