Unchained

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.

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.

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.

On Unchained, Biden called the accusations against him “a speed bump” next to the Trump family’s dealings, including World Liberty Financial, and said the TRUMP memecoin took money from Trump’s own supporters.

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.

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

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.

Bitget lost $388 million — and days later, CEO Gracy Chen says scammers posing as a major investment team targeted her.

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.

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.

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.

MetaMask says it has found no immediate threat to its wallets, and Lido says stETH holders don’t need to do anything while the validators exit over the next week.

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.

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.

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.

The 760-page proposal would also let state trust companies act as crypto custodians, with public comments open for 60 days after it is published in the Federal Register.

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.

EU regulators are questioning Binance’s use of the reverse solicitation exemption after it failed to win a MiCA license, the Financial Times reported.

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

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.

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.

Zcash and NEAR are both ripping this week, and Illia Polosukhin and Mert Mumtaz say privacy is the reason why. Is this how the “Bitcoin DeFi” vision comes true?