NEWS

October 16, 2026

Binance’s bStocks Lead Tokenized Stocks After Crossing $1 Billion

The exchange calls its tokenized U.S. equities the fastest to that mark, while rwa.xyz data ranks bStocks first among tokenized stock platforms.

PODCASTS

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.

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Press Releases

October 15, 2026

ChangeNOW Announces NOW AI After Resolving Website Integration Vulnerability

Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 15th October 2026, Chainwire

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Bitcoin

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.

October 16, 2026

Strategy, Metaplanet Face Exit From MSCI Indexes as the Index Provider Adopts New Test

Digital asset treasury companies that fail MSCI’s operating-asset test now face a five-ratio screen, and MSCI’s current list already marks Strategy, Metaplanet and Upexi as possible November deletions.

October 16, 2026

Strive Eyes About $630 Million in Upsized Sale of a New Fixed-Rate Preferred Stock

The bitcoin treasury company priced 7 million shares of its 15% SATS preferred at $90, 2 million more than planned and below the $100 stated amount its dividend is based on.

October 15, 2026

Is Strategy’s STRC Buyback Loop Running Out of Cash?

Strategy has spent $1.6 billion buying STRC back toward $100 and hasn’t sold a new STRC share since May. The cash can be refilled, but STRC isn’t raising money for bitcoin.

Business

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.

October 16, 2026

Binance’s bStocks Lead Tokenized Stocks After Crossing $1 Billion

The exchange calls its tokenized U.S. equities the fastest to that mark, while rwa.xyz data ranks bStocks first among tokenized stock platforms.

October 16, 2026

Ripple Prime Opens 24/7 Swaps on Stocks, Metals and Currencies, With Virtu Already Trading

The new swaps track Trade.xyz perpetual markets on Hyperliquid, with Ripple Prime taking the other side of each trade and accepting RLUSD as collateral.

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.

DeFi

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.”

October 12, 2026

NEAR Intents’ General Manager Says Part of the $3.8 Million Exploit Came Back in Monero

On Unchained, Alex Shevchenko said the rest of the stolen funds had been traded into XMR, which NEAR Intents is now working to convert after refilling its contracts from its own funds.

Ethereum

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.”

October 12, 2026

Tom Lee’s Bitmine Nears 5% of Ether Supply, Trims Weekly Buy to 12,532 ETH

The Ethereum treasury company's weekly purchase shrank for a third straight week, while a lower ether price pulled its total holdings down to $16.2 billion.

October 12, 2026

Ethereum Name Service Team Asks DAO to Switch On ENSv2 and Freeze New .eth Sign-Ups on v1

Under the executable posted to the ENS forum, .eth sign-ups would pause for what Labs expects to be a few hours before reopening on ENSv2, and current names keep working with no action needed.

October 8, 2026

Ethereum Researcher’s ‘Bunker Mode’ Call Sparks Debate Over Whether AI Math Threatens Crypto Keys

Justin Drake urged holders to move funds to unused addresses, while Vitalik Buterin counseled against a scramble and several critics pushed back.

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 16, 2026

Gemini Can’t Shed Its CFTC Consent Order Even With the Agency’s Backing, Judge Rules

Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the CFTC's new enforcement stance and documents Gemini obtained after settling don't justify vacating the 2025 order that carried a $5 million penalty and an injunction.

October 15, 2026

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour Says the Real Choice Is U.S. Prediction Markets or Offshore Ones

Speaking days after the CFTC moved to write event contracts into its swap rules, Mansour also argued that public order flow makes misconduct easier to catch, citing George Santos.

October 15, 2026

HEX Founder Richard Heart Reportedly Taken Into Custody in Turkey at Finland’s Request

Turkish outlets say Heart and his wife were taken into custody in Istanbul on Wednesday, though no official has confirmed it and the reported seizure figures differ.

October 14, 2026

Korean Watchdog Wins Approval to Block KuCoin, MEXC and 25 More Unregistered Crypto Sites

A Korean media regulator's ruling extends the crackdown on unregistered operators from app stores to websites, and the FIU says future blocks will not wait for victim reports or court rulings.

Tech

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.

October 16, 2026

Mark Karpelès Says Ledger Spy Implant Turned Up in Devices From 2 More Authorized Resellers

The Karpelès Lab CEO says he found the implant in a Ledger Flex and a Nano X and that its newest version is built for mass production, while Ledger says German store stock it inspected showed no tampering.

October 16, 2026

Recent Ledger Loss Reports Stem From Panic Scams, Not Tampered Devices, Taylor Monahan Says

The Uneasy Money co-host said the cases she has handled in recent days involve owners who panicked and then fell for bad ads, fake apps, phishing and scam calls.

October 15, 2026

Starknet Opens Its First Vote on Becoming an Independent Post-Quantum Layer 1

STRK stakers and delegators have until Oct. 22 to say whether the Ethereum scaling network should research a move to its own chain, though a "Yes" would not approve the switch itself.

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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