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October 26, 2026

Canada’s Stablecoin Draft Allows Usage Rewards, Bars Issuers Paying Yield via Third Parties

Proposed regulations from Canada's Department of Finance, open for comment until Dec. 23, also cap redemption fees at 1% and target a fall 2027 start.

PODCASTS

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.

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Bitcoin

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.

October 26, 2026

Malicious Electrum Servers Steal Bitcoin by Baiting Users Into Fee Bumps

Electrum users on any version before 4.8.3 who connect to public servers should upgrade to 4.8.3, which shipped Oct. 24 after at least one user lost funds to the attack.

October 26, 2026

Bitcoin Briefly Dips Below $80,000 as AI Worries Weigh on Asian Stocks Before the Fed Decides

Bitcoin is down about 4% from Thursday as stocks fall in Seoul and Tokyo and traders look to Wednesday’s rate call under Fed Chair Kevin Warsh.

Business

October 26, 2026

Keystone Says Intruder Took Customer Names and Addresses From Its Website

Keystone said names, addresses and order details were exposed but not payment data or recovery phrases, while its own published policies describe its 180-day shipping-data deletion in differing terms.

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 23, 2026

Initia Has No Restart Date After Attacker Mints Tokens and Bridges Out $2.7 Million

Co-founder Zon's preliminary read points to a MoveVM flaw, while D2 Finance traced the payouts to LayerZero adapters on Ethereum.

October 23, 2026

Phantom Starts a Staged US Launch of In-Wallet Prediction Markets

Trades run through Kalshi accounts that users open or link inside the wallet, with each contract carrying two cents in trading fees.

DeFi

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."

October 22, 2026

PaperTrade Attracted $140M, Then Changed the Rules. Was It a Bait and Switch?

Traders tried to lose money fast to earn PAPER. Now the token may never be transferable, and one tracker shows staking revenue fell 93% in a day.

October 21, 2026

Aerodrome and Velodrome Merge Into Aero, Sending All Exchange Revenue to AERO Stakers

The combined exchange went live on seven networks including Ethereum, Arbitrum and Robinhood Chain, and lets stakers steer its liquidity rewards toward the markets they expect to earn fees.

Ethereum

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.

October 22, 2026

Ethereum Scraps Glamsterdam’s Hoodi Fork After ChainSecurity Flags Gas Risks

Developers pulled the Oct. 26 testnet activation days ahead of time. The upgrade's early-December mainnet candidates had depended on that test going smoothly.

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 26, 2026

South Korean Officials Lean Toward Delaying Crypto Tax Until 2029: Report

A presidential office official said talks are moving toward a postponement, and a government official expects a final decision in late November or early December.

October 26, 2026

Netanyahu Floats Blockchain as a Sanctions Workaround; Israel’s Central Bank Objects

A day before Israelis vote, the prime minister’s call for a sanctions-proof economy that leans partly on blockchain has drawn objections from the Bank of Israel, more than 100 economists and his election rivals.

October 23, 2026

Singapore’s BLOOM Adds Malaysian and Thai Central Banks, but MAS Names No Token

Mastercard, Airwallex and the World Bank Group are among the newcomers, though MAS's release leaves out any stablecoin, pilot or launch date.

October 23, 2026

Judge Shuts LIBRA Case Against Javier Milei, Ruling the Memecoin Facts Fit No Crime

Siding with prosecutor Eduardo Taiano, Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi cleared all 11 people under investigation, Kelsier's Hayden Davis included. The order is not yet final.

Tech

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.

October 21, 2026

Are You Already Using a Crypto Wallet Without Knowing It? Fireblocks Says Yes

Itai Turbahn, VP of Embedded Wallets at Fireblocks, says close to 100% of his recent conversations are with non-crypto companies, as firms like Western Union and Papaya Global move money on stablecoins behind the scenes.

October 21, 2026

How Crypto Can Survive If AI or Quantum Computers Break Its Cryptography

Justin Drake says crypto should brace for AI breaking elliptic curves before Q-Day. Project Eleven’s Alex Pruden and Conor Deegan weigh in on what’s at risk.

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.

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July 3, 2024

What Are Based Rollups and How Do They Work?

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