NEWS

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.

PODCASTS

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.

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Bitcoin

October 23, 2026

Bitcoin Core Rewrites Security Policy as LLMs Make Some Bugs Easy to Rediscover

Bitcoin Core will now release fixes and security advisories quickly for bugs a simple LLM prompt could find, rather than holding them for as long as approximately a year under its severity rules.

October 21, 2026

JPMorgan Asset Management Sets a 10% Base Case for Bitcoin, Still Sees No Clear Portfolio Role

The firm’s 2027 long-term return outlook gives bitcoin a range of outcomes for the first time, while its authors call BTC a speculative asset that does not yet work as a diversifier.

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.

October 20, 2026

BlackRock Files for Bitcoin ETF That Trades Capped Gains for a 10% Loss Floor

The proposed iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF would use options on IBIT to limit each tranche’s starting loss to about 10%, in exchange for a ceiling on gains.

Business

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.

October 23, 2026

Ali Yahya Is Leaving a16z as Its Crypto Arm Becomes ‘a16z Frontier’ and Opens to AI

The general partner confirmed Thursday evening that he will start a company, hours after Chris Dixon said the firm's newest crypto fund can now back AI and other frontier startups.

October 23, 2026

CoinDCX Absorbs Losses, Credits Users After Failed Sweep of Hacked Deposit Addresses

The Indian exchange said the routine sweep of deposits landing on addresses it deprecated after its July 2025 hack broke down, and that it absorbed the losses.

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 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.

October 21, 2026

Fhenix Goes Live on Ethereum and Arbitrum, Letting Contracts Compute on Hidden Balances

The privacy startup said its encryption coprocessor is now in production with dual-mode tokens and two launch apps, and that Consensys Diligence audited the system.

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 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.

October 23, 2026

SEC Examiners Set Sights on Tokenization at Clearing Agencies for Fiscal 2027

The exam division's new staff document names tokenization as one of the "high-risk areas" in clearing-agency exams and an emerging trend in market-systems reviews. Neither the 2025 nor the 2026 edition mentioned it.

October 23, 2026

New York Asks Court for a $1.37 Billion Judgment Against NovaTech’s Founders

Four promoters have agreed to pay about $6 million for victims of the crypto scheme, and neither the attorney general's filing nor its release says how money would be recovered from Cynthia and Eddy Petion.

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 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.

For Beginners

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Top Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Alternatives You Should Know About

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