October 22, 2026
Are You Sure Your USDC Rewards Are Safe?
The OCC’s new stablecoin rule leaves Coinbase’s 3.75% USDC rewards open to challenge. Coinbase’s own filings show what losing them would actually cost.
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The OCC’s new stablecoin rule leaves Coinbase’s 3.75% USDC rewards open to challenge. Coinbase’s own filings show what losing them would actually cost.
Dubai’s crypto regulator now lists an active license for the exchange’s local entity. In 2024, its register showed a pending license of the same type under a different reference number.
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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.
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.
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.
Some Kalshi Prime clients will be able to fund margin on the prediction market’s perpetual futures with loans from a lending affiliate, secured by crypto in BitGo custody, the company reportedly said in a statement.
The Coinbase Institutional strategy head said on Bits + Bips that the figure, which he did not define, is growing and that Binance is doing “multiples” of it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dubai’s crypto regulator now lists an active license for the exchange’s local entity. In 2024, its register showed a pending license of the same type under a different reference number.
At a White House cybercrime roundtable, the president claimed $1.6 billion in prevented losses, while the Justice Department’s strike force lists $938.5 million in crypto restrained as of Oct. 15.
A Tianjin court opened a six-month notice period in prosecutors’ bid to forfeit Qian Zhimin’s bitcoin, a day after London’s High Court held that Chinese law applies to whether victims have rights in the coins.
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.
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.
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.
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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