NEWS

October 30, 2026

Binance Pegs Hot-Wallet Losses at $6.3 Billion, Vows to Cover Them as TRM Points to North Korea

The exchange says a compromised engineer’s laptop may be to blame and expects withdrawals back within 48 hours; ZachXBT says the loot crossed paths with Bitget exploit funds at one address.

PODCASTS

October 29, 2026

Bitcoin’s Price May Have Bottomed. One Reason Is the AI Debasement Trade

Galaxy’s Alex Thorn argues Bitcoin bottomed in late June. While macro funds exit, sovereign wealth funds buy and AI pushes debasement, he says now makes a good entry point.

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Bitcoin

October 30, 2026

Franklin Templeton’s Dividend-to-Bitcoin ETFs Open on Nasdaq With About $72,000 in Trades

FBEQ and FIBT, which first traded on Thursday, build their bitcoin slice from dividends and reach it through ETPs, derivatives and depositary receipts rather than holding bitcoin directly, per their prospectuses.

October 30, 2026

Strategy Sold 5,552 Bitcoin and Bought 7,218 in Q3 as a $20.9 Billion Markup Drove Profit

Strategy’s third-quarter operating income came entirely from marking up its bitcoin, and CFO Andrew Kang is leaving Nov. 5.

October 29, 2026

Bitcoin’s Price May Have Bottomed. One Reason Is the AI Debasement Trade

Galaxy’s Alex Thorn argues Bitcoin bottomed in late June. While macro funds exit, sovereign wealth funds buy and AI pushes debasement, he says now makes a good entry point.

October 29, 2026

Galaxy’s Alex Thorn Says Bitcoin Held Near $80,000 Because Hedge Funds Had Already Sold

Galaxy's research chief pointed to 13F data showing trading-driven hedge funds and bank desks had already pared their spot bitcoin ETF positions by June.

Business

October 30, 2026

Canton Strategic Holdings Moves to Tokenize Its Own Shares Under the SEC’s New Exemption

With Fairmint set to mint the tokens for the company, tokenized CNTN shares could begin trading on TSV LLC's Canton venue, which has not yet opened, on Nov. 2 at the earliest.

October 30, 2026

Polymarket Reviews Dozens of New Wallets Behind Well-Timed Israel Election Bets: Report

Hundreds of new accounts backed Netanyahu and his Likud party shortly before polls closed on Oct. 27, and some have already cashed out over $100,000 combined, according to Bloomberg.

October 30, 2026

Coinbase Says Prediction Markets Are Now a $200 Million-a-Year Business Despite a Slow Crypto Quarter

Mark-to-market gains in Coinbase’s own crypto investment portfolio lifted GAAP profit to $719 million, more than nine times the $78 million adjusted figure.

October 30, 2026

Binance Pegs Hot-Wallet Losses at $6.3 Billion, Vows to Cover Them as TRM Points to North Korea

The exchange says a compromised engineer’s laptop may be to blame and expects withdrawals back within 48 hours; ZachXBT says the loot crossed paths with Bitget exploit funds at one address.

DeFi

October 30, 2026

Jupiter Lend’s $414 Million USDC Vault Still Has Almost Nothing Free to Withdraw

Jupiter blames broader market conditions and says cash will free up as loans are paid down or fresh money comes in, but it has given no timeline.

October 29, 2026

zkLink Nova Goes Offline After Hacker Steals More Than $780,000 From Its Bridge

zkLink, the team behind Nova, said Thursday it had halted the network, patched the affected contracts and switched off withdrawals, after security firms said an attacker faked withdrawal approvals to drain funds from its bridge to Ethereum.

October 28, 2026

Flash-Loan Attacker Drains About $1 Million in USDC From Avalanche-Based Tranche Vault

Security firm Blockaid says the attacker used borrowed funds to mint inflated shares and cash out the USDC held by a vault it said was related to Valinor Digital and Fence.

October 27, 2026

Hyperliquid Tests Access Controls, and Kraken’s Parent Wants to Use Them

An optional onchain allowlist is available on Hyperliquid’s testnet, and Payward wants to be the first CFTC-regulated firm to run markets with it through its own units, pending regulatory approval.

Ethereum

October 27, 2026

Ethereum Developers Merge Glamsterdam Fix to Keep Validator Deposits Out of Builder Accounts

The change keeps validator deposits pending at the Gloas fork from being credited to a builder that shares the same key, a scenario its author called a conditional finding, not a live exploit.

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.

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 30, 2026

Binance Turns Up in India’s $500 Million-Plus Crypto Probe as a Route for Foreign Payouts

India’s foreign-exchange enforcer says it searched four premises in Bengaluru and Madhya Pradesh on Oct. 27 over more than ₹5,000 crore in crypto transfers that it says crossed India’s borders without authorization.

October 30, 2026

KuCoin Pulls All Products From Users in Russia and Belarus, Effective Immediately

KuCoin's notice named no rule behind the cutoff. The same day, Russia's central bank said registered crypto exchange operators have 90 days to join a newly approved self-regulator.

October 30, 2026

Israel Extradites Nomad Suspect After Supreme Court Rejected His Code-Bug Defense

Alexander Block, who lost his fight against extradition at Israel's Supreme Court, now faces an eight-count federal indictment in California over the August 2022 Nomad hack.

October 30, 2026

SEC Says $130 Million Crypto Scheme Used the Agency’s Own Databases to Look Registered

The agency's complaint says BG Wealth and DSJ Exchange pointed investors to their own SEC filings and to fake certificates bearing its seal, then blocked withdrawals and demanded a "tax" to unlock accounts.

Tech

October 30, 2026

Blockchain Data Firm Allium Says Every Chain Passed Checks After Security Incident

Allium says its warehouse data has passed verification checks for every chain five days after it found unauthorized access to its systems, but it has not said how that access happened or what it reached.

October 30, 2026

Trezor Treats One Report of an Implanted CryptoBilis Safe 5 as Credible Before Examining It

Four CryptoBilis-bought Trezors checked so far showed no tampering, and the company is asking anyone who bought from the reseller since March to move to a new seed.

October 29, 2026

Singapore Police Link S$3.5 Million in Losses to Ledger Wallets Bought From Local Stores

Preliminary findings point to malicious hardware inside Ledger devices sold at some Singapore retailers, and police say Ledger is reviewing the cases.

October 27, 2026

Why America’s New Cyber Privateers Can’t Go After North Korea

Can the US fight AI-powered hackers and North Korea by deputizing its private sector? Two government veterans explain why the answer is yes and no.

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.

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