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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.

PODCASTS

October 20, 2026

Why Crypto Is Holding Up as the AI Trade Starts to Crack

The chip index fell 11.4% and the KOSPI had its worst week since 2008, yet Bitcoin finished flat. Coinbase’s John D’Agostino and Agora’s Nick van Eck join the Bits + Bips crew to explain why.

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Episode #1250 | 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 15, 2026

Uneasy Money: Why Ledger’s Supply Chain Became a Nearly $100M Target

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

Episode #1247 | October 14, 2026

Why Crypto Buybacks Are ‘the Wrong Way to Allocate Capital’

October 13, 2026

Is Crypto Security at ‘Max Vulnerability’? Chris Perkins Thinks So

October 10, 2026

The Chopping Block: Live at TOKEN2049 with Balaji Srinivasan and Arthur Hayes on Kazakhstan, Crypto Bunker Mode, and the L2 Shutdowns

Episode #1245 | October 9, 2026

How NEAR Intents Identified a Suspect and Got Its Stolen Funds Back

October 8, 2026

How OpenAI’s Math Dump Has Crypto Rethinking Its Cryptography: Uneasy Money

Episode #1243 | October 6, 2026

THORChain Says It Can’t Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?

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Bitcoin

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.

October 19, 2026

Strive Lifts Bitcoin Holdings to 36,818 BTC Ahead of $700 Million SATS Settlement

The bitcoin treasury company added 1,223 BTC late last week, finishing a 4,045 BTC week, as its new 15% preferred stock heads to settlement on Tuesday.

October 19, 2026

Strategy Raises Its Preferred Buyback Cap to $3 Billion After Another $193 Million STRC Week

Michael Saylor's company spent almost nine times as much buying back STRC shares last week as it did on its 267 new bitcoin.

October 19, 2026

Bitcoin Reclaims $82,000 as Brent Crude Slips From a Five-Month High and Stock Futures Rise

The bounce follows a week of hot U.S. inflation data and $228.6 million in spot bitcoin ETF outflows.

Business

October 20, 2026

Project Eleven Teams With Crypto Insurer Relm to Study Quantum Risk in Underwriting

The exploratory deal makes Relm Insurance a development partner for Project Eleven’s Strongpoint custody product, and neither company announced any change to how policies are priced.

October 20, 2026

OKX Extends Shield Program to U.S. Users With up to $500,000 in Reimbursements

The crypto exchange says customers in its upper VIP tiers can get up to $500,000, while its terms describe Shield as a discretionary goodwill program rather than insurance.

October 20, 2026

Microsoft, Alphabet Bar Their Tokenized Shares From OKX-ICE Venue as Objections Hit 16

An updated notice from the ICE and OKX joint venture shows seven more companies have refused, which under SEC conditions keeps their stock tokens off the planned 24/7 venue.

October 20, 2026

Bitget Reveals It Is Behind the Buyer of GMO Internet’s Licensed Thai Crypto Exchange

A Sept. 24 filing named only a newly formed Bangkok company as the buyer, and the deal still needs Thai regulatory approval, with no price disclosed.

DeFi

October 19, 2026

Hackers Still Hold $287 Million in Stolen Crypto That Can’t Be Frozen, Blockaid Report Says

Across 60 exploits this year, attackers started moving funds a median 17 minutes after a hack, and less than 1% of the $1.18 billion taken had reached victims by September, the security firm found.

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.”

Ethereum

October 20, 2026

Ether.fi Mandates Optimum’s mump2p for All Its Node Operators

The MIT-born startup says 16 node operators now run its mump2p software on Ethereum mainnet for more than 1.4 million ETH in stake, and that blocks arrive faster than over Ethereum's default gossip layer.

October 19, 2026

JPMorgan Picks Ethereum for JPM Coin, Citing the Network’s Liquidity and Client Use

The bank’s dollar deposit token, which debuted on Base last year, is aimed at large crypto firms and financial institutions, a JPMorgan blockchain executive told Bloomberg.

October 19, 2026

Bitmine’s Holdings Value Falls to $15.1 Billion Even as Its Ether Stash Keeps Growing

Tom Lee's Ethereum treasury company kept its weekly buying near last week's pace while a lower ether price cut the value of its combined holdings for a second straight week.

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.”

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 20, 2026

Blockworks Asks SEC to Make Token Projects Disclose Market-Maker Deals and Promoter Payments

In a comment letter on Regulation Crypto Assets, Blockworks said it wants line items from its own disclosure framework written into the rules, plus a new kind of SEC-recognized filing agent.

October 20, 2026

French Lawmakers Back Tax on Crypto-to-Stablecoin Swaps by a Single Vote

An amendment to France's 2027 budget passed the National Assembly 38 to 37 on Oct. 16, but it still has to survive the rest of the budget process before any swap into a stablecoin is taxed.

October 20, 2026

Switzerland’s FINMA Lets Retail Investors Into a Bitcoin-Only Fund for the First Time

The Swiss regulator cleared a retail exchange-traded fund that holds bitcoin directly, without naming the fund or its issuer, and warned that the investment remains highly risky.

October 20, 2026

Blockchain Association Asks Treasury to Narrow GENIUS Act Rule on Who Can Sell Stablecoins

The industry group wants Treasury to require actual knowledge before a firm can be tied to an unlawful stablecoin issuance, and to keep traders, validators and DeFi tools outside the rule.

Tech

October 19, 2026

Charles Hoskinson Reveals Work on a Cardano Programming Language Using Groth16 Proofs

The Cardano founder is writing the language with Lucas Rosa, a co-creator of the Aiken smart contract language, and has not shared a name, code or launch timeline.

October 19, 2026

Zcash Builder Zakura Proposes Per-Swap Viewing Keys to Close a Quantum Privacy Gap

The design, still in review, would give each shielded address posted during a NEAR Intents swap its own key, so a future quantum attacker who breaks one sees only that swap.

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.

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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