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October 27, 2026

Binance Shuts Brazilians Out of New Loans and Margin Ahead of a Licensing Deadline

The exchange says it applied to Brazil's central bank last Friday, days before an Oct. 30 deadline, as Brazilian users lose access to eight products and 22 tokens on Tuesday.

PODCASTS

October 27, 2026

How AI Agents Are Exposing a Bank Business Model Built on ‘Laziness’

Banks are blocking AI agents in the name of safety. Jim Bianco asks who they are really protecting, and what $4 trillion in zero-yield deposits has to do with it.

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Bitcoin

October 27, 2026

Jason Calacanis Predicts a ‘Brutal Year’ for Bitcoin, Urges Holders to Shift to AI

The early Uber investor predicted more ETF outflows and a retest of a “57k low” within a year.

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.

Business

October 27, 2026

SoFi Keeps About a Penny of Every Dollar of Crypto Revenue

The digital bank's third-quarter release shows nearly all of its crypto transaction revenue offset by a matching cost line, and it doesn't break out other crypto spending.

October 27, 2026

Robinhood Logs a Record 16.4 Billion Event Contracts and Adds a 14th $100 Million Business Line

Diluted earnings per share of $0.51 fell short of forecasts, while crypto revenue rose 20% from the prior quarter to $120 million but was down 55% from a year earlier.

October 27, 2026

Galaxy Books $323 Million Q3 Profit as Its Own Investments Rebound

Galaxy's Treasury & Corporate segment produced $419 million of its $569 million in adjusted gross profit, while the Digital Assets business posted a small adjusted EBITDA loss.

October 27, 2026

Janus Henderson Launches Onchain Nasdaq-100 Fund With Centrifuge, Exclusively on Stellar

The fund, JQQQ, is issued directly on a public blockchain under a Nasdaq license and is closed to U.S. persons, but the announcement did not disclose a fee rate or minimum investment.

DeFi

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.

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.

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 27, 2026

Binance Shuts Brazilians Out of New Loans and Margin Ahead of a Licensing Deadline

The exchange says it applied to Brazil's central bank last Friday, days before an Oct. 30 deadline, as Brazilian users lose access to eight products and 22 tokens on Tuesday.

October 27, 2026

Ex-CFTC Chair Calls White House Plan Letting Firms Hack Cybercriminals ‘Just About Right’

The former CFTC chairman, who proposed reviving letters of marque against crypto hackers in 2025, said on Unchained that the White House's narrower, government-run program is "a very mature, thoughtful document."

October 27, 2026

CFTC Asks Federal Judge to Halt Utah’s Kalshi Gambling Case

The federal government asked a judge in Utah to halt the state’s pending case against Kalshi, making Utah the tenth state the derivatives regulator has taken legal action against.

October 27, 2026

Polymarket Faces Renewed CFTC Probe Over Whether It Broke 2022 Settlement: Report

Investigators are reportedly examining how Polymarket checked where its users were, how it marketed in the US and how its newer US platform onboards customers.

Tech

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.

October 27, 2026

Hidden Code in Udesk Chat Script Swaps Crypto Deposit Addresses, SlowMist Says

The payload grabbed login data on any page that loaded it and rewrote deposit addresses on three trading sites, the security firm said.

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.

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

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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?

Based rollups are an exciting new addition to rollup scaling solutions.

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