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Foundation Says Passport Is Safe but the Emails Changed the Threat
Foundation Says Passport Is Safe but the Emails Changed the Threat

Foundation says its Passport Bitcoin hardware wallets were not compromised after attackers gained backend access and sent phishing emails that appeared legitimate. The company revoked its API keys, re

26 Oct 2026
Ethereum's $1.18 Billion ETF Exit Has One Name All Over It
Ethereum's $1.18 Billion ETF Exit Has One Name All Over It

U.S. spot Ethereum funds have lost $1.176 billion in October through October 23, but the headline is less broad than it looks: $1.029 billion, or 87.5%, came from BlackRock's ETHA, according to Farsid

25 Oct 2026
EBA Wants MiCA at DeFi's Front Door and the Gateway Is the Target
EBA Wants MiCA at DeFi's Front Door and the Gateway Is the Target

The European Banking Authority is not asking Brussels to police every smart contract. Its September 24 response to the MiCA review points instead at the regulated firms that make DeFi lending easy to

22 Oct 2026
Solana Halved Its Slot Clock but SOL Is Pricing a Different Story
Solana Halved Its Slot Clock but SOL Is Pricing a Different Story

Solana completed the final stage of SIMD-0525 on October 9, cutting its target slot time from 400 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds without a reported network incident. That doubles the cadence of bloc

11 Oct 2026
XRP Ledger's $1.33 Billion Stablecoin Surge Has a Catch
XRP Ledger's $1.33 Billion Stablecoin Surge Has a Catch

XRP Ledger stablecoin supply touched roughly $1.33 billion on October 3 after a 14.57% seven-day jump, putting the network within about $60 million of Plasma and Avalanche. The headline looks like a c

04 Oct 2026
XRP ETFs Lost $37 Million but Only $3.28 Million Left
XRP ETFs Lost $37 Million but Only $3.28 Million Left

U.S. spot XRP funds ended October 2 with $1.658 billion in assets after a $37 million one-day drop, yet only $3.28 million was redeemed and all of it came from Bitwise. Based on SoSoValue's XRP ETF da

03 Oct 2026
Variational Revealed VAR Tokenomics but Not the Number Traders Need
Variational Revealed VAR Tokenomics but Not the Number Traders Need

Variational has set the VAR token generation event for Q4 2026 and assigned 32% of total supply to a genesis airdrop that will be fully unlocked for points holders at launch. That is the allocation ai

24 Sep 2026
Ethereum Put Quantum Security on a Clock but Hegotá Comes First
Ethereum Put Quantum Security on a Clock but Hegotá Comes First

Ethereum has turned quantum resistance from distant research into a dated protocol commitment. The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster now aims to make the network's execution, consensus and data l

23 Sep 2026
SEC Cleared Tokenized Stocks but Crypto Treasury Bulls May Be Early
SEC Cleared Tokenized Stocks but Crypto Treasury Bulls May Be Early

The SEC has delivered the regulatory catalyst B. Riley is citing: on September 17 it granted a five year exemption for permissioned, onchain trading of tokenized U.S. stocks. B. Riley then raised targ

23 Sep 2026
Binance Is Back Under the Iran Spotlight But This Time the Question Is Different
Binance Is Back Under the Iran Spotlight But This Time the Question Is Different

Binance is reportedly back under U.S. criminal scrutiny over Iran linked trading, but the market relevant issue is not simply whether prosecutors can build another sanctions case. The investigation, r

23 Sep 2026
Coinbase Put a Clock on Bitcoin Loans and the Risk Moved
Coinbase Put a Clock on Bitcoin Loans and the Risk Moved

Coinbase has added fixed rate, fixed term USDC loans against Bitcoin through Morpho Midnight, giving users an alternative to open ended variable borrowing. The headline sounds like simpler credit. The

23 Sep 2026
Kinetiq Opens Elysium Testnet but Hyperliquid's Edge Comes Later
Kinetiq Opens Elysium Testnet but Hyperliquid's Edge Comes Later

Kinetiq switched on the public Elysium testnet on September 22, moving its Hyperliquid focused Layer 2 from a design thesis into a live developer network. The immediate consequence is bigger than anot

23 Sep 2026
Coldcard White Hats Saved 52 BTC-Now Victims Must Prove It's Theirs
Coldcard White Hats Saved 52 BTC-Now Victims Must Prove It's Theirs

White-hat operators have consolidated 52.37 BTC linked to July's Coldcard exploit into a recovery-trust address, according to Galaxy Digital research head Alex Thorn. Confirmed in Bitcoin block 967,94

22 Sep 2026
Circle Routes Bitcoin-Backed USDC Loans Through DeFi, Not Its Balance Sheet
Circle Routes Bitcoin-Backed USDC Loans Through DeFi, Not Its Balance Sheet

Circle has opened Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing to eligible Circle Mint clients, letting institutions deposit BTC, mint cirBTC, post it to Morpho and receive borrowed USDC back inside Mint on Arc or

22 Sep 2026
Solana ETF Flows Beat Bitcoin and Ether, but One Fund Dominates
Solana ETF Flows Beat Bitcoin and Ether, but One Fund Dominates

Solana won last week's ETF flow comparison against Bitcoin and Ether, but the victory is narrower than the headline suggests. U.S. products tied to SOL absorbed $60.7 million in the five sessions thro

20 Sep 2026