When the dollar becomes a weapon, the sanctioned build their own financial plumbing. Russia's largest bank Sberbank secured both custody and exchange licenses under the country's new crypto law, obtaining exchange status on Oct. 12 after receiving digital depository approval six days earlier
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While most security researchers lock their doors when quantum computers loom, one project is handing out lockpicks to an army of AI agents and daring them to break in first.
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The Fed's ghost just nuked $2.4 billion in leveraged Bitcoin bets, and the real massacre might be what's left standing.
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When you lock tokens in someone else's vault, you're betting their smart contract is smarter than every attacker on Earth. A hacker drained $86,000 from UNCX's shared Ethereum vesting pool, pulling out five different tokens that belonged to various projects using the service
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The hottest AI companies won't go public for years, but their shares might trade on-chain next month. L2 Capital, a Hong Kong investment firm, partnered with Newton Labs to tokenize $500 million in pre-IPO shares of AI companies
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Stripe just gave AI agents a way to spend money on a blockchain most people forgot existed. Ripple partnered with Privy, the Stripe-owned wallet provider, to bring embedded wallets and AI agent payments to the XRP Ledger.
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While tech stocks crater and Korean chipmakers bleed out over AI spending fears, bitcoin is holding its ground—a rare divergence that says more about digital assets than traditional risk-on correlations.
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Solana's about to change what "fast" means, and the fallout might confuse everyone watching transaction counts. Anza has scheduled Solana's Alpenglow upgrade for October 21, targeting 150-millisecond transaction finality through a complete overhaul of the validator voting system.
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The company racing to build AGI wants to buy the firm that's been auditing crypto's plumbing since before most people knew what a smart contract was. OpenAI is in acquisition talks with Trail of Bits, a cybersecurity firm known primarily for crypto protocol and smart contract audits
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Privacy on public blockchains has been theater — now Starknet is building the curtain. StarkWare launched Shadow Accounts on Starknet, letting apps hold DeFi positions under separate, persistent identities that can't be linked back to your main wallet
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Coinbase just turned Base into a bank that doesn't need bankers. Base launched "Earn & Borrow", embedding Aave and Morpho lending protocols directly into Layer 2 apps Apps can now offer variable-rate stablecoin lending and crypto-backed loans without users leaving their interface
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The marketplace that was supposed to save NFTs is shutting down its doors, and the timing says everything you need to know about speculative infrastructure built on sand.
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The last major holdout in TradFi just admitted crypto isn't just an asset to hold, it's an asset that works. Interactive Brokers launched Ethereum staking through infrastructure provider Zerohash, bringing yield-bearing crypto products to its traditional investor base
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The world's most sanctioned major economy just gave its biggest bank the keys to Bitcoin trading. Russia's central bank approved Sberbank for crypto exchange operations on Oct. 12, six days after granting it digital depository status under the country's new crypto law
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The instruments that were supposed to legitimize crypto just watched $1.22 billion walk out the door in seven days. Spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs bled $1.22 billion in net outflows in a single week, marking the worst performance since the products launched
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The marketplace that killed creator royalties to win the NFT wars is now dead itself, and the artists it crushed are raising a glass. Blur is shutting down its website November 12 after monthly trading volumes collapsed 99% from a $1.43 billion peak in 2023 to under $7 million
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The crypto leverage machine just ate $2.4 billion in a single day, and the real story isn't the liquidations — it's what traders aren't doing next. Bitcoin dropped below $82,000, triggering $2.4 billion in long liquidations within 24 hours — the largest liquidation event since early June 2026
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A publicly traded company just cornered 5% of the world's second-largest crypto asset, signaled it's done buying, and its chairman thinks this setup could fuel the biggest bull run crypto has ever seen.
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The MicroStrategy playbook just got a new token, and Wall Street is pricing it immediately. Evernorth debuted on Nasdaq as the first pure-play XRP treasury company, shares up 5% on opening print
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When a single company controls nearly 5% of the second-largest crypto asset and announces it's almost done buying, that's not accumulation — that's a declaration. Bitmine added 12,532 ETH last week, pushing its treasury to 6.03 million tokens — 4.9% of Ethereum's total supply, with 84% staked.
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