Markets

Ether bets were wiped out at six times bitcoin’s rate in crypto’s $1 billion flush

About $356 million in ETH positions were liquidated over 24 hours, more than bitcoin despite ether’s market value being less than a fifth as large. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Oct 9, 2026 • Editorial Desk
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DTC Seeks to Cut Share-Registration Transfers From Days to Minutes

The proposed DRS overhaul would replace batch processing with APIs and automate a transfer step, while still requiring transfer-agent approval.…
Oct 9, 2026
Markets

Abstract’s shutdown exposes the gap between owning assets and being able to move them

Abstract sets a Dec. 15 shutdown, but wallet access, supported routes and settlement determine whether holders can complete an exit.…
Oct 9, 2026
DeFi

XRPL’s $1.34 billion stablecoin base doesn’t tell us how much XRP users need

Fees and reserves require XRP, while larger demand depends on routing choices and the balances held in liquidity or credit…
Oct 9, 2026
Infrastructure

Cantor Fitzgerald faces Senate Democrat’s questions over Tether ties

The letter follows a report by the Democratic investigators last month alleging Tether’s USDT has become a key tool for…
Oct 9, 2026
Infrastructure

Solana’s geographic speed plan trusts validator locations the network cannot verify

Wattenhofer and Kniep’s proposal preserves leader allocations while faster modeled handovers come with longer consecutive-control and regional risks. The post…
Oct 9, 2026
AI

Coinbase Cryptographer Calls Drake's 'Bunker Mode' Warning 'The Very Definition of FUD'

Vitalik Buterin said the risk from AI-accelerated math is real but pointed it at lattices rather than elliptic curves. A…
Oct 8, 2026
Markets

Bitcoin Core’s privacy fix reaches v32 code while the v31 patch remains open

The opt-in private-broadcast repair is merged into 32.x, while the older-branch backport remains open and 31.1 is still the stable…
Oct 8, 2026
Payments

China’s P2P stablecoin wallets surge 43x, Korea’s $450B crypto economy: Asia Express

Despite ongoing bans, China has seen a big surge in peer-to-peer stablecoin use. New figures show South Korea’s $450B crypto…
Oct 8, 2026
AI

AI Startup Manus Raises $500 Million After China Nixed Meta’s $2 Billion Acquisition

Manus built a self-driving AI assistant before the hype, sold itself to Meta, then watched Beijing unwind the deal. Its…
Oct 8, 2026