Friday, 30 October 2026
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France’s National Assembly Finance Committee voted this week to tax crypto holders who swap into stablecoins—tokens tied to a single official currency, such as the dollar or the euro—and to charge an exit tax on wealthy…
“We’re ready to bring quantum resistance to mainnet at any time,” Sun said in a post on X.
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) disclosed two software vulnerabilities on October 9, 2026, including a critical bug that could have allowed attackers to create new, spendable XRP. The second flaw affected the networkâs Batch tr…
Activity on Robinhood's blockchain is slowing sharply, even as more than $1 billion remains deposited in applications on the network and the brokerage continues paying certain transaction fees for customers.
Trumpâs Russia diesel deal puts US crude oilâs $90 level at risk ahead of Mondayâs session.
The largest cryptocurrency has recorded 10 days in 2026 when its price moved at least three standard deviations from its recent trading pattern, according to a CoinDesk analysis. That's more than the eight such days rec…
The round follows increased international demand for Meanwhile’s Bitcoin life insurance policies amid broader macro instability.
The agreement resolves a 2023 civil fraud lawsuit against the Celsius founder and permanently bars him from the cryptocurrency, securities and commodities industries.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is making its pursuit of exclusive prediction markets authority a formal effort, putting a new definition in place on Friday and proposing other changes that collectively se…
Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies are privately rehearsing how to handle the public and political backlash after a catastrophic AI event, according to an Axios report published Friday.
The crypto company has reportedly applied for two licenses with the US commodities regulatory as the courts weigh prediction markets cases.
The Ethereum price stands at $2,598 on Wednesday morning, 3.9 percent below the previous day, while the US spot ETFs report a sixth consecutive trading day of net outflows. This article shows which levels below still ho…
The technical trial showed how AI agents could discover services and make micropayments using HSBC’s tokenized deposits, with real-time settlement and risk checks.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal is asking Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald to hand over records on its business relationship with Tether, the issuer of USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin—the dollar-pegged digital asset that…
Bitcoin and crypto markets eyed a recovery from Thursday’s drop despite concerns of another hardware wallet exploit.
Two companies tied to crypto market maker DWF Labs have taken BitGo to court, alleging the custodian dumped locked-up tokens early and tanked their value, in a $141 million dispute now before London’s High Court.
The crypto markets are breathing today, with the total capitalization up 2.1% to $2.89 trillion on Friday. The bounce recovers only part of the damage, since the market stood above $3 trillion a week ago, when Bitcoin w…
Wealthy investors are embracing crypto faster than their advisers, while OKX attracts new funding and Strategy shifts more capital toward preferred stock buybacks.
Robinhood Chain, the popular Layer-2 blockchain tailor-made for tokenized real-world financial assets, is evaluating a transaction-ordering system that would allow users to pay a fee to prioritize certain trades, accord…
Blockchain.com is making a bid to join the U.S. prediction-market boom, telling CNBC it has applied to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for licenses to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives to Ame…
Chad Barraford, technical co-founder of the network, said that the funds were frozen and then unfrozen without explanation.
Holders realized over $3.3 billion more in profits than losses from October 2â8.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said Friday she secured up to $35 million from former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky and a permanent ban preventing him from working in the securities, commodities or cryptocurrency i…
Starknet, the Ethereum scaling network built by StarkWare, said it is weighing a move to become its own blockchain.