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Investors yanked $484.9 million out of spot Bitcoin ETFs in a single day. Oil is near $100, bond yields are at their highest since 2002, and the Fed isn’t done hiking.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin thinks the crypto industry needs to make sure encryption is both quantum and AI-resistant.

A government wallet holding Bitcoin seized from the Bitfinex hacker sent 12,267 BTC to a new, unlabeled address, according to Arkham data.

Day traders are selling, leveraged longs are getting flushed and ETF money is heading for the door. The daily chart still holds the line, but its cushion is shrinking.

One self-custodial platform to power Earn, Swaps, Predictions and Perps on Decrypt, as it builds out its financial and intelligence market.

The new Securitize Stocks product launches with 12 names backed one-to-one by real shares—preserving dividends and voting rights—trading first on Solana, with NYSE and OKX-ICE venues planned.

Minecraft in Elden Ring, Skate in Call of Duty, and Spider-Man in Gotham. AI vibe coders are creating crazy video game mashup mods.

Justin Drake is calling for crypto holders to start calmly planning for “Bunker Mode.” But reactions so far haven’t been too calm.

Jonathan Spalletta also spent stolen crypto on a Roman coin marking Julius Caesar’s assassination and moon-flown Wright brothers fabric.

Sony plans to cease physical disc production in 2028. A former PlayStation exec claims it has caused reputational damage.

A draft bill would exempt the first €500 of annual gains, as crypto tax rates across Europe run from Cyprus’s 8% to Italy’s 33%.

Users can send USDC across borders from late October, three months after Samsung teased stablecoin support without naming a blockchain.

OpenAI posted 722 AI-written math manuscripts from an unreleased model, saying most came from a single prompt. Some mathematicians call the claims unverified.

Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged holders to calmly move funds to unused addresses, warning that AI-driven math could break crypto signatures before quantum computers do.

Claude Haiku 5.5 costs about 75% less to run than its predecessor and targets high-volume jobs like summaries and live customer support. It arrives 15 days after Opus 5.5.

The House Financial Services chairman credited the SEC and CFTC for stepping in after the Clarity Act’s collapse but said only “permanent law change” can secure U.S. leadership.

Tether, issuer of the USDT stablecoin, will help Kazakhstan’s central bank study a tenge-pegged token and put real-world assets on a blockchain.

Seoul’s Yoido Full Gospel Church says data on 850,000 members may be compromised, and a security firm found signs AI helped run the attack.

Google’s Playground turns a typed description into a playable, shareable game, no coding required. It’s live for U.S. adults, with creation access tiered by Google AI subscription.

Government-labeled wallets sent 833.6 BTC to Coinbase Prime deposit addresses and shuffled 40,285 BNB. No sale is confirmed, but the stash behind it is the largest any government holds in Arkham’s ranking.

Bitcoin fell sharply as oil topped $101 and the 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest since 2002. The daily chart still leans bullish. The four-hour chart disagrees.

Speaking at Token2049 in Singapore, the chairman said Bitmine is about 100,000 ETH—roughly six to seven weeks—from its 5% cap, setting an end date on a buying spree that made it the world’s largest Ethereum treasury.

Daniel Rhyne locked his company’s IT administrators out of its network and demanded 20 BTC, then worth $750,000, to stop the shutdowns.

OKX raises more, $500M+ in crypto longs liquidated after a late evening selloff, and Abstract calls it quits.

The EU police agency expects blockchains to adapt to the threat, while a second report weighs the risk of data stolen now and cracked later.

The Tornado Cash founder hit back in a tweet, noting FinCEN withdrew a proposed mixer rule over concerns it could chill legitimate activity.

Unveiled at TOKEN2049 Singapore, the Morpho-powered Crypto Loan feature lets users borrow stablecoins against wrapped Bitcoin while keeping private keys and final approval on their hardware device.

Google’s new image model, Nano Banana 2.1, is live. It costs about half as much as its predecessor, but the performance claims come from Google’s own tests.

Nothing in Circle’s posts announces a sponsorship, but replies dug up Khaled’s 2018 SEC settlement over a crypto fraud he promoted. The internet never forgets.

A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos, scraped through the app’s private API in a way TikTok’s terms prohibit. The free dataset also doubles as a storefront.