Ledger asks resellers to halt sales in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong
The wallet maker requested that devices be removed from shelves while investigators work to establish where tampering occurred.
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Strive raising $500 million to buy additional bitcoin with new preferred share class
SATS will offer a fixed 15% dividend yield at par and be junior to the company’s existing SATA, which pays a variable rate (currently 13%).
BNY, Citadel Securities test tokenized U.S. Treasuries to speed up Wall Street financing
The transaction shows how blockchain-based government bonds could help trading firms move collateral faster between settlement and financing.
OpenAI Engineer Arrested for Bugging Office, Company Says AI Caught Him
A Saudi national working at OpenAI allegedly hid an encrypted audio recorder behind a TV in an executive meeting room. OpenAI says its own models helped trace it back to him.
Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy as Disney Bids $20 Million—And Users Get Grief Resources
The chatbot app once valued at $1 billion is up for sale in a Delaware court, two weeks after launching new models. If nobody buys it, it shuts down.
Binance Is Shutting Down Its Bitcoin Mining Pool After Six Years
Binance will discontinue Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, and other related services in a retreat from mining infrastructure.
Most tokenized stock trading on Solana, BNB Chain occurs outside US market hours
Tokenized equities have reached nearly $3.3 billion in value as investors embrace round-the-clock access beyond Wall Street hours.
Bitcoin Whale That Sat Through Every Crash Since 2020 Just Moved $377M
A wallet that received 4,581 BTC in March 2020, worth about $40 million then, moved its stash today when it was worth about $377 million.
Trezor reduces resellers as a ‘preventative step’ amid Ledger tampering reports
CCO Danny Sanders said he had notified certain hardware wallet resellers that they would be removed from Trezor’s list of authorized entities starting Jan. 1.
Strive Buys $280 Million in Bitcoin, Its Largest Purchase in Months
The Nasdaq-listed asset manager bought the Bitcoin at an average of about $84,500 during a rough week for the market, lifting its total stash to 32,773 BTC.
AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palantir Exec
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says many AI researchers have taken up smoking to signal their faith in AI.
How the SEC’s lack of leadership could facilitate crypto rulemaking
A recent change in the SEC’s rules on quorum could make it easier for the agency to amend its approach to crypto regulation in the absence of a market structure bill.
Bitcoin Shakes Off Spooky Season Jitters: Can Bulls Keep It Going?
Bitcoin dipped below $81,000 before buyers stepped in, but the Fear and Greed Index says traders aren’t convinced yet.
Trezor Cuts Its Resellers After Ledger Finds Spy Implant in Crypto Wallets
Trezor is ending reseller authorizations on January 1, 2027, after Ledger confirmed that wallets sold by a Southeast Asian retailer carried a hidden implant that sent out users’ recovery phrases.
Strive reports $208M in warrant exercises as Bitcoin holdings jump 11%
Strive is now the fifth-largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holder, with 32,773 BTC, as it continues to expand its treasury through equity financing.
Crypto exchange MNX takes on OKX, BitGet offering pre-IPO futures for AI giants
MNX is offering a different way to trade the future valuations of private AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek.
Bitcoin keeps up pressure on $84K as US stocks skirt Korea tech sell-off
Bitcoin price action preserved overnight gains as US stocks quickly rebounded after opening lower on the back of Korea’s tech-stock rout.
UK crypto trader says almost $800,000 lost in knife attack as wrench attacks proliferate
A crypto trader in the U.K. claimed masked intruders stole nearly $800,000 in cryptocurrency at knifepoint, furthering concerns of “wrench attacks” spreading in the country.
AI Powered PlayStation Crack Could Let You Play GTA 6 on PC at Launch
AnyPS5 is working to get any PS5 game running natively on PC—and gamers are hoping it’ll work for the next instalment of Grand Theft Auto.
Anthropic warns ‘AI worms’ may autonomously spread across devices like a virus
Anthropic warned that rogue “AI worms” are months away from the ability to self-replicate and autonomously infect user devices such as home appliances and other internet-connected devices.
Is Bitcoin kidding itself about the Lightning Network?
Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc says Bitcoiners are lying to themselves about Lightning. Developers claim usability has improved, but questions remain over everyday adoption.
Digital cash offers ‘cash-like privacy,’ but bank data breaches threaten users: BIS
BIS said that digital cash can achieve “cash-like privacy,” however, the technology isn’t yet production-ready due to risks such as bank data breaches.
Russia clears Sberbank for crypto trading ahead of December launch
Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has secured crypto exchange authorization as it prepares to offer Bitcoin, Ether and Tether USDt trading.
South Korea blocks 27 crypto exchanges, including Bitmart and Kucoin
The country’s regulators are stepping up their earlier restrictions on mobile apps to websites, targeting unregistered exchanges before investors report losses.
Federated Hermes joins Wall Street’s tokenization push with plans for first onchain fund shares
The $911 billion Pittsburgh-based asset manager is teaming up with Prometheum to bring blockchain-based share classes of its funds to traditional brokerage accounts.
Ledger Finds LTE Implant That Stole Recovery Phrases in Suspected $86M Drain
Ledger says the hidden chip reads the 24-word phrase off the screen during setup, leaving the Secure Element and its software untouched.
Morning Minute: Bitcoin Gets Spooked as ‘Uptober’ Lets Down
Crypto majors are red, alts are down bad and onchain is facing capitulation. This was not the ‘Uptober’ that was promised…
Stacks’ STX, a Bitcoin layer-2 token, has surged by 50% in four weeks
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 13, 2026
ENS seeks DAO approval to activate upgraded Ethereum naming system
New .eth registrations would pause for hours during the transition, while existing domain holders could renew their names without migrating.
Bitcoin, ether slip and rebound as South Korean stocks slide on AI-related concerns
Investors are positioning ahead of today’s bank earnings reports and Wednesday’s U.S. inflation data.