Ripple is again within the information after releasing 1 billion XRP from escrow in 4 speedy transactions valued at $1.49 billion, with XRP testing the $1.50 stage. The launch is a considerable gross provide occasion. The transactions, recognized within the main proof as occurring on October 1, comprised 400 million, 300 million, 200 million, and…
Open USD, a brand new stablecoin backed by greater than 200 organizations, has launched with about $468 million in circulation and a distribution partnership with Stripe, one of many largest fee networks. OUSD, issued for Open Standard, had 468.4 million tokens excellent following its Sept. 30 debut. Reserve data confirmed about $468.45 million of backing…
Crypto safety incidents in September 2026 resulted in roughly $766.4 million in losses, in keeping with report printed by blockchain safety agency CertiK. The determine units a brand new report for the very best month-to-month losses this yr and coincides with the biggest variety of confirmed incidents recorded in any month of 2026. The month’s…
Treasury’s Sept. 30 rule lets states protect a path towards stablecoin-regime approval whereas their rules stay unfinished, by submitting an preliminary certification on time and finishing the work before substantive evaluate. The interim final rule units types and evaluate procedures for the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee, the federal physique that evaluations state stablecoin regimes. The…
October is right here, and so are contemporary expectations that Bitcoin (BTC) and the broader cryptocurrency market can proceed their upward momentum and enter a sustained bull run. We requested three of the preferred AI-powered chatbots whether or not the meme coin sector will thrive this month and which token in that area has the…
Bitcoin is consolidating round $83.5K after bouncing from the mid-$70K space. The charts present a constructive higher-timeframe construction, however BTC is now dealing with a major resistance cluster whereas short-term momentum has cooled. At the identical time, the Apparent Demand Growth metric on CryptoQuant has lately leaned unfavorable, suggesting that the demand backdrop has not…
Financial Times claims that EU regulators are as soon as once more questioning Binance. They suspect the alternate is utilizing a authorized loophole to nonetheless serve European customers. BeInCrypto requested Binance about this, and it seems they’re nonetheless actively pursuing MiCA authorization. “Binance complies with relevant regulatory necessities in the jurisdictions in which it operates……
NEAR Intents, a cross-chain swap service constructed on NEAR Protocol (NEAR), misplaced about $3.8 million to an exploit on Thursday. The NEAR token fell 8.6% inside hours, though the underlying blockchain was not named because the goal. The hack landed two days after Bitwise opened the primary US spot NEAR exchange-traded fund (ETF). Bitwise pitched…
MetaMask is pulling hundreds of Ethereum validators after a security breach redirected rewards, creating a network-wide backlog for stakers attempting to exit. Onchain security researcher Kaden said about 17,000 MetaMask-operated validators holding roughly 523,000 ETH had been proactively exited after an evaluation discovered that transaction-fee rewards from 18 of 19 validators that proposed blocks had…
Flare, a blockchain platform targeted on knowledge infrastructure, has launched Flare Confidential Compute (FCC) to Songbird, its canary community. The new system processes personal institutional knowledge and generates signed outputs that sensible contracts can confirm onchain, whereas the underlying info stays undisclosed. The first institutional deployment is a Proof of Reserves extension, with Hex Trust’s…