Polygon’s surging USDT0 holder rely masks shrinking balances and suspected scam exercise amid its broader push into stablecoin funds. An Oct. 7 investigation by blockchain analytics firm Bitquery discovered that addresses matching scam patterns accounted for 58% of the web growth in Polygon’s USDT0 holders since August 2025, elevating questions in regards to the high…
Blockchain.com has taken a big step towards increasing its US product providing by submitting two purposes with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The digital asset platform is in search of a Designated Contract Market (DCM) license, which might designate it as a futures change, and registration as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), which might…
Anthropic has revealed its annual Usage Policy replace, set to take impact on November 12, 2026. Most of the revisions make clear present guidelines, however the launch is notable for 2 causes: a consolidated framework towards misleading campaigns and affect operations, and a pioneering provision that prohibits sustained, purposeless cruelty towards Claude — the corporate’s…
A hypothetical technique of backing the favourite on prediction market Polymarket in each scored 2026 US primary would have lost 4%, though these candidates gained 87% of the time, based on blockchain information supplier Bitquery’s scorecard dated Oct. 9. The outcome separates two questions for election bettors: who’s most probably to win, and whether or…
Amazon’s Bedrock AgentCore Payments, constructed with Coinbase and Stripe, lets AI agents uncover paid providers, authenticate, and pay with stablecoins and x402 below preset spending limits. AI agents are getting wallets earlier than retailers get a court docket, and procuring agents have began inserting orders throughout the open web. The more durable drawback arrives once…
Roughly 6.26 million BTC, equal to 31.2% of Bitcoin’s complete provide, is at the moment held in addresses whose public keys are already seen on-chain and due to this fact uncovered to potential quantum computing assaults, in keeping with new knowledge printed by Glassnode co-founder Rafael Schultze-Kraft. The determine represents a notable improve from 24.8%…
Crypto companies licensed beneath the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation (MiCA) ought to resolve EU shoppers’ remaining publicity to non-compliant stablecoins by way of their providers inside three months, based on a new opinion from the bloc’s markets watchdog. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published the opinion Oct. 8. Where nationwide regulators discover…
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has issued 11 notifications establishing a complete regulatory framework for cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds, set to take impact on October 16, 2026. The transfer positions Thailand as one of many extra structured jurisdictions in Southeast Asia for regulated crypto funding merchandise, following public consultations held between April and September that drew…
Core Lightning, software program for operating Bitcoin Lightning payment nodes, has launched v26.06.9 with security fixes and a restore for a regression that might delay channel visitors on busy nodes operating v26.06.8. GitHub lists the new release as revealed Oct. 7, whereas its versioned changelog carries an Oct. 6 date. The replace provides operators who…
Bitcoin miners are rising from months of monetary stress as rising BTC costs carry daily business revenue by 78%. According to CryptoQuant’s weekly report shared with CryptoSlate, complete daily mining revenue climbed from roughly $27 million at July’s lows to as a lot as $48 million, following Bitcoin’s roughly 45% recovery from $58,000 to above…