Anchorpoint, a Standard Chartered-backed issuer licensed in Hong Kong, said it will work with the Solana Foundation to mint and redeem its HKDAP stablecoin on the network. No launch date has been set, and the token is still limited to institutional users.
BTCPay Server, the free bitcoin payment tool, told operators to switch off their servers on November 1 after reports that attackers swept funds from internet-connected hot wallets. The project says only older versions were hit, and has not named a loss figure.
Gas measures computational effort, not money. Since EIP-1559 the fee splits in two, and the larger part, the base fee, is burned out of existence rather than handed to a validator.
A blockchain is a shared ledger of transactions grouped into blocks, each one cryptographically linked to the block before it. NIST's own report deliberately dropped the word immutable, and the reason it did is the most useful thing to understand about how these systems work.
Attackers hijacked the domains of about a dozen DeFi sites registered with Name.com late on October 30, pointing visitors to fake pages that drained their wallets. No smart contract was breached. Early estimates of the theft run from about $138,000 to $202,386.
The UAE has no personal income tax or capital gains tax, so individuals pay nothing on crypto profits. A 2024 decision also removed VAT from virtual asset transfers. Tax still applies once trading becomes a business.
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Putting Hong Kong's regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoin on Solana will open fast, low-cost HKD payments and tokenized-asset settlement to a wider market.
Our read: Anchorpoint holds a real HKMA license (FRS01) and strong bank backing, and Solana carries about $4.9 billion in tokenized assets. But the two set no launch date, published no token address, and HKDAP is still a beta limited to institutional users.
BTCPay Server says the drains hit only installations running releases older than 2.4.2, and that its latest 2.4.7 version shows no credible reports of losses.
Our read: The founder's account and the project's public GitHub history support the version timeline, but no loss total, server count or confirmed attack vector has been published, and how the attackers gained administrator access is still unknown.
Gas fees are what you pay miners or validators to process your transaction.
Our read: Only part of it. Ethereum's own documentation says the base fee is destroyed when the block is created, removing it from circulation. The validator keeps the priority fee, the tip, which is normally the smaller component.
Data written to a blockchain is immutable and can never be changed.
Our read: NIST's final report calls blockchains tamper evident and tamper resistant, not immutable. The draft said immutable and the published version changed it. Altering an old block is possible; it is detectable, and on a large chain it is expensive enough that nobody bothers.
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BTCPay Server, the free bitcoin payment tool, told operators to switch off their servers on November 1 after reports that attackers swept funds from internet-connected hot wallets. The project says only older versions were hit, and has not named a loss figure.
The reward for mining a block is cut in half every 210,000 blocks. It has happened four times, the subsidy is 3.125 bitcoin today, and the next cut is about 76,800 blocks away.
A powerful enough quantum computer could forge Bitcoin signatures in theory. No such machine exists, and the distance between today's 105-qubit chips and the millions an attack would need is still vast. Here is what is real, what is years away, and what Bitcoin is already doing about it.
Anchorpoint, a Standard Chartered-backed issuer licensed in Hong Kong, said it will work with the Solana Foundation to mint and redeem its HKDAP stablecoin on the network. No launch date has been set, and the token is still limited to institutional users.
Binance switched its Bitcoin network back on first, three days after thieves took about $6.3 billion from its hot wallets. The exchange says it has replaced most of the missing crypto itself and will cover the rest.
Strategy's third-quarter operating profit hit a record $20.9 billion, almost all of it an accounting gain on its 848,517 bitcoin. On the same day, the company said chief financial officer Andrew Kang will resign for personal reasons, effective November 5.
Attackers hijacked the domains of about a dozen DeFi sites registered with Name.com late on October 30, pointing visitors to fake pages that drained their wallets. No smart contract was breached. Early estimates of the theft run from about $138,000 to $202,386.
A minting bug on the Initia blockchain let an attacker create unbacked tokens and move about $2.7 million to Ethereum before the network was stopped. A day later the chain and its rollups stayed offline, with no restart date and no final loss figure.
Five Ethereum researchers filed a draft consensus design on October 21 that aims to cut the time a transaction takes to become final, from about 16 minutes to roughly four. The proposal, EIP-8453, is only seeking a number to enter the formal upgrade process.
Open interest tracks how many futures contracts are still live, not how many changed hands. It tells you whether money is flowing into a market or leaving it. Here is how to read it, with a dated example, and why it never says which way price will go.
US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $643 million in net redemptions on 30 October 2026, the biggest single-day outflow since June, as bitcoin fell toward $77,000 and ether funds extended a fifth day of losses.
Crypto sell-offs look chaotic, but most trace back to the same handful of causes. Leverage that unwinds fast, a shift in interest-rate bets, money leaving spot ETFs, and the mood across riskier assets. Here is how each one pushes prices lower, with real examples.