The US Treasury blacklisted a Gaza-based Hamas operative, two France-based fundraisers and the two charities they ran, saying the network raised more than $2 million from 2020 to 2026 and moved part of it through cryptocurrency wallets.
The regulator signed off on Cboe BZX's rule to list six triple-leveraged products, two of them tied to Bitcoin and Ether. Approval is not a launch. No fund can trade until a separate registration takes effect.
Blast, once among Ethereum's largest layer-2 networks, is winding down after running costs outran revenue. The team told users to withdraw assets to Ethereum by October 26. Value locked has fallen more than 98% from a 2024 peak above $2.2 billion.
Bitcoin miners run power-hungry computers that race to seal each block and earn new coins. The reward now sits at 3.125 BTC a block and halves about every four years. Here is what mining really does, what it costs in electricity, and why it keeps the network hard to cheat.
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The IMF released about $138 million to El Salvador on 1 October after waiving a breach of the program's Bitcoin accumulation limit. The catch: the state agreed to stop buying Bitcoin and handed control of its Chivo wallet to a private operator.
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The US Treasury says a France-to-Gaza network used sham charities and cryptocurrency to raise more than $2 million for Hamas.
Our read: OFAC named the people, the charities and the executive order, and the State Department issued a parallel notice. But the designations are sanctions, not criminal convictions, and Treasury's own figures put the crypto share at hundreds of thousands of dollars, a minority of the $2 million. It did not say how much, if any, has been seized.
US investors can now get triple-leveraged Bitcoin and Ether exposure through a regulated exchange-traded product.
Our read: The SEC did approve the Cboe BZX listing rule on October 2, but no fund can trade until a separate Form S-1 registration takes effect, and no launch date is set. The funds use futures and reset leverage daily, so returns can drift far from 3x over more than a day.
Blast set out to be a self-sustaining Ethereum layer 2 built on automatic yield, and raised $20 million on that promise.
Our read: Deposits peaked above $2.2 billion in June 2024 but fell more than 98% once the token launched and yields faded. The team now admits running costs beat revenue, and on-chain data from DefiLlama and L2Beat confirms the collapse.
El Salvador remains a committed Bitcoin nation, still adding to its reserve.
Our read: The reserve of about 7,792 BTC is intact and unsold, but the IMF waiver binds the state to no further accumulation, control of the Chivo wallet has passed to a private operator, and the Fund says the state's Bitcoin role is being unwound. The government never published how much it added beyond the capped limit.
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Bitcoin miners run power-hungry computers that race to seal each block and earn new coins. The reward now sits at 3.125 BTC a block and halves about every four years. Here is what mining really does, what it costs in electricity, and why it keeps the network hard to cheat.
The IMF released about $138 million to El Salvador on 1 October after waiving a breach of the program's Bitcoin accumulation limit. The catch: the state agreed to stop buying Bitcoin and handed control of its Chivo wallet to a private operator.
The Bitcoin halving cuts the mining reward in half every 210,000 blocks, about once every four years. It is the rule that caps the total supply of bitcoin at just under 21 million coins, with no bank or committee in charge.
Absa has launched a regulated digital asset custody service for institutional clients in South Africa, the first run by a bank on the continent. It holds Bitcoin, Ether, XRP Ledger assets and USDC, and runs on Ripple's technology.
SBI Holdings completed its 46.7 billion yen purchase of crypto exchange bitbank on October 1, 2026, taking full ownership and, by its own figures, the lead in Japan's crypto market by assets held for customers.
Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders backed a merger with Evernorth Holdings on September 30, clearing a deal with more than $1 billion in commitments that puts over 473 million XRP onto a Nasdaq-listed balance sheet trading as XRPN.
Blast, once among Ethereum's largest layer-2 networks, is winding down after running costs outran revenue. The team told users to withdraw assets to Ethereum by October 26. Value locked has fallen more than 98% from a 2024 peak above $2.2 billion.
MetaMask is pulling offline the Ethereum validators it runs through Lido after a breach of part of its staking infrastructure. The direct loss looks tiny, but stakers may give up rewards and face penalties while hundreds of thousands of ETH unwind.
The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project put zkAPI live on Ethereum mainnet on October 1, 2026, letting people pay for AI services without revealing who they are.
The regulator signed off on Cboe BZX's rule to list six triple-leveraged products, two of them tied to Bitcoin and Ether. Approval is not a launch. No fund can trade until a separate registration takes effect.
Citigroup raised its 12-month bitcoin price target to $113,000 from $82,000, pointing to renewed ETF inflows and steadier regulation. The same bank cut the figure three months ago.
US spot bitcoin ETFs saw $148.7 million leave on September 30, their first net outflow in 10 trading days, breaking a nine-day run that pulled in $3.1 billion. One day of selling, led by Fidelity's FBTC, after a strong month.