The network's Batch amendment went live on October 9 after 30 of 35 trusted validators backed it, letting wallets run up to eight transactions as a single all-or-nothing operation.
A crypto wallet holds your keys, not your coins. In the UAE, VARA now licenses the firms that hold crypto for clients. Here is how to choose a wallet, decide who keeps your keys, and keep what you own safe.
You cannot mine a single bitcoin on demand. The network pays 3.125 BTC to whoever wins the next block, about every 10 minutes. A lone machine can wait decades. Here is how the timing really works, and why almost everyone mines in a pool.
Bitcoin Core 32.0, the software behind most Bitcoin nodes, is due on October 10, 2026. It brings faster block validation, a mempool based fee estimator and two security fixes, including a memory bug that could push a node to 3.2 gigabytes of memory use. Consensus rules do not change.
Ledger told the reseller CryptoBilis to stop selling after users in Southeast Asia reported drained wallets. One on-chain investigator estimated losses above $86 million, a figure Ledger has not confirmed.
Standard Chartered plans to safeguard selected cryptoassets, stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets for institutional clients in Singapore, its fourth custody market. The bank has not named the assets or a launch date.
Hong Kong's government says it will submit a bill this year to license four virtual asset businesses: trading, custody, advisory and management. The Securities and Futures Commission would supervise all four, and existing firms get no grandfathering.
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RippleX and validator operators say Batch brings important new functionality that lets institutions and builders run atomic, multi-step transactions on the XRP Ledger.
Our read: The amendment is live on mainnet and 30 of 35 trusted validators backed it, so the capability itself is real. What is not yet shown is use. RippleX named no live commercial product, and the projects it says are in development are unconfirmed.
The update makes a Bitcoin node sync up to three times faster, estimates fees more cheaply and closes two security holes, without changing Bitcoin's rules.
Our read: The release notes and release candidate testing back the performance and security work, and consensus stays untouched. The three times figure comes from the project's own testing, not an independent benchmark, and at the time of writing the final 32.0 had not shipped on bitcoincore.org, which still listed version 31.1.
A supply chain attack through an authorized reseller drained more than $86 million from Ledger hardware wallet users in Southeast Asia.
Our read: Multiple users reported drained wallets, independent on-chain researchers traced funds to suspected theft addresses, and Ledger took the real step of pausing the reseller. But the $86 million total rests on a single researcher, a second estimate is lower at $72 million, none of it has been audited, and Ledger has not confirmed the cause or that any device was tampered with.
Standard Chartered says it is bringing regulated custody for crypto, stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets to institutions in Singapore, its fourth such market.
Our read: A dated press release from the bank and matching reports from CoinDesk and Cointelegraph confirm the plan and the client types. What is missing is concrete: no list of supported assets, no launch date, and no named regulatory approval. The service is not yet live.
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Bitcoin Core 32.0, the software behind most Bitcoin nodes, is due on October 10, 2026. It brings faster block validation, a mempool based fee estimator and two security fixes, including a memory bug that could push a node to 3.2 gigabytes of memory use. Consensus rules do not change.
Mining Bitcoin on your own is still legal and technically possible, but one home rig against a world of giant farms faces odds that run into the millions. Here is how solo mining works, what your real chances are, and why a lucky few still take a whole block.
The US government shifted 12,267 bitcoin worth about $1.01 billion out of a wallet tied to the 2016 Bitfinex hack on 8 October 2026. The coins went to unlabeled addresses, not an exchange, so a sale is not confirmed.
Ledger told the reseller CryptoBilis to stop selling after users in Southeast Asia reported drained wallets. One on-chain investigator estimated losses above $86 million, a figure Ledger has not confirmed.
Standard Chartered plans to safeguard selected cryptoassets, stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets for institutional clients in Singapore, its fourth custody market. The bank has not named the assets or a launch date.
The Cardano Foundation has turned its Veridian digital identity project into a standalone company and tokenized most of its 1 million shares on Cardano. It is the first business to use CIP-0113, a new standard that builds compliance rules into tokens.
The network's Batch amendment went live on October 9 after 30 of 35 trusted validators backed it, letting wallets run up to eight transactions as a single all-or-nothing operation.
Ledger has added a feature that lets wallet users borrow stablecoins against wrapped Bitcoin through the Morpho lending protocol, without selling their coins or giving up custody. The company unveiled Crypto Loan at the TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore on October 7.
The DeFi lender's community is deciding whether to hand Sentora control of a new lending market on Aave V4. The pitch is a 50/50 revenue split at no cost to the DAO. The catch sits with the people who supply the funds.
Bitcoin slid toward $80,000 this week, days before the first anniversary of the October 2025 flash crash that force-closed a record $19 billion in leveraged bets in a single day. What happened then, and what has actually changed, a year on.
US spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded their largest daily outflow since June on October 7, pulling $484.9 million as bitcoin dropped to a multi-week low. A jump in oil prices and fresh Middle East tension pushed investors out of riskier bets.
Strategy added just 334 bitcoin in the week to October 4, one of its smallest buys of 2026, while spending $73.7 million on preferred share buybacks and $142.5 million on preferred dividends. It still holds 848,000 BTC, the largest corporate stash on record.