A plain, step-by-step guide to buying Bitcoin legally in the UAE: how to find a platform licensed by VARA or the federal regulator, pass identity checks, fund in dirhams, and decide where to keep your coins.
The Bank of Russia named four crypto exchange operators and five custodians on its first public registers, among them state banks Sberbank and VTB. Legal trading can start, but crypto payments stay banned and retail buyers face tight annual caps.
Samsung will let eligible US Galaxy owners send USDC to crypto wallets and overseas bank accounts straight from Samsung Wallet, with a launch due in the last week of October 2026. Bastion and Coinbase handle custody. Store payments are not part of the first release.
Cardano is a proof-of-stake blockchain and ADA is its coin, built on peer-reviewed research. Here is how Ouroboros staking, the five development eras, and on-chain governance work, plus what the ADA token actually does.
Rain, a stablecoin payments firm, has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank that would hold digital assets and manage stablecoin reserves. The filing lands three days after community banks sued the regulator over the same kind of charter.
A spot Bitcoin ETF and a bitcoin you hold yourself both track the same price, yet they are not the same thing. One is a share in a fund that owns the coin and charges a fee every year. The other is the coin itself, with the keys, the freedom and the responsibility that come with it.
Kazakhstan's central bank, Tether and the Alatau City Authority signed a memorandum on October 7 to study a tenge-pegged stablecoin and asset tokenization. It is an agreement to research and draft pilots, not a decision to issue a coin.
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Russia has opened a legal, regulated market where ordinary people and institutions can trade crypto through licensed firms.
Our read: The registers are live and major state banks are on them, so the framework is real. But caps hold most retail buyers to 300,000 rubles a year, a payments ban remains, the listed firms are mostly state-controlled, and no firm has launched or published fees yet.
Samsung Wallet will put USDC transfers in the hands of 82 million US Galaxy devices, making sending money abroad as easy as using the phone's wallet.
Our read: The partners and roles are named in an official Samsung release, and Coinbase and the Solana Foundation went on record. The product is not live yet, the launch is set only to the last week of October, and Samsung has not published the full country list or the bank transfer fees. Store payments are not included at launch, and the 82 million figure counts devices, not users.
Rain says a national trust bank would let it custody digital assets and manage stablecoin reserves as a federally supervised fiduciary, cutting its reliance on third-party banks.
Our read: The application is real and public, filed October 5 with named leadership and a defined scope. But the bank is not approved, the review includes a public comment period, and the OCC's power to grant these charters is being challenged in court by community banks. No decision timeline has been given.
Kazakhstan's central bank is teaming up with Tether to launch a national tenge-pegged stablecoin.
Our read: A real memorandum was signed on October 7 and a central bank deputy governor is on record, but it commits only to study and draft pilot proposals. No coin is approved, no blockchain chosen and no date set. Kazakhstan already runs a separate tenge stablecoin, KZTE, in its own sandbox, built without Tether.
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A quantum computer could in theory pull a Bitcoin private key from its public key, but the hardware is nowhere close. Breaking one key in a day would take an estimated 13 million qubits. The best public chip has 105. Here is the real risk and the real timeline.
The failed Tokyo exchange faces a final October 31 deadline to repay its creditors. On-chain data shows about 34,387 bitcoin, close to $2.9 billion, still sitting in the estate's wallets, and the trustee says many of the people owed have not finished the steps needed to collect.
Mining bitcoin in 2026 means industrial-scale power, a 3.125 BTC block reward split across the network, and machines that run at 15 joules per terahash. Here is what decides whether a miner makes money, and why even the biggest public miners lost money this year.
Samsung will let eligible US Galaxy owners send USDC to crypto wallets and overseas bank accounts straight from Samsung Wallet, with a launch due in the last week of October 2026. Bastion and Coinbase handle custody. Store payments are not part of the first release.
Rain, a stablecoin payments firm, has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank that would hold digital assets and manage stablecoin reserves. The filing lands three days after community banks sued the regulator over the same kind of charter.
BitMine Immersion Technologies will stop buying Ether once it holds 5% of the token's supply, chairman Tom Lee said at Token2049 in Singapore. The treasury firm owned just over 6 million ETH on October 4, close to the cap.
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.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade activates on the Sepolia test network on October 6, 2026, in its first public trial. The release moves block building into the protocol and opens a path toward a 200 million gas limit, though the mainnet date is still unset.
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.
A Bitcoin treasury company is a public firm that holds bitcoin as a core reserve and funds more buying by selling shares or borrowing. The model grows when the stock trades above the value of its coins, and stalls when it falls below. Here is how it works, and where it breaks.
Winklevoss Asset Services filed a preliminary S-1 with the SEC on October 6 for a spot Zcash fund that would trade as WINK on Nasdaq at a 0.25% fee. It is the third US issuer to seek a Zcash ETF, and it lands while a government shutdown has frozen SEC reviews.