The International Monetary Fund studied the most actively traded tokenized US stocks and found they swing wider and trade thinner than the shares they copy, with more than half of trading happening while US markets are shut.
France's National Assembly finance committee has backed an exit tax on unrealized crypto gains for holders worth more than €800,000, plus a tax on crypto-to-stablecoin conversions. Both sit inside the draft 2027 budget and still face a full floor vote.
Polkadot token holders approved dotUSD, a native dollar stablecoin with no issuing company, in an on-chain vote. For now the coin is backed one-for-one by Tether, and the DOT-collateral version is still only a plan.
Self-custody means holding your own crypto keys instead of trusting an exchange. After FTX and Celsius collapsed, more holders want that control. Here is how non-custodial wallets work and the trade-offs that come with them.
Coinbase says it has completed its integration of Deribit and opened the combined options and perpetual futures market to eligible US institutions, a route that until now usually meant trading offshore. Options trading is due within weeks.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a Washington summit on October 8 that the government could seize about $1 billion in Iran-linked crypto within the week. It would build on US sanctions and Tether freezes that have locked close to $550 million in USDT in 2026.
USD1 is a dollar stablecoin from World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm co-founded by Donald Trump and his three sons. It launched in March 2025, keeps its reserves with the custodian BitGo, and had about $4.28 billion in circulation on 10 October 2026.
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Tokenizing stocks upgrades the stock market, giving everyone cheaper access and round-the-clock trading.
Our read: IMF data show real demand, over half of trades after hours and most for less than one share, but tokenized stocks ran about 1.5 times more volatile, traded far thinner, and split across venues. Price discovery still leans on the traditional shares, and the whole market is only about $2.3 billion. The IMF called parts of the study preliminary.
France is set to tax unrealized crypto gains and crypto-to-stablecoin swaps from 2027.
Our read: The finance committee did adopt the amendments, and their official numbers and sponsors are on the public record. But the measures are not law. The full Assembly restarts from the government's text, so each one must pass again on the floor, then clear the Senate, with no confirmed revenue estimate.
Polkadot now has a native, protocol-owned dollar stablecoin with no issuing company and no single operator, governed entirely by an on-chain vote.
Our read: Referendum 1944 passed and the first phase is live, but that phase mints dotUSD one-for-one against USDT, so the peg leans on Tether today. The DOT-backed version with oracles and liquidations has no launch date, and the supply cap has not been disclosed.
Coinbase says it has built the most complete trading platform and opened regulated access to global crypto options and perpetual futures for US institutions.
Our read: The integration is confirmed and Deribit's scale is real, more than $30 billion in Bitcoin options open interest as of September 30, 2026. But onboarding is all that is live. Options and perpetual trading through Coinbase Prime are still weeks away, and US retail access has no firm date.
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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.
Coinbase says it has completed its integration of Deribit and opened the combined options and perpetual futures market to eligible US institutions, a route that until now usually meant trading offshore. Options trading is due within weeks.
Meanwhile, a Bermuda insurer that runs entirely in bitcoin, has raised $37.5 million led by Bain Capital Crypto, taking total funding past $180 million as wealthy families abroad seek a regulated way to pass on their coins.
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.
Polkadot token holders approved dotUSD, a native dollar stablecoin with no issuing company, in an on-chain vote. For now the coin is backed one-for-one by Tether, and the DOT-collateral version is still only a plan.
Starknet said on October 8 it is weighing a shift from Ethereum layer 2 to its own layer 1 blockchain, aiming to be the first fully quantum-resistant network by 2027. STRK jumped more than 20 percent. No governance vote has been scheduled.
Impermanent loss is what liquidity providers give up when pool prices drift from the moment they deposited. It is not a fee or a hack. This guide shows the math with a worked example, how deep the loss gets, and how providers try to limit it.
The International Monetary Fund studied the most actively traded tokenized US stocks and found they swing wider and trade thinner than the shares they copy, with more than half of trading happening while US markets are shut.
USD1 is a dollar stablecoin from World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm co-founded by Donald Trump and his three sons. It launched in March 2025, keeps its reserves with the custodian BitGo, and had about $4.28 billion in circulation on 10 October 2026.
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