Self-custody means holding your own crypto keys instead of an exchange. It removes the risk of a platform failing, which no insurance covers, and hands you the full job of guarding the keys. Here is how it works and where it goes wrong.
The Liquid Federation says LBTC is backed one to one by bitcoin again, nearly two months after a software bug let an attacker drain about 4,000 BTC. It has not said who covered the roughly 600 BTC the attacker kept.
The CFTC cleared a legal path on November 3 for perpetual futures on individual stocks to trade on US exchanges for the first time. It extends a product built in crypto markets, and already faces a lawsuit and objections over how it should be classified.
Coinbase swung to a $719 million third-quarter profit, but about $715 million of it came from gains on crypto it holds rather than from its trading business, where fees fell again.
Bitcoin traded near $76,456 at 06:40 UTC on 3 November 2026 as traders cut risk before the US midterm vote. Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $398.6 million the day before, and options markets priced in a sharper swing around the election.
A UTXO is an unspent piece of bitcoin your keys can spend. Bitcoin keeps no account balances, so your wallet adds up its UTXOs to show a total. Here is how the model works, why it sets your fee, and how it differs from Ethereum.
Market cap counts the tokens trading now. Fully diluted valuation prices in the whole supply, locked tokens included. The gap between the two numbers is where a lot of buyers get the risk wrong.
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Liquid's LBTC is fully backed one to one by bitcoin again and the peg is safe to use.
Our read: On-chain data confirms reserves match pegged coins to within 52 satoshis, so the backing is real and anyone can check it. But the Federation has not said who supplied the roughly 600 BTC the attacker kept, has published no ledger of the transfers, and still runs direct withdrawals under extra controls while promised governance fixes remain undone.
The CFTC says opening US exchanges to equity perpetual futures pulls a popular offshore product into a regulated market that protects American investors.
Our read: The clearance is real and comes from the CFTC itself. But no exchange has listed a contract, no launch date is set, and the classification faces a pending CME lawsuit, objections from Cboe and Better Markets, and a 60-day window in which the SEC could still abrogate the rule.
Coinbase returned to profit in the third quarter with $719 million in net income.
Our read: The profit is real and filed with the SEC, but about $715 million of it was unrealized gains on crypto Coinbase holds, not operating income. Adjusted net income was $77.7 million, and transaction revenue fell 44% from a year earlier.
Bitcoin's slide toward $76,000 is being driven mainly by nerves ahead of the US midterm elections.
Our read: Options data show traders paying up for protection around the vote, and one CIO says a Democratic win is not priced in. But QCP Capital ties the hedging more to the late-October Binance breach and weak sentiment, technology stocks fell the same week, and only three prior midterm cycles offer any pattern.
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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.
Coinbase swung to a $719 million third-quarter profit, but about $715 million of it came from gains on crypto it holds rather than from its trading business, where fees fell again.
Tether posted $1.5 billion in third-quarter profit and lifted its reserve buffer to $7.95 billion, a 30 October report attested by BDO showed. The figures cover one day, not the full audit the issuer promised in March.
Brazil's largest crypto exchange froze deposits and withdrawals on 2 November after attackers moved funds from its wallets. Security firm Hypernative estimated more than $40 million left across at least 10 chains. Mercado Bitcoin says it contained the breach and that no customer funds were harmed.
The Liquid Federation says LBTC is backed one to one by bitcoin again, nearly two months after a software bug let an attacker drain about 4,000 BTC. It has not said who covered the roughly 600 BTC the attacker kept.
A flaw in the XRP Ledger let an account allowed only to burn tokens mint new ones instead. A fix backed by 33 of 35 validators can activate no earlier than November 4. There is no public sign the flaw was ever used.
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.
Bitcoin traded near $76,456 at 06:40 UTC on 3 November 2026 as traders cut risk before the US midterm vote. Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $398.6 million the day before, and options markets priced in a sharper swing around the election.
Market cap counts the tokens trading now. Fully diluted valuation prices in the whole supply, locked tokens included. The gap between the two numbers is where a lot of buyers get the risk wrong.
The Depository Trust Company switched on its Tokenization Service on October 28, letting 20 firms including JPMorgan and Citi mint on-chain versions of US stocks, ETFs and Treasuries. On-chain settlement and collateral use are still a 2027 plan.