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232 stories from the Blackmint Desk, newest first. Live market news is on Blackmint.
- Altcoins ·
Coinbase Says Vendor Amplitude Exposed Some Customer Contact Data
Coinbase says its own systems weren't breached and funds weren't touched, but it hasn't said how many users were hit or which fields leaked.
- Markets ·
Robinhood's Event Contracts Out-Earn Crypto as Q3 Revenue Hits Record
Crypto trading volume fell 38% to $50 billion. Event contracts traded hit a record 16.4 billion, more than seven times last year's count.
- Regulation ·
CFTC Sues Utah, the 10th State It Has Taken On Over Prediction Markets
Utah's attorney general sued Kalshi on Oct. 20, calling its markets illegal gambling. The CFTC says federal law gives it sole say over them.
- Altcoins ·
Keystone Tells Owners to Treat Wallets Received After Oct. 20 as Risky
A stolen factory authenticity credential means a fake device could pass Keystone's own check. The company is scrapping 18,835 unsold wallets and won't ask for recall shipments.
- Markets ·
Janus Henderson Takes the Nasdaq-100 Onchain, but Not for U.S. Buyers
JQQQ is the manager's own fund, not a third-party stock token. The release gives no fee rate, minimum or start date for subscriptions.
- Ethereum ·
Ethereum Fixes Glamsterdam Flaw That Could Misroute Staking Deposits
A spec fix merged Monday stops a builder from claiming a staking protocol's deposit at the fork. It was closed a week earlier for lack of client support.
- Regulation ·
Binance Cuts 22 Tokens in Brazil as It Seeks Central Bank License
Brazilian users also lose eight products, including loans, margin trading and Launchpool, three days before the central bank's Oct. 30 filing deadline.
- Macro ·
Euro Zone Mortgage Demand Sinks as Rates Bite, ECB Survey Shows
Banks expect housing loan demand to fall further next quarter. In a new question, they said digital assets will weigh on retail funding over the next year.
- Stablecoins ·
Ripple Wins Final OCC Approval for the Trust Bank Behind RLUSD
Ripple says a federally supervised trust bank will manage reserves for its $2.5 billion RLUSD stablecoin, about 10 months after conditional approval.
- Stablecoins ·
BlackRock and SBI Study Linking Tokenized Funds to a Yen Stablecoin
BlackRock signed an MOU with SBI and Startale to explore pairing tokenized money market funds with JPYSC, a $131 million yen stablecoin. No launch date was set.
- Bitcoin ·
Bitcoin Core Tags 32.1 Final, Ending Support for 29.x Releases
Version 32.1 raises the default peer cap to 200 and adds a mempool-based fee estimator. Details of three flaws fixed in 30.0 are due in two weeks.
- Bitcoin ·
Strategy Skips Bitcoin for a Week as Strive Buys $511 Million
Strategy spent $204.9 million buying back STRC preferred shares instead of bitcoin, while Strive lifted its holdings to 43,000 BTC, Monday filings show.
- Stablecoins ·
Canada Drafts Stablecoin Rules That Ban Yield, Cap Redemption Fees
Ottawa's draft would make issuers redeem within three business days for a fee of 1% or less. Comments are due Dec. 23, with fall 2027 as the target.
- Regulation ·
OCC Urges Community Banks to Consider Issuing Stablecoins
A new OCC fact sheet answers small banks' fears about deposit flight and yield, and invites them to apply as issuers before the GENIUS Act rule starts Jan. 18.
- Altcoins ·
Aviva Seeds a £50 Million Tokenized Share Class of Its Fund on XRPL
Aviva put £50 million into the new on-chain share class, lifting its two tokenized money market funds past £86 million, the firm and Ripple said.
- Regulation ·
Hong Kong Opens 24/7 Trading of Tokenized Money Market Funds
ChinaAMC's HKD and USD digital money funds now trade around the clock on PantherTrade, with market makers and live value estimates required by the SFC.
- Bitcoin ·
Bitcoin Slips Back Below $80,000 as Fed Decision Nears
Bitcoin was at $79,429 late Sunday, down 1.7% on the day and 3.9% on the week, while ether lost 5% over seven days ahead of the Fed's Oct. 28 decision.
- Markets ·
CoinDCX Confirms $16 Million Loss Days After Saying It Wasn't Breached
India's CoinDCX says 15.99 million USDT left retired wallets after a deposit sweep failed. It says it covered the loss and customer balances are intact.
- Macro ·
Saudi Arabia Says It Downed 10 Houthi Missiles Aimed at Its South
Riyadh's main airport reopened Sunday even as drones and missiles flew at the capital. Brent ended last week at $116.72, its highest settle since April.
- Regulation ·
109 Israeli Economists Slam Netanyahu's Crypto Sanctions Plan
Two Nobel laureates and a former Bank of Israel governor signed the letter, which calls crypto a tool of criminal groups and says it won't shield Israel from sanctions.
- Altcoins ·
Zcash Jumps 6% to $1,210 as Bitcoin and Ether Take Sunday Slow
ZEC is up 8.5% on the week and holds the No. 10 spot by market value, though it is still down 24% over 30 days, CoinGecko data show.
- Macro ·
Iran Says It Shot Down a U.S. Drone Over Bandar Abbas
Iran's army says its air defenses downed a U.S. LUCAS attack drone near the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. officials had not responded, and bitcoin held near $80,240.
- Bitcoin ·
Electrum Patches Flaw That Let Rogue Servers Fake a Stuck Payment
Electrum 4.8.3 fixes a high-severity bug that let a malicious server show a fake, zero-fee copy of a payment. One user lost money.
- Bitcoin ·
Bitcoin Recovers Saturday Dip, Starts Fed Week Near $80,800
Bitcoin climbed back to about $80,780 by midnight ET after a Saturday low near $79,260. It is still down 1.2% for the week.
- Regulation ·
FCA Drafts Crypto Crime Guidance a Year Before UK Licensing Begins
UK crypto firms need FCA authorization from Oct. 25, 2027. The regulator's draft guide sets no fixed limit on how far firms must trace funds.