Archives - October 2026 - Page 15

Strive, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, added 3,311 BTC for about $280 million, lifting holdings to 32,773 BTC as cash reserves and its share count increased.

Chinese prosecutors seek more than 61,800 BTC linked to the Tianjin fraud case, while UK asset recovery and investor claims remain separate.

Mark Karpelès reports an implant in an unused Ledger Flex bought at Singapore Airport, as a separate European retailer watchlist raises unverified concerns.

Bybit plans to launch share-backed mStocks with Mantle in November, adding 24/7 tokenized equity trading and planned DeFi uses alongside its separate stock service.

Binance Pool will stop accepting mining shares on November 10 at 07:00 UTC, with savings, cloud mining and APIs also closing and records available until November 24.

Bitcoin rebounded to about $83,740 after an overnight drop below $81,000, while 24-hour crypto liquidations exceeded $800 million, mostly in longs.

South Korea has approved blocks on 27 unregistered crypto websites, including KuCoin, MEXC and BingX, with guidance planned for users facing withdrawal problems.

Pando’s spot Solana ETF is set for an October 13 Hong Kong listing, with a 0.6% management fee, HashKey custody and no staking of its SOL holdings.

Solana shares a six-month teaser from product chief Vibhu Norby as Breakpoint 2026 prepares to bring developers and institutions to London in November.

Solana’s 200ms slot target is live on mainnet, completing a four-stage rollout that brings faster block opportunities and tighter timing for wallets and validators.

Wintermute sees calmer long-term Treasury yields and renewed spot ETF inflows as conditions for a crypto recovery after Bitcoin and Ether funds lost $1.22 billion.

A Ledger buyer says wallets from two MediaMarkt stores contained similar implants, raising supply-chain questions without proving a Europe-wide compromise.

Aptos’s opt-in encrypted mempool hides transaction contents before ordering, with Petra support live and Decibel planning private perpetual orders.

CryptoBilis’s former founders outline their ownership timeline as Ledger investigates hardware tampering and maintains warnings for the reseller’s customers.

WeFi Co-Founder Maksym Sakharov believes tokenization's real potential lies not in putting assets on a blockchain, but in transforming how financial systems work together.