October 8, 2026 @ 6:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Europol has warned that advances in quantum computing could eventually place crypto-assets at risk, and it is urging the industry, policymakers and technical operators to start preparing well before any such capability exists.On 7 October 2026 the EU law-enforcement agency released two studies examining how… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 6:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI’s recent release of hundreds of machine-generated mathematical results has prompted a senior blockchain researcher to urge the industry toward a cautious defensive posture. On October 7, 2026, Justin Drake, a researcher associated with the Ethereum Foundation whose work also addresses Bitcoin security assumptions, publicly… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana’s long-running decentralized exchange Orca and the credit platform Loopscale have combined into a single company called Formation, headquartered in New York. The October 7, 2026 announcement places Loopscale co-founder Luke Truitt in the chief executive role, with fellow Loopscale co-founder Mary Gooneratne as chief… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 3:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale is treating the climb of its Zcash fund past $1 billion in assets as a sign that listed crypto products are entering a more selective phase, one no longer defined only by bitcoin and ether. The firm said as much when it marked the… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) is pushing further into everyday spending by wiring a travel booking portal into its app, and it is doing so with inventory and booking infrastructure from Duffel, the London travel-technology company that sells flights, stays, and related services through a single programming… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 12:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) market continues to operate at a choppy pace. According to data from Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA)/CCLEAR, September saw 48 new securities offerings, a 15.8% decline from August and a 40.7% decline versus the same month the prior year. Closed deals… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 11:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the bipartisan House Select Committee on China alleged that Webull Corporation (NASDAQ:BULL), a regulated broker and alternative investment platform, is closely aligned with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its rulers, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Companies in China are well known to do the CCP’s bidding… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 11:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal judge in Los Angeles has sentenced Adam Iza, the 26-year-old self-described cryptocurrency figure who called himself “The Godfather,” to 78 months in prison and ordered him to pay $23,402,766 in restitution after he admitted using money from a large Meta (NASDAQ: META) advertising… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 11:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss’s newly formed asset management vehicle has asked US regulators for permission to list a fund that would hold the privacy coin Zcash outright, proposing a sponsor charge far below the fee already collected by the only live US product of its… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) is pressing against one of its densest clusters of recent buyer cost basis, according to analysts at Bitfinex. Roughly 1.72 million coins, representing about 8.6 percent of the total supply, changed hands between $84,000 and $86,500. That band now functions as a thick… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 7:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) is preparing substantial staff reductions inside its British wealth management operations, according to reports that first appeared in the FT on 7 October 2026. The changes form part of a wider effort to embed artificial intelligence more deeply into how the bank… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 1:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Quebec’s public pension manager is taking a firmer hand at FNZ, the London-based wealth technology group, after losing patience with how the business has been run. According to the FT, which cited four people familiar with the matter, La Caisse de dépôt et placement du… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 12:22 am By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore-listed financial services firm IFS Capital Limited is set to securitise S$79 million of loans to micro, small and mid-sized enterprises, in a transaction that will allow the company to free up capital for new lending. Financial close for the group’s first loan securitisation programme… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 12:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash has moved Network Upgrade 7 onto public testnet, putting the privacy chain’s next consensus change under live conditions ahead of a November 2026 mainnet target. The Zcash Foundation shipped Zebra 7.0.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for NU7, on October 2, 2026. That build is… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 5:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Siebert Financial has suspended its Buy rating and price target on Webull Financial (NASDAQ:BULL) following the report issued by the House Select Committee on China, which claims Webull has ties to the Chinese government. Webull shares were down almost 20% today after the Committee’s report… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 4:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-border payments Fintech Conduit Technology has filed a federal lawsuit accusing stablecoin issuer Tether of locking roughly $2.76 million of the firm’s USDT and refusing either to release the balance or to explain the action. The complaint, lodged on October 5, 2026, in the US… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Addresses tracked as US government holdings moved bitcoin on Tuesday for the first time since August 26, sending a combined 833.6 BTC worth a little more than $71 million toward Coinbase Prime. On-chain attribution ties the coins to two separate forfeiture matters: the Potapenko-Turogin fraud… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) says the long-planned combination of its own markets with Deribit is finished, and that the result is a new venue it calls Coinbase Global Exchange. In a company blog post dated October 6, 2026, Coinbase said the completed integration will soon give… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 2:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, the House Select Committee on China reported that Webull Corporation (NASDAQ:BULL), a regulated broker-dealer operating in the United States, has been deemed to be colluding with Chinese authorities. The Committee cautioned that Webull users may be putting personal information and data at risk… Read More