Blockchain & Digital Assets

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 @ 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 @ 8:28 am By Stephanie Vaughan  |  

Everyone keeps asking the SEC what a vault is. More useful question: what should a vault be, now that the constraints that produced the shared-vault container no longer exist? Billions sit in these things. Banks and fintechs are shopping. Regulators are circling. The industry is… 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 2:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Founders Fund, the venture firm associated with Peter Thiel, has led a $5 million purchase of ANVL governance tokens in Anvil, an Ethereum protocol that treats locked digital assets as collateral for payments, credit, and deposits. The purchase was disclosed on October 6, 2026 alongside… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 12:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US Representative Don Davis of North Carolina has introduced legislation intended to stop people seeking federal office from buying, selling, or holding prediction market contracts that resolve based on their own campaigns. The measure, titled the No Betting on Your Own Race Act, was filed… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The Montana Bankers Association has issued a statement supporting Stablecore as a provider of digital asset services for its members. MBA aims to ensure community banks remain strong. Stablecore helps banks to offer payments, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and digital assets from a single platform.  Stablecore is backed by… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Abstract, a consumer-oriented Ethereum layer-2 network backed by Pudgy Penguins parent Igloo Inc., will cease operations on December 15, 2026, after the company concluded that the project could not be sustained. The decision, announced on October 6, ends an effort to turn a well-known digital… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom has moved its first digitally native government bond closer to market by naming the banks that will lead the pilot sale. On 6 October 2026, HM Treasury appointed Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC Capital Markets as joint lead managers… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 2:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has argued that XRP’s pull with certain institutional investors, especially financial advisors, rests on two plain considerations: confidence that the asset will still exist years from now, and a set of uses those advisors already recognize. The comments appear… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 12:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On October 1, 2026, the Ethereum Foundation’s dAI team and the Open Anonymity Project placed zkAPI on Ethereum mainnet, a payment layer that lets people buy metered API access—especially AI inference—without tying the payer’s identity to the requests themselves. Today’s typical AI key points back… Read More