October 4, 2026 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On Thursday, October 2, 2026, attackers briefly seized Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) official account on X and used the company’s enormous audience to push a speculative token built around Clippy, the long-retired Office paperclip assistant. The @Microsoft profile, which has more than 13 million followers, was under… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 1:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

September 2026 was the worst month of the year for crypto theft, and it was not close. Immunefi reported that about $742 million was lost across 33 hacked entities, enough for the month alone to account for roughly a third of all money stolen in… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 1:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) is building research into the access layer of its digital-asset franchise, treating analysis of decentralized finance as infrastructure rather than a side commentary on Bitcoin. This year, the banking institution has placed a dedicated digital assets research desk beside ETF access… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) issued tokenized equities posted the sharpest weekly rise in deposits into decentralized finance venues among major issuers, according to fresh on-chain tracking from Token Terminal. Over the past seven days, balances of those Coinbase tokens sitting in DeFi protocols climbed by $5.6… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:18 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Menos AI, an artificial intelligence platform for institutional investors, has raised $5.1 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by returning investor Copper Sky Capital, with participation from Alpha Square Group. The startup said the fresh funding brings its total funding to more than… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A couple in the West Midlands has described a violent home invasion in which masked intruders beat the husband and threatened to kill his pregnant wife and their unborn child unless cryptocurrency was handed over. The attack took place on the afternoon of 13 December… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European market supervisors are examining whether Binance is still providing crypto-asset services to customers in the European Union without the authorization the bloc’s new regime now requires. Reporting by the FT says the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and national authorities in France, Germany and… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 6:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Drift has begun processing recovery claims for users hit by its April 1 exploit, but the first cash payouts cover barely more than 1 percent of verified losses. The Drift Foundation opened claims and redemptions for DFX on October 1, 2026. DFX is a fixed-supply… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 5:58 am By Michael Wong  |  

FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, will provide a $10 million equivalent loan in Vietnamese dong to Vietnam-based microfinance institution Tinh Thuong One Member Limited Liability Microfinance Institution (TYM), according to project information seen by CrowdFund Insider. The loan will support lending to rural micro-entrepreneurs,… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 3:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Capitolis to acquire eSecLending in $200M, all-cash deal eSecLending is an independent securities lending business working with large asset owners, including pension funds, insurance companies, and asset managers, to lend securities to major global banks. The acquisition lets Capitolis add securities lending as a complementary… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arthur Hayes, chief investment officer of the crypto fund Maelstrom and chief executive of Flop Labs, is arguing that the artificial-intelligence buildout is less a durable earnings story than a credit boom whose eventual strain could force official liquidity back into digital assets. In his… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 12:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy’s (NASDAQ: MSTR) large Bitcoin holdings now sit at the center of a capital-markets operation that raises fresh dollars and distributes regular, dollar-denominated income to preferred investors, while common shareholders retain leveraged exposure to further coin accumulation. In a September 29, 2026 explanation of the… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MetaMask has begun withdrawing a large set of Ethereum validators from active duty after reporting a security incident inside part of its infrastructure. The company says ordinary wallet users were not exposed and that customer funds were not put at risk. The response is concentrated… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s financial regulator has taken the next formal step toward putting tokenized securities into the existing capital markets system, publishing draft subordinate rules that would let the framework start operating in early 2027. On October 1, 2026, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) proposed amendments to… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is widening its partnership with Anthropic, bringing the Claude family of models deeper into day-to-day work across the British universal bank. The October 1, 2026 announcement frames the move as an effort to place secure, enterprise-grade systems throughout global operations, with particular… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blast, the Ethereum Layer 2 network backed by Paradigm, is winding down after concluding that the cost of keeping the chain running has overtaken the revenue it produces. The project said on October 2, 2026, that it no longer sees a workable route to economic… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 6:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Yellow Card expands into Canada Nigeria-founded Yellow Card, a stablecoin infrastructure provider, enables banks, fintechs, and multinational businesses to access US dollars, manage treasury, and move money across borders. Remita app unifies bank apps Remita has launched a new, improved app that unifies multiple bank… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Government bond markets worldwide came under renewed strain at the start of October as investors reassessed the path of inflation and growth, pushing sovereign yields to levels not seen in decades and lifting borrowing costs across major economies. The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield briefly… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Intents suspended its services on October 1, 2026, after identifying a security incident that the team preliminarily linked to roughly $3.8 million in losses. The cross-chain trading protocol said the problem originated in a flaw involving the interaction between its Omni deposit and withdrawal… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evernorth Holdings has cleared a decisive shareholder hurdle on the way to a planned Nasdaq listing, after investors in its blank-check merger partner backed the deal that would turn the firm into a publicly traded vehicle centered on XRP. Evernorth and Armada Acquisition Corp. II… Read More