Binance is closing Binance Pool and related mining services on November 10, 2026, at 07:00 UTC. The shutdown ends Cloud Mining, Pool Savings, the Transaction Accelerator, hashrate alerts, and the pool API. Miners must switch pools, redeem Pool Savings, and verify accounts before the cutoff.
BitMine chairman Tom Lee says a $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion generational wealth transfer between 2026 and 2028 could drive crypto demand, as the firm buys another 12,532 ether and moves within about 76,000 tokens of owning 5% of the ether supply.
India’s CBI has arrested four people over an alleged India-based Bitcoin ATM scam that impersonated Microsoft and pushed elderly US citizens into crypto payments. A Florida victim lost about $440,000 and a New Jersey victim about $130,000, as India tightens rules on crypto-enabled crime.
Tokenized commodities are moving beyond gold. Oil tokens, silver, copper, and a tokenized oil and gas fund with secured lending point to a wider market, even as Tether Gold and Paxos Gold still account for more than 90% of the roughly $5 billion sector, according to Token Terminal.
The XRP Ledger activated permission delegation on October 8, letting an account owner authorize another account to send specific transactions without sharing master keys. The XRPL documentation advises against delegating PaymentBurn for now.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warns AI-accelerated math research has a "good chance" of seriously weakening lattice-based cryptography within two years. He also flagged added ECDSA risk and said Ethereum's Lean roadmap is shifting toward hash-based signatures.
OxPay Financial's subsidiary Oxygen7 received a full Financial Services Licence from Bhutan's Gelephu Financial Services Office on April 29, 2026, clearing the way for a regulated crypto payments and stablecoin remittance platform targeting GMC's tourism and B2B sectors.
The third edition of Money20/20 Asia drew 4,500+ attendees from 90 countries to Bangkok over April 21-23, marking a 40% jump year on year. Stablecoins, tokenization, CBDCs, and AI dominated the agenda, with senior executives from KASIKORNBANK, Standard Chartered, J.P. Morgan, and DBS Bank attending.
Drift Protocol was drained for $285M by North Korean hackers on April 1. Circle didn't freeze $230M in stolen USDC. Now Tether is backing a $148M recovery and Drift relaunches on USDT.
Running just 230 TH/s against a 1 ZH/s network, one solo miner found Bitcoin block 943,411 and pocketed 3.139 BTC, $210K, via CKPool. It's the 312th solo win in CKPool's history.
Athena Intelligence is moving into one of the world's most complex corporate risk environments, with a local hire and a senior advisory bench that signals serious intent.
Larry Fink says tokenization could do for finance what the internet did to mail — and BlackRock isn't waiting around. With $150B already in digital markets, the world's largest asset manager is building the future it's describing.
Online discussions circulating on Chinese social media platforms show high-end homes in Shenzhen Bay, once considered among the most resilient property markets in mainland China, being weighed directly against assets such as Bitcoin, Nvidia shares, and BNB.
Prosperr.io builds AI powered tax management infrastructure aimed at simplifying compliance for individuals and enterprises operating across increasingly complex financial and regulatory environments.
Digital South completed two separate training programs for officers in Tamil Nadu, each focused on the growing challenges around crypto-related crime, financial fraud, and digital investigations.
The joint venture also aligns with SoftBank and OpenAI’s involvement in the Stargate project, an ambitious AI infrastructure initiative in the U.S., backed by Oracle and reportedly supported by former President Donald Trump.
Altman announced in a blog post that OpenAI's user base has tripled to over 300 million weekly active users, positioning the company as a frontrunner in the race toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
"If you create a chatbot and ask it a question about Tiananmen, it won’t respond the same way as a system developed in France or the U.S.," he said.
If successful, this latest fundraising round would bring Crusoe’s total funding to approximately $1.5 billion, combining equity and debt. In 2022, the company raised $200 million in debt, using its data center chips as collateral to acquire AI processors.
The new fund’s limited partners include organizations like the McKnight Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, UBS, Woven Earth Ventures, and Zoma Capital. Blue Bear plans to invest in about 15 companies, prioritizing smaller portfolios to ensure successful exits.
Anthropic announced the partnership last week, stating that its generative AI models would empower defense agencies with rapid data processing and analysis tools.
These AI-CoEs, launched in collaboration with leading academic institutions such as AIIMS, IIT Delhi, IIT Ropar, and IIT Kanpur, aim to boost India’s presence in the global AI landscape.
Hinton stressed the need to be concerned about the negative consequences of AI advancements, noting that we lack experience in managing systems smarter than humans.
The host highlighted one of Perplexity’s final questions: “Discuss his views on failure in the tech industry. How does he encourage his team to take risks, and what lessons has he learned from setbacks in his career?”
