Ethereum developers merged a fix for a Glamsterdam bug that could have credited staking deposits meant for new validators to builders, letting an operator withdraw the ETH. The patch entered Ethereum’s consensus specs on October 26, 2026. No losses were reported ahead of mainnet.
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has published a draft proposal to end the Zcash grants funding stream, arguing the Zcash Community Grants treasury of about $125 million can run for years without fresh inflows. The redirected 8% share would move to the Network Sustainability Mechanism.
India’s largest crypto exchange CoinDCX said it absorbed a 15.99 million USDT loss, about $16 million, after an internal sweeping process failed to move customer deposits out of a wallet it retired following its July 2025 breach. CEO Sumit Gupta had first called the reports a false alarm.
HSBC has begun a phased rollout of HSBC RedCoin, its Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin, to more than 3.3 million PayMe users and about 100,000 merchants. The bank plans to add tokenized money market fund subscriptions from HK$100 to its mobile banking app before the end of 2026.
Chinese prosecutors have applied to confiscate more than 61,800 bitcoin and other assets tied to a 40.378 billion yuan ($5.7 billion) fraud led by Qian Zhimin. A Tianjin court accepted the request, days after a UK court ruled Chinese law governs victims’ claims to the seized coins.
JPMorgan Chase is bringing JPM Coin (JPMD), its US dollar deposit token, to Ethereum for institutional clients, moving beyond Base where it launched in November 2025. Kinexys cited Ethereum’s onchain liquidity. The token stays restricted to approved, vetted counterparties.
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman named capital outflows as a top 2027 risk, speaking in Bangkok as Indian stocks fell over 12% and foreign investors pulled $33 billion. The warning lands as Jio’s record IPO is already priced through Bitget’s JIOUSDT pre-IPO crypto futures.
Capital B reported a €69.5 million ($78M) net loss for the first half of 2026, with about 97% of it a non-cash Bitcoin impairment tied to the June 30 price. Revenue rose 3.5%, and the French treasury company kept buying, holding 3,538 BTC by September 30, up 25.3% since January.
The delayed US September CPI came in at 3% and crypto sold off, with Bitcoin below $81,000 and XRP down over 4%. With the rupee near a record low and the RBI intervening, Bitcoin and XRP prices in India can move differently from their US dollar charts. Here is why that happens.
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.
