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Breaking cryptocurrency news, price moves, and deep analysis — from Bitcoin and altcoins to regulation and adoption. Crypto India Magazine covers the global crypto economy.
Indian investors are applying a familiar discipline, regular and systematic SIPs, to crypto’s volatile swings. Crypto SIPs change the timing of each purchase and reduce reliance on market timing. They do not lower risk or replace the harder decision: how much crypto belongs in a portfolio.
An attacker drained about $6.3 billion from Binance hot wallets in roughly 20 minutes on October 29, 2026, the largest crypto theft on record. Inside the EIP-7702 mechanism, the TraderTraitor attribution, Richard Teng’s response, expert guidance for retail users, and the Lazarus Group’s trail.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Crypto exchange Bitget lost roughly $351.6 million after attackers spoofed transfers from its hot and warm wallets. CEO Gracy Chen ties the breach to a North Korea linked group, suspends withdrawals, and says the User Protection Fund covers the loss.
The Senate's 49-50 vote on September 15 stalled the Clarity Act. Within 48 hours, the SEC issued an Innovation Exemption for tokenized stocks, and the CFTC sent a crypto markets rulemaking to the White House and broadened no-action relief for passive software providers.
ECB President Christine Lagarde asked Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis not to approve the Binance MiCA license, the WSJ reports. Greece had signaled approval to ESMA in early June before Binance withdrew on June 24. Greek officials deny interfering, and Binance declined to comment on speculation.
Crypto startup funding hit a 12-month low in April 2026, yet a16z crypto, Haun Ventures, Dragonfly, and Framework Ventures closed billions in new funds. Polina examines why LPs kept writing checks and how stablecoins, tokenization, and AI agents became the pitch that worked.
MENA crypto volume climbed to an estimated $350 billion by 2025-2026 from about $100 billion in 2022, according to the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Turkey leads by transaction value, the UAE by institutional flows, and Saudi Arabia by growth, as conflict and regulation reshape demand.
Strategy returned to an unrealized gain of about $1.4 billion on its 840,447 BTC after bitcoin cleared the company's $75,385 average cost. Spot ETFs took in $606 million on Thursday, Standard Chartered flagged a possible run at $126,000, and Coinbase's CEO looked to 2030.
Boltz has disabled its Bitcoin, Lightning, and Liquid swaps indefinitely after months of automated, AI-assisted probing of its infrastructure. The non-custodial bridge says no user funds were at risk, though attackers now iterate faster than its team can patch.
Crypto SIPs across major Indian exchanges grew more than 60% year-on-year in 2025, and monthly participation has held through a steep 2026 drawdown. Prateek Gupta, Head of Business at Mudrex, argues that India's retail investors are now treating crypto as a portfolio allocation rather than a trade.
The RBI told Parliament's finance panel on July 2, 2026 that crypto should not be legalized, even as tax enforcement widens and a long-awaited policy report heads to the Monsoon Session. What the RBI crypto ban stance means for Indian investors, from the 30% tax to new reporting rules.
Attackers backdoored the official Injective npm SDK on July 8, 2026, planting code that stole crypto wallet seed phrases and private keys across 18 packages. The poisoned version was downloaded 310 times before a clean release shipped. Here is how the attack worked.
Germany's Federal Ministry of Finance has floated ending the one-year crypto tax exemption as part of its 2027 budget. If passed, all crypto gains would become taxable regardless of holding period, ending a key perk for long-term holders.
Trump's 2025 ethics filing shows crypto ventures, led by World Liberty Financial and his TRUMP meme coin, generated more than $1.4 billion, outpacing his real estate income as bitcoin and meme coin prices slide.
