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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.
BitMine's ether treasury has crossed 6 million tokens, about 4.9% of all ETH, and it has staked 5.07 million of them, worth roughly $13.8 billion. With treasury stocks no longer trading at a premium, the real story is why staking yield has become the center of the strategy.
Blast, an Ethereum layer 2 that once held more than $2 billion, is winding down after its value locked fell about 98% and costs outran revenue. Users have until October 26 to withdraw. It is the latest in a wave of 2026 layer 2 closures as the market thins.
Eight months after a Super Bowl ad and a record $70 million domain, Crypto.com's ai.com personal AI agent is still in stealth mode. We look at why it is taking so long, and test the theory that the AI industry's new safety slowdown is behind the delay. It is not.
Coinbase Ventures and CMCC Global closed a strategic round with Raven, a crypto trading firm, at a $90 million valuation. The size of the raise was undisclosed. Raven provides market making liquidity for prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket as the sector draws heavy capital.
BlackRock's new paper, The Machine-Native Economy, argues autonomous AI agents will become a major source of stablecoin demand, settling machine to machine payments for data, APIs, and compute. It also floats tokenized compute as a new asset class, while conceding the market is early.
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.
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.
CoinDCX has listed Tether Gold (XAUT) for trading and launched a systematic investment plan on the token starting at ₹100. The listing brings the largest tokenized gold product by market cap to Indian investors, with gains falling under India's 30% virtual digital asset tax.
Bitcoin crossed $80,000 on August 24 for the first time since May 15, backed by $1.92 billion in weekly ETF inflows and over $4 billion in liquidated shorts. One trader maps a path back to $45,000, while Bernstein holds $150,000 and Citi's base case sits at $82,000.
Pi Network began deploying Protocol 27 to Testnet 1 on August 21, with September 15, 2026 as the Mainnet target. The Core Team calls it the final planned upgrade in the current sequence, adding smart-contract authentication and groundwork for RPC servers, DEX functions, and AMM pools.
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.
Crypto India Magazine released NARRATIVE Issue 2, The Institutional Era of Crypto, on August 15, 2026. Marc Liew of Jito Foundation fronts the cover story, with features on custody, market infrastructure, and DeFi, three HER Story profiles, and four contributor essays.
Workato has opened its third AI Collaboration Hub in Hyderabad, after San Francisco and Singapore. The site at Aurobindo Orbit puts customers, GSI partners, and Workato engineers in one room to co-build agentic AI against live enterprise systems. Workato India employs more than 200 people.
Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX will shut down on September 23, 2026, following a strategic review by parent company HDR Global Trading. Users have been asked to close open positions and withdraw their assets ahead of the closure as the platform begins an orderly wind down.
Robinhood took its Arbitrum-built Layer 2, Robinhood Chain, live on public mainnet on July 1. The launch brings 24/7 Stock Token trading to more than 120 countries, adds onchain lending through Robinhood Earn, and routes 10% of chain fees back to the Arbitrum ecosystem.
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.
