Eclair tightens Bitcoin funding rules after unconfirmed inputs put Lightning payments at risk
The October 27 release requires confirmed peer inputs for splices by default and improves recovery when a channel must close...
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Crypto Bank Custodia Urges Supreme Court to End ‘Tyranny’ of Federal Reserve
Custodia Bank has filed a reply brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a 10th Circuit decision that allowed...
Kalshi, Polymarket Predictors Favor Democrats to Sweep 2026 Midterms
Both prediction market platforms predict Democrats will retake control of both the House and Senate in the upcoming midterm elections,...
Metaplanet Buys Back 96.4M Shares to Boost Bitcoin Per Share
Metaplanet repurchased 96.4 million shares in just over two weeks, deploying about $160 million as the bitcoin treasury company shifts...
Binance May Have Lost Around Half of 5-Year Profits to Fines and Hacks: Analysis
Binance’s “cost of doing business,” including fines and hack losses, could equal more than half of the largest crypto exchange’s...
Strive Adds $10M in Bitcoin Following Massive $511M Buying Spree
Strive said it bought $10 million in bitcoin last week, increasing its holdings to 43,124 BTC as its investment chief...
Binance Hack Fallout Keeps Bitcoin Price Under Pressure Below $77K
Bitcoin slipped below $77,000 on Monday, despite Binance’s announcement that it had fully replenished assets lost in the recent hack...
Nvidia, Costco, Nike Among 12 New Firms Opposing OKXICE Tokenized Stocks Plan
Nvidia, Costco, Nike, and Reddit are among 12 additional companies that have objected to having their shares tokenized on OKXICE’s...
Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin Halts Withdrawals After Estimated $46M Stolen
Mercado Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Brazil, said Monday that it had halted deposits and withdrawals following a “security...
Bitmine Hits 99% of Ether Goal as Tom Lee Downplays Impact of $6.3B Binance Hack
Bitmine Immersion Technologies has moved closer to its ambitious goal of owning 5% of ether’s total supply, while Chairman Tom...
HSBC’s Redcoin Stablecoin Draws 50k Users in Launch Week
While the bank ultimately wants Redcoin, one of the first regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoins, to reach millions, the token...
Bitcoin Lightning’s year-old security fixes still missing from 71% of flagged nodes
An October 21 preprint estimates 71% of an exposed LND cohort remained on affected release lines at its October 13...
Treasury dealers’ financing burden can outlast their bond holdings, Fed study finds
Customer financing persisted beyond inventory effects in historical data, leaving Bitcoin spillover dependent on evidence from crypto credit markets. Read...
RLUSD supply fell 29% on XRPL. One XRP trading pool barely changed
Ledger readings showed similar XRP/RLUSD pool reserves and uneven funded offers, while the reported supply decline's cause remains unresolved. Read...
Cardano’s 2027 budget proposal would let funding stewards seek grants too
Proposed stewards could influence assessments while DReps retain spending votes and a direct funding route awaits its allocation. Read the...
