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About 1.56 million SOL sat on a validator that stopped earning, and the wallet still hasn’t named the firm that held its keys.

North of $5 billion appears to have been stolen from the world's biggest crypto exchange, Binance, of which some $2.5 billion has been frozen.

The court said bitcoin has a market price, can be cashed out and held by the public. It upheld a 10-year sentence for a man who helped the robbers.

Bermuda chose WalletConnect to bring crypto payments to local merchants, starting with ticketing platform PTIX in the second quarter of 2027.

Lazaro Campos takes the board role as the London-based company reports $300 million in assets locked and more than $1 billion in annual transaction volume.

A market at an inflection point could shape inflation trends and the prices of risk assets, from bitcoin to tech stocks.

Three flaws a language-model scan dug up are the first disclosed under Core’s new rules for bugs that are easy to find.

A key blunder at Indian certificate issuer eMudhra left some Teku and Besu setups trusting forged certificates. Default mainnet nodes weren’t exposed.

Utah has filed criminal charges against betting platform Kalshi and its co-founders.

Bitcoin fell below $80,000 as Alphabet and Samsung-drove tech weakness and a hawkish Fed hold triggered a broad risk-off move. Crypto futures saw $356 million in liquidations.

A full-page warning urging CEOs to opt out of tokenized stock trading drew a response from Securitize and questions over who paid for it.

Prospective borrowers face collateral liquidation risks if bitcoin prices drop, though APX said property and crypto collateral will be handled distinctly.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission held a forum in which the chairman, Mike Selig, suggested AI agents may usher in a financial revolution.

Treating crypto as a political battleground only makes it harder to build the secure, transparent, American-made financial system that most Americans say they want, argues DeFi Education Fund’s Jennifer Rosenthal.

A rate hike in December remains likely as the U.S. central bank continues to focus on inflation, which remains well above its 2% target.

Coinbase faces a key earnings test as analysts debate the strength of its trading rebound following a sharp drop in Robinhood's crypto revenue.

The largest card networks now sit in the top governance tier of x402, the standard that AI agents use to pay for things online. Albert Castellana of GenLayer Labs explains why that standard has no way to dispute a charge, and what happens when the payment settles but the agent receives something wrong or useless.

DTCC's tokenization service went live on Canton Network and private chain Besu, with JPMorgan, Citi and Morgan Stanley among 20 firms signed up.

Nearly half the companies on the venture’s original roster have now objected to their shares trading on the planned blockchain-based venue.

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 28, 2026