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  • Dogecoin is the crypto market's leading meme coin. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Dogecoin Gets a Dedicated Company to Build Out Its Ecosystem

    Dogecoin is getting a dedicated company to build out its ecosystem, as the teams behind the meme coin’s biggest consumer products fold into a single organization aimed at giving DOGE more everyday uses. Announced Tuesday, Dogecoin Labs was formed together with the Dogecoin Foundation to consolidate the products, intellectual property, and development teams scattered across the Dogecoin world into one independent outfit. Myriad: Where does Solana go next? Click to make your prediction. It will ow...

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  • What Is a Bitcoin-Backed Loan? Borrowing Against BTC Explained

    Most long-term Bitcoin holders know this problem. You need cash for a house deposit, a business or a tax bill, but selling BTC means giving up exposure to its future price. In many countries it also means paying capital gains tax. A Bitcoin-backed loan is a way around that: you pledge your Bitcoin as collateral and borrow dollars or stablecoins against it. The idea is as old as lending itself. People have long borrowed against homes, stock portfolios and gold. What's new is the collateral, an as...

  • Solana tokens. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Solana Alpenglow Goes Live in 'Most Ambitious' Upgrade Since Ethereum's Merge

    Solana's largest consensus upgrade since the network launched in 2020 went live on Wednesday, cutting the time it takes for a transaction to become irreversible from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds, core engineering team Anza said. Validators retired TowerBFT, the consensus protocol Solana had used since March 2020, at slot 459,653,000 at around 14:00 UTC. They switched systems on the running network while carrying its existing ledger forward, with independent operators coordinati...

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    4 min read
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  • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency sign and logo. Washington, D.C. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    OCC Finalizes GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rules Ahead of January Deadline

    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued its final rule implementing the GENIUS Act on Wednesday, setting out the requirements that stablecoin issuers under its oversight will have to meet when the law takes effect on January 18, 2027, the banking regulator announced. The rule applies to payment stablecoin issuers that fall under the OCC's jurisdiction, including subsidiaries of national banks and federal savings associations, nonbank issuers approved at the federal level and some st...

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    3 min read
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  • British pound sterling banknotes. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    UK Banks Hit With 10,000 Complaints Over Blocked Crypto Transfers in 90 Days: Report

    UK bank customers sent 10,092 complaints about blocked or restricted transfers to crypto exchanges over 90 days, crypto advocacy group Stand With Crypto said in a report published on Tuesday. The complaints were filed by 9,803 people between May and August 2026 through an online tool run by the group, and concerned transfers to platforms registered with the Financial Conduct Authority, the UK's financial regulator. They came from every one of the UK's 650 parliamentary constituencies, the group...

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  • Financial stock exchange market display screen board on the street. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Microsoft, Alphabet, Goldman Sachs Join Growing List of Companies Objecting to Tokenized Stocks

    The corporate backlash against tokenized stocks is snowballing. Seven more companies, including Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, and Goldman Sachs, have objected to having their shares traded on OKXICE TSV, according to an updated public notice dated Monday. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. OKXICE TSV is a planned tokenized stock venue from OKX and NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange. Qualcomm, Caterpillar, McDonald’s, and Western Digital also joined the lis...

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  • Stablecoins. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    French Lawmakers Back Stablecoin Swap Tax by Just One Vote

    French lawmakers voted by a single-vote margin on Friday to make swapping cryptocurrency for stablecoins a taxable event, according to the National Assembly's record of the vote. Of the 100 deputies who took part, 38 backed amendment I-3898 to the 2027 budget, 37 opposed it and 25 abstained. That left 75 votes cast, putting the measure exactly at the 38 needed for a majority. French holders can currently move between cryptocurrencies without owing tax, as long as no euros change hands, with the...

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    3 min read
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  • Mt. Gox. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Mt. Gox Pushes Repayment Deadline to 2027 With $2.8B in Bitcoin Still to Distribute

    Mt. Gox's rehabilitation trustee has pushed back the deadline for repaying creditors of the defunct crypto exchange by another year, to October 31, 2027, according to a notice dated Friday. Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi said the base, early lump-sum and intermediate repayments have largely been completed for creditors who finished the necessary procedures and did not run into problems along the way. But "many rehabilitation creditors still have not received their Repayments because they have not co...

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  • BlackRock. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    BlackRock Files for 'Buffer' Bitcoin ETF as IBIT Draws $665M in a Day

    BlackRock has filed to launch a "buffer" Bitcoin ETF that would cap investors' gains in exchange for limiting their losses, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF, which would trade under the ticker PBIT, "seeks to provide upside exposure to the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) and/or similar bitcoin exposure up to an approximate limit, while seeking to provide a level of downside protection," the filing says. The m...

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  • XRP is a top crypto asset by market cap. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    XRP Ledger Repairs Its Lending Protocol Before It Goes Live

    The XRP Ledger is patching its new lending feature before a single loan has been written on it, adding a second code amendment to repair the system while it waits in the network’s approval queue. The ledger’s lending protocol, a DeFi building block that enables on-chain, fixed-term, uncollateralized loans drawn from pooled funds, was introduced through an amendment called LendingProtocol that is still open for validator voting. Myriad: Where does Solana go next? Click to make your prediction. Ra...

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  • Mastercard. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Mastercard Brings Its Fraud-Fighting Tools to Stablecoin Payments

    Mastercard is extending its fraud-fighting playbook to stablecoins, launching a tool that lets financial institutions scan dollar-pegged token payments for fraud, scams, and sanctions exposure before the money ever moves on-chain. Unveiled Monday at the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas, the product, called Stablecoin Security, combines Mastercard’s payment intelligence with blockchain analytics to assess risk across the full life of a transaction, from the moment a payment is initiated through...

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    2 min read
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  • BitMine Chairman Tom Lee. Image: Fundstrat/Decrypt

    Tom Lee’s Bitmine Adds $30 Million in Ethereum as Buying Nears Its Finish Line

    Bitmine Immersion Technologies kept its weekly Ethereum buying streak alive, adding 12,535 ETH worth about $30 million, even as a market-wide selloff battered crypto prices and the firm closed in on the end of its accumulation. The NYSE-listed company said Monday its holdings now total 6,041,481 ETH, valued at roughly $14.3 billion at a reference price of $2,365 per coin. That represents 4.9% of Ethereum’s 122.1 million token supply, leaving Bitmine, by its own count, 99% of the way to its goal...

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    2 min read
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  • Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor. Image: Decrypt

    Strategy Buys $22M in Bitcoin, Buys Back $193M of STRC

    Strategy bought 267 BTC for $22.1 million last week and repurchased $193.1 million of its STRC preferred stock, the company said on Monday. The Bitcoin treasury firm paid an average of $82,900 per coin, including fees, between October 12 and 18, according to an SEC filing. That compares with $86,194 a coin for the 250 BTC it bought the week before, Decrypt reported. Strategy now holds 848,517 BTC, acquired for a total of $64.02 billion at an average of $75,446 per coin. Strategy has repurchased...

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    3 min read
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  • The World Orb. Image: World/Decrypt

    Sam Altman's World Takes Proof-of-Human IDs to Banks, Citing $40B AI Fraud Risk

    World co-founder Alex Blania has unveiled World ID for banking and finance, a suite of tools that lets financial institutions confirm a real person is behind transactions, trades and customer requests, the company said on Sunday. Bain Capital, OpenExchange, Outtake, Pantera Capital and VanEck Funds are initial design partners, according to World. The offering is built on three cryptographic proofs available through the World ID app. Proof of Human establishes that someone is a real and unique pe...

  • Crime. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    UK Trio Jailed Over Home Invasion in Failed Crypto Theft Attempt

    Three men who forced their way into a man's home in Bristol, England, and assaulted him in a failed attempt to steal cryptocurrency have been jailed, Avon and Somerset Police said on Friday. Terroll Paul, 31, Mohamed Samagassi, 37, and Pierre Madzou, 30, broke into the victim's home in the early hours of May 15, assaulted him and demanded he hand over a large amount of digital currency. He was hit over the head, suffering a substantial injury that required hospital treatment. Three men who brok...

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    2 min read
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  • Zcash. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Zcash Developer Zakura Proposes Fix to Stop Quantum Computers Linking Shielded Swaps

    Zakura, a developer of Zcash full node software, has proposed a way to stop a future quantum computer from linking users' private Zcash payments, in an engineering post by Zakura developer Adam Tucker announced on Sunday. The approach needs no network upgrade, Zakura said in a tweet introducing what it called "post-quantum unlinkable swaps for Zcash." Post-quantum unlinkable swaps for Zcash, no network upgrades required.https://t.co/hzBkdo1AHJ — Zakura (@ZakuraZcash) October 18, 2026 Zcash's s...

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    3 min read
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  • Printing money. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Banks Hold a Lever Over Stablecoin Adoption, BIS Economists Say

    Banks worried about losing customers to stablecoins may already have a counterweight: the interest rate on a savings account. That’s the takeaway from a new working paper published by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel-based bank for central banks. Using weekly U.S. data from January 2019 through June 2025, BIS economist Iñaki Aldasoro and Rashad Ahmed of the Andersen Institute for Finance and Economics found that stablecoin growth slows when banks raise deposit rates. Myriad: Wha...

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    3 min read
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  • Strategy is the world's largest corporate holder of Bitcoin. Source: Decrypt/Twitter

    Bitcoin Treasury Giant Strategy Faces Index Removal Under Finalized MSCI Rules

    MSCI has finalized a rule change that threatens to boot Bitcoin treasury companies like Michael Saylor’s Strategy from its widely tracked equity indexes, a move that could cut off a significant source of passive investment demand for their shares. In an announcement dated Oct. 15, the index provider said it will treat “non-operating companies” as ineligible for inclusion in the MSCI Global Investable Market Indexes, implementing a proposal it floated in August with minor modifications. The chang...

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    3 min read
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  • Crime. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Three Canadian Armed Forces Members Charged in Kidnapping of Crypto Exchange Owner

    Toronto police have arrested seven men, three of them members of the Canadian Armed Forces, over the abduction of the owner of a cryptocurrency exchange, the Toronto Police Service announced on Wednesday. Investigators have laid 82 charges, including kidnapping for ransom and numerous firearms offenses. Police did not name the victim or the exchange. Seven men arrested. Firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition seized. Chief @TPSMyronDemkiw speaks about the significant risks officers face...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
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  • Hacker. Image: Shuttertock/Decrypt

    Scammer Lost $4.8M in Bitcoin to Tampered Ledger Wallets: Chainalysis

    Recent revelations of thefts from tampered Ledger hardware wallets sparked some schadenfreude, after it was revealed that one of the biggest victims was a scammer who lost more than 60 BTC. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis revealed the transactions behind the theft, which saw some $4.8 million worth of Bitcoin stolen, in a tweet on Thursday. The Bitcoin came from a task scam, according to Chainalysis. People were paid to fake sales and reviews of real items, until a "negative balance" appea...

    NewsTechnology
    2 min read
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