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    Bithumb Says Hackers Accessed Internal System, Leaking Personal Data

    Bithumb, South Korea's second-largest crypto exchange, said an unauthorized outside party had accessed its internal mobile groupware system, resulting in a leak of personal information, according to Yonhap News Agency. The exchange is investigating whether customer data was compromised, Reuters reported, citing Yonhap. An industry source told Yonhap that some personal information belonging to Bithumb customers had been leaked. Bithumb was one of three South Korean financial firms to report data...

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  • Coinbase is the leading cryptocurrency exchange in the US. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Coinbase Customer Data Hit in Analytics Vendor Breach, Funds ‘Not Impacted’

    Coinbase has said a security incident at Amplitude, a third-party analytics provider, affected contact data belonging to a "small subset" of its customers, while stressing that the exchange itself had not been breached. "Coinbase has not had a data breach," the company's support account said in a tweet on Tuesday night. "Amplitude, an analytics vendor, experienced a security incident which impacted a small subset of Coinbase customer contact data, among other Amplitude customers." Coinbase has...

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  • Circle's USDC and Tether's USDT stablecoins. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Anchorage Positions Itself as Custody Backbone of US-Mexico Stablecoin Corridor

    Anchorage Digital is planting itself at the center of one of the world’s largest money-transfer routes, expanding a custody-and-listing arrangement with Latin American crypto platform Bitso to hold the stablecoins moving between the United States and Mexico. Announced Tuesday, the deal puts Anchorage Digital Bank’s custody beneath both sides of the corridor. MXNB, Bitso’s Mexican peso stablecoin, is now custodied by the federally chartered crypto bank across six blockchains: Arbitrum, Base, Ethe...

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  • Circle is the issuer behind USDC. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Circle Pushes Deeper Into Latin America With USDC Settlement in Colombia

    Circle is extending its reach across Latin America, teaming up with payments-technology firm ACI Worldwide to fold USDC settlement into the region’s existing banking rails, starting with a pilot in Colombia. Announced Tuesday, the collaboration pairs Circle’s USDC infrastructure with ACI Connetic, ACI’s cloud-based payments orchestration platform, to show financial institutions how stablecoin settlement can run alongside traditional payment systems rather than replace them. Myriad: Where does ET...

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    Polymarket Has Investigated 'Dozens' of Midterm Election Bets: Report

    Polymarket has investigated "dozens" of bets on its midterm election markets for possible insider trading and manipulation, the company's head of global intelligence and investigations, Shana Bautista, told NPR. At least two of those investigations have been referred to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, NPR reported, citing a person familiar with the probes. Bautista, a former FBI official and crypto analyst who joined Polymarket in June, said her team of 16 is policing election bets wit...

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  • Ripple is a crypto software company focused on XRP solutions. Source: Ripple/Decrypt

    Ripple Wins Final OCC Approval for Trust Bank Behind $2.6B RLUSD Stablecoin

    Ripple has received final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish Ripple National Trust Bank, a federally supervised national trust bank, the company said on Monday. The approval completes a process that began when the OCC conditionally approved Ripple's application in December 2025, alongside those of Circle, Paxos, Fidelity Digital Assets and BitGo. Once open, the bank will manage the segregated reserves backing the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin, act as collate...

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  • BitMine Chairman Tom Lee. Image: BitMine/Decrypt (upscaled with AI)

    Tom Lee's Bitmine Keeps Buying Ethereum But Pivots to Record Share Buybacks

    Bitmine Immersion Technologies kept its weekly Ethereum buying streak intact, adding 10,452 ETH worth roughly $24 million, but the bigger move this week was a turn toward buying back its own stock, which the company says is now the largest equity repurchase program any crypto treasury firm has run. The NYSE-listed firm said Monday it repurchased 2.04 million of its own shares over the past week at an average price of $22.48, bringing its 2026 total to 22.9 million shares bought back for about $3...

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  • Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei. Image: Decrypt/Anthropic

    Anthropic Makes IPO Filing Public, Plans Nasdaq Listing Under ‘ANT’

    Anthropic, the developer of the Claude family of AI models, has filed for an initial public offering, the company announced on Monday. The company plans to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "ANT," according to its S-1 registration statement. The number of shares and the price range have not yet been set. Both Anthropic and existing shareholders will sell shares, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley named first among 24 underwriters. Anthropic has...

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    Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying, Spends $205M Buying Back STRC

    Strategy did not buy any Bitcoin last week, breaking a run of weekly purchases that began in mid-September, as it spent $204.9 million buying back its STRC preferred stock instead, the company said on Monday. The Bitcoin treasury firm also sold no shares through its at-the-market offering program between October 19 and 25, according to an SEC filing. It holds 848,517 BTC, acquired for a total of $64.02 billion at an average of $75,446 per coin. Strategy has repurchased $205M of $STRC. As of 10/...

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    Bitcoin Dips Below $80,000 Ahead of Fed Decision, Midterms

    Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 over the past 24 hours, as a sell-off in technology stocks and nervousness ahead of the Federal Reserve's rate decision weighed on risk assets. The leading cryptocurrency fell as low as $79,332 before recovering to $80,240, down 2.5% over the past week, according to CoinGecko data. It remains about 36% below its all-time high of $126,080. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $635.5 million in net outflows on Thursday, wiping out most of the gains from a three-day run of infl...

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    Israel's Central Bank Rebukes Netanyahu Plan to Use Crypto to Dodge Sanctions

    Israel's central bank has rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's suggestion that cryptocurrency could help the country get around potential international sanctions, in a rare public rebuke days before Tuesday's national election. Cryptocurrencies "cannot serve as a means to circumvent sanctions imposed on Israel," the Bank of Israel said in a statement on Saturday, according to the Financial Times. "The right course of action for the Israeli economy is to preserve economic relations with o...

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    Interpol Recovers $105M in African Cybercrime Sweep That Shut Illegal Crypto Mines

    Law enforcement agencies from 21 countries arrested 1,462 suspects, disrupted 10,909 malicious networks and recovered more than $105 million in an Interpol-coordinated crackdown on cybercrime in Africa, the international police organization said on Thursday. Operation Serengeti III ran from June 29 to August 31, 2026, targeting ransomware, online scams, business email compromise, digital extortion and other cyber-enabled fraud. Authorities identified 65,929 victims, and financial investigations...

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    Ethereum Delays Glamsterdam Testnet Fork Over Gas Security Flaws

    Ethereum developers have postponed the planned activation of the network's Glamsterdam upgrade on its Hoodi test network after security firm ChainSecurity found problems with how the upgrade changes gas, the auditor said on Thursday. "It has just been decided to delay the Glamsterdam hard fork on the Hoodi testnet because of security impacts we identified," ChainSecurity wrote, adding that it had "already found 13 real-world examples" and was in responsible disclosure with the affected projects....

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  • Heatbit Bitwater. Image: Heatbit/Decrypt

    Heatbit's $899 Water Heater Element Mines Bitcoin While It Heats Your Tank

    Heatbit, which makes space heaters with built-in Bitcoin miners, has unveiled a water heater element that mines Bitcoin while it heats water, the company said in a tweet on Thursday. The element, called Bitwater, replaces the resistance wire in a standard electric water heater element with 20 Bitcoin mining chips, so the heat they give off warms the water instead. "Same heat, same electricity, plus bitcoin," Heatbit wrote, arguing that "the electricity was going to be spent on hot water anyway."...

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    What Is a Neocloud? The GPU Clouds Powering the AI Boom

    Training and running modern AI models takes a huge amount of computing power, almost all of it from graphics processing units (GPUs). For most of the past decade, renting servers meant going to one of the "hyperscalers": Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. When the ChatGPT boom set off a scramble for GPUs, a new kind of company stepped in to meet the demand. These are the neoclouds. Neoclouds are specialist cloud providers that do one thing: rent out GPU capacity for AI trainin...

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    Italy Busts Mafia 'Secret Bank' That Laundered Money Through Crypto, Seizes $24M

    Italian police have arrested 30 people accused of running an underground bank for organized crime from a car-rental business near Milan, and seized €21 million (about $23.6 million) in cash, bank balances, cryptocurrency, boats, jewelry and luxury watches, Italian news agency ANSA reported on Wednesday. The operation, carried out by the Guardia di Finanza, Italy's financial police, on the orders of Milan's anti-mafia prosecutors, targeted suspects linked to the 'Ndrangheta, the Camorra and organ...

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    Chinese Prosecutors Seek to Confiscate $5.1B in Bitcoin Seized by UK in Qian Case

    Prosecutors in China have applied to confiscate the 61,896 BTC seized from Zhimin Qian in the UK, and a court in Tianjin has agreed to hear the case, according to a court notice reported by Chinese outlet The Paper. The Bitcoin is worth about $5.1 billion at its current price of around $82,000. The Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People's Court said it accepted the application from the city's prosecutors on September 28, and published a notice on October 13. The court said there was evidence that Qi...

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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...

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    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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