Chainalysis says one of the biggest Ledger theft victims was a task scammer who lost over 60 BTC, about $4.8M, after moving scam proceeds to Ledger wallets.

A US judge denied Gemini and the CFTC's joint bid to vacate the 2025 consent order behind Gemini's $5M penalty, calling the enforcement shift policy, not law.

OpenAI says an internal research model derived keys from public recovery phrases and spent Sepolia testnet ETH from another account to finish a coding task.

Strive priced 7 million shares of its 15% SATS perpetual preferred stock at $90, raising about $630 million, with uses including more Bitcoin purchases.

Bitcoin held near $82,000 on Friday after traders cut the odds of an October Fed rate hike to about 15% from 28%, with Bitfinex eyeing $83,000 as the next test.

Capital B reported a $78 million first-half net loss after a noncash Bitcoin impairment charge, while it raised $30 million and grew its Bitcoin holdings.

Australia’s Treasury opened consultation on draft legislation to adopt the OECD’s crypto tax reporting framework, with submissions due by Oct. 28, 2026.

MSCI finalized a “non-operating company” screen Thursday that its August simulation flagged against Strategy and Metaplanet, with deletions possible Nov. 11.

VanEck asked the SEC to let it withdraw the S-1 for its proposed Lido Staked Ethereum ETF, which would have held stETH, saying it does not intend to proceed.

Nasdaq-listed Tron Inc. signed a $200 million at-the-market stock sale agreement with Clear Street and plans to use the proceeds mainly to buy more TRX.

Binance.US is seeking up to $100 million at about a $1 billion valuation to grow its US business, Bloomberg reported, well below its 2022 valuation of $4.5B.

Binance says bStocks, its 1:1-backed tokens tracking US stocks and ETFs, passed $1B in assets four months after launch, with over $40B traded since June 11.

Ledger says criminals spent millions planting implants in wallets sold via Southeast Asian resellers, and asked sellers there and in Hong Kong to pause sales.

Mastercard and BVNK launched Global Money Platform on Thursday, letting banks, fintechs, and enterprises combine fiat and stablecoin accounts through one API.

Patrick Witt is leaving his post as executive director of the White House Crypto Council for the private sector, a month after the CLARITY Act's Senate loss.

Crypto liquidations topped $939 million in 24 hours as Bitcoin fell below $80,000 before rebounding, with longs making up 84% of the losses, CoinGlass said.

Bank of Russia guidance says P2P crypto trades between individuals are allowed only until July 1, 2027, and the law rules out self-custody wallet transfers.

Stripe is expanding its stablecoin card infrastructure to support USD, EUR, BRL, MXN and COP, with Plasma as a design partner for multi-currency cards.