Bitcoin broke above $80,000 as about $300M in short bets were liquidated, and Glassnode data show more shorts stacked above it, clustered near $87,000.

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake hopes the network will finish its post-quantum & post-AI transition by December 2028, a year ahead of the Foundation’s target.

South Korea’s Democratic Party has formally proposed deferring the country’s 22% crypto income tax, which would mark the fourth postponement since 2020.

Democrats secured a 218-seat US House majority late Tuesday, ending four years of Republican control and giving Hakeem Jeffries a path to the speakership.

Vitalik Buterin said AI has broken security assumptions people never questioned, and warned the world is drifting toward domination by the powerful.

Stellar's Bell upgrade, Protocol 30, is live on testnet, adding muxed contract addresses and post-quantum signature checks before a Nov. 23 mainnet vote.

ZachXBT said he found $27M+ more in exchange withdrawals tied to a suspected theft from an EU entity, lifting it to $133M+, and aired a cover-up theory.

The Liquid Federation said its Bitcoin reserves are fully restored, re-establishing 1:1 LBTC backing two months after an exploit drained most of them.

Mercado Bitcoin said its platform stays paused after a $36.3M security incident, with $12.9M blocked so far, and pledged customers will not lose assets.

Bullish named Solana, Aptos and Ethereum as its first networks for issuer-sponsored tokenized shares, after moving 61M tokenized BLSH shares on Solana.

New Jersey's securities regulator told Coinbase on Oct. 29 it intends to rescind its 2023 penalty and cease-and-desist order over staking, a filing shows.

Eligible BitGo Bank & Trust clients can now stake Bitcoin through Stacks and earn BTC rewards while their coins stay timelocked in BitGo's qualified custody.

Binance said attackers in its $6.34B hack used a fake job interview to plant malware, then an internal AI tool to gain control over two wallet engineers.

Moscow Exchange will open Russia’s first organized digital currency market Dec. 1, starting with pilot Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether trades, under Law 282-FZ.

Phantom’s Oct. 28 rollout lets over 20 million users trade CFTC-regulated Kalshi markets on crypto, sports, and politics without leaving its wallet app.

The UK’s NCSC warns AI-powered ransomware could attack critical infrastructure by 2028, even as Chainalysis data shows crypto ransom payouts at a record low.

Societe Generale's prime services arm accepted $10 million of US Treasuries tokenized through DTCC's new service as eligible collateral on the Canton Network.

Aztec’s Tierra upgrade patches a critical proving-system bug found in V5 and roughly doubles private-transaction speed on its Ethereum privacy network.