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While traders spent this week watching bitcoin BTC$81,892.80 gyrate above $80,000 amid key U.S. inflation data, a decision from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission got far less attention. The (SEC) approved the listing of binary options tied to key performance indicators (KPIs) of 23 U.S. publicly traded companies. The metrics include trading volume at crypto exchange Coinbase Global (COIN), customer count and revenue at Robinhood Markets (HOOD), and bitcoin production at mining firm MARA Holdings (MARA).“For crypto, this creates a new way to trade crypto-linked company performance beyond betting directly on BTC’s price,” Eleanor Terrett, the host of Crypto…

Circle breaks down its USDC revenue: about $1.4 billion in H1 2026, $819 million to partners and transaction costs, $473 million reinvested.

Ethereum is attempting to recover after a sharp sweep below the $2.4K support region, now trading around $2.45K. The rebound has brought the price back to the upper boundary of a key demand zone, but the market still needs to show that buyers can hold this area before the broader recovery can be considered back on track. Meanwhile, the Coinbase Premium Index has dropped to its deepest negative reading in months, suggesting that US-based demand remains weak despite the latest bounce. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, Ethereum continues to trade within the ascending channel that…

In brief Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said one of the biggest victims of the Ledger wallet drain was a scammer who lost more than 60 BTC, about $4.8 million. The scammer moved the proceeds into three Ledger addresses on September 22, and thieves emptied all three into a single wallet on October 9. Ledger has tied all confirmed losses to devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis, though Chainalysis did not say where the scammer bought the devices. Recent revelations of thefts from tampered Ledger hardware wallets sparked some schadenfreude, after it was revealed that one of the biggest victims was a…

To be fair to OpenAI, it allowed the testing in the first place. But it shows how much rides on what a company chooses to share.A trained AI model is essentially a very large file of numbers, often costing more than $100 million to produce, and whoever has a copy has the model. Handing copies to outsiders is a security risk. Until recently, that left testers with an awkward choice, which Google DeepMind has described well: either the testers hand over their questions, so the company sees the exam in advance, or the company hands over its model.In August, DeepMind…

Japan’s three megabanks, Mizuho, MUFG and SMBC, announced on October 16 that they completed a joint yen stablecoin pilot for cross-border payments, conducted in July. The test points to a new model for bank-issued digital money, with real transactions targeted for fiscal 2026. How the Yen Stablecoin Pilot Worked Three major Japanese megabanks and two partners took part in the pilot project. The banks issued one shared yen token, which the group tested end to end. BREAKING: 🇯🇵 Japan’s three largest banks completed their first cross-border stablecoin payment test.MASSIVE! 🚀— Crypto Rover (@cryptorover) October 16, 2026 The partners split the…

Aave’s proposed native Bitcoin lending market would keep collateral in Bitcoin while borrowing wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) to pay outside liquidators immediately. Suppliers financing those payouts would face any settlement shortfall without funded protection.The design in Babylon Labs’ Oct. 14 proposal separates fast liquidation from the slower redemption of Bitcoin collateral. Its open route draws WBTC from Aave’s shared liquidity pool, called a Hub, until a permissioned buyer takes over the vault.A direct keeper route lets an authorized operator finance repayment and redeem the BTC itself.The Aave Request for Comment lists feedback, a conditional Snapshot vote, and an eventual on-chain proposal…

New York, New York, October 16th, 2026, Chainwire The three-month championship brings Hyperliquid and Decibel traders together for cash prizes and exclusive Ferrari Formula 1 experiences at Suzuka, as tokenization expands access to global financial markets. Tria, the self-custodial financial platform unifying trading, yield, and payments, today announced the launch of the Tria Grand Prix, a three-month global perpetual futures trading competition featuring $120,000 in prizes and an extraordinary grand prize: three-day Ferrari F1 Paddock Club experiences for the competition’s two top eligible traders at the 2027 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix. Running from October 16, 2026, through January 16,…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 16, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its October 2026 Proof of Reserves (PoR) report. Independently audited by Hacken, the report confirms that the platform’s reserves continue to fully cover user holdings across all major reserve assets. As part of its commitment to putting users first, MEXC publishes monthly reserve data that users can independently verify, reinforcing user trust through transparency. According to the audit report, MEXC’s reserve ratios stand at 294% for BTC, 122% for USDT, 115% for USDC and 111% for ETH. All four reserve ratios exceed the 100%…

Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, October 15th, 2026, Chainwire On October 15, with the help of independent security researchers, we found a vulnerability affecting one of the integrations used on the ChangeNOW website. The vulnerability has now been fixed. We currently have no evidence that it was exploited. But we also can’t assume that the researchers who reported it were the only ones to find it. Because of that, we’re looking at the different possible scenarios and warning clients about the information that could potentially have been exposed. This may include email addresses and transaction details. Please note ChangeNOW’s…