Bitcoin is heading into the final hours of October near $77,400, leaving the monthly candle roughly 7.4% below where the month began and less than 2% above the $76,443 level printed during Thursday night’s post-Binance selloff. A Coinbase spot feed showed BTC at approximately $77,414 at 12:53 UTC on October 31. Using the roughly $83,555
HTX, the cryptocurrency exchange formerly known as Huobi, has agreed to stop targeting UK consumers after the Financial Conduct Authority secured High Court undertakings from its operating company, Huobi Global S.A. The settlement ends a year-long legal dispute over alleged breaches of Britain’s financial promotion rules and removes the exchange from the UK market. The
XRP traded near $1.29 on Thursday as Ripple reported that it expects to exit 2026 with an annualized product revenue run rate of approximately $900 million, three times the roughly $300 million level Brad Garlinghouse said the company reached at the end of last year. The contrast is drawing attention to a central question for
Plenty of officials talk about AI. Plenty of founders talk about crypto. Bilal bin Saqib has spent years following both and has since helped build the institution that regulates virtual assets in Pakistan. Now he has put a date on his expectations for what comes next: 2028. Pakistan’s Minister of State and Chairman of the
Cryptocurrency companies and affiliated political groups have spent approximately $176 million across more than 100 U.S. congressional races ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, seeking to build a coalition of lawmakers capable of advancing the industry’s regulatory priorities beyond President Donald Trump’s administration. Fairshake, the sector’s largest super political action committee (PAC), and its
Microsoft offered voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 employees on Monday, roughly a quarter of its workforce, and the stock went up. MSFT traded at $531.60 by late afternoon, a gain of 1.35% on the session, after dipping to $521.69 as the Microsoft layoffs headlines landed. That reversal is the story, because the market initially
XRP entered Fed week around $1.30 after briefly trading as high as $1.3148 on Sunday, with two institutional signals moving in opposite directions: U.S. spot XRP ETFs returned to modest inflows after ending a 13-week winning streak, while the value of their assets remains roughly $322 million below cumulative net subscriptions. The token has also
US spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week ending October 23 with approximately $301.2 million in net inflows, reversing two consecutive weeks of withdrawals despite a $635.6 million exodus on Thursday and another $137.9 million leaving on Friday. The recovery was narrowly supported by BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which attracted $565.7 million over five sessions
Initia halted its Layer 1 blockchain and connected rollups on October 23 after a security incident allowed an attacker to mint tokens without authorization and move approximately $2.7 million worth of assets out before the network was stopped. Initia co-founder Ezaan Mangalji said preliminary findings point to a previously unknown bug in the network’s MoveVM
Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX has acknowledged operational losses after failing to recover deposits sent to wallets compromised during its July 2025 security breach. The admission followed questions from blockchain investigators over approximately $16 million in suspicious transfers involving addresses linked to the exchange. In an updated statement on October 22, CoinDCX said some customers continued