Bitcoin, ether and many other tokens have pulled back sharply from their 2025 peaks, yet remain far above their 2017 highs. Too many coins Analysts point first to XRP’s supply. “Circulating supply grew 63%, from 38.7B in 2017 to 63.1B, while XRP’s total market value fell only about 3%,” Nicolai Sondergaard, senior research analyst at […]
Archives for October 15, 2026
An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own
An OpenAI research model stuck without funds on an Ethereum test network went looking for someone else’s wallet, found one through recovery phrases that were already public, and spent from it to finish a coding assignment, the company disclosed Thursday. The incident occurred on June 26 during training of an internal model in the GPT-5.6 […]
Bitcoin buyers snap up a brief drop below $80,000 as Asian stocks rebound
Bitcoin rose 1.3% to nearly $82,000 as of Friday Asian morning hours after buyers pounced on a brief drop below $80,000, with Asian chip stocks bouncing back from Thursday’s rout. ZEC was the standout among the majors, jumping 8% to about $1,190. SOL, ether, XRP and TRX added about 1% apiece, and BNB went nowhere, […]
At the White House, crypto policy vacancy looms large
During that legislative process, Sacks stepped down from the czar role in March, leaving Witt and his deputy, Harry Jung, trying to manage the administration’s crypto stance. That was complicated by the fact that President Trump’s own crypto empire figured prominently in the talks, as Democrats demanded that senior government officials be blocked from personal […]
Crypto for Advisors: Wall Street is done waiting on Congress for crypto rules
That question ran through a Crain’s New York Business event last week, whether the topic was tokenization, compliance or cybersecurity. The people closest to the work aren’t waiting for Congress. They’re building for the world as it is. Adam Schumann, vice president of legal at OKX, laid out the legal problem. U.S. firms answer to […]
BingX EU Secures MiCAR License, Advancing Regulated Crypto Services Across Europe
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How Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI took down a massive crypto fraud network targeting Russian speakers
Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI have seized or disrupted 241 websites and 112 servers tied to a crypto investment scam that allegedly stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian-speaking victims in the U.S. The operation, carried out last week, came after a three-year investigation into a fraud network that relied on online infrastructure and […]
Under pressure, Ledger unveils plan to turn its crypto hardware wallet into a smartphone
The compromised wallets allegedly contained hidden chips capable of intercepting users’ 24-word recovery phrases — the stream of random words that only the owner of the wallet should know as the ultimate safeguard to their digital assets — by reading signals from their screens. The incident largely affected users in Southeast Asia, with Ledger citing […]
Bitcoin, copper, stocks, yields all fall; gold rises
Bitcoin BTC$80,955.28 has dropped more than 2% in the past 24 hours, with some of the other major coins such as XRP (XRP), ether ETH$2,443.78 and solana (SOL) sliding even further. The move looks less like a crypto-specific story and more like a broad-based exit from riskier investments. Futures tied to copper, a closely watched […]
Altcoins lead crypto declines as Asian stocks drop; bitcoin little changed since midnight
Bitcoin BTC$80,955.28 is trading at $81,200, down around 0.5% since midnight UTC after trimming a 1% loss from earlier in the session, with buyers stepping in just above $80,000 at around 02:30 UTC, close to the Oct. 8 low of about $80,300. Asian equities set the tone, with South Korea’s Kospi plunging 8% and triggering […]
