Archives for October 15, 2026

A hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation report briefly lifted bitcoin to nearly $84,000 on Wednesday, then sent it sliding to about $80,400 early Thursday. That’s just above last Thursday’s low of about $80,430. Bitcoin traded under $81,000, down 2.6% over 24 hours. Core inflation, which strips out food and energy, rose to 2.6% against a 2.5% forecast. […]

Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan wants U.S. regulators to oversee financial firms using his blockchain rather than the network itself. Companies operating trading markets on Hyperliquid should be responsible for meeting regulatory requirements, much like financial firms using internet infrastructure, Yan said Thursday in a Bloomberg interview. “The regulation sits at the layer where there are […]

The rules take effect on April 8, 2027. Crypto firms already operating in the country have until Oct. 7 of the next year to apply for a license and can continue doing business while ASIC reviews their applications. For Australian investors, the changes would mean clearer rules on how exchanges hold their assets, execute orders […]

Richard Heart, the founder of crypto projects Hex, PulseChain and PulseX, was arrested in Istanbul on Wednesday in a joint operation by Turkish police and intelligence officers, according to local media reports. Heart, whose legal name is Richard James Schueler, was detained alongside his wife at a property in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district, the Daily Sabah […]

He also pointed to data centers’ job creation, noting demand for construction workers, energy infrastructure and AI compute hardware. Moody’s estimates planned capital spending on U.S. data centers at $700 billion this year, rising to between $2.4 trillion and $2.48 trillion through 2030. Globally, spending is expected to reach $7 trillion by the end of […]