TL;DR: Uniswap has switched on Aggregator Hooks in its web app and API across Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain, bringing outside liquidity sources into the v4 routing system. Uniswap is no longer asking traders to choose between liquidity inside its own pools and prices available elsewhere. On Thursday, Uniswap Labs introduced Aggregator Hooks, a routing […]
Archives for October 23, 2026
Irish Central Bank Fines Coinbase Unit €3.25 Million Over Customer Fund Safeguards
TL;DR: Ireland’s central bank imposed a €3.25 million penalty on Coinbase Ireland over electronic-money safeguarding and outsourcing failings, subject to High Court confirmation. Ireland’s central bank has fined Coinbase Ireland €3,252,618 after finding failures in the way the company safeguarded electronic-money customer funds and oversaw outsourced arrangements. The action, announced Thursday, concerns compliance with Ireland’s […]
Robinhood sees surge in bitcoin, gold prediction markets as traders move beyond sports
The market has grown from its roots in elections into sports, economic data and short-term price bets. Robinhood entered the business through a partnership with Kalshi, a federally regulated prediction market exchange, and has since made event contracts a growing part of its trading platform. The expansion comes as sports contracts face legal challenges from […]
SoFi Launches Yield-Bearing Tokenized Bank Deposit With Stablecoin Conversion
TL;DR: SoFi says its new SOFIE tokenized deposit represents money held at SoFi Bank, advertises 4.40% APY subject to terms, and can convert to SoFiUSD for blockchain transfers. SoFi is offering consumers a new way to hold a dollar balance that earns bank-deposit interest while remaining a short step away from on-chain transfers. Its latest […]
Ethereum Delays Glamsterdam Test On Hoodi Over Smart Contract Compatibility Questions
TL;DR: Ethereum developers have removed the planned October 26 Glamsterdam activation on Hoodi while they investigate EIP-8037 interactions with existing contracts; no replacement date has been announced. Ethereum developers have pulled the October 26 activation of Glamsterdam on the Hoodi testnet, introducing a pause that matters directly to operators preparing for the next network upgrade. […]
Chainlink And LG CNS Target South Korean Banks With Digital Asset Infrastructure Deal
TL;DR: Chainlink and LG CNS are partnering on oracle and cross-chain infrastructure aimed at South Korea’s financial institutions; the announcement is a partnership, not a completed nationwide deployment. South Korea’s next wave of digital-asset infrastructure may be built less around speculative trading apps and more around the plumbing banks need to move real money and […]
Bitcoin Core changes security rules as AI makes finding code bugs dangerously easy
“This is largely due to LLMs drastically reducing the bar to find certain classes of issues or identify covert fixes.” How it works Core can now flag a bug as easy to discover during triage, which in practice means one that “can be found with a simple prompt to an LLM.” Those bugs get a […]
Paybis Adds iDEAL, BLIK, Multibanco and EPS for Buying Crypto in Europe
Customers in the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Austria can now buy crypto on Paybis through a banking app or a payment reference, with no card details needed. The four methods are the first wave of 13 local payment methods Paybis is adding. Riga, Latvia October 23, 2026 — Paybis, a global crypto exchange and payment […]
HSBC Brings Hong Kong Dollar Stablecoin To PayMe As Retail Rollout Begins
TL;DR: HSBC has launched its Hong Kong dollar-backed RedCoin for payments through PayMe, with wallet activation set to expand to millions of users over the coming days. HSBC has made its first stablecoin a consumer payments product, rather than an institutional settlement experiment. On Friday, the bank announced that RedCoin, a Hong Kong dollar-denominated token […]
Bitcoin’s price is as jumpy as Nvidia’s and eight times more turbulent than the euro
Bitcoin’s 90-day realized volatility stood at about 38% as of Thursday, based on CoinDesk’s calculations. Its main rival, gold, is at about 23.5%. The S&P 500 sits at about 11%, so bitcoin is a little over three times as jumpy as stocks. EUR/USD, which matches the euro — the shared currency of 21 countries — […]
