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  • Blur. Image: Blur/Decrypt

    NFT Marketplace Blur to Shut Down Website, Stop New Blend Loans Next Month

    Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur will shut down its website on November 12, the company said. The deprecation applies only to the blur.io frontend. The Blur marketplace protocol will remain operational on-chain, and holders of the BLUR token will continue to control its fee switch, the team said. 1/ The https://t.co/zPQ1jqR7pT frontend will be deprecated on November 12, 2026. This deprecation only applies to the frontend. The Blur marketplace protocol will remain operational on-chain, and $BLUR wi...

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  • Ledger hardware wallets. Image: Ledger/Decrypt

    Ledger Says All Confirmed Cases in Suspected $87M Drain Tied to Reseller CryptoBilis

    Ledger said all confirmed cases in last week's draining incident involve devices sold through reseller CryptoBilis, and that its own systems and direct sales channels remain unaffected, in a 72-hour update on Sunday. "The volume of impacted devices is limited," the Paris-based hardware wallet manufacturer said, adding that it is working with relevant authorities and reaching out to affected users. It said CryptoBilis has confirmed it has ceased all sales of hardware wallets. 72 hour update on r...

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  • XRP is a top crypto asset by market cap. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    XRP Ledger’s Payment Engine Had a Counterfeiting Bug Hiding Since 2015

    Developers behind the XRP Ledger have disclosed and fixed a critical vulnerability that, left unaddressed, could have let an attacker conjure XRP out of thin air, a flaw that sat dormant in the network’s code for roughly a decade. In a disclosure published Friday, the ledger’s maintainers said a researcher reported the bug through the XRPL bug bounty program in September. The issue was an integer overflow in the payment engine, the part of the software that processes payments. Myriad: Where does...

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  • BitMine Chairman Tom Lee. Image: BitMine/Decrypt (upscaled with AI)

    Bitmine Adds $32M in Ethereum as Tom Lee Says Firm Is Nearly 'Done Stacking'

    Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought 12,532 ETH over the past week, worth about $31.9 million at the $2,544 price the company used to value its holdings and lifting its holdings to 6,028,946 ETH, the company said Monday. The stash represents 4.9% of the total 122.1 million Ethereum token supply, leaving the firm 99% of the way to its goal of owning 5%, a target it calls the "Alchemy of 5%." 🧵1/BitMine provided its latest holdings update for October 12, 2026 $16.2 billion in total crypto + "mo...

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  • Strategy is the world's largest corporate holder of Bitcoin. Source: Decrypt/Twitter

    Strategy Scoops Up $21.5M in Bitcoin, Buys Back $192M in STRC

    Strategy bought 250 BTC last week and spent $192.4 million repurchasing its STRC preferred stock, the company said on Monday. The Bitcoin treasury firm paid $21.5 million for the coins between October 5 and October 11, an average of $86,194 per Bitcoin including fees, according to its release. It now holds 848,250 BTC, a new record, acquired for a total of $64 billion at an average of $75,444 per coin. Strategy raised $21 million by selling about 125,000 shares of its MSTR common stock through i...

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  • Bitcoin. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Ranges Near $83K as Traders Look to US Inflation Data

    Bitcoin inched higher on Monday, trading at $83,327, up 0.6% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data. The asset is still down 2.9% over the past week. The cryptocurrency has "struggled against an increasingly challenging macroeconomic backdrop," Daniela Hathorn, senior market analyst at Capital.com, told Decrypt. "Rising energy prices have reignited inflation concerns, pushing US Treasury yields higher and strengthening the dollar as investors reassess the Federal Reserve's interest...

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  • Judge with gavel. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    UK Freezes $12M London Penthouse of Alleged Prince Group Finance Chief

    UK authorities have frozen a London penthouse overlooking Buckingham Palace that belongs to Thet Li, the alleged finance chief of Prince Group, The Times reported Sunday. Li, 39, paid £8.9 million in 2022 for the 13th-floor apartment near St James's Park, according to the report. Authorities placed a freezing order on its Land Registry record following a Foreign Office investigation. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Li in October 2025 among 146 Prince Group targets, describing him as a "de facto ill...

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    3 min read
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  • Bitcoin. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana ETFs All in the Red for October

    “Uptober” isn’t living up to its name for crypto ETFs. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $21.1 million on Friday, according to Decrypt’s ETF tracker. That’s a modest bounce after back-to-back outflows of $484.9 million on Wednesday and $244.1 million on Thursday. Even so, the funds are down a net $386.3 million through the first seven trading days of October. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Bitcoin and other crypto asset ETFs allow investors to gain exposure to digit...

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    This Sam Altman-Backed Life Insurer Runs Entirely on Bitcoin, and Just Raised $37.5 Million

    Meanwhile, a life insurance company that operates entirely in Bitcoin, has raised $37.5 million as demand for its unusual policies climbs among wealthy families overseas. The Bermuda-based insurer said Thursday the funding came from existing investors, led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Haun Ventures, Framework Ventures, Pantera Capital, Apollo, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, and Morgan Creek Digital. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Meanwhi...

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  • Judge with gavel. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    New York AG Secures Up to $35M and Industry Ban From Ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky

    New York Attorney General Letitia James has permanently barred former Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky from the securities, commodities and crypto industries, and secured up to $35 million from him, her office announced Friday. The payments are conditional, with Mashinsky required to pay New York $25 million if he fails to forfeit a further $10 million in ill-gotten gains to the federal government under his plea agreement, and $10 million if he does not serve his full prison sentence. We're b...

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  • Ledger Nano. Image: Ledger/Decrypt

    Ledger Probes Potential Theft of $87M in User Funds Tied to Crypto Wallet Reseller

    Ledger is telling some customers to hold off on setting up their hardware wallets. The Paris-based wallet maker said Friday it is investigating reports that users in Southeast Asia who bought devices from a reseller called CryptoBilis have lost funds. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. “As a precaution, and pending the results of our investigation, we have asked CryptoBilis to pause all sales and shipments of Ledger devices,” the company’s support account wrote o...

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  • Moscow, Russia. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    UK Targets Cryptomus and TokenSpot in New Russia Sanctions Package

    The UK has sanctioned three crypto exchanges and two payment platforms that it suspects Russia is using to circumvent financial sanctions, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said Thursday. The targets include Xeltox Enterprises, a Vancouver-registered company designated through its ownership of Cryptomus and activities "linked to and continued via" Heleket, according to the UK's sanctions notice. Kyrgyz firms TokenSpot and Tsunami Payments, which share an office tower in Bishkek, wer...

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  • Handcuffs and Bitcoin logo. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Empire Market Co-Creator Sentenced to 40 Years Over $430M Dark Web Bazaar

    A co-creator of darknet marketplace Empire Market has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois said Wednesday. Raheim Hamilton, 30, of Suffolk, Virginia, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Steven C. Seeger in Chicago, and fined $5 million. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to a drug conspiracy charge. Co-Creator of Dark Web Marketplace Sentenced to 40 Years in Federal Prison @FBIChicago @USPIS_CHI @HSINewYorkhttps:...

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    SIM-Swap Fraudster Who Spent Stolen Crypto on Gold Grills and Dubai Trips Jailed

    A London man has been jailed for two and a half years for his role in a “complex and calculated” SIM-swap fraud that stole almost £200,000 ($265,000) worth of cryptocurrency, City of London Police said Thursday. Ajay Shinjin, 25, also known as AJ Marley Cruz, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court after pleading guilty on September 28 to conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation and transferring criminal property. A SIM-swap fraudster who spent stolen crypto cash on gold teeth grill...

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    3 min read
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  • Wall Street. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Securitize Brings Nvidia, Apple and Amazon Onchain With Tokenized Stocks on Solana

    Tokenization platform Securitize is bringing a dozen of the biggest U.S. stocks to crypto traders, launching tokenized equities backed one-to-one by real shares, with Solana as the first network. Announced Wednesday, the new Securitize Stocks product opens with security entitlements to 12 widely held names, including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Circle, Strategy and Palantir. Myriad: How high will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction. The tokens will initia...

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    2 min read
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  • Judge's gavel. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Uranium Finance Hacker Who Bought Pokémon and Magic Cards Convicted Over $50M Theft

    A Manhattan jury has convicted Jonathan Spalletta of computer fraud and money laundering over two 2021 hacks of decentralized crypto exchange Uranium Finance, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Spalletta, 36, of Rockville, Maryland, was charged over the exploits in March. He was convicted on all counts after a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for computer fraud and 20 years for money laundering. Jonathan Spalletta convicted for d...

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    3 min read
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  • Athens, Greece. Image: Rafael Hoyos Weht/Unsplash/Decrypt

    Greece Plans 10% Crypto Capital Gains Tax, Down From 15% Floated in June

    Greece plans to impose a 10% capital gains tax on cryptocurrencies, according to a draft bill published for public consultation, Reuters reported Thursday. Crypto gains of up to €500 (about $560) a year would be exempt. Greece currently has no comprehensive legal framework for taxing crypto, according to the report. The proposed rate is lower than the 15% that two government officials told Reuters was planned in June. One official said at the time that individual crypto mining would not be taxed...

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  • The Samsung Galaxy S26 line. Image: Decrypt/Samsung

    Samsung Wallet Taps Solana for USDC Transfers on 82M US Galaxy Devices

    Samsung Wallet will let U.S. users send Circle's USDC stablecoin across borders on Solana starting in the last week of October, the Solana Foundation announced Wednesday. The feature, which also extends to Samsung Pay, will be available on 82 million U.S. Galaxy devices at launch. Built-in fiat on- and off-ramps will convert to and from local currency, with Solana's infrastructure operating "behind the scenes," according to the release. BREAKING: Samsung partners with Solana to bring stablecoin...

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    3 min read
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  • Handcuffs and Bitcoin logo. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Engineer Gets 32 Months for Bitcoin Extortion Plot Against His Own Employer

    A former engineer at a New Jersey industrial company has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for attacking his employer's computer network and demanding a ransom in Bitcoin, federal prosecutors said Monday. Daniel Rhyne, 59, of Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced on September 28 by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton. He pleaded guilty in April to extortion in relation to a threat to damage a protected computer, and to intentional damage to a protected computer. Former Employee o...

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    3 min read
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  • Quantum computing. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Europol Warns Crypto Wallets Are 'Primary Risk' for Quantum Attacks

    EU law enforcement agency Europol published two reports Wednesday urging organizations, policymakers and the cryptocurrency industry to begin preparing now for quantum computers capable of breaking widely used encryption. The first, Quantum Computing and Cryptocurrencies, produced by Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, identifies cryptocurrency wallets as "the primary point of exposure to quantum threats." Wallets rely on a pair of keys: a private key that authorizes transactions and a public...

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    4 min read
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