Bitget restores $300M fund after absorbing $388M security breach
Bitget said on Sept. 30 that it had restored its Protection Fund to more than $300 million after absorbing the Sept. 24 security breach’s financial impact. The exchange describes the fund as an additional safeguard for customers, separate from…
Crypto hackers have taken $2.7 billion in 2026 and the losses are alarmingly concentrated
Crypto firms and users have lost nearly $2.7 billion to security incidents this year, with North Korea-linked thefts exceeding $1 billion. Blockchain security firm CertiK recorded 658 incidents through September, with about $420.4 million of stolen…
US factory costs spike, threatening Bitcoin’s rally above $85,000
US manufacturers reported more widespread input-price increases in September, raising a potential financing risk for Bitcoin if investors respond by expecting higher interest rates ahead of Friday’s jobs report. The Institute for Supply Management’s Oct.…
Zcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be Over
ZEC is 21% off its $1,698 peak after ETF outflows and a suspected North Korean heist routed money through its shielded pool. Is the run over, or will traders buy the dip?
Wall Street arrived in NEAR just as a $4 billion-a-month app got hacked
NEAR’s new US ETF is facing its first stress test days after launch as a $3.8 million ecosystem exploit hit the token. NEAR fell about 10% to $4.86 after NEAR Intents disclosed a security incident involving its Omni deposit-and-withdrawal infrastructure.…
SEC Proposes Rules to Clear Up How Advisers and Funds Can Hold Crypto
The proposal would let advisers and funds use state trust companies as custodians and permit self-custody under certain conditions, aiming to replace years of ambiguity with a clear compliance path.
Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI Scrapers
Reddit RSS dies November 13 and outside apps lose their data pipeline by March 2027. Reddit blames scraping bots, though it licenses its own content to AI companies.
XRP is becoming collateral for real loans and the first market is already dominated by whales
XRP is beginning to support live dollar borrowing on Ethereum, though the market remains heavily concentrated among a handful of borrowers. A Morpho market backed by FXRP, a tokenized representation of XRP, had about 7.18 million RLUSD in outstanding…
OpenAI Says People Linked to China’s Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI’s Hidden Reasoning
OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign involving 15,000+ users and ties a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot, the startup behind Kimi.
Meta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User’s Messages Without Consent
Communications chief Andy Stone said reading Messages requires two permissions the user controls, disputing a journalist who reported Muse synced his texts despite his settings.