Blur to shut down blur.io frontend and halt new Blend loan matching on November 12 as NFT volume collapses
Blur, once the largest Ethereum NFT marketplace, is winding down its website next month after trading volumes fell roughly 99% from their 2021-2022 peak, sendin
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UK court ruling moves government closer to keeping 61,000 BTC seized from Zhimin Qian
A High Court judge held that Chinese law governs fraud victims' claims to the roughly $5 billion in Bitcoin seized from Zhimin Qian, a blow to claimants seeking
Decrypt · +5 outlets
France floats requiring crypto holders to report wallets over €100,000, drawing industry backlash
The proposal would mandate disclosure of large crypto holdings, raising privacy concerns after a wave of physical 'wrench attacks' on holders in France.
Decrypt · +1 outlets
Pump.fun surpasses $800M in cumulative revenue amid Solana meme coin competition
The Solana memecoin launchpad crossed $800 million in lifetime revenue, underscoring how much fee flow meme coin trading still generates.
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XRP Ledger payment engine had a counterfeiting bug dormant since 2015
An integer overflow in the payment engine could have let an attacker mint spendable XRP beyond total supply, a serious latent flaw in core ledger code.
Decrypt · +2 outlets
Evernorth begins Nasdaq trading holding 473 million XRP worth far less than it paid
The Ripple-backed vehicle closed its SPAC merger with 80% of SPAC investors redeeming first, and its XRP stash is worth roughly 40% below its purchase price.
Decrypt · +14 outlets
Strategy buys $21.5M more Bitcoin and repurchases $192M of STRC preferred stock
The purchase lifts Strategy's holdings to 848,250 BTC, extending its leveraged Bitcoin accumulation strategy alongside preferred share buybacks.
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Bitmine adds $32M in Ethereum, holds 6.03 million ETH as Tom Lee says firm is nearly done stacking
The Ethereum treasury company now controls about 4.9% of ETH supply and signaled its buying campaign is nearing an end.
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Billionaire Adam Weitsman buys 117 Pudgy Penguins NFTs as collection sales jump 126%
The high-profile purchase is a rare large NFT acquisition during a broad market downturn, giving the Pudgy Penguins brand a visible buyer of scale.
Pluang · +7 outlets
Ledger says all confirmed cases in suspected $87M drain trace to reseller CryptoBilis
The hardware wallet maker said its own systems and direct sales were unaffected, and the reseller has stopped selling wallets.
Decrypt · +3 outlets
Early Pump.fun wallets send 1.46 billion PUMP tokens to Coinbase Prime
Large transfers from early wallets to an institutional custody venue are being watched as a possible prelude to sales of the PUMP token.
Blockchain News · +1 outlets
Blur token hits record low, down more than 20% on marketplace shutdown news
Traders repriced the BLUR token sharply lower as the marketplace it was built around announced its frontend would go offline in November.
BeInCrypto · +14 outlets
Standard Chartered to custody Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin in Dubai and let clients trade it as collateral
The bank's Dubai branch will hold RLUSD and link with LMAX so institutions can post it as trading collateral without moving the coins.
Decrypt · +14 outlets
NFT marketplaces contract further as three major venues shut and remaining platforms trade thinly
Marketplace closures and shrinking buyer demand are reframing the NFT sector from a growth market into a niche for remaining collectors and artists.
CryptoTicker · +3 outlets
Thailand clears Bitcoin and Ether ETFs for October 16 listing
Thai regulators approved local Bitcoin and Ether ETF products, widening institutional access in a Southeast Asian market.
openPR.com · +14 outlets
Bitcoin ranges near $83K as traders await US inflation data
October rate-hike odds have fallen, but analysts say two-decade-high Treasury yields are still capping risk appetite.
Decrypt · +7 outlets
Rare CryptoPunk sells for $2.6 million despite NFT market slump
The seven-figure sale shows blue-chip NFT demand persists even as marketplace trading volumes and platform economics deteriorate.
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Meta's new Muse Wonder model enters frontier AI race, topping some benchmarks
Meta's flagship beat GPT-6 Astra and Claude on memory and coding tests, though independent rankings still place Anthropic's Opus 5.5 on top.
Decrypt · +1 outlets