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Ripple said it secured final US approval for a national trust bank despite objections from traditional banking groups concerned about crypto firms entering regulated finance.The company announced on Oct. 26 that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) had granted final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank to manage RLUSD reserves, serve as collateral trustee and provide fiduciary digital asset custody. Ripple put RLUSD’s market capitalization at $2.5 billion in the announcement.Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, said:“We’ve spent over a decade building regulated financial infrastructure that institutions can actually use at scale. A national trust charter gives us…

Lightning developers tightened BOLT11, the Lightning Network’s invoice standard, on Oct. 19 to require software to reject ambiguous payment-hash and payment-secret fields. The change follows a developer’s account of an attack that made completed Bitcoin withdrawals appear unpaid.The merged change targets software components reading the same signed payment request differently. A payment hash identifies the payment a component is tracking. Bitcoin Optech highlighted the rule change on Oct. 23.In a Sept. 10 statement on the proposal, developer Roasbeef reported a recent hack of a Telegram peer-to-peer bot that exploited libraries choosing different hashes: some took the first payment-hash field in…

By the end of Iran’s prolonged February-to-May 2026 internet shutdown, Bitcoin transaction activity in Chainalysis’s selected everyday-use series had recovered to over 75% of its baseline after an initial fall of around 80%, the blockchain analytics company reported Oct. 26.The rebound developed while the blackout was still in place. Some Iran-attributed activity was reaching the network during severe restrictions, while the number of people with dependable access to their funds remains unmeasured.The findings come from Chainalysis’s new Middle East and North Africa analysis, covering July 2025 through June 2026. Independent traffic observations from Cloudflare document the prolonged disruption and its…

The United States Mint has unveiled the designs for its 2027 half dollar, featuring a new portrait of President John F. Kennedy and a reverse honoring Paralympic wheelchair basketball. Released Oct. 26, the images offer the first look at the selected designs for a four-year series celebrating sports adapted for athletes with disabilities. US Mint images show the 2027 Kennedy Wheelchair Basketball Half Dollar featuring a new portrait of President John F Kennedy and a Paralympic wheelchair basketball reverse Beginning in 2027, Kennedy will return to the half dollar following a one-year absence for America’s 250th anniversary. The new portrait…

Eligible traders in the European Economic Area can now trade Bitcoin and Ethereum options through their existing Kraken Pro derivatives accounts on web and mobile, Kraken announced Oct. 26. The contracts use the collateral already supporting their futures positions.That extends an options rollout Kraken began in July for eligible professional and institutional clients. At that point, European access was scheduled for later in 2026. The October announcement confirms availability in EEA countries where Kraken offers derivatives, with an options appropriateness assessment required before trading.The contracts are cash-settled. Premium, profit and loss, and final settlement are calculated in U.S. dollars, even…

Freight pushed Japan’s services producer inflation higher in September while price growth in labor-intensive services slowed, complicating the policy signal for Bitcoin investors watching Friday’s Bank of Japan decision. The potential crypto risk runs through yen borrowing costs and the currency’s response to the BOJ’s outlook.The BOJ’s preliminary October 27 release put annual inflation in its Services Producer Price Index (SPPI) at 3.7%, up from August’s revised 3.5%. Ocean freight added 0.2 percentage points to the change in annual inflation, matching the overall net 0.2-point acceleration at published precision. That is its contribution to the acceleration, rather than its share…

Bitcoin faces a potential selling hurdle near $82,500, where Bitfinex estimates investors hold 874,000 BTC.Data from CryptoSlate shows the cryptocurrency fell as low as $79,370 over the past 24 hours after losing its $81,300 support level. It later recovered to $80,102, though further gains could face selling from holders seeking to exit near their purchase prices.The potential resistance comes as US spot Bitcoin ETF demand remains uneven following substantial withdrawals last week, raising questions about whether buyers can absorb the available supply ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve interest-rate decision.Bitcoin’s $82,500 resistance looms as ETF buying remains concentratedAccording to Bitfinex’s Oct.…

Bitcoin’s transfer value surged 26% to $5.5 billion last week, even as transaction fees paid to miners declined, according to Glassnode.The blockchain analytics firm’s Oct. 26 report showed that entity-adjusted transfer volume climbed from $4.4 billion a week earlier, while total transaction fees fell 8.8% to $185,200 from $203,200.Meanwhile, daily active addresses declined 2.2% to 615,200, highlighting a growing divergence between the amount of money moving across Bitcoin and the network activity generating revenue for miners.Transaction fees account for less than 1% of Bitcoin miner revenueBitcoin miners typically earn revenue from two sources: newly issued BTC awarded for producing blocks…

Coinbase will automatically convert 14 restricted crypto tokens held by European customers on Oct. 30, including Tether’s USDT.The exchange said in a customer notice that affected retail users in the European Economic Area (EEA) must withdraw their holdings before the deadline or, where suitable, have their balances converted into Circle’s USDC or another supported asset or currency.The restrictions cover USDT, PayPal’s PYUSD, World Liberty Financial’s USD1, DAI, PAX, GUSD, GYEN, BUST, UST, RAI, PAXG, MUSD, USDS and TGBP. Coinbase has already restricted purchases, sales, and conversions involving these assets, leaving withdrawals to supported external wallets as the remaining option for…

CoinDCX confirmed a loss of roughly $16 million USDT three days after its CEO, Sumit Gupta, disputed reports of a new wallet breach, calling them a false alarm.It had acknowledged unspecified operational losses from a failed sweeping process on the afternoon of Oct. 22, so the reversal came in two steps, and the full figure arrived Oct. 25.CoinDCX says it absorbed the loss and that customer balances were unaffected. The sequence, confident public reassurance followed by a confirmed problem, recalls four 2022 collapses whose executives’ statements were later tested in court.What CoinDCX said and what it confirmedCoinDCX’s Oct. 25 incident…