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The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) is offering three new uncut $100 currency sheets featuring the printed signatures of President Donald J. Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The Series 2025 collectibles are available in four-, eight- and sixteen-note formats, with prices ranging from $500 to $2,000. CoinNews photo of an uncut $100 Federal Reserve note sheet featuring President Donald J Trumps signature alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessents commemorating the nations 250th anniversary The sheets follow a historic currency change announced in March, making Trump the first sitting U.S. president to have his signature appear on American paper money.…

Converting $10,000 of the dollar stablecoin USDC into euros can incur a $100 or $20 trading fee at Kraken, before execution and withdrawal costs.The $80 difference comes from standard Instant Buy/Sell pricing versus the eligible entry-tier USDC/EUR order book, using the exchange’s fee schedule checked Oct. 20.At $200, the same 80-basis-point gap is worth $1.60. A fixed bank payout charge then takes a much larger share of the transfer, leaving less room for the stablecoin route to compete with a money-transfer company.The Bank for International Settlements published Working Paper 1385 on Oct. 19. Wenxin Du, Catherine Huang and David Scharfstein…

BNB’s Oct. 19 quarterly burn retired 1.9% more tokens than July’s, while its disclosed dollar valuation rose 28.5%. The additional supply reduction was about 30,369 BNB, a much smaller change than the dollar comparison alone suggests.BNB Foundation announced the completed 37th burn on Oct. 19, reporting 1,646,196.44 BNB destroyed with an approximate value of $1.197 billion. Its July 15 disclosure reported burning 1,615,827.795 BNB, valued at about $931.7 million.For holders assessing scarcity, the token count measures the size of each retirement.Why the dollar value grew much fasterThe two disclosures show a modest increase in the number of coins removed, along…

An Ethereum wallet linked to the April 1 exploit of crypto trading protocol Drift sent 25,710 ETH into the Tornado Cash mixer on Oct. 20, nearly emptying the address in its first outgoing Ethereum transactions.The address, which Etherscan labels “Drift Exploiter 5”, held about 3.98 ETH on Oct. 20. On-chain analysis profile Lookonchain separately reported holdings of 81,864 ETH across the exploiter wallets it tracks.258 deposits in two hours and 13 minutesThe wallet made 258 successful deposits to the Tornado Cash router: 257 of 100 ETH each, followed by a final deposit of 10 ETH. Together, they moved 25,710 ETH…

JP Morgan Asset Management sees Bitcoin potentially reaching $215,000 within a decade, despite CEO Jamie Dimon’s longstanding criticism of the cryptocurrency.The Wall Street firm’s 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions, released Oct. 19, outlined three scenarios for Bitcoin’s performance over the next decade, ranging from a collapse toward $25,000 to a rally approaching $386,000.Its base case assumes BTC generates compound annual returns of 10%, implying a price of about $215,300 from the report’s $83,000 reference price.The bullish scenario projects annualized returns of 16.6%, taking Bitcoin toward $385,500, while the bearish case assumes yearly losses of 11.2%, reducing its value to roughly…

The US government ordered federal agencies to remove DeepSeek technology and extended restrictions to third-party products built using its AI models.On Oct. 20, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the directive, requiring federal civilian agencies to eliminate the Chinese company’s products from their information technology systems and prohibiting future purchases.The restrictions also cover software and services developed by other companies using DeepSeek implementations, potentially affecting American technology contractors that have incorporated its models into their products.Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin originally signed the order on July 24, under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018. Agencies were…

Elon Musk pledged to give American children over $10 billion in SpaceX shares, offering millions of families ownership in his AI technology empire.On Oct. 19, the world’s first trillionaire announced he would distribute one personally owned SpaceX share to every child in the United States in 2027, potentially creating about 72 million new shareholders.At SpaceX’s Oct. 16 closing price of $146.03, the proposed distribution would represent roughly $10.5 billion in equity, making it one of the largest individual philanthropic commitments in recent years.The announcement followed AI developer Anthropic’s proposal to commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, subject…

Bitcoin options traders are becoming more defensive even as leveraged futures traders maintain bullish exposure amid persistent spot selling.An Oct. 19 Glassnode report showed Bitcoin’s 25-delta options skew climbing from 5.2% to 8.6% over the preceding week, reflecting a growing premium for downside protection relative to bullish options.Meanwhile, aggregate funding payments by perpetual futures longs jumped 49.4% to $1.6 million, suggesting continued demand for leveraged bullish exposure despite weak buying activity in the underlying market.The contrasting positions emerged as Bitcoin struggled to recover from October’s selloff. The cryptocurrency traded near $81,300 at press time, more than 2% lower than the…

Just 110 wallets generated 99.6% of RLUSD payments on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) over 30 days, blockchain analytics firm Bitquery found.The wallets executed approximately 7.79 million transactions between Sept. 19 and Oct. 18, transferring just $7,722 worth of Ripple’s dollar-backed stablecoin, according to an Oct. 19 investigation.Each payment averaged roughly $0.001, with the funds repeatedly flowing into three collector addresses. The activity accounted for nearly all 7.82 million RLUSD payments recorded during the period, raising questions about how much of the stablecoin’s surging transaction count reflects genuine adoption.The impact extended across the wider XRPL. Between Oct. 8 and Oct. 14,…

Hackers routed $2.16 million in suspected NGRAVE phishing proceeds to Hyperliquid after hijacking the wallet maker’s app notifications.Blockchain analytics firm Bitquery traced approximately $2.65 million in suspected losses across 84 cryptocurrency wallets following the Oct. 17 attack, which exploited security notifications sent through NGRAVE’s LIQUID companion app.The thefts occurred over roughly six hours across Bitcoin, XRP, Ethereum, Solana, Dogecoin and Stellar. Bitcoin accounted for the largest share, with attackers draining about $1.76 million from 21 wallets before moving the proceeds across multiple blockchains.Bitquery traced much of the stolen Bitcoin through 12 Chainflip swaps, while Ethereum and Solana proceeds passed through…