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Evernorth expects to hold 473 million XRP after its merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II closes, subject to final conditions and Nasdaq approval. Trading is expected to begin under the ticker XRPN, positioning Evernorth as the largest publicly traded pure-play XRP treasury company. The firm plans to actively deploy its XRP into ecosystem infrastructure and strategies intended to increase XRP backing per share over time. Ripple, SBI Group, Kraken, Pantera Capital, GSR and Arrington Capital are among Evernorth’s shareholders. Evernorth is taking a leaf out of Michael Saylor’s playbook and will soon bring the crypto treasury model to XRP. In…
US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded US$148.7 million in net outflows on 30 September, ending nine consecutive days of inflows totalling US$3 billion. September still posted US$2.65 billion in net inflows, extending the sector’s positive monthly streak to three months. ETFs, governments, listed and private companies, and miners collectively hold nearly one-fifth of Bitcoin’s total supply. Bitcoin traded around US$85,468, up 2.1% in 24 hours and more than 10% over the past month, despite remaining below its record high. The recent run of inflows into US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has come to a screeching halt. After nine days of…
North Dakota’s banks and credit unions are getting a dollar settlement route on Solana as banking technology provider Fiserv brings its digital asset platform into production.In its Oct. 1 announcement, the company identified Roughrider Coin, an interbank payment token overseen by the Bank of North Dakota (BND), as the platform’s first live use case.Participating institutions will access it through Commercial Center, Fiserv’s online banking system already used for traditional interbank transfers. BND says initiation, approval, and settlement will run through the same operational channels banks use for ACH and wires, allowing staff to work through familiar banking systems.Fiserv says more than…
NEAR Intents lost about US$3.8 million (AU$5.5 million) on Thursday when an attacker exploited a bug between its Omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure and its smart contract. The flaw was patched within an hour, but the platform’s status page still showed open incidents on 11 networks at midday Friday AEST. General manager Alex Shevchenko gave the attacker 48 hours to return the funds, days after the platform blocked money linked to the Bitget hack. NEAR Intents halted its cross-chain trading service on Thursday after an attacker drained about US$3.8 million (AU$5.5 million) through a bug in its Omni deposit and…
Electrum’s latest security update fixes a Lightning backup defect, but some Bitcoin wallet users still need to replace saved backups.Older backups from wallets with non-deterministic Lightning keys lack information needed to reclaim funds from anchor channels, a Lightning channel type, after a remote close.Version 4.8.2, dated Sept. 11, remains the latest release listed on Electrum’s official website as of Oct. 1.The individual-backup fix adds payment-key information needed to claim the user’s balance from an anchor channel closed by the peer. Without that information, an affected backup lacks the key needed to sweep the output, meaning claim the coins on the…
A trader can get a better Solana (SOL) swap price while a passive pool depositor remains exposed to traders picking off stale quotes, and a Sept. 29 preprint measures that divide.For quiet-market SOL/USDC fills, propAMMs, pools controlled by professional operators, had a reference-relative execution cost proxy of 0.26 basis points versus 2.59 for public automated market makers (AMMs).The study covers Sept. 1, 2025, through Aug. 31, 2026, with shorter Base and Monad samples. It weights fills by notional against Bybit’s size-weighted top-of-book USDT microprice, converted with its USDC/USDT midpoint. Its authors list ETH Zurich and Category Labs affiliations.A swapper wants…
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 reserves backing their account balances.In its announcement, Bitget says the fund absorbed approximately $388 million in impact from the incident, while customer balances remained accurate and unaffected. It says it fulfilled a Sept. 28 pledge to bring the fund back to at least $300 million within a week, completing the replenishment two days after that commitment.The release does not quantify the…
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 assets frozen or returned. That leaves adjusted losses of roughly $2.26 billion and an average loss of $4.1 million per incident.September sharply altered the year’s tally. Losses reached about $766.5 million, surpassing April’s $651.3 million and making it the costliest month of 2026. Bitget’s $387.5 million breach and the $318.7 million Liquid Network incident accounted for more than $700 million of the damage.The surge has…
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. 1 release put its manufacturing prices index at 77.9, up 6.8 points from August’s 71.1. The manufacturing PMI registered 54.5, new orders 55.3 and employment 52.7.For Bitcoin, that combination matters because resilient activity and widening cost pressures could complicate the case for lower interest rates.The prices gauge measures how widely monthly increases are reported, and its 77.9 reading is not a 77.9% inflation rate. Higher input…
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. The selloff came less than two days after Bitwise opened the token to US exchange-traded fund investors through its NEAR ETF, with the ticker NRR.The fund began trading on NYSE Arca on Sept. 29 and attracted $35.5 million of net inflows on its first day. By Sept. 30, cumulative inflows had risen to over $50 million, while total net assets reached…