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Justin Drake posted on 7 October that holders, starting with large ones, should move the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. He said it is now reasonable to brace for ECDSA, the signature scheme behind Bitcoin and Ethereum, breaking before Q-Day, in the worst case within months. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin replied that nobody should scramble to move funds immediately, while backing hash-based cryptography over lattices. Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged the industry on 7 October to plan for what he termed bunker mode, warning AI-driven maths could break Bitcoin and Ethereum’s signature…
Ripple Prime has become a significant swap-financing provider to leveraged ETF issuers, challenging banks and securities firms in the US market. Ripple entered the business through its US$1.25 billion acquisition of Hidden Road, which was subsequently renamed Ripple Prime. Meritz Securities has partnered with Ripple to research custody, tokenisation, digital-asset ETFs, stablecoins and other infrastructure in South Korea. XRP fell more than 5% to around US$1.42 despite the announcements, broadly tracking weakness across the wider crypto market. Ripple is pushing deeper into TradFi territory, with leveraged ETF financing in the US and a partnership with Meritz Securities in South Korea.…
Bitcoin fell to US$82,898 before recovering slightly to US$83,388, leaving it down 2.38% over 24 hours. Zeus Research attributed the decline mainly to profit-taking and forced long liquidations after rising open interest and funding rates. US government-linked wallets moved roughly 4,000 BTC worth US$332 million directly to Coinbase Prime, alongside US$24.9 million in USDT. The transfers do not necessarily indicate sales, while the US government still holds about 319,061 BTC worth US$26.56 billion. Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to its lowest level of the month late Wednesday, hitting US$82,898 (AU$119,179), according to data from CoinMarketCap. At the time of writing, the price…
The US government moved about $470 million in seized crypto to likely Coinbase Prime addresses, according to Arkham, reviving questions over potential asset sales.On Oct. 7, blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence said the transfers included Bitcoin, wrapped Bitcoin and USDT.Arkham linked the transferred assets to seizures involving the 2016 Bitfinex hack and Alameda Research, the trading firm previously controlled by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.Image Showing Latest US Bitcoin Transfers (Source: Arkham Intelligence)While we obviously can’t say the Bitcoin is being sold, it is one plausible outcome. It’s probably just as likely they are performing internal wallet hygiene or administrative work.Still,…
OpenAI’s latest advances in mathematics have prompted a leading Ethereum researcher to warn that crypto’s core wallet security could face an unexpected AI threat.On Oct. 7, Ethereum researcher Justin Drake urged the blockchain industry to prepare for what he described as “bunker mode,” including a controlled migration of digital assets into fresh addresses whose public keys have never been exposed.Drake said large and sophisticated holders should consider moving most of their assets to addresses that have never signed transactions. Once those addresses are used to send funds, he recommended transferring any remaining balance into another fresh address.His warning followed OpenAI’s…
XRP traded around $1.43 on Oct. 7, down 5.46% over 24 hours. Five tracked US spot XRP ETFs held an estimated $1.7 billion at the previous day’s close, according to market data tracker Maketo.The holdings total is accumulated exposure. The latest net flows were much smaller, and the ETF sector contained withdrawals as well as additions: Franklin and Canary recorded outflows on Oct. 6, even though the five funds collectively received net inflows. The exchange-wallet decline used to support a supply-squeeze story also includes a storage migration that left coins under the same exchange’s control.ETF inflows and wallet withdrawals tell…
Ethereum’s slide toward $2,500 has put about $1.35 billion of leveraged long positions at increasing risk of liquidation.CoinMarketCap data showed roughly $1.35 billion of ETH long exposure sat at liquidation levels below the prevailing price, compared with about $999.78 million of shorts vulnerable above it. The figures represent positions exposed across a range of lower price levels rather than a single liquidation threshold.The nearest pressure point is already approaching. About $112.83 million of ETH longs on Hyperliquid were positioned to liquidate around $2,511, CoinMarketCap said. When ETH traded at $2,605.65, the distance to that level had narrowed to about 3.6%,…
Japan’s October 6, 2026 auction of ten-year government bonds attracted more competitive demand relative to the debt sold, even as its average yield rose to 3.101%. For Bitcoin, higher returns on Japanese debt raise a question about how a sustained shift in bond allocation could affect global financing.The Ministry of Finance’s result put the average yield up from 2.995% at the September 1 sale, an increase of 10.6 basis points. Competitive auction coverage, the amount sought by participants divided by the amount accepted, rose from about 3.29 times to 3.76 times.The yield tail narrowed from 1.6 to 0.2 basis points.…
Bitcoin traded below $84,000 on Oct. 7 as US Treasury yields near 5.3% offered investors a competing interest-bearing alternative. Higher yields can raise the return investors expect to justify speculative crypto exposure.The historical relationship is less straightforward. CryptoSlate’s comparison of 2,435 matched daily changes since January 2017 found weak linear relationships between Bitcoin returns, nominal and real Treasury yield changes, and dollar-index returns. The daily relationships also remained weak in the post-ETF trading period.The US ten-year nominal par yield was 5.27% on Oct. 6, down from 5.31% a day earlier. Bitcoin’s market price was about $83,086 at 14:25 UTC on…
Evernorth delayed its Nasdaq debut after shares of the SPAC taking the XRP treasury company public lost half their value.Armada Acquisition Corp. II, which currently trades under the XRPN ticker, closed Tuesday at $19.20, down 50.3% from $38.65 a day earlier, according to data compiled by StockAnalysis. The shares had traded as high as $53 on Oct. 2 after closing at just $10.58 on Sept. 28.In an Oct. 6 filing, Evernorth said an administrative delay had pushed completion of its merger with Armada to around Oct. 9 from Oct. 7. Trading of the combined company on Nasdaq is now expected…