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In early October, customers in Southeast Asia discovered that their crypto had disappeared from Ledger hardware wallets that still seemed to be working normally.They bought the devices through CryptoBilis, an authorized reseller, and believed their private keys were protected inside a device built for that purpose. What they couldn’t see was a second piece of hardware, hidden inside the casing, that could steal the information needed to empty the wallet.On Oct. 10, Ledger confirmed an unauthorized implant in one affected customer’s device. Three days later, its security team explained that the added electronics had read the wallet’s 24 recovery words…

Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade is scheduled for Hoodi, a test network, on Oct. 26, 2026, at 17:42:48 UTC, giving its node operators a deadline to upgrade software. The test pairs changes to block production and validation with a scheduled 200 million gas target.The Ethereum Foundation’s Oct. 16 announcement fixes the next testnet deployment after Glamsterdam’s Oct. 6 activation on Sepolia. Mainnet timing remains undecided. ETH holders and mainnet operators have no action to take as a result of this Hoodi announcement.All Hoodi operators must update their execution and consensus clients before activation. Validators must update both the beacon node and validator…

Someone paying for lunch with a stablecoin card doesn’t need the restaurant to know what USDC is. The card works like any other at the terminal, with the customer’s digital dollar balance funding the purchase while the merchant receives regular dollars through its usual payment provider.That leaves several companies to collect fees for connecting the two.Visa enables this arrangement through its partnership with Bridge, which allows customers in Colombia to spend stablecoins while merchants receive Colombian pesos.Bridge handles the conversion, so neither the restaurant nor its payment provider needs to accept cryptocurrency, letting customers spend stablecoins without first withdrawing them…

Miners connected to Binance Pool need to redirect their equipment before 07:00 UTC on Nov. 10, 2026, when Binance will shut the service and stop crediting new mining work.Binance set out the timetable in an Oct. 13 closure notice. The shutdown also covers Pool Savings, Cloud Mining and Transaction Accelerator, alongside Telegram hashrate alerts, email notifications and mining-pool API services.Binance will disable its Stratum URLs and mining endpoints at the cutoff. Later hashrate submissions and mining shares will not be accepted, processed or credited.Eligible shares submitted before the deadline will still enter the final reward calculation under Binance Pool rules.…

Eclair, ACINQ’s Bitcoin Lightning node software, released v0.14.4 on Oct. 15 to block malicious webpages from issuing authenticated node commands through an operator’s browser.The exposure depends on an enabled Eclair API that the operator’s browser can reach, with HTTP Basic authentication already cached in that browser. Eclair’s node API can read node state, open and close channels, and send and receive payments. Related ReadingUnpatched Eclair Bitcoin Lightning nodes could crash again every time they restart Eclair’s v0.14.4 release notes explain how cached authentication lets a malicious webpage submit a plain HTML form to the node’s API. The browser attaches the…

There’s a Bitcoin company that’s now offering investors a 15% annual dividend, paid in small installments every business day.While a 15% dividend is high enough to grab everyone’s attention, the more revealing number is what buyers agreed to pay for it.On Oct. 15, Strive priced seven million shares of its new SATS preferred stock at $90 apiece, despite each share carrying a $100 stated amount and a $15 annual dividend. That puts the implied cash yield at 16.7% for someone buying at the offering price.The upsized offering is expected to raise $630 million before expenses, with settlement scheduled for Oct.…

Borrowing costs, missed interest income, and futures fees can all eat into returns even when Bitcoin holds its value. That’s a big problem, and it gets even worse when inflation stays high.September’s US inflation report showed consumer prices up 3.7% year over year, fueling concerns about the dollar’s purchasing power. That same inflation pressure keeps interest rates high, making it more expensive to borrow money to buy Bitcoin and hold it while waiting for it to rise.Bitcoin reacted immediately to the inflation report, but the bigger question now is what happens next. Two people or companies can buy Bitcoin at…

Some of Cardano’s development funding has already moved into dollar tokens, making ADA’s price a less direct guide to the work those budgets can support.The SundaeSwap treasury dashboard lists total scheduled budgets of 4,505,955 USDM for Intersect’s governance and technical stewardship work and 316,253.88 USDM for Se7en Labs’ Daedalus wallet program.Intersect, which administers treasury-funded projects, said on Oct. 2 that both withdrawals had been minted through Moneta Digital into USDM, a dollar stablecoin on Cardano, and placed in live smart contracts.After conversion, the token amount stays fixed as ADA moves. Its dollar purchasing power still depends on the peg holding,…

Visa and Mastercard announced commercial stablecoin funding routes on Oct. 15 that give eligible businesses new ways to fund payments.Visa’s route prefunds Visa Direct cross-border payouts through Inyo Global, while Mastercard’s platform through BVNK connects stablecoin balances to local-currency bank payouts.The change concerns the money supplied at the start of a payment. On Mastercard’s bank-payout route, a business can use a stablecoin balance while the recipient receives local currency in a bank account. That separates the funding choice from whether the payee uses crypto.Visa identified Inyo Global, a payments infrastructure provider, as the first enabler to put its Visa Direct…

Cross River Bank is adding Ripple’s US dollar-backed RLUSD stablecoin to its core banking platform with XRP Ledger support, giving fintechs a route to stablecoin payments through the same connection they use for conventional banking services.The New Jersey bank announced the partnership on Oct. 15 and says customers can now access RLUSD through one API without deploying blockchain infrastructure. Services are available only in a limited number of US states, which the release did not identify.The arrangement opens a distribution channel for Ripple through a bank that supplies payments infrastructure to other financial businesses. Cross River is extending its existing…