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Hacken’s third-quarter crypto hack total rose to $1.18 billion while the losses implied by its access-control and operational figures fell about 30%.The crypto security firm’s Oct. 15 disclosure reports a 55% increase in total theft for July-September compared with the second quarter.The change included 48% more losses from smart contracts in the third quarter, up from about 11% in Hacken’s original second-quarter summary. More incidents, alongside a slightly smaller mean recorded loss per incident, also distinguish the two quarters. The figures challenge a fixed security hierarchy that makes custody operations the overriding priority.Bitget’s September report showed forged withdrawal instructions without…

The fifth and final quarter created for America’s 250th anniversary enters circulation today, Oct. 19, as the United States Mint just announced it has begun shipping its new 1776 ~ 2026 Gettysburg Address quarter to Federal Reserve Banks. US Mint images of the 1776 ~ 2026 Gettysburg Address quarter featuring Abraham Lincoln on the obverse and clasped hands on the reverse From there, the coins will move through the nation’s banking system to commercial banks and financial institutions before eventually appearing in everyday transactions. The Gettysburg Address quarter completes a series of five one-year designs commemorating significant events and ideals…

Charles Hoskinson is developing a new programming language for Cardano as the blockchain approaches a pivotal test of commercial demand.The Cardano founder said he is working with developer Lucas Rosa, a software engineer at Input Output Global, on a language supporting intent-based transactions and proof-carrying data using Groth16 cryptographic proofs.The announcement follows Hoskinson’s declaration that the forthcoming Leios scalability upgrade would complete his original vision for the blockchain, marking a potential turning point after years of technical development.The ambitions contrast with Cardano’s economic footprint. Despite its ADA token commanding a market capitalization of about $8.3 billion, decentralized finance applications on…

Kraken’s Unified Wallet rollout to eligible European Economic Area clients can expose crypto held for spot trading and qualifying Earn balances to futures losses after users switch it on. Its default cross-margin setting allows a losing position to draw on the account’s entire eligible balance.The exchange announced EEA availability on October 16, 2026. Unified Wallet combines eligible spot, margin, Earn and futures balances on Kraken Pro, removing the need to transfer collateral into a separate futures wallet.The announcement includes eligible Earn balances without identifying every qualifying product. Kraken’s wallet guide, which describes the default wallet setup, distinguishes active staking and…

Strategy’s discretionary USD Cash fell to $447.3 million as the company spent another $193.1 million on STRC buybacks and raised its preferred-stock repurchase authorization to $3 billion.The Michael Saylor-led company disclosed on Oct. 19 that it bought Bitcoin for $22.1 million at an average price of $82,900 over the previous week. The acquisitions increased its holdings to 848,517 BTC, accumulated for approximately $64.02 billion.During the same period, Strategy spent another $193.1 million repurchasing nearly 1.94 million shares of its Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC), extending an aggressive campaign to support the security’s trading price near its…

Hedge funds cut their net bearish Bitcoin futures bets nearly 15% even as the cryptocurrency tumbled toward $80,000.Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed leveraged funds held a net short position equivalent to 30,611 BTC as of Oct. 13, down from 35,903 BTC a week earlier.The 5,292 BTC reduction came as Bitcoin fell nearly 3% during the reporting period, from about $85,600 on Oct. 6 to $83,100 on Oct. 13. The cryptocurrency briefly slipped below $81,000 as rising Treasury yields, weakening institutional demand, and a global technology stock selloff weighed on risk appetite.The decline gave bearish traders opportunities…

Tether lost $4.6 billion in USDT supply across 19 selected cryptocurrency exchanges and lenders during the third quarter as rival stablecoins gained ground.During the same period, the 19 institutions added approximately $1.9 billion in competing tokens, including $569 million of Circle’s USDC and $493 million of Ripple’s RLUSD.According to the Crystal Intelligence report, Bybit recorded the largest reduction, shedding $1.66 billion in USDT while adding $315 million of RLUSD. Binance reduced its Tether holdings by $987 million and acquired $223 million of USDC, while OKX cut $899 million in USDT and added $273 million of USDC.Across the wider market, USDT’s…

Aave’s proposed USAT gateway would require approval for every return swap, allowing access to be revoked after an institution had exchanged its deposit receipts for GHO.TokenLogic’s Oct. 15 governance proposal would introduce a permissioned GHO Stability Module, or GSM, on Avalanche. It would let approved counterparties exchange waUSAT, a receipt for the dollar stablecoin USAT supplied to Aave V4, for GHO. Approval would apply in both directions, so revocation could prevent a participant from returning GHO to recover waUSAT.That creates three separate conditions on the route back to dollars: access to the return swap, the ability to withdraw underlying USAT…

Binance’s perpetual tied to SOXL, a leveraged semiconductor ETF, recorded a 5.9% opening-to-low fall in the mark price used for margin risk during the 21:00–22:00 UTC hour on Saturday, Oct. 17. All 60 sampled minute-close gaps between that mark and its reference index stayed below 3%.The two observations measure different risks. Binance’s published weekend band constrains the mark’s distance from the index at a particular moment. The index can move away from the trader’s entry price, leaving cumulative price exposure open. In the sampled hour, the index itself fell almost 4%.For a leveraged trader, that distinction leaves room for losses…

Vitalik Buterin has called for a hard ceiling on Ethereum proving costs per unit of block gas, adding a resource-accounting test to the push for faster zero-knowledge proofs. For independent prover operators, the issue is how much work the hardest permitted block could demand, even when ordinary blocks finish quickly.In his October 15 post, Buterin congratulated ZKsync’s Airbender team and set out three formal-verification priorities: matching the mathematical representation of execution to Ethereum’s specification, bounding prover cost relative to block gas, and securing the proof system itself.The cost requirement reaches beyond a speed leaderboard. Gas gives Ethereum a way to…