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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…

Circle is removing its separate net-redemption overage fee from USDC and EURC conversions into fiat under a revised Circle Mint fee schedule that starts taking effect Oct. 19, 2026. Existing customers move onto the pricing at the start of their next billing period on or after that date.Under the public schedule, institutional customers can choose Standard redemptions with no Circle redemption fee or Express redemptions charged at 0.05% of the gross amount before credits. The overage surcharge disappears across all tiers, while the Express base fee remains.Circle Mint serves institutions such as exchanges, banks, wallet providers and institutional traders. It…

A Kraken-distributed USDC vault will direct part of its yield to XRP-linked collateral providers underwriting DeFi losses.On Oct. 15, Firelight announced the addition of Kraken’s Protected Strategies USDC vault, extending a coverage protocol launched earlier this month to an investment product available through the exchange’s DeFi Earn service. Sentora, the vault’s independent curator, arranged the enrollment.The deal creates a potential source of recurring income for holders willing to deploy XRP-linked capital on Flare. Fees from the vault’s returns flow to Firelight, where collateral providers share in premiums in exchange for accepting losses from eligible exploits and protocol failures.For Kraken’s depositors,…

US-listed XRP exchange-traded funds ended a 13-week inflow streak as investors withdrew nearly $576 million from four major cryptocurrency ETF categories.Data from SoSoValue showed that XRP funds recorded $1.84 million in net outflows during the week ended Oct. 16, reversing the $11.31 million inflows registered a week earlier. The withdrawal ended the longest active weekly inflow streak among the four categories, removing the last source of positive flows as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana funds continued losing capital.Bitcoin ETFs recorded $228.58 million in net withdrawals, while Ethereum products lost $319.97 million and Solana funds shed $25.52 million.Together with XRP, the four…

Key takeaways ADA futures open interest fell to $475.58 million from $549.14 million, reflecting reduced derivatives exposure. Positive funding shows a modest bullish tilt among perpetual traders, leaving longs vulnerable if prices fall further. ADA remains below key moving averages, with $0.1894 emerging as a potential downside target. Cardano Stabilizes After Sharp Weekly Decline Cardano held above $0.2200 on Monday as buyers attempted to steady the price following a roughly 12% decline last week. ADA has lost more than 10% so far in October, while weakening derivatives activity and subdued large-wallet positioning suggest limited conviction behind a recovery. The daily…

Hacken recorded 107 crypto security incidents in the third quarter, with estimated losses rising 55% to US$1.18 billion. Around US$906.8 million, or 77% of losses, involved compromised suppliers, developer tools, unpatched vulnerabilities or components outside audit scopes. Four major incidents involving Bitget, Liquid Network, Tectonic and Coldcard accounted for roughly 80% of reported losses. Approximately US$387 million was recovered or reversed and US$410 million reimbursed, leaving around US$384 million neither recovered nor reimbursed. Crypto projects lost an estimated US$1.18 billion (AU$1.69 billion) to hacks and exploits in the third quarter of 2026, a 55% increase from the previous three months,…

Cipher Digital shares slumped after the Bitcoin miner issued 40.7 million shares and borrowed $850 million to fund AI expansion.Data from Yahoo Finance shows that the company’s stock closed at $8.98 on Oct. 16, down 10.6% for the session and at its lowest level since September 2025. The shares have lost more than 52% over the past year, reflecting mounting pressure on the company’s valuation as it pursues an expensive transition into high-performance computing infrastructure.According to an Oct. 16 SEC filing, Cipher completed an exchange of approximately $165.9 million in convertible notes due 2030 for 40.7 million newly issued common…

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded US$907.4 million in net outflows over two weeks, although weekly withdrawals slowed from US$679 million to US$228.4 million. BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC led Friday’s US$82.4 million in net outflows, extending the funds’ recent weakness. Higher-than-expected US inflation of 3.7% raised concerns about persistent price pressures and the outlook for interest rates. Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan remains bullish on Bitcoin’s long-term prospects despite macroeconomic risks, while BTC recovered to around US$82,619. US spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen large net outflows over the past two weeks. With six days of net outflows and four days of…

Mt. Gox has pushed back its creditor repayment deadline another year, extending the recovery process stemming from its 2014 collapse.In an Oct. 16 notice, rehabilitation trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi said a Japanese court approved moving the deadline from Oct. 31, 2026, to Oct. 31, 2027, following continued administrative and payment-processing difficulties.The extension covers three categories under the rehabilitation plan: Base Repayment, Early Lump-Sum Repayment and Intermediate Repayment.Kobayashi said these payments have largely been completed for creditors who fulfilled the necessary requirements without encountering complications, apart from certain payment types.However, many claimants remain unpaid because they have yet to complete the required…