Strive bought 3,311 BTC, raising its holdings to 32,773 BTC, while $208 million in warrants were exercised ahead of the October 13 deadline and a $100 minimum price for SATA preferred shares became binding.
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Blur will retire its blur.io website on Nov 12 2026, but the on‑chain marketplace contracts and BLUR token fee control will remain active, while its Blend lending service also ceases new loans.
Coins.ph, the Philippines’ biggest crypto exchange, is facing possible license revocation by the central bank over alleged facilitation of offshore gambling transactions.
Strive plans a $500 million preferred‑share offering, SATS, to fund more Bitcoin purchases and other assets, promising a 15% fixed dividend.
Austin Campbell advises self‑custody users to favor ultra‑simple, auditable setups after the Ledger reseller hack, while co‑host Chris Perkins notes intermediaries can still have a role.
Strive Asset Management bought $280 million worth of Bitcoin, its biggest purchase in months, pushing its holdings to over 32,700 BTC.
The FSB warns that multi‑issuer stablecoins backed by affiliated firms pose cross‑border redemption and insolvency risks, urging tighter monitoring and cooperation.
Blur, once the leading Ethereum NFT marketplace, is shutting its website on Nov 12 after trading volume collapsed by over 99% from its 2023 peak.
Binance’s VIP head notes that hedge funds are increasingly targeting crypto arbitrage thanks to deeper liquidity, continuous trading, and better weekend price signals.
Rapidblocks 2 proposes a pipelined consensus where blocks reference non‑adjacent ancestors and use Bloom‑filter compatibility to enable fast, independent confirmation without reorgs.
A dormant Bitcoin wallet that held 4,582 BTC since 2020 has moved $378 million worth of the cryptocurrency after six years of inactivity, signaling potential market impact.
Crypto exchanges liquidated over $800 million in leveraged positions, with chip‑stock bets like tokenized SanDisk outsizing XRP and most losses coming from bullish longs.
Jeonbuk Bank in South Korea has issued its first corporate loan secured by Bitcoin, using a custodian and court‑ordered sales for default resolution, without disclosing loan terms.
The DATA Network, formerly Story, will shut down its own chain and migrate as a protocol on Sui, with a $30 million Sui Foundation investment and a one‑for‑one token swap.
StoneX lifts its price target for Securitize to $18, reflecting fresh revenue from the new Solana‑based tokenized stock platform.
September 2026 saw Solana hit a million payments per second, integrate stablecoins into banking cores, launch Open USD, dominate agent payments, and reach a record $17.3 billion stablecoin supply.
Standard Chartered’s Dubai branch will custody Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin and enable clients to use it as collateral on LMAX without moving the tokens.
Ledger confirms the recent $87 million wallet drain involved only devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis, not its own sales, and urges users to avoid unauthorized sellers and secure their funds.
TD Cowen warns that the CFTC’s proposed leveraged crypto trading rules may miss the political window before the 2028 election.
DeFi Development Corp’s treasury keeps adding SOL while its CHAD preferred stock nears a $10 price, highlighting a growing but volatile Solana play.
Strategy spent $192 million repurchasing its STRC preferred shares last week—nearly nine times its $21.5 million Bitcoin purchase—leaving $354.8 million of its $2 billion buy‑back authorization untouched.
DeFi Development’s SOL holdings rose 12% to 2.59 million as its CHAD preferred stock reached record highs despite a broader market pullback.
Bitmine boosted its Ethereum holdings by 12,532 ETH, raising its treasury to 6.03 million tokens (about 4.9% of supply) as analyst Tom Lee predicts a potentially historic crypto bull market.
Evernorth’s Nasdaq debut revealed a thin float and a XRP treasury now worth about 40% less than the price paid, underscoring the risks of crypto‑backed public companies.
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