Blast has announced plans to shut down its Layer 2 network, giving users until Oct. 26, 2026, to withdraw through its normal interface. Blast, in an Oct. 2 announcement on X, asked users to move their assets to Ethereum mainnet,…
Blast announces shutdown as network costs exceed Layer 2 revenue
A Lloyds survey found that faster payments and settlement are the most significant perceived benefits of tokenization, as the UK builds infrastructure for tokenized finance.
71% of UK finance leaders expect tokenization to reshape financial services: Lloyds
A former U.K. National Crime Agency officer, Paul Chowles, has been ordered to repay approximately $2.38 million for stealing 50 bitcoin seized during the investigation of the Silk Road 2.0 dark-web marketplace. Dark Web Theft and Asset Laundering A disgraced former National Crime Agency officer who stole seized cryptocurrency following an investigation into the […]
Ex-NCA Officer Must Pay Back $2.4M After Stealing Seized Bitcoin
Worldcoin price has climbed toward $0.60 as strengthening momentum puts a larger recovery pattern back in focus. TradingView’s Binance WLD/USDT daily chart showed Worldcoin trading at $0.5672 on Oct. 2, up 12.05% from the daily opening price. The token reached…
Worldcoin price eyes $0.72 as rounding bottom pattern takes shape
SBI Holdings has taken full ownership of Bitbank on Oct. 1, folding one of Japan’s busiest XRP markets into one of Ripple’s oldest partners in Asia. The Deal The final share transfer went through on Oct. 1, making Bitbank a wholly owned subsidiary of SBI. The price tag was approximately $290 million (¥46.7 billion), the […]
Ripple Partner SBI Completes Takeover of Japanese Exchange Bitbank
Kalshi seeks a $40 billion valuation, while Blockchain.com targets an IPO and crypto treasury companies struggle to maintain their once-high valuations.
Crypto’s billions are back, but the premiums aren’t
Aave price has climbed toward $182 after reaching an intraday high of $187.50 on Oct. 2, putting the $200 level within reach as daily momentum strengthens. The advance follows late-September developments around a possible AAVE token burn and the launch…
Aave price outlook: Can burn talks fuel a breakout above $200?
Bitcoin climbed after weaker-than-expected payrolls pushed Treasury yields lower, but order-book resistance kept BTC from reaching new macro highs.
Bitcoin briefly hits $87K as weak US jobs data sends bond yields lower
SKY price has climbed above $0.09 after recovering from its late-week pullback, with Binance’s daily chart showing a 10.71% advance to $0.09344 on Oct. 2. The move cleared the token’s recent resistance zone as Galaxy Digital’s $100 million sUSDS treasury…
SKY price eyes $0.10 as rising-channel breakout gains strength
South Korea is laying the regulatory groundwork to bring stocks, bonds, funds and fractional securities onto blockchain infrastructure from February 2027. New FSC Rules Aim to Move Stocks and Bonds Onchain South Korea is preparing to move a significant portion of its traditional financial market onto blockchain rails. The Financial Services Commission has proposed regulations […]
South Korea Opens $5 Trillion Market to Tokenized Stocks, Bonds in 2027
W Group is pleased to share the next stage in the development of hashbank, a fully licensed universal digital bank that combines traditional banking services with the infrastructure of the open Web3 economy in one app. This level of integration remains rare in banking: hashbank brings traditional banking services and connectivity with external crypto wallets […]
The Next Generation of Banking: W Group Connects Web2 and Web3
Bitcoin price has climbed roughly 3% and briefly crossed $87,000 on Oct. 2 as weak U.S. jobs data reinforced expectations for an October Federal Reserve pause while a wave of short liquidations added fuel to the move. According to CoinGecko…
Why is Bitcoin price going up today?
Core Lightning operators running version 26.06.7 or earlier are being actively targeted, the Bitcoin Lightning Network node software project warned on Thursday evening, roughly 10 days after a security patch landed. The team hasn’t identified which vulnerabilities attackers are exploiting or reported any stolen funds. Version 26.06.8 fixes several security problems, including a cha
Bitcoin Lightning Nodes Targeted as Core Lightning Sounds Alarm
SAND briefly reached $0.0736 on October 2, about 63% above its daily opening price on Kraken. By 13:39 UTC, it had retreated 7.2% to around $0.0683, leaving the still-unfinished session with a gain of roughly 52%. Despite that retreat, SAND remained above the levels that had stopped earlier rebounds. The next pullback will test whether buyers are willing to defend those areas at hi