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The Japanese company Metaplanet takes a new step in its financial strategy. By issuing 52 billion yen (~$328 million) of zero-coupon convertible bonds, the company aims to restructure its debt and buy back its own shares without selling its Bitcoins.

China wants to build a national blockchain network. In a strategic document published on October 9, 2026, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council list this infrastructure among the priorities of economic modernization. The goal is to better connect businesses, IT systems, and data nationwide.

Every project claims to have "the strongest community in crypto." We set out to measure it. On September 28, 2026, we recorded for seven projects their social engagements over 24 hours (LunarCrush), the size and live presence of their Discord and Telegram servers, their subreddits and, above all, what their members actually did this year: votes, fundraising, events, code. The result: XRP leads on volume, Chainlink and Cardano follow, Kaspa and Qubic are the most mobilized small caps, and Dogecoin, with the largest audience of the seven, is not the most active. Here is the ranking, its criteria and its limits.

Solana generates $38.2 million in revenue on dApps in seven days and dethrones Ethereum. Even when adding up its entire ecosystem, Ethereum still can't compete with Solana. A real turning point for the crypto market.

Theft of $86 million from Ledger users. CZ (Changpeng Zhao) warns of an invisible threat whose cause remains to be confirmed.

Solana is about to complete an acceleration that began in August. The crypto network must reduce its target time between two blocks from 250 to 200 milliseconds during epoch 1053, expected on October 9. At this pace, five block production opportunities can appear each second, compared to 2.5 when Solana still operated at 400 ms. The blockchain is faster, but its overall theoretical capacity does not double.

The tokenization of financial assets promises faster transactions and markets open 24 hours a day. Yet, the sector remains limited. In its latest report, the IMF highlights that volumes remain low compared to traditional markets and that platforms struggle to communicate with each other.

Pump.fun retained $18.64M in crypto protocol revenue over seven days, according to DefiLlama. A Coin Metrics study shows that 81% of the 150 memecoins analyzed have lost at least 90% since their peak.

The Bank of Russia formalizes the registration of bitcoin in Sberbank and VTB in their crypto registers. A major turning point that paves the way for BTC to 140 million clients. Discover the schedule and the rules.

Between the secret wallets of giants and the shock simulations of Wall Street, the mapping of Bitcoin holders is shifting. What if AIs are now leading the dance?

Kenya now uses Avalanche to secure over 30 million academic records. The Kenya National Examinations Council, responsible for national exams, relies on crypto blockchain to make certificates verifiable and much harder to forge. A verification that could take several weeks, even several months in some cases, can now be done much faster.

Beldex, a privacy-first Layer 1 blockchain, announced on 6 October 2026 from the Seychelles that its Confidential Assets, also known as Privacy Tokens, are live on its test network. They are activated by the Proto hard fork, at testnet block height 4,242,200 according to the release.

1.5 million ETH waiting to enter staking and 786,000 other ethereum outflows, after a peak at 851,000 ETH related to the MetaMask incident. And to make matters worse, ETH is stuck below $2,800. What is really happening?

Porsche ends its adventure in NFTs. On October 1st, the German manufacturer announced the closure of its Web3 project and its Pioneers Circle club, launched around the digital 911. The 2,363 tokens already issued will remain in their holders' wallets, but the brand does not plan any new activity. On the secondary market, trading has slowed significantly, a sign of sharply declining interest.

During this month of October, USDT is set to make its return on Bitcoin, thanks to Utexo, an infrastructure supported by Tether and built around the RGB protocol. Thanks to this launch, confidential transfers, direct exchanges between BTC and USDT as well as loans secured by native bitcoin will be possible, without exposing all operators on the public blockchain.

Blast announced on Friday the closure of its Ethereum layer 2 network. Operating costs now exceed the revenue generated by the chain, and the team no longer sees "any credible path" to a sustainable model. Users have until October 26 to withdraw their assets.

On October 1, 2026, the SEC proposed conditional self-custody and the use of state trust companies for the crypto custody of advisers and funds. Cointribune compares this to the 2025 SEC services letter, which already provided a path, without legal force.

Families tied up, repeat attacks within months, armed robbers: in France, criminals no longer hack your passwords, they break into your home. Why does the security of your crypto no longer depend on your private keys, but on your discretion? Dive into the human side of the digital hack.

Bitget has revised its estimate of the crypto assets affected by the September 24 security incident to approximately $387.5 million, up from its initial estimate of $351.6 million.

This Tuesday, Aave posts the best DeFi rise! Its founder, Stani Kulechov, envisions a crypto token burn in Aavenomics 3.0, and buyers have seized on it. Meanwhile, the US 10-year yield remains very high and DeFi still progresses. Here are the key figures.

Ethereum has set the date: Glamsterdam, its next major update, will activate on the Sepolia testnet on October 6 at 13:53 UTC. Operators have one week to update their clients or face exclusion from the network. This is the final rehearsal before the mainnet, targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.

Faced with the programmed scarcity of Bitcoin, Strategy reaches a historic milestone by locking in over 4% of all bitcoins in circulation. But Michael Saylor's firm is no longer alone, and other giants like Strive are accelerating the pace. An analysis of an unprecedented treasury race.

Vitalik Buterin believes that Hegota, the Ethereum fork planned for 2027, could be the last update based on technologies familiar to developers from 2015. The network will continue to evolve afterward. Its future transformations will rely more on cryptographic proofs, parallel execution, and formal verification.

Bitcoin records its second-best Q3 performance in history with +43.5%, while Ethereum explodes its record with +71%. A quarter driven by strong ETF demand and controlled profit-taking. At the same time, the gold-bitcoin rotation theory reemerges… coincidence?

What if Bitcoin could whisper your transactions instead of shouting them in public? Three researchers have just put a plan on the table that would allow Zcash-style privacy on Bitcoin without touching the protocol.

The Bitget hack ultimately affected about 387.5 million dollars in assets, compared to an initial on-chain estimate of 228 million dollars. The platform claims to have contained the attack but keeps withdrawals suspended during its security checks.

Privacy coins are experiencing a spectacular comeback in the crypto market. In five months, Zcash and Monero have added 24.54 billion dollars in valuation amidst institutional interest and regulatory debates.

In 2026, Kaspa stopped being "just" a fast payments network. After the Crescendo hard fork took the network to 10 blocks per second in 2025, the Toccata upgrade added native smart contracts, KRC-20 tokens and zero-knowledge (ZK) verification in late June 2026. That leaves the question anyone following the project actually cares about: what comes next? The answer is three build-outs, DAGKnight, the climb to 100 blocks per second, and VProgs, plus a Layer 2 ecosystem taking shape, not without friction. Here is what the next upgrades are preparing, and what they do not yet prove.