Barely the reopening of withdrawals on Binance after the crypto hack, over 4 billion $ evaporate in a few hours. Meanwhile, the FBI issues an international wanted notice against a suspect.
Ethereum ended October 2026 with a decline of 16.06%, while US spot ETH crypto ETFs recorded $1.61 billion in net outflows. A monthly record since their launch in July 2024. The market's second largest cryptocurrency thus closes three consecutive months of gains, with a price back around $2,250. BlackRock accounts for most of the withdrawals.
Ethereum faces a threat after the Binance hack. North Korean hackers are said to hold more than 420,000 ETH, nearly one billion dollars at prices observed at the end of October. These funds could be resold on the crypto market while liquidity remains fragile. Binance has however replenished 95% of the affected assets, and several technical indicators hint at a possible rebound.
Polymarket suspended its trades for about an hour after the diversion of at least $2.6 million belonging to its users. The attack did not target the blockchain itself, but a performance measurement tool integrated into the site, revealing a often overlooked weakness of non-custodial platforms.
The Senate approved an agreement allowing the automatic exchange of information about cryptos held with foreign providers. This text does not create any new tax, but it mainly gives the tax authority the means to compare taxpayers' declarations with data received each year from its counterparts.
Zcash celebrates its tenth anniversary on October 28, 2026 with an uncommon funding model in crypto. Unlike Bitcoin, the network allocates 20% of block rewards to the development of its ecosystem. A strategy praised by Grayscale, which sees it as one of the reasons for its longevity. However, this mechanism is now debated: a historic developer proposes to remove part of this funding, considering the current reserves more than sufficient.
Faced with the rise of AI-powered cyberattacks, Google unveils its crypto custody technology for banks, an infrastructure already deployed internally by Alphabet on Ethereum and Solana.
Circle's USDC has just surpassed Tether's USDT in crypto trading against the euro. According to the latest data from Kaiko, its market share now reaches 56%, compared to only 10% in January 2024. The stablecoin is also gaining ground on liquidity, with order books 40% deeper than those of its rival. The European MiCA regulation has greatly accelerated this change.
With $50 million, Justin Sun grabs nearly 3% of the total $PEPE supply and triggers a shockwave in the crypto market that immediately propels the memecoin.
BNB Chain prepares a new Layer 1 blockchain for early 2027, with an ambition: to exceed 100,000 transactions per second and reduce block production to 200 milliseconds. The project, provisionally called New L1, will operate alongside BNB Smart Chain without creating a new crypto. Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder of Binance, supports this approach. The first experiments are already underway, but the public network is not yet available.
The Common Sense Leadership Fund, an American conservative group, urges S&P 500 CEOs to block the tokenization of RWAs of their shares on decentralized networks. Between regulatory panic, hardware flaws, and admission of adoption, the crypto RWA sector reaches a new level of intensity.
After the alert on the Keystone site leak on October 24, six major cold wallet brands have now been hit by hardware flaws or data breaches in 2026. An unprecedented crisis of confidence is shaking the crypto ecosystem.
The Argentine judiciary has just cleared Javier Milei in the LIBRA crypto scandal. On October 23, federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi pronounced a dismissal in favor of the president, his sister Karina, and nine other people. After 20 months of investigation, the magistrate considers that no criminal fraud was established. An unexpected decision in a case marked by a 95% token crash and nearly 100 million dollars withdrawn by a few wallets.
Predictive contracts linked to cryptos generated a weekly record volume of 2.7 billion dollars on Kalshi and Polymarket. Very short-term bets on the bitcoin price concentrate most of this activity, now surpassing that of all categories except sports.
Tether is accused of having paid $6.3 million to a senior White House adviser to shape stablecoin laws to its advantage. The US Senate has just launched an official investigation.
Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial face a new lawsuit concerning their crypto activities. J. Benjamin Greenberg, a shareholder of Circle, claims that two operations linked to the United Arab Emirates allowed the president and his companies to illegally benefit from foreign payments. The two transactions represent 2.5 billion dollars: 500 million for 49% of World Liberty and 2 billion invested in Binance via the stablecoin USD1.
An address tracked by Lookonchain bought about $7.22 million worth of cryptos in twenty-four hours. Its portfolio favors Ethena, Ondo, Aerodrome, and Uniswap, while Pepe represents only a small part of the operation.
A study published by the Bank for International Settlements estimates that Bitcoin does not have the necessary architecture to become an everyday currency. Michael Saylor reaches a similar conclusion but advocates a different solution: keep BTC as capital and build credit products on top of this asset.
The OCC has just published the final rule implementing the GENIUS Act. By January 18, 2027, stablecoin issuers must strictly comply with US banking standards and fully back their crypto tokens, under penalty of a total ban on operations in the United States.
Since this morning, a major network outage has affected Google Cloud servers in London and paralyzed Revolut. Blocked bank cards, impossible withdrawals, and crypto wallets displaying zero… are your funds safe?
Mastercard adds a layer of security to payments in stablecoins. Its new tool, Stablecoin Security, will assign a risk score to transactions even before funds are moved on-chain. Fraud, scams, sanctions, and other financial crime risks will be analyzed using payment and blockchain data. Borderless.xyz and Keyrails are the first partners. Global commercial launch is planned for 2027.
Charles Hoskinson personally develops a new programming language for Cardano with Lucas Rosa, one of the creators of Aiken. The project aims to combine transaction intents, proof-carrying data, and Groth16 proofs. For this new crypto building block, no name, public code, or launch schedule has yet been announced.
After 12 years of total inactivity, two Bitcoin wallets dating back to 2013 have just reactivated 417 BTC, turning a tiny initial investment into a fortune of 33 million dollars.
While Bitcoin ETFs record over $82 million in outflows in 24 hours, the chart pattern signals a bullish accumulation triangle that could soon push BTC towards $90,000.
Twist on the Fed! The probability of a rate hike in October collapses from 48% to 13% on Polymarket. Between purged panic and massive accumulation, is Bitcoin preparing for the big shock of the fourth quarter?
Three members of the Canadian Armed Forces are among seven men charged after the alleged kidnapping of the owner of a crypto platform in Toronto. The suspects reportedly tried to gain access to his digital assets and professional security systems, but the police have not confirmed any theft of cryptocurrencies.
A whale sold 1,074.36 bitcoins for $89.5 million and bought 36,159 ethereum for $90.6 million in three days, according to Lookonchain. Here is what is known, and what this operation hides.
Chainalysis warns France. Its country director, François Volpoet, believes that the project to tax crypto conversions into regulated stablecoins could push investors towards less monitored foreign platforms. The proposed rate reaches 31.4% on the capital gains concerned. A measure which risks, according to him, complicating the monitoring of transactions rather than strengthening tax revenues.
XRP's share of the total crypto market capitalization has dropped from about 5% in July 2025 to nearly 3% in October 2026. This decline mostly reflects a relative loss of value compared to other digital assets and does not mean that the use of the XRP Ledger has decreased by the same proportions.
More than 400 scientists want to seriously strengthen the monitoring of the most advanced AI models. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell are among the 406 signatories of an open letter published in October. They call for an international body responsible for setting containment standards and recording security incidents. Their first recommendation is even more concrete: by default, isolate from the Internet models capable of conducting cyberattacks.