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💳 Visa prepares cryptocurrency payments at 175 million merchant locations worldwide — users will be able to pay with their phone directly from the balance of a connected crypto wallet, without getting a separate card.
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🇮🇳 In India, the premium for buying USDT reached 6.4% — instead of the usual 95 rupees per dollar, buyers pay 101 rupees per token. When buying for 100,000 rupees, the overpayment was about 6,000 rupees.
Among the reasons are high local demand, limited USDT supply, and additional exchange costs.
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🪙 Strategy added 267 BTC — now the company's balance is 848 517 BTC.
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🇱🇻 In Latvia, paying taxes with cryptocurrency may be allowed as early as 2027 — the Ministry of Finance supported the idea, but technical details are still being discussed.
Meanwhile, the parliament simplified life for crypto investors — on special investment accounts, tax will now arise only when profit is withdrawn, not after each transaction.
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🏦 World Sam Altman's introduced the World ID suite for banks.
The company also released full deepfake verification in Zoom — the feature recognizes fake participants in video calls.
Previously, World launched World Money — a financial “super app for people”, which includes stablecoins, international transfers, investments, Earn programs, and virtual accounts.
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☠️ A hacker emptied 1404 crypto wallets of the Qubic network, stealing approximately $1 300 000.
The cause was an error in seed phrase generation on Apple devices — they could be predicted, allowing access to others' funds.
Developers stopped the network, and the stolen tokens were successfully blocked both on the blockchain and on the MEXC exchange.
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💤 After more than 12 years of silence from two Bitcoin wallets, all 417 BTC were moved — now worth $33,850,000.
When the coins arrived at these addresses, BTC was worth only $127 and $355 respectively — over the years, the price of the coins has increased 638 and 229 times, but whether the owners have finally decided to sell their holdings is still unknown.
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🤖 Anthropic expects that by mid-2027 they will stop hiring juniors, and by mid-2028 will in fact fire those already working.
All this work will go to AI bots, such changes will affect other areas in the coming years.
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🚬 Major American companies have started refusing to tokenize their shares on new 24/7 platforms — among them Verizon, Broadcom and UnitedHealth.
They fear that alongside the regular market, a parallel "shadow" market for tokens with separate liquidity, prices and risks for investors will emerge.
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⛔️ Information has appeared online that Bitget is leaving Russia — users are receiving emails demanding to close positions and withdraw funds by October 21.
There is NO official public statement from the exchange yet, however, in the updated English-language terms of use Bitget Russia is already listed among prohibited countries along with Belarus and Kazakhstan.
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💸 Network School former CTO of Coinbase bought Farcaster and plans to turn it into Network State Protocol — a social network with a 'social smart contract', NFT access, and AI moderation.
Users will be offered to accept blockchain rules of conduct, and over time the platform wants to confirm that the account is managed by a human, not a bot.
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🇨🇳 Solana opened an office in Shanghai — right in Shanghai Tower, despite China's strict restrictions on crypto business.
In parallel, the project is launching Solana Accelerate China in four cities, focusing on technology, AI, and development, rather than trading the SOL token.
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🤖 AI agent OpenAI itself found an unauthorized test Ethereum wallet and spent ETH from it on fees, deciding that the funds were "effectively abandoned."
The most unpleasant thing is — it successfully completed the task, but in the final report, it did not mention at all that it had used someone else's wallet.
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🤣 A scammer got scammed for $4,800,000 — one of the major victims of the incident with Ledger himself had previously swindled from victims over 60 BTC through fake 'tasks' and negative balances.
On October 9, unknown individuals emptied all three of his wallets and collected the stolen funds at a single address.
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📱 Ledger introduced Atom — a crypto wallet in the format of an Android smartphone for $899, which cannot make calls, but signs transactions on a separate secure chip and physically disconnects cameras and the microphone.
Deliveries are expected in the summer of 2027, and the company itself emphasizes that Atom does not replace a regular phone.
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🇩🇪 Germany's largest network of savings banks Sparkassen has started to offer clients cryptocurrency trading directly in the banking app.
You can buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Polygon — currently the service is available only in some banks, but every month another 30–40 branches of the network will be connected to it.
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🎲 Over $10 billion has already been invested in crypto-lending DeFi vaults — at the beginning of 2025, there was only $4 billion there.
Investors are attracted by yields from 3% to over 20% annually, but analysts warn — behind the high interest rates lie risky collateral and vulnerabilities that could repeat the history of the Celsius collapse.
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🗽 Elon Musk promised to give one SpaceX share (≈$146) to every child in the USA.
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🪙 JPMorgan expands presence in the crypto industry — the banking token JPM Coin (JPMD), which has been operating on the Base network since last year, is now directly launching on L1 Ethereum.
With its help, corporate clients will be able to transfer tokenized dollars around the clock, without being tied to banking hours.
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🖥 The largest miner MARA continues to dump Bitcoin — today the company sent to Binance and Gate exchanges 1000 BTC ($83 million).
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🪙 Michael Saylor suggested the emergence of a BTC-backed stablecoin, which would be pegged to the dollar and yield 6–8% annually to owners.
For now, it's just an idea, but Saylor believes that such an instrument could seriously compete with USDT and USDC, which themselves do not pay interest to holders.
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🪙 Circle received $1.4 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, but only $103 million remained in net profit — about 7 cents for every dollar.
USDT issuer Tether's operating profit reached $1.5 billion in the second quarter alone, although a drop in the value of assets in reserves led to a total loss of about $4.2 billion.
Meanwhile, Coinbase supported a competing stablecoin Open USD, which offers partners a larger share of revenue from reserves.
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🌎 International transfer of $200 via stablecoins costs on average approximately $2, while a traditional transfer costs — $12.72.
In Latin America, the gap is even more noticeable — costs amount to approximately 1.25% of the transfer amount versus 5.64% for traditional money transfers.
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🤖 Claude in half an hour solved 25-year-old cryptography mystery — found out where the mysterious seeds for NIST elliptic curves came from, because of which a possible NSA backdoor was suspected for years.
There's no reason for Bitcoin to panic — it uses a different curve, secp256k1.
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🎲 In the new trailer for GTA VI, Dacity Coin was briefly shown — and crypto gamblers immediately pumped the eponymous shitcoin by almost 3000% in a matter of minutes.
The token has no relation to Rockstar, but one inscription in the frame was enough for the market.
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☠️ Owners of Ledger are currently actively being scammed under the guise of an urgent firmware update — scammers are directing them to fake websites that almost completely copy the company's interface.
After "device verification," the victim is prompted to enter their seed phrase and effectively hand over access to their wallet.
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🏎 Elon Musk has once again shown Tesla Roadster — now with three versions, including Thrust with SpaceX boosters and a single-seater Rocket, capable of lifting off the ground.
At the presentation, the prototype accelerated to 96 km/h in 0.81 seconds, and Tesla promises to begin mass production in 2028.
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🪙 MSCI approved new rules, due to which Strategy and Metaplanet may be excluded from the indices — companies without significant operational business will now undergo a separate review.
The final list will be published on November 11, and the new rules will take effect after the close of trading on November 30.
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🪙 Ripple opens 24/7 trading for institutional investors in tokenized real-world assets via Ripple Prime — more than 100 markets, including stocks, indices, ETFs, and commodities.
Bloomberg notes that such 24/7 platforms are increasingly taking activity away from traditional Wall Street brokers.
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💳 Mastercard officially launched a platform, which will allow payment with stablecoins at hundreds of millions of merchants worldwide.
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