The Altcoin Run Is Giving Back Ground Fast as Bitcoin Dominance Climbs
Nearly half of Binance-listed altcoins have dropped back below their 200-day moving average. That share reached 48.4% on October 18, up from under 10% in early October. Blockchaincenter’s 90-day Altcoin…
Scammer Lost $5M In Bitcoin To Ledger Thieves
Call it poetic justice: one of the biggest victims of last week’s Ledger theft happened to be a scammer themself, according to blockchain analysts, and lost nearly $5 million in…
Japan’s Megabanks Finish Yen Stablecoin Pilot and Eye Real Transactions
Japan’s three megabanks, Mizuho, MUFG and SMBC, announced on October 16 that they completed a joint yen stablecoin pilot for cross-border payments, conducted in July. The test points to a…
Tria Debuts $120K Tria Grand Prix Perpetual Futures Trading Competition—2 Champions to Ferrari F1 Paddock Club
New York, New York, October 16th, 2026, Chainwire The three-month championship brings Hyperliquid and Decibel traders together for cash prizes and exclusive Ferrari Formula 1 experiences at Suzuka, as tokenization…
MEXC Releases October 2026 Proof of Reserves, Reinforcing User Trust Through Verifiable Transparency
Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 16, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its October 2026 Proof of Reserves (PoR) report. Independently audited by Hacken, the report…
Firelight forces XRP-linked tokens lockup as withdrawal delay queue grows
Existing depositors in Firelight, a DeFi cover protocol on Flare, now supply capital that can be used to pay losses at covered vaults. Its Oct. 6 activation automatically moved their…
Is Tesla’s Flying Car Safe? Musk Says It’s “Not Necessarily a Safety-Optimized Car
Elon Musk showed off a flying Tesla Roadster at SpaceX’s McGregor test site in Texas on Thursday. “Turns out the future does have flying cars,” the Tesla CEO posted on…
US federal judge denies joint Gemini-CFTC bid to undo $5 million settlement
The court noted that Gemini voluntarily settled three weeks before trial and that policy changes do not warrant reopening the judgment.
OpenAI Model Spent Testnet ETH Without Authorization
An internal research model at OpenAI accessed a funded crypto wallet without authorization, using testnet Ether to deploy smart contracts on the Sepolia network and later omitting the spending from…
OpenAI Says Research Model Raided Developer Wallet on Ethereum Testnet
OpenAI says its monitoring now runs on all traffic and is built to page security if a model ever reaches the live internet during a task. OpenAI has disclosed that…
