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🔥🇭🇰 LATEST: Hong Kong brokers' crypto trading commissions dropped 13.5% to HK$99.3M in H1 2026, even as the city's securities industry profits jumped 21% to a record-volume-fueled HK$51.7B, per the SFC.
@WuBlockchain Worth repeating after the CryptoBilis thefts: check the domain is https://t.co/E3F7CjQDx7 before downloading anything, and never type a 24-word recovery phrase into any website or app. Ledger says it will never ask for it.
📅 One year ago today, crypto saw its largest liquidation event on record.
Over $19B in leveraged positions were wiped out in about 24 hours on Oct 10-11, 2025, per CoinGlass, after a US tariff shock on China hit risk markets.
Today $BTC trades near $83K, up 0.3% on the day (CoinGecko).
#Bitcoin #Crypto
Vitalik Buterin: Without AI, Ethereum's Lean Roadmap Might Have to Wait Until 2040
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin @VitalikButerin said in an October 9 interview with Balaji Srinivasan @balajis at the Network State Conference 2026 that AI has become an important factor in advancing the Lean Ethereum roadmap.
Buterin said that given the roadmap's current goals and level of ambition, without AI, the work might have taken until 2040 or even 2050 to complete. He added that AI is now contributing to a significant amount of research and coding, substantially accelerating progress on the roadmap.
@Cointelegraph Worth noting: the official text puts the blockchain network alongside a nationwide computing-power network and new data-ownership and data-trading rules. It gives no timeline or operating model.
JUST IN: 🇨🇳 China's Communist Party Central Committee and State Council order a national blockchain network to be built, in a new top-level blueprint for the economy.
No timeline or design disclosed yet.
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🇺🇸 REGULATION: The CFTC wants sports, political, cultural and weather bets officially labeled swaps, putting prediction markets under its exclusive control while casino games get carved out.
@Cointelegraph For scale: that's about an eighth of the $19B wiped out on Oct 10 last year, the biggest liquidation day on record. Same mechanics, far less leverage.
🚨 The XRP Ledger has disclosed a now-patched bug that could have let an attacker mint spendable $XRP beyond its 100B supply cap.
Fixed in xrpld 3.4.1 on Sept 25. RippleX says it found no evidence it was exploited on any public network. #XRP
📉 US spot #Bitcoin ETFs lost $678.9M this week (Oct 5-9), per Farside.
Wednesday's $484.9M exit did most of the damage. FBTC and ARKB alone shed $587.5M.
Ether ETFs fared worse: nine straight outflow days, -$542.2M on the week. #ETF
Bitquery's tally covers #TRON, #Bitcoin, #Ethereum, #BNB Chain and Polygon. TRON accounted for the biggest share, with 70.2 million USDT taken from 131 wallets, worth about $70.5 million, the report said. Bitcoin followed with 203.8 BTC ($16.8 million) across 122 wallets, then Ethereum with 1,230 ETH plus USDT, USDC and 10 billion PEPE ($3.7 million) from 33 wallets. BNB Chain lost $1.45 million across 27 wallets and Polygon $580,000 across 13 wallets.
Ledger Drain Grows to $92.9M as Tether Freezes $10M and Thief Sends 1,254 ETH to Tornado Cash https://t.co/Opgs7eNqzS
41,700 $BTC have left @binance since September 20. Over $3.3 billion walking off the world's biggest exchange, and last week was the strongest weekly outflow from the venue since June 2023.
Coins on an exchange can be sold with one click. Moving them into cold storage takes intent. It is the oldest bullish tell in crypto, and it is happening while the paper market is cooling: ETF weekly inflows fell 87.7% to $208.1M, and Glassnode's ETF MVRV just pushed above 1.5, past its historical high band. The average ETF buyer is sitting on big unrealized gains and getting tempted to take profit
$403.6 million in longs died inside one hour today. That number looks violent until you do the math. It was 0.27% of total $BTC open interest.A quarter of one percent.
A cascade is not panic, it is plumbing. One leveraged position trips its maintenance margin, the exchange dumps it as market orders, price ticks down, the next cluster of stops fires, and the loop feeds itself until there is nothing left to liquidate. Every candle below $84K today was leverage leaving, not holders.
That is why flushes matter more than rallies for anyone building a position. The seller is an algorithm with a deadline, not a conviction. When the margin engines go quiet, what remains is the $83.3K to $84.6K cost basis wall and real bids. The market just got cheaper for everyone who was waiting, at the expense of everyone who was early.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 S&P 500 just hit $71 TRILLION in total market cap for the first time in history.
500 US companies are now worth more than half of the entire world's economy.