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Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! On October 15, with the help of independent security researchers, we found a vulnerability affecting one of the integrations used on the ChangeNOW website. The vulnerability has now been fixed. We currently have no evidence that it was exploited. But we also can’t assume that the researchers who reported it were the only ones to find it. Because of that, we’re looking at the different possible scenarios and warning clients about the information that could potentially have been exposed. This may include email addresses and transaction details.Please note that ChangeNOW’s transaction infrastructure…

TRON’s stablecoin settlement business grew in the third quarter of 2026, while the supply of its native TRX token increased on every day from July 1 through October 16. The blockchain added 125.8 million TRX in Q3 and another 22.9 million over the first 16 days of October, after subtracting tokens burned.TRON can handle more dollar transfers without destroying more of its native token than it creates. TRON DAO Research reported $2.2126 trillion in Q3 stablecoin settlement, up 5.1% from Q2. TRX supply nevertheless kept expanding into October. Related ReadingWhy TRON’s $30 trillion lifetime volume could become a trap TRON’s…

TL;DR: TD Cowen reportedly raised its Strive share-price target from $44 to $56 after the Bitcoin treasury company expanded its holdings to 35,595 BTC. Strive is also seeking financing through a substantial preferred-share offering. Bitcoin treasury company Strive is attracting fresh attention from Wall Street after a rapid buying programme took its reported holdings to 35,595 BTC. TD Cowen analysts increased their share-price target on Strive from $44 to $56 in an October 16 research update, pointing to the pace of the company’s Bitcoin acquisitions. The company has accumulated thousands of BTC in a matter of weeks, considerably exceeding some…

Illuvium is still running in October 2026, but only part of it is playable. The Arena autobattler gets patches every couple of weeks and a new Deathmatch mode has been added, while the open-world Overworld has been offline since January and is being rebuilt as a smaller MMO aimed at December 2026. This review explains what you can play today, what happened to the rest and what the ILV token looks like now. Risk note: ILV and Illuvium’s NFTs are crypto assets, and ILV trades more than 99% below its 2021 peak. Deathmatch also has a paid mode with cash-out…

Key TakeawaysResearchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Metal Research redesigned the electrolyte in an alkaline all-iron flow battery, which then ran more than 6,000 charge-discharge cycles with no measurable capacity loss. That works out to roughly 16 years of daily use.Iron costs about 80 times less than lithium as a raw material, and the water-based electrolyte can’t catch fire or explode. Both points matter for grid-scale project costs and site risk.Low energy density rules the design out for EVs and consumer devices. It targets stationary grid storage, a market where China already controls about 90% of energy…

Stablecoin issuer Circle CRCL$82.25·Market Closed is defending its business model as Coinbase, its largest distribution partner, backs a rival that aims to give businesses more income from stablecoin reserves.In a blog post on Friday, Chief Commercial Officer Kash Razzaghi wrote that Circle kept about 7 cents in net profit for each dollar in revenue made during the first half of 2026. The firm brought in about $1.4 billion, while distribution and transaction costs totaled $819 million.The post puts the figures at the center of a dispute over who gets the interest earned on assets backing stablecoins.Circle said the remaining $473…

On Dec. 18, 2020, with Christmas a week away and Donald Trump preparing to leave the White House, Steven Mnuchin’s Treasury Department announced a plan that would require crypto exchanges and other financial institutions to collect more information about transactions involving wallets people controlled themselves.The public was given just 15 days to comment, with most of that period falling over Christmas and New Year’s, and the government said the urgency was justified by ‘national security concerns’ and the growing use of cryptocurrencies in financial crime.Six years later, President Donald Trump’s second administration formally withdrew the proposal, ending a regulatory proceeding…

OpenZeppelin is expanding its smart contract libraries and secure development suite to TRON. Teams can now build on audited foundations and familiar tooling, giving TRON developers instant access to production-grade security out of the box.Designed for the TRON network, this release brings together a full suite of audited contracts, deployment plugins, and developer tools. Each piece supports a project’s lifecycle, from writing the first contract to managing live upgrades:Smart Contracts: Audited building blocks for tokens, access control, and upgradeable architecture, available as tron-contracts and tron-contracts-upgradeable.Upgrade plugins: Framework integrations that manage proxy deployments and run the safety checks upgrades depend on,…

TL;DR: Charles Schwab is expanding its direct Bitcoin and Ethereum services, including phased external wallet transfers. The move brings digital asset ownership further into the company’s conventional brokerage experience. Charles Schwab is moving its cryptocurrency service closer to the features customers expect from a dedicated digital asset platform. The brokerage has been rolling out direct Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to eligible clients, and its latest account documentation explains how approved customers can transfer supported assets to and from external wallets. For Schwab, that is a meaningful step beyond providing market exposure inside an investment account. Buying Crypto Is Only The…

Bitcoin enters the final weeks of October near $82,000 after a brief fall below $80,000. The October 28 Federal Reserve decision, uneven demand for U.S. spot funds and November inflation data will help determine whether the recovery survives. A forecast requires conditions for both gains and losses, not a single number detached from the evidence. Summary Bitcoin traded near $81,500 on October 17 after briefly dipping below $80,000 this week. September U.S. inflation reached 3.7% annually, up from 3.4% in August. U.S. spot Bitcoin funds lost a net $614.7 million across October’s first 12 trading sessions, based on Farside’s daily…