Author: Jeremy Ryan

Key TakeawaysCZ praised U.S. agencies like the FBI for tracking and freezing funds after Binance’s $6B security breach.This swift law enforcement response prevented a deeper bitcoin market crash despite $1.5B in liquidations.Wall Street analysts dismissed long-term impacts, blaming the exchange’s security rather than Bitcoin’s code. CZ Praises US Role in Binance Hack Aftermath As Binance continues to recover from the security incident that caused losses of over $6 billion, Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, has highlighted the role of US law enforcement agencies in mitigating the hack’s impact on the wider cryptocurrency market. Zhao, one of the…

The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative is proud to announce a grant allocation to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) to support the continued development of WEBCAT. WEBCAT is an open source tool that lets browsers verify that code served by an enrolled website matches what its developers published. The grant will also help bring that protection to Ethereum wallets and apps. Closing the front-end verification gap The grant targets a gap in how web applications are secured today. HTTPS authenticates the site you connect to and encrypts the connection, but it does not prove that the code…

TL;DR: Strategy reported 848,517 BTC as of October 25 and large third-quarter digital-asset gains. Cash coverage and financing obligations remain central to assessing the results. Strategy’s latest results show how far its financial profile has moved beyond the size of its Bitcoin holdings. The company reported 848,517 BTC as of October 25, alongside a quarter in which digital-asset valuation gains dominated operating income. The October 29 release also emphasized dollar liquidity and the obligations attached to its financing securities. Together, those figures offer a more useful picture than a single profit number. Bitcoin valuation drove the earnings headline Strategy’s third-quarter…

Classic crypto market metrics have suddenly stopped reflecting reality. Bitcoin’s discount on the U.S. exchange Coinbase relative to the international Binance has hit a yearly high, with the Coinbase Premium Index collapsing to around −0.06%.In normal times, such a chart gives traders a cold sweat: the index going deep into the red zone means that large funds in the U.S. have started massively dumping crypto. The Coinbase Premium, USDT-Adjusted daily mean relative to Binance BTC-USDT, Source: Alex Thorn from Galaxy Research via X You Might Also Like Binance to Resume XRP, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Other Crypto Withdrawals Binance Coin (BNB), XRP,…

This week’s newsletter describes a protocol for creating silent payment transactions from multiparty wallets, summarizes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability that affected older versions of Core Lightning, and explains Bitcoin Core’s updated security policy for easily discoverable vulnerabilities. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. News ● Silent payments for multiparty wallets: Oleksandr Kurbatov posted to Delving Bitcoin to describe a protocol to use multiparty inputs in silent payment transactions. BIP352 does…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has expanded its Innovation Advisory Committee and added several leaders from the crypto industry. The committee will offer guidance on how new platforms, products, and financial services may affect markets. It will also help the CFTC understand practical and commercial issues tied to these developments.CFTC chair Mike Selig introduced the updated committee on February 12. He said the members will “ensure the CFTC’s decisions reflect market realities” and help the agency “develop clear rules of the road for the Golden Age of American Financial Markets”. Did…

TL;DR: Curve launched native StableSwap functionality on Stellar mainnet, adding permissionless pools and swaps for compatible assets. The separately discussed FXSwap feature is planned pending an audit, not live. Curve Finance has taken its stablecoin-liquidity system beyond Ethereum-style networks for the first time, launching a native implementation on Stellar. The launch brings a widely used automated-market-maker design to a network focused on payments and tokenized financial assets. A native Stellar deployment Curve Finance has launched its StableSwap system on Stellar mainnet in what the Stellar Development Foundation described on October 29 as Curve’s first native deployment outside the Ethereum Virtual…

Solana’s staking payouts can remain visible while the validator fee, or commission, behind them becomes harder to verify. Agave leaves the commission-rate field empty in reward metadata when custom collectors are active, making a fee check depend on historical validator state as well as the SOL received.In an Oct. 30 report, staking provider P2P.org said the commission record disappeared from both voting and staking rewards from Sept. 8. It said commission continued to be charged and reward amounts still reconciled. The reporting problem concerns the evidence explaining a payout, rather than an identified shortfall in that payout.P2P.org sells staking and…

Veteran VR studio Schell Games has announced another round of layoffs, its second in 2026.This news was first brought to our attention via a BlueSky post from Kyle Hilliard, the husband of one of the affected employees, Ashley Godbold.Schell Games laid off a large portion of its staff today, including my wife, @ashleygodbold.bsky.social, and many other talented developers. She’s asking them to reply to this post with their info. If you’re looking to hire, keep an eye on this thread.— Kyle Hilliard (@kylehilliard.com) 2026-10-30T19:26:39.330ZSchell Games formally announced the layoffs with the following statement on LinkedIn:We’re very sad to say that…

Avalon is an AI-powered MMORPG set in the primary world of Elysara The game confirmed Sony’s Soneium (Ethereum L2) as its blockchain for item ownership and trading, announced July 1 $10 million raised in funding toward global launch A July 2026 private beta focuses on creator onboarding, community playtests, and stress testing Soneium is designed to work in the background rather than as a visible gameplay mechanic Target timeline: marketplace validation in fall 2026, Early Access by end of 2026 The creator economy uses AI tools to let players generate content inside Elysara Avalon, an AI-driven MMORPG that has raised…