U.S. spot XRP ETFs took in a net $708,510 on Wednesday, October 21, their first inflow in a week, as Franklin Templeton’s XRPZ bought $2.25 million of XRP. Bitwise XRP ETF lost $1.55 million. Two empty days came before it. Most of October has looked the same. That is the quiet side of this week’s
A Chinese national has been extradited from the Netherlands to Los Angeles over an alleged Cambodia-based crypto investment scam that targeted 174 identified Americans and moved more than $36.9 million through a Bahamas bank account. Summary Zheng Zhao was extradited from the Netherlands over an alleged crypto scam targeting 174 Americans. Prosecutors allege more than
I first wrote the initial draft of the Ethereum whitepaper on a cold day in San Francisco in November, as a culmination of months of thought and often frustrating work into an area that we have come to call “cryptocurrency 2.0″ – in short, using the Bitcoin blockchain for more than just money. In the
Polymarket has drawn criticism on X after a photo of its fortune-cookie advertisement attracted more than 500,000 views. Summary Polymarket’s fortune-cookie ad drew criticism after Jared Holt’s photo topped 500,000 views on X. The purple promotional slip features Polymarket branding, a QR code and an acknowledgment of paid advertising. OpenFortune has handled similar campaigns, but
Important notice: any information from this post regarding the ether sale is highly outdated and probably inaccurate. Please only consult the latest blog posts and official materials at ethereum.org for information on the sale Ethereum received an incredible response at the Miami Bitcoin Conference. We traveled there anticipating many technical questions as well as a
“Perpetual preferreds have brought bitcoin to income investors, a group that ETFs never reached,” said Mark Palmer, a senior equity research analyst at StoneX. Ryan Rasmussen, the head of research at Bitwise, also sees the products attracting buyers who might avoid bitcoin exchange-traded funds, though he expects the ETFs to remain the bigger demand channel.
The Bitget hacker has moved $19.48 million in 52 transfers, almost entirely in Bitcoin, as Arkham tracks fresh outflows from wallets linked to the exchange’s September breach. Summary Arkham tracked $19.48 million across 52 transfers, with Bitcoin accounting for $19.33 million. Hacker-linked wallets sent $78.01 million to new addresses between Oct. 15 and Oct. 23.
Of all the parts of the Ethereum protocol, aside from the mining function the fee structure is perhaps the least set in stone. The current values, with one crypto operation taking 20 base fees, a new transaction taking 100 base fees, etc, are little more than semi-educated guesses, and harder data on exactly how much
Bitcoin Core has changed its security disclosure policy to speed up fixes for vulnerabilities that large language models can find with little effort, ending the months-long embargoes those bugs once received. Maintainers merged the change to the project’s security policy on Thursday. Chaincode Labs developer Antoine Poinsot, who wrote the proposal, announced it in a
In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, US regulators finalized stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act, Bitcoin lost ground after a sharp reversal in ETF flows, and Solana activated Alpenglow. Corporate Bitcoin financing, institutional custody deals, and Ethereum’s postponed testnet upgrade also shaped crypto.news coverage for Oct. 18–24. Summary Jan. 18, 2027, is the
