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A wallet-draining script served through website-monitoring provider DebugBear hit Polymarket.com on Oct. 29, 2026. Trading resumed within about an hour; the company says all affected traders will be reimbursed.
Binance says a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop may have let an attacker submit unauthorized withdrawals. TRM Labs and Chainalysis link the theft to North Korea's TraderTraitor; Binance pledges to cover all losses.
Intercontinental Exchange announced on Oct. 29, 2026 a definitive agreement to run a regulated U.S. market for Trade[XYZ]'s perpetual contracts, subject to regulatory approvals. ICE is also investing in the company.
The UK regulator said on Oct. 29, 2026 that Huobi Global gave High Court undertakings covering HTX's website, apps and social media. UK users can no longer deposit or sign up.
The largest corporate bitcoin holder moves STRC to daily payouts from Nov. 2, 2026 and the other three preferreds from Jan. 4, 2027, with annual rates unchanged.
The Oct. 28, 2026 advisories are the first under Core's new fast-disclosure rule for "easily discoverable" flaws; fixes ship in 29.5, 30.4, 31.2 and 32.1.
The exchange denies a breach of its own systems but has not said how many customers or which contact fields were hit.
Retail and institutional clients can trade RLUSD from Oct. 28, 2026, with 1:1 conversion from U.S. dollars; Global Exchange and collateral use come later.
The exchange applied through a new local entity, BBrasil, and is cutting margin, lending and 22 listed assets for Brazilian users while the Central Bank reviews the request.
Payward's Bitnomial would create and clear perpetual futures on Hyperliquid for U.S. clients. The plan still needs regulatory approval.
The 22% tax was due to start on Jan. 1, 2027. Officials cite the U.S. joining the OECD's crypto data-sharing framework only in 2029.
Bitcoin slipped under $80,000 in Asian trading on Oct. 26, 2026, as the AI selloff hit Asian tech stocks and traders cut risk ahead of the Federal Reserve's Oct. 27–28 meeting.
In a joint MiCA review response published on Oct. 21, 2026, French regulators propose protocol vetting, smart-contract certification and platform liability for DeFi, plus stronger ESMA supervision and support for euro stablecoins.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management's 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions give bitcoin a return forecast for the first time, with a big volatility warning attached.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in $526.6M on Oct. 19. IBIT alone pulled $665.2M while Fidelity and Grayscale bled. Bitcoin still slipped to about $81,400.
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