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World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin sheds $400M in market cap in two weeks

World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin saw its market cap decrease more than $400 million over two weeks of large redemptions on Ethereum and BNB Chain.

Sam Altman's World Takes Proof-of-Human IDs to Banks, Citing $40B AI Fraud Risk

Bain Capital, VanEck and Pantera Capital are among design partners for the offering, which also lets users delegate proofs to AI agents.

Kucoin Rolls out AI System That Can Suspend Advice When Markets Crash

Kucoin recently unveiled an artificial intelligence assistant incorporating strict context isolation and risk controls to prevent prompt-injection attacks and market volatility risks. Addressing Security and Market Risks in Crypto AI As cryptocurrency exchanges scramble to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) across their trading ecosystems, the industry faces an escalating wave of novel security vulnerabilities an…

XRP holders can now earn fees from Kraken’s DeFi customers, but there is a catch

Sentora’s Firelight coverage pays premiums from vault yield, while FXRP providers’ shared backing can absorb validated losses after a stablecoin buffer. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Strategy on verge of golden cross, just weeks after bitcoin flashed same bullish signal

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 19, 2026

Live updates: Bitcoin tags $83,000 and slips back as chip stocks lead market rebound

Tech futures bounced after last week’s 5.5% rout, and bitcoin followed them up before sellers knocked it back. Earnings this week put the AI trade to the test again.

UK Trio Jailed Over Home Invasion in Failed Crypto Theft Attempt

The victim was hit over the head before his teenage sister alerted police, who arrested all three men at the scene in May.

XRP’s 13-week ETF inflow streak ends as Bitcoin and Ethereum withdrawals continue

US-listed XRP exchange-traded funds ended a 13-week inflow streak as investors withdrew nearly $576 million from four major cryptocurrency ETF categories. Data from SoSoValue showed that XRP funds recorded $1.84 million in net outflows during the week ended Oct. 16, reversing the $11.31 million inflows registered a week earlier.

Hyperliquid Whale Down $9 Million This Week Flips to a 20x Tesla Bet

The Hyperliquid trader behind a $98 million bitcoin long has dumped the position at a loss and moved into $46 million of leveraged Tesla and chip-stock bets, two days before Tesla reports earnings. The Nitty Gritty of the Matter Bitcoin.com News first covered this wallet on Sunday, when it held a 40x bitcoin long worth […]

Bitcoin extends bounce above $82,000 as stocks rebound, DeFi tokens lead altcoin gains

Bitcoin rose 0.8% to around $82,700 as China’s GDP beat estimates and Nasdaq futures rebounded, while the CoinDesk 80 gained 1.3% and DeFi led gains.

France advances stablecoin tax, eyes self-custodial wallets and exit tax proposals

France’s National Assembly adopted a crypto tax amendment targeting certain stablecoin swaps, while separate proposals on exit taxes and self-custodial wallet reporting remain under consideration.

Stocks rebound into key tech earnings: Three things to know in Bitcoin this week

Analysts expect Bitcoin to retest $80,000 support again as stock markets attempt to recover last week’s losses.

BingX, YouHodler added to ESMA MiCA register in latest update

ESMA’s latest MiCA register update includes BingX, YouHodler and Banco Santander’s Openbank, bringing the total to 375 unique CASPs.

Zcash Developer Zakura Proposes Fix to Stop Quantum Computers Linking Shielded Swaps

Zakura says a single published Zcash address could let a future quantum attacker link every payment a wallet has ever received.

JPMorgan's JPM Coin, representing dollar deposits, is coming to Ethereum: Bloomberg

JPMorgan's dollar deposit token is heading to Ethereum as the lender looks to offer it to wider selection of institutional clients.

Cipher’s $850 million AI bet deepens investor scrutiny as Bitcoin miner’s stock plunges 52%

The completed exchange expands Cipher's share base as it adds $850 million in zero-coupon debt to support data-center development. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Crypto vault deposits top $10 billion as lending risks draw regulatory scrutiny

Curator-managed lending strategies are attracting institutional capital, while exposing depositors to collateral, liquidity and smart-contract risks.

Viral French Shopkeeper Turned Into a Million-Dollar Meme Coin Overnight

A photo of a man standing guard in his smashed-up store during France’s riots turned into PIERRE, a Solana meme coin that ran 155x in about nine hours on Sunday. The Photo The image is hard to forget, i.e. a long-haired man in a black T-shirt stands in the doorway of a gutted video game […]

Bitcoin mining offshoot Nscale loses Microsoft AI deal as power delay stretches into 2030s

The Nvidia-backed company planned to deliver 23,000 AI chips in the U.K. next year, but its grid connection may not be ready until the 2030s.

CME’s bitcoin cash, uniswap futures, global PMIs: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Oct. 19.

JPMorgan takes JPM Coin to Ethereum for institutional clients: Report

JPMorgan is reportedly expanding its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum, allowing institutional clients to make payments and settle tokenized asset transactions.

Mt. Gox creditors face another year of waiting as repayment deadline slips to 2027

The Oct. 16 notice cites unfinished creditor procedures and payment-processing issues, without assigning individual distribution dates. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

World and Zoom Team up to Tackle Deepfake Impersonation

World co-founder Alex Blania has announced the company’s first industry-specific product suite designed to prevent AI-driven impersonation and deepfake fraud across financial institutions. Rising Threats of Synthetic Media World co-founder Alex Blania has unveiled a suite of identity verification technologies designed to combat deepfake fraud and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven impersonation across financial inst…

Bitcoin, Ether ETFs shed $549M as October ETH outflows near $1B

US spot Ether ETFs recorded around $955 million in October net outflows so far, while Bitcoin funds extended their weekly withdrawal streak to two weeks.

Tron Quietly Outearns Ethereum, Base, Solana and Six More Chains

Tron pulled in $23.41 million in revenue over the past 30 days, more than Ethereum, Solana, Base and six other networks earned together. The Scoreboard Onchain analytics account Lookonchain flagged the ranking earlier today, noting that Tron currently sits at No. 1 among all chains on 24-hour, 7-day and 30-day revenue. The underlying Defillama revenue […]

Warren Buffett’s Son Didn’t Know His Dad Was a Billionaire Until He Was in His 20s

Peter Buffett says he didn’t realize Warren Buffett was a billionaire until he was in his 20s, after spotting his father’s name on a Forbes list of the world’s richest people. The episode, which he recalled in a 2013 interview, fits with the family’s famously modest Omaha upbringing, including public school and life in a […]

Bitcoin whale moves $34 million in BTC it got in 2013 when coins traded at $131

A bitcoin wallet dormant since 2013 moved 411 BTC, now worth about $34 million. It is one of several long-dormant wallets to wake up recently.

Zoom adds ‘proof of human’ badges to show you’re not a deepfake

Sam Altman-backed World has rolled out biometric verification badges for Zoom enterprise users, aiming to combat AI deepfake impersonation and fraud.

Seoul Court Acquits ‘Jonber Kim’ in Massive $253M Crypto Scam

Park, a 45-year-old Korean influencer known as “Jonber Kim,” was acquitted after prosecutors sought 20 years in prison for allegedly being the leader of a scam coin manipulation scheme. The prosecutors failed to link Park’s deceptive actions to the token buyers’ misperceptions. ‘Coin King Jonber Kim’ Acquitted in Massive Crypto Fraud Case A Seoul court […]

Zcash developers plan a fix to keep ZEC swaps private from future quantum computers

The team behind Zakura wants every swap through NEAR Intents to get its own key, so a refund address left on NEAR’s public chain can’t expose a user’s wider payment history.

South Korea to meet crypto exchanges amid calls for tax delay

Finance officials are reportedly set to meet major crypto exchanges on Tuesday, days after a lawmaker introduced legislation that could push the tax’s start date back two years.

XRP Ledger is set to fix its lending code before anyone can use it

Validators have a bug-fix patch on course to go live Friday. The lending system it partly repairs is still 10 votes short of approval.

A Pan Am Plane Vanished Off Puerto Rico in 1952. It Took 74 Years to Find It 2,000 Feet Underwater

Search teams have located the wreckage of Pan American World Airways Flight 526A, the Douglas DC-4 Clipper Endeavor, nearly 2,000 feet underwater about five miles off Puerto Rico’s northern coast. The Air/Sea Heritage Foundation, working with Deep Sea Vision, found the aircraft on June 2, 2026 using high-resolution sonar, 74 years after the 1952 ditching […]

Bitcoin, Korea’s Kospi and Nasdaq futures rally as China GDP beats estimates

Bitcoin, Nasdaq futures and Asian stocks rally as stronger-than-expected China GDP and falling oil prices lift risk appetite.

Lagarde Advances Digital Euro to Defend EU Financial Autonomy

Lagarde reiterated that Europe is adamant about advancing the digital euro as an efficient digital cash equivalent for retail payments. She stressed that adopting the regulation for the establishment of the digital euro by the end of 2026 was “key” to making this possible. Lagarde Reiterates Digital Euro Push At IMF Meetings The European Central […]

Deutsche Bank targets Asia crypto custody expansion in 2027 as German launch nears

The service will initially support bitcoin, ether and the stablecoins USDC, EURC and EURAU, with the bank managing clients’ wallets and private keys.

Qubic freezes chain after attacker drains 1.4K wallets with weak seeds

Qubic says 87.1% of the stolen funds remain onchain and the rest were frozen at crypto exchange MEXC, as network validators prepare to vote on a recovery plan.

Wall Street Braces for Black Monday’s Return 39 Years Later

Thirty-nine years after Wall Street’s worst single-day percentage collapse, the calendar is playing a familiar trick. Oct. 19 falls on a Monday again, just as oil tops $100, artificial intelligence stocks buckle, and inflation rattles investors. Social media is sounding the Black Monday alarm, but the parallels with 1987 come with important differences, including safeguards […]

SEC tokenized stock framework faces issuer pushback as Broadcom, Verizon object to OKX-ICE listing

Eight more companies objected to trading on the planned OKX-ICE venue, while Nasdaq has separately said it would opt out under the SEC’s framework.

Richard Heart caught ‘off-guard,’ QDay gets even closer: Hodler’s Digest

HEX founder Richard Heart detained in early morning raid in Istanbul, Starknet plunges almost 50% as it votes to become an L1, and Bitwise says all signs point to Crypto Spring.