Cboe to Launch Binary Options on Coinbase, Robinhood, MARA KPIs
What happened: The SEC approved a Cboe rule change enabling binary options contracts tied to key performance indicators (KPIs) of 23 public companies, including Coinbase, Robinhood, and MARA Holdings.
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US Judge Upholds Gemini’s $5M CFTC Settlement Despite Joint Bid to Vacate
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Oct 16: Tether Payments to Bo Hines Firm Raise Stablecoin-Policy Concerns
Nearly $1 Billion in Crypto Bets Liquidated as ETH Leads Losses · Bitcoin ETFs Shed $261M as XRP Funds Buck Outflow Trend · Q3 Crypto Hacks Near $1.2B as Bitget, Liquid Network Suffer Major Brea
Tether Payments to Bo Hines Firm Raise Stablecoin-Policy Concerns
What happened: The Wall Street Journal reported that Tether paid approximately $6.
Nearly $1 Billion in Crypto Bets Liquidated as ETH Leads Losses
What happened: Over $948 million in crypto leveraged positions were liquidated in the 24 hours ending October 15, with long traders accounting for about 90.
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Q3 Crypto Hacks Near $1.2B as Bitget, Liquid Network Suffer Major Breaches
What happened: According to Hacken's Q3 2026 report, crypto hacks resulted in $1.
DeepMind Audit: AI Writes 75% of Code, But No Self-Acceleration Detected
What happened: Google DeepMind's internal audit, published in the Gemini 4 Argon Safety Report, found that over 75% of its production code is now written by AI, with the share of fully delegated code
Oct 15: Nearly $1 Billion in Leveraged Crypto Bets Liquidated as Markets Slide
Bitcoin ETFs See $261M in Outflows as XRP Funds Buck the Trend · Kraken Parent Payward to Acquire Lithuania’s Saldo Bank, Marking First · AI Agents Drove 138 Million Crypto Payments via Coinbase’s x402 Protoc
Nearly $1 Billion in Leveraged Crypto Bets Liquidated as Markets Slide
What happened: Roughly $942 million in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated over 24 hours as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP prices fell sharply.
Bitcoin ETFs See $261M in Outflows as XRP Funds Buck the Trend
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Kraken Parent Payward to Acquire Lithuania’s Saldo Bank, Marking First Crypto EU Bank Deal
What happened: Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has agreed to acquire Lithuania’s Saldo Bank, which holds approximately $190 million in assets and operates with an EU banking lic
AI Agents Drove 138 Million Crypto Payments via Coinbase’s x402 Protocol
What happened: A new Chainalysis report revealed that AI agents completed more than 138 million payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol from mid-2025 to Q3 2026, up from just 1,500 a year prior.
Developer Clones Microsoft Office Suite Using Anthropic’s Claude AI
What happened: Brandon Thomas, a developer with 15 years of experience, released open-source clones of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—dubbed WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft—using Anthropic’
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Oct 15: Kraken Parent Payward to Acquire Lithuania's Saldo Bank for EU License
BNY and Citadel Securities Complete First Tokenized Treasury Repo on M · Evernorth Deploys $648M XRP Treasury With Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase, Bi · Coinbase Calls for Immediate Bitcoin Quantum-Resistant Upgrade
Kraken Parent Payward to Acquire Lithuania's Saldo Bank for EU License
What happened: Payward, the parent company of Kraken, agreed to acquire Saldo Finance, the parent of Lithuania-licensed Saldo Bank, marking the first time a crypto-native firm has agreed to buy an EU
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Evernorth Deploys $648M XRP Treasury With Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase, BitGo
What happened: Evernorth, following its Nasdaq debut under ticker XRPN, announced the deployment of its 473 million XRP treasury (worth ~$648 million) through institutional yield and lending strategie
Coinbase Calls for Immediate Bitcoin Quantum-Resistant Upgrade
What happened: Coinbase published a blog post outlining five technical recommendations for transitioning Bitcoin to quantum-resistant cryptography.
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