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Nigeria’s Central Bank has introduced a licensing framework for non-security virtual assets, including stablecoins, with new capital, reserve and payment rules.

Bitcoin erased its post-election rebound and fell to about $75,700 as a Wall Street AI-stock rout spilled into crypto, wiping out roughly $1.1 billion in leveraged bets and hitting more than 200,000 traders.

Bitcoin fees buy scarce block space, not a percentage of the amount sent. Learn how sat/vB works, how to choose a fee, and what to check when a payment is delayed.

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa says attackers breached a supplier and used the bank's own account; ZachXBT traced more than $133 million out through Kraken, Crypto.com and OKX, with part converted to ETH and Monero.

Hong Kong passed its CARF crypto reporting bill: providers collect customer and transaction data from 2027, with international exchanges planned from 2028.

Zcash's NU7 upgrade, expected late Thursday or early Friday, will make about 12,226 ZEC (roughly $16 million) in the old Sprout pool unspendable. ZEC led the market, rising 11.7% to about $1,318.

Democrats swept both chambers of Congress, and Sherrod Brown beat a $63 million crypto PAC campaign in Ohio. Bitcoin fell below $76,000 overnight, then staged a V-shaped rebound toward $80,000.

Binance's incident report says attackers used a poisoned installer, a fake job interview and an internal AI tool to reach its wallet-signing service in the $6.34 billion theft.

Bitcoin Ordinals number and track individual satoshis, while inscriptions put content on-chain. Learn how they work, how BRC-20 differs, and what risks to know.

Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin says it will absorb losses from a breach that drained roughly $38 million from hot wallets across multiple blockchains, while about $11 million has been frozen.

NEAR’s House of Stake approved a plan to lower its annual issuance ceiling from 2.5% to 1.6%, but review and validator adoption still stand between the vote and any change.

SegWit changed how Bitcoin transactions carry signatures, how blocks are measured and how wallets encode addresses. Here is what the 2017 upgrade actually did.

Binance reopened withdrawals in phases after the $6.3 billion theft. The exchange reported $3.64 billion in net outflows during the first nine and a half hours.

Crypto-tied groups have put more than $200 million into the 2026 US midterms. Tuesday's Ohio Senate race, where crypto critic Sherrod Brown is narrowly ahead, is the clearest test of whether that money still works.

Kalshi raised $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation as it expands from prediction markets into crypto, perpetual futures and other exchange products.

The Bank of England is consulting on how UK clearing houses could accept tokenised versions of eligible collateral while maintaining existing risk standards.

The FBI has formally blamed North Korea's TraderTraitor unit for the record $6.3 billion Binance hack, as the exchange reopens withdrawals in phases and says it has covered 95% of the stolen tokens.

Binance says it has replaced 90% of the $6.3 billion stolen in its record hack and aims to reopen withdrawals on 1 November, as the FBI and Secret Service join the investigation.

Polymarket says an outside provider compromise affected its international platform, prompting a trading pause and a reported $3.9 million return plan.

Coinbase earned $718.7 million in Q3, almost all from crypto investment gains, while revenue fell 35%. Prediction markets passed $200 million a year, but shares hit a two-year low.

Learn how Bitcoin Lightning payment channels settle transactions off-chain, route payments, use liquidity and handle fees, custody and recovery risks.

ICE will run Trade[XYZ]'s Hyperliquid-based perpetual futures in a new US-regulated market, pending CFTC approval. HYPE jumped 15% and Stanley Druckenmiller made his first X post to back it.

Binance lost an estimated $6.3 billion on 29 October in the biggest crypto theft yet. About $3 billion is frozen, withdrawals are paused, and investigators blame North Korea's TraderTraitor.

Bitcoin Taproot combines Schnorr signatures, key-path spending and hidden script options. Here is what the upgrade changes—and what it does not.

How Norway treats crypto for tax: when a sale or swap creates a gain, how to work out the cost, how mining is taxed, what to report, and what the new CARF rules change.

How do strangers on an open network agree on one history? A plain guide to the Byzantine generals problem, Byzantine fault tolerance, Nakamoto consensus, orphan blocks and blockchain finality.

Bitcoin Core has published three bugs found by an automated AI scan, including one that lets any peer crash a Windows or Mac node. What they are, what to patch, and why the embargo ended.

The double spend problem is why digital money once needed a bank in the middle. Here is how Bitcoin solves it, why confirmations matter, and how 51% attacks have reversed payments on smaller coins.

An ENS domain turns a wallet address into something readable, like alice.eth. How resolution works, what a .eth name really costs, and what changed when ENSv2 went live on 27 October 2026.

A candle packs four prices into one shape. What the body and wicks record, why a doji is not a signal, and how patterns fail in a market that never closes.

A vanity address is a normal crypto address that starts or ends with characters you chose. Here is how generators find them, why long patterns get expensive, and the security traps to avoid.

A Nasdaq-listed bitcoin treasury company says it has been unable to withdraw coins held at Biconomy since June, and that four sets of financial statements can no longer be relied on.

Address poisoning plants a lookalike address in your transaction history and waits for you to copy it. Here is how the scam works, how big it has become, and the simple checks that stop it.

Hashrate is the closest thing Bitcoin has to a security budget. How the network infers it from difficulty, why it fell in 2026, and what one petahash actually earns.

Liquid staking turns locked ether into a tradable receipt. How stETH earns, why its peg slipped to 0.94 in 2022, and what the advertised yield quietly costs you.

CoinJoin lets several Bitcoin users combine their payments into one transaction without handing over their coins. Here is how it works, how JoinMarket, Wasabi and Whirlpool built it, and where its privacy runs out.

A crypto tumbler mixes coins from many users to break the on-chain trail. Here is how bitcoin tumblers and crypto mixers work, the main types, the legal picture and the real risks of using one.

Bitcoin mining is a lottery with a purpose. How hash power, difficulty and block rewards fit together, with live network numbers and the economics that decide who survives.

A honeypot token lets you buy but blocks you from selling. Here is what a honeypot means in crypto, how the trap is coded into a token contract, the warning signs, and how a honeypot checker helps.

The SEC would let token issuers raise up to $75 million a year on light disclosure and preempt state registration. State regulators used the comment deadline to say no.

A wallet drainer is a phishing script that tricks you into signing away your tokens or NFTs. Here is how crypto drainers work, the signatures they abuse and how to protect your wallet.