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67 stories that broke on 1 October 2026 (UTC), the best-sourced first.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules and amendments to create a tailored framework for the custody of crypto assets by registered investment advisers and regulated funds. The proposal would allow self-custody in some cases and permit state trust companies to serve as custodians.
The Ethereum Foundation introduced zkAPI, a system letting users pay for metered APIs using zero-knowledge proofs so providers cannot link requests to payers. Coverage reports it is live on mainnet and supports prepaid access, with one outlet noting prompts are not concealed from AI providers.
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Both Strategy and Michael Saylor posted the same notice stating the Stretch Dividend Rate is maintained at 12.00% for October 2026 for $STRC.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that Americans born from 1957 to 1964 and from 1980 to 1984 were both employed for 76 percent of all weeks from ages 18 to 38.
Binance Futures announced it will launch a USDⓈ-margined CTUSDT perpetual contract, according to a post dated 2026-10-01.
NVIDIA Newsroom states that AI factories are built by the megawatt, with each megawatt factory costing roughly $60 million, and that operators commit capital at that scale only with a clear view of return on investment. It says three key things shape AI factory returns, including earning capacity.
Eric Balchunas says Bloomberg published a Q&A article on Blue Horseshoe, describing a tool that lets investors see active management's playbook.
Eric Balchunas states that Schwab will dual list on the new Texas stock exchange, which has also attracted a few ETFs.
Eric Balchunas (onchain) states that Amphenol had 82 buyers and just two sellers, calling it about as big a ratio as you'll ever see.
Eric Balchunas (onchain) claims Turkey wants investors who made large market gains to gift excessive returns to other investors who lost $20b in funds with Ponzi-like schemes that are being liquidated.
Multiple news outlets report that NEAR Intents suffered a $3.8 million exploit and halted services, with the platform promising to compensate affected users. Deposits and withdrawals on 11 networks remain disrupted while repairs continue.
Illinois officials and crypto industry groups agreed to postpone the state's 0.2% crypto tax for six months while a legal challenge continues, according to multiple newswire reports. The delay is subject to court approval.
Multiple news outlets report that the TRUMP memecoin project is inviting its top 185 holders to a Nov. 22 gala dinner with President Trump. Coverage notes ethics disputes and corruption claims surrounding his crypto interests.
Circle told the European Commission that MiCA's reserve mandates and concentration caps keep large global stablecoins outside Europe's perimeter, urging more flexible rules. Circle also seeks to preserve cross-border co-issuance and a recognition route for foreign stablecoins.
MetaMask said it is exiting its Lido validators while investigating an infrastructure security incident, stating it found no immediate threat to user wallets. Lido estimated the exit, withdrawal and re-entry cycle could take up to about 45 days and warned of lost rewards and downtime penalties.
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Shareholders of Armada Acquisition Corp. II approved the merger with Evernorth, an XRP treasury company backed by Ripple, according to The Block, Decrypt and Cointelegraph. The posts state Evernorth expects to hold roughly 473 million XRP and to begin trading on Nasdaq.
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CertiK and Cointelegraph report that crypto exploits and phishing caused roughly $766-769 million in losses in September 2026, driven by the Bitget and Liquid Network incidents. Cointelegraph adds that Q3 losses exceeded $1 billion and that over $270 million of the Liquid Network funds were later returned.
EU regulators are reportedly examining Binance's use of a MiCA exemption to serve EU customers, with ESMA seeking stronger enforcement powers. Regulators are probing how Binance keeps serving EU customers from Abu Dhabi after losing its MiCA registrations.
The authors of an Ethereum staking reward burn proposal withdrew it from the Hegota upgrade, with co-author Jérôme de Tychey saying a scoping process was the wrong venue for an issuance change. The authors plan a separate issuance-policy process, with Lido among those offering to help after objections over validator economics.
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Citigroup raised its 12-month bitcoin price target to $113,000 and its ether target to $3,028, according to CoinDesk and Decrypt. Decrypt reports the bitcoin target was revised up from $82,000.
The Block and The Defiant report that Drift has opened DFX recovery claims, with an initial recovery pool covering roughly 1% of user losses and no firm timeline for full repayment.
Decrypt reports Bitcoin entering October after a record-pace September, with a Fed hike and 5.3% Treasury yields testing bulls, and later surging to $86K as cooler inflation and dovish Fed speakers shifted rate-hold odds.
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The Defiant reports sharp outflows from Sentora's Morpho vaults amid a MetaMask staking incident, citing available liquidity figures for the RLUSD and PYUSD vaults.
A Bitcoin Policy Institute paper says MSCI's proposed "non-operating company" rule could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its indexes and may have roots in an earlier crypto treasury review.
CoinDesk reports a MetaMask security incident that forced Ethereum staking exits, with no funds at risk. An Ethereum security researcher estimated about 0.36 ETH in rewards was diverted, while precautionary exits cover validators holding roughly 523,000 ETH.
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Marinade says its council blocked a DAO takeover attempt by vetoing two proposals within six hours, adding that no funds moved and staking services were unaffected.
The Defiant reports that Judge Jennifer Rochon dismissed a class action over LIBRA and M3M3 memecoin launches with prejudice, finding six months of launches cannot sustain a RICO claim and that plaintiffs never pleaded Meteora as a suable entity.
A judge dismissed 15 other claims against Chainalysis while an aiding-and-abetting claim over Celsius' disputed $3.3 billion audit survives, according to Cointelegraph.
Cointelegraph reports that Bitcoin erased its post-PCE gains and traded below $86K, with analysts cautioning that methodology changes complicated the lower-than-expected inflation reading.
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Aaron Kaplan, founder of Promethum, argues in a CoinDesk opinion piece that synthetic tokenized stocks are bad for American investors. He claims they cheapen investor trust and undercut the issuer-led capital markets model.
CoinDesk states that crypto lost $1.26 billion in hacks while bitcoin bulls enjoyed a monster quarter, in its day-ahead look for Oct. 1, 2026.
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Decrypt's Morning Minute reports that crypto is giving up on Congress and going after senators, and that a major MetaMask security event has crypto natives on edge as details trickle out.
The Block reports that Robinhood Wallet has integrated Arcus as a routing provider for Stock Token swaps, giving eligible users access to more than 190 tokens.
Decrypt reports that 11 games including Minecraft and Candy Crush are part of an EU virtual currency crackdown, with guidelines excluding cryptocurrencies.
An investor cited by Cointelegraph says Latin American stablecoin liquidity may depend on a small number of providers, based on researchers who warned that fragility is concentrated in the system's thinnest layer.
Cointelegraph states that stablecoins, being highly liquid and settling 24/7, can leave banks and countries at lightning speed, and that whether they are a risk or an opportunity depends on perspective.
The Defiant reports that Blockworks has opened its full dataset to AI agents through a hosted Model Context Protocol server, giving ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor read access to the datasets behind Blockworks research and its Intel app.
The Defiant reports that World Liberty Financial launched WLFI staking with a planned $1.25M USD1 pool. Holders must open a 180-day lock and cast governance votes to claim rewards, with no fixed payout rate.
A CoinDesk post states that the CLARITY Act failed while the rules came anyway. The post is a headline for a 'Crypto for Advisors' item and provides no further detail.
Cointelegraph reports that US bond yields fell sharply around Thursday's Wall Street open while Bitcoin price action sought to preserve a local trend of higher lows.
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Cointelegraph reports that New York and Wyoming regulators signed an agreement to coordinate crypto oversight, sharing supervisory information and coordinating licensing reviews, examinations and enforcement actions involving digital asset firms.
A Castle Labs study of live order books found that Hyperliquid held as much resting liquidity as the median of Binance, Bybit and OKX on four of five crypto assets and cost less to trade. The remaining gap concerns how venues price stocks and commodities when the underlying market is closed.
OpenZeppelin and T-REX Network introduced a new framework for regulated token eligibility and recovery, according to The Defiant. The redesign requires new deployments rather than in-place upgrades of existing 2.x identities, per the project's changelog.
A Defiant report on an SF Fed study says stablecoin treasury growth partly offsets China's retreat, with issuers favoring short-term debt and China's decline mostly in longer-dated securities.
FinCEN says A7's sub-agents processed more than $17 billion in dollar-denominated transactions from January 2025 through June 2026, according to The Defiant. The US is sanctioning the A7 network and proposing a ban on sub-agent payments.
OpenAI says it fired three safety researchers for breaking its rules on handling sensitive information, according to Decrypt. The report adds that the exits follow months of rogue-agent incidents, safety-team departures, and a new lawsuit.
Hyperliquid's policy group is asking for perpetuals to fall under MiFID II, and Circle is targeting MiCA's bank deposit floor, both in filings to the European Commission's MiCA review.
Meta communications chief Andy Stone disputed a journalist's report that Muse synced his texts despite his settings, saying reading Messages requires two user-controlled permissions.
OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign involving over 15,000 users and ties a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot, the startup behind Kimi.
Decrypt reports that Reddit will shut down RSS feeds on November 13 and cut off outside apps' data pipeline by March 2027, blaming scraping bots while licensing its own content to AI companies.
Decrypt reports that Zcash (ZEC) is 21% below its $1,698 peak, attributing the drop to ETF outflows and a suspected North Korean heist that routed money through its shielded pool.
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Cointelegraph reports that China's spy ministry warned would-be foreign spies it is watching the blockchain, and that Singapore's crypto economy grew 55%. The same roundup notes South Korea is set to make crypto market makers legal.
CertiK Alert states it has seen a security incident affecting part of MetaMask infrastructure, while noting no immediate threat to MetaMask wallets has yet been identified.
A r/Bitcoin community post predicts a next target of $104,000 and possibly a $105,000-$108,000 range in two weeks.
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A Reddit user on r/stocks states they sold their last NVDA, GOOGL and MSFT positions, arguing hyperscaler AI economics require far more revenue than currently exists. The post cites figures attributed to the Financial Times.
A Reddit r/investing post predicts that Treasury rates and inflation will return to 1990s levels, with inflation around 3.2% and the ten-year yield between 6.5% and 7.2%. The author also predicts rapid normalization of a twenty-year bond bubble and GDP growth returning to historic norms.
A post on r/stocks states that the SEC has proposed an accredited investor exam intended to expand private market access, with a 60-day comment period.
A Reddit user on r/solana reports seeing CoinGecko's over-capacity error page and asks whether retail investors are returning, citing recent pumps and pumpfun activity.
A Reddit post on r/Bitcoin claims Bitcoin's growth follows a power law, comparing its trajectory to major cities, and states the math has a 96% success rate over Bitcoin's 17-year history. The author also asserts Bitcoin will continue to rise and eventually stabilize.
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The EU has questioned Binance about continuing operations despite a wind-down order, according to FT reporting cited in the post.
South Korea announced a $120bn plan to build eight large-scale nuclear reactors in the US, including six Westinghouse AP1000 units and two APR1400 units, as part of a $350bn investment package to secure tariff exemptions.
A Reddit post claims a Bitcoin advertisement was spotted at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, featuring a question about the value of $1,000,000 and a note on inflation reducing buying power.
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A Reddit user with three years of Solidity experience claims blockchain has seen no major corporate adoption, citing supply chain, RWA tokenization, money transfer and proof of ownership as unproven use cases. They also recount a consultancy interview where a bank reportedly stored only transaction hashes on chain due to cost.
A Reddit user on r/Bitcoin claims that $6,400 worth of Bitcoin was sent from their Coinomi wallet to an unknown address without their knowledge. The user asks for help and provides a transaction ID and the recipient's wallet address.
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A post reports that SEC Chairman Paul Atkins admitted federal securities rules have failed to keep pace with Bitcoin's rapid growth since its 2008 launch.
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A Reddit user on r/solana states they accidentally sent 43.77 SOL to a smart contract instead of a wallet and asks for help, sharing a transaction ID.
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A Reddit user describes receiving a call that appeared to come from Wanstead Police station, in which the caller claimed a busted gang held folders with the user's emails, passwords and a 24-word document. The user says they hung up after realising a fraud investigator would recognise a seed phrase.