Raw News Items
24 itemsOctober 4, 2026
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
3x Bitcoin and Ether futures funds clear SEC listing hurdle
On Oct. 2, the SEC approved the Cboe BZX exchange’s listing proposal for VS Trust’s 3x Bitcoin ETF and 3x Ether ETF. The decision clears an exchange-rule hurdle for products sponsored by Volatility Shares that seek amplified daily crypto futures exposure. The order covers six funds, including produc...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
El Salvador receives $138 million from IMF after Bitcoin waivers granted
Efforts will continue to reduce the state’s involvement in Bitcoin-related activities and to strengthen crypto‑asset regulation and governance, the IMF said.
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Japan adds Garantex to list of Russia sanctions over Ukraine war
Garantex was previously sanctioned by the US, the EU and other jurisdictions for helping Russian entities evade financial restrictions.
- DecryptScore: 80
Banking Group Sues to Block Crypto's 'Side Door' Into the Banking System
The Independent Community Bankers of America argues the OCC's national trust charters give crypto firms a "side door into the banking system" without the safeguards that bind traditional banks.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Binance will hold some Brazil crypto deposits until users explain where the money came from
Binance will require Brazilian users to provide additional information for cross-border crypto transfers starting Nov. 1. The exchange said customers sending crypto abroad or receiving it from nonresidents must disclose the purpose of each transfer and identify the counterparty type. Corporate accou...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Russia’s Finance Ministry pays wages in digital rubles for first time
Work on the introduction of the digital ruble to the budget process is being carried out by the Bank of Russia together with the Ministry of Finance.
- DecryptScore: 75
'We Have Identified You, Sir': Near Intents Recovers $3.8 Million After 48-Hour Ultimatum
Near Intents said the roughly $3.8 million drained in an exploit on Thursday was returned in full, a day after the team said it had identified the attacker and gave them 48 hours to return the funds.
- DecryptScore: 75
'Uptober' Starts Green as Bitcoin ETFs Draw $134 Million
Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $134.4 million over the first two trading days of October, rebounding from a Sept. 30 outflow as a weak jobs report cooled Fed rate-hike bets.
- DecryptScore: 75
Trump Taps Jay Clayton, the SEC Chair Who Sued Ripple, to Lead AI Push
President Trump named a new "Super Intelligence Force" to coordinate federal AI policy, with Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton at the helm. As SEC chair, Clayton launched crypto lawsuits including the agency's case against Ripple.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin Core’s new fix closes gap that could redirect funds without stealing keys
Bitcoin Core has added a safeguard against signing transactions that may not bind funds to the payment destination a user approved. The change, merged into Bitcoin Core’s master development branch on Sept. 25, targets a narrow flaw in partially signed Bitcoin transactions, or PSBTs, that could produ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin’s $85,000 recovery awaits proof that ETF investors kept buying after payrolls
Bitcoin's recovery above $85,000 faces a demand test after a sharp fall in bets on another Federal Reserve rate hike. A new post-payroll study places the strongest burst of forced buying before Friday's jobs report, while Bitcoin retreated after the release. Bitcoin was $85,276 around press time, up...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Vitalik-inspired AI payment system can send expired deposits to its treasury
The Ethereum Foundation's Oct. 1 announcement that zkAPI is running on mainnet gives the private AI-payment design coauthored by Davide Crapis and Vitalik Buterin a concrete financial-control test: how does a user get unspent money back when the billing server stops cooperating? zkAPI, a billing sys...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
New Treasury rules could change how stablecoin issuers get your dollars back
US government debt is one of the easiest assets in the world to borrow against, which lets financial companies get cash without giving up their investments for good. Washington is rewriting the rules for that borrowing, and the result will reach crypto through the companies that keep Treasury securi...
- CoinDeskScore: 65
The Clarity Act stalled. Bankers aren’t hitting the brakes yet on crypto dealmaking
Crypto M&A has hit record levels, but the Clarity Act’s Senate setback leaves dealmakers weighing how much regulatory uncertainty still matters.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Drift hack recovery opened near one cent per dollar lost
Drift Protocol opened claims and redemptions for its DFX recovery token on Oct. 1, giving victims of its April exploit a way to receive the USDT stablecoin from the Recovery Pool. The exit has a permanent tradeoff: redeemed tokens are burned and no longer share in future deposits. In its launch anno...
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
The same Fed rate hike can help stablecoins and hurt Bitcoin borrowers
When you hold a dollar stablecoin, somebody else may be earning interest on the assets backing your balance, while a company borrowing to buy Bitcoin has to find the money to pay its lenders. Both businesses are crypto-native, but a higher interest rate can reward the first and eat into the economic...
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Lido’s proposed staking route needs over 13 times the default entry bond
Lido’s proposed route for running larger Ethereum validators would require a 32 ETH entry bond, compared with 2.4 ETH for its existing default route. That higher collateral can become more efficient once enough stake is allocated to the validator, but an operator’s profile and place in the funding q...
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Ethereum’s past outflow charts can change when more exchange wallets are identified
Coin Metrics has rebuilt Ethereum's historical Standard Flow Metrics, raising a timing problem for tests that treat exchange outflows as a trading signal. The crypto data provider's Oct. 1 notice says it recomputed Ethereum Standard Flow Metrics from the network's first block using its most up-to-da...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Stablecoins may not drain banks of dollars but they can still make lending more expensive
Here's a hypothetical scenario: you want to use $100 out of your bank account to buy newly issued stablecoins. The company issuing the stablecoins takes your dollars, puts them in its own bank account, and gives you a balance you can send around on a blockchain. You got the product you wanted, and s...
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Crypto poured years into new products. The next challenge is keeping users
Crypto firms have spent years building financial products on blockchains. Getting people to use them — and keep using them — is becoming the next challenge.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
India’s local crypto exchanges get just 0.7% of inflows, Chainalysis reports
India’s crypto users send substantial value to centralized exchanges, but domestic platforms receive just 0.7% of exchange value in Chainalysis’s new regional report. Its Brazil chapter puts Brazil-based exchanges at 12.5% of inflows. The contrast separates two business questions that adoption figur...
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Former SEC boss made AI Czar, Bitcoin may hit $600K this cycle: Hodler’s Digest
Roman Storm and the XRP army aren’t happy former SEC boss Jay Clayton is Trump’s new AI czar, Peter Brandt flips bullish and says Bitcoin may reach as high as $600K by 2029.
- CointelegraphScore: 20
Trump taps intel chief Jay Clayton to lead new Super Intelligence Force
President Donald Trump said US intel chief Clayton will lead the SIF, reporting to the president and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
- CoinDeskScore: 20
There's an election next month: State of Crypto
Congress is gone from Washington for the final pre-election recess, and it's time to take stock of what's going on ahead of November.