Business & Technology
Business and technology in crypto means the companies, infrastructure, and product moves that aren't pure protocol news. LeoDex News covers exchange business (earnings, executive moves, IPOs, geographic expansion), mining stocks (RIOT, MARA, IREN, CleanSpark), Layer-1 infrastructure providers, partnerships and acquisitions, gaming and NFT platforms with real users, and the wider Web3 product landscape.
We track the strategic moves: which exchange is winning institutional flow, which custodian is taking share, which infra provider quietly powers a category, which product launches are real and which are vapor. Skip the press-release noise — read what's actually shipping and who's actually using it.
Latest in Business & Technology
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Coinbase and Marqeta expand partnership to power stablecoin-backed enterprise cards
Coinbase and Marqeta announced on October 16, 2026 an expanded partnership for stablecoin-backed enterprise payment cards, with Coinbase handling custody and Base settlement and Marqeta issuing the cards.
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Crypto market cap rose 39.6% in Q3 as top-10 spot volume fell 14.2%, CoinGecko says
Total crypto market cap climbed 39.6% to about $2.96 trillion in Q3 2026, while top-10 spot exchange turnover fell 14.2% to $1.65 trillion, according to CoinGecko's quarterly report.
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Binance shuts Bitcoin mining pool after hashrate falls roughly 65% since December
Binance is closing the bitcoin mining pool it launched in April 2020, with services ending Nov. 10 after the pool's hashrate fell from 26 EH/s in December to about 9.2 EH/s, per Hashrate Index data cited by CoinDesk.
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Binance to close its Bitcoin mining pool and related services on Nov. 10
Binance said it will discontinue Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining and Transaction Accelerator on Nov. 10 as part of an ongoing review of its products and services, Decrypt reported.
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Strive buys 3,311 BTC for about $280 million, lifting holdings to 32,773 BTC
Nasdaq-listed Strive (ASST) bought 3,311 BTC for roughly $280 million at an average of about $84,500 per coin, according to a Monday filing reported by Decrypt. The purchase took its total to 32,773 BTC.
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Data center executives say power and labor, not chips, limit AI build-out
Executives at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi ranked energy and skilled labor ahead of chip supply and capital as the main constraints on data center expansion, Crypto Briefing reported.
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AnyPS5 converts PS5 games to run natively on PC, fueling GTA 6 speculation
AnyPS5, an open-source AI-powered GitHub project, converts PS5 executables to run natively on PC. TikTok creators speculate it could run GTA 6 at launch, but none of the games shown in community tests are fully playable yet.
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NFT marketplace Blur to shut down blur.io website, halt new Blend loans November 12
Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur said it will deprecate its blur.io website on November 12, 2026, and its Blend lending platform will stop matching new loans that day, while the protocol stays live on-chain.
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Binance to shut down Binance Pool mining service on Nov. 10 after six years
Binance said it will discontinue Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining and Transaction Accelerator on Nov. 10. It urged miners to move their hashrate elsewhere and gave no specific reason for the closure.
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NFT marketplace Blur to close website Nov. 12 after volume falls more than 99%
Blur, once the largest Ethereum NFT marketplace, will close its website on Nov. 12 after monthly volume fell from about $1.43 billion in March 2023 to under $7 million, ten days after sister project Blast said it would shut down.
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Binance to shut down Binance Pool and related mining services on November 10
Binance said it will discontinue Binance Pool, Cloud Mining, Pool Savings and other mining services on November 10, 2026, at 07:00 UTC, giving miners 28 days to move their hashrate to another pool.
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Ripple-backed Evernorth debuts on Nasdaq as XRPN holding 473 million XRP
Evernorth began trading on the Nasdaq as XRPN after its SPAC merger closed. About 80.3% of Armada's public shareholders redeemed, and its XRP is valued at about $677 million at the filing's $1.43 price.
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Bitmine adds 12,532 ETH, says it holds 4.9% of supply as Tom Lee nears target
Bitmine Immersion Technologies said it bought 12,532 ETH last week, bringing its holdings to 6,028,946 ETH (4.9% of supply) as Chairman Tom Lee said the firm is nearly done stacking.
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Kraken parent Payward wins full Dubai VARA license ahead of dirham trading launch
Kraken parent Payward received a full VASP license from Dubai's VARA for Payward FZCO, clearing the way for spot and margin trading in UAE dirham pairs it is targeting to launch in the coming weeks.
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Adam Weitsman buys 117 Pudgy Penguins NFTs, lifting holdings to 167
Billionaire collector Adam Weitsman bought 117 Pudgy Penguins NFTs, confirming the purchase on X on October 11 and calling it support for the collection during a difficult stretch, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Maas Group shares post record weekly drop after Firmus Grid pulls ASX IPO
Maas Group Holdings fell more than 31% in a week, its largest weekly decline on record, after Nvidia-backed Firmus Grid withdrew its ASX IPO on October 9, 2026, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Coinbase benchmark finds newer AI models caught less payment fraud in replay
Coinbase said Oct. 7 that newer Opus, Sonnet and GPT versions caught fewer fraudulent payments, and less fraud value, than their predecessors in a fixed historical replay of its Onramp screening.
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Luxor's 6–13% Bitcoin financing spread hinges on hashrate delivery, CryptoSlate says
Luxor reported a 6–13% annualized Bitcoin financing spread in its September lookback. CryptoSlate's analysis says repayment still depends on miners delivering hashrate and on both hedge legs matching.
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Tesla and xAI's Digital Optimus plays half of Diablo campaign, Musk says
Elon Musk said on October 10 that Digital Optimus, the Tesla and xAI agent that plays games using only screen pixels and keyboard-and-mouse inputs, can now get through half of the Diablo campaign.
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China orders national blockchain network in 19-measure policy directive
China's Central Committee and State Council issued a directive on October 9 ordering a national blockchain network that builds on the token-free BSN and extends digital yuan capabilities, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Coinbase streams $150,000 Singapore trading cup as Intern leads displayed standings
Coinbase streamed a 10-trader perpetual-futures contest from Singapore on Oct. 8 with a $150,000 prize. Its event page listed Intern first with $4,263.37 in P&L, but CryptoSlate didn't report a confirmed winner.
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Binance to delist 22 tokens and restrict eight services for users in Brazil
Binance will halt trading in 22 tokens and restrict eight products, including Binance Loans and margin trading, for Brazilian users from Oct. 27, U.Today reported. Customers outside Brazil aren't affected.
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Manus raises more than $500 million after China unwound Meta's $2 billion deal
AI agent startup Manus has raised more than $500 million in a round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, months after China forced Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition.
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AI-coded mashup mods put Minecraft in Elden Ring and Mario Kart in Call of Duty
Gamers are posting AI-built mashup mods that drop Minecraft into Elden Ring, Skate into Modern Warfare 2 and Spider-Man into Gotham, with Decrypt reporting that many are vibe coded using Claude AI agents.