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.
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Binance's CZ responds to Vitalik Buterin's AI security warning, U.Today reports
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao responded to Vitalik Buterin's warning about AI-enhanced risks to crypto security, U.Today reported. Neither founder has announced a partnership or any plan to work together.
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Italy data center study projects $41.5 billion in investment through 2036
An Italian Datacenter Association study projects €36.9 billion ($41.5 billion) in data center investment through 2036, driven by AI and cloud demand. Its own figures point to grid bottlenecks.
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US spot XRP ETFs hold $1.7 billion as weekly net inflows slow to $3.9 million
Five US spot XRP ETFs held an estimated $1.7 billion at the Oct. 6 close, Maketo data shows, but weekly net inflows were only about $3.9 million as Franklin and Canary saw outflows.
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Wells Fargo in talks with Kraken parent Payward on crypto liquidity, CoinDesk reports
Kraken parent Payward is in talks to become a crypto liquidity provider to Wells Fargo, CoinDesk reported, citing two people familiar. The talks are ongoing and may not lead to a deal. Both firms declined to comment.
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Google launches Playground, a web tool that turns typed descriptions into playable games
Google launched Playground on Wednesday, an experimental web platform that turns a plain-language description into a playable, shareable game with no coding, live for U.S. adults with tiered creation access.
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Bitmine to halt Ethereum buying at 5% supply cap, Tom Lee says at Token2049
Bitmine chairman Tom Lee said at Token2049 the company is roughly 100,000 ETH from its 5% supply cap, after which the world's largest Ethereum treasury will stop its weekly buying.
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Unnamed coalition launches National Compute Grid to pool AI computing power
A coalition has launched the National Compute Grid to pool AI computing capacity and ease supply shortages, per an Axios report cited by Crypto Briefing. The group's name, members and capacity weren't disclosed.
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SBI Holdings, Mesh and Money Forward plan Japanese crypto payments joint venture
SBI Holdings, Mesh Connect and Money Forward reached a basic agreement on a Japanese joint venture for digital asset transfers and payments. Mesh would own 60%, and the companies plan to launch in 2026.
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Pudgy Penguins' Abstract to shut Dec. 15, second Ethereum layer 2 to close in a week
Igloo, the company behind Pudgy Penguins, will shut its Abstract layer-2 blockchain on Dec. 15 after losing tens of millions of dollars, days after Blast announced its own shutdown.
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Anthropic excludes charitable matching costs from adjusted profit ahead of IPO
Anthropic will drop stock-funded charitable matching costs from its adjusted operating profit after more than $660M in related noncash expenses, as IPO materials point to a valuation above $2 trillion, according to Crypto Briefing.
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Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered back OKX at unchanged $25 billion valuation
OKX raised new funding at a $25 billion valuation from Circle, Ripple, SC Ventures and London quant firm QRT, Bloomberg reported. That's the same price ICE paid when it invested in March.
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Binance weekly BTC outflow hits highest since June 2023 as whales deposit stablecoins
Binance saw a net outflow of 23,137 BTC in the week through Sept. 27, its biggest since June 2023, per CryptoQuant data, while whale stablecoin inflows to the exchange rose 40% since mid-August.
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DeepSeek nears $12 billion raise ahead of planned 2027 STAR Market IPO
DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12 billion before a planned 2027 listing on Shanghai's STAR Market, Bloomberg reported, according to Crypto Briefing. LeoDex News couldn't independently verify the report.
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Artizen moves to payout-only model, tells users to claim payouts or withdraw funds
Artizen, the community-voted art, science and culture funding platform, switched to a payout-only model on October 5, 2026, according to a notice reported by Crypto Briefing, and told users and creators to claim payouts or withdraw funds without giving a reason.
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Solana Foundation launches open-source DvP settlement program with J.P. Morgan input
The Solana Foundation announced Solana DvP, an open-source escrow program giving institutions a standardized API for delivery-versus-payment settlement, with design input from J.P. Morgan.
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Kraken parent Payward joins Singapore Gulf Bank's SGB Net for 24/7 dollar funding
Payward, Kraken's parent, connected to Singapore Gulf Bank's SGB Net clearing network, opening round-the-clock US-dollar funding for selected institutional clients in Asia and the Gulf, per an Oct. 5 release.
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Bitmine buys 15,112 ETH, holdings top 6 million at 99% of its 5% goal
Bitmine Immersion Technologies said Monday it bought 15,112 ETH worth about $41 million, lifting its holdings to 6,016,414 ETH, or 4.9% of supply and 99% of its 5% goal by its own count.
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Metaplanet sells 10,000 BTC, buys back 11,000 to show rating agencies it can sell
Metaplanet sold 10,000 BTC and bought back 11,000 in the third quarter, a round trip staged to show credit rating agencies it's able and willing to turn its Bitcoin into cash, according to a filing reported by Decrypt.
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Kraken parent Payward adds 24/7 dollar settlement with Singapore Gulf Bank
Payward, the parent of Kraken, partnered with Bahrain-regulated Singapore Gulf Bank to offer 24/7 US dollar settlement through SGB Net for select institutional clients in Asia and the Gulf region.
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Kraken parent Payward plugs into Singapore Gulf Bank network for 24/7 USD settlement
Payward, the company behind Kraken, integrated Singapore Gulf Bank's real-time clearing network so select institutional clients in Asia and the Gulf can settle U.S. dollar crypto transactions around the clock.
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Binance to block some Brazil crypto transfers lacking required details from Nov. 1
Binance will require Brazilian users to disclose the purpose and counterparty of international crypto transfers from Nov. 1. According to U.Today, withdrawals that lack this data will be blocked, and incoming funds may be frozen.
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Binance to require Brazil users to disclose purpose of cross-border crypto transfers
Starting Nov. 1, Binance will ask Brazilian users to state the purpose and counterparty type of international crypto transfers. Withdrawals stay blocked, and deposits can be held, until users answer.
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EU opens consumer actions against 10 game firms over in-game currency sales
European consumer authorities opened eleven coordinated actions against ten video game companies, including Mojang and King.com, over how they sell and price in-game virtual currencies.
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XRP open interest on Binance falls 15.3% from six-month high, CryptoQuant data shows
Open interest in XRP derivatives on Binance has fallen 15.3% from its six-month high, according to CryptoQuant data, as traders trimmed leverage on perpetuals and open interest settled near $485 million on October 1.