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Ledger theft-linked wallet swaps 14.7M USDT to USDD, beyond Tether's freeze reach
A wallet tied to thefts from Ledger hardware wallet users swapped roughly 14.7 million USDT into USDD on October 9, according to on-chain investigators, moving the funds outside Tether's freeze controls.
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Ethereum wallet holding 12,746 ETH moves after 10.2 years dormant, Whale Alert says
An Ethereum address holding 12,746 ETH moved for the first time in roughly 10.2 years, according to Whale Alert data reported by Crypto Briefing, though where the coins went hasn't been publicly reported.
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Kalshi probes three bets on Katie Zacharia placed before press secretary pick
Kalshi is investigating three bets on Katie Zacharia placed shortly before she was named White House press secretary, the WSJ reported. The stakes totaled under $175, with potential payouts above $9,500.
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Solana activates 200ms slots on mainnet, halving block time ahead of Alpenglow
Solana activated 200-millisecond slots on mainnet on Oct. 9, doubling targeted block frequency and cutting epochs to about 24 hours, though per-second execution capacity is roughly unchanged.
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NEAR, XRP and SHIB test key moving averages after pullbacks, U.Today says
A U.Today technical analysis published October 10 put NEAR near $4.79, XRP near $1.38 and SHIB near $0.00000536, with each token sitting on or near a key moving average after a pullback.
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EU's Virkkunen says AI Act offers robust protection against rogue AI risks
EU Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said on October 9 that the AI Act protects against rogue AI risks by covering models across their whole life cycle, Crypto Briefing reported. Some high-risk rules have been delayed to 2027 and 2028.
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Tether blocklist freezes four THORChain TRON vaults before swaps resume
Researcher Khal reported a USDT blocklist hit four of THORChain's six TRON vaults on Oct. 9, freezing about 1.45 million USDT by his estimate and halting TRON trading until swaps resumed that afternoon.
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Bitcoin holders realize $1.03 billion in profits on Oct. 8, Santiment data shows
Bitcoin holders realized about $1.03 billion in profits on October 8 after BTC climbed above $87,000, the second-highest daily total of the year, according to Santiment data reported by Crypto Briefing.
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Sabi raises $50M for EEG beanie that turns thoughts into AI prompts
Palo Alto startup Sabi raised $50 million from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized Capital and DST Global to build a non-invasive EEG beanie it says decodes thoughts into text prompts.
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Drone strikes hit two Yandex data centres, knocking YandexGPT training site offline
Drones struck Yandex data centres in Sasovo and Kaluga on October 8 and 9, Crypto Briefing reported, shutting down the site used to train YandexGPT, disrupting Yandex Cloud and pushing shares down about 4%.
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New York AG secures up to $35M settlement from ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky
New York AG Letitia James announced a settlement on October 8 requiring former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky to pay up to $35 million and barring him from trading securities or crypto.
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Dragonfly's Qureshi calls 'bunker mode' doomerism, pitches cryptographic recovery plan
Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi called Justin Drake's "bunker mode" warning "cryptographic doomerism," saying fresh-address migration won't protect users if AI breaks signatures, and urged proactive blockchain measures.
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XRP holds $1.39 as Bitcoin hits October low after $1.48B US transfer
Bitcoin bounced off an October low of $80,420 to trade near $83,000 after U.Today reported a 17,733 BTC U.S. government transfer to Coinbase Prime, while XRP held a tight $1.39–$1.40 range.
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Fidelity crypto ETFs take in $438.9M of BTC, ETH and SOL over 20 trading days
Fidelity's crypto ETF products took in $438.9 million of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana over 20 trading days, Arkham Intelligence data cited by U.Today shows. FBTC accounted for up to $354.1 million of that total.
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European Parliament flags crypto assets in call for EU anti-corruption strategy
The European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution urging the Commission to tackle crypto misuse, opaque ownership, political financing and golden visas in the EU's first comprehensive anti-corruption strategy.
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Nvidia grants Nebius Exemplar Cloud validation for HGX B300 training racks
Nvidia signed off on Nebius's production HGX B300 racks for training workloads, per an October 8 announcement reported by Crypto Briefing. Nebius also reported the fastest single-node B300 times in MLPerf Training 6.0's closed division.
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DWF Labs units sue BitGo for $114M in London over alleged token lock-up breach
Two DWF Labs subsidiaries have sued BitGo in London's High Court, alleging the custodian sold discounted FF and ESPORTS tokens before a lock-up ended and seeking $114 million, the FT reported.
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Bitcoin holds near $82,600 after Trump says no Iran strike before midterms
Bitcoin held near $82,600 after President Trump said he wouldn't strike Iran before the U.S. midterms, CoinDesk reported, as ether slipped 2% and bearish traders faced liquidation pressure.
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UK sanctions three crypto exchanges and two payment platforms over Russia links
The UK's FCDO sanctioned three crypto exchanges and two payment platforms suspected of helping Russian entities evade sanctions, saying two facilitated A7 network transactions; Chainalysis found TokenSpot, Grinex and Meer got over $308M from one HTX deposit address.
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Jardine CEO warns Asia's data-center boom hinges on Washington's next move
Jardine Matheson CEO Lincoln Pan told the Milken Asia Summit that Asia's data-center sector relies on a few US tech giants, leaving it exposed to shifts in US data policy and US-China relations.
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Yandex says drones hit a second data center in two days, knocking Kaluga modules offline
Yandex said a drone attack disabled modules at its Kaluga data center, confirmed October 9, a day after a strike on its Sasovo site stopped operations there, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Strategy buybacks drove over 20% of STRC weekly volume in September, Keyrock says
Strategy's preferred-share repurchases made up more than 20% of weekly STRC trading volume in almost every week of September, according to a Keyrock research report cited by CryptoSlate.
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MARA moves 996 BTC worth $81.1 million to Galaxy Digital address, per Lookonchain
MARA Holdings sent about 996 BTC ($81.13 million) to an address tied to Galaxy Digital, per Lookonchain data, though the transfer alone doesn't confirm a sale as MARA's treasury has shrunk in 2026.
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London SIM-swap fraudster jailed for 2.5 years for role in almost £200,000 crypto theft
Ajay Shinjin, 25, was jailed for two and a half years for his role in a SIM-swap fraud that stole almost £200,000 (about $265,000) in crypto, City of London Police said.