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Founded in 2018, Cryptopolitan has grown from a popular blog into a trusted source of news and analysis for millions of readers worldwide. Over the years, we have expanded our coverage to include a wide range of topics, from market trends and technological innovations to regulatory changes and industry events.
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MetaMask and Core Lightning show crypto attacks moving down the stack
Core Lightning has revealed that attackers are probing unpatched Bitcoin nodes. This is coming in the same week that MetaMask spent two days pulling staking validators offline after a breach of part of its infrastructure. Both platforms say that the incident did not touch their respective base layers. Bitcoin kept producing blocks and, according to...
Fri, Oct 2
ECB data shows European firms aren't using debt to fund AI
The European Central Bank (ECB) has revealed that firms operating inside the bloc are financing their artificial intelligence investments without taking on debt at the level as the US, where AI infrastructure leans on trillions of dollars in borrowed money. The ECB revealed those findings in the “How firms plan to finance AI investment” post...
Fri, Oct 2
Korean crypto deposits fall 35% as traders chase offshore leverage
South Korea’s registered crypto exchanges shed a third of their market value and 35% of their won deposits in the first half of 2026. Korean markets are experiencing an exodus of traders and substantial outflows due to the lack of diversity in their investment offerings. How much did Korean exchanges lose from January to June?...
Fri, Oct 2
ECB moves to widen stablecoin yield ban as Circle, Aave and users resist
Circle, Aave Labs and more than 50,000 EU citizens are set to face off with the European central banks pushing for Brussels to extend the MiCA ban that currently prohibits paying stablecoin holders to other activities such as crypto lending, borrowing and staking. The impending clash between those who want the restriction tightened and loosened...
Fri, Oct 2
LIVE: Bitcoin smashes $88,000
Bitcoin has broken above $88,000, gaining almost 2% over the past 24 hours as crypto markets push higher. A surprisingly weak September jobs report showed just 29,000 new jobs, unemployment at 4.2%, and a 29,000 downward revision to August. Citigroup lifted its 12-month Bitcoin target to $113,000 and Ether target to $3,028, while projecting another...
Fri, Oct 2
Bitcoin, ETF holders tether hope to Uptober 2026 to return into gains after 10/10 crash
Bitcoin rallied toward the $87,000 level on Friday, October 2, 2026, riding a hot streak of inflows into US spot BTC ETFs. With US spot Bitcoin funds about $5 billion away from setting a new cumulative volume record, it is setting up for the kind of “Uptober” token holders expected before the now-infamous 10/10 crash...
Fri, Oct 2
U.S. Treasury sanctions Russia-linked A7 for enabling Iran sanctions evasion
Financial authorities in the U.S. have announced “unprecedented” measures against the Russia-rooted fintech A7, accusing it of assisting Iran with sanctions evasion. The company, believed to have moved billions of dollars despite Western restrictions, has been described as a shadow banking structure and designated a criminal organization. U.S. sanctions Moscow-backed payment processor A7 over Iran...
Fri, Oct 2
Whales lead as $30B in liquidity returns into markets in September
Stablecoins from whale wallets returned to Binance in September, with a 40% rise in whale-sized deposits above $1M.
Fri, Oct 2
Drift victims face a decades-long wait to get 1 cent on the dollar
Victims of the April 1 exploit that drained about $295.4 million from Drift Foundation, now called Velocity, have called out the repayment rate on the DFX recovery token, which works out to roughly one cent for every lost dollar. The claims and redemptions window, confirmed in an October 1 release by the project, provides the...
Fri, Oct 2
Cryptopolitan Report: Meta Wants Its AI Agent On Your Keychain. 37% Of Our Readers Say “Not For Me”
Meta’s annual developer and hardware conference, Connect, wrapped up last week with a new wave of glasses, headsets and AI products. This year’s conference began with Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters on September 23 and it ended with the unveiling of a pocket-sized gadget built for the sole purpose of talking to...
Fri, Oct 2
Onchain App Revenue Posts Best Month of 2026 With Solana Leading the Pack
September saw onchain applications generate more revenue than any other month this year. Across the 356 chains tracked by DefiLlama, app revenue reached $467.66 million during the month, up around 27% from the previous month and the highest it’s been since October last year. Solana was the leader of the pack, accounting for $144.25 million,...
Fri, Oct 2
Ethereum targets AI privacy with zkAPI for anonymous API payments
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has stepped in with a crypto-native solution; their new zkAPI system allows users to settle transactions for AI models and metered APIs under a complete veil of anonymity. Historically, users were forced to associate their credit card or API keys with every request—a system that has been criticized as vulnerable because...
Fri, Oct 2
US charges California tech owner over alleged $300M server smuggling scheme
A technology-company owner in California reportedly sent more than $300 million worth of computer servers subject to export regulations to China via Malaysia and Singapore, the Justice Department says. The case illustrates a fundamental challenge for the US export control regime: ensuring that restricted AI-related hardware does not make it into the hands of unauthorized...
Fri, Oct 2
Bull doubles French supercomputer output as Europe scales AI capacity
Europe is shifting from policy deliberations regarding the local production of AI computing systems to its actual production. French state-controlled company Bull has increased the capacity of its Angers plant in France, thereby doubling the volume of supercomputers produced in response to the rising demand for computing capability in Europe. Six racks a month, now...
Fri, Oct 2
JERA, Dell and RHAELM plan $15B AI infrastructure project in Japan
JERA, Dell Technologies and RHAELM have signed an agreement to come up with a standard model for AI infrastructure in Japan beginning with a $15 billion project near JERA’s Chiba power station. The partners want to solve power, cooling, and computing problems together rather than separately through a replicable design that will facilitate the faster...
Fri, Oct 2
Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42B for AI infrastructure
As reported by Reuters, Anthropic revealed in the prospectus for its IPO that Broadcom has agreed to provide financing for AI infrastructure worth up to $42 billion. As a result, Broadcom finds itself in an unforeseen situation where it is not only supplying chips but also financially backing the infrastructure created around those chips. When...
Fri, Oct 2
OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers over alleged confidential data sharing
OpenAI has removed three members of its safety team after an internal investigation concluded they passed confidential material to an outside AI safety organization, per the Wall Street Journal. According to an OpenAI spokesman, the three employees were fired for violating the company’s policies regarding handling of confidential information, and “had mishandled sensitive information in...
Fri, Oct 2
How did Anthropic's Dario Amodei win Trump back?
Dario Amodei did not walk into Sunday’s dinner with an easy relationship to repair. I think we all know that. The Anthropic CEO had spent months on the opposite side of the Trump administration in one of Washington’s ugliest AI fights. The Pentagon called Anthropic’s issue a supply chain issue, and the Commerce Department had...
Fri, Oct 2
SEC proposes self-custody three years after proposing the opposite
The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules on Thursday establishing a tailored framework for how registered investment advisers and regulated funds may custody crypto assets, according to the agency. Regulated funds here means registered investment companies and business development companies. This proposal is pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company...
Thu, Oct 1
Evernorth's XRPN debut tests the beyond-Bitcoin treasury bet
Evernorth is about to make its debut on Nasdaq following the approval of the merger by the shareholders of the Armada Acquisition Corp. II company on September 30. According to an announcement made on October 1, the merger and the attached private placements were able to generate more than $1 billion, with the closure of...
Thu, Oct 1
