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Ostium rebuilds trading stack with Gateway after $23.75M exploit
Ostium announced on October 1 that it is revamping its trading setup using Gateway, a new system that offers greater speed of execution, a unified margin, and security features in its infrastructure. This system is introduced about three months after the theft of $23.75 million from its liquidity vault, putting pressure on the Arbitrum platform...
Thu, Oct 1
Peter Todd takes lead of MARA's Slipstream as private mempools gain ground
Peter Todd, who has been a contributor to Bitcoin Core for many years, has become the head maintainer of Slipstream, a service of MARA Foundation that redirects transactions to MARA Pool without going through Bitcoin’s public peer-to-peer network. Todd’s work background makes him well-suited for the position. He has worked on transaction relay and fee...
Thu, Oct 1
Tesla’s car business keeps shrinking as Wall Street expects another year-over-year sales drop
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is heading toward another year-over-year sales decline as its main car business keeps losing ground. The stock has also taken a beating in 2026. Shares are down 21% this year, while the S&P 500 (SPX) has gained 12%. Tesla is also trading almost 30% below its December record high, even as Wall...
Thu, Oct 1
California subpoenas OpenAI over Hugging Face hack and cyber risks
The attorney general of California has served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI demanding answers about cybersecurity incidents involving its AI models. The largest state in the US is the latest to put the ChatGPT maker under scrutiny after it became public that some of its agents went rogue. The subpoena targets cyberattack risk The California...
Thu, Oct 1
BitMart pins $319.5 million shortfall on 2021 hack in user repayment plan
BitMart has proposed its first concrete plan to repay the more than 12 million users locked out of their accounts. The exchange has placed the blame for its balance-sheet hole on a security breach that happened almost five years ago. The preliminary proposal values the December 2021 hack at $319.5 million and asks a court...
Thu, Oct 1
NEAR Intents hit by $3.8M exploit days after turning away Bitget hackers
NEAR Intents, the cross-chain swap protocol built on NEAR, lost about $3.8 million to a security exploit on Thursday and has paused its services. The platform had spent the prior week publicly blocking up to $50 million in stolen Bitget funds. The NEAR Intents team said it has patched the flaw, will reimburse users in...
Thu, Oct 1
Global debt reaches record $365T as stablecoin Treasury demand grows
Global debt reached a record-high $365 trillion, with cryptocurrency becoming an integral part of the system financing it. The Institute of International Finance recorded the latest debt level at the beginning of the year, while the San Francisco Fed issued a study indicating that stablecoin issuers are becoming notable buyers of US Treasury bonds, which...
Thu, Oct 1
Binance routes EU clients through Abu Dhabi as ESMA tests MiCA's first big case
EU regulators are questioning Binance over how it keeps serving European customers through an Abu Dhabi-licensed entity. Binance was previously told to shut down its EU business after it failed to win a license under the Markets in Crypto-Assets rulebook (MiCA). Why are EU regulators questioning Binance? ESMA and national regulators in France, Germany and...
Thu, Oct 1
MetaMask remains in containment as first test as independent company enters second day
MetaMask has reiterated that it has not found any indications that user wallets and customer funds faced any imminent threats in its latest security update, confirming that it is still focusing on “containment and verification” steps. In the meantime, MetaMask continued the precautionary removal of its Ethereum validators from the Lido staking protocol. Metamask: No...
Thu, Oct 1
SBI completes Bitbank acquisition in latest deal for struggling Japanese crypto exchanges
SBI has vaulted to the lead among Japanese exchanges by custodied assets after SBI Holdings completed the Bitbank buyout that folded the company into its financial group as a wholly owned subsidiary on October 1. The deal, which closed for ¥46.7 billion (about $289 million), won’t change much for the roughly 960,000 Bitbank users with...
Thu, Oct 1
Bitcoin Policy Institute pushes Congress to grill MSCI over Strategy exclusion plot
The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) has invoked the option of a Congressional probe into MSCI and its listing standards for public companies after the index provider revived a proposal that would have cut corporate digital asset treasury firms Strategy and Metaplanet and placed Sharplink on a delisting watchlist. Inclusion in the index provider’s stock market...
Thu, Oct 1
JERA, Dell and RHAELM sign $15 billion AI data center deal in Chiba
Japan’s largest power generator, JERA, has agreed to build a hyperscale AI data center next to one of its gas-fired plants in Chiba. The project is expected to cost more than $15 billion and draw financing from Apollo Global Management, becoming the latest mega data center project funded by outside capital. Digital Minister Hisashi Matsumoto...
Thu, Oct 1
South Korea's tokenization architects want crypto taxes postponed again
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) is looking to allow tokenized trading of stocks, bonds and funds in the country, starting February 4, 2027, according to a new proposition presented on Thursday, October 1. The move to expand tokenization in the country lands as the push to postpone the crypto income tax regime set to...
Thu, Oct 1
September ended with two of the year’s biggest crypto hacks
Crypto hacks broke above $768M in September, for a total of 99 exploits. In Q3, crypto hacks stole $1.2B, of which a part was returned in white hat exploits.
Thu, Oct 1
Bitcoin Logs Best Q3 Since 2017 as Ethereum Posts Record Quarter
Bitcoin recorded its best third quarter in nine years with a 42.71% growth over the three months, according to CoinGlass data. Meanwhile, Ethereum went a step further by posting the best Q3 in its history by gaining 70.8% between July 1 and September 30. This rally comes after a weak start to the year and...
Thu, Oct 1
Pentagon plans four-star autonomous warfare command for drones and AI
The Pentagon is in the process of setting up a new combat command, which will be centered on drones and autonomous systems. This will mean the military’s experimentation with the technologies these systems rely on will now be turned into a structure that is going to be permanent. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the...
Thu, Oct 1
OpenAI disrupts Moonshot-linked campaign as AI distillation war intensifies
OpenAI has leveled data-scraping allegations against its Chinese competitor, Moonshot AI. It connected a massive wave of probing activity, designed to decode how its models think through complex problems, to thousands of attempts from Moonshot-affiliated users. Beginning in the first week of July, Moonshot’s associated, coordinated campaign swelled to 16,000 requests from over 4,000 users...
Thu, Oct 1
Arizona court vacates sentence over AI-generated victim video
An Arizona appeals court has vacated the 10.5-year sentence of Gabriel Horcasitas, who was convicted of manslaughter in a 2021 road-rage shooting, after ruling that the sentencing judge should not have considered an AI-generated video of victim Christopher Pelkey. The conviction still stands, but the case will return for resentencing, according to Reuters and a...
Thu, Oct 1
ESMA proposes regulating DeFi access points under MiCA
The European Union’s markets watchdog wants to regulate the gateways into decentralized finance rather than the code itself. In its MiCA review response, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) proposed a new regulated crypto-asset service for firms that give customers access to DeFi protocols. The proposal has the potential to transform the method in...
Thu, Oct 1
SEC charges Meyer Global with SpaceX pre-IPO fraud as private-market bets move on-chain
On September 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a suit against private investment adviser Meyer Global Management and its CEO Owen E.H. Meyer for allegedly defrauding investors in funds with investments in SpaceX and other securities before their Initial Public Offering (IPO). This lawsuit comes at a time when investors who have been...
Thu, Oct 1
