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  • AI agents. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments in a Year. Most Were Tiny

    AI agents are beginning to spend real money, and increasingly they’re paying in crypto. That’s the picture from a new Chainalysis report, which found that autonomous AI agents have made more than 138 million cryptocurrency payments through x402, the Coinbase-incubated protocol that lets software pay for online services automatically. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. The report, part of the blockchain analytics firm’s annual Geography of Crypto ser...

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    'It Can Take Years': Coinbase Presses for Bitcoin Quantum Migration to Start Now

    Coinbase is pressing Bitcoin’s developers to begin preparing for the quantum-computing threat before it’s too late, laying out a detailed technical wish list for how the network should harden itself and arguing the work can’t wait for certainty that a threat has arrived. In a blog post published Tuesday, the exchange, which says it custodies roughly 5% of all Bitcoin in existence, framed the shift to quantum-resistant cryptography as a complex, multi-year undertaking that needs to start now. Myr...

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    NEXTPredict Paid $12,000 to Hedge Its Conference on a Prediction Market

    The organizers of a prediction markets conference have hedged the conference on a prediction market, paying a $12,000 premium for contracts that would return around $3 million if New York's airports seize up the day before it opens. The trade, executed through Kalshi with Susquehanna as market maker, settles on whether more than half of flights scheduled to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport are canceled on October 21, the main travel day before NEXTPredict's October 22-23 summit at C...

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    Tokenized Stocks Show Real Demand But Remain Volatile and Illiquid, IMF Finds

    Tokenized stocks may be a small market, but their traders aren’t keeping Wall Street hours. More than half of tokenized equity trading happens outside regular U.S. market hours, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest Global Financial Stability Report. About 80% of trades involve less than a full share, a sign of strong demand for fractional ownership among retail investors. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Tokenized stocks are blockchain-based tokens...

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    2 min read
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  • Zcash. Image: Shutterstock

    How Zcash Plans to Hide Your Keys From AI and Quantum Attacks

    While much of crypto is still debating “bunker mode,” one team of Zcash developers says it already has a plan. Zakura, which builds a Zcash full node, said its team expects post-quantum signature opcodes to land in Zcash in January. Opcodes are low-level instructions that would let the network verify a new type of signature. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. The goal, according to an engineering post by Roman Akhtariev, is “full post-quantum safe transparent poo...

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  • Crypto trading. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Blockchain.com Seeks Approval for US Prediction Markets and Crypto Derivatives

    Blockchain.com is making a bid to join the U.S. prediction-market boom, telling CNBC it has applied to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for licenses to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives to American customers. The crypto platform filed for two designations, the company told CNBC: a designated contract market license, which would let it operate as a futures exchange for event contracts, and a futures commission merchant license, which would allow it to act as a broker fo...

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    2 min read
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    DWF Labs Subsidiaries Sue BitGo for $141 Million Over Early Token Sales

    Two companies tied to crypto market maker DWF Labs have taken BitGo to court, alleging the custodian dumped locked-up tokens early and tanked their value, in a $141 million dispute now before London’s High Court. DWF Maas and Falcon Digital filed the suit, the Financial Times reported Friday, accusing BitGo of breaching the terms of a private, over-the-counter deal involving Falcon Finance (FF) and ESPORTS tokens. Myriad: Who wins the midterm elections? Click to make your prediction. According t...

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    2 min read
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  • NFL football. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    NFL Sides With States Against Kalshi in Supreme Court Prediction Market Fight

    The NFL has picked a side in the fight over sports prediction markets, and it isn't Kalshi's. In an amicus brief filed Thursday, the league urged the Supreme Court to take up New Jersey's appeal of a Third Circuit ruling. That ruling found Kalshi's sports event contracts are "swaps" under the CFTC's exclusive jurisdiction, shielding them from state gambling laws. Myriad: Who wins the World Series? Click to make your prediction. The Sixth and Ninth Circuits have ruled the opposite way, creating a...

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    3 min read
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  • Bitcoin in America. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    US Government Moves $1 Billion in Bitcoin Seized From Bitfinex Hacker

    The U.S. government just shuffled more than $1 billion worth of Bitcoin tied to one of crypto's most notorious hacks. A wallet that blockchain analytics firm Arkham labels as holding the Bitfinex hacker's seized funds sent 12,267 BTC, worth about $1.01 billion, in a single transaction at 9:33 a.m. ET on Thursday. Nearly all of it landed at a new, unlabeled address, while 0.0012 BTC went to a second wallet. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. The coins didn't go to an...

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    2 min read
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  • The Information Exchange. Image: Decrypt

    Decrypt Money Accounts on Solana to Power The Information Exchange

    Decrypt Money Accounts are now live on Solana, giving readers a single self-custodial balance that works across everything Decrypt builds, as it continues to roll out the infrastructure underpinning its financial and intelligence market The Information Exchange. “Our goal is simple: one account, one balance, and access to every financial instrument, directly from where you already consume information,” said Ilan Hazan, co-founder of Decrypt. “From prediction markets to perpetual futures and swap...

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    2 min read
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    Ethereum Researcher Says AI May Break Encryption Before Quantum Does

    Justin Drake has spent years warning that quantum computers could one day crack crypto's cryptography. Now the Ethereum Foundation researcher says artificial intelligence might get there first. "Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for 'bunker mode,'" Drake wrote on X on Wednesday. His recommendation is a controlled, mass migration of funds to fresh addresses that have never signed a transaction, which keep their public keys hidden behind a hash. Myriad: Where does...

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    3 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Bitcoin and the U.S. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    SEC and CFTC Crypto Rules 'Fall Short' of Clarity, Says Rep. French Hill

    The regulators may be busy on crypto, but they can't finish the job. That was the message from Rep. French Hill, who argued this week that the flurry of crypto rulemaking from the SEC and CFTC is no substitute for the market-structure law that stalled in the Senate. Speaking in an interview with Fox Business on Wednesday, Hill, the Arkansas Republican who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, credited the two agencies for stepping into the vacuum. Myriad: Who wins the midterm elections?...

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    3 min read
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  • BitMine Chairman Tom Lee. Image: André Beganski/Decrypt

    Bitmine's Relentless Ethereum Buying Is About to End, Tom Lee Says

    Bitmine Immersion Technologies is about to take its foot off the gas. Chairman Tom Lee said the company will halt its Ethereum buying once its holdings reach 5% of the token's circulating supply, drawing a hard line under one of the market's steadiest sources of demand. Speaking Wednesday at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, Lee said the company is roughly 100,000 ETH away from the threshold. At last week's pace, that's about six to seven more weeks of accumulation before Bitmine stops. Myr...

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    3 min read
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  • Ledger hardware wallets. Image: Ledger/Decrypt

    Ledger Launches Bitcoin Loans, Letting Holders Borrow Without Selling

    Ledger is giving Bitcoin holders a way to tap cash without parting with their coins, launching a self-custodial lending feature inside its wallet app that keeps final approval on the user's hardware device. Unveiled Wednesday at the TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore, the new Crypto Loan feature lets eligible users pledge wrapped Bitcoin, in the form of cbBTC or wBTC, as collateral to borrow the stablecoins USDC or USDT. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. The pitch i...

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    2 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Tether's USDT. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Tether Hit With Lawsuit Over $2.76 Million Stablecoin Freeze

    Cross-border payments company Conduit is taking Tether to court, alleging the stablecoin giant froze $2.76 million of its money without justification and has refused for more than a year to release it. In a complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Conduit says Tether froze its treasury wallet, essentially the digital equivalent of its operating bank account, on Sept. 24, 2025, and has since kept the funds locked while profiting from the reserves ba...

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    2 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Gemini exchange founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Image: Sky Cinema/Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Another Zcash ETF Is Coming: Winklevoss Twins File for 'WINK'

    Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are making a bet on privacy coins, filing with regulators to launch a spot Zcash exchange-traded fund as the once-shunned asset enjoys a dramatic revival. The Winklevoss Zcash ETF, outlined in an S-1 registration statement filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, would hold ZEC directly and seek to track its price, giving investors exposure through a traditional brokerage account rather than buying and storing the token themselves. The fund is slated...

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    2 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Solana is a smart contract blockchain network. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Solana Debuts Institutional Settlement Standard With J.P. Morgan Input

    The Solana Foundation is making a direct play for institutional finance, launching an open-source program designed to let banks settle trades on the network with the certainty they expect from traditional markets. Announced Monday, the tool, called Solana DvP, is an open-source escrow program that gives financial institutions a standardized API for delivery-versus-payment settlement, the bedrock mechanism that ensures an asset and its payment change hands simultaneously. Myriad: Where does Solan...

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    2 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Exterior view of the Department of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Treasury Kills Crypto 'Unhosted Wallet' and Mixer Surveillance Rules

    Two of crypto's most hated surveillance proposals are officially dead. The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, withdrew its long-pending "unhosted wallet" rule and a separate proposal targeting crypto mixers, according to notices filed Monday and set for publication in the Federal Register on Tuesday. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. Unhosted wallets, also called self-custodial wallets, are controlled directly by users rather...

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    3 min read
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  • CFTC Chairman Michael Selig. Image: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Decrypt

    CFTC Unveils Plan to Bring Crypto Exchanges Under Federal Oversight

    The CFTC wants to give crypto exchanges a federal home, and leverage is the key that unlocks the door. The agency is moving forward with further rulemaking proposals following the collapse of the Clarity Act, the legislation that would have established the ground rules for most cryptocurrency activity in the United States but last month fell short. The CFTC on Monday published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, an early step that seeks public input before formal rules are drafted. Myriad:...

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    3 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Hudson Yards, New York. Image: Mike Peel/Decrypt (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

    NEXTPredict Founder: 'Nobody Was Serving' Prediction Markets' Enormous Audience

    Prediction markets have exploded into the mainstream media, with odds now regularly quoted on cable news, in wire copy and in equity research notes. That’s why NEXTPredict, which runs on October 22 and 23 at Convene, Hudson Yards in New York, has put working reporters on the program rather than in a press room behind it. CNBC correspondent Contessa Brewer and CNN senior reporter Marshall Cohen were added in August, booked around the midterms. Organizers expect more than 50 speakers and 2,500 att...

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