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The Blur NFT marketplace is shutting down. The platform that dethroned OpenSea and turned NFT trading into a points-farming arms race will close on November 12, 2026, after monthly volume collapsed more than 99.5% from its peak – the marketplace won the war, then watched the prize evaporate. Blur disclosed the closure Tuesday. Monthly trading … Read more
A Bitcoin whipsaw defined Tuesday’s session: the largest cryptocurrency slid below $81,000 in early Asian trading, ripped back above $84,000, and settled near $83,300 – a $3,000 round trip that flushed late longs and gave CPI-week positioning its first real gut check. The trigger was not crypto-specific. South Korea’s Kospi plunged 5.5% as AI-investment fears … Read more
The IMF has put an AI market correction at the top of its near-term risk list. The fund’s Global Financial Stability Report, published Tuesday, warns that a sharp repricing of AI-exposed assets – amplified by rising sovereign bond yields and mounting cyber threats – could tip the global financial system into genuine turmoil. The uncomfortable … Read more
USDC minting on Noble stops today as Circle executes the first milestone of its CCTP V1 wind-down; $91.6M USDC stays redeemable 1:1 until the January 12, 2027 full pause.
Morgan Stanley tokenized equities support slides from H2 2026 to Q1 2027 — not weak demand, but a shortage of tokenized stock product on its ATS ahead of DTCC’s October launch.
A dormant Bitcoin whale moved roughly $378 million in BTC on October 13 after six years of doing absolutely nothing — a $40.8M nest egg from 2020 now worth a small fortune.
The Zhibao Bedrock tokenization framework, announced Monday, would give Nasdaq shareholders something Wall Street has promised for a decade and rarely shipped: their SEC-registered Class A ordinary shares recorded and transferred natively on public blockchains. The pact pairs a 2,380-Bitcoin treasury with a plan to put those coins to work – and it arrives with … Read more
The Ethereum quantum threat leapt from academic footnote to timeline debate on October 7, when Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged the industry to “calmly begin planning for bunker mode” in a post that has since drawn roughly 6.1 million views. His argument: the danger may not arrive with a futuristic quantum computer at all, … Read more
Crypto ETF outflows have piled past $1 billion for October 2026, with US spot Bitcoin and Ether funds handing back more than $1 billion in combined net redemptions so far this month. It is a sharp reversal from the early-October mood, when Bitcoin products were still notching a third straight week of inflows – markets … Read more
SWI Group raised EUR 800M (~$894M) to convert Genesis Digital into an AI data center operator, repurposing US and Sweden facilities.