Brevan Howard, a hedge fund managing about $35 billion, will route prime brokerage, clearing and financing through Ripple Prime, deepening a tie that began when it backed Ripple's $500 million funding round in 2025.
Bitcoin's supply is capped at 21 million coins. More than 20 million already exist. The final coins will not be mined until about 2140, because the reward shrinks by half every four years.
Ondo Finance opened a platform for trading tokenized notes tied to private companies, starting with an unnamed pre-IPO artificial intelligence firm. The notes are not shares, and only investors outside the United States can buy them.
FinCEN has withdrawn a 2020 plan to track transfers to self-held crypto wallets and a 2023 proposal to treat crypto mixing as a money laundering threat. Neither rule was ever finalized, so nothing changes today, but the move signals a friendlier posture toward self-custody.
XRP is not a stablecoin. Its price floats on the open market like Bitcoin's. Ripple, the firm behind XRP, runs a separate dollar-pegged stablecoin called RLUSD, which it launched in December 2024. The two tokens do very different jobs.
Bitcoin could in theory fall to nothing, like any asset with no company behind it. It has dropped more than 80 percent twice and recovered both times. Here is what a true zero would take, why some economists say its value is already zero, and the losses that are far more common.
The DeFi lender's community is deciding whether to hand Sentora control of a new lending market on Aave V4. The pitch is a 50/50 revenue split at no cost to the DAO. The catch sits with the people who supply the funds.
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Ripple Prime is becoming the prime broker of choice for top-tier hedge funds across crypto and traditional markets.
Our read: One named manager, Brevan Howard, signed on, but it has been a Ripple investor since 2025, so this deepens an existing tie rather than winning a cold client. Ripple published the deal and disclosed no value, fees, or how much business will move. It has not released audited client or volume figures.
Ondo says it is opening access to high-growth private companies, like a pre-IPO AI firm, by putting that exposure onchain for anyone outside the US to trade around the clock.
Our read: The platform is live and Ondo's related products hold about $3.7 billion. But the notes are issuer obligations, not shares, with no voting or ownership rights, the AI company is not named, Ondo has not said whether it took part, and secondary trading had not started.
Privacy advocates framed the withdrawals as a major rollback of US financial surveillance over self-custodied crypto.
Our read: The notices are real, signed by FinCEN's deputy director and dated for October 6 publication. But neither proposal was ever finalized, so banks and exchanges gain or lose no duties today, and FinCEN kept the statutory power to propose similar rules later.
A 50/50 revenue share that costs the Aave DAO nothing, run by a specialist curator, grows Aave V4 with no new burden on the treasury.
Our read: The even split, on-chain settlement, contract ownership and a revocation right are all written into the proposal. But the same proposal puts liquidation losses on suppliers, names no deficit backstop, and places the market outside Aave's risk framework and Umbrella coverage. The Snapshot vote was not confirmed as passed at publication.
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Bitcoin could in theory fall to nothing, like any asset with no company behind it. It has dropped more than 80 percent twice and recovered both times. Here is what a true zero would take, why some economists say its value is already zero, and the losses that are far more common.
Bitcoin miners run power-hungry computers that race to seal each block and earn new coins. The reward now sits at 3.125 BTC a block and halves about every four years. Here is what mining really does, what it costs in electricity, and why it keeps the network hard to cheat.
The Bitcoin halving cuts the mining reward in half every 210,000 blocks, about once every four years. It is the rule that caps the total supply of bitcoin at just under 21 million coins, with no bank or committee in charge.
Brevan Howard, a hedge fund managing about $35 billion, will route prime brokerage, clearing and financing through Ripple Prime, deepening a tie that began when it backed Ripple's $500 million funding round in 2025.
Ondo Finance opened a platform for trading tokenized notes tied to private companies, starting with an unnamed pre-IPO artificial intelligence firm. The notes are not shares, and only investors outside the United States can buy them.
OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, have told the SEC their joint venture OKXICE plans a round-the-clock, on-chain market for tokenized versions of more than 60 US stocks, from Nvidia to SpaceX. Issuers get 30 days to opt out.
The DeFi lender's community is deciding whether to hand Sentora control of a new lending market on Aave V4. The pitch is a 50/50 revenue split at no cost to the DAO. The catch sits with the people who supply the funds.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade activates on the Sepolia test network on October 6, 2026, in its first public trial. The release moves block building into the protocol and opens a path toward a 200 million gas limit, though the mainnet date is still unset.
NEAR Intents clawed back all $3.8 million drained in an October 1 exploit after giving the attacker 48 hours to return it. The funds came back on October 2, and the protocol closed its investigation without naming who was behind the theft.
A liquidation is the forced closing of a leveraged crypto trade when the collateral runs out. Here is how margin, maintenance levels and cascades work, and why one October day in 2025 wiped out more than $19 billion in positions.
Bitcoin reached a 24-hour high near $87,086 after a weak US September jobs report, then reversed as Treasury yields held near a multi-decade high and about $433 million in mostly long positions were liquidated over 24 hours.
The regulator signed off on Cboe BZX's rule to list six triple-leveraged products, two of them tied to Bitcoin and Ether. Approval is not a launch. No fund can trade until a separate registration takes effect.