Crypto for Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• Ledger asks resellers to halt sales in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong
• Strive raising $500 million to buy additional bitcoin with new preferred share class
• US deposit rates choke USDC adoption, and a BIS model reveals why
• Grok AI Predicts Hyperliquid to Surge 20x by 2027
• South Korea Blocks 27 Crypto Exchange Websites, Including KuCoin and MEXC
• BNY, Citadel Securities test tokenized U.S. Treasuries to speed up Wall Street financing
• Lido DAO exposes token flaw and forces a budget review
• OpenAI Engineer Arrested for Bugging Office, Company Says AI Caught Him
• Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy as Disney Bids $20 Million—And Users Get Grief Resources
• Ledger’s crypto wallet implant scare triggers Trezor reseller crackdown as security fears spread
• UK Judge Says Chinese Law Applies to Claims Over £4B Bitcoin Fraud
• Binance Is Shutting Down Its Bitcoin Mining Pool After Six Years
• Most tokenized stock trading on Solana, BNB Chain occurs outside US market hours
• Bitcoin Whale That Sat Through Every Crash Since 2020 Just Moved $377M
• Bitcoin defies $800 million crypto wipeout as South Korea’s AI stock market crashes
• Critical Shiba Inu (SHIB) Warning: Here’s the Latest Threat
• Trezor reduces resellers as a ‘preventative step’ amid Ledger tampering reports
• XRP Price $1.45 Resistance Is the Next Test for $5 Target
• Ethereum Name Service plans major .eth overhaul with one irreversible catch for domain holders
• Strive Buys $280 Million in Bitcoin, Its Largest Purchase in Months
• AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palantir Exec
• Blur Is Pulling the Plug on Its Frontend, but the On-Chain Protocol Lives On
• Australia moves to close crypto derivatives loophole after retail traders lose A$458 million
• How the SEC’s lack of leadership could facilitate crypto rulemaking
• Bitcoin Shakes Off Spooky Season Jitters: Can Bulls Keep It Going?
• What Will Happen to BTC if Trump Loses the US Midterms? (3 AIs Analyze)
• Trezor Cuts Its Resellers After Ledger Finds Spy Implant in Crypto Wallets
• Strive reports $208M in warrant exercises as Bitcoin holdings jump 11%
• Crypto exchange MNX takes on OKX, BitGet offering pre-IPO futures for AI giants
• A $5 billion Bitcoin fortune is at stake, but UK court says being defrauded isn’t enough to claim it
• Anthropic Claude AI Predicts BTC to $1M+ Ahead of IPO
• Bitcoin keeps up pressure on $84K as US stocks skirt Korea tech sell-off
• UK crypto trader says almost $800,000 lost in knife attack as wrench attacks proliferate
• Bitway Crypto Hits All-Time High, Showing the Need for a Bitcoin-Compatible Chain
• Do Bitcoin ETFs Remove Custody Risk? Analysts Disagree
• AI Powered PlayStation Crack Could Let You Play GTA 6 on PC at Launch
• Cardano Under Pressure: Falling Network Activity Adds to ADA Selling Concerns
• Privacy by Default. Disclosure by Choice: Ricchezza Coin Prepares to Launch Layer 1 Privacy Ecosystem
• Bitcoin’s quantum-safe protection gets 82% cheaper as researchers race to secure 6 million exposed BTC
• Anthropic warns ‘AI worms’ may autonomously spread across devices like a virus
• Is Bitcoin kidding itself about the Lightning Network?
• Bitcoin Price Analysis: More Danger Ahead as BTC Remains Below Broken Trendline?
• Digital cash offers ‘cash-like privacy,’ but bank data breaches threaten users: BIS
• Sky’s $4.4 billion liquidity disclosure shows why USDS cash-outs need a separate bank route
• Strive Adds 3,311 BTC in Another Massive Bitcoin Purchase
• Russia clears Sberbank for crypto trading ahead of December launch
• Ethereum Price Prediction: Hyperliquid Whale Opens $60M ETH Long
• More than half of Ethena’s USDe backing is allocated to lending
• South Korea blocks 27 crypto exchanges, including Bitmart and Kucoin
• Federated Hermes joins Wall Street's tokenization push with plans for first onchain fund shares
• Ledger Finds LTE Implant That Stole Recovery Phrases in Suspected $86M Drain
• Anthropic IPO Polymarket Odds: Valuation Bet Faces a 21.5% Bankruptcy Scenario
• Morning Minute: Bitcoin Gets Spooked as ‘Uptober’ Lets Down
• Stacks' STX, a Bitcoin layer-2 token, has surged by 50% in four weeks
• The Key Catalyst That Could Unlock Bitcoin’s Next Rally: Analyst
• XRP News: Evernorth’s Listing Exposes a $677M Gap
• ENS seeks DAO approval to activate upgraded Ethereum naming system
• Bitcoin, ether slip and rebound as South Korean stocks slide on AI-related concerns
• Russia’s largest bank Sberbank secures approval to trade crypto
• Strategy spent nearly nine times as much on STRC buybacks as Bitcoin last week
• Bitcoin ETF Outflows Reach $65 Million as BlackRock Bleeds Cash
• UK Moves Closer to Keeping $5B Bitcoin Haul After High Court Ruling
• Live updates: Bitcoin continues in tight range near $83,000, recovering from overnight slide
• Bitcoin diverges from South Korean stocks as AI concerns deepen the Kospi selloff
• ‘Leave’: Crypto Backlash Over French Proposal to Report Wallets Over $112K
• Crypto Regulation: UK Lands £3.8Bn Bitcoin Seizure as Korea Blocks KuCoin and MEXC
• Metaplanet to issue $329M convertible bonds to pay debt, fund share buybacks
• BitMine’s Tom Lee Warns KOSPI Slump Could Hit Crypto
• MediaMarktSaturn pulls Ledger products amid tampering reports
• South Korea clears way for courts to seize and sell Bitcoin for unpaid debts under new November rules
• Bitcoin hits $84K resistance as Korean tech rout deepens KOSPI losses
• Blur NFT Marketplace to Shut Down Next Month as Trading Slows
• Ledger says 'spy' chip inside CryptoBilis Ledger devices transmitted wallet keys over mobile network
• UK court ruling boosts government’s chances of keeping $5 billion in seized bitcoin
• NFT Marketplace Blur to Shut Down Website, Stop New Blend Loans Next Month
• Chinese fraud victims lose key court battle over 61,000 Bitcoin
• South Korea Exchange Ban Hits KuCoin, MEXC and 25 Other Platforms
• ZEC and NEAR Plummet Hard, BTC Recovers From Rollercoaster Ride: Market Watch
• IMF finds over half of tokenized US stock trading happens after Wall Street closes
• Ledger details LTE-enabled spy implants in wallets sold by CryptoBilis
• XRP Hits Wall Street: Here’s How Evernorth’s XRPN Performed on Debut
• XRP Price Prediction: Ripple Token Outperforms Tech Stocks as Asian Markets Turn Red
• Binance Pool Closure Requires Miners to Change Endpoints
• Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Reverses Sharply as Bulls Fight Back
• Important Pi Network News and PI Price Update: October 13
• Bitcoin whale that sat through the March 2020 crash moves $378 million
• Blur is shutting down its website, so why are NFT collectors cheering?
• Tokenized SanDisk bets saw more liquidations than XRP as Asia’s chip rout wipes out $800 million
• Binance to shut down crypto mining pool services in November
• BiggerZ Crypto Casino Launches 100% RTP Originals With 0% House Edge
• Bitcoin’s Price Volatility Explodes as Liquidations Surge Past $800 Million
• Once-largest Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur is shutting down after volumes collapse 99%
• Bitcoin rebounds above $83,000 as it decouples from tumbling Korean stocks and Nasdaq futures
• XRP’s Rally Faces a Reality Check as Spot Trading Activity Dries Up
• South Korea moves to block 27 crypto websites, including KuCoin, MEXC
• Meta claims new Muse Wonder AI models rival OpenAI, Anthropic
• Aptos rolls out Encrypted Mempool to curb frontrunning, sandwich attacks