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Regardless of how the midterm elections unfold or which party secures the presidency in 2028, our industry must adhere to its established playbook, writes Solana Policy Institute’s Colin McLaren.
CryptoKeyhole’s October 1–30 series imply more ETH counted as active stake while the wider consensus balance shrank. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Analyst Michael Cyprys cited weak crypto trading activity and doubts about an earnings recovery.
Last week's purchase was smaller than many of the previous ones.
The digital securities firm plans to list on NYSE American under TZRO early next year after more than a decade building blockchain-based trading infrastructure.
Strategy spent $208.2 million buying back STRC preferred shares and $65.5 million on Bitcoin, while allocating $98.5 million to its USD Cash balance. Michael Saylor’s Strategy spent more than three times as much buying back its STRC preferred shares as it did acquiring Bitcoin last week. Strategy repurchased $208.2 million in STRC and spent about $65.5 million buying 811 Bitcoin (BTC) at an average price of $80,846, according to a Monday 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Strategy sold about 1.18 million MSTR shares for net proceeds of $164 million. About $65.5 million funded its Bitcoin acquisition, while the remaining $98.5 million was allocated to the company’s USD Cash balance, according to the filing. The company held $132.7 million in USD Cash and $4.79 billion i…
Bitcoin gained 54% after the last three U.S. midterm election. Could the 2026 U.S. midterms spark another post-election rally?
The proposal separates the end of old-chain rewards from future provider and treasury incentives, whose emission amounts remain unresolved. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Uptober was far from it, with the Binance hack punctuating a red month. Will November be better? Or will the Binance hack hang over crypto?
Who better to judge a dispute between AI agents than a jury of different AI models? That’s the idea behind GenLayer, which is already issuing thousands of judgements each day. The world is headed towards a future in which AI agents will trade stocks and crypto, shop for your family, and much more. But what happens when a bot misinterprets an instruction to buy $10K of “blue chip stocks” and instead buys $10K of Bluebird-brand frozen chips? Low-level agent disputes like this aren’t suited to the expensive and time-consuming existing legal system. Enter Internet Court, a new protocol that enables agents and humans to enter into contracts, with funds kept in escrow until the terms are judged to have been met. The dispute resolution mechanism baked into the process employs GenLayer, an open, d…
Binance’s SAFU Bitcoin wallet now holds about 7,500 BTC after a 7,499 BTC transfer linked to the hack, with no timeline for restoring the $1 billion fund. Binance’s publicly disclosed emergency Bitcoin wallet held roughly half its previous balance on Monday after the exchange tapped its user protection fund to cover losses from Thursday’s $6.3 billion hack. The exchange confirmed a transfer of 7,499 Bitcoin (BTC) on Saturday, linking it to the partial deployment of its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU). As of Monday, the wallet held about 7,500 BTC, worth $583 million, down from about 15,000 BTC before the transfer.
The Bitcoin treasury firm also spent $208.2 million buying back its STRC preferred stock, cutting its USD Cash balance to $132.7 million.
The company's weekly accumulations have declined sharply in terms of USD value.
XRP price turns bullish as Ripple re-locks $875M in escrow, ETF holdings climb, and institutional demand grows. Could XRP reach $10,000?
Saylor hinted at a new BTC purchase yesterday at X.
The watchdog has not named the jurisdictions under review. Initial findings on compliance with its crypto standards are due in June 2027. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is launching a targeted review of jurisdictions with significant crypto activity to address gaps in how governments apply global anti-money laundering standards. On Friday, the FATF, an intergovernmental body that sets global standards to combat money laundering, announced that the review would focus primarily on jurisdictions with “materially important” virtual asset service provider (VASP) activity, taking their existing assessment status into account. The watchdog said its regular assessments and follow-up procedures would remain the main tools for evaluating compliance.
Crypto exchange Gate said it froze two linked accounts as US investigators urged platforms to block transactions tied to the $6.3 billion theft. The hackers behind Binance’s $6.3 billion theft have begun converting stolen Solana tokens into Bitcoin after largely emptying the wallets used to launder funds on Tron, according to blockchain investigators. Lookonchain reported Sunday that the hackers had moved 486,970 Solana (SOL) tokens, worth about $46.4 million, and were swapping them for Bitcoin (BTC) through Relay. The activity involves funds that escaped the freezes imposed after Thursday’s theft, the largest in cryptocurrency history. Industry partners, including Tether and Circle, froze about $3 billion in stolen assets, while investigator SomaXBT estimated the attackers still controlle…
Gasoline drove most of September's monthly CPI rise, while persistent oil constraints could delay financing relief for Bitcoin. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
The fix is on track for Wednesday after validator support briefly dipped and restarted the two-week activation clock. XRP itself is unaffected.
Your day-ahead look for Nov. 2, 2026
