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HSBC has switched on RedCoin, a stablecoin pegged to the Hong Kong dollar, for users of its PayMe payments app. More than 3.3 million PayMe users can activate RedCoin wallets in the coming da
TLDR: Mishaboar says Dogecoin businesses should support Dogecoin Core updates, fund rigorous code reviews, and submit researched proposals to strengthen the Dogecoin ecosystem. His appeal ext
Bitcoin Core, the main software used to run the Bitcoin network, has changed how it handles some security flaws because AI tools are making them easier to find. Under a policy update merged o
Proceeds from the X100 exploit have reportedly been distributed across four separate Ethereum wallets, each receiving 400 ETH, according to reporting by The Defiant. The split totals 1,600 ET
TLDR: Tokenized stocks and ETFs reached $3.53B, with 4.42 million holder addresses and $10.26B in monthly transfers. Twenty-two companies objected to the OKXICE plan to tokenize 63 stocks, li
NEAR released a cross-margin mode on its perpetuals interface on October 22, 2026. Collateral no longer sits with each position separately but as a shared balance at account level. The announ
TLDR: Zcash’s Ironwood upgrade activated on July 28, 2026, at block 3,428,143, opening a new shielded pool. Ironwood notes use plaintext marker 0x03, replacing Orchard’s 0x02 format to prepar
Proceeds from the X100 exploit have been moved into four separate wallets, each holding 400 ETH, according to on-chain data surfaced via Etherscan. The structured split totals 1,600 ETH distr
Cardano's treasury is to swap 22 million ADA for copper. That is the core of a proposal put to the vote by the company Toto Finance: around two thirds of the sum would buy copper cathodes sto
TLDR: Keystone detected unauthorized website access on October 20 and confirmed customer data exposure October 23. Exposed records included customer names, emails, phone numbers, shipping add
Bitcoin's refusal to register a sustained breakdown has drawn pointed commentary from analyst @jvisserlabs, who noted to @itsciaranlyons that BTC held its lows near $60,000 through a concentr
Asheesh Birla, the CEO of Evernorth Holdings Inc., revealed why the Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury firm chose XRP over Bitcoin. In the recent interview with the Thinking Crypto podcast,
