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BTC

OCT 14

News

Standard Chartered Puts Bitcoin and Ether Inside UAE Bank Accounts

VARA licensed the bank's first wealth-client crypto service. Professional Investor clients in the UAE trade BTC and ETH in-account, with custody kept in-house.

· 14 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Aptos Turns On Its Encrypted Mempool, Opt-In One Transaction at a Time

Validators order transactions without reading them, then decrypt together once the block is final. Aptos puts the overhead near 20 milliseconds per block.

· 14 Oct 2026· 🕐 4 min read

News

South Korea Blocks 27 Unregistered Exchange Sites, KuCoin Among Them

The FIU ordered access cut to 27 unregistered exchange sites after communications reviews on 6 and 7 October. KuCoin, MEXC, BitMart and Phemex are on the list.

· 14 Oct 2026· 🕐 4 min read

Mining

Binance Closes Its Mining Pool on November 10 After Six Years

Binance Pool, Cloud Mining, Pool Savings and the Transaction Accelerator all stop at 07:00 UTC on 10 November. The exchange gave no reason beyond a product review.

· 13 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Kraken Clears Dubai's Final Licensing Stage and Plans Dirham Pairs

Payward FZCO holds VARA's Full Market Approval, the last stage of Dubai's licensing process. Dirham spot and margin pairs come at launch; derivatives do not.

· 13 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Bitcoin Dips Under $81,000 and Takes Back $83,000 in One Session

Bitcoin traded below $81,000 in the early Asian hours and was back above $83,000 by Tuesday morning. Four published liquidation totals cover the same 24 hours.

· 13 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Futures Volume Jumps 81% as Altcoins Outrun a Flat Bitcoin

Bitcoin sat roughly where it closed Sunday while smaller tokens carried Monday's tape. Futures turnover rose 81% to about $126 billion over 24 hours.

· 12 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Trader Took $1.28M From Papertrade by Moving Hyperliquid's ETH Price

A wallet opened large positions on the new 1,000x venue, traded ETH on Hyperliquid to move the midpoint it prices against, then closed out and withdrew.

· 12 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Douro Labs Asks SEC Staff to Set Oracle Standards for Tokenized Stock

A 9 October comment letter says the SEC's tokenized-stock order names oracle manipulation as a risk but sets no standard for the price feeds venues pick.

· 11 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Mining

Luxor Puts September's Hashrate Forward Spread at 6% to 13% in BTC

The September lookback prices the pairing of a prepaid forward on mining power with an offsetting cash-settled contract at 6% to 13% a year, quoted in bitcoin.

· 11 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Robinhood Chain's Daily Transactions Fall 42% as Trading Cools

Daily transactions averaged 6.2 million in the first week of October, down 42% from mid-September. Spot trading volume fell 21% and fees another 39%.

· 11 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Solana ETFs Break a 14-Week Inflow Run as Ether Funds Shed $542M

US spot Solana funds posted $24.8 million of weekly outflows, ending a record 14-week inflow run. Ether ETFs lost $542.1 million, their worst week since January.

· 11 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read