Starknet Launches Shadow Accounts for DeFi Wallet Privacy

Ethereum layer-2 network Starknet has launched a wallet privacy feature that lets users interact with decentralized finance (DeFi) apps without publicly linking activities to their main wallets.  StarkWare, the team behind Starknet, said that its new Shadow Accounts feature creates separate, persistent addresses for individual applications. Users can fund the accounts using shielded balances held…

Is Bitcoin Kidding Itself About The Lightning Network?

Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc ruffled a few feathers this month with a brutally blunt assessment of the Lightning Network: Bitcoiners are lying to themselves about how well it works. “Most people don’t realize how bad the Lightning Network is,” Sztorc said in an October 4 post on X, “because there has been a vast, years…

Coinbase, which holds 5% of all bitcoin, wants the quantum fix started now

Coinbase wants to move now Such efforts need to begin immediately, largely because Bitcoin’s decentralized design, often praised as an advantage over centralized institutions, also makes implementing changes difficult. As the exchange put it, “Bitcoin consensus changes, and ecosystem migrations can take years.” That’s why work needs to start “well ahead of any CRQC announcement.”…

Bitwise CIO Sees ‘Crypto Spring’ in Q3 Market Rebound

Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan says Q3 may have been “one of the best quarters in crypto’s history,” arguing a sharp rebound in crypto prices and growing onchain markets point to the start of “crypto spring.” In its quarterly market review published Thursday, Bitwise reported a 46.4% quarterly gain in its large-cap crypto index,…

SEC Change to Quorum Rules Took Affect After Commissioner Departed

After US lawmakers failed to pass a comprehensive digital asset market structure bill, financial regulators stepped up efforts to change rules around the oversight and enforcement of crypto companies and offerings.  However, the two primary regulators, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), are understaffed at the leadership level, leaving…

MegaETH-powered MNX goes live with pre-IPO futures for OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek

“AI is driving one of the largest investment cycles in history, despite the financial infrastructure around it remaining quite underdeveloped,” said Max Killberg of Village Global. He said the firm sees an opportunity to develop financial markets around AI, rather than simply back another prediction market. Manifold Markets co-founder Stephen Gruggett told CoinDesk that MNX’s…

Strive Bitcoin Treasury Reaches 32,773 BTC After Latest Purchase

Strive, a publicly traded Bitcoin treasury company, increased its holdings by more than 11% last week as investors exercised $208 million in warrants, with Bitcoin purchases outpacing share issuance and giving existing shareholders greater exposure to the cryptocurrency. In a Tuesday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Strive disclosed that it purchased 3,311…

ENS Proposes Moving Ethereum Domain Registrations to Upgraded System

Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is seeking approval from its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) to activate an upgraded naming protocol on the Ethereum mainnet.  ENS founder Nick Johnson submitted an executable draft proposal to activate ENSv2, the next version of the protocol. If approved, the upgrade would freeze new registrations on the original ENS registrar while…

Sberbank Secures Russia’s Approval for Crypto Trading

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Bitcoin Steady With US Stocks as Dollar Index Hits 18-Month Highs

Bitcoin (BTC) continued to target $84,000 at Tuesday’s Wall Street open as US stocks attempted to shake off South Korea’s latest tech rout. Key points: Bitcoin approached $84,000 once more at the start of US trading on Tuesday, still up by around 2%. US equities avoided a copycat sell-off after Korea’s KOSPI index finished the…