Andreessen Horowitz announced on Oct. 22 that it is renaming a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier and expanding the scope of its $2.2 billion fifth fund […]
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15 months to break even
A first-time 100 XRP deposit through Xaman’s Flare yield route would return about 99.38 XRP after a year in an illustrative calculation using the wallet’s […]
OCC waiver rule puts active stablecoin issuers on notice
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) outlined a waiver route on Oct. 21 for existing US payment stablecoin issuers awaiting its approval, […]
Mastercard Introduces Fraud Screening Before Stablecoin Payments Go On-Chain
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JPMorgan drops JPM Coin on Ethereum with zero retail access
JPMorgan made its JPM Coin deposit token available on Ethereum on Oct. 19, giving its institutional clients another public-blockchain route to send and receive dollar […]
Whale loses $469,000 in hours on Hyperliquid, yet re-enters with $16M ETH short bet
An unknown trader on Hyperliquid realized about $469,000 in losses before fees as an overnight Ethereum rebound forced the closure of nearly $19.8 million in […]
Stablecoin Payments Reach $482 Billion As Token Supply Barely Grows
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Ethereum proving costs face Vitalik’s worst-case test
Vitalik Buterin has called for a hard ceiling on Ethereum proving costs per unit of block gas, adding a resource-accounting test to the push for […]
Mt. Gox creditors face another year of waiting as repayment deadline slips to 2027
Mt. Gox has pushed back its creditor repayment deadline another year, extending the recovery process stemming from its 2014 collapse. In an Oct. 16 notice, […]
TRON moved $2.2 trillion in stablecoins while TRX supply grew for 108 straight days
TRON’s stablecoin settlement business grew in the third quarter of 2026, while the supply of its native TRX token increased on every day from July […]