Ether Worth $390 Million Locked up by Tom Lee’s Bitmine
Key Takeaways Bitmine staked 159,728 ETH ($390.6M) on Oct. 21, bringing its staked total to 5.23M ETH. Staking now covers 86.5% of Bitmine’s roughly 6.04M ETH, up from about 84% on Oct. 18. Bitmine sits about 63,500 ETH short of…
France’s National Assembly Votes 38 to 37 to Tax Crypto-to-Stablecoin Swaps From 2027
Deputies passed the stablecoin swap tax at exactly the absolute majority of 38, then rejected a 10-year loss carryforward 75 to 18 in the same sitting. France’s National Assembly voted 38 to 37 on Friday to end the tax…
Token2049: How TRM Labs Tracks Crypto Scams, Fake Merchant QRs, and Stolen Funds in Southeast Asia
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Check out the BitPinas Token 2049 Coverage Here At major crypto conferences like Token2049, the floor is usually dominated by…
Can EU improve MiCA without new rules? Cardano Foundation makes its case
The Cardano Foundation is against bringing decentralized finance, staking and other blockchain activities under new European Union crypto regulations and argues that policymakers should rather focus on improving the existing Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. Summary Cardano Foundation has urged EU…
Just 0.7 Bitcoin Now Makes You a Billionaire in Indonesia
Key Takeaways One BTC is worth about IDR 1.49 billion today, so 0.7 BTC tops IDR 1 billion. The rupiah has slid from IDR 16,687 per dollar at the start of 2026 to roughly 18,000 by late October. Indonesia’s OJK…
Ripple Backs SEC’s Proposed Crypto Regulation, Calls for End to Case-by-Case Enforcement
When the SEC sued in 2020, XRP fell about 70% within days. A 2023 court ruling then added roughly $21 billion, and exchanges relisted it. Ripple filed a comment letter with the SEC, voicing support for the agency’s proposed…
Bitget Rolls Out CFD Demo Trading Feature
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget launched a simulated demo trading account for its contract-for-difference (CFD) platform on Oct. 15, weeks after completing…
Upbit operator Dunamu taps MoonPay for stablecoin payments
MoonPay and South Korean cryptocurrency exchange operator Dunamu have agreed to explore a strategic collaboration covering international stablecoin payments among other things. Summary MoonPay and Upbit operator Dunamu have agreed to explore stablecoin payments, international fund transfers and blockchain infrastructure…
After 80 Years of Smooth-Wing Dogma, Micro-Roughness Cut Drag 43%
Key Takeaways Roughness beat smoothness in the lab. Tohoku University researchers cut drag by up to 43.6% with Distributed Micro-Roughness, a patterned surface texture that challenges the long-held rule that smoother wings are always better. The texture targets turbulence at…
What Are Quinelings? Charles Hoskinson’s New Digital Lifeform Experiment
The Quinelings package has not yet been published to npm, and its documented scope is limited to local computation with simulated effects. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has introduced Quinelings, an experimental framework built around self-replicating programs that package computations…
