South Korea’s Bitcoin Lending Experiment Begins at Jeonbuk Bank
Key Takeaways Edaily and Maeil Business Newspaper detailed that Jeonbuk Bank has executed South Korea’s first reported traditional bank loan secured by bitcoin. New rules effective Oct. 1 let Jeonbuk Bank pursue court-supervised collateral recovery without holding bitcoin. Jeonbuk Bank…
Who Pays and Who Gains as Ledger Drama Fuels Multisig Adoption
Key Takeaways Multivendor multisig combines hardware from different manufacturers to reduce the risk of a single point of failure. Hardware wallet makers and multisig providers could gain customers as security concerns grow. Greater security comes with added costs and complexity,…
Bitcoin Price Faces CPI Reckoning as Analysts Eye $81,300 Support
Key Takeaways Bitcoin slipped 1.5% to $82,400 Monday as crypto liquidations reached $304.24 million across 89,032 traders. Wall Street traded mixed, with the Dow gaining 0.4% while the Nasdaq fell 0.3% amid rising yields. Investors await CPI and PPI reports…
Sleuth ZachXBT Blasts Ripple’s Cheap $250K Payout for 18T XRP Bug
Key Takeaways ZachXBT slammed a $250K reward for a critical XRP bug that could have minted 18 trillion new tokens. An AI-found flaw threatening XRP’s supply cap was quickly patched before any tokens could be exploited. ZachXBT warned low rewards…
Bitcoin, Ether ETFs Lose $1.2 Billion as Institutional Demand Cracks
Key Takeaways Bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) lost over $1.2B through Oct. 9 as institutional demand reversed sharply. Solana snapped a 14-week inflow streak, while XRP and NEAR remained rare pockets of demand. The key test is whether Blackrock-led…
Strategy Buys More Bitcoin and Retires Nearly 2M STRC Shares – Bitcoin News
Key Takeaways Strategy acquired another 250 BTC for $21.5 million, bringing its total bitcoin holdings to 848,250 BTC. Michael Saylor confirmed the purchase Monday, following Sunday’s teaser about adding more bitcoin. Strategy also repurchased $192.4 million in STRC shares while…
XRP ETF Buyers Refuse to Quit Despite Sitting on a $230M Paper Loss
Key Takeaways Bitwise’s XRP fund supplied $10.55M of the Oct. 5-9 inflow, while Canary’s XRPC lost $3.34M. Sosovalue data puts XRP ETF assets at $1.57B against $1.8B in lifetime inflows, a gap near $230M. Evernorth’s XRPN starts trading on Nasdaq…
Bitcoin Price is $4K Away From Wiping out the Next Wave of Shorts
Key Takeaways BTC closed the week of Oct. 11 at $83,773 after a low of $80,393, down 3.2% week over week. Kook Capital data showed 93.3% of $26.34M in BTC liquidations were shorts as ETH shorts lost $29.5M. KillaXBT flags…
Who Will Lead the DICT Next? Three Contenders, Three Vastly Different Futures for Pinoy Cyberspace
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Whether you use the eGovPH app to handle official documents, run an online business through digital payment gateways, rely on…
This Week in Crypto Law (October 11, 2026)
The opinion editorial below was written by Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. This week brought meaningful developments on both sides of the Atlantic. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission began developing a federal framework for certain leveraged retail crypto transactions while proposing…
