Polymarket’s Protocol V2 rollout does not automatically move existing bets held under its older Conditional Tokens Framework, or CTF, onto new contracts. Its migration guidance tells trading integrations to retain support for those holdings while adding a separate system for V2 positions and new trading permissions. In his Oct. 5 announcement, Rajath Alex said Polymarket…
EU law enforcement agencies urged developers, exchanges, and users to initiate phased post-quantum migrations immediately to prevent future unauthorized fund transfers.
The firm is putting its own capital into stablecoin and tokenized gold vaults as institutional finance moves further onchain.
Bitcoin’s October 7 morning market readings showed roughly $143 million in Bitcoin futures positions liquidated over the preceding 24 hours and a price range that dipped below $84,000. The positive US ETF session could not predict whether leveraged positions would survive their margin tests. CoinGlass reported a BTC futures liquidation total of $143,016,790 at 06:53…
Banks need their own permissioned ledger, wallet tools and smart-contract capabilities before they can use Swift’s tokenized-deposit network, Taurus’s Lamine Brahimi said.
S&P Global is bringing ratings-style risk assessments to crypto lending vaults as the fast-growing market confronts fresh security failures. The ratings firm launched its Vault Risk Assessment framework on Oct. 4, creating a standardized approach for comparing the likelihood that investors suffer impairment in lending vaults. Deposits in the products reached about $10 billion in…
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 7, 2026
As Bitcoin price slid toward $83,800, $4000 million in leveraged crypto longs were liquidated within one hour. This is a sharp reminder of the risk-off phase, which Arthur Hayes believes could precede an AI-credit bailout and eventual liquidity boost for crypto. The central tension is that a multitrillion-dollar data-center boom could first pressure risk assets…
Traders betting on higher prices took the brunt of the forced selling, while oil climbed on Iranian tanker attacks. Fed minutes are due later Wednesday.
Winklevoss Asset Services filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC on Oct. 6, 2026, for a proposed spot Zcash ETF that would hold ZEC directly and list on Nasdaq under the ticker WINK. The filing is preliminary: the prospectus says its information may change and shares cannot be sold until the registration statement becomes…