Starknet’s STRK token more than doubled over seven days while developers considered leaving Ethereum to build an independent Layer 1 blockchain. A CoinGlass snapshot checked at 20:28 UTC on Oct. 11 showed STRK at $0.1190, up 17.7% over 24 hours and 116.7% over seven days. On Oct. 8, Starknet said it was actively considering becoming…
Optimism is expanding its role as the operator of Ethereum-based chains for other brands. Unichain, Uniswap Labs’ Ethereum layer-2 chain, plans to transfer its production sequencing, public node access, monitoring and incident response to Optimism under its October 9 migration announcement. The planned testnet move on Oct. 13 and mainnet move on Oct. 29 extend…
A 25-year-old man has been jailed for two and a half years for his involvement in SIM-swap fraud, which saw four people lose £200,000 worth of crypto in November 2021. According to the City of London Police, Ajay Shinjin, also known as AJ Marley Cruz, received more than £44,000 from the proceeds of crime and…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI predicts an insanely wild bullish price target for XRP by January 1, 2027. The AI bot believes $25–$40 is viable, with an extended target of $50 and above if a full-blown crypto bull market returns and is supercharged by a landmark catalyst. As of October 11, 2026, XRP is trading between…
Some Aave loans backed by yield-bearing collateral had narrow liquidation buffers in LlamaRisk’s Oct. 9 snapshots. Every top PT-AUSD supplier on Monad carried debt, while two syrupUSDC positions accounted for about 97% of supplied syrupUSDC on Arc. Cashing out the collateral involves a market sale or, for Arc holders choosing Ethereum redemption, a withdrawal queue…
Evernorth is preparing to begin trading on Nasdaq on Monday, bringing approximately 473 million XRP into a publicly traded treasury company. The company completed its merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II on Oct. 9 and expects its shares to trade under the ticker XRPN on Oct. 12. It also reported approximately $300 million in gross…
After reports emerged of a potential theft of over $80 million in crypto from its devices, Ledger confirmed over the weekend that at least one wallet tied to the ongoing CryptoBilis investigation contained an unauthorized hardware implant. Meanwhile, a new community report on X claimed a suspicious Ledger device bought from MediaMarkt in Europe may…
The U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t yet indicated whether it will take up cases surrounding prediction markets, but there are now several amicus briefs, an interim final rule and a rule proposal.
Lightning Development Kit (LDK), a library for building Bitcoin Lightning wallets and payment applications, has patched a flaw that could let a malicious channel peer steal the value of a forwarded payment by lying after reconnecting. Affected application developers need to incorporate the fix into the software they deploy. The October 1-dated v0.2.7 and v0.1.13…
Some Kraken futures limit orders can still execute after a successful cancellation if the cancel arrives during the Maker Protection hold window. Kraken expanded the system on Oct. 8, bringing that order-handling rule to more contracts. Kraken completed Phase 2 after announcing 61 additional perpetual contracts. Maker Protection applies to selected futures markets; Kraken’s documentation…