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In brief Wallets Arkham labels as belonging to the U.S. government moved about $103.2 million on Tuesday. Arkham ties the Bitcoin to forfeited HashFlare fraud funds and Bitfinex hack seizures, and the BNB to seized Alameda Research funds. No sale has been announced. Arkham research puts U.S. holdings at about 325,000 BTC, ahead of the U.K. at 61,245 BTC and El Salvador at 7,200 BTC. Cryptocurrency wallets controlled by the U.S. government moved more than $100 million in Bitcoin and BNB on Tuesday, according to data from blockchain analytics firm Arkham.Some of it landed at Coinbase Prime, which market observers…

In brief Former core infrastructure engineer Daniel Rhyne was sentenced to 32 months in prison for attacking his New Jersey employer’s network and demanding a Bitcoin ransom. His November 2023 email demanded 20 BTC, then worth about $750,000, and threatened to shut down 40 company servers a day for 10 days. An FBI complaint traced the attack to a hidden virtual machine accessed from Rhyne’s company laptop, with passwords reset to “TheFr0zenCrew!” A former engineer at a New Jersey industrial company has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for attacking his employer’s computer network and demanding a ransom in…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Binance Futures is adding USDT-settled perpetual contracts tracking StablecoinX, Viking Therapeutics, McDonald’s and Akamai. The contracts trade 24/7 and support leverage of up to 20x. They are derivatives that track the underlying equities; buyers do not receive the actual shares. Binance is continuing to blur the line between a crypto derivatives venue and an around-the-clock market for traditional assets. The exchange announced four new USDT-settled perpetual contracts on October 6 tied to StablecoinX, Viking Therapeutics, McDonald’s and Akamai Technologies. Each contract can be traded with up…

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 UTC.The 24-hour price range included a low of $83,647. CryptoSlate’s Bitcoin price page showed the price at around $84,288 during EU trading hours, down 1.25% over 24 hours.US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $118.8 million in net inflows for October 6, according to Farside Investors after a…

In brief Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, published two reports Wednesday urging the crypto industry and policymakers to prepare now for quantum computing threats. Its cybercrime center found that wallet keys are the primary point of exposure, while the hash functions securing blockchains remain largely resistant to quantum attacks. A study cited by Europol estimates that making every Bitcoin output quantum-safe would require at least 76 days of cumulative network downtime. EU law enforcement agency Europol published two reports Wednesday urging organizations, policymakers and the cryptocurrency industry to begin preparing now for quantum computers capable of breaking widely…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR OKX has launched OKX Money, a standalone app focused on saving, sending and spending dollar-backed stablecoins. The app combines eligible yield features with virtual and physical cards in supported markets. OKX is targeting users who want dollar access without relying on a traditional foreign bank account. OKX is taking stablecoins out of the exchange interface and putting them into a standalone consumer finance app. OKX Money launched on October 6 with a pitch built around three ordinary financial jobs: save, send and spend digital dollars. The…

In brief Conduit sued Tether in New York federal court, alleging the stablecoin issuer froze $2.76 million in its treasury wallet on Sept. 24, 2025, without justification and has refused to release it. The firm says a Brazilian police probe into a third party, Onix, was the backdrop, but its wallet was created after – Onix’s last transaction, never held Onix funds, and was flagged by Tether’s own unit—not police. Conduit says the freeze forced layoffs and office closures while Tether earned interest on the backing reserves. Cross-border payments company Conduit is taking Tether to court, alleging the stablecoin giant…

In brief A developer who goes by hashfunction posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos on Hugging Face, covering July 2014 through October 2026, free under a non-commercial license. TikTok’s terms bar automated scraping without written approval, and the developer’s own write-up says the data came from TikTok’s private mobile API with no login. The dataset card routes commercial use, creator profiles and daily updates to datasocial.ai, which also sells the scraper’s source code for $1,699. A developer who goes by hashfunction has posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos on the open-source AI repository Hugging…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Binance Pay has launched a limited mobile top-up promotion in 10 countries. Eligible users can receive a 20% instant discount on their first qualifying top-up, capped at 3 USDT equivalent. The campaign runs from October 5 through October 19 and applies only to supported users and operators. Binance Pay is using mobile airtime to push crypto spending into a very ordinary consumer transaction. The payment service has launched a promotion offering eligible users a 20% discount on their first qualifying mobile top-up in 10 supported countries.…