Drift hack recovery opened near one cent per dollar lost
Drift Protocol opened claims and redemptions for its DFX recovery token on Oct. 1, giving victims of its April exploit a way to receive the USDT stablecoin from the Recovery…
Lido’s proposed staking route needs over 13 times the default entry bond
Lido’s proposed route for running larger Ethereum validators would require a 32 ETH entry bond, compared with 2.4 ETH for its existing default route. That higher collateral can become more…
3x Bitcoin and Ether futures funds clear SEC listing hurdle
On Oct. 2, the SEC approved the Cboe BZX exchange’s listing proposal for VS Trust’s 3x Bitcoin ETF and 3x Ether ETF. The decision clears an exchange-rule hurdle for products…
Leveraged funds’ Bitcoin futures shorts fall by 5,300 BTC-equivalent as longs shrink
Leveraged funds’ reported Bitcoin futures shorts fell by about 5,300 BTC-equivalent in the week to Sept. 29, narrowing their net short even as their aggregate long exposure shrank. The Commodity…
Arbitrum pauses new Stylus activations over AI-assisted attack risks
Arbitrum’s Security Council temporarily blocked new Stylus contract activations on Arbitrum One and Nova in an October 2 emergency action, restricting programs and app updates that require fresh activation. Already-active…
Unpatched Eclair Bitcoin Lightning nodes could crash again every time they restart
A newly disclosed unfunded-channel flaw could leave Eclair, a Bitcoin Lightning implementation, crashing repeatedly without an attacker spending BTC on-chain. The flaw affected reachable nodes running v0.14.0 and earlier, with…
US targets $17 billion Russia-linked crypto payment network using USDT as an escape route
The US sanctioned the Russia-linked A7 Network and proposed new restrictions to cut its crypto intermediaries off from global markets. On Oct. 1, the Treasury Department designated A7 as a…
Why an $88 billion bank reserve drop doesn’t prove a Bitcoin liquidity squeeze – yet
Bitcoin’s quarter-end liquidity signal changes direction depending on which reserve measure is used. Federal Reserve data released Oct. 1 show bank reserves falling $88.236 billion between Sept. 23 and Sept.…
Bitcoin survived 5% yields but crypto’s cheap-money era did not
The US 10-year Treasury yield touched 5.34% on Oct. 1, its highest since 2002, capping a third quarter in which it climbed almost 90 basis points, the largest quarterly rise…
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Bitcoin sees big overnight rally as ETF demand returns before the next US jobs test
Bitcoin retook $86,000 by the morning of Oct. 2 as demand for US spot Bitcoin ETFs recovered, with short covering a plausible accelerator for the advance ahead of the US…