Strategy buys just 334 Bitcoin as preferred-share buybacks reach $1.45 billion
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) made its smallest positive Bitcoin purchase of 2026 even as a 43% quarterly rally in the cryptocurrency helped generate a $20.9 billion gain on its digital-asset holdings.…
Metaplanet sold 10,000 Bitcoin in a credit-rating bid, only to buy back 11,000 BTC at a higher price per coin
Metaplanet sold 10,000 Bitcoin and later bought back 11,000 BTC to strengthen its credit profile and expand beyond accumulation during the third quarter. The Tokyo-listed company said it converted enough…
Near Protocol ETF Puts NEAR Back on Institutional Investors’ Radar
Bitwise Investment Advisers’ Bitwise NEAR Protocol ETF, ticker NRR, is designed to hold NEAR directly and seek additional tokens through staking. The document describes shares as anticipated to list on…
Bitcoin gets a 20-day window to see whether energy relief can move the Fed
The G7’s emergency diesel plan has created a near-term test of whether cheaper energy can ease pressure on Bitcoin. Leaders on Oct. 2 agreed to accelerate releases from emergency fuel…
Zcash NU7 Upgrade: ZEC Targets 25-Second Blocks In Testnet
In Zcash news today, the privacy network activated its NU7 upgrade on the public testnet at block 4,465,026, shifting the target interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. If services…
US jobs revision turns July’s 21,000 gain into a 10,000 loss
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revised July and August payroll gains down by 60,000 on Oct. 2, weakening the labor-based case for another Federal Reserve hike and potentially…
Hyperliquid Data Now Live on Bloomberg Terminal as Trump Working to Bring The Platform to The US
Hyperliquid perpetual contracts are now available through the Bloomberg Terminal, bringing data from the decentralized exchange into a widely used professional market-data workflow. Just a few hours ago, the contracts…
Base Vault Hack: $6M in wstETH Drained After Attacker Gains Whitelist Access
An unidentified vault on Base, the Ethereum layer-2 (L2) network incubated by Coinbase, lost about 1,783 wrapped staked Ether (wstETH), worth roughly $6 million, on Sunday, October 4, 2026. Blockchain…
Ethereum’s past outflow charts can change when more exchange wallets are identified
Coin Metrics has rebuilt Ethereum’s historical Standard Flow Metrics, raising a timing problem for tests that treat exchange outflows as a trading signal. The crypto data provider’s Oct. 1 notice…
El Salvador’s $666 million Bitcoin reserve survives IMF review
El Salvador secured access to $138 million from the IMF while recommitting to limits on further state Bitcoin accumulation. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the second and third reviews…
