Approximately $2.7 billion in Bitcoin options expire Friday at 08:00 UTC, five and a half hours before the US October employment report, creating a protection gap for traders hedging with expiring puts.

Core Scientific said it will finish winding down its bitcoin mining operations by year-end, as colocation revenue reached $215.4 million in the third quarter and now accounts for roughly 92% of total revenue.

Santiago Peña resigned as Paraguay's president after the collapse of Ueno Bank, a digital lender used by most adults. The guaraní dropped 4% against the dollar, erasing a widely cited 13% premium on Tether's USDT.

Bitquery says attacker drained 36,042 Ethereum deposit addresses for nearly four hours after exchange announced containment, with total theft estimated at $48.6 million across 11 networks.

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says hackers accessed password hashes and active authentication tokens for all users, leading to shutdowns of key compliance and investigation services.

Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to operate a regulated US perpetual futures venue with Trade[XYZ], using Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework, pending CFTC approval.

Base's fourth major upgrade replaces Flashblocks with five canonical blocks per second, adds millisecond timing, and tightens B20 token compliance.

About 12,224 ZEC remain in Zcash's original Sprout privacy pool, and the upcoming NU7 upgrade will make those coins unspendable unless holders move them before activation at block 3,543,405.

Anza advised mainnet-beta operators to move to Agave 4.4.1 or Firedancer 26.10.6 before epoch 1079 begins, warning that older versions risk being forked off the network.

A Manhattan judge has given the CFTC until Friday to argue why her preliminary finding that the agency lacks authority over single-stock perpetuals is wrong, as a lawsuit backed by CBOE and Citadel Securities seeks to ha...