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Bitcoin price briefly fell below $81,000, triggering $1.1 billion in liquidations across the crypto market. A significant 55,000 BTC were moved to exchanges as speculators adjusted positions.
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Canton CEO Yuval Rooz believes broader blockchain adoption, similar to the growth of platforms like Uber and Airbnb, is crucial for the industry to navigate potential policy changes in the United States.
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Firelight has activated XRP-backed protection for decentralized finance vaults on Flare, integrating risk management into investment products. Selected Sentora products now inherit safeguards against defined technical and economic failures.
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Paxos has added XRP to its regulated crypto brokerage service, enabling partners including PayPal, Venmo, Interactive Brokers, Charles Schwab, and Mercado Libre to offer buying, selling, and transfers of the token.
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OKX raises capital at a $25 billion valuation after securing backing from Ripple, Circle, and Standard Chartered's SC Ventures alongside Qube Research & Technologies.
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Bitcoin plunged about $1,765 in a 20‑minute flash crash on Oct. 7, falling below $84,000 and wiping out more than $400 million in leveraged long positions.
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Crypto exchange OKX secured new funding from Circle, Ripple, and Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures, valuing the company at $25 billion. The capital will support the exchange’s expansion into real-world asset tokenization.
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Oracle granted nearly $1 billion in stock options to co-founder Larry Ellison and his co-CEOs, but by May 31 every grant was underwater. The September proxy filing confirmed the options held zero intrinsic value at fiscal year-end.
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Ten tokens accounted for 62% of altcoin futures open interest in Talos's Sept 24-30 report, with SOL funding negative and PUMP funding at +21.8% annualized. Binance settlements on Oct 5 showed SOL funding flipping positive and PUMP rates reversing sign within four hours.
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