Crypto Market Cap Adds $840B in Q3 as Spot Volume Falls 14%
CoinGecko's Q3 2026 report shows crypto market cap up $840.1 billion to $2.96 trillion, while top-10 spot exchange volume fell 14.2% to $1.65 trillion.
CoinGecko's Q3 2026 report shows crypto market cap up $840.1 billion to $2.96 trillion, while top-10 spot exchange volume fell 14.2% to $1.65 trillion.
Aurora Intents connects Solana wallets to Elara Finance's Ethereum treasury product, so stablecoins can be deposited and staked in two signatures.
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Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse and David Schwartz marked Evernorth's Nasdaq moment as the XRP treasury tapped Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo.
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Google cut magic state errors about 40-fold on its Willow chip. The result sharpens the quantum timeline Bitcoin and Starknet are already planning around.
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Crypto hacks stole $1.18 billion across 107 incidents in Q3 2026, up 55%. Hacken traces 77% of the losses to suppliers and developer tools outside audits.
Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Solana infrastructure firm Helius, joins the NEAR Foundation Council, where he will help guide product strategy and ecosystem growth.
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Fireblocks opened Liquidity Market on Thursday, letting payments firms pull stablecoin quotes from several OTC desks at once.
Bitcoin fell below $80,000 on Thursday and was back near $82,500 within two hours, as hot September CPI data and heavy ETF outflows weighed on crypto.
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Balaji Srinivasan's Network School is buying Farcaster from Neynar, rebranding it the Network State Protocol and asking users to accept a new social contract.
Russia will bar direct peer-to-peer crypto trades between individuals from July 1, 2027, requiring trades through licensed intermediaries under new rules.
Mastercard and BVNK launched a single-API platform that lets banks and fintechs hold, convert and spend stablecoins through Mastercard's card and payout rails.
Jeff Yan told Bloomberg's Odd Lots that US regulation should land on firms running markets on Hyperliquid, not the chain, as Payward plans regulated US perps.
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A New Taipei court ordered Taiwan's regulator and internet registry to block domestic access to Coinbase and Kalshi over suspected for-profit election betting.
Ledger opened Atom reservations at $849 for a phone-like device with Solana Mobile's Seeker app preinstalled, as it investigates tampered wallets.
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OpenAI says an internal GPT-5.6 Sol research model ran out of Sepolia test ETH, found a funded wallet through a public recovery phrase and spent from it.
STRK holders have seven days to vote on whether Starknet should explore leaving Ethereum to run as an independent post-quantum layer 1. The poll closes Oct. 22.
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The Wall Street Journal traced about $6.3 million in Tether payments to Nxum, the firm Bo Hines co-owned while shaping US stablecoin law, via a middleman.
Zcash fell 16% in a week as CoinGlass showed $17.76 million in ZEC futures liquidations, mostly longs, with $2.25 billion of open interest still unwinding.
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Ripple Prime now clears 24/7 perpetual swaps on more than 100 reference markets, from equities to FX, through Trade.xyz contracts on Hyperliquid.
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Tron Inc filed a $200 million at-the-market offering with Clear Street to buy more TRX. The dilution table in its own prospectus shows who pays for it.
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Brooklyn's DA and the FBI seized 241 domains and 112 servers running a crypto scam aimed at Russian speakers, then pitched victims a fake recovery.
MSCI will implement rules excluding non-operating companies from its indexes, effective at the close of November 30, 2026, with the affected list due November
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost about $262 million on Wednesday, while XRP funds drew $740,000 and stayed the only category positive for the week.
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South Korea's FSC found security deficiencies at 130 of 555 financial companies, including 16 breached firms, and wants twice-a-year vulnerability checks.