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  • Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Image: Coinbase/Decrypt

    Coinbase Swings to $719 Million Q3 Profit on Crypto Gains

    Coinbase is back in the black, though much of that came from the crypto on its own balance sheet. The exchange reported third-quarter net income of $719 million, or $2.51 per diluted share, on Thursday, ending a two-quarter losing streak. Analysts had expected a loss of 15 cents per share, according to Zacks. But about $715 million of the profit came from gains on crypto Coinbase holds as an investment. Excluding those and other investment gains, adjusted net income was $78 million. Myriad: Whic...

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    3 min read
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  • US Capitol building in DC. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Crypto Spends $176 Million on Midterms, But Only 13% of Voters See It as a Priority

    The crypto industry is spending heavily on next week’s midterm elections. Voters aren’t putting it near the top of their lists. Only 13% of Americans say it’s extremely or very important that a political candidate supports the growth of emerging financial technologies like blockchain, crypto and decentralized finance, according to a survey conducted by Ipsos for the DeFi Education Fund, a crypto policy advocacy group. Myriad: Who will win the midterms? Click to make your prediction. A broader pi...

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    2 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Walmart. Image: Shutterstock.

    Walmart Blocks Its Stock From OKX-ICE Tokenized Trading Venue

    The world’s largest retailer is now keeping its shares off OKX and ICE’s planned tokenized stock venue. Walmart, Eli Lilly, Cigna Group, Carnival, and Arcos Dorados have objected to having their shares offered on OKXICE TSV, according to an updated notice from the venue dated Wednesday. The five additions bring the total to 38 companies. Myriad: How high will Nvidia stock go? Click to make your prediction. That’s up from 33 a day earlier, when JPMorgan Chase, Coca-Cola and Dell were among seven...

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    3 min read
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  • Solana. Image: Decrypt.

    Polygon Extends Its Stablecoin Payments Infrastructure to Solana

    Polygon Labs is extending its stablecoin payments infrastructure to Solana, giving businesses on the rival network a single connection to pull money in from bank accounts, move crypto across chains, and pay out to customers and suppliers worldwide. The company said the expansion brings its Open Money Stack, a bundle of payments tools, to Solana for the first time. Myriad: Where does Solana go next? Click to make your prediction. The pitch addresses a persistent headache in crypto payments: sendi...

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    2 min read
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  • Coins stacked atop each other. Source: Decrypt

    More Americans Have Tried Crypto, But Few Are Sticking With It: Survey

    More Americans have tried crypto than a year ago. Far fewer are still using it. Some 22% of U.S. adults say they have ever owned or used crypto, up from 18% in 2025, according to a national survey conducted by Ipsos for the DeFi Education Fund, a crypto policy advocacy group. But the share who used crypto in the past 12 months held flat at 13%. Myriad: Who will win the midterms? Click to make your prediction. The growth came almost entirely from people who have stepped away. Among Americans who...

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    3 min read
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  • Bitcoin. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Wall Street’s Fast Money Fled Bitcoin ETFs, Sovereign Funds Stepped In

    The investors who sold Bitcoin through its 2026 slump weren’t the crowd you might expect. A Galaxy Research report published Monday found that a handful of hedge funds and banks drove almost all of the institutional selling in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, while wealth platforms and sovereign funds stepped in to buy. Myriad: Where does Bitcoin go next? Click to make your prediction. Institutions that file quarterly 13F reports with the SEC held 355,000 BTC worth of spot ETF shares at the end of Septem...

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    3 min read
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  • Wall Street. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Goldman, BlackRock Alumni Raise $4 Million to Put Farm and Apartment Loans Onchain

    A New York startup founded by Wall Street alumni wants to put American apartment, farm, and energy loans on public blockchains, and it just raised the money to start. Birch Hill said Wednesday it closed a $4 million seed round led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from ParaFi Capital, Castle Island Ventures, and Nascent. The round brings its total funding to $6.5 million. Myriad: Where does Solana go next? Click to make your prediction. The firm is led by CEO Bhavin Vaid, a former Goldman...

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    2 min read
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  • Intel. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Intel, Oracle, IBM Join Objections to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Venue, Bringing Total to 26

    The tech sector’s resistance to tokenized stocks keeps building. Intel, Oracle, IBM, and quantum computing firm IonQ are the latest companies to object to having their shares traded on OKXICE TSV, according to an updated public notice from the venue dated Monday. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. The planned platform, a 50-50 joint venture between NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange and OKX’s U.S. holding company, now lists 26 objecting issuers. That’s up from...

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    2 min read
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  • Pierre Lindh at NEXTPredict 2026. Image: NEXTPredict

    A $3M Hedge, a Midterm Test and Retail's Rise: Prediction Markets at NEXTPredict

    Prediction markets spent two days in the spotlight at NEXTPredict, which brought the industry's biggest exchanges, trading firms and policymakers to Convene Hudson Yards in New York on October 22 and 23. With the U.S. midterms less than two weeks away, elections dominated the conversation, but executives were just as keen to talk about what comes next. The hedge that lost The conference opened with a trade that didn't pay out. NEXTPredict had paid a $12,000 premium on Kalshi for contracts that w...

  • Crypto mining. Image: Shutterstock

    Bitcoin Mining Firm Luxor Raises $16 Million to Scale Its AI Compute Push

    Luxor Technology, a company that built its business around Bitcoin mining, has raised $16 million to expand into the fast-growing market for AI computing power, the latest sign of crypto infrastructure firms pivoting toward artificial intelligence. The Seattle-based company said the strategic round was led by CMT Digital, the venture arm of Chicago’s CMT Group, with participation from mining-hardware makers Canaan and MicroBT, as well as Halo, Steelhead, and angel investors. Myriad: How high wil...

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    2 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • NBA. Image: Shutterstock

    NBA Embraces the CFTC on Prediction Markets as the NFL Fights It in Court

    The NBA has struck a deal with the top U.S. derivatives regulator to help police prediction markets, becoming the latest major sports league to formalize an integrity partnership as betting on games moves onto federally regulated platforms. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding with the basketball league to protect the integrity of professional basketball in prediction markets. Myriad: Who wins the World Series? Click to make your prediction...

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    3 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Bitcoin bull. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin’s Bear Market Is Over, Galaxy Research Says: 'Now Is an Attractive Time to Buy'

    Galaxy Digital’s head of research thinks the worst is over for Bitcoin. In a report published Monday, Alex Thorn, Galaxy’s head of firmwide research, argued that Bitcoin’s bear market ended in June and that the asset is now in an accumulation phase. “Our conclusion is simple: we believe now is an attractive time to buy and hold bitcoin,” he wrote. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. The call comes as Bitcoin struggles for direction. It traded at around $80,000 on Thu...

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    4 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Wells Fargo. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Wells Fargo, Cisco, Intuit Among 6 More Companies Objecting to Tokenized Stocks

    The list of companies that don’t want their shares traded on OKX and ICE’s planned tokenized stock venue keeps growing. Wells Fargo, Cisco Systems, and Marvell Technology are among six new issuers named in an updated public notice from OKXICE TSV dated Friday. Arm Holdings, Moderna and Intuit round out the new additions. That brings the total to 22 objecting companies, up from 16 on Oct. 19 and nine on Oct. 15. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. Earlier objectors...

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    2 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Bitcoin. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin ETFs Snap Two-Week Losing Streak Despite Late-Week Slide

    Bitcoin ETFs ended a choppy week in the green, but only just. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $137.9 million on Friday, according to Decrypt’s ETF tracker, their second straight day of outflows. The two-day slide totaled about $773.5 million, eating into a $1.07 billion inflow run from Monday through Wednesday. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Even so, the funds finished the week up roughly $301 million, snapping a two-week losing streak. October, though typically a s...

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    3 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Google. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads

    Google has carved out an exception to its long-standing promise not to use Gmail, Drive, and Google Photos content for advertising, quietly revising its privacy policy so that data from those apps can help personalize ads when users connect it to the company’s AI features. The change, which took effect Oct. 16 and was first spotted by Android Authority, adds a conditional clause to a pledge Google has made for years. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your predictio...

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    2 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • U.S. Capitol building. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Senate Democrat Probes Tether Payments to Ex-White House Crypto Adviser’s Firm

    Tether is facing fresh scrutiny in the Senate over millions of dollars that reportedly flowed to a firm co-owned by Bo Hines while he helped shape U.S. stablecoin law at the White House. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the top Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino a letter Thursday demanding records of the company’s dealings with Hines and Nxum, the consulting firm he co-founded. Blumenthal gave Tether until Nov. 3 to respond. Myriad: Wh...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Bitcoin. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Bitcoin Core Rewrites Its Security Policy for a World Where AI Finds Bugs in One Prompt

    Bitcoin Core developers have changed how the software handles certain security flaws, acknowledging that AI has made some vulnerabilities so easy to find that keeping them secret no longer makes sense. The project merged the policy update Thursday, after Chaincode Labs developer Antoine Poinsot opened it earlier this month citing a spike in reports of bugs that can be “easily (re-)discovered.” Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. The reason, Poinsot w...

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    2 min read
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  • Judge with gavel. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Crypto Scammers Who Used Prayer Groups to Lure Victims Must Pay $1.3 Billion, Says New York

    New York Attorney General Letitia James wants the founders of collapsed crypto trading platform NovaTech to pay nearly $1.4 billion. Collecting it may be another matter: The couple has fled the country, according to James. In a filing in New York County Supreme Court on Thursday, James’ office asked a judge to order Cynthia and Eddy Petion, NovaTech and related companies to pay about $1.37 billion in damages, disgorgement, and interest. Myriad: Who will win the midterms? Click to make your predi...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Bitcoin. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $636 Million as October Turns Red Again

    Bitcoin ETFs’ October comeback lasted a single session. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $635.6 million on Thursday, according to Decrypt’s ETF tracker, wiping out nearly 60% of the roughly $1.07 billion the funds took in over the previous three sessions. It was their biggest single-day outflow of the month, topping the $484.9 million exit on Oct. 7 that was, at the time, the worst since June. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. The reversal pushed October back into negat...

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    3 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Coinbase. Image: Decrypt

    Coinbase Fined Again in Ireland, This Time $3.6M Over Fund Safeguarding

    Coinbase’s Irish arm has been fined roughly $3.6 million by the Central Bank of Ireland for failing to properly protect customer funds, the regulator’s second enforcement action against the exchange’s European operations in less than a year. The regulator said Thursday it penalized Coinbase Ireland €3,252,618 for breaching safeguarding and outsourcing rules under the country’s Electronic Money Regulations between November 2020 and August 2025. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Decrypt Staff
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