Crypto Risk Index

Eleven years in crypto is not simply an anniversary. It means navigating multiple boom-and-bust cycles, changing asset narratives, exchange failures, and the growing convergence between traditional finance and onchain markets. At its 11-year mark, LBank reports more than 30 million registered users and $23.81 billion in daily trading volume. In an exclusive interview with Bitcoinist, […]

Bitcoin and gold hold steady as a firm dollar and rising bond yields weigh on sentiment, while IREN secures a multiyear cloud services deal with Anthropic.

Sui and Alibaba Cloud are working on an integration that would let AI agents pay for cloud services per request using stablecoins within budgets set by their owners. The collaboration was unveiled at Sui Basecamp and remains under development, with no public launch date yet.

Coins jointly issued by multiple companies can trap reserves in one jurisdiction while redemption demands hit another, complicating cross-border crisis response.

Moscow Exchange plans to begin offering cryptocurrency trading from December 1 and says testing with professional market participants is already underway. Under Russia's new framework, unqualified investors are expected to face limits on which assets they can buy and how much they can invest.

Loans use third-party custodians for bitcoin holdings and rely on court-ordered sales if borrowers default.

NextBlock has invested $3 million in Soda Labs, funding the company's entire seed round. Soda is building privacy infrastructure based on garbled circuits and multiparty computation so financial applications can process confidential data while remaining connected to public blockchains.

SWI Group said it would use the proceeds from an 800 million-euro ($894 million) fundraise to transform Genesis Digital Assets, acquired from the FTX bankruptcy, from a bitcoin miner to an AI-focused data center.

The XRP Ledger's BatchV1_1 amendment remains in its activation window and is expected to enable around October 9 if validator support stays above the required threshold. The upgrade allows multiple transactions to be bundled into an atomic group, replacing an earlier Batch version that was halted after a critical bug was found.

The CoinDesk 80 has risen around 3% in 24 hours, more than double the CoinDesk 5, while spot bitcoin ETFs lost $681 million last week.

Binance has launched a P2P merchant referral campaign across around 20 African markets. Referrers and qualifying new merchants can each earn 50 USDT if the new merchant completes the required number of trades and reaches at least 10,000 USDT of volume within 30 days.

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Hyperscale Data says Ault Markets is now providing invite-only access to a decentralized exchange running in beta on the Ault Blockchain. The publicly listed company plans to expand the platform with additional assets, including tokenized precious metals.

The XRP Ledger Foundation said normal parameters never triggered the bug that could have broken XRP's supply cap, which is why it was undetected for years.

October 8 marks the cutoff for production-style staging traffic on The Graph's centralized Subgraph Studio endpoints for Polygon and BNB Chain. Developers are being pushed onto The Graph Network, where independent indexers serve queries and earn the associated fees.

Ledger confirmed an unauthorized hardware implant in a device linked to crypto losses at CryptoBilis, a Southeast Asian reseller. The company says confirmed cases are limited and its internal systems remain unaffected.

Bitcoin reversed early gains as oil bounced back to over $92. Analysts express concerns over large outflows from spot ETFs last week.

The U.S. Supreme Court hasn't yet indicated whether it will take up cases surrounding prediction markets, but there are now several amicus briefs, an interim final rule and a rule proposal.

Executives see openings for tokenization, DeFi and dealmaking, while lawyers warn agency action leaves spot-market oversight and lasting certainty unresolved.

"Ukraine supports the ceasefire, and it is important that Russia support it as well," said Ukrainian President Zelensky.

Investors are using blockchain-based shares for smaller and after-hours trades. The IMF says liquidity, legal rules and settlement systems have not caught up.

Bitcoin and ether order books are deeper than before the crash, while altcoin liquidity keeps eroding and spot trading remains well below its October 2025 peak.

Paxos Labs, Theo and Energy Substantiation execs see growth coming from putting physical assets to work, with precious metals leading and energy presenting a tougher test.

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