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  • Saturday · 5 min

    Chainalysis Breach Exposes Customer Names, Emails, and Roles

    Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis was hit by a cyberattack that exposed customer names, emails, and organization roles. Here is what the report reveals. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/chainalysis-cyberattack-customer-data-exposed-october-2026/

  • Saturday · 4 min

    Japan's Iole Sells All 151 Bitcoin at a ¥254M Loss to Fund AI

    Tokyo-listed Iole will sell all 151.21 BTC between October 30 and the end of November, booking a ¥254 million loss to fund AI data centers and Neo Cloud. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/iole-sells-all-151-bitcoin-ai-pivot-october-2026/

  • Saturday · 4 min

    October Wipeout: $300B Gone as 'Uptober' Bet Unravels

    Crypto shed roughly $300B in October as the seasonal 'Uptober' rally failed to show. Bitcoin sits near $77,132 and the Fear and Greed index reads 35. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/october-300b-wipeout-uptober-collapse-october-2026/

  • Saturday · 4 min

    Strategy's Record $20.9B Q3 Income Is Almost All a Bitcoin Paper Gain

    Strategy reported a record $20.91 billion operating income in Q3 2026, but nearly all of it came from an unrealized fair-value gain on its 848,517 Bitcoin. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/strategy-record-21b-q3-operating-income-bitcoin-october-2026/

  • Saturday · 4 min

    Iron Fish Shuts Down Its Network Over a 2019 Inflation Bug

    Privacy blockchain Iron Fish is ending all network support after finding an inflation bug from a 2019 Merkle tree commit that let attackers double-spend notes. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/iron-fish-shutdown-2019-inflation-bug-october-2026/

  • Friday · 3 min

    Solflare Shifts SOL Stakers to a Lower-Fee Validator by November 1

    Solflare is moving SOL stakers off its legacy validator to a new lower-commission one. Migrate by November 1 to get auto compensation for missed rewards. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/solflare-validator-migration-lower-commission-october-2026/

  • Friday · 5 min

    Tether Posts $1.5B Q3 Operating Profit as Reserve Buffer Doubles

    Tether reported $1.5 billion in net operating profit for Q3 2026 and said its reserve buffer doubled, a strength signal for USDT as the broader market sold off. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tether-q3-operating-profit-reserve-buffer-doubles-october-2026/

  • Friday · 4 min

    CFTC Will Let Crypto Exchanges Opt Into Federal Registration

    CFTC Chair Mike Selig says crypto exchanges can opt into federal registration after the $6.3B Binance hack, a voluntary path that stops short of a mandate. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cftc-crypto-exchange-federal-registration-option-october-2026/

  • Friday · 3 min

    XPlace Pauses Credit Mode After Kamino Halts SOL/BTC Borrowing

    XPlace temporarily disabled credit spending after Kamino paused borrowing in its SOL/BTC market. Cash payments still work, and here is who it affects. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/xplace-credit-paused-kamino-borrowing-halt-october-2026/

  • Friday · 4 min

    Coinbase Lifts Its Bitcoin Treasury to 17,954 BTC, Worth $1.5B in Q3

    Coinbase added 643 Bitcoin in Q3 2026 to reach 17,954 BTC, worth about $1.5 billion at quarter end. Net income rose 66% to $718.7M on unrealized crypto gains. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coinbase-bitcoin-treasury-17954-btc-q3-october-2026/

  • Friday · 4 min

    Crypto Logs 322 Hacks in 2026, Already Double Last Year's Total

    DefiLlama counts 322 confirmed crypto hacks in 2026 with two months left, more than double 2025's total, a record year of breaches with real custody stakes. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/crypto-322-hacks-2026-double-last-year-october-2026/

  • Friday · 4 min

    North Korea's TraderTraitor Tied to the $6.4B Binance Hack

    TRM Labs and Chainalysis both attribute the $6.4B Binance hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor, the same unit blamed for the Bybit breach. What it means for users. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-hack-tradertraitor-north-korea-attribution-october-2026/

  • Friday · 3 min

    Banks Want to Tokenize, But Fireblocks Says They Lack the Engineers

    Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov says banks are eager to tokenize assets but lack engineers fluent in both finance and blockchain. The talent gap is the bottleneck. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/banks-tokenize-engineer-talent-gap-fireblocks-october-2026/

  • Friday · 4 min

    Zcash Community Grants Offers $124M Compromise Amid Backlash

    Zcash Community Grants proposed redirecting about $124M in ZEC toward mining rewards as critics including Tyler Winklevoss questioned the committee's accountability. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/zcash-grants-124m-treasury-compromise-october-2026/

  • Friday · 4 min

    Binance's $6.3B Hack Traced to a Single EIP-7702 Authorization

    Binance says a $6.3B hack impacted user funds after one of 50 malicious EIP-7702 authorizations succeeded. Inside the exploit and what it means for custody. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-6-3b-hack-eip-7702-authorization-october-2026/

  • Thursday · 4 min

    AI Scan Finds 3 Bitcoin Core Bugs That Can Crash Full Nodes

    An AI code scan uncovered three Bitcoin Core bugs, including a remote crash that drains memory on Windows, macOS and BSD nodes. Patches shipped in version 32.1. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ai-bitcoin-core-node-crash-bugs-october-2026/

  • Thursday · 4 min

    Dubai Royal-Backed Firm Unveils $1.5B Bitcoin and UAE Real Estate Plan

    Standard Asset Company, backed by a Dubai royal and advised by Coinbase, unveiled a $1.5B strategy pairing a managed Bitcoin reserve with UAE real estate. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/standard-asset-company-15b-bitcoin-uae-real-estate-october-2026/

  • Thursday · 4 min

    Switzerland Clears Its First Spot Bitcoin ETF With a Rare Waiver

    Switzerland's FINMA approved BBIT, the country's first spot bitcoin ETF, with a rare waiver to hold only bitcoin. It lists on SIX in November for brokers. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/switzerland-first-spot-bitcoin-etf-overseas-brokers-october-2026/

  • Thursday · 4 min

    Quantum Model Cuts Bitcoin Key-Cracking Hardware Needs by 17x

    Alice & Bob says breaking a Bitcoin key could take 29,588 qubits, 17 times fewer than Google's estimate, pulling quantum migration pressure into the early 2030s. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/quantum-model-bitcoin-key-cracking-17x-october-2026/

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