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9,000 $BTC Frozen in a Stranded Change Address According to an old bitcointalk.org post, an individual had an old backup of his bitcoin wallet and continued to use the wallet after the backup was created. After restoring the $BTC wallet’s old copy, it did not log the newly created change addresses. This left the user with a loss of 9,000 $BTC, worth $694 million, that he could monitor using a blockchain explorer, but had no way to retrieve them. A Missouri Farmer’s Mysterious Refund According to a posted Substack called Shehan’s Blog, a client of the author named Samantha reportedly…

Lee had previously left open the possibility of accumulating more than 5% of Ether’s supply depending on Ethereum adoption. In an August interview with Bankless, he said the company may revisit that possibility in 2027. BitMine Chairman Tom Lee speaks at Token2049 Singapore. Photo: Aubrey Paller/Cointelegraph BitMine says it is “done stacking” Ether Lee said BitMine accumulated most of its Ether during what he described as a crypto bear market, saying that the company was able to build its position while prices were depressed. “We did all this buying in a bear market,” Lee said. “We protected the downside for…

Stablecoin payments startup Velocity raised another $10 million from investors including Visa (V), Circle (CRCL) and Ripple, extending a Series A that now totals $48 million as financial heavyweights push deeper into blockchain-based payments infrastructure. Haun Ventures, Translink Capital and Mirana Ventures also participated in the extension, which follows a $38 million Series A announced in July. The new investment valued the London-based firm at $200 million post-money, CEO Eric Queathem told CoinDesk in an interview. The original Series A round was oversubscribed, he said. The funding comes as stablecoins, or cryptocurrencies tied to fiat money, are becoming a bigger…

The disclosed figures reflect a close convergence between capital deposited in protocols and circulating liquidity. The market capitalization of stablecoins on the network stood at $64.53 million on the same date. Analysis from Dr. Cuadrado indicates that the narrow gap between both metrics shows the volume of stable assets directly backs trading and lending activities across the ecosystem. Technical data suggests this capital inflow reinforces the liquidity base available for smart contracts. Market analysts noted that the sustainability of this growth will require sustained decentralized application adoption to convert this liquidity into consistent trading volume. IOG Updates on Node Infrastructure…

The ICBA is one of the largest banking advocacy organizations in the U.S., typically representing smaller institutions. It also played a significant role in pushing back against the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act that failed to advance in the U.S. Senate last month — in part due to the bankers’ objections that its stablecoin provisions didn’t protect them against direct competition with the deposit accounts that are core to their businesses. Now, the group is targeting the trust charters crypto firms are pursuing as an entry point into the U.S. banking and payments system. “Congress did not create the national…

The comments come after the SEC issued its innovation exemption on Sept. 17, allowing qualifying venues to trade tokenized National Market System stocks through permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools without registering as exchanges, provided they meet a set of conditions. Robinhood stock token volume could test SEC caps Trading limits under the exemption differ depending on the type of stock. Tier 1 tokenized stocks are limited to 75 symbols and 0.25% of the underlying stock’s average daily share volume during the previous month. Tier 2 products are capped at 250 symbols and 2.5% of the underlying stock’s average…

Across the broader scan, Bitquery classified 4,412,782 OP_RETURN outputs as readable text. Their node cost differs from fake-address text because Bitcoin treats the two output types differently after confirmation. Nodes do not need to retain an OP_RETURN output in the UTXO database used to check whether coins can be spent, although its data remains in Bitcoin’s block history. The Bitcoin developer guide describes this null-data construction as preferable to methods that create outputs which look spendable and burden the UTXO set. Fake-address text places readable bytes where an address hash would normally go. A node sees an apparently spendable output,…

The transaction volume, which stood at $320 million in 2023, reached $10.5 billion by the end of 2025 and has increased even further this year. That’s according to the latest statistical data presented by Yerkegali Yedenbayev, managing director of the Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA). The latter is the supervisory body responsible for overseeing the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) – the fintech hub in the capital city where it all started. Reporting on the developments in the regulated crypto space over the past few years during a government meeting on Tuesday, Yedenbayev further detailed: “In the first half of…

The plan runs in three stages: Reach 1,000 TPS with roughly 5-second finality Scale past 5,000 TPS with fast block times and no chain reorganizations Push beyond 100,000 TPS while keeping fees under a cent How Far Has Polygon Actually Gotten? Rather than one big-bang launch, Polygon has raised its block gas limit in a long series of steps, each one live on mainnet. The Upgrade-by-Upgrade Progression The gas limit, which caps how much a block can process, has climbed steadily: 45M (Bhilai, July 2025) — passed 1,000 TPS, added EIP-7702 account abstraction 60M (Rio, October 2025) — introduced the…

The opinion resolves requests across three related cases involving Coinbase Financial Markets, KalshiEX, and the United States and CFTC, with the Coalition for Fair Markets and North American Derivatives Exchange participating as intervenors. Defendants include Illinois, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Gov. JB Pritzker and Illinois Gaming Board officials. Two Courts, Opposite Readings Pacold found that contracts on title-game winners likely qualify as “swaps” under the Commodity Exchange Act because the underlying outcomes can have concrete, material financial consequences. But she rejected an unlimited definition: a bet on the color of a sports drink dumped on a coach’s head would not…