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Celsius founder faces lifetime ban, but can trade his own crypto

Cryptoslate 10 Oct 2026
Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky has agreed to a permanent ban from the securities, commodities, and crypto business under a New York settlement announced on Oct. 9 ... Mashinsky is serving a 12-year prison sentence ... ....
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Luxor’s reported 6–13% annualized Bitcoin yield depends on mining delivery

Cryptoslate 10 Oct 2026
Luxor, a Bitcoin mining derivatives provider, reported a 6–13% annualized Bitcoin financing spread in its September lookback, published Oct. 9 ... The return comes from the discount a miner accepts for receiving money upfront ... The policy identifies Nov ... .
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ETH fee burns cover just 2% of new coins printed in 2026

Cryptoslate 10 Oct 2026
Ethereum's transaction fees have burned enough ETH to offset just 2.07% of the new coins issued in 2026, according to an Oct. 9 supply ledger ... Developers pursue a conditional 200 million maximum gas goal after the Glamsterdam upgrade ... 9 at 15.44.23 UTC.
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Tether freezes $1.4M in TRON vaults and THORChain stalls

Cryptoslate 10 Oct 2026
THORChain's TRON operations were interrupted on Oct. 9 after a USDT vault blocklist, according to reports by its co-founder Chad Barraford and researcher Khal. The researcher put the affected balance at about 1.45 million USDT ... At 3.35 p.m ... At 3.58 p.m ... .
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Coinbase’s Texas move gets a shareholder suit dismissed over Delaware-era claims

Cryptoslate 10 Oct 2026
Coinbase’s move to Texas changed the rule a shareholder had to satisfy before suing its directors over alleged conduct from the company’s Delaware years ... Its consequential finding concerned who could pursue claims belonging to Coinbase ... ....
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CFTC proposes a divide between prediction contracts and sportsbook wagers

Cryptoslate 10 Oct 2026
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced two actions on Oct. 9 seeking to clarify the federal regulatory boundary between prediction-market contracts and traditional gambling ... CFTC Chairman Michael S ... The proposed inclusion is not final ... ....
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Why XRP’s 63 billion circulating tokens don’t tell buyers what’s for sale

Cryptoslate 09 Oct 2026
For XRP buyers, available supply depends on the price they are willing to pay. The token's roughly 63.09 billion circulating supply gives the market's scale; sell orders show the quantities being offered at particular prices ... In an Oct ... 8 ... 6 / Oct ... 8 ... 5 ... .
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Bitcoin Core’s privacy fix reaches v32 code while the v31 patch remains open

Cryptoslate 09 Oct 2026
Bitcoin Core has merged a privacy fix into its 32.x source branch addressing behavior that could correlate private-broadcast connections with ordinary node connections. The backport for 31.x remains open as of Oct ... The Oct ... 25 ... 6 ... The opt-in path at risk.
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Core Lightning patches critical security flaws and a Bitcoin payment bug

Cryptoslate 09 Oct 2026
Core Lightning, software for running Bitcoin Lightning payment nodes, has released v26.06.9 with security fixes and a repair for a regression that could delay channel traffic on busy nodes running v26.06.8 ... 6 date ... ....
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Coinbase streams $150,000 Singapore trading cup and crowns its first champion

Cryptoslate 09 Oct 2026
Coinbase streamed an in-person trading competition from Singapore on Oct. 8, advertising $150,000 for the trader crowned Coinbase Champion and presenting the event as a spectator tournament ... At 6.54 p.m ... UTC ... Its official rules describe a free promotion.
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EU regulators target non-compliant stablecoins with a 90-day deadline

Cryptoslate 09 Oct 2026
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) . Where national regulators find legacy exposures, ESMA said they should require remediation as soon as possible and no later than three months after publication, or about Jan. 8, 2027 ... 3 ... ....
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XRPL’s $1.34 billion stablecoin base doesn’t tell us how much XRP users need

Cryptoslate 09 Oct 2026
Tracked stablecoins on the XRP Ledger totaled $1.338 billion on Oct. 7. For XRP holders, the critical question is how much activity uses the token as principal, and how long users or intermediaries need to hold it ... Ripple's Oct ... Fees are destroyed ... ....
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Abstract’s shutdown exposes the gap between owning assets and being able to move them

Cryptoslate 09 Oct 2026
Abstract, an Ethereum layer-2 network, says it will shut down on Dec. 15, 2026. In its Oct. 6 announcement, @AbstractChain told users to migrate their assets before that date or lose access to their funds ... A shutdown date is not every route's deadline ... .
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Coinbase rolls out 10x spot leverage, but blocks US retail from it

Cryptoslate 09 Oct 2026
Coinbase plans to introduce spot borrowing with up to 10x leverage, letting eligible traders borrow against collateral to buy crypto on spot markets, but US customers who do not qualify as Eligible Contract Participants will be excluded ... ....
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Locked liquidity did not stop this $14 million crypto pool drain

Cryptoslate 09 Oct 2026
The PancakeSwap pool for 79AU, 79thVault’s token, lost $14.35 million in USDT on Oct. 7 through two selling wallets, according to a Bitquery investigation published Oct. 8 ... But a permission inside 79AU let tokens leave the pool without payment ... ....
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