⚠️ UK crypto trader claims $800K stolen in violent home invasion ‼️ A cryptocurrency trader in the UK has reported losing approximately $800,000 in a home invasion after three knife-wielding intruders allegedly restrained him and forced him to surrender funds from his crypto wallets. In an October 13 post on X, the trader, who goes by the username rrealist, said the attackers entered his home, hel…

➡️ The shrinking economics of Ethereum layer 2s ⚠️ Ethereum made rollup transactions cheaper by giving them lower cost data space. The savings helped users and applications, but they also made it harder for a small chain to earn enough from transaction fees to support a sequencer, bridge, security work and developers. Two October shutdown announcements have turned that balance sheet from a theory …

⚠️ The CFTC has sent prediction market rules to the White House. States are still in court ❗️ Two CFTC event-contract actions reached White House review on September 28. One would define swaps to include event contracts. The other, labeled an interim final rule, would exclude casino-style gambling products. Five days earlier, a federal appeals court held that the sports contracts before it were no…

⚠️ NEAR price rally meets Bitwise ETF listing, is $5 next? 🔗 NEAR has pushed toward the $5 level after NYSE Arca approved Bitwise’s NEAR ETF listing application under ticker NRR, extending a rally that has lifted the token more than 170% this year. The SEC filing trail shows that Bitwise registered the ETF’s shares under Section 12(b) on September 24, with the Form 8-A stating that NYSE Arca had a…

🔔 EU banks double their MiCA presence to 80 🔖 Banks have doubled their presence on the European Union’s MiCA register to about 80 institutions in less than three months, raising their share of listed crypto providers to nearly 23%. According to an analysis of European Securities and Markets Authority register data, banks accounted for almost one in four listed crypto-asset service providers as of …