HSDT Brings Forward PIPE Share Unlock Amid 60% Stock Slide
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Solana Company (HSDT), the digital asset treasury firm formerly known as Helius Medical Technologies and backed by Pantera Capital, has moved ahead with unlocking shares for early investors in its $500 million PIPE round as the company’s stock trades below the initial purchase price. The shares, sold in a private placement in September at $6.881 […]

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BlackRock Bitcoin ETP Joins London Stock Exchange After UK Eases Crypto Ban
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BlackRock’s (BLK) bitcoin BTC$111,296.88 exchange-traded product (ETP) started trading on the London Stock Exchange on Monday, the asset manager’s first such product in the U.K., after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) lifted its ban on certain bitcoin-based ETPs. The iShares Bitcoin ETP, trading on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker IB1T, allows retail investors […]

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Long-Time HODLer Says $3M Worth of Tokens Were Stolen From His Cold Wallet
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An American retiree says more than $3 million in XRP vanished after he checked Ellipal’s mobile app on Oct. 15 and saw his balance gone, a discovery that spurred an on-chain tracing effort by pseudonymous analyst ZackXBT. CoinDesk has not independently verified the investor’s identity, balances, or the complete on-chain path. The account comes from […]

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XRP, Solana See Bullish Reset in Sentiment as Bitcoin, Ether Lag
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XRP$2.3304 and Solana’s SOL$183.77 stand out as the major cryptocurrencies with a key sentiment gauge showing bullish momentum, while their peers bitcoin BTC$106,931.06, and ether ETH$3,894.35 remain stuck in the gloom. This key sentiment gauge, known as the 25-delta risk reversal, is actually an options strategy involving the simultaneous purchase of a 25-delta call and […]

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Billionaire YouTube Star MrBeast’s Firm Could Bring Crypto to Millions
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Beast Holdings, the business entity tied to YouTube personality Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson, has filed a U.S. trademark application for “MrBeast Financial,” with language suggesting a possible push into crypto. The application includes services like cryptocurrency payment processing, crypto exchange, and trading through decentralized exchanges (DEXs). The filing also mentions downloadable software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools […]

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Dogecoin Finds Support After Tariff-Led Selloff
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Dogecoin stabilized Friday after early volatility saw price drop to $0.176 before recovering into a tight $0.18–$0.19 range. The session’s 7% swing came amid renewed macro jitters and reports of large whale liquidations totaling over $74 million. What to Know • DOGE traded between $0.176 and $0.189 through Oct 17, 06:00 – Oct 18, 05:00, […]

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Astra Nova Raises $48.3M to Grow Web3, AI Entertainment Ecosystem
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AI-focused Web3 entertainment and infrastructure firm Astra Nova has raised $48.3 million to grow its suite of tokenized content tools and creator platforms. The funding includes $41.6 million from a recent strategic round and builds on earlier investments led by Outlier Ventures as well as family offices and institutional investors in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab […]

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Bitcoin Loses $106K as Bullish Crypto Bets Rack up $800M in Liquidations
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Bitcoin dropped below $106,000 in early European hours Friday as leveraged traders once again faced heavy losses, with nearly $1.2 billion in crypto positions wiped out over the past 24 hours. Data shows that most of the damage came from long positions, reflecting how aggressively traders had positioned for a bounce earlier in the week. […]

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U.S. Fed’s Barr Catalogues Dangers to be Dodged in Future Stablecoin Regulations
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The crypto sector and some of the financial giants on Wall Street are sprinting to put stablecoin infrastructure in place well before the U.S. watchdogs set up their regulations, and Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr took a moment on Thursday to remind the industry’s legal experts of the hazards posed by nominally […]

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France’s Lise Wins License to Launch Europe’s First Tokenized Stock Exchange
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Paris-based Lise (Lightning Stock Exchange) has become the first company in Europe authorized to operate a fully tokenized equity exchange, the company said on Thursday. The exchange, which targets the SME IPO market in France, received a DLT TSS license from France’s financial regulator, the ACPR, under the EU’s Distributed Ledger Technology Pilot Regime, according […]

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Eric Trump Confirms Real Estate Tokenization Plans With WLFI
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Eric Trump, son of U.S. President Donald Trump and a co-founder of decentralized finance protocol WLFI$0.1394, said he is actively working on a real estate tokenization project tied to a building currently under development. Teasing the plan in an interview with CoinDesk TV coming next week, he said the effort may offer fractional ownership to […]

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Tests $2.40 Base After 6% Swing; Eyes $2.65 Breakout Level
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Heavy deleveraging across derivatives markets drags XRP lower before buyers defend the $2.40 zone, setting up a key support retest heading into Asia trading. News Background XRP traded sharply lower through the October 14–15 session as macro pressure and broad crypto deleveraging sent open interest down 50% to $4.22 billion. Despite the washout, spot volumes […]

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