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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Capital B reports $78M H1 loss driven by Bitcoin impairment charge

Europe’s second-largest Bitcoin treasury raised $30 million and increased its Bitcoin holdings by 11% in the first half of 2026, despite reporting a $75 million Bitcoin impairment loss.

France-listed Bitcoin treasury company Capital B reported a net loss of 69.5 million euro ($78 million) for the first half of 2026, driven by a Bitcoin impairment charge of $75.8 million.

The impairment reflected Bitcoin (BTC) prices as of June 30 and had no direct cash impact, according to the company’s first-half 2026report, published Thursday.

Still, Capital B’s consolidated revenue rose 3.5% year-over-year to $6.5 million, while adjusted EBITDA was negative $1.2 million. EBITDA measures a company’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: XRP has failed to make holders rich like bitcoin and ether. Here’s why

Holding is widely touted as a great way to build wealth in the crypto market, but it hasn't worked for every coin.

Take XRP (XRP), the payments-focused cryptocurrency native to the XRP Ledger and the world’s fifth-largest digital asset by market value.

The token is still trading well below its 2017 cycle high, while most other major cryptocurrencies have climbed far above theirs.In 2017, crypto broke into the mainstream, pulling in new users and investors during the frenzied run that carried into the first week or two of 2018.

XRP currently trades around $1.33, down 62.5% from its early January 2018 peak of $3.55. In other words, an XRP buyer from that peak is still underwater nearly nine years later. (XRP did briefly top its old high, reaching $3.66 in July 2025 before crashing.)

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own

An OpenAI research model stuck without funds on an Ethereum test network went looking for someone else’s wallet, found one through recovery phrases that were already public, and spent from it to finish a coding assignment, the company disclosed Thursday.

The incident occurred on June 26 during training of an internal model in the GPT-5.6 Sol family, and OpenAI discovered it on Sept. 25, according to itsincident report.

A recovery phrase, also called a seed phrase, is a list of words that generates a wallet’s secret keys; whoever has those words can recreate the accounts and spend from them without ever touching the owner’s device.

The assignment let the model deploy contracts, programs that run on a blockchain, but gave it no funded wallet to pay the fees. After its attempts to get free test tokens failed, it wrote a script that checked 362 addresses generated from recovery phrases commonly used by developers and found one with enough money.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: At the White House, crypto policy vacancy looms large

When President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, he not only shed his earlier resistance to crypto technology but embraced the industry with the hiring of a high-profile crypto czar and the establishment of his President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets.

Almost two years later, that policy push seems to have gone quiet for the moment, with the departure of Patrick Witt, who had been the final crypto adviser running that office. And when the president recently ushered in a new artificial intelligence czar, the job that was once split between crypto and AI seemed to have dropped its crypto remit.

So who is minding the store for crypto policy at the White House? It's not clear, even as a handful of people on Capitol Hill continue to suggest that the final weeks of the congressional session after the November elections could still see some legislative action for the industry. The White House still has a staff of policy advisers, and Trump's administration now boasts several crypto regulatory irons in the fire at agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission. But no new name has been explicitly attached to Trump's in-house crypto initiatives.

A White House official told CoinDesk on Thursday that Witt's work was appreciated and wished him "the best of luck in the future endeavors." The official didn’t comment on who would be taking over.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: MSCI adopts index exclusion rules that could oust Strategy

Strategy, Metaplanet and Upexi were previously identified for deletion under the methodology, with MSCI set to announce its final list on Nov. 11.

Index provider MSCI has adopted new rules that could lead to Strategy, Metaplanet and Upexi being removed from its global indexes, while leaving several other crypto treasury companies facing potential exclusion.

MSCI said Thursday it willadopta methodology proposed in August that would make “non-operating companies” ineligible for inclusion in the MSCI Global Investable Market Indexes.

MSCI previously identified Strategy (MSTR) among the companies that would be deleted from the indexes under the “non-operating companies methodology.” Sharplink, Inc (SBET), Ton Strategy Company (TONX), Solana Company (HSDT) and DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV) are among companies that would be put on a “watchlist” for potential removal.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Australia releases draft bill to adopt OECD crypto tax reporting framework

Australia is among 77 jurisdictions committed to adopting CARF, with its first international exchanges of crypto tax data expected in 2028.

Australia has released draft legislation that would enable the automatic exchange of crypto tax information between countries.

The draft bill, Treasury Laws Amendment Bill 2026: Tax information reporting, is open to comment until Oct. 28. It would establish a framework to implement the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) in Australian law and introduce a domestic crypto reporting regime, according to the Australian Treasury.

Australia firstsignaled its intentionto implement CARF in November 2023 andconsulted on its proposed approachin late 2024. The government subsequently announced plans to implement both CARF and a domestic crypto reporting regime in its 2025–26 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, with international exchanges of crypto tax information expected to begin in 2028.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Scammer loses $4.8M stored on tampered Ledgers: Asia Express

A scammer reportedly lost $4.8M of stolen money after storing the funds on tampered Ledgers. Bitcoin and Ether ETFs launch trading in Thailand and South Korea blocks 27 exchanges.

Ledger was forced tosuspend its reseller network across South East Asiathis week, after thieves stole more than$103.4 millionfrom 530 addresses via tampered Ledgers inserted into the supply chain. But in a small measure of poetic justice, one of the “victims” was a scammer themselvesaccordingto Chainalysis.

The blockchain monitoring firm reports that the scammer lost 60 Bitcoin, worth about $4.8 million, from three newly purchased Ledgers containing spyware that records seed phrases. The Ledger thieves drained all three of their funds into the same wallet.

In a further irony, the scammer had operated a “task scam” where people were paid to fake sales and reviews of real items. So depending on how much they knew, their victims in turn may not have been entirely honest either. “Then a “negative balance” appeared, and they were told to add their own money in order to get paid,” Chainalysis reports. So it’s possible that a scammer of scammers has just got scammed. In crypto it’s sometimes turtles all the way down.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: At the White House, crypto policy vacancy looms large

When President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, he not only shed his earlier resistance to crypto technology but embraced the industry with the hiring of a high-profile crypto czar and the establishment of his President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets.

Almost two years later, that policy push seems to have gone quiet for the moment, with the departure of Patrick Witt, who had been the final crypto adviser running that office. And when the president recently ushered in a new artificial intelligence czar, the job that was once split between crypto and AI seemed to have dropped its crypto remit.

So who is minding the store for crypto policy at the White House? It's not clear, even as a handful of people on Capitol Hill continue to suggest that the final weeks of the congressional session after the November elections could still see some legislative action for the industry. The White House still has a staff of policy advisers, and Trump's administration now boasts several crypto regulatory irons in the fire at agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission. But no new name has been explicitly attached to Trump's in-house crypto initiatives.

A White House official told CoinDesk on Thursday that Witt's work was appreciated and wished him "the best of luck in the future endeavors." The official didn’t comment on who would be taking over.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Sweden revisits digital krona as ECB advances digital euro plans

Sweden’s Riksbank has recommended that lawmakers prepare for a possible digital krona, citing concerns over foreign-currency stablecoins and the future of domestic payments.

Sweden’s central bank is revisiting the possibility of introducing a digital krona, citing the European Central Bank’s (ECB) progress toward a digital euro and the growing use of stablecoins as reasons to reconsider a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

In an Oct. 7letterto parliament’s Finance Committee, published Thursday, the Riksbank urged lawmakers to begin preparing legislation for a potential digital krona, three years after a government inquiry concluded there was insufficient need for one.

The letter pointed to theECB’s planned digital euro pilot in 2027and a potential public launch in 2029. According to the Riksbank, Sweden’s payment system could become less competitive without a comparable digital version of its own currency.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Crypto for Advisors: Wall Street is done waiting on Congress for crypto rules

You’re readingCrypto for Advisors, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter that unpacks digital assets for financial advisors.Subscribe hereto get it every Thursday.

In today’s newsletter,Eric Souferof Tusk Strategies looks at what financial firms are building while Congress stalls on a crypto framework.

Then, in “Ask an Expert,”Diego Grassanoexplains what advisors should check before trusting a tokenized platform.

Without a federal framework, financial firms are standardizing compliance and infrastructure on their own.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: How Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI took down a massive crypto fraud network targeting Russian speakers

Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI have seized or disrupted 241 websites and 112 servers tied to a crypto investment scam that allegedly stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian-speaking victims in the U.S.

The operation, carried out last week, came after a three-year investigation into a fraud network that relied on online infrastructure and IP addresses in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalezsaid. No arrests were announced.

The scammers drew victims through Russian-language Facebook ads that promised investment opportunities. Fake advisers then called the victims and coached them to buy cryptocurrency and send it to fraudulent trading platforms.

When victims tried to withdraw their funds, the platforms locked their accounts or demanded more payments for supposed taxes and fees.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: HEX token sellers erase $160M following reports of founder Richard Schueler arrest

The HEX token’s price declined by 30% following local media reports of the Istanbul arrest of founder Richard Schueler, nearly two years after Interpol issued a “Red Notice.”

The Hex (HEX) token fell nearly 30% in the past 24 hours after local media reports of founder Richard Schueler, also known as Richard Heart, being detained by authorities in Istanbul.

The HEX token declined to $0.0006 as of 11:28 am UTC on Thursday, erasing about $160 million from its market capitalization, from more than $500 million on Wednesday to $340 million by press time, according toCoinMarketCap. It previously topped $0.44 in September 2021.

On Wednesday, news outlet Ihlas Haber Ajansı (IHA)reportedthat Schueler and his wife were detained in Istanbul by Turkish authorities. Police reportedly seized multiple devices, hardware wallets, jewelry and handguns.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Bitcoin holds above $80,000 as Asian stock rout drags altcoins lower

BitcoinBTC$80,972.85is trading at $81,200, down around 0.5% since midnight UTC after trimming a 1% loss from earlier in the session, with buyers stepping in just above $80,000 at around 02:30 UTC, close to the Oct. 8 low of about $80,300.

Asian equities set the tone, with South Korea’s Kospi plunging 8% and triggering circuit breakers while Nasdaq 100 index futures slid about 1%, extending Wednesday’s 1.9% drop in the Nasdaq Composite.

Altcoins took the heavier losses, with etherETH$2,361.14down 2.0% near $2,370. The CoinDesk 80 (CD80) slid by 2.2% while the bitcoin-dominant CoinDesk 5 (CD5) lost around 0.7%.

The bigger moves were apparent across lower market cap tokens, with pump.funPUMP$0.004259falling by 9.4% as the CoinDesk Memecoin Index lost 4.0%, leaving all but six CD100 members lower.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: BlackRock's Fink names a U.S. recession trigger, sounds alarm over $40 trillion national debt

Companies are pouring so much money into data centers that power artificial intelligence (AI) that any attempt to slow it could hurt the U.S. economy, not just the stock market.

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, made that clear Wednesday in aCNBC interview, while also warning about the burgeoning national debt.

He said "a moratorium of some sort in this country" would put the U.S. in a recession, commonly defined as two straight quarters of shrinking economic output.

Fink was referring to a potential push to stop data center buildouts across the U.S. over concerns that they harm the environment. Data centers are the huge buildings packed with computers that power AI.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: South Korea plans cybersecurity overhaul after attacks hit banks, crypto firms

South Korea is proposing tougher cybersecurity assessments after a review identified security deficiencies at 130 financial firms.

South Korea is planning tighter cybersecurity requirements for financial institutions after an investigation into earlier security incidents involving 16 companies, including crypto exchanges.

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) said it would pursue improved threat monitoring, more frequent security assessments and stronger accountability for executives after an industry-wide review found cybersecurity deficiencies at 130 of 555 financial companies.

The FSC said about 100,000 pieces of customer information had been exposed across the affected firms, including names, contact details and identification numbers.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Bitcoin miners plunge up to 13% in Wall Street’s worst selloff since July

TeraWulf, Core Scientific, Cipher Mining and IREN each lost more than 12% as hotter inflation hit AI infrastructure companies.

US stocks suffered their sharpest selloff since July on Wednesday as hotter-than-expected inflation data weighed on technology and AI infrastructure companies, with Bitcoin miners among those hit.

The S&P 500fell1.1%, its biggest one-day decline since July 29; the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.9%, its biggest one-day drop since July 23, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.1% over the day.

Leading decliners among major tech companies included data center operator CoreWeave, which fell 16%, AI infrastructure provider Nebius, which fell 11%, and Oracle, which fell 9%.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: VanEck seeks to withdraw application for Lido staked Ether ETF

VanEck initially filed an S-1 registration statement for the exchange-traded fund in October last year.

Asset manager VanEck said it no longer plans to proceed with its proposed Lido staked Ether exchange-traded fund, shelving the product designed to give investors exposure to the liquid staking token.

In an SEC filing on Wednesday, VanEck Digital Assetssaidit “does not intend to proceed with the planned distribution” of the trust’s shares. It did not explain what prompted the decision or whether VanEck would pursue a replacement product.

VanEckinitially filedthe fund’s S-1 registration statement on Oct. 16, 2025. The proposed fund would have held Lido staked Ether (stETH) and would expect to accrue certain staking rewards through ownership of stETH.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: VanEck seeks to withdraw application for Lido staked Ether ETF

VanEck initially filed an S-1 registration statement for the exchange-traded fund in October last year.

Asset manager VanEck said it no longer plans to proceed with its proposed Lido staked Ether exchange-traded fund, shelving the product designed to give investors exposure to the liquid staking token.

In an SEC filing on Wednesday, VanEck Digital Assetssaidit “does not intend to proceed with the planned distribution” of the trust’s shares. It did not explain what prompted the decision or whether VanEck would pursue a replacement product.

VanEckinitially filedthe fund’s S-1 registration statement on Oct. 16, 2025. The proposed fund would have held Lido staked Ether (stETH) and would expect to accrue certain staking rewards through ownership of stETH.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Kalshi CEO says state-led oversight of U.S. prediction markets would push them out

ARLINGTON, Va. — The CEO of Kalshi, the company at the center of a high-profile legal battle over the future of prediction markets in the U.S., said the clash won't ultimately decide whether the rapidly growing industry is overseen by states or a federal agency, but whether it's overseen by the feds here or is forced overseas.

"We feel pretty good about where we stand overall," Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said Wednesday at the DC Fintech Week event near Washington.

Mansour rejected arguments that sports betting — the explosively growing element of the event-contracts space — doesn't have significant economic consequences that justify the trades' status as federally regulated financial contracts.

A growing list of states have challenged Kalshi and other prediction markets firms in court, accusing them of engaging in illegal sports wagering that belongs under the authority of state gambling regulators. But Kalshi and the federal regulator of its exchange, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, have countered in courts that the federal agency is the appropriate sole watchdog of prediction markets.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Organizations join forces to fight Illinois crypto tax, after 6-month pause

Illinois officials already agreed to delay implementation of a 0.2% tax on crypto assets, but industry-aligned organizations are pushing for summary judgment on the merits.

The Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) and Blockchain Association (BA) said they would join the Digital Chamber and others to push for a court to address the merits of a lawsuit over Illinois’s digital-asset tax, set to take effect in 2027.

In a Tuesday filing in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County, the crypto advocacy organizationsaskedthe court to approve an expedited schedule for summary judgment “to reach a decision on the tax’s lawfulness as quickly as possible.” The filing cited the CCI’s and BA’s lawsuit against Illinois state officials, as well as one filed separately by the Digital Chamber and Illinois Blockchain Association.

“While pausing enforcement of the Digital Asset Tax Act protects Illinois consumers and businesses from this onerous and legally flawed tax until July 1, it remains imperative that the merits are determined as soon as possible,” said CCI CEO Ji Kim.

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