$BTC : Kraken wants to be your bank, but who will protect your money? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• Your savings and Bitcoin might one day live inside the same Kraken app without enjoying the same legal protections. • Kraken's parent company wants a place in your finances long before you buy Bitcoin and long after you sell it. • 14, Payward agreed to acquire Saldo Finance Oy , the Finnish owner of Lithuania's Saldo Bank, in a deal expected to close in 2027 if regulators approve it. • The purchase would add deposit accounts, lending and payment services to a group better known for handling crypto trades, extending the banking push .
Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• 16 carves out an exception to Google’s long-standing pledge—letting connected Gmail, Drive, and Photos data personalize ads through its Personal Intelligence AI features. • By Decrypt Staff Edited by Guillermo Jimenez Oct 24, 2026 Oct 24, 2026 2 min read Google. • Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock Create an account to save your articles. • Add on Google Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. • Users can opt out via Connected Content apps settings.
$SOL : Firedancer makes bounty hunters burn 1 SOL even for duplicate bug reports ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• The spring contest allowed eligible duplicates to earn rewards, while Bhatt's retrospective links repeated discoveries partly to slow review. • Firedancer, Jump Crypto's independent validator software for Solana, requires researchers to burn 1 SOL to qualify for a bug bounty under terms effective Oct. • The burn is non-refundable even when a report identifies a real vulnerability that someone else submitted first. • The change narrows the route to payment for later finders compared with Firedancer's spring audit contest.