October 3, 2026
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin has outlined 13 application ideas spanning AI pets, private trading, and cross-chain payments, alongside five suggestions for helping developers reach users. Illia Polosukhin, in an Oct. 3 X post, said new and returning developers had been… …
Hackers have used Microsoft’s official X account to promote an unauthorized Clippy-themed token, with the promotional activity removed roughly 30 minutes later, according to The Verge. The Verge reported that Microsoft confirmed the breach after its account promoted an unofficial… …
Bitcoin traded near $84,600 on Oct. 3 as Quant and Midnight led the week’s top crypto gainers, rising 158.3% and 96.5%, respectively. Lighter fell 28.7%, while MemeCore, Ethena and Zcash posted double-digit losses. CoinGecko’s seven-day top-100 rankings for Oct. 3… …
Circle has urged EU policymakers to revise MiCA’s stablecoin issuance and reserve rules after its EU policy director said only three of the world’s 30 largest stablecoins comply with the framework. Circle, in its Oct. 1 policy submission, called for… …
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson has signaled that officials may need more time before changing rates again, as Polymarket odds cited in the latest report have fallen to 23% for an October hike from about 70% last week. The… …
African businesses have increasingly turned to stablecoins over the past five years to address cross-border payment delays, dollar access, and settlement costs, according to Kora CEO Dickson Nsofor. Dickson Nsofor, CEO of pan-African payment infrastructure platform Kora, told crypto.news that… …
Pump.fun price is up about 14% as PUMP tests $0.006, with strong momentum and another $1.02 million token buyback supporting attention. …
Metaplanet directors defended its executive share plan after a 41% cut, while questions remain over Simon Gerovich’s August share exercise. …
Malaysian police have detained two men and seized 30 Bitcoin mining machines after uncovering an operation in Seri Iskandar that allegedly used an illegal electricity connection.on. According to Perak Tengah district police chief Supt Hafezul Helmi Hamzah, the district’s Criminal… …
Bitcoin price traded near $84,000 on Sep. 28 after retreating from a recent high above $87,000, leaving traders focused on whether U.S. spot ETF demand can help the price hold its September breakout. Lacie Zhang, research lead at Bitget Wallet,… …
The Cardano Foundation has announced a multi-year partnership with the Venture Accelerator at UCLA Anderson School of Management that will bring blockchain coursework, five startup fellowships, and a founder showcase sponsorship to the Los Angeles campus. The Cardano Foundation said… …
A wallet linked to the Bitget hacker has swapped about $6.3 million in ETH for Bitcoin through THORChain after the network rejected the exchange’s request to block addresses tied to its Sep. 24 breach. According to CoinDesk’s review of THORChain… …
GoPlus challenged THORChain’s decentralization claims, citing validator halt powers and past DPRK-linked fund flows through the protocol. …
Japanese police arrested two suspects in a fake police scheme that allegedly stole 81 million yen in cryptocurrency from a woman. …
French investigators are examining alleged VRA price manipulation as part of a fraud probe involving more than €50 million in Dubai property. …
Polymarket has partnered with OpenWorlds to bring autonomous AI agents to prediction markets covering politics, sports, and thousands of other events. According to OpenWorlds’ announcement and information shared with crypto.news, the AI lab is working with Polymarket to let agents… …
Cosmos Hub validators have secured 1.23 million ATOM taken in a Neutron governance attack after halting the network for about 24.5 hours and moving the tokens to a recovery wallet. Cosmos Labs said in a Sep. 25 update that the… …
Google has disclosed that its PageBreak AI security agent has found over 500 cross-site scripting vulnerabilities across the company’s web applications. The Google Product Security team said PageBreak began as a pilot in November 2025 and became a formal project… …