Crypto & mining news

Headlines aggregated from 9 publishers, newest first, with mining and hardware stories tagged so they surface without wading through price chatter. Every entry links straight to the publisher — nothing is rehosted here, and the excerpt is the publisher’s own.

• 15d ago

  OKX and NYSE Owner ICE Plan 24/7 Tokenized Stock Trading Under SEC Exemption

  Filed under the SEC's new Innovation Exemption, the notice lists more than 60 stocks, including Nvidia and SpaceX, paired with stablecoins.

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• 15d ago

  Trump Taps Jay Clayton, the SEC Chair Who Sued Ripple, to Lead AI Push

  President Trump named a new "Super Intelligence Force" to coordinate federal AI policy, with Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton at the helm. As SEC chair, Clayton launched crypto lawsuits including the agency's case against Ripple.

  DecryptRegulation

• 15d ago

  Banking Group Sues to Block Crypto's 'Side Door' Into the Banking System

  The Independent Community Bankers of America argues the OCC's national trust charters give crypto firms a "side door into the banking system" without the safeguards that bind traditional banks.

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• 16d ago

  'Uptober' Starts Green as Bitcoin ETFs Draw $134 Million

  Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $134.4 million over the first two trading days of October, rebounding from a Sept. 30 outflow as a weak jobs report cooled Fed rate-hike bets.

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• 16d ago

  'We Have Identified You, Sir': Near Intents Recovers $3.8 Million After 48-Hour Ultimatum

  Near Intents said the roughly $3.8 million drained in an exploit on Thursday was returned in full, a day after the team said it had identified the attacker and gave them 48 hours to return the funds.

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• 16d ago

  Chainalysis Used AI to Trace the $387M Bitget Hack Back to North Korea

  The firm says the Sept. 24 breach pushed North Korea's 2026 crypto haul past $1 billion, and detailed how it used in-house AI to trace the stolen funds across four blockchains in a race against the attackers.

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• 16d ago

  OpenAI Banned PewDiePie Twice While He Built Ajax, an Uncensored AI That Will Run on Your PC

  The YouTuber says OpenAI suspended his account twice while he trained a small, uncensored model built to run on your own computer.

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• 17d ago

  Trump Is Hosting Yet Another Meme Coin Dinner: Here Are the Details

  The TRUMP meme coin project is inviting its top 185 holders to a Nov. 22 gala dinner with President Trump two weeks after ethics disputes over his crypto interests helped stall the Clarity Act in the Senate.

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• 17d ago

  The Pope Has Thoughts on AI Art—And They're Not Flattering

  The pontiff says algorithms "lack the spark of humanity," and the Vatican wants to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to protect it.

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• 17d ago

  California Subpoenas OpenAI Over AI Models That Hacked Their Way Out of a Test

  California's attorney general wants answers from OpenAI about AI models that escaped a locked test environment and hacked Hugging Face—and whether the company can be held legally accountable.

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• 17d ago

  Ethereum Now Lets You Pay for AI Without Revealing Who You Are

  Ethereum's zkAPI lets users prepay in USDC and query AI models through cryptographic proofs, so no single party sees both who they are and what they ask.

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• 17d ago

  Circle Pushes Back on MiCA's Bank-Deposit Mandate for Stablecoins

  The USDC issuer told the European Commission that MiCA's reserve mandates and concentration caps keep the largest global stablecoins outside Europe's perimeter—siding with the ECB in calling for more flexible rules.

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• 17d ago

  This AI Is Already Fooling People on Video Calls Into Thinking It's Human, Company Says

  Tavus says 26 of 54 people on a one-minute video call thought its new Griffin model was human. The results are the company's own, and the model isn't going to retail customers yet.

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• 17d ago

  Once a $2.3 Billion Network, Ethereum Layer-2 Blast Is Shutting Down

  Blast said operating costs now exceed the revenue its Ethereum layer-2 generates and asked users to withdraw their assets to mainnet before Oct. 26.

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• 17d ago

  Nvidia Hits Record High as Market Value Reaches $5.7 Trillion

  The AI chipmaker's stock topped its May peak on Friday, helped by a record $150 billion buyback and a weak jobs report that cooled bets on Fed rate hikes.

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• 17d ago

  Bitcoin Heads Higher on Macro Moves: Where Does BTC Go Next?

  A jobs report miss just erased the odds of an October rate hike, and BTC is now knocking on the door of its yearly ceiling.

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• 18d ago

  'Uptober' Off With a Bang as Bitcoin Surges to $86K

  Cooler inflation and two dovish Fed speakers have shifted the odds toward a rate hold, with payrolls due and CPI landing on October 14.

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• 18d ago

  Morning Minute: NEAR Intents Hacked for $3.8M - Was It A Bullish Hack?

  Hacks are never good, but a rapid response, user compensation and 1-hour bug fixing seems to top the spectrum of team reactions.

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• 18d ago

  US Designates Russia's A7 Network as Transnational Criminal Organization

  Treasury's proposed rule aims to cut A7's front companies off from U.S. finance—including crypto, where its ruble token moved $179 billion.

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• 18d ago

  Spanish Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Accused of Running KillSec Ransomware Group

  A second suspect faces extradition to Puerto Rico, while Investigators are tracing the proceeds of ransoms the group demanded in crypto.

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• 18d ago

  Zcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be Over

  ZEC is 21% off its $1,698 peak after ETF outflows and a suspected North Korean heist routed money through its shielded pool. Is the run over, or will traders buy the dip?

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• 18d ago

  SEC Proposes Rules to Clear Up How Advisers and Funds Can Hold Crypto

  The proposal would let advisers and funds use state trust companies as custodians and permit self-custody under certain conditions, aiming to replace years of ambiguity with a clear compliance path.

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• 18d ago

  Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI Scrapers

  Reddit RSS dies November 13 and outside apps lose their data pipeline by March 2027. Reddit blames scraping bots, though it licenses its own content to AI companies.

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• 18d ago

  OpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden Reasoning

  OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign involving 15,000+ users and ties a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot, the startup behind Kimi.

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• 18d ago

  Meta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User's Messages Without Consent

  Communications chief Andy Stone said reading Messages requires two permissions the user controls, disputing a journalist who reported Muse synced his texts despite his settings.

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• 18d ago

  The 'Largest Pure-Play' XRP Treasury Is About to Go Public

  Shareholders approved Evernorth's merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II, clearing the way for the Ripple-backed firm to begin trading Oct. 8 with a stash of roughly 473 million XRP.

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• 18d ago

  OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Leak to Outside Group

  OpenAI says the three broke its rules on handling sensitive information. The exits land after months of rogue-agent incidents, a trail of safety-team departures, and a new lawsuit.

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• 18d ago

  It's the Start of Uptober. Will Bitcoin Live Up to It?

  Bitcoin enters its historically strongest month after a record-pace September, but a Fed hike and 5.3% Treasury yields are testing the bulls.

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• 18d ago

  Illinois Delays Controversial Crypto Tax Amid Industry Lawsuit

  Illinois officials and crypto groups jointly asked a state court to delay the 0.2% Digital Asset Tax from Jan. 1 to July 1, 2027, while a legal challenge continues.

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• 18d ago

  Near Intents Hacked for $3.8M Days After Denying North Korea-Linked Bitget Hacker

  Near Intents froze its cross-chain swaps after a bug let an attacker drain about $3.8 million. The company promised to repay every user.

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