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Three senior Russian officials, including the finance minister, joined A7's board two weeks after OFAC's criminal designation, Cryptopolitan reports. The seats confirm a state link A7 already had, so open exposure sits with the intermediaries around it.
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Weekly volume in decentralized RWA perpetual futures reached $39.8 billion in October, up from $22.8 billion in late August, Cryptopolitan reported. The report has Variational's share rising from 10.6% to 32%, yet TradeXYZ's $12.73 billion is also 32% of that total.
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BitFuFu and Finloop have launched HASH, a 12-month token that pays holders in BTC from mining output. It runs on hashrate BitFuFu already manages, so the likelier effect is a wider buyer pool for existing capacity.
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BitFuFu says it may terminate its 80 MW Ethiopian mining deal after paying $4.1 million and installing about 13,700 rigs. The cash is under 1% of 2025 revenue; the larger risk is a power supplier threatening to seize collateral.
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Long positions were over 92% of Ethereum liquidations on October 15, Cryptopolitan reported, in the biggest liquidation event in six months. The same report's positioning data suggests much of that leverage has already been cleared.
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Korea's Kospi closed down 7.57% at 5,554.22 on October 15, tripping its circuit breaker, as SK Hynix lost 11.35% and Samsung Electronics 9.70%. Both fell harder than the index.
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Tokenized ETFs grew market cap 213% to $686.5 million in 2026, Token Terminal data show. Wallets multiplied about 51-fold over the same period, so the average balance fell from roughly $12,500 to about $765.
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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird asked a Polk County court to bar OpenAI from advanced model testing and seeks up to $40,000 per violation. With five states already suing in their own courts, OpenAI now faces suits from six.
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YouTube Music, which began rolling out AI labels on October 14, 2026, puts Auto-Tune and automated AI mastering in its 'No Gen AI' class. Partners that declare nothing get 'unknown' unless YouTube's own signals decide. The label rests on what they send.
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Blur, once the top Ethereum NFT marketplace, will close its website on November 12 after monthly volume fell from $1.43 billion to under $7 million. PhantaBear, the best-documented celebrity collection, sat 150% above its mint price in ether and 27% below it in dollars at its June 2022 floor.
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Cryptopolitan reports that tokens from the 2024-2026 launch era in the top 100 returned a median of 27.5% while older tokens posted negative returns. The sample describes survivors of one vintage and says little about altcoins as a group.
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Papertrade, a pooled-USDC BTC and ETH betting venue on HyperEVM, booked $37.03 million of revenue in four days, according to DefiLlama. Cryptopolitan describes most of it as trader losses at up to 1000x leverage, so the line holds only while new losses keep arriving.
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Six House Democrats asked the FAA on October 13 to pause SMART, its AI air traffic tool, 22 days after it went live at three Washington-area airports. The letter cannot block adoption, and the only case for slower rollout or higher vendor costs is Cryptopolitan's conditional one.
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Aptos switched on an optional encrypted mempool on October 12 that hides transaction contents until a block is finalized, Cryptopolitan reported. Ethereum's two comparable proposals are still drafts.
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Sen. Thom Tillis questions whether Trump can legally waive sanctions on Russian diesel with the midterm elections due next month. Cryptopolitan reports that analysts do not foresee an enduring price drop from it.
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Bitcoin's Coinbase premium fell to -0.19% in October, its lowest since July, while price held between $80,000 and $85,000, Cryptopolitan reported. The report blames US institutions selling into the bounce, yet its own data shows record accumulation by wallets holding 100 to 1,000 coins.
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SWI Group raised €800 million at a €6.1 billion valuation and is selling the last three Kazakh bitcoin mines of Genesis Digital. The cash is new equity, Cryptopolitan reported, and the mines' sale price was not disclosed.
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Researcher @0xJohannes_ says a second Ledger bought at a different MediaMarkt store has the same hidden cables and LTE module as his first. His account does not show where the tampering happened, so the Aqipa link names a supplier and locates no fault.
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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan puts NEAR at $155.85 by 2030, a 40-fold gain, on a model of 328 million AI agents making 1,000 transactions a year. The base case is built on agent payments alone, yet Hougan says existing chain activity backstops the token if agentic finance fails.
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THORChain took in about $404,600 in swap fees from October 5 to 11, more than double the week before its September surge. Cryptopolitan's count has that 82% below the hack week, and its "no exploit money" label rests on an absence of reports.
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