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Gathered from the major desks

The Wire

Headlines as they are published, grouped when several desks report the same story, with paid posts left out. Each one links to the desk that wrote it.

Saturday, October 17, 2026

  1. NewsBTC
    Pantera Leads $10 Million Fission Funding Round To Solve Tokenized Fund Liquidity Problem
  2. Bitcoinist
    Tether Backs AI Startup As Funding Tops $9 Million In Push Toward Autonomous Payments

    USDT

  3. CryptoSlate
    TRON moved $2.2 trillion in stablecoins while TRX supply grew for 108 straight days

    TRX

  4. Bitcoinist
    Taiwan Blocks Coinbase And Kalshi Websites Over Election Betting Concerns
  5. NewsBTC
    Circle Reveals $819 Million USDC Payouts As Stablecoin Economics Come Under Scrutiny

    USDC

  6. The Block+1 desk
    CoreWeave, Broadcom, Verizon among nine companies objecting to tokenized trading of their shares on OKXICE
  7. Bitcoinist
    Ripple Opens Wall Street Trading To Hyperliquid With New 24/7 Market Access

    HYPEXRP

  8. NewsBTC
    Charles Schwab Opens Bitcoin And Ethereum Transfers As Crypto Rollout Expands

    ETHBTC

  9. CryptoSlate
    Who opened your crypto wallet before it reached your hands?
  10. BitcoinistNotable
    Pirate Chain Exploit Creates 39.8 Million Unauthorized Tokens In Major Security Breach
  11. The BlockNotable
    Turkey confirms Hex founder Richard Heart’s arrest, says police seized $7.15 million and six cold wallets
  12. NewsBTC
    Crypto Giants Feature In $210 Million Political Donations Report As Regulatory Scrutiny Grows
  13. Bitcoinist
    Crypto King Spent $16.3 Million Of Investor Funds On Luxury Lifestyle, Court Hears
  14. NewsBTCNotable
    Binance.US Seeks $100 Million Funding Round At $1 Billion Valuation
  15. Decrypt
    Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Pours Millions More Into Defeating Sherrod Brown
  16. CryptoSlate
    Ethereum sets October 26 for Hoodi’s 200 million gas test

    ETH

  17. CoinDesk
    Goldman, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley see tokenization as a growth play, not a threat
  18. Bitcoinist
    Tether’s $6.3 Million Deal Raises Questions Over Former Trump Crypto Adviser

    USDT

  19. NewsBTC
    Arbitrum Courts European Investors Managing €800 Billion With New Revenue Pitch

    ARB

  20. Decrypt
    Crypto Firms Launch Quantum Alliance as 6 Million Bitcoin Sit Exposed

    BTC

  21. Bitcoinist
    Wall Street Giants Push Back Against Crypto Tokenization Plans As Nine Companies Object
  22. NewsBTC
    Grayscale Opens DeFi And AI Crypto Funds To Investors With Just $2,500
  23. CryptoSlate
    Stablecoin cards are booming, but who makes money when you swipe?

    USDC

  24. CoinDesk
    Citrini sees a tokenization boom. The harder question is who profits
  25. Bitcoinist
    Solana Mobile Announces Ledger Partnership As New Crypto Device Takes Shape

    SOL

  26. NewsBTC
    Deutsche Bank Nears Bitcoin Custody Launch As Crypto Push Expands Beyond Europe

    BTC

  27. CoinDesk
    Polygon sees Coinme acquisition as entry to payments sector dominated by Visa, Stripe

    POL

  28. Bitcoinist
    Coinbase And Marqeta Team Up To Bring Stablecoin Payments To Millions Of Merchants
  29. CryptoSlate+1 desk
    Binance Pool shuts on November 10, with record access ending two weeks later

    BTC

  30. NewsBTC
    Binance bStocks Hits $1 Billion As Tokenized Stock Trading Accelerates
  31. Decrypt
    TokenMaxxing: How to Get the Most Out of Your AI Models
  32. Cointelegraph
    Solana shows resilience, but some areas need continued observation, Fidelity says

    SOL

  33. BitcoinistNotable
    Crypto Scammer Loses $4.8 Million In Stolen Bitcoin To Another Group Of Thieves

    BTC

  34. NewsBTCNotable
    Bitcoin ETFs Lose $82 Million As BlackRock Leads Friday’s Withdrawals

    BTC

  35. CryptoSlate
    Eclair patches a browser attack that could send commands to your Lightning node
  36. CoinDesk
    Banks could slow stablecoin growth by paying savers more, BIS paper finds
  37. Bitcoinist
    Solana Cancels Major Shanghai Event As Attendance Surge Creates Problems

    SOL

  38. CryptoSlate
    The hidden trade behind Strive’s 16.7% Bitcoin income offer

    BTC

  39. Bitcoinist
    Coinbase Warns Bitcoin Must Prepare For Quantum Computing Before It’s Too Late

    BTC

  40. Cointelegraph
    Circle’s Allaire says stablecoin issuer looking to enter 40 developing markets: Report
  41. Bitcoinist
    OpenAI Agent Takes Ethereum From Unauthorized Wallet After Running Out Of Gas

    ETH

  42. NewsBTC
    MSCI Tightens Index Rules As Strategy And Other Bitcoin Treasury Firms Face Fresh Scrutiny

    BTC

  43. Cointelegraph
    Lagarde says euro-area economy is resilient, digital euro imminent
  44. Cointelegraph
    Bitget to discontinue services for some users in one-off exercise
  45. CryptoSlate
    Bitcoin’s inflation hedge has a hidden cost, and leverage makes it worse

    BTC

  46. CoinDesk
    ‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery

    BTC

  47. CryptoSlate
    Cardano shifts $26M to USDCx as bridge controls freeze payouts

    ADA

  48. CoinDesk
    Satoshi-era bitcoin faces a bigger quantum threat after Google’s new Willow breakthrough

    BTC

  49. CryptoSlate
    Visa and Mastercard adopt USDC payouts across 200 countries

    USDC

Friday, October 16, 2026

  1. CryptoSlate
    Cross River Bank links $2.4B RLUSD to core banking system
  2. Bitcoin Magazine
    Poetic Justice: Scammer Lost $5M in Bitcoin After Being Targeted by Ledger Thieves

    BTC

  3. CryptoSlate
    Cardano governance hits a wall as treasury reaches 91% cap

    ADA

  4. The Block
    Strive’s bitcoin buying spree earns 27% price target hike from TD Cowen

    BTC

  5. CryptoSlate
    USDC processed $36 trillion in H1 transactions, but Circle kept just 7 cents of every revenue dollar

    USDC

  6. Bitcoin Magazine
    Sazmining Now Sells Jack Dorsey’s Proto Immersion Hashboards

    BTC

  7. CryptoSlate
    OpenAI’s rogue crypto agent spent funds without permission, exposing risks to autonomous wallets
  8. Bitcoin Magazine
    Hot Inflation Data Puts Bitcoin Under Pressure, but ‘Difficult’ Isn’t ‘Bearish’: CoinShares

    BTC

  9. Cointelegraph
    Crypto PACs escalate spending against Sherrod Brown in Ohio Senate race
  10. Cointelegraph
    Stablecoin remittances cost 84% less than traditional transfers, report finds
  11. The Block
    Coinbase to power stablecoin-backed cards for Marqeta customers