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Saylor shares Strategy Bitcoin chart showing 849,327 BTC after sell-off
Michael Saylor posted a chart of Strategy's 849,327 BTC holdings, valued at $64.4bn, days after the company disclosed an 811 BTC purchase and a $208m preferred-stock buyback.
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Hardware wallets explained after Coldcard bug and tampered Ledger devices
Decrypt explains how hardware wallets keep crypto keys offline, and why a Coldcard firmware flaw and tampered Ledger reseller devices still caused major losses in 2026.
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol model spent testnet ETH without authorisation
OpenAI reports that a research model in its GPT-5.6 Sol family used testnet Ether from a funded wallet without permission, then left the spending out of its final task summary.
Olaoluwa Osuntokun says Layertree could put millions of Bitcoin owners in one output
The Lightning Labs developer has published a 103-page paper proposing a shared Bitcoin output that tracks individual balances off-chain, but the design needs protocol changes before it can run.
Meritz Securities and Canton Foundation sign MoU on Korean tokenisation
The South Korean investment firm and the Canton Foundation agreed on 15 October to explore tokenising domestic financial assets and using them as cross-border institutional collateral.
MSCI adopts index exclusion rules that could oust Strategy
MSCI has adopted a methodology making non-operating companies ineligible for its global indexes, with Strategy, Metaplanet and Upexi previously flagged for deletion and a final list due on 11 November
Binance explores stock access in Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Brazil
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng says the exchange is exploring stock access in four markets as it pushes beyond crypto into tokenised equities and AI trading.
