Kraken Brings Paxos’s USDG Stablecoin to Arbitrum One
Kraken added deposit and withdrawal support for Global Dollar (USDG) on Arbitrum One, published on Kraken’s own blog on October 29, 2026 USDG is a US dollar-denominated stablecoin issued by P
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Coinbase Reports $719M Profit Despite Revenue Decline in Q3
Coinbase recorded $1.22 billion in Q3 revenue, down 35% year over year, while net income increased 66% to $719 million. Coinbase's crypto trading market share reached 10.7%, while assets on i
Nasdaq-Listed Company Opens Door to Major Bitcoin Selloff
Next Technology’s board authorized the sale or pledging of its entire Bitcoin treasury after reviewing security risks. The company’s reported cryptocurrency holdings are worth more than 50 ti
Frontrun.pro Offers $50,000 to Buy Blast After Ethereum Layer 2 Shutdown Announcement
Frontrun.pro, a crypto wallet extension, has publicly offered to buy Blast, the Ethereum layer 2 network that said earlier this month it would shut down. The opening bid is $50,000. In an Oct
Pi Network Adds Face Uniqueness Checks to PiVerify and Price Charts to BlockExplorer
Pi Network has expanded PiVerify, its identity verification service for outside businesses, and added historical price charts for testnet tokens to the Pi BlockExplorer. The updates were anno
Aero Begins Rolling Out MEV Tax on Select OP Mainnet Liquidity Pools
Aero, the decentralised exchange formed from the merger of Aerodrome and Velodrome, has begun rolling out a maximal extractable value (MEV) tax on select pools on OP Mainnet. The pilot, annou
Frontrun.pro Offers $50,000 to Buy Blast After Ethereum Layer 2 Shutdown Announcement
Frontrun.pro, a crypto wallet extension, has publicly offered to buy Blast, the Ethereum layer 2 network that said earlier this month it would shut down. The opening bid is $50,000. In an Oct
Aero Begins Rolling Out MEV Tax on Select OP Mainnet Liquidity Pools
Aero, the decentralised exchange formed from the merger of Aerodrome and Velodrome, has begun rolling out a maximal extractable value (MEV) tax on select pools on OP Mainnet. The pilot, annou
Pi Network Adds Face Uniqueness Checks to PiVerify and Price Charts to BlockExplorer
Pi Network has expanded PiVerify, its identity verification service for outside businesses, and added historical price charts for testnet tokens to the Pi BlockExplorer. The updates were anno
Celestia Unveils Voyager Payments Architecture for AI Agents, Citing 21 Million TPS in Test
Celestia Labs has unveiled Voyager, a blockchain architecture built for payments made by AI agents, and says it sustained more than 21 million transactions per second (TPS) in a single-node t
Egrag Crypto: You Don’t Believe XRP Could Hit $13, But You Believe Binance Hackers Story
Crypto analyst EGRAG CRYPTO (@egragcrypto) has published a long-term XRP price target of $13.68, derived from a 3-week chart structure that stretches back to 2013. The chart uses a logarithmi
Bitcoin’s Resilience After $6.3B Binance Hack Explained by CZ
Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao offers his view on the market's muted reaction to a major exchange breach. A reported $6.3 billion hack targeting Binance has raised questions about why Bitc