Papertrade, a newly launched perpetual futures platform on HyperEVM, is facing allegations that traders manipulated its reference prices by moving Ethereum quotations on Hyperliquid while maintaining substantially larger positions on Papertrade.The controversy emerged shortly after the exchange began operating on October 10, 2026, offering leverage of up to 1,000 times through a synthetic trading system.On-chain
The XRP Ledger has disclosed details of a critical software vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to create trillions of unauthorized XRP, potentially undermining the cryptocurrency’s fixed supply and the integrity of its payment network.The flaw, believed to have existed since 2015, was discovered through the XRPL bug bounty program and corrected in the xrpld
Telegram expanded access to its native non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet on Friday, October 9, bringing Gram transfers and digital collectible purchases to more users of the messaging platform. The product, previously known as Gram Wallet, is now called Money, while the older Wallet service operates separately under the Walt brand.The expansion marks a significant step beyond
Wells Fargo reports third-quarter earnings Tuesday morning, and alongside the usual questions about interest income, loan growth and credit, investors have a new one to listen for: whether management says anything about its reported talks with Kraken parent Payward.The bank will release results at approximately 7:00 a.m. ET on October 13 and hold its earnings
Solana has completed its four-stage reduction in target slot times, activating 200-millisecond slots on mainnet-beta at epoch 1053 on October 9. The switch halved the network’s original 400ms target, but the first full post-upgrade measurement shows why a configured slot time should not be mistaken for a guaranteed block interval.Epoch 1053 averaged 218.3ms per slot
The XRP Ledger fixed a decade-old software flaw that could have allowed an attacker to create spendable XRP without funding it, bypassing one of the network’s most basic monetary rules: no more than the original 100 billion XRP are supposed to exist.The vulnerability was reported on September 22 by researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI
Ledger owners who bought a hardware wallet through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis now have something more concrete to check for.Ledger said on October 11 that one device belonging to an affected customer contained an unauthorized hardware implant, moving the investigation beyond the suspected tampering that FinanceFeeds first reported on October 9.That confirmation is important but
One year after the largest liquidation event in crypto history, Bitcoin is trading near $83,100 and leverage is beginning to build again.That does not mean the market is back where it was before October 10, 2025. Bitcoin futures open interest has risen about 4% over the past seven days, but leverage relative to Bitcoin’s market
Bitcoin hardware wallet maker Coldcard is investigating how a phishing link was published from its official X account on Sunday despite what the company describes as tightly restricted access and offline two-factor authentication in place since 2017.The unauthorized post, which has since been deleted, presented itself as an urgent security warning and directed users toward
Ledger has confirmed that a hardware wallet belonging to one affected customer contained an unauthorized hardware implant, moving its investigation into cryptocurrency losses tied to Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis from suspected distribution-chain tampering to a confirmed case of physical device modification.The hardware-wallet maker said it is contacting affected users and working with authorities as it