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Jeonbuk Bank has launched South Korea’s first reported traditional bank loans backed by bitcoin, offering won-denominated credit exclusively to companies. Bitcoin will be held by a registered third-party custodian, with court-ordered sales planned if borrowers default.
A reportedly tampered Ledger bought in Europe has widened concerns over a hardware-wallet supply-chain attack linked to estimated Asian losses of $93.4 million. Separately, researchers used AI to find an XRP Ledger flaw that could theoretically have created more than 18 trillion XRP.
Bermuda-based Meanwhile, which says it is the first life insurer licensed to operate entirely in Bitcoin, raised $37.5 million from existing investors led by Bain Capital Crypto. The funding lifts total investment above $180 million as demand grows for its Bitcoin-denominated policies.
Justin Sun says Tron’s post-quantum cryptography is live on its testnet, positioning the network for possible mainnet deployment as blockchain developers prepare for the risk that powerful quantum computers could undermine current security systems.
Bitcoin Core contributor Antoine Poinsot challenged unsupported claims about AI-driven Bitcoin address risks while emphasizing preparation for quantum threats. The discussion covered proposed protocol changes, consensus building, public-key protection, multisignature security and current cryptocurrency market data.
Bitcoin and Ethereum rebounded after a broad crypto selloff that liquidated almost $1 billion in leveraged long positions. Continued ETF withdrawals pushed October’s Bitcoin flows into negative territory, while new tokenisation and AI-focused crypto projects kept developing.
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More than 6 million bitcoin are behind publicly exposed keys, according to new figures from a Glassnode co-founder. The disclosure comes as Justin Drake calls for preparation against potential AI attacks on wallet cryptography, although no such attack is reported to have occurred.
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake says advanced AI could potentially break the encryption securing Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets before quantum computers, possibly within months. He urges the industry to consider a controlled migration to fresh addresses while crypto markets and ETFs face heavy selling.
Bitcoin briefly fell to about $82,300 as traders assessed an Ethereum researcher’s warning that AI-driven advances could threaten wallet cryptography. The market also faced higher Treasury yields, while derivatives data pointed to continued selling but less forced liquidation.
Bitcoin-backed lending is increasingly funding tuition, emergency expenses, business working capital and major purchases, as borrowers seek liquidity without selling their holdings. SALT and Ledn say demand is moving beyond trading, while lenders develop fixed-rate products and consider expanding collateral-based loans to gold.
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake has urged major crypto holders to prepare for “bunker mode” after OpenAI published new mathematical results. He warned that AI could, in a worst-case scenario, find a classical shortcut to recovering wallet private keys before quantum computers become practical.
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged the crypto industry to calmly prepare for “bunker mode,” warning that AI-driven mathematical advances could break ECDSA encryption in months rather than years in a worst-case scenario, before quantum computers become capable of the same attack.
Five tracked US spot XRP ETFs held about $1.7 billion at the Oct. 6 close, but weekly net inflows were only around $3.9 million. Exchange-balance declines were complicated by an Uphold wallet migration, while futures turnover far exceeded covered spot trading.
Hunter Biden says the $LAPTOP memecoin was designed to mock crypto projects he viewed as exploitative, not to carry out a rug pull. He cited blockchain data on founder wallets and accused two market makers of profiting after the token’s launch peak.
Bitcoin has retreated below $84,000, leaving 2025 buyers with an average cost of about $88,000 as the only yearly cohort still underwater. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs have an average cost basis near $82,300, a potential support level if the decline continues.
Kalshi’s 15-minute gold markets recorded 542 million contracts and an estimated $5 million in fees in September, surpassing Ether’s 318 million contracts and $2.6 million just weeks after launch. Bitcoin remained the platform’s dominant market by fees.
Bitcoin is down 32% a year after reaching a record above $126,000, a considerably smaller decline than in previous cycles. Institutional ETF flows, reduced leverage and lower volatility have softened the downturn, although analysts warn that sharper losses remain possible.
