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Bitcoin moved above $86,000 as its share of the crypto market approached 60% and USDT’s share slipped to 6.3%. Rising open interest and funding rates showed stronger bullish positioning, while $344 million in liquidations highlighted the risks surrounding leveraged trading.
Bitcoin open interest increased by about $2.3 billion as the cryptocurrency rose above $86,000 ahead of a U.S. jobs report. Higher perpetual funding rates showed stronger demand for bullish positions, while also increasing the cost and risk of leveraged long exposure.
Tether-backed Utexo plans to reintroduce USDT to Bitcoin with private transfers, direct BTC swaps and bitcoin-backed loans. The project will use RGB and Bitcoin’s UTXO model, then seek to expand the stablecoin to Lightning.
South Korean crypto exchanges saw operating profits plunge 78% in the first half of 2026 as average daily volume, market capitalization and won deposits fell. The decline came as some retail investors appeared to shift capital toward the country’s stock market.
South Korea’s financial regulator has proposed capital, licensing and retail-investment rules for tokenized securities ahead of a planned Feb. 4, 2027 rollout covering stocks, bonds, funds and certain fractional investment products.
Zano says a Gateway Address exploit let an attacker mint 36.9 million unauthorized ZANO and 1.8 quadrillion fUSD. Because the coins looked legitimate, the project rolled the blockchain back roughly a month and is working to restore affected user balances.
Core Lightning has warned Bitcoin Lightning Network node operators that attackers are targeting unpatched systems. Users running version 26.06.7 or earlier were told to upgrade immediately, following recent fixes for vulnerabilities involving crashes, memory exhaustion and channel closures.
China is warning that cryptocurrencies can assist espionage, while Singapore’s crypto activity surged 55.4% to $284 billion. South Korea is considering market-making rules, and payment and regulatory infrastructure is expanding in Japan and Hong Kong.
Zcash has fallen roughly 21% from its late-September peak after a 253% rally. A $30.25 million Grayscale ETF outflow and hack-linked transfers into Zcash’s shielded pool have weighed on sentiment, although technical indicators still point to a strong broader trend.
OpenAI says it stopped a campaign involving more than 15,000 users that sought to extract its models’ hidden reasoning. The company attributed a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi chatbot, while saying the full operation may have involved multiple actors.
Near Intents paused its cross-chain crypto-swap service after a vulnerability allowed an attacker to remove about $3.8 million. The company said it fixed the contract-side flaw, promised full compensation and is working with investigators to trace the funds.
PayPay has added Binance Pay through HIVEX, allowing eligible, identity-verified overseas visitors to spend crypto at participating Japanese offline stores. Customers pay from Binance balances while merchants receive yen, but availability is limited and refunds may vary with exchange rates and spreads.
Uniswap’s StablePair hook uses a configured reference rate and cached pool price to direct fees toward rebalancing trades. But if a stablecoin’s market value genuinely falls, the mechanism cannot restore parity, and fee income may not offset the resulting inventory losses for liquidity providers.
DogeOS has opened a public testnet for Ethereum-compatible trading, lending and stablecoin applications using test DOGE. The project wants to expand Dogecoin’s utility, but its initial security relies on selected operators, while a proposed miner-verification upgrade remains in draft.
Crypto hacks and exploits caused more than $766 million in estimated losses during September, making it 2026’s worst month so far. Bitget and the Liquid Network accounted for most of the damage, although more than $270 million from the Liquid incident was later returned.
Stand With Crypto has endorsed candidates in several 2026 US Senate and House races, including Jon Husted and Sherrod Brown’s Ohio contest. The Coinbase-launched group is focusing on lawmakers’ records on the CLARITY Act as control of Congress could shape future crypto legislation.
TD Cowen says bitcoin is increasingly being viewed by institutions not only as an investable asset, but as financial infrastructure that could support new capital-markets products and services.
A UK court ordered former National Crime Agency officer Paul Chowles to repay £1,810,678.93 after he stole 50 Bitcoin seized in a Silk Road 2.0 investigation. The coins were worth about £60,000 in 2017, but 30 were later recovered after blockchain tracing.
