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Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 08, 2025
Germany is set to thwart the EU’s Chat Control plan to scan encrypted messages before they’re sent. But Cypherpunks warn the fight isn’t over. In an apparent victory for digital privacy, the head of the largest political party in Germany has come out against controversial legislation that would enable mass online state surveillance. German technology news site Heise Online reports that next week’s vote in the EU Council has now been delayed, although this was not confirmed at the time of writing. Under the guise of fighting child sexual abuse material, the “Chat Control regulations would enable the mass surveillance of private messages prior to encryption on platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp. But cypherpunks know that even if this attempt fails, its only a matter of time before they try again, because this is a battle that has been fought many times. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 08, 2025
Germany is set to thwart the EU’s Chat Control plan to scan encrypted messages before they’re sent. But Cypherpunks warn the fight isn’t over. In an apparent victory for digital privacy, the head of the largest political party in Germany has come out against controversial legislation that would enable mass online state surveillance. German technology news site Heise Online reports that next week’s vote in the EU Council has now been delayed, although this was not confirmed at the time of writing. Under the guise of fighting child sexual abuse material, the “Chat Control regulations would enable the mass surveillance of private messages prior to encryption on platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp. But cypherpunks know that even if this attempt fails, its only a matter of time before they try again, because this is a battle that has been fought many times. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 08, 2025
Germany is set to thwart the EU’s Chat Control plan to scan encrypted messages before they’re sent. But Cypherpunks warn the fight isn’t over. In an apparent victory for digital privacy, the head of the largest political party in Germany has come out against controversial legislation that would enable mass online state surveillance. German technology news site Heise Online reports that next week’s vote in the EU Council has now been delayed, although this was not confirmed at the time of writing. Under the guise of fighting child sexual abuse material, the “Chat Control regulations would enable the mass surveillance of private messages prior to encryption on platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp. But cypherpunks know that even if this attempt fails, its only a matter of time before they try again, because this is a battle that has been fought many times. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 08, 2025
Germany is set to thwart the EU’s Chat Control plan to scan encrypted messages before they’re sent. But Cypherpunks warn the fight isn’t over. In an apparent victory for digital privacy, the head of the largest political party in Germany has come out against controversial legislation that would enable mass online state surveillance. German technology news site Heise Online reports that next week’s vote in the EU Council has now been delayed, although this was not confirmed at the time of writing. Under the guise of fighting child sexual abuse material, the “Chat Control regulations would enable the mass surveillance of private messages prior to encryption on platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp. But cypherpunks know that even if this attempt fails, its only a matter of time before they try again, because this is a battle that has been fought many times. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 08, 2025
Germany is set to thwart the EU’s Chat Control plan to scan encrypted messages before they’re sent. But Cypherpunks warn the fight isn’t over. In an apparent victory for digital privacy, the head of the largest political party in Germany has come out against controversial legislation that would enable mass online state surveillance. German technology news site Heise Online reports that next week’s vote in the EU Council has now been delayed, although this was not confirmed at the time of writing. Under the guise of fighting child sexual abuse material, the “Chat Control regulations would enable the mass surveillance of private messages prior to encryption on platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp. But cypherpunks know that even if this attempt fails, its only a matter of time before they try again, because this is a battle that has been fought many times. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:20 Oct 08, 2025
Germany is set to thwart the EU’s Chat Control plan to scan encrypted messages before they’re sent. But Cypherpunks warn the fight isn’t over. In an apparent victory for digital privacy, the head of the largest political party in Germany has come out against controversial legislation that would enable mass online state surveillance. German technology news site Heise Online reports that next week’s vote in the EU Council has now been delayed, although this was not confirmed at the time of writing. Under the guise of fighting child sexual abuse material, the “Chat Control regulations would enable the mass surveillance of private messages prior to encryption on platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp. But cypherpunks know that even if this attempt fails, its only a matter of time before they try again, because this is a battle that has been fought many times. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:17 Oct 08, 2025
Hackers who breached Discord’s Zendesk support system are reportedly extorting the platform after stealing 2.1 million users’ age-verification photos. Discord is reportedly being extorted by hackers responsible for breaching a database containing the sensitive age verification data of more than 2.1 million users, who are threatening to leak it. In a Wednesday X post, malware repository VX-Underground claimed Discord is being extorted by the individuals responsible for compromising their Zendesk instance, which contains user data. The data includes 2,185,151 photos used for the age verification of 2.1 million users, including pictures of driver’s licenses and passports. “Discord users drivers license and/or passport might be leaked, “ VX-Underground said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:14 Oct 08, 2025
The massive whale previously rotated about $5 billion worth of Bitcoin into Ether after holding the BTC stash for seven years. A Bitcoin whale that held about $11 billion in BTC before rotating more than $5 billion of the stash into Ether two months ago has returned to the cryptocurrency market, with another $360 million Bitcoin transfer. The whale address transferred $360 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) into decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Hyperunit’s hot wallet “bc1pd” on Tuesday. This marked their first transfer in two months, according to blockchain data platform Arkham.. The transfer may signal another rotation into Ether (ETH) based on the whale’s transaction patterns. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:00 Oct 08, 2025
Bit Digital purchased 31,057 ETH worth $140 million, bringing its total holdings to over 150,000 ETH and making it the sixth-largest Ethereum treasury. Bit Digital expanded its Ether holdings to more than 150,000 ETH after purchasing 31,057 ETH valued at about $140 million using proceeds from a $150 million convertible notes sale. The deal, which included full exercise of underwriters’ options, positions the firm as the sixth-largest Ether (ETH) treasury among public companies, according to data from StrategicETHReserve.xyz. “This purchase demonstrates our commitment to building shareholder value by financing ETH accumulation on terms that are accretive to NAV per share,” said Sam Tabar, CEO of Bit Digital. “We view ETH as foundational to digital financial infrastructure and believe current levels provide a compelling long-term entry point,” Tabar added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:00 Oct 08, 2025
MetaMask and Infinex have integrated Hyperliquid, the most liquid decentralized derivatives platform, to steal market share from CEXs in the rapidly growing perps market. Decentralized crypto trading platforms MetaMask and Infinex are now offering perpetual futures through integrations with Hyperliquid, competing with their centralized counterparts in the booming crypto perps market. MetaMask’s integration with Hyperliquid went live on Wednesday, allowing users to access Hyperliquid’s decentralized perpetual swaps exchange directly through MetaMask’s wallet. MetaMask stated that the “major milestone” brings it one step closer to becoming an all-in-one, self-custodial trading platform, as it seeks to capture market share from centralized exchanges that have dominated the crypto perpetuals market. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:00 Oct 08, 2025
Fireblocks Trust Company has teamed up with Galaxy, Bakkt and other crypto heavyweights to meet increasing institutional demand for secure digital asset custody. Fireblocks Trust Company, a New York State-regulated custodian under the Fireblocks platform, has partnered with Galaxy, Bakkt, FalconX and Castle Island to expand institutional-grade crypto custody. Operating under New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) oversight, the company is rolling out a custody framework to meet soaring institutional demand for regulated digital asset infrastructure spanning ETFs, digital asset treasuries (DATs) and token launches, according to a Wednesday announcement. “Regulatory compliance and security are non-negotiable,” said Matt Walsh, founding partner at Castle Island. “Fireblocks Trust Company delivers on both fronts with their qualified custodian status and robust operational controls,” Walsh added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:58 Oct 08, 2025
Bitcoin had more potential, as chart technicals hint at a run toward a $300,000 BTC cycle top, backed by multiple tailwinds. Key takeaways: Bitcoin onchain data shows no signs of overheating, despite reaching an all-time high of $126,000. Bitcoin cup-and-handle pattern targets $300,000, backed by multiple factors. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:07 Oct 08, 2025
Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin said ETH-based digital asset treasuries will become a “Berkshire Hathaway-style” vehicle for the decentralized economy. Inspired by Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin playbook, Joseph Lubin says Ethereum treasury companies can provide outsized returns on yield and investment opportunities to their Bitcoin counterparts. Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph at Token2049 in Singapore, the Ethereum co-founder unpacked his thesis for why Ether (ETH) digital asset treasuries (DATs) present superior opportunities to the Bitcoin (BTC) treasury movement popularized by Saylor’s Strategy Bitcoin play. “I’d much rather have something that potentially has more impact. It certainly is as solid as Bitcoin, and I would argue more solid because of the functionality and the organic demand for it to pay for transactions and storage,” Lubin said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:56 Oct 08, 2025
BNB Chain traders made millions on new memecoins going parabolic, with one turning $3,500 into $7.9 million amid a surge in onchain trading activity. Cryptocurrency traders made millions of dollars on small-cap memecoins on the BNB Chain over the past week, signaling a renewed wave of speculative capital fueling the current market cycle. Among the most profitable investors is trader “0xd0a2,” who turned an initial investment of $3,500 into $7.9 million, generating a 2,260-fold return in three days, according to blockchain intelligence platform Lookonchain. Trader “hexiecs” turned a $360,000 investment into over $5.5 million by investing in the recently launched “4” memecoin, which went parabolic after an X post from Binance co-founder and former CEO, Changpeng Zhao. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:33 Oct 08, 2025
From TerraUSD’s crash to Yala’s YU, several stablecoins have failed to hold their peg. Here’s why depegging happens and the risks you can’t afford to ignore. Stablecoins are nearing a $300-billion market cap, but adoption remains limited due to risks around depegging, collateral and trust. The depegging of stablecoins such as NuBits (2018), TerraUSD (2022) and USDC (2023) has revealed vulnerabilities across both algorithmic and fiat-backed models. The collapse of TerraUSD wiped out roughly $50 billion in value and exposed the systemic fragility of algorithmic designs. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:03 Oct 08, 2025
Forward Industries staked its entire Solana treasury into a new validator, immediately joining the network’s top 10. Publicly traded Solana treasury company Forward Industries launched its first institutional-grade validator node on the Solana blockchain as part of its broader strategy to deepen its role within the Solana ecosystem. The company announced the launch on Tuesday, saying that the validator runs on DoubleZero’s fiber network, which powers the validator and uses Jump Crypto’s Firedancer, a new independent Solana validator client. Kyle Samani, chairman of the board of Forward Industries, said the move allows them to fortify Solana’s resiliency and help ensure that it remains “the standard for institutional adoption” in decentralized finance (DeFi). Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:27 Oct 08, 2025
Strategy’s $78 billion stash of Bitcoin is close to the cash positions held by Amazon, Google and Microsoft, the last of which rejected Bitcoin as a treasury asset last year. Strategy’s near-$80 billion Bitcoin treasury is catching up to the massive cash positions of tech giants such as Microsoft, whose shareholders rejected a proposal in December to explore adding Bitcoin to its books. Strategy posted to X on Tuesday that its 640,031 Bitcoin (BTC) stash briefly topped $80 billion in value on Monday as Bitcoin hit a record high of $126,080, boosting the value of its corporate treasury close to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, which each hold between $97 billion and $95 billion in cash or cash equivalents. Strategy’s routine Bitcoin buys, combined with Bitcoin’s rise in value, have already pushed its treasury past the value of Nvidia, Apple and Meta’s — the latter of which considered a proposal to explore making Bitcoin a treasury asset before overwhelmingly voting against it in June. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:11 Oct 08, 2025
Based on Bitcoin’s price at the start of October, a $140,000 price tag by the end of the month is consistent with its average gains in October over the years. Bitcoin has a 50% probability of surpassing $140,000 this month, according to simulations using data from the past decade, says economist Timothy Peterson. “There is a 50% chance Bitcoin finishes the month above $140k,” Peterson said in an X post on Wednesday. “But there is a 43% chance Bitcoin finishes below $136k,” he added. Bitcoin (BTC) would need to gain about 14.7% to reach $140,000 at its current price of $122,032, which has cooled after the original cryptocurrency set a new all-time high of $126,200 on Monday, according to CoinMarketCap. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:12 Oct 07, 2025
Solana pulled in $2.85 billion in annual revenue across DeFi, AI and trading apps, as institutions push the network into mainstream finance. Solana generated $2.85 billion in revenue over the past year, according to a new report from 21Shares, driven by trading platform activity. Between October 2024 and September 2025, Solana averaged about $240 million in monthly revenue, peaking at $616 million in January during the memecoin boom led by tokens like Official Trump (TRUMP). But even after the frenzy cooled, monthly revenue was between $150 million and $250 million. Solana validators earn revenue from fees on transactions. Over the past year, revenue from fees flowed from across the ecosystem, including decentralized finance (DeFi), memecoins, AI apps, decentralized exchanges, DePIN, launchpads and trading tools. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:00 Oct 07, 2025
Ether’s short-term correction may set the stage for a larger upside move as ETH’s liquidity metrics turn increasingly favorable. Key takeaways: Ethereum failed to break $4,800, with a bearish divergence leading to a 3% correction. Spot selling pressure rose, but leveraged traders remain active. Read more
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