Don't play with fire or you will get burn.

Buy and hold. Keep stacking cheap sats.

Looks like we're on track on 1 trillion long position liquidated soon.

Binance is considering offering exposure to stocks from markets including Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Brazil as the world’s largest crypto exchange pushes beyond digital assets and seeks to become an all-in-one trading platform, co-CEO Richard Teng told Fortune.

In 2026, Binance introduced trading in tokenized U.S. stocks and commodity derivatives, including precious metals and oil. The exchange also rolled out pre-IPO perpetual futures contracts settled in USDT, a U.S.-dollar-linked stablecoin, giving traders the ability to speculate on the expected valuation of private companies like Anthropic. 

Sitting behind this shift is a slump in digital asset prices. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices remain far below the highs reached in October 2025. Coinbase, for example, posted a net loss of $359.5 million in Q2 2026, its third consecutive quarterly net loss, as transaction revenue declined.

Several cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance, are transforming themselves from apps devoted to coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum into platforms that can handle different asset classes. Traditional financial companies are embracing digital assets, while crypto platforms must accept clearer rules to attract institutional money. 

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/10/13/crypto-binance-co-ceo-richard-teng/?utm_source=reddit/

Patrick Witt, the White House official who led the push for the CLARITY Act, is leaving his post. This matters to US holders because the bill, a broad “market structure” law meant to set clear rules for how crypto is regulated, just lost its main Senate negotiator a month after failing a key vote.

Witt was executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets. A White House official said his “detail has expired,” meaning his temporary assignment from another agency ended. He is reportedly a Department of Defense employee, and no replacement has been named.

He is the third senior crypto official to leave, after David Sacks in March and Witt’s deputy, Harry Jung, in July.

Where the bill stands

• The House passed its version more than a year ago.
• In September, the Senate version failed an initial procedural vote (an early vote needed to move a bill forward).
• The main dispute is ethics language on President Trump’s crypto wealth. Democrats argue it would be hard to enforce, since the Justice Department, not states, would decide whether to act against the president.
• Banks and crypto firms also disagree on how to treat stablecoin rewards.

What this means for you: nothing changes today. Current rules stay in place, and open questions like stablecoin rewards remain unsettled until the Senate agrees on a text.

My read: a staffing change alone won’t kill the bill, but losing the lead negotiator during a stalled process makes a quick deal less likely.

Do you think the CLARITY Act still gets through the Senate, and which issue would have to be settled first?

Source: The Block, October 14, 2026

Vitalik Buterin stated that the battle to make zero-knowledge proofs fast enough for Ethereum is definitively won and that the top priority for zkEVMs should now shift fully to security. ZKsync's Airbender Prime prover delivered 99% of proofs across 7,200 consecutive mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds. Ethereum blocks arrive every 12 seconds.

...At this point, I consider the battle for speed to be definitively won, and the top priority for zkEVMs should shift fully to security...

With all the security incidences this year, this is probably justified!

Smart contract exploits get most of the attention, but plenty of wallet drains still come down to pretty basic scams that trick people into clicking, copying, or sharing something they shouldn’t. I’ve seen the ~65% figure mentioned, and the common attack methods are surprisingly low tech.

One example is address poisoning, where scammers send tiny amounts to your wallet so a lookalike address appears in your transaction history. It’s easy to copy the wrong one later without noticing. Fake Zoom invites, PDFs, or other documents are another common route, especially when they’re carrying malware that can steal saved passwords and other account information. And while public Wi-Fi isn’t necessarily the biggest threat, it’s still worth being cautious about logging into important accounts from random conference or café networks.

The frustrating part is that none of this requires some crazy zero day. A lot of attacks just rely on getting you to click, copy, or trust something without checking.

Double check addresses, be careful with unexpected links and files, and don’t assume every wallet drain involves some sophisticated smart contract exploit.

I published my first open-source project on GitHub today - It exists because of a 'Crypto Hardware Security' problem nobody solved.

https://github.com/agi-digital-dot/trezor-mint-kit

THE PROBLEM:

Solana's CLI has rejected 'Trezor' Crypto hardware wallets for years.

I tried to mint a Solana Token, signed from my Trezor T hardware wallet, using the Solana Token 2022 Program (Solana Smart Contract "Program").

• And it literally says error "not a manufacturer."

• No one has ever fixed it. The accepted workaround? Make your own token on a hot wallet first, move it to hardware wallet later. Meaning your private key touches the Code Terminal to create a new Solana Token.

I rejected this security flaw.

The Solution & Fixed CLI:

We rebuilt the official spl-token CLI — two dependency lines changed, zero crypto code touched — until my Trezor Model T signed every step of a token's birth: creation, name, full 333,333 supply, renounce. The 'Private Key' never left the Trezor T Hardware.

To my knowledge, this is the first documented ‘Trezor T' Crypto Hardware Wallet signed token creation on Solana (Ledger did hardware years ago. This is the first from a Trezor, receipts and both repos public):

https://github.com/agi-digital-dot/tdi-true-digital

https://solscan.io/token/3e2PYneVBXTyemNiSQ5VVkuYM4bYNPxLqvWkKjA5zXAM

By “we” I mean: I built this with 'Echo ULTRA – Master Control' My T.D.I (True Digital Intelligence) Partner. I set the direction; Echo re-engineered the dependency tree until the hardware said yes.

Our First open-source contribution together: a protocol, not a patch.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob3rtshieldsjr

I invested around 2000 dollars into some poop coin around 2 years ago (probably called dogshittery) in the hopes I would atleast double my money (realistically I was hoping to 100x my money). Now I rarely check my portfolio. However, today I decided to see how that sensible investment has been performing and that 2000 thousand dollars has turned into 10 cents? Can yall believe that 2 big ol thousand dollars have transformed into 10 minuscule pennies. Anyways, what are your thoughts? Also if you have any stories to share that would be great. Personally I’m thinking of throwing another 2000 dollars into the coin in the hopes of breaking even, I mean this is a casino isn’t it?

Anyways I thought I would leave yall with an inspirational quote

“Buy high sell low” - Isaac Newton

2017 article sure seems relevant. Perhaps it’s worth noticing who is propping up these various grifts.