Top Crypto Stories This Week: From a Juicy Mt. Gox Interview to a Soggy Token2049 Dubai Conference
Bitcoin halves, Dubai floods, Hong Kong approves, Iran attacks, Israel retaliates, and former Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles talks
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82 Crypto Projects Died this Year, But the Market Barely Noticed
Crypto’s shutdown wave exposes a funding model that mistook capital for demand. With 82 projects dead in 2026, even well-funded ventures are failing to turn deposits, token incentives and investor backing into sustainable revenue. The market is no longer paying for potential.
Bitcoin’s Nasdaq Re-Coupling Is a Trap Until the Dollar Breaks
Bitcoin’s brief decoupling from tech stocks has failed, leaving it exposed to Nasdaq volatility, concentrated ETF flows and a macro calendar packed with potential catalysts. With midterms and Fed policy looming, the digital gold thesis is looking increasingly like a bet on AI earnings and liquidity.
Bitcoin Clings On as a Silent Fed, $100 Oil and an AI Wobble Take the Wheel
With Fed officials in blackout until the October 27–28 meeting, Treasury yields, oil and AI earnings will set the direction for a Bitcoin market pinned between $80,000 and $85,000.
Thoughts on the Ledger Supply-Chain Attack
Ledger’s supply-chain attack exposes the uncomfortable trade-offs behind hardware wallets: the devices promising security can create new vulnerabilities through complexity, opaque manufacturing and misplaced trust.
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Malaysia, Thailand Central Banks Join MAS-Led Initiative on Cross-Border Digital Money Settlement
Ripple, Visa, Mastercard and the World Bank Group have also signed on as Singapore's tokenised deposit and stablecoin settlement programme takes on a regional, cross-border remit.
Does the Perp Future Have a Future?
Perpetual futures on real-world assets are sold on round-the-clock access, but weekend volumes on Hyperliquid and Binance suggest traders mostly keep office hours, unless there is a war on.
82 Crypto Projects Died this Year, But the Market Barely Noticed
Crypto’s shutdown wave exposes a funding model that mistook capital for demand. With 82 projects dead in 2026, even well-funded ventures are failing to turn deposits, token incentives and investor backing into sustainable revenue. The market is no longer paying for potential.
Bybit Secures Full VARA Licence for Spot Trading in Dubai
The approval ends a three-year wait at the exchange's own headquarters, but it covers only spot trading, leaving Bybit's core derivatives business outside the licence while rival Binance's Dubai licence already includes it.