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In brief Decentralized exchange Bunni announced its permanent shutdown Wednesday, saying it lacks the capital for a secure relaunch requiring six to seven figures in audit expenses alone. The September 2 hack drained $8.4 million through flash loan manipulation and rounding errors, with stolen funds remaining unmoved in Tornado Cash-funded wallets. Users can still withdraw assets, and Bunni pledged to distribute remaining treasury to token holders while relicensing its v2 contracts from BUSL to MIT. Decentralized exchange Bunni has announced it is permanently shutting down following an $8.4 million hack last month, with founders saying they lack the capital needed…

Bitcoin BTC$109,471.18 traded steadily near $109,000 during Thursday’s Asian hours, extending the broad range play since the Oct. 10 crash that wiped out $19 billion in leveraged bets and weakened risk sentiment.Ether ETH$3,891.23 hovered near $3,850, with solana (SOL, XRP$2.4164, and ADA$0.6403 barely moving in the past 24 hours. The pause comes after a volatile start to October that has so far produced little progress for bulls or bears — and is on track to deliver the least gains for investors since 2015, despite being a seasonally bullish month.The backdrop is as interesting as it is uneventful. The crypto market…

The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (Fintrac) said it fined Xeltox Enterprises Ltd. (which operates as cryptocurrency platform Cryptomus), a record C$176.96 million ($126 million) for widespread compliance failures under federal anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws.The fine related to over 1,000 suspicious transactions and more than 1,500 large virtual currency transactions that Canada’s anti-money laundering agency said Vancouver-based Cryptomus failed to report between July 1 and July 31, 2024.Investigators said the unreported activity included transactions tied to child sexual abuse material, fraud, ransomware payments and sanctions evasion.Cryptomus, previously known as Certa Payments Ltd., also failed to…

ARK Invest-backed Quantum Solutions has emerged as the largest Ether digital asset treasury outside of the United States after accumulating $9 million worth of ETH in a week. Quantum Solutions’ founder, Francis Zhou, announced the company’s latest Ether (ETH) purchase on Thursday.  “I’m proud to announce that we have accumulated 2,365 ETH in just seven days, officially making Quantum Solutions the largest ETH DAT outside the US,” said Zhou, adding that more Ether buys were coming.The company said it has become Japan’s leading publicly listed Ether DAT and the 11th-largest globally, citing figures from CoinGecko. Quantum Solutions also has a small Bitcoin (BTC)…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent shockwaves through cryptocurrency circles this week with the movement of $268 million worth of Bitcoin—its first major on-chain activity in three months. The transfer, which parked the hefty sum into two new wallet addresses, immediately triggered a flurry of speculation across trading desks, social media, and financial news outlets. While the underlying motives remain opaque, one thing is clear: when a major institutional whale like SpaceX moves, everyone pays attention. This episode not only shines a spotlight on the evolving role of Bitcoin in corporate treasuries, but also serves as a potent reminder of the outsized…

Debt among Bitcoin miners has increased from $2.1 billion to $12.7 billion in just 12 months as they race to meet demands for artificial intelligence and Bitcoin production, according to investment giant VanEck.Without continued investment in the latest machines, a miner’s share of the global hashrate deteriorates, resulting in a reduced share of the daily awarded Bitcoin (BTC), VanEck analyst Nathan Frankovitz and head of digital assets research, Matthew Sigel, said on Wednesday in their October Bitcoin ChainCheck report.“We refer to this dynamic as the melting ice cube problem. Historically, miners relied on equity markets, not debt, to fund these…

[Major Industry News] As market rumors spread about Ripple’s $1 billion acquisition of GTreasury, BlackchainMining, a UK-registered green cloud mining platform, announced the launch of a global incentive program. This program offers a reward pool of up to $77.77 million to XRP holders and new users, ushering in a new era of digital asset appreciation!Say goodbye to the dilemma of holding coins: the moment of wealth awakening for XRP holdersUnlike Bitcoin, XRP is fully distributed from its inception, requiring no traditional mining. This puts many long-term holders in a dilemma: continue to wait for appreciation, or choose the right time…

Quantum Solutions (2338), an AI-focused company that is building an ether ETH$3,891.23 treasury, said its Hong Kong subsidiary, GPT Pals Studio, bought 2,000.13 ether ETH$3,891.23 for $7.85 million on Oct 21.The Tokyo-based company said it now holds 3,865.8 ETH valued at about $15.1 million, with an average cost of $4,101 per ETH. The purchase makes it the world’s 11th-largest ETH digital asset treasury (DAT) and the second-largest outside the U.S., according to CoinGecko data. The largest non-U.S. DAT company, Shanghai-based Intchains, has more than double that number.The purchase was funded through external borrowings and proceeds from recent stock acquisition rights…