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Exchange data from Binance shows that 58.5% of bStocks holders also trade perpetual futures, direct equities, or all three, with 20.7% remaining active across all three formats. This behavioral overlap indicates that the segmentation separating a stock investor from a derivatives trader from a cryptocurrency holder describes account structures rather than people. That taxonomy stops working when one account carries all three instruments. One investor, three instruments The retail investor taxonomy the financial industry uses was largely inherited from an infrastructure constraint. Equities, derivatives, and digital assets historically lived in separate accounts at separate firms under separate regulators, prompting the industry to describe the people using them as distinct populations. Collapse the accounts, and the taxonomy has nothing left to sit on. Independent data from Kaiko shows that between April 1 and May 25, 2026, Binance and Hyperliquid each averaged around ...

While the industry writes quantum resistance into roadmaps, QoreChain points to a transaction hash: the first transfer in blockchain history secured end to end with the complete NIST-standardized post-quantum stack, ML-DSA-87, ML-KEM-1024 and SHAKE-256 at their highest security levels, produced on July 2 on a live Layer 1 and verifiable by any independent ML-DSA-87 library. The network behind it runs EVM, CosmWasm and SVM on one state layer with no internal bridges, settles with deterministic one-block finality, and publishes its code under Apache-2.0 so the claims can be compiled rather than believed. QOR begins trading on MEXC on August 20 at 13:00 UTC, following a 3,000,000 QOR Kickstarter airdrop. Rolle, Switzerland - There are two kinds of milestones in crypto: the kind that gets announced, and the kind that gets committed to a block. On July 2, 2026, QoreChain produced the second kind. Post-quantum signatures on a blockchain are not new in themselves; hash-based schemes have ...

Crypto OG and self-proclaimed “financial educator” Tone Vays has admitted he was an “idiot” for giving hackers remote access to his PC during an hour-long Microsoft Teams interview. According to Vays, the hackers, who claimed to run a legitimate YouTube Channel, downloaded Trojan malware onto his computer using the screen sharing fuction. When he realised what happened, he disconnected his PC, reinstalled his operating system, and skipped saving any files.  “I was an idiot and gave them access control permissions,” he explained. PSA to all Opinion Leaders: I was hacked earlier today! – A group pretended to be a YouTube channel and spent an hour recording an interviewing me. They used @MicrosoftTeams and were able to get in using screen share as I was an idiot and gave them access control permissions… pic.twitter.com/E6x9D9ffV6 — Tone Vays (@ToneVays) August 11, 2026 Tone Vays share a screenshot of the Trojan malware. Read more: ...

The Ethereum price climbed 0.65% in the last 24 hours to trade at $3,865.10 as of 11 p.m. EST on a 52% drop in trading volume to $16.52 billion. ETH got a boost from another buy by Tom Lee’s BitMine, which snapped up 7,660 ETH worth $29 million from Galaxy Digital on Oct. 31 via its OTC desk. Such large private deals are usually executed to avoid impacting the price. 🔥 NOW: Tom Lee’s Bitmine bought 7,660 $ETH from Galaxy Digital. pic.twitter.com/Jtcvhbn7bg — Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) November 1, 2025 BitMine’s goal is clear: accumulate up to 5% of the Ethereum supply as part of its “Alchemy of 5%” plan. It now holds 3.3 million ETH, or 2.745% of its supply, worth $12.8 billion, according to CoinGecko. While institutions are busy accumulating, retail traders seem more cautious. Data from Kalshi shows the odds of ETH hitting $5,000 before the year end have dropped sharply to just 34%. Even so, many analysts remain positive about Et...

A Bitcoin investment success transformed Jackson Zeng from a struggling university student into an $88 million crypto mogul, actually. The Caleb and Brown CEO made his fortune through a $1,000 Bitcoin bet back in 2013 that his parents initially called “horrifying.” Right now, with Bitcoin price 2025 reaching around $190,000 and the recent Swyftx acquisition worth $200 million, Zeng’s story shows how early crypto adoption can generate extraordinary wealth, even when family members don’t support the decision. Bitcoin Investment Success Led Jackson Zeng to Swyftx Acquisition Fame Jackson Zeng alongside Caleb and Brown leadership team members – Source: DailyMail The $1,000 Bet That Changed Everything Jackson Zeng’s Bitcoin investment success began at university when he poured his savings into Bitcoin at $100 per coin. His parents were horrified by the decision, viewing digital currency as a dangerous gamble and a waste of money. The 28-year-old Sydney res...

XRP price plummeted 6.5% on Thursday, October 30, losing nearly $11 billion from the tokens market cap, which dropped from roughly $159.2 billion on Wednesday to $148.5 billion at the time of publication. The drop came amid a broader market fallout, with the top 10 cryptocurrencies by total capitalization all suffering major losses. With a price of $2.47, the lowest since the start of this week, XRP was one of the altcoins that got hit the hardest, matched only by Solana (SOL), which was likewise down more than 6%. XRP daily price and market cap. Source: CoinMarketCap In similar news, around 4 million XRP, valued at over $10.5 million, was locked in escrow. The transaction was linked to Flare’s Core Vault, an institutional-scale wallet that holds more than 1.57 billion XRP.  Why is the crypto market crashing? The overall sell-off shaved roughly 4% from total crypto market capitalization, bringing it to around $3.64 trillion. Bitcoin, for instance, slid ...