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What is a rug pull? It is when the people behind a token take the value out and leave buyers holding a token that cannot be sold for much. They do it by removing the liquidity, dumping a large share of supply, or using contract powers to block sales. Most cases show warning signs on-chain before it happens. How does a rug pull work? A new token on a decentralised exchange trades against a liquidity pool. The creator adds the token and a paired coin, such as BNB or ETH, to the pool. Buyers then swap their coins for the token, and the paired coin they pay builds up inside the pool. That pool is where the money sits. Whoever controls it, or controls a large part of the token supply, can take that money out. A rug pull is the moment someone does exactly that, usually after enough buyers have joined to make it worth it. The term comes from pulling a rug out from under someone's feet. For the buyer, the result looks the same in every version: the price chart drops to almost nothing in a ...

What is a locked liquidity pool, and how can you verify one? A locked pool holds the liquidity tokens of a trading pair in a time-lock contract, so the creator cannot withdraw the funds until the lock ends. You verify a lock by finding the pool, checking who holds its liquidity tokens and reading the lock contract's end date. What is a locked liquidity pool? A decentralized exchange lets anyone create a market by depositing two assets into a pool, usually a new token and a base asset such as the network's main coin or a stablecoin. In return, the depositor receives liquidity provider tokens, often called LP tokens. These LP tokens are a claim on everything inside the pool. Whoever holds the LP tokens can remove the liquidity at any time. If a token's creator holds them, the creator can drain the pool, leave buyers with tokens that cannot be sold at a fair price, and walk away. This pattern is commonly called a rug pull. A lock addresses that risk. Instead of keeping the LP ...

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USD Cash at Michael Saylor’s BTC treasury company Strategy has fallen 60% from $1.61 billion on August 30 to $640.5 million on October 11, according to its latest disclosure this week. The firm has spent the majority of its USD Cash on STRC buybacks, Strategy’s ultra-high yield dividend stock that it sold to investors for $90–100.03 per share before those same shares briefly collapsed to $71.25. Reinstilling confidence that the shares would trade near their intended $100 price has cost the company — especially common shareholders — extensive cash that the company mostly raised via common shareholder dilution. USD Cash at Strategy has fallen 60% from $1.61 billion on August 30. Read more: Strategy’s USD reserve didn’t last long Strategy’s pace of USD Cash depletion works out to about $970 million in less than seven weeks. If it continues that average pace and doesn’t top it up, its USD Cash will run out in about four weeks. Amid the...

EQIBank, used by Tether, had 80% of its assets frozen as part of a seizure targeting Capstone Limited, according to reporting from the Financial Times . According to the reporting, the relationship between Tether and EQIBank was related to Marlin Capital Partners. This reporting further claims that Marlin Capital, which has been serving as an investment advisor for Tether, has invested in EQIBank. It also reportedly promised additional investment in EQIBank if it could successfully help Tether open an account at Singapore-based DBS. EQIBank did claim in a filing that it had a relationship with a firm called Clarency “that provided correspondent banking through DBS Singapore.” The bank was apparently relying on a firm called Capstone Limited to help it place deposits in the US and maintain relationships with US-based banks. According to a complaint for forfeiture filed in July, Capstone was allegedly misrepresenting the nature of its business to ban...

As Bitcoin (BTC) closed September 2026 in a bullish outlook, up over 6%, Finbold’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent expects the flagship cryptocurrency to maintain its uptrend momentum in October. On October 1, Finbold’s AI Agent predicted that Bitcoin price could reach $84,825 by October 31. As BTC price traded at approximately $83,452 at the time of writing, this AI Agent signals at a potential 1.65% gain by the end of this month. Bitcoin price prediction for October 31. Source: Finbold’s AI Agent This bullish thesis for BTC was based on DeepSeek Chat and Gemini 3.5 Flash ’s price targets of $87,500 and $82,150 respectively.  Bitcoin price prediction for October 31 by DeepSeek and Gemini . Source: Finbold’s AI Agent Bitcoin technical analysis  This Bitcoin price prediction for October 31 was also shaped by the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), and the Relative Strength Index (RSI).  Although the MACD line crossed below the MAC...