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Finance

Institutional crypto platform BlockFills reportedly halts withdrawals, restricts trading

It's shades of 2022, when any number of crypto platforms were forced to suspend withdrawals as prices crumbled.

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Tech

The Protocol: Robinhood unveils its layer-2 testnet

Also: Citadel backs LayerZero chain, MegaETH mainnet debut and ENS scraps L2 plans

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev speaking at TOKEN2049 Singapore on Oct. 2, 2025.

Tech

The human brain's edge is fading. AI could outhink us in 2 years, Ben Goertzel says

"The human brain is better at taking the imaginative leap to understand the unknown ... We should enjoy it for a couple more years."

Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET

Markets

Cryptos crumble, bitcoin falls through $66,000, as Friday's bounce fades

With so many other asset markets in rally mode, investors for the moment appear to have moved on from crypto.

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Finance

In unfamiliar market conditions, historical data-driven AI trading bots will falter

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says AI trading apps are like interns for now; soon they will be full time employees.

Finance

Decentralized AI is in a trough but real opportunities are emerging, crypto VCs say

Moving away from overhyped GPU marketplaces and large AI model alternatives towards purpose-built, full-stack solutions is the goal.

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Markets

BlackRock takes first DeFi step, lists BUIDL on Uniswap as UNI jumps 25%

BlackRock will make shares of its $2.2 billion tokenized U.S. Treasury fund tradable on the decentralized exchange Uniswap.

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Markets

Analysts react as Robinhood slumps 10%, with slowdown in crypto trading weighing on results

JPMorgan and Compass Point were among the sell-side teams trimming price targets on HOOD.

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CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 performance update: index trades 2.5% lower as all constituents decline

Aptos (APT) dropped 4.1% and Binance Coin (BNB) fell 3.7%, leading the index lower.

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Markets

Bithumb admits to ‘serious flaws’ that left internal systems vulnerable to potential sabotage

The South Korean crypto exchange’s CEO Le Jae-won said the lack of proper controls led to the erroneous transfer of bitcoin worth more than $40 billion to customers. Most has been recovered.

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Tech

Ethena-backed suiUSDe stablecoin goes live on Sui with $10 million yield vault launch

The synthetic dollar debuts on Sui Mainnet alongside a permissionless vault seeded by SUI Group and integration with DeepBook’s new margin system.

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Markets

U.S. added stronger than expected 130,000 jobs in January, with unemployment rate falling to 4.3%

Down sizably ahead of the jobs data, bitcoin rose modestly to $67,500 following the news.

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Finance

Recapping day 1 of Consensus Hong Kong

Hong Kong is looking to build its digital assets economy, its leaders said on stage.

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Markets

Crypto's latest selloff was a TradFi event, not a crypto crisis

Last week’s downturn was driven by yen carry trades and macro leverage, highlighting how deeply digital assets are now tied to traditional markets, panelists at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 said.

(l-r) Fabio Frontini, CEO of Abraxis Capital Management, Emma Lovett, Markets DLT credit lead at JPMorgan, Thomas Restout, group CEO of B2C2, Omkar Godbole of CoinDesk: Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Aviva Investors to tokenize funds on XRP Ledger in Ripple partnership

The U.K. asset manager teamed up with Ripple to bring traditional fund structures onchain in its first tokenization push.

Nigel Khakoo and Jill Barber
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