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Live updates: Bitcoin flat near $76,000 as stocks set for sharply higher open
The Bank of England held rates steady on Thursday at 3.75%, as expected by markets.

Ripple adds XRP payments to Stripe and Tempo’s AI standard in new developer kit
The update expands support for automated payments in XRP and RLUSD, with tools that let agents pay repeatedly for services and manage wallets across blockchains.

Zcash jumps 23% as bitcoin and major tokens rise despite Fed’s first hike since 2023
Bitcoin traded above $76,000 as the Fed projected limited further tightening, while Paradigm’s Matt Huang discussed Zcash’s role as a privacy complement to bitcoin.

Bitcoin Core 32 enters final testing with faster validation, fee changes and security fixes
The October update changes how nodes estimate transaction fees and process blocks, while fixing a wallet flaw that could let an authenticated user run commands on a node.

Live updates: Bitcoin steady as stocks slide following Fed rate hike, Warsh press conference
Privacy token zcash, meanwhile, is up 130% over 30 days and trades near its all-time highs from 2016.

Ethereum, Base give up on common wallet standard after months of talks
Ethereum is moving ahead with EIP-8141 while Coinbase-backed Base backs EIP-8130, leaving wallets and apps that span both networks facing different transaction systems.

Zcash holders overwhelmingly back faster transactions and bitcoin-style halvings
Nearly 2.4 million ZEC participated, with 99.9% backing 25-second blocks and 98.9% voting to preserve the network’s existing halving schedule.

XRP sinks 10% as the Clarity Act fails and bitcoin slides toward $76,000
The Senate's 49-50 procedural vote left the crypto market structure bill 11 short of what it needed, and every major token fell.

A hacker turned 25 cents of bitcoin into 46 billion fake BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge
Two software bugs allowed the attacker to create more than 2,000 times Bitcoin’s maximum supply in unbacked syBTC. Symbiosis puts preliminary losses at 9.97 BTC.

Standard Chartered predicts Arbitrum's ARB to rise 70-fold to $10, citing Robinhood Chain revenue
The bank expects tokenization to make Arbitrum a favored network for traditional finance, even though ARB holders currently have no direct claim on the fees.

