https://leviathannews.xyz/320324/validators-have-a-bug-fix-patch-on-course-to-go-live-friday-the-lending-system-it-partly-repairs-is-still-10-votes-short-of-approval Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T08:00:21.568739+00:00 XRP Ledger prepares lending-code fixes for Oct. 23 as proposed lending system remains short of validator approval https://leviathannews.xyz/320317/south-korean-officials-are-reportedly-set-to-meet-crypto-exchanges-as-industry-calls-and-a-new-bill-seek-to-delay-the-countrys-planned-crypto-tax-until-2029 Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T07:46:02.433622+00:00 South Korea finance officials to meet crypto exchanges as new bill seeks to delay tax until 2029 https://leviathannews.xyz/320320/no-headline-20261019-2 Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T07:45:54.716122+00:00 EU and eight countries sign treaty to expand powers to freeze and confiscate criminal crypto assets https://leviathannews.xyz/320314/blackrock-says-tokenised-funds-are-going-from-experiment-to-core-infrastructure-used-as-collateral-and-for-247-trading-its-buidl-fund-is-now-worth-about-23b-usd-but-bank-adoption-a Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T07:16:48.335617+00:00 BlackRock says tokenised funds are going from experiment to core infrastructure, used as collateral and for 24/7 trading. Its BUIDL fund is now worth about 2.3B USD, but bank adoption and regulation are lagging. https://leviathannews.xyz/320315/new-south-koreas-mirae-asset-securities-plans-to-launch-tokenized-products-in-q1-2027-local-news-outlet-digital-asset-reported-its-first-line-of-products-will-reportedly-includ Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T07:15:54.905816+00:00 South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities plans tokenized products for Q1 2027, starting with MMFs and private bonds https://leviathannews.xyz/320313/identity-alone-doesnt-guarantee-a-bot-will-behave-responsibly-we-are-introducing-a-system-to-continuously-evaluate-whether-verified-bots-honor-site-preferences-like-robotstxt-a Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T07:12:23.375168+00:00 Cloudflare introduces system to continuously evaluate whether Verified bots honor site preferences https://leviathannews.xyz/320267/zakuras-p2pv2-combines-high-throughput-networking-resource-controls-and-a-property-tested-consensus-engine-with-permissionless-services-for-zcashs-future-needs Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T06:49:19.371949+00:00 Zakura unveils P2Pv2 networking layer for Zcash, replacing Bitcoin-era protocol with QUIC-based services https://leviathannews.xyz/320255/post-by-anthropicai-on-x-recommended-by-johnjl18 Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T06:39:22.980960+00:00 Anthropic commits 5% of shares to new public benefit fund, with roughly 20% total pledged to public good https://leviathannews.xyz/320268/strategy-executive-chairman-michael-saylor-bitcoin-is-returning-to-a-bull-market-bitcoin-backed-stablecoins-yielding-68-annually-could-emerge-strategy-executive-chairman-mich Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T02:52:15.137204+00:00 Saylor says bitcoin is returning to a bull market, sees potential for bitcoin-backed stablecoins yielding 6%–8% https://leviathannews.xyz/320265/much-of-zcashs-shielded-privacy-holds-against-a-future-quantum-computer-but-a-published-address-could-let-one-link-every-payment-a-wallet-has-received-near-intents-swaps-publish Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T02:52:09.754302+00:00 Zakura proposes one-time viewing keys for Zcash swaps to limit quantum privacy risks without splitting wallet funds across accounts https://leviathannews.xyz/320262/no-headline-20261019-1 Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T02:52:04.957814+00:00 World launches World ID suite for banks and makes Zoom deepfake check generally available https://leviathannews.xyz/320261/no-headline-20261019 Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T02:52:00.149502+00:00 Crypto.com and Novig sue Missouri over sports event contracts as Kalshi, Polymarket and Robinhood hold off https://leviathannews.xyz/320257/abu-dhabi-launches-tamm-global-to-bring-its-ai-native-government-platform-to-the-world Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T02:51:55.950294+00:00 Abu Dhabi launches TAMM Global to bring its AI-native government platform to the world. https://leviathannews.xyz/320256/openworld-signs-definitive-merger-agreement-to-acquire-blocksight-as-the-agentic-foundation-for-its-up-to-1-billion-tokenized-solar-and-ai-computing-program-with-meridian-and-up-to Leviathan News en 2026-10-19T02:51:43.272869+00:00 OpenWorld signs merger deal to acquire Blocksight as AI agent foundation for tokenized financing programs https://leviathannews.xyz/320205/weekend-selling-has-hit-altcoins-hard-as-fear-from-equities-spills-into-crypto-the-typical-altcoin-is-down-over-5-if-the-weekend-closes-like-this-it-would-be-the-largest-weeken Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T18:57:49.557685+00:00 Altcoins fall over 5% as equity-driven fear spills into crypto over the weekend https://leviathannews.xyz/320203/like-many-on-the-timeline-ive-become-enraptured-by-pearl-over-the-last-few-weeks-as-i-argued-in-this-is-not-bitcoins-cycle-bitcoin-is-facing-some-uncomfortable-questions-and Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T18:48:28.623430+00:00 Pearl, a Bitcoin fork, lets AI matrix multiplication double as mining work to offset costs https://leviathannews.xyz/320201/anthropic-proposes-1b-loss-or-50-casualty-threshold-for-government-ai-intervention-according-to-politico-anthropic-has-been-pitching-us-lawmakers-on-an-unpublished-draft-bil Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T18:09:06.511354+00:00 Anthropic pitches draft AI safety bill that limits government power to block model releases and preempts some state laws https://leviathannews.xyz/320200/parliament-passed-a-law-taxing-crypto-withdrawals-above-deposits-rather-than-individual-trades-featuring-a-one-time-declaration-mechanism Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T18:09:04.124506+00:00 Latvia's parliament passes law taxing crypto withdrawals above deposits, with one-time 10% declaration option https://leviathannews.xyz/320160/private-sector-partners-flagged-11-million-in-funds-that-could-be-frozen-while-officials-reported-cryptocurrency-seizures-without-disclosing-their-value Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T13:22:47.587181+00:00 Binance and Coinbase join West Africa scam crackdown as private-sector partners flag $11 million for potential freezing https://leviathannews.xyz/320159/security-incident-update-between-2342-utc-on-17-october-and-0126-utc-on-18-october-an-attacker-drained-1404-qubic-wallets-totalling-around-294-trillion-qu-here-is-what-ha Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T13:22:42.851409+00:00 Qubic halts network after attacker drains 1,404 wallets of 2.94 trillion QU via weak seeds https://leviathannews.xyz/320146/the-most-popular-account-pages-on-x-by-traffic-share-september-2026-1-thsottiaux-2-fabrizioromano-3-elonmusk-4-25yearsagolive-5-ngnchiikawa-6-discussingfilm Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T12:13:04.809711+00:00 X traffic rises 6% in Q3 as Tibo (OpenAI) tops most-viewed account pages for September 2026 https://leviathannews.xyz/320142/starknet-community-overwhelmingly-backs-exploring-independent-post-quantum-layer-1-blockchain Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T11:39:33.366331+00:00 Starknet opens first non-binding governance vote on becoming an independent post-quantum L1 https://leviathannews.xyz/320137/cysic-bridge-hit-by-unauthorized-minting-of-10m-cys-on-bnb-smart-chain Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T10:52:46.787391+00:00 Cysic bridge exploited for unauthorized minting of 10M CYS on BNB Smart Chain; bridge suspended https://leviathannews.xyz/320122/openai-3-new-model-references-have-been-spotted-on-the-apis-recently-aurora-red-alpha-aurora-green-alpha-aurora-blue-alpha-these-model-references-were-removed-shortl Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T08:13:03.738833+00:00 OpenAI briefly lists three 'aurora' model references on its API before removing them https://leviathannews.xyz/320119/a-10-minute-flush-hit-round-the-clock-chip-stock-contracts-while-us-markets-were-shut-leaving-traders-with-no-real-share-price-to-lean-on Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T07:28:34.048489+00:00 Chip-stock bets lost $52 million in 10 minutes on Binance and Hyperliquid while U.S. markets were shut https://leviathannews.xyz/320116/tether-hiven-back-aisa-as-strategic-investors-complete-seed-extension-round Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T07:06:34.441326+00:00 Tether and HIVEN join AIsa as strategic investors in seed extension, bringing total funding past $9 million https://leviathannews.xyz/320109/chinese-ai-startup-stepfun-launches-a-phone-built-around-an-ai-agent-not-apps Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T05:47:21.314923+00:00 Chinese AI startup StepFun launches its first AI agent smartphone, the STEPX Neo, priced at 3,999 yuan https://leviathannews.xyz/320105/arcus-apologizes-for-surprise-liquidation-fee-hike-and-offers-refunds Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T03:16:00.988773+00:00 Arcus to reimburse traders after unannounced liquidation fee hike to 1% https://leviathannews.xyz/320103/portal-ventures-backed-vest-raises-13-million-to-build-a-proprietary-trading-firm-that-shares-traders-profits Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T03:15:29.676575+00:00 Portal Ventures-backed Vest raises $13 million to build a proprietary trading firm that shares traders' profits https://leviathannews.xyz/320088/on-chain-data-shows-increasing-number-of-hackers-moving-stolen-funds-to-zcash-for-laundering-on-chain-analyst-specter-noted-that-following-zachxbts-disclosure-regarding-the-bitge Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T01:37:51.306669+00:00 On-chain analyst reports multiple crypto exploiters moving stolen funds into Zcash following scrutiny of the Bitget hack https://leviathannews.xyz/320090/the-occ-reviewed-100000-complaints-and-found-americas-biggest-banks-systematically-debanked-lawful-businesses-from-2020-to-2025-digital-assets-made-the-top-six-most-affected-in Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T01:37:34.676727+00:00 OCC review of 100,000 complaints finds big banks debanked lawful businesses, digital assets among top six affected https://leviathannews.xyz/320092/we-had-a-security-breach-last-night-related-to-a-large-scale-distillation-attack-that-impacted-14-of-opencode-console-users-we-have-notified-them-all-this-morning-via-email-if Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T01:37:29.860361+00:00 OpenCode Console says 1.4% of users were affected by a security breach as it works with Anthropic, OpenAI and Google on remediation https://leviathannews.xyz/320089/in-conversation-with-chris-dixon-the-machine-economy-fly-brains-and-the-breakthroughs-that-happen-when-entrepreneurs-can-just-go-do-stuff Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T01:37:20.995054+00:00 a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon and Circle CEO explore how AI agents and blockchains could transform global finance https://leviathannews.xyz/320087/no-headline-20261018 Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T01:37:11.504495+00:00 Nine US-listed companies object to tokenized stock trading on OKXICE, including Broadcom, CoreWeave and Verizon, amid concerns over market transparency https://leviathannews.xyz/320086/banks-could-slow-stablecoin-growth-by-paying-savers-more-bis-paper-finds-20261018 Leviathan News en 2026-10-18T01:37:02.911433+00:00 BIS researchers find higher bank deposit rates could cut stablecoin market cap growth over ten weeks from 15% to 12% https://leviathannews.xyz/320020/deepseek-v41-flash-1017-is-here Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T16:00:18.586017+00:00 DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash 1017 update with stronger agentic coding scores, shorter outputs, and open MIT weights https://leviathannews.xyz/319981/standardized-disclosures-for-more-than-10000-tokenized-assets-today-were-launching-a-major-expansion-of-token-terminal-fact-sheets-standardized-disclosures-for-tokenized-asset Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T10:09:44.613307+00:00 Token Terminal expands Fact Sheets to standardized disclosures for over 10,000 tokenized assets https://leviathannews.xyz/319980/productive-lp-tokens-are-finally-here-get-ready-to-borrow-against-curve-finance-lp-tokens-while-continuing-to-earn-crv-emissions-and-trading-fees-it-starts-with-the-reusdsfrxusd-lp Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:46:17.178970+00:00 Curve Finance LP tokens can now be used as collateral while still earning CRV emissions and trading fees https://leviathannews.xyz/319979/newly-filed-court-records-include-a-letter-from-telegram-to-us-authorities-in-which-the-company-shares-user-data-following-a-court-order Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:46:14.711736+00:00 Court records reveal Telegram letter sharing user phone number, ID, and IP with U.S. authorities https://leviathannews.xyz/319976/1-meet-kemi-hes-a-nigerian-scammer-who-impersonates-youtubers-like-mrbeast-airrack-and-even-me-he-tried-to-scam-mebut-instead-of-paying-him-money-i-hacked-into-his Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:40:05.969765+00:00 Investigator says Nigerian scammer posed as MrBeast to target crypto fraud victims with fake recovery services https://leviathannews.xyz/319975/ensos-execution-infrastructure-now-routes-xstocks-on-arbitrum-letting-wallets-and-fintechs-add-tokenized-us-equity-access-without-new-routing-builds Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:40:01.401300+00:00 Enso brings xStocks tokenized equities to Arbitrum through its single API https://leviathannews.xyz/319973/hong-kong-crypto-dealer-falls-victim-to-whatsapp-scam-loses-over-4-million-hkd Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:27:02.573267+00:00 Hong Kong crypto OTC dealer loses over HK$4 million after WhatsApp work group was cloned in social engineering scam https://leviathannews.xyz/319974/lumara-film-festival-announces-finalists-for-inaugural-ai-film-festival Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:26:49.442308+00:00 MoonPay and Venice's Lumara Film Festival names six finalists from over 700 AI film submissions https://leviathannews.xyz/319972/introducing-eden-a-high-performance-evm-chain-on-celestia-that-we-use-as-a-sandbox-for-agentic-commerce-experiments-20261017 Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:08:21.237320+00:00 Celestia introduces Eden, an EVM chain for testing agentic commerce https://leviathannews.xyz/319968/while-the-bitget-platform-continues-to-operate-we-have-made-the-decision-to-discontinue-services-for-certain-users-this-is-a-one-off-exercise-for-certain-users-only-your-funds Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:03:44.922659+00:00 Bitget discontinues services for certain users, says funds remain safe and withdrawals supported https://leviathannews.xyz/319967/kalosfun-teases-more-than-just-nfts-coming-soon-to-elysium Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:03:39.913687+00:00 Kalos.fun teases 'more than just NFTs' ahead of Elysium launch, plans article detailing the project https://leviathannews.xyz/319965/introducing-the-arbitrum-stablecoin-growth-program-apps-with-1m-in-stablecoin-balances-that-make Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:03:31.711495+00:00 Arbitrum introduces stablecoin growth program for apps with $1M in balances https://leviathannews.xyz/319964/base-ends-discord-advocate-program-leaving-volunteers-feeling-overlooked-longtime-participants-some-involved-for-up-to-three-years-expressed-deep-disappointment-over-not-receiving- Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:03:24.505866+00:00 Base closes Discord Advocate Program as longtime volunteers say their contributions went unrecognized https://leviathannews.xyz/319963/finance-is-entering-its-mod-era-your-customers-still-want-your-product-they-just-want-it-inside-their-agent Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:03:18.558030+00:00 Finance is entering its 'mod era' as AI agents reshape how customers interact with financial products https://leviathannews.xyz/319962/vitalik-buterin-compares-bitcoin-mining-and-ai-inference-costs-mining-costs-split-roughly-evenly-with-hardware-at-40-37600-annually-and-electricity-at-433-40600-ai-inference-on-gpu Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T09:03:05.158447+00:00 Vitalik: Bitcoin mining costs split 50/50 between capex and electricity, while AI inference is mostly compute capex https://leviathannews.xyz/319960/rapidcanvas-raises-29m-series-b-to-bring-fortune-100-grade-ai-to-every-enterprise Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T08:09:27.543377+00:00 RapidCanvas raises $29M Series B to scale managed AI for mid-market enterprises https://leviathannews.xyz/319952/post-by-nourharidy-on-x-recommended-by-johnjl18 Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T08:09:12.416330+00:00 Inverse claims Ramses blacklisted its NFT ID in veRAM migration, leaving tokens worthless https://leviathannews.xyz/319945/dac-highlights-need-for-quantum-resistant-infrastructure-as-italy-prepares-to-unveil-first-quantum-supercomputer-and-industrial-quantum-annealer-20261017 Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T08:09:03.772569+00:00 DAC makes case for quantum-resistant blockchains as Italy unveils first annealing quantum supercomputer