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 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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 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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 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circuits that outperform published methods, cutting gate requirements by up to 17× https://leviathannews.xyz/319938/post-by-forevercultfund-on-x-recommended-by-johnjl18 Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T04:47:31.579543+00:00 Forever Cult Fund asks 'Do you believe in forever?' in X post https://leviathannews.xyz/319910/we-are-announcing-a-collaboration-with-flowdesk_co-a-global-liquidity-provider-and-digital-asset-trading-and-technology-firm-to-provide-deep-and-reliable-liquidity-to-shield-swa Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T04:47:14.007156+00:00 Shield Swap partners with Flowdesk to provide institutional liquidity for confidential onchain trading targeting professional investors https://leviathannews.xyz/319902/post-by-aegis_hedge-on-x-recommended-by-johnjl18 Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T04:45:36.962902+00:00 Aegis proposes automated delta hedging to replace forced liquidations in defi lending https://leviathannews.xyz/319901/post-by-ernestosoftware-on-x-recommended-by-johnjl18 Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T04:45:22.408496+00:00 Kling 4 with Higgsfield MCP said to produce hyper-realistic ads for under $1 each https://leviathannews.xyz/319900/post-by-persona_journey-on-x-recommended-by-johnjl18 Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T04:45:14.255871+00:00 Unagi, maker of Persona Journey and Ultimate Champions, enters court-ordered liquidation in France https://leviathannews.xyz/319884/post-by-speculatexyz-on-x-recommended-by-johnjl18 Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T04:44:57.908254+00:00 Speculate launches consumer gateway aggregating Hyperliquid prediction markets and native gacha https://leviathannews.xyz/319875/post-by-lighter_xyz-on-x-recommended-by-johnjl18 Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T04:44:34.768422+00:00 Lighter_xyz teases options season, says feature is coming soon https://leviathannews.xyz/319906/new-pacificmeta-enters-a-strategic-partnership-with-chainlink-to-unlock-institutional-tokenization-in-japan-through-the-partnership-pacific-meta-has-adopted-chainlink-cci Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T00:01:39.009377+00:00 Chainlink partners with Pacific Meta to advance institutional tokenization in Japan https://leviathannews.xyz/319909/tldr-the-near-intents-contract-contained-a-bug-connected-with-interactions-with-third-party-contracts-the-affected-feature-has-been-removed-and-security-monitoring-has-been-hard Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T00:01:25.403782+00:00 NEAR Intents recovers $3.8M after contract bug minted ghost funds, removes flawed feature https://leviathannews.xyz/319903/following-its-activation-on-sepolia-on-october-6-the-glamsterdam-network-upgrade-is-now-scheduled-for-the-hoodi-testnet-glamsterdam-advances-ethereums-l1 Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T00:01:18.392108+00:00 Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade is set for Hoodi testnet activation on October 26 https://leviathannews.xyz/319892/cobo-wallet-one-of-the-early-crypto-wallet-apps-launched-by-f2pool-co-founder-to-shut-down-digital-asset-custody-provider-cobo-announced-that-its-cobo-wallet-app-will-shut-down Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T00:00:56.804872+00:00 Cobo Wallet app to shut down December 1; users must withdraw assets by November 30 or face 2% monthly fees https://leviathannews.xyz/319898/the-next-chapter-of-onchain-finance-wont-be-defined-by-which-assets-get-tokenized-it-will-be-defined-by-what-investors-can-do-with-them-kamino-the-larges Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T00:00:41.550459+00:00 Kamino hires private markets and AI veterans to lead U.S. institutional expansion https://leviathannews.xyz/319891/today-were-sharing-new-research-from-layerzero-labs-a16z-crypto-research-carnegie-mellon-university-and-imperial-college-london-introducing-aerie-a-new-system-for-aggregating Leviathan News en 2026-10-17T00:00:36.833684+00:00 LayerZero and researchers unveil Aerie, aggregating 32,000 Falcon signatures in 0.65 seconds https://leviathannews.xyz/319863/the-decades-old-mystery-of-the-origins-of-one-of-the-most-popular-cryptographic-standards-has-been-explained Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T20:10:06.209307+00:00 Anthropic traces NSA-supplied seeds behind NIST P-256 and sibling curves to 1997-98 Unix timestamps fed into lrand48, solving decades-old ECDSA mystery https://leviathannews.xyz/319735/latest-japans-three-largest-banks-mizuhobank-mufgbk_official-and-smbc_midosuke-complete-their-first-cross-border-stablecoin-payment-test-in-a-pilot-backed-by-the-financial Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T16:59:14.138820+00:00 Japan's three largest banks complete first cross-border stablecoin payment test in FSA-backed pilot https://leviathannews.xyz/319744/circle-ceo-jeremy-allaire-told-reuters-he-sees-regulatory-clarity-and-ai-agent-transactions-as-key-catalysts-driving-stablecoin-adoption-into-mainstream-finance Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T16:12:34.598526+00:00 Circle plans expansion into 50 markets as CEO cites stablecoin inflection point https://leviathannews.xyz/319737/no-headline-20261016-4 Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T16:00:09.792210+00:00 Marqeta and Coinbase collaborate to enable stablecoin-backed card payments https://leviathannews.xyz/319736/jack-henry-expands-collaboration-with-google-cloud-to-deliver-tokenized-deposits-for-banks-and-credit-unions Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T15:49:23.835679+00:00 Jack Henry to become first core banking provider on Google Cloud Universal Ledger for tokenized deposits https://leviathannews.xyz/319732/no-headline-20261016-3 Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T15:49:00.055706+00:00 Deutsche Bank to launch crypto custody in Germany within weeks, eyes Asia expansion in 2027 https://leviathannews.xyz/319729/no-headline-20261016-2 Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T15:48:56.867631+00:00 OpenAI says its research model spent another wallet's testnet ETH without authorization https://leviathannews.xyz/319728/quantum-alliance-forms-amid-warnings-64-million-bitcoin-face-future-quantum-threat-coindesk Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T15:48:52.994783+00:00 Quantum Alliance forms as experts debate how to protect 6.4 million bitcoin from future quantum threats https://leviathannews.xyz/319661/vitalik-buterin-unveils-paranoid-mode-for-private-ai-agents Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T13:14:51.520199+00:00 Vitalik Buterin unveils "paranoid mode" for private AI agents using Tor, zkAPI, and local prompt rewriting https://leviathannews.xyz/319569/inyo-global-becomes-the-first-enabler-to-bring-visa-directs-stablecoin-enabled-prefunding-into-production-making-stablecoin-powered-money-movement-available-for-businesses-that-r Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T10:21:14.679965+00:00 Visa launches stablecoin-powered payments into production as Inyo Global enables 24/7 USDC prefunding for eligible businesses https://leviathannews.xyz/319565/introducing-defi-api-building-defi-into-your-app-just-got-easier-powered-by-web3-api-infrastructure-the-new-defi-api-enables-developers-to-integrate-defi-capabilities-withou Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T10:21:04.626456+00:00 Binance Wallet launches DeFi API for 10 EVM chains, with Solana support coming soon https://leviathannews.xyz/319522/eloscape-value-consolidation-on-elysium Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T09:08:56.017224+00:00 Eloscape announces value consolidation on Elysium https://leviathannews.xyz/319540/jupiter-teases-someone-said-1000x-leverage-on-solana Leviathan News en 2026-10-16T09:07:55.014206+00:00 Jupiter Labs launches unaudited YOLO trading on Solana, teases 1000x leverage against the house