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Oct 7OKX Pleaded Guilty to Running an Illegal Money Business in the US. Now Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered Are Buying In●Oct 6Treasury Wanted a Token Swap or a Fresh Wallet Address Counted as 'Mixing.' It Just Dropped the Rule●Oct 5Someone Just Drained $6 Million From a Vault on Base. Nobody Will Say Whose Vault It Was●Oct 4Blast Pulled In $2 Billion Before It Even Had a Chain. Now It's Switching the Chain Off Because It Can't Cover the Bills●Oct 3Someone Stole Less Than $1,000 From MetaMask's Validators. MetaMask Is Pulling $1.4 Billion of ETH Out of Staking Because of It●Oct 2The SEC Just Told Fund Managers They Can Hold Your Crypto Keys Themselves. The Catch: Every Quarter They Have to Write Down That Nobody Else Will●Oct 1Two Appeals Courts Just Said Kalshi Sports Bets Are Gambling. The CFTC, Run by One Man, Is Rewriting the Dictionary So They Aren't.●Sep 30Two Weeks After Its Engineers Were Charged Over HYPE Perps, Robinhood Says It Will Sell HYPE Perps to Every American●Sep 29Senate Investigators Checked 846 Sanctioned Iran Wallets. 84% of Them Ran on Tether●Sep 2853 Memecoins on Robinhood Chain Turned Out to Be One Crew. They Took $18.4M, and Each Rug Paid for the Next●Oct 7OKX Pleaded Guilty to Running an Illegal Money Business in the US. Now Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered Are Buying In●Oct 6Treasury Wanted a Token Swap or a Fresh Wallet Address Counted as 'Mixing.' It Just Dropped the Rule●Oct 5Someone Just Drained $6 Million From a Vault on Base. Nobody Will Say Whose Vault It Was●Oct 4Blast Pulled In $2 Billion Before It Even Had a Chain. Now It's Switching the Chain Off Because It Can't Cover the Bills●Oct 3Someone Stole Less Than $1,000 From MetaMask's Validators. MetaMask Is Pulling $1.4 Billion of ETH Out of Staking Because of It●Oct 2The SEC Just Told Fund Managers They Can Hold Your Crypto Keys Themselves. The Catch: Every Quarter They Have to Write Down That Nobody Else Will●Oct 1Two Appeals Courts Just Said Kalshi Sports Bets Are Gambling. The CFTC, Run by One Man, Is Rewriting the Dictionary So They Aren't.●Sep 30Two Weeks After Its Engineers Were Charged Over HYPE Perps, Robinhood Says It Will Sell HYPE Perps to Every American●Sep 29Senate Investigators Checked 846 Sanctioned Iran Wallets. 84% of Them Ran on Tether●Sep 2853 Memecoins on Robinhood Chain Turned Out to Be One Crew. They Took $18.4M, and Each Rug Paid for the Next●

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Blast Pulled In $2 Billion Before It Even Had a Chain. Now It's Switching the Chain Off Because It Can't Cover the Bills

Blast Pulled In $2 Billion Before It Even Had a Chain. Now It's Switching the Chain Off Because It Can't Cover the Bills

Blast, the Ethereum layer 2 from Blur founder Pacman that attracted around $2 billion in deposits before its mainnet existed, says it will shut down because running the chain costs more than it earns. Users have until October 26 to withdraw through the normal interface. TVL is down to roughly $63-65 million, and the BLAST token fell about 47% on the news, leaving it around 98-99% below its peak.

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