UK court sends $5bn seized bitcoin claims to Chinese law
A High Court judge ruled Chinese law will govern victims’ claims to 61,000 seized bitcoin, narrowing their route to the £3.8bn haul without deciding who owns it.
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A High Court judge ruled Chinese law will govern victims’ claims to 61,000 seized bitcoin, narrowing their route to the £3.8bn haul without deciding who owns it.
Ripple and Privy are adding XRPL wallet tools for app builders, letting users and AI agents transact with XRP, RLUSD and other network assets.
A bridge moves assets between chains; a swap changes the asset. Learn when your integration needs one operation, the other, or both in one cross-chain flow.
A Manta bridge route depends on the asset, destination chain and transfer method; compare what arrives, what you pay and what can go wrong before confirming.
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Aptos says its opt-in encrypted mempool is live on mainnet, hiding transaction payloads until blocks finalize to limit frontrunning and sandwich attacks.
Jeonbuk Bank has begun bitcoin-backed won loans for businesses in South Korea, with a third-party custodian holding collateral and court sales planned for defaults.
Blur will close its website and stop matching new Blend loans on Nov. 12, while Ethereum marketplace contracts remain live and borrowers must settle or risk default.
Starknet is weighing an Ethereum exit to pursue quantum resistance by 2027, while STRK rose about 20% in 24 hours; no move has been approved yet.
Sui Foundation is investing $30 million as DATA moves its AI data protocol onto Sui, retires its chain and carries the DATA token over one-to-one.
Meanwhile raised $37.5 million from existing investors led by Bain Capital Crypto, funding expansion of its bitcoin life insurance for wealthy clients outside the U.S.
Solana’s final slot-time cut took effect Oct. 9, bringing the target to 200 milliseconds and doubling block opportunities while halving blockhash validity.