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New York's attorney general says she has secured "up to $35 million" from ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky and a permanent ban from the securities, commodities and crypto industries. Both sums are conditional, and New York may collect nothing if he meets both conditions. The exact terms, and what they do not mean.

Two European crypto-policy steps from 7–9 October 2026: the French National Assembly's finance committee adopted amendments to tax crypto-to-stablecoin swaps and extend the exit tax to crypto (proposals; the full chamber debates from 13 October), and ESMA opened a call for evidence on tokenised collateral at EU clearing houses, with responses due by 15 January 2027.

An attacker returned 15,000 BNB to the 79thVault project on BNB Chain, a Manhattan jury convicted Uranium Finance hacker Jonathan Spalletta on all counts, and a London court jailed a SIM-swap fraudster for two and a half years. Plus two small DeFi exploits flagged by SlowMist.

After a malicious governance proposal seized eight of its contracts in September, the Cosmos exchange Astroport has turned off token voting on Neutron and Terra, handed control to contributor-run DAOs with an emergency multisig, and cut ASTRO emissions to zero. What changed, what is still planned, and what it says about on-chain governance.

Ledger says it is investigating reports of lost funds among South East Asia customers who bought devices from the reseller CryptoBilis, and has asked the reseller to pause sales. Loss totals of about $86m come from Hacken and an on-chain analyst, not Ledger. The cause is unconfirmed.

Network upgrades on 8–9 October 2026: the XRP Ledger now lets accounts hand limited powers to other accounts, with one known caveat; Solana cut its target block time from 250 to 200 milliseconds on Friday afternoon UK time; and Sei approved its FlatKV storage migration. What changes for users and builders.

Thailand's SEC has issued the rules for bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds, effective 16 October 2026, though no Thai crypto ETF has launched. Separately, Bitcoin Core 32.0 is still at release candidate 3, with its final tag aimed for 10 October and a privacy fix included. What changes, and what doesn't.

Three crypto policy moves from 8 October 2026: an ESMA opinion telling MiCA-authorised firms to stop services in non-compliant stablecoins, Senator Blumenthal's letter asking Cantor Fitzgerald about its Tether ties, and a Greek draft bill proposing a 10% crypto capital-gains tax. What each one does, and what it doesn't.

Four tokenisation moves from 8 October 2026: Securitize's 1:1-backed tokenised US shares on Solana, Standard Chartered's plan for digital-asset custody in Singapore, NUVA's offshore token tied to US home-equity loans, and Crédit Agricole Assurances' first tokenised investment. What each is, and what it is not.

Three bitcoin business items from 8 October 2026: Block's preliminary, unaudited Q3 Cash App bitcoin figures, an EDX Markets deal to list VerifiedX's tokenised bitcoin (vBTC), and CryptoQuant's reading that miners have made no "extreme" outflows since 21 August. What each says, and what it doesn't.