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Cryptocurrency does not disappear when its owner dies. The coins stay on the blockchain. What can disappear is the ability to reach them. Unlike a bank account, crypto held in a personal wallet has no branch to call and no beneficiary form. Access depends on private keys, and heirs can only use what they can find. This article gathers the main statistics and facts from six published sources. It covers lost Bitcoin estimates, planning gaps, wills, taxes, and the tools people use to pass on crypto. Key Statistics at a Glance Figures on lost crypto are estimates, not exact counts.…

Bitcoin Core has changed its security disclosure policy after developers found that some vulnerabilities can be rediscovered with minimal effort, including a simple prompt to an AI model. Summary Bitcoin Core merged its revised security policy on October 22, adding a fast disclosure route for flaws that are easy to rediscover. The new route promises a fix for each of the three maintained major versions alongside a public advisory. Other low severity bugs remain on a two week disclosure schedule after a major release, while medium and high severity flaws may wait longer. Version 32.0’s notes identify three medium or…

For about $51,000, a single wallet bought enough DIKO to win Arkadiko’s governance vote. It voted 58 minutes before the poll closed, faced no opposition, and within minutes of its proposal going live it had taken about $1.09 million from the protocol’s vaults.The vote was proposal 12 on Arkadiko, a lending protocol on Stacks. On paper, it ran for five days. In practice, it was decided in under an hour by a wallet that had owned almost none of its voting power the day before. Let’s go through Bitquery’s on-chain investigation to rebuild three things: what the vote cost, what…

Passive investing has grown from a niche strategy into a core part of global financial markets. Index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) now hold trillions of dollars in stocks and bonds. In the United States, passive funds hold more assets than actively managed funds. The global ETF industry is also at a record size. Worldwide ETF assets rose above $24 trillion for the first time in August 2026, after starting the year at about $19.85 trillion. Investors added nearly $2 trillion in net new money during the first eight months of the year. Not all ETFs are passive. Actively…

TLDR Bybit secured a full Dubai VASP license covering spot cryptocurrency trading services. The exchange plans to expand into derivatives trading but must first obtain separate VARA approval. Bybit reported five additional licenses and regulatory approvals across international markets during 2026. Dubai continues licensing digital asset firms, with Kraken’s parent Payward receiving full regulatory approval. Bybit announced on October 22 that its Dubai unit, Bybit Fintech FZE, received a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license for spot trading. Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has not approved the exchange for derivatives. Bybit Eyes Derivatives After Spot License The full approval…

TLDR: Santiment counted 2,295 new UNI addresses in one day, the highest network-growth reading since November 2022, based on first-time interactions with UNI. Santiment pointed to new Uniswap v4 features, expanded liquidity routing and continued Unichain development as possible reasons for the increase, without naming a single driver. Santiment identified $7 as the key downside level, $7.50 as the first meaningful reclaim and $8 as a possible retest if support and network activity remain firm. If UNI loses $7 while new address creation fades, Santiment said the spike may reflect short-term excitement rather than sustained adoption; follow-through will clarify the…

Stock buybacks are now one of the biggest ways U.S. companies return cash to shareholders. S&P 500 companies spent a record $1.02 trillion on repurchases in the 12 months ending September 2025. That was up 11.1% from $918.4 billion a year earlier. Combined with dividends, companies returned a record $1.685 trillion to shareholders. The trend has carried into 2026. Nvidia approved a $150 billion buyback expansion in September 2026, and General Motors announced a new $20 billion program in October 2026. An authorization is not the same as actual spending. A company can approve $100 billion in future purchases, then…

Cronos says v1.8 delivers about 20% faster blocks and up to 66% higher throughput. Neither number appears in the official v1.8 blog post or release notes. Both come from a September social media post and were based on simulations.Today, the upgrade is scheduled to move those claims onto a live chain, and Cronos’s own explorer shows why only one of them can be checked. On upgrade day, about three out of four Cronos blocks contain no transactions. A throughput gain has nothing to show up in when the blocks are mostly empty.Cronos v1.8 Reaches Mainnet With Parallel Execution Built InThe…

TL;DR: The Zcash Foundation says it merged fixes for Zebra nodes that stopped syncing near the chain tip. The October 21 update places the work ahead of a stable NU7 release and reminds operators of the older client’s approaching stop date. Zcash’s preparation for NU7 includes a less glamorous but essential task: making sure nodes keep following the chain reliably. In an engineering update published Wednesday, the Zcash Foundation described fixes for synchronization problems reported after Zebra 7.0.0-rc.0. Its team also confirmed the same underlying cause on a mainnet node. The changes adjust how Zebra requests blocks from peers and…

TRON has processed $2.21 trillion in stablecoin settlement during the third quarter of 2026, up 5.1% from the previous quarter, Nansen has reported. Summary $2.21 trillion in quarterly stablecoin settlement represents 5.1% growth from the previous three months. 1.07 billion successful transactions were recorded across the network during July through September. Binance and OKX led labeled transaction activity, but the report provides no payments-versus-exchange dollar split. TRON’s settlement figures do not include a matching quarterly comparison with Ethereum and Solana. Nansen’s Oct. 21 report puts successful network transactions at 1.0748 billion for July through September, averaging 11.68 million a day.…