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Morning Minute: NEAR Intents Hacked for $3.8M - Was It A Bullish Hack?
Hacks are never good, but a rapid response, user compensation and 1-hour bug fixing seems to top the spectrum of team reactions.
Gordon Ramsay’s UK restaurants stay in red despite sales topping £100m
Group says trading was helped by airing of Netflix documentary and opening of its 100th outletBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK arm of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants empire remain…
BNB Chain crosses $1B in tokenized stocks, ETFs as market hits $3.7B
Tokenized stocks and ETFs on BNB Chain reached $1.1 billion as the broader market climbed to $3.7 billion, putting the network’s share at roughly 30%.
Sky-high fuel prices push costs up on customers and charities
Growing fuel costs are leading to an increase in costs for charities and other businesses.
Cboe wants to turn VIX into a never-ending trade
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 2, 2026
US Designates Russia's A7 Network as Transnational Criminal Organization
Treasury's proposed rule aims to cut A7's front companies off from U.S. finance—including crypto, where its ruble token moved $179 billion.
Live updates: Bitcoin trading near $87,000 after big miss on U.S. jobs
U.S. stocks were also gaining as oil fell more than 3% and yields continued to ease from recent highs.
Trump just soft-launched higher inflation as the new solution for rebalancing the $40 trillion U.S. national debt
"You know, inflation, certain levels of inflation will also pay off that debt very rapidly. Very rapidly."
Bitcoin treasuries may struggle to match Strategy, says Ammous
Strategy’s scale and cash reserves give it an edge over treasury rivals, according to Saifedean Ammous, author of “The Bitcoin Standard.”
No more cereal at the end of the aisle? New rules in Scotland's supermarkets
Restrictions are being put on products with high sugar, fat and salt content, but the meal deal lives on.
Crypto traders are in risk-on mode as bitcoin dominance nears return to 60%
Bitcoin dominance is closing in on 60% while USDT's has slipped to 6.3%, pointing to a market growing more comfortable with risk.
Capitalism may be reinventing socialism — and probably not how you think
The economics of private property could be changing massively from the dual forces of AI and quantum computing.
CONNECT recap: Arthur Hayes on money printing, Wall Street moves onchain
Arthur Hayes said money printing could lift crypto prices, while CONNECT Seoul speakers examined Wall Street’s competitive edge onchain.
UK diesel price hits record high of £2 a litre
Motorists and small businesses struggle with costs as Iran war drives up cost of oil worldwide‘Half my day’s pay goes to filling up my car’Business live – latest updatesBritish mo…
UK diesel price hits £2 a litre for first time, RAC says
The motoring body says diesel price rises are showing no signs of slowing, "heaping more misery" onto drivers.
GM’s Mary Barra says ‘I’m done making predictions’—but sees fully autonomous driving in 2028
Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.
OpenAI disclose another hack on government department in Australia
Attack accessing historical data on bushfires occurred in June but not disclosed by the tech company until ThursdayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastArtif…
I’m a humanitarian leader who’s all in on AI. Here’s why
Humanitarian groups should use AI—but only with evidence, oversight and strict safeguards.
When pre-IPO shares are too good to be true
With AI companies moving towards record-setting IPOs, with trillion-dollar valuations, the demand for pre-IPO shares is greater than ever—as is the opportunity for deceit.
Kinky dating app Feeld’s founders share in record £3.8m dividend after sales jump
Platform ‘for the curious’ says users outside the UK account for nearly 90% of its revenuesBusiness live – latest updatesFeeld, a UK-based dating app aimed at non-monogamous, quee…
Ford CEO Jim Farley says the line between engineers and skilled tradespeople is now ‘completely blurred out’
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Bitcoin reaches for $87K as short liquidations top $120M
Bitcoin buyers broke through a wall of ask liquidity to reach new October BTC price highs near $87,800, with the area immediately above now a new resistance hurdle.
Aave founder says V3 unaffected after third-party adapter exploit drains $305K
Aave founder Stani Kulechov said Aave v3 was unaffected after an attacker exploited a third-party adapter to drain about $305,000 from two Safe multisig wallets.
The Fed has one interest rate. America has two economies
Americans are using BNPL for rent and groceries as Fed policy confronts two economies.