Chainalysis tied the $387 million Bitget hack to North Korea-linked hackers, saying it pushed their 2026 crypto theft past $1 billion. Its AI cut more than 20 hours of tracing to minutes, while the bill falls on a Bitget user fund the exchange puts above $464 million.
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Absa, Africa's first bank to offer Bitcoin custody, says Bitcoin is most of what its institutional platform holds. The book draws on South Africa's stock of crypto assets, a small fraction of the value that moves through the country in a year.
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XRP Asia, backed by Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation, launched in Singapore on Oct. 3 to connect Asia-Pacific XRPL builders with grants and partners. The grants it points to are Ripple's older programs, and the best documented of them offered up to $200,000 per Japanese project starting in June 2025.
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XRP Ledger x402 payments ran at about 525,000 a day over the latest week, taking the total from 1 million in July to 11,965,947 by Oct. 3. The count shows software paying for services at volume, but it is a tally of payments published without a dollar value.
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XRP Ledger's Batch amendment has 30 of 35 trusted validators behind it and a projected Oct. 9 start for bundles of up to eight transactions. Bundles cost more in fees than separate sends, and a security fix due that morning forces server operators to update.
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Bitget has recovered an estimated 0.2% of the $387.5 million hackers drained on September 24, through freezes by NEAR Intents, Tether and Circle. Its own User Protection Fund is covering the rest, so the protocols that cooperated cut Bitget's bill by less than $1 million.
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Korea's regulators sorted crypto into plumbing and wagering, approving a bank remittance rail while cutting off a prediction market. XRP fell below $1 anyway.
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Bitget lost about $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets after attackers spoofed transaction data in a backend system, the exchange said. Cold storage held and a $464 million fund covers the loss, while about 45% of the haul is native XRP that no one can freeze.
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Ripple's $1 billion purchase of GTreasury put RLUSD on the dashboards of more than 1,000 corporate treasuries in April, and the constraint has moved from distribution to how fast the coin's float can turn.
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The XRP Ledger's 8 million funded accounts are the headline, but the number carrying the institutional argument is an $85,000 average transfer, and Crypto Briefing prints it as a range with no median beside it.
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Ripple's stablecoin now keeps 56.1% of its $2.37B supply on Ethereum, where one lending market's $330M balance explains the chain split better than the 69,000 wallets holding the XRP Ledger side.
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