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A total of 11,608 new tokens launched across five networks in the seven days ending at the 27 October 2026 snapshot, according to the TheBitTimes on-chain token database. BSC led with 9,700 launches, and 36.8% of them show measured liquidity above zero, while only 1.6% of BSC launches reached 100 holders. Which chains launched the most tokens? BSC dominated the week by a wide margin. BASE came second with 1,058 new tokens, followed by ETH with 694, POLY with 155 and AVAX with 1. The table below shows how many of those launches reached 100 holders and how many have measured liquidity above zero. Network New tokens % with 100+ holders % with measured liquidity BSC 9,700 1.6% 36.8% BASE 1,058 0.5% 0% ETH 694 2.2% 16.9% POLY 155 0% 34.2% AVAX 1 0% 0% The liquidity column counts only tokens whose liquidity was measured and is above zero. A token outside that share is not necessarily without liquidity, because its liquidity may simply not have been measured. The BASE figure of 0% should be r...

Regardless of Bitcoin (BTC) recording a selloff of more than 5% over the first two weeks of October 2026, trading at approximately $82,663 on October 20, historical returns revealed a possible bullish close by the end of this month. Between 2011 and 2025, Bitcoin has recorded an average return of 13% upside in October, according to data Finbold fetched from CryptoRank on Tuesday. With Bitcoin having opened October trading at roughly $83,592, the historical average signals a potential rally to $94,458.96 by October 31. Bitcoin’s monthly price performance since 2011. Source: CryptoRank Meanwhile, BTC’s price has registered a median climb of 10.8% in October during the past 14 years. If BTC price follows its median historical return by the end of the next two weeks, it could reach a target of $92,619.94.  Consequently, the historical mean of Bitcoin’s average and median return is $93,539.45, which suggests a possible 13.16% uptick over the next 11 days.  ...

Shareholders of Ripple and Arrington Capital’s XRP treasury stock Evernorth Holdings would have surely loved to know that hackers could have inflated the supply of XRP by trillions of new tokens before they decided last month whether to move forward with a plan to take an XRP crypto treasury company public. No one told them, while their share redemption window was open prior to September 28, that the XRP Ledger’s base layer payment engine had a bug allowing hackers to mint trillions of new XRP — trading today near $1.35 apiece — for almost nothing. That bug made the fixed-supply promises of countless XRP proponents, including Evernorth CEO Asheesh Birla’s claim that 100 billion XRP was a ceiling that would never move, unenforceable on the network itself. “All 100 billion XRP tokens were created at the time of the XRP Ledger’s launch in 2012,” Evernorth’s proxy filing read. In fact, hackers could have minted orders of magnitude more over the past decade. Ho...

A lawsuit filed by crypto payments firm Conduit has accused Tether of unlawfully freezing $2.76 million worth of its USDT and refusing to give it back for over a year.  Conduit filed the lawsuit in New York yesterday. It claims that Tether froze the funds in September 2025 and repeatedly referred Conduit to a contact in the Brazilian Federal Police with “no context” for said referral. The firm says Tether didn’t “substantively” respond to its requests to unfreeze the funds and eventually sought help from Brazilian police.  According to Conduit, police confirmed that they “did not identify Conduit’s wallet for freezing,” and that they also don’t know “what evaluation criteria (if any) led Tether to freeze the funds.” Frozen USDT linked to Brazilian police investigation The lawsuit notes that police did ask Tether to freeze a series of wallets linked to “Onix Intermediações Ltda” which had used Conduit’s platform.  Onix shares common ownershi...