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As the cryptocurrency market, led by Bitcoin (BTC), XRP, and Cardano (ADA) rebounded over the past 2 days through October 21, 2026, crypto trading expert Ali Martinez signaled potential short-term manipulation for their prices by large players. Martinez noted that the Bitcoin price rebound over the last 2 days has coincided with a sharp spike in on-chain activity, according to his X on Wednesday. Specifically, as BTC climbed from around $81,200 to a high of $83,407 on Tuesday, its exchange inflows surged from roughly 7,682 to 25,124 coins. BTC exchange inflows. Source: Santiment  Similarly, the crypto analyst pointed out that XRP’s price jump from its major support level around $1.25 on Tuesday, overlapped with a surge in transaction volume on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), from roughly 215.87 million over the weekend to 49.17 billion on Monday. XRP transaction volume. Source: Santiment  Meanwhile, Martinez showed that Cardano’s whale transactions, worth mor...

Pseudonymous GTA 6 leaker “Cyberleek” has threatened to reveal the long-awaited game’s ending if they’re caught, but won’t be leaking content regularly anymore because of their poorly performing crypto token.   Last week, Protos reported that Cyberleek had ended their hiatus to drop more GTA 6 leaks with an emphasis on nudity.  It pumped their cryptocurrency by 200% over two days, which, despite the positive price action, wasn’t as good as the $40 million market cap it achieved when the first leaks were revealed.  However, Cyberleek is now struggling again. According to their latest message this morning, they claim that they won’t leak the game’s full build as their token was unable to reach a market cap of $30 million. Cyberleek’s token began to dip around 10:30 UTC+1. Read more: GTA VI leaker’s token crashes despite ‘first true spoiler’ Right now, the token’s market cap sits at a little over $1 million. It reportedly began...

A legacy MakerDAO auction-keeper contract has been exploited for over $500,000, with the exploit reaching back to Black Thursday in 2020. Specifically, a CertiK Analysis details how an attacker was able to remove 200 ETH from a contract described as a “legacy auction-keeper.” This auction-keeper contract was one of the first on Black Thursday in March 2020 to win ETH from MakerDAO for “zero bids” during the liquidation crisis, and four 50-ETH lots were never settled — something the hacker was able to take advantage of. Stablecoin Development Corp price pumps for no reason Read more: Tether has publicly listed a company that partially controls USDS According to CertiK’s Analysis “the root cause was a missing access control on function 0x8804d1de in keeper implementation 0x68399ed8aa33C5b43F863EE6782de492006A5546.” Using this exploit, the attacker was able to gain access to four lots of 50 ETH that remaine...

The United States spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have attracted more than $300 million in cash inflows during the third quarter (Q3) of 2026.  Precisely, XRP spot ETFs have absorbed $307.87 million over the past three months, according to crypto data Finbold analyzed from SoSoValue on September 30.  XRP spot ETFs monthly cash flows. Source: SoSoValue  In July, these funds recorded a net cash inflow of $27.29 million, thereby increasing their total net assets to $988.78 million. August 2026 saw XRP ETFs capture $159.18 million, thereby helping the funds’ assets surge to $1.45 billion.  So far in September, these ETFs have registered around $121.40 million in total net inflows. As such, these crypto ETFs command $1.69 billion in total assets at the time of reporting. Over the past three months, Bitwise XRP ETF (XRP) saw a total cash inflow of $177.94 million. As a result, this ETF increased its total funds under management to $618.81 million at the time o...