Crypto news on October 23, 2026

1. 0120:59 UTC

   Argentina drops crypto fraud investigation into Milei over $Libra post

   3 outlets · first: BBC Regulation

   Machine summary A federal judge in Argentina dismissed the criminal investigation into the country’s president and another person over the $Libra token at the request of prosecutors. The BBC reported that the judge concluded no criminally relevant deception had been proven. $Libra rose sharply after Milei's February 2025 post on X and fell after he deleted it within hours, with investors losing most of their money, according to the report.

   1. The judge said "the reported events do not fall under a legal category" and concluded that no "criminally relevant deception" had been proven, the BBC reported
   2. Milei posted about the newly launched $Libra coin on X in February 2025 and said it would help fund small businesses and start-ups, the BBC reported
   3. The token's price rose after the post with a buy link, then fell after Milei deleted the post within hours, with investors losing most of their money, per the BBC
   4. Milei said in an interview with Todo Noticias: "I didn't promote it, I merely shared it," and said he had acted in good faith, the BBC reported
   5. Opposition members of Congress planned impeachment proceedings over the episode, and the presidential office announced the Anti-Corruption Office would assess whether the president acted improperly, according to the BBC

   Reported by BBC and Buenos Aires Times.

   • BBC
   • Todo Noticias
   • $Libra (LIBRA)
   • Anti-Corruption Office

2. 0205:09 UTC

   Ethereum postpones Glamsterdam on Hoodi after ChainSecurity gas findings

   2 outlets · first: cointelegraph.com Ethereum

   Machine summary Key facts from the reports:

   1. ChainSecurity said the Glamsterdam hard fork on the Hoodi testnet was delayed after security impacts were identified in the upgrade's gas changes.
   2. The auditor said it had found 13 real-world examples of potentially affected smart contracts and was in responsible disclosure with the projects involved.
   3. The Hoodi activation had been scheduled to go live on Monday, according to the reports.
   4. Glamsterdam alters gas charging for stored data through EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 and adds a separate gas pool for creating new state.
   5. ChainSecurity's analysis says gas can be refilled or returned after a failed call under Glamsterdam, so an unchanged contract's failure path that previously reverted may now complete.

   Reported by cointelegraph.com and Decrypt.

   • Ethereum
   • Glamsterdam
   • smart contracts
   • EIP-8038
   • ChainSecurity
   • Hoodi testnet

3. 0304:34 UTC

   Bitcoin Core to ship security patches faster as AI speeds bug finds

   2 outlets · first: cointelegraph.com Bitcoin

   Machine summary Decrypt's page showed Bitcoin trading between $80,989 and $81,939 over 24 hours on CoinGecko data at the time of the report.

   1. According to Decrypt, developer Poinsot stated that large language models, according to Poinsot, have "drastically reduced the bar" for finding certain classes of issues or spotting a fix that was quietly shipped in the code.
   2. Under the new policy, Bitcoin Core may label a reported vulnerability "easily discoverable", expected for issues findable through a simple LLM query, and backport a fix to every maintained release, cutting a new version as quickly as possible, Decrypt reported
   3. Bitcoin Core is changing its security policy to ship security patches faster as AI makes bugs easier to find.
   4. According to Decrypt, in the discussion Poinsot wrote that secretly fixing such a bug "would achieve little," since even a basic AI scan can detect it and an aggressive backport would reveal it regardless.
   5. Bitcoin Core changed its security policy as AI makes bugs easier to find.

   Reported by Decrypt and cointelegraph.com.

   • Bitcoin
   • Decrypt
   • CoinGecko
   • Bitcoin Core

4. 0400:14 UTC

   World Liberty Financial sued over UAE-linked crypto transactions

   2 outlets · first: thedailybeast.com Regulation

   Machine summary The lawsuit alleges that UAE-linked crypto deals, including a $500 million sale of 49 percent of the venture before the inauguration, violated the Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause, and it points to MGX, a UAE government-created investment fund. Benzinga reports that World Liberty Financial and the White House deny the allegations.

   1. The plaintiff, a shareholder of publicly traded Circle, which competes with World Liberty Financial, alleges Trump accepted hundreds of millions of dollars and diverted business away from Circle, harming its shareholders.

   Reported by Benzinga and thedailybeast.com.

   • World Liberty Financial
   • MGX
   • Foreign Emoluments Clause

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