Bitcoin is up slightly at $8,671
XRP is down slightly 26 cents
and Ethereum is down 1% at $183

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Verge up 48%
Cortex up 40%
Horizon up 19%
and QuarkChain up 19%

Blockchain.com’s lending business is coming out of stealth mode.

Two men have been arrested and charged in a US district court in Boston for a nationwide SIM-swap plot.

Walmart’s Canada unit has built a blockchain solution to track, verify and automte payments for its carriers.

Coinmine has added interest to its at-home crypto miners.

Links:

• Walmart builds blockchain solution to automate payments of its carriers in Canada - The Block
• US authorities arrest 2 in alleged SIM swap cryptocurrency theft scheme - The Block
• As credit concerns loom in crypto, Blockchain.com secretly builds multi-million dollar loan desk - The Block
• WATCH: Coinmine Adds Interest Payments to Its At-Home Crypto Miners - CoinDesk

Bitcoin is up 1.5% at $10,334
XRP is up 2% at 26 cents
and Ethereum is up half a percent at $185

Top gainers in the last 24 hours:
Syscoin up 30%
PumaPay up 23%
and Dent up 23%

Crypto miniing hardware and softwaare company Coinmine has reported a 2.5 million seed round of financing.

A blockchain war-game called Fumblechain was introduced at the Black Hat InfoSecurity event.

Poloniex is removing 23 crypto trading pairs due to low volume.

Biance is opening Binance US sometime before November.

Australian tax office has distributed letters and will be fining pensioners and investors who have invested the majority of their retirement funds in cryptocurrencies.

Links:

• Warnings issued to Aussies betting 90% of retirement funds on crypto | Micky
• Binance to Launch U.S. Division Before November on Cheddar
• Poloniex exchange removing 23 crypto trading pairs, citing ‘low volume’ - The Block
• Meet FumbleChain, the Deliberately Flawed Blockchain - CoinDesk
• Crypto Miner Company CoinMine Scores $2.5 Million in Seed Round - CoinDesk