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Created: 30 October 2026

With tightening verification requirements on major platforms, miners are increasingly looking for exchanges where they can withdraw rewards without mandatory KYC. One such option is Ourbit — a relatively young exchange registered in the British Virgin Islands. It supports miner coins Pearl (PEARL), Quantus (QUANTUS), and Nock (NOCK), and mandatory verification is not required.

Read more: Ourbit: a no-KYC exchange for Pearl, Quantus, and Nock miners

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Created: 30 October 2026

On October 23, 2026, the exchange Gate.io listed the Pearl (PEARL) token. The PEARL/USDT trading pair became available on the spot market from 13:00 UTC, and convert trading from 14:00 UTC. Withdrawals opened on October 24. For miners who previously focused mainly on SafeTrade, this is an important event.

Read more: Listing of Pearl (PEARL) on Gate.io: Why Miners Should Switch from SafeTrade

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Created: 30 October 2026

On the night of October 30, 2026, the crypto world woke up to news that initially seemed almost too shocking to believe: approximately $5.8 billion reportedly drained from Binance hot wallets in just 40 minutes. If the figure is ultimately confirmed, the incident would surpass the February 2025 Bybit hack, in which approximately $1.5 billion was stolen, becoming the largest cryptocurrency exchange theft in history.

Here's what happened, how the attack was possible, and why every cryptocurrency holder should pay attention.

Read more: Binance Hack October 30, 2026: $5.8 Billion Stolen From Hot Wallets in Major Security Breach

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Created: 18 October 2026

In October 2026, another scandal erupted involving hardware crypto wallets from Ledger. This time, over $80 million was reported stolen from Ledger wallets purchased in Asia from the supplier CryptoBills. The company later officially confirmed that devices distributed as new Ledger Nano X and Stax crypto wallets actually contained hardware modifications with eSIM chips designed to transmit secret seed phrases to fraudsters after users activated their wallets.

Read more: How to Check Your Ledger Crypto Wallet for Tampering by Weight

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Created: 15 October 2026

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has launched the Alliance Program, a rewards program that allows users to receive a share of the platform's trading fee revenue. An amount equivalent to 30% of the exchange's eligible net trading fee revenue is allocated to the rewards pool. Users can earn rewards for trading activity and holding assets in their accounts. The program runs from September 28 to October 26, 2026. Users can qualify for rewards in either category or both, provided they meet the applicable requirements.

Read more: Bitget distributes 30% of trading fees among users: how the Alliance Program works

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Created: 07 October 2026

Using ASIC miners for cryptocurrency mining is typically not associated with home use due to high power consumption and noise. However, demand creates supply, and the market offers a variety of ASIC miner models designed for home use. The main problem with such solutions is the use of outdated ASIC chips that no longer provide profitability, as the cost of electricity exceeds the earnings from mining on such devices. Recently, the company Hummer released the ASIC Hammer THOR X1 and P2 to the market, featuring the latest-generation ASIC chips BM1373, which are used in the latest-generation industrial Bitcoin mining rigs – Antminer S23.

Read more: Hammer THOR X1 and P2 – Home ASIC Miners with BM1373 Chips from Antminer S23

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Created: 29 September 2026

Quantus (QUAN) is a new Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency that launched its mainnet on September 9, 2026. The project focuses on post-quantum cryptography, privacy, and the use of Poseidon2 technology for PoW consensus. At launch, the main way to obtain QUAN is through GPU mining. The official Quantus Miner, several third-party optimized miners, and several mining pools are already available. In this article, we will look at what Quantus is, how to set up QUAN mining on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, which miners to use, how to connect to a pool, and what to consider when choosing hardware.

Read more: Quantus (QUAN) Mining: A Detailed Guide. How to Mine the New Coin Using GPUs in 2026

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Created: 13 August 2026

The Nvidia CMP170HX graphics card appeared during the dawn of the mining era in 2021 and is a heavily stripped-down version of the AI accelerator A100. Instead of 64GB or 80GB of video memory, Nvidia artificially limited the fast HBM2e memory capacity on the mining-oriented CMP170HX to 8GB or 10GB at the software level. Until recently, CMP170HX cards were selling for as little as $200, since they were good for nothing other than mining — and mining, as we know, hasn't been thriving in 2026. Everything changed within just a few days after the appearance of the CMPUnlocker program, which removes the factory memory lock at the software level, turning the CMP170HX from 8GB into 64GB, and for the 10GB versions, owners can get the full 80GB of VRAM.

Read more: CMPUnlocker can unlock 80GB of video memory instead of 8GB on the CMP170HX

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Created: 06 August 2026

On the night of August 6, 2026, a softfork took place on the Pearl network. The rank-penalty softfork activated at approximately 02:00 UTC (block 96251). This is the event many miners discovered in the morning after noticing a drop in hashrate. In the Pearl protocol there is a parameter called noise rank. The higher the rank, the “easier” it was to obtain a valid jackpot (reward) for the same amount of work. Some miners deliberately mined at high ranks and received a disproportionately large effective hashrate and rewards. The team investigated abnormal mining optimizations. As a result, the softfork introduced a penalty mechanism and established new rules.

Read more: Rank-penalty softfork activated on the Pearl (PRL) network

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Created: 11 July 2026

BTX is a new coin created as a post-quantum rotational asset. BTX rethinks scarce digital ownership for the next era of money: emission following the Bitcoin model, post-quantum value transfer during mining, and a permissionless fleet of universal computing power connected to multi-level global liquidity. This formulation highlights the uniqueness of BTX as an asset ready for future quantum computer challenges, while preserving Bitcoin's core principles and integrating computing resources into the global financial ecosystem. In this material we will review the possibility of mining BTX on modern graphics cards.

Read more: BTX - overview of the new coin and GPU mining setup in 2026

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Created: 09 July 2026

Centralized crypto exchanges continue to lead as the primary tools for storing and exchanging digital assets. Their user-friendly interfaces, instant access to trading operations, wide selection of coins, and additional services like staking, futures, and copy trading attract millions of users worldwide. However, behind this external comfort lies a whole set of serious risks that can lead to partial or complete loss of funds. In this article, we will take a detailed look at why storage on CEX remains popular but extremely risky, list the main threats with real cases, reveal hidden problems, and provide practical recommendations for minimizing losses. If you actively trade or simply hold assets on Binance, Bybit, Coinbase, KuCoin, or other platforms, this article will help you reconsider your security strategy.

Read more: 5 Common Risks of Storing Cryptocurrencies on Centralized Exchanges in 2026