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India's Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched three premises in Bengaluru linked to the crypto exchanges CoinDCX and Delta Exchange India on November 4 and 5, 2026, in an investigation under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), the agency said in a press release dated November 6. The ED alleges that the two platforms carried out unauthorized cross-border transactions in crypto derivatives and tokenized foreign stocks.
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Ethereum
The research group's "pqai27" plan would reorder the Hegotá upgrade around threats from quantum computers and AI. It is a proposal: core developers have not adopted it.
Ethlabs, a nonprofit Ethereum research group, proposed on November 11, 2026, that Ethereum become post-quantum, meaning resistant to attacks by quantum computers, in 2027. It said it will withdraw Quick Slots, a proposal for faster blocks that it had pushed for, from the planned Hegotá upgrade to work on that goal. The group set out the plan, which it calls "pqai27," in a post on the Ethereum Magicians forum.
Stocks
The Avalon maker reported an $8.0 million quarterly profit that came from fair-value gains on its crypto holdings and derivatives, not from operations, and said it has been selectively monetizing crypto to fund share repurchases.
Canaan, the maker of Avalon Bitcoin (BTC) mining machines, reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $14.5 million on November 10, 2026, down from $150.5 million a year earlier, as revenue from selling machines fell 96% to $4.8 million.
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The Bitcoin treasury company is one of 24 deletions from the index in MSCI's November review, the first under its new rule for companies it classes as non-operating. Metaplanet leaves a Japanese small-cap index.
Index provider MSCI will delete Strategy, the Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company that held 850,364 BTC as of November 8, from its MSCI USA Index as of the close of November 30, 2026, according to the list of changes MSCI published on November 11 with its November index review.
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Microsoft's status page still showed service degradation on Friday morning. The stock was about 2.8% below Thursday's close in premarket trading at 10:57 UTC.
A Microsoft 365 outage that began on Thursday, November 12, 2026, was still affecting Outlook email and other services on Friday morning, and the company's shares fell in premarket trading. Microsoft's service status page showed "service degradation" for Microsoft 365 in an entry last updated at 10:01 UTC on November 13, saying users "may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services."
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House chairmen asked the former Nvidia chief for a closed-door interview on December 1 and said a subpoena will be issued if he does not accept. Lutnick has agreed to testify to the Senate Banking Committee, NBC News reported.
Committees in both chambers of the US Congress asked former Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang on Thursday, November 12, 2026, to answer questions in December about national security and the export of Nvidia chips to China.
Stocks
The Nasdaq-listed company owed about $64.1 million against 46,676 ether on November 9. By our calculation, Aave could start selling that collateral at an ether price near $1,717 if those figures have not changed.
BTCS, a Nasdaq-listed company that holds ether (ETH) as its main asset, said it sold ether for less than it paid in order to protect loans it has taken on the lending protocol Aave.
Bitcoin
The Bitcoin miner says it intends to keep selling Bitcoin to raise cash for AI infrastructure, convertible-note puts, and possible share buybacks. Third-quarter revenue fell 35%.
MARA Holdings (MARA) sold 13,597 BTC at an average price of about $81,039 after its third quarter ended on September 30, raising about $1.1 billion, the Bitcoin miner said in its third-quarter shareholder letter, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on November 9. It used $750 million of the proceeds to repay all of its Bitcoin-collateralized loans and said it intends to keep selling Bitcoin to raise cash.
Markets
CoinGecko's hourly data shows a slide of about 6.9% in 24 hours. A sentiment index fell to its lowest reading since July, Cointelegraph reported.
Bitcoin fell below $70,000 early on Friday, November 13, 2026, for the first time since August 20, a day after it dropped under $72,000. The price was about $68,430 at 06:19 UTC, according to CoinGecko.
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Revenue was $3.0 million. The company had pledged 11,385 Bitcoin for an options strategy, and holders of its $1 billion convertible notes can require it to buy them back for cash on November 30.
Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), the owner of Truth Social, reported net income of $409.7 million for the third quarter of 2026, mostly from gains on its holdings rather than from its operations, according to its results release of November 9.
Stocks
The Tether-backed company held 43,514 BTC on September 30. Its chief executive told shareholders that "a balance sheet is not a business," and the company still lost $186.5 million over nine months.
Twenty One Capital (XXI), a company built around a large holding of Bitcoin (BTC) and backed by the stablecoin issuer Tether, reported net income of $1.087 billion for the third quarter of 2026.
Stocks
The Bitcoin company now has no loan principal scheduled to mature this year. The loan is bigger than its stock market value, CoinDesk reported.
Nakamoto, a Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin company whose largest asset is the Bitcoin it holds, has pushed back the repayment of part of a loan from the crypto exchange Kraken by a year, so that none of the 165 million USDT it owes falls due in 2026.
Bitcoin
The high-severity bug could stop a miner's node from producing blocks after a chain reorganization until it was restarted. All three were patched in October 2025.
The developers of Bitcoin Core, software used to run Bitcoin nodes, disclosed three security vulnerabilities on November 10, one of which they rate as high severity.
Markets
Project Meridian FX APAC tested a way to tie the two payments in a foreign exchange trade together across different settlement systems. The Bank of England plans a live interface in 2028.
The Bank of England, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Bank of Thailand said on Friday, November 13, 2026, that a joint trial in test environments showed foreign exchange (FX) trades can be settled across payment systems built on different technologies, including systems based on distributed ledgers. The three central banks published the findings of the trial, called Project Meridian FX APAC.
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The board accepted Huang's resignation on November 11 and named a chair for the first time, the company's filing and press release show. The shares fell as much as 14.3% on Thursday and closed 4.3% lower.
Nvidia said on Thursday, November 12, 2026, that Jensen Huang has resigned as president, chief executive officer and a member of its board, effective immediately.
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Ava Labs says Avalanche will provide the core ledger for the clearing firm of an NYSE-affiliated trading system designed for 24/7 trading. The venue still needs regulatory approval.
A planned New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) venue for trading tokenized securities will use Avalanche technology as the core ledger for clearing and settling trades, Ava Labs, the company that builds the Avalanche blockchain, said on November 9.
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In its first quarter as a listed company, the tokenization firm reported record average tokenized assets of $5 billion and a $66.3 million net loss, about 90% of which it attributed to largely non-cash charges mainly tied to its merger and listing.
Securitize (SECZ), which tokenizes funds and stocks and provides fund administration, reported third-quarter revenue of $18.6 million on November 9, up 13% from a year earlier, according to its results release, attached to a Form 8-K filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company also said it had agreed to buy River One, an asset-backed financing platform, and that its board had authorized up to $50 million in share repurchases.
Markets
The company at the center of US securities settlement plans to connect its two-week-old tokenization service to a public blockchain. The tokens keep the same investor protections, DTCC says.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade company whose subsidiaries clear and settle US securities trades and hold the securities in custody, said on Thursday, November 12, 2026, that it plans to let securities held at its depository be issued as tokens on the Solana…
Bitcoin
The open-source project says versions before 1.7.0 put funds at risk of theft, and that updating alone cannot shut out an attacker who already got in.
LNbits, open-source software that lets people run Bitcoin Lightning Network wallets and accounts on their own servers, released version 1.7.0 on November 10 as an urgent security update after a wave of attacks that it reported on November 8.
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Revenue from the company's operating business was about $1.2 million. Its digital asset holdings, recorded at fair value, account for most of its assets.
Tron Inc., the Nasdaq-listed company that holds TRX tokens as its treasury asset, reported net income of $14.9 million for the third quarter of 2026, up from $12.2 million a year earlier, an increase the company put at about 22%, it said on November 10. For the first nine months of the year, net income was $39.4 million, compared with $13.0 million in the same period of 2025.
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The company held 5.9 million ETH at the end of August. Almost all of the loss came from unrealized declines in the value of its crypto.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), which describes itself as the largest holder of ether in a corporate treasury, reported a net loss of $6.31 billion for its fiscal year ended August 31, 2026, according to its annual report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on November 10.
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Both were paid for from the $283.8 million Strategy raised by selling MSTR shares from November 2 to 8, according to a filing. Its holdings reached 850,364 BTC as of November 8, at an average cost of $75,456.
Strategy (MSTR) bought 1,036 BTC for $81.9 million from November 2 to 8, at an average price of $79,012 per coin, and held 850,364 BTC as of November 8, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on November 9.
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The bank's SEC filing values the stake at about $186.7 million on September 30. Citigroup's filing shows $118.9 million in Fidelity's Bitcoin fund. Neither filing shows whose money it is.
Barclays held about 3.94 million shares of BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), worth roughly $186.7 million, on September 30, 2026, the British bank's quarterly holdings report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows. That is 48% more shares than the 2.66 million in its report for June 30, an increase Cointelegraph reported on November 11.
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Customers traded $17.0 billion of crypto on the app and Bitstamp, against $32.5 billion a year earlier. Event contracts rose 136% to 5.9 billion, according to the company's monthly figures.
Robinhood's customers traded $17.0 billion of crypto in October 2026, 48% less than a year earlier and 21% less than in September, the company said in its monthly operating data on Thursday, November 12.
Markets
Bitcoin fell to about $73,980 and ether to about $2,120 late on November 8, according to CoinGecko data. US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw about $1.28 billion in net outflows in the week to November 6.
Bitcoin fell to about $73,980 at 22:00 UTC on Sunday, November 8, its lowest level since August, and ether dropped from about $2,225 at 21:00 UTC to about $2,122 an hour later, according to CoinGecko hourly data.
Markets
The oracle network now distributes NYSE BQT, a feed of quotes and trades from NYSE Group's five equity exchanges. Customers still need a license from the exchange.
Pyth Network, a provider of market data to blockchain applications, has become a distributor of real-time stock quotes and trades from NYSE Group's five equity exchanges, the project said on November 11, 2026. The feed, NYSE BQT, covers US stocks and exchange-traded funds and is available through Pyth's data marketplace.
NYSE BQT is a "Level 1" product, meaning it carries the best available buy and sell quotes and last trades, not the full order book.
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US spot Bitcoin funds had net outflows of $95 million on November 10, the smallest daily outflow in four sessions. BlackRock's fund has had eight sessions of outflows in a row, Cointelegraph reported.
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) had net outflows of $95 million on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, taking net outflows since the start of November to about $1.6 billion, Cointelegraph reported on November 11, citing data from SoSoValue.
Markets
CoinGecko's hourly data shows the first reading under $72,000 in 12 weeks. Outflows from US spot Bitcoin funds picked up again on Wednesday, Cointelegraph reported, citing Farside Investors.
Bitcoin fell below $72,000 on Thursday, November 12, 2026, its lowest level since August 20, on a day when Nvidia shares fell as much as 14.3% after Nvidia said its chief executive, Jensen Huang, had resigned. The price was about $71,470 at 19:33 UTC, according to CoinGecko.
Bitcoin
The adjustment at block 975,744 lowered difficulty from about 148.4 trillion to 134.8 trillion, according to blockchain data. An early estimate points to another cut at the next adjustment, about two weeks away.
The difficulty of mining Bitcoin (BTC) fell 9.13% at block 975,744, timestamped 05:02 UTC on Saturday, November 14, according to block data from mempool.space. It was the largest downward adjustment since June 14, when difficulty fell by about 10.1%.
Bitcoin's software resets the mining difficulty every 2,016 blocks, roughly every two weeks, so that new blocks keep arriving about every 10 minutes on average.
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Crypto revenue fell 55% from a year earlier to $120 million, though it rose from $100 million in the second quarter. Net income fell 14%.
Robinhood Markets reported record third-quarter revenue of $1.42 billion on October 27, up 12% from a year earlier, but net income fell 14% and its crypto business shrank sharply from 2025 levels, the company said in its results release.
Bitcoin
The purchase, funded by selling MSTR shares, came after a one-week pause. Strategy also bought back about $208 million of its STRC preferred stock.
Strategy bought 811 BTC for about $65.5 million between October 26 and November 1, at an average price of $80,846 per coin, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on November 2. That brought its holdings to 849,327 BTC as of November 1.
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BNB, the native token of the Binance-linked BNB Chain, fell about 8% and Bitcoin close to 5% in the hours after the theft began at 20:05 UTC on October 29.
Bitcoin fell close to 5% and dropped below $77,000 after the theft of about $6.3 billion from Binance came to light on October 29, with BNB, the token of the Binance-linked BNB Chain, falling further.
In the hours after the theft began at 20:05 UTC on October 29, according to Elliptic, Bitcoin fell 4.8% to below $77,000, ether 5.7%, Binance's BNB token 8% and the lending token AAVE 11%, CoinDesk reported.
Crypto
A draft proposal would take about 55% of the grants committee's ZEC out of circulation and lock up its share of new coins. Polling runs from November 16 to 30.
A draft Zcash (ZEC) proposal that would have Zcash Community Grants (ZCG), the committee that funds development grants, remove 50,000 ZEC from circulation was merged into the project's proposals repository on November 11, 2026. Coinholders and community panels will be polled on the network's development funding from November 16 to November 30, according to the timeline published by the organizers.
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Its new headline measure, total platform margin, rose 12% from the second quarter to $487 million but was 12% lower than a year earlier. The company also gave no net income figure.
Payward, the company that owns the crypto exchange Kraken, reported adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $60 million for the third quarter of 2026, up from $23 million in the second quarter.
Exchanges
Binance says it covered the record theft from its own funds, and stablecoin freezes blunted it. The episode also showed how quickly access to funds can disappear.
The Binance hack did not bankrupt the exchange, and Binance says it, not its users, is absorbing the loss. But the ten days after the theft itself showed in unusual detail how exchange risk works in practice: who absorbs a loss, how long access disappears, and which safety nets actually held.
Crypto
The central bank put Ueno Bank into resolution on November 3. It says an advance on the deposit guarantee has reached 93.1% of covered depositors, and an analyst quoted by Cointelegraph sees no mass move into stablecoins.
Demand for dollar stablecoins rose in Paraguay after the central bank placed Ueno Bank, a large digital lender, into resolution on November 3, 2026, and customers lost access to their accounts, Cointelegraph Magazine reported on November 11. Some sellers on the country's peer-to-peer crypto market asked a premium of up to 13% for Tether's USDT, according to the report.
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The Brazilian exchange says Pix withdrawals to customers' own accounts come next, once each customer re-verifies in its app, and trading and crypto transfers later. Its help-center FAQ gives no dates.
Mercado Bitcoin, the Brazilian crypto exchange that halted deposits and withdrawals on November 2 after a security incident, began reopening on Monday, November 9, but only so customers can view their balances, according to the exchange's help center.
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About 117,000 NEAR, worth around $430,000, passed through six home-made tokens launched between November 5 and 7. The amounts are small, but the technique is cheap and slows down investigators.
The people laundering the proceeds of the October 29 theft from Binance have started creating their own memecoins to disguise stolen funds, blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said on November 9.
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The Indian exchange, which suspended all services on November 9, says BitGo's freeze of its account worked as intended. It has not said whether it lost any crypto.
Indian crypto exchange Unocoin said on Friday, November 13, 2026, that transfers out of one of its wallets were signed and sent outside the platform of its custody provider BitGo, and that a backup mechanism in those wallets "seems to be exploited." The exchange has kept all services suspended since November 9 and has not said whether it lost any crypto, according to its incident update.
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The exchange told French customers it is winding down its activities in France, four months after the country's transition period under the EU's MiCA rules ran out on July 1. Crypto left on the platform faces a monthly fee of at least 10 USDC, according to the exchange's email.
Binance France has told customers that their accounts will close on December 31, 2026, and that crypto balances still on the platform will be charged a monthly fee from November 29, according to an email from the exchange reported by the French crypto outlet Cryptoast.
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More than 70 assets are expected, including Coinbase, Circle, Robinhood and Strategy. Dozens of large companies have objected to having their shares tokenized, Bitcoin Magazine reported.
OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, will open their joint tokenized securities venue to eligible US customers on November 23, 2026, OKX said on November 11.
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The report cites one unnamed source, and neither company has confirmed it. Gemini announced in February that it would leave the UK, the EU and Australia.
Gemini, the US crypto exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has sold its United Kingdom and European operations to the stablecoin payments company KAST for less than $10 million, CoinDesk reported on Thursday, November 12, 2026, citing a person familiar with the matter. Neither company has confirmed the sale, and Trading Notified could not independently confirm the report.
Crypto
Tether and Circle acted within hours of the October 29 theft. Ripple said it was freezing RLUSD as well, without giving an amount.
Tether and Circle froze more than $2.3 billion in stablecoins linked to the $6.3 billion theft from Binance within hours of the October 29 attack, according to their chief executives' social media posts as reported by CoinDesk and CNBC.
DeFi
Initia says about $2.16 million of the assets is stuck on its paused network. It is the blockchain's second security incident in less than three weeks.
Initia, a layer-1 blockchain that hosts a network of smaller "rollup" chains, halted its main network on November 10 after an attacker used stolen credentials to move about $3.27 million of assets, the project said on X.
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The exchange says the 'worse_query' flaw lets malicious apps read other apps' files. Apple's latest update notes do not mention it.
Binance warned iPhone users on November 10 that a flaw in Apple's iOS, which it called "worse_query," could let a malicious app read other apps' local files, and said that could expose seed phrases, private keys and login credentials. "This is an iOS-level issue, not unique to Binance," the exchange said in a post on X at 09:56 UTC.
On iPhones, Apple confines each third-party app to its own "sandbox," which is meant to stop it from reading or changing…
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Binance first said a compromised engineer's laptop may have been involved and that it found no evidence of leaked private keys. Its November 3 report described a months-long intrusion.
Binance's first explanation of the October 29 theft pointed to a compromised laptop belonging to one of its DevOps engineers, according to CoinDesk and CNBC. Five days later, an initial incident report described a much longer intrusion that began in June.
DeFi
The cross-chain bridge says some users who visited across.to during the attack may have been affected and that all affected users will be made whole. Its smart contracts were not named as affected.
Across Protocol, which describes itself as cross-chain infrastructure for moving crypto between blockchains, said an attacker took control of its across.to website domain on November 10 through a social engineering attack on its domain registrar, Namecheap, and used it to show users a phishing…
Crypto
The Digital Crime Task Force follows the T3 Financial Crime Unit, which Tron and Tether formed with TRM Labs in 2024. Bloomberg reported that the unit was disbanded in late August, according to Decrypt and Cointelegraph.
Tron, Tether and the blockchain analysis company Chainalysis have set up a joint unit, the Digital Crime Task Force, to find criminal activity involving the USDT stablecoin on the Tron blockchain and help police freeze funds before they are moved, The Block and Decrypt reported on Thursday, November 12, 2026, citing a statement from the three.
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Two accomplices sent to the victims' home were jailed for four and five years. The attempt failed when the victims did not open their door.
A Scottish judge has jailed a man for eight years for directing, from his prison cell, an attempt to steal cryptocurrency worth up to £2 million from a couple at their home in April 2024.
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The exchange paused withdrawals on October 29, began reopening them on November 1 and said it would absorb the losses. Independent estimates of the haul range from about $6.36 billion to $6.43 billion.
Binance paused withdrawals on Thursday, October 29, after attackers drained billions of dollars in crypto from its wallets. The exchange put the impact at about $6.3 billion in client assets, according to CNBC, which makes it the largest crypto theft on record.
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Bitcoin withdrawals came back first on November 1. Users pulled a net $3.6 billion between 06:00 and 15:30 UTC that day, according to figures Binance shared.
Binance began restoring withdrawals on Sunday, November 1, three days after the October 29 hack, and said it had covered about 95% of the stolen assets from its own resources, according to TechCrunch and crypto.news. It later raised that figure to about 98%.
The reopening ran network by network. Binance said the Bitcoin network was the "first batch network now opened," CNBC reported, followed by Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain.
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Elliptic says $2.85 billion of the $6.43 billion haul is frozen or seized and that only a negligible amount has likely been cashed out so far.
The attackers behind the $6.3 billion theft from Binance have spread the stolen funds across more than 20,000 wallets on 16 blockchains, with Tron and the cross-chain swap protocol THORChain among the main routes, blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said in an analysis last updated at 08:00 UTC on…
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The exchange says it replaced the affected tokens with company funds. Users will be able to verify the 198-token snapshot only after a proof that takes 40 to 50 hours to generate.
Binance said on Thursday, November 12, 2026, that it has finished covering the customer assets affected by the October 29 hack, two weeks after the theft. The exchange also published a new proof-of-reserves snapshot covering 198 tokens, according to its announcement.
DeFi
Aerodrome and Velodrome are combining under one token: 1 AERO becomes 1 new AERO and 1 VELO becomes 0.044 AERO, with no set deadline to upgrade.
Aerodrome and Velodrome, decentralized exchanges on Base and OP Mainnet built by the same developer, Dromos Labs, have merged to form Aero, an on-chain spot exchange running across seven networks. Aero launched at 8 p.m. ET on October 21 (00:00 UTC on October 22), according to the project, and The Block reported the merger the same evening.
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The privacy coin dropped as low as $962.85, Cointelegraph reported, a day after Grayscale pledged $1 million to its ecosystem and less than a week after a network upgrade took effect.
Zcash (ZEC), the largest privacy-focused cryptocurrency by market value in CoinGecko's ranking, fell below $1,000 on November 11 for the first time since early September. CoinGecko's hourly price data shows Zcash first under that level at 07:00 UTC, and Cointelegraph reported a low of $962.85.
DeFi
ZIG Finance's zEMS Vault offers institutional investors exposure to Saudi small-business loans, with subscriptions and redemptions in stablecoins. The $100 million is a target.
ZIG Finance has launched an on-chain investment vehicle for loans to small and medium-sized businesses in Saudi Arabia, with Nomura's digital asset subsidiary Laser Digital advising on its risk framework, The Block reported on November 11, citing a statement shared with the outlet.
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The project, known as Faro, aims to issue a dollar stablecoin in the first half of 2027, Decrypt and Cointelegraph reported. The figure comes from unnamed people and is not confirmed.
A group of global banks has committed about $270 million to fund a joint stablecoin venture known as Project Faro, according to Decrypt, which cited a November 10 Bloomberg report based on people familiar with the matter. Cointelegraph reported the same figure. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Banco Santander and Deutsche Bank are among the backers Bloomberg named, Decrypt said.
Crypto
USDPT is the first stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank that Visa's partners can use to settle with the card network, the crypto bank says.
Visa and its eligible partners can now settle what they owe on the Visa network in USDPT, the dollar stablecoin that Anchorage Digital Bank issues for Western Union, Anchorage said on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
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Payward says the tokens are backed one-for-one by shares held at a regulated custodian. It says they are not available to investors in the UK or the United States.
Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has added more than 200 tokenized UK and European stocks to its xStocks service, taking the total to more than 1,500 assets, the company said in a statement on November 11. The Block also reported the launch.
DeFi
Visitors to the redirected sites were asked to approve transfers out of their wallets. Name.com says unauthorized DNS changes hit 15 customer domains; several projects said their smart contracts were not affected.
Attackers redirected the websites of at least a dozen decentralized finance projects registered with the domain registrar Name.com and used them to trick visitors into approving transfers out of their wallets, The Block reported on October 31. Name.com later said unauthorized DNS changes were made to 15 customer domains on October 31 (UTC) and that it had revoked system access for the account where the changes originated.
Exchanges
One of Brazil's largest crypto exchanges said customers lost nothing and later pledged to replace the affected assets with company funds. It planned a phased reopening.
Mercado Bitcoin, one of Brazil's largest crypto exchanges, suspended deposits and withdrawals on Monday, November 2, after a security incident. Blockchain security firm Hypernative flagged more than $40 million in suspicious transfers that may be linked to the incident, Decrypt reported.
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The service is for institutional and corporate clients in Europe, not retail customers, the bank said in September. We found no release about the launch on its news page.
Deutsche Bank's custody service for digital assets is now serving paying clients, the bank said on November 11, according to Reuters.
Crypto
Tether says the audited statements show 520,089 ounces of gold, worth $2.246 billion, behind the XAU₮ token at the end of 2025. The token's backing has grown since, and the newer figures are unaudited.
Tether said on Thursday, November 12, 2026, that KPMG has completed an audit of the 2025 financial statements of TG Commodities, the company that issues the gold-backed token Tether Gold (XAU₮), and gave an unqualified opinion. The audited statements show the token fully backed by physical gold at the end of 2025, according to Tether's announcement.
Crypto
Investigators suspect the group traded crypto without a license, did not report it to the Israel Tax Authority and moved the proceeds into bank accounts presented as loans, according to Ynetnews and The Jerusalem Post. No charges have been reported.
Israel Police arrested five people on Tuesday, November 10, on suspicion of laundering money through crypto trading worth about 16 million shekels, according to Ynetnews and The Jerusalem Post, which both reported the police's suspicions in the case.
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Adjusted net income, which strips out $715 million in gains on its crypto holdings and other items, was $78 million. Revenue was about flat from the second quarter.
Coinbase reported net income of $718.7 million for the third quarter on October 29, ending three consecutive quarterly losses, but most of the profit came from gains on the crypto it holds rather than from its trading business, the company's earnings presentation shows.
Crypto
The upgrade replaced TowerBFT, the consensus protocol Solana had used since its 2020 launch. Anza's 150-millisecond figure is a design target; a Solana Foundation dashboard showed 6.6-second finality shortly after launch, Cointelegraph reported.
Solana switched to a new consensus protocol, Alpenglow, on Wednesday, October 21, replacing the TowerBFT system it had used since its launch in March 2020, The Block and Decrypt reported. Anza, the developer behind the upgrade, says it cuts the time for a transaction to become final from 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds.
Consensus is the process by which a blockchain's validators agree on which transactions are final.
Crypto
Assets backing USDT exceeded liabilities by about $7.95 billion at the end of September, according to a BDO attestation. Treasury bills remain the core of the reserves.
Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, said it made $1.5 billion in net operating profit in the third quarter, according to its October 30 announcement.
Crypto
Reserve income fell 8%, but a token presale for Circle's Arc network lifted revenue. It also disclosed a workforce reduction of about 5%.
Circle Internet Group, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, reported third-quarter revenue and reserve income of $865 million on November 4, up 17% from a year earlier, according to its results release. USDC in circulation was $73.9 billion at the end of the quarter, unchanged from a year earlier.
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Withdrawals of INJ, PLASMA, NEAR, and LTC are next on the list. Binance has not published a complete list of the assets that remain restricted in its latest notice, crypto.news noted.
Binance restored withdrawals of Hyperliquid's HYPE and Aptos' APT tokens on November 8, according to a post by the exchange quoted by Bitcoin.com News and CoinCentral, as it continued to reopen networks one by one after the October 29 hack.
Binance began reopening withdrawals on November 1, starting with the Bitcoin network. Since then it has added, according to crypto.news:
Regulation
The financial regulator said it will issue a no-action letter covering pre-emptive suspensions and told exchanges to monitor around the clock, two weeks after the Binance hack. The release does not list the letter's conditions or give a date for it.
South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) said on November 12, 2026, that it will issue a no-action letter allowing crypto exchanges to suspend deposits and withdrawals when a hack is suspected, not only once one is confirmed, according to a statement in Korean on its website. Once issued, the letter would change when a Korean exchange may stop customers from moving funds.
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A trade group that says Cboe and Citadel Securities are among its members is suing to overturn the CFTC's approval of the products. The SEC has also asked to file a brief.
Coinbase, prediction-market operator Kalshi, Kraken parent Payward, DRW Holdings, Jump Trading and Paradigm asked a federal court in New York on November 9 for permission to file a brief supporting the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which is being sued over its approval of perpetual…
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A state judge granted a temporary restraining order against the platforms the same day, WBRZ reported. Robinhood and Coinbase say their event contracts are regulated by the CFTC.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said on Thursday, November 12, 2026, that she has sued ten prediction market platforms, including Kalshi, Robinhood, Polymarket and Coinbase, alleging that they are breaking the state's laws.
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The draft rules apply to transfers through licensed crypto firms. Public comments are open until November 26.
Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed on Thursday, November 12, 2026, to cap stablecoin transfers through licensed crypto firms at 5 million baht per customer per day at each firm. The draft notification would also ban transfers of stablecoins to or from wallets that belong to someone else. Public comments close on November 26.
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The bill, passed 240–202, counts crypto assets among the funds that can be frozen for people on a national sanctions list. It is now in the Senate.
Poland's lower house of parliament, the Sejm, passed a sanctions bill on Friday, November 6, that would let the interior minister freeze the assets of people and companies placed on a national sanctions list, including their crypto assets, before any court reviews the decision.
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The federal complaint asks a court to declare Arkansas law preempted for contracts on CFTC-regulated exchanges and to bar the state from investigating them.
The United States and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sued the State of Arkansas and its attorney general, Tim Griffin, on Thursday, November 12, 2026, asking a federal court to stop the state's enforcement action against the prediction market Kalshi.
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The federal complaint asks a court to declare Louisiana's gambling laws preempted for contracts on CFTC-regulated exchanges and to bar the state from enforcing a November 12 order against 32 entities. The CFTC says Louisiana is the 12th state it has sued.
The United States and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sued Louisiana in federal court on Friday, November 13, asking a judge to stop the state from enforcing a state-court restraining order against prediction markets. According to the complaint, the order bars 32 companies, including prediction markets, from offering event contracts to people in Louisiana without a state license and permit.
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The amount is part of more than $2.7 billion frozen since the October 29 theft. The department also announced the seizure of infrastructure behind a fake video-call scheme it links to North Korea.
The US Justice Department said on Thursday, November 12, 2026, that it has court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion of the cryptocurrency stolen from Binance on October 29.
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The ECB board member told European lawmakers the bank needs the legal framework to finish its preparations. A pilot with 36 payment providers is planned for the second half of 2027.
European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Piero Cipollone urged European Union lawmakers on November 10 to finish the law that would allow a digital euro by the end of the year, warning that "a delay in adoption could instead postpone the introduction of the digital euro," according to the…
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Committee staff received nearly 1,700 pages of documents and five briefings from prediction market platforms. The memo says the markets first detected most reported insider-trading incidents, and suggests a ban or narrower limits for government personnel.
Congress should consider barring government officials from trading on prediction markets, or at least restricting the contracts they can trade, according to a memo from committee staff to the majority members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released on Friday, November 13.
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The ruling lets New York require the prediction market to get a gambling license or stop offering sports contracts in the state, The Block reported.
A federal judge in New York has refused to shield the sports prediction market Novig from the state's gambling laws, ruling that its sports event contracts are not swaps under federal commodities law, The Block reported on November 11.
Regulation
Guidance from the Department of Financial Services requires board-approved marketing policies by May 2027. The letter says risk warnings should not be left to the end of a podcast or placed behind a link.
New York's financial regulator told licensed crypto companies on Thursday, November 12, 2026, to put written policies in place for their advertising and marketing, including rules on "no-fee" claims, paid testimonials and risk disclosures.
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The White House sent the four names to the Senate on Thursday. Both agencies are operating with most of their seats empty, and Democrats are projected to take control of the Senate in January.
President Donald Trump has nominated two people to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and two to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the agencies that oversee US securities and derivatives markets and much of the crypto industry. The White House sent the four nominations to the Senate on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
The White House notice lists four names.
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The agency obtained orders for $1.095 billion in monetary relief. Cases it singled out include an alleged $95.6 million fraud at a Bitcoin mining business.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed 348 enforcement actions in the fiscal year that ended on September 30 and obtained orders for $1.095 billion in monetary relief, the agency said on November 10.
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The CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate in September. If it is not revived before the current Congress ends, the process would start again in January.
Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate in the November 3 midterm elections, according to projections by the Associated Press, NBC News and CBS News. The new Congress takes office in January 2027.
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The report, which we read as relayed by Cointelegraph, cites one unnamed person. Kalshi calls the matter a procedural error involving a handful of contracts. The CFTC has announced nothing.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has privately warned prediction-market operator Kalshi that it could face charges over whether it properly notified the agency about new products, Politico reported on November 10, according to Cointelegraph. Politico's report cites a person with direct knowledge of the investigation, Cointelegraph said.
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The Financial Stability Board's peer review credits Turkish authorities with meaningful progress, including licensing for crypto firms, and makes four recommendations.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the Basel-based body through which financial authorities from 24 countries and jurisdictions coordinate their work on financial stability, recommended on November 11 that Türkiye (Turkey) create a dedicated regime for stablecoins and strengthen its supervision…
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The central bank's new ordinance sets out how organized crypto trading must be run. It did not say whether any exchange has had its rules approved.
Russian exchanges may start organized trading in cryptocurrencies from November 22, 2026, but must first get the regulator's approval of their trading rules, the Bank of Russia said on November 11.
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Treasury says MEXC handled at least $16 billion in illicit-linked funds, including nearly $1.5 billion tied to Russian sanctions evasion and deals with Iranian exchangers.
The US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on November 6 ordered US financial institutions to stop sending funds to or receiving funds from the crypto exchange MEXC Global, Treasury said. The ban takes effect 30 days after the order is published in the Federal Register, which had not happened as of November 9; Treasury said the order effectively cuts MEXC off from the US financial system.
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The agencies said five years had passed and the crypto market had changed, and promised a new comment period before any similar rule.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Federal Reserve Board announced on November 6 that they are withdrawing a proposed rule that would have lowered the threshold for record-keeping on cross-border funds transfers and clarified that the rules cover transactions in convertible…
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The FBI, Secret Service, and IRS investigators urged exchanges and DeFi services to block transactions tied to 628 addresses used to launder the stolen funds.
The FBI said on Saturday, October 31, that North Korea was behind the October 29 theft from Binance, naming the hacking operation it calls TraderTraitor.
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The rule sets standards for reserves, redemption and risk management. It and the law take effect on January 18, 2027.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a final rule on October 21 implementing the GENIUS Act, the US law that sets up a federal framework for payment stablecoins, the agency said. The rule and the law take effect on January 18, 2027.
The rule applies to permitted payment stablecoin issuers and foreign payment stablecoin issuers under the OCC's supervision, and to certain custody activities of OCC-supervised entities, according to the…
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The Minnesota congressman beat August Pfluger 103-76 on November 10, according to Politico as cited by Cointelegraph. Republicans will be in the minority from January 2027.
House Republicans on November 10 elected Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, whom Cointelegraph describes as a crypto ally, as minority whip for the next Congress, CBS Minnesota and Cointelegraph reported.
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Non-qualified investors will be capped at 300,000 rubles a year per intermediary and must pass a test. The Moscow Exchange plans to start crypto trading on December 1.
Russia's central bank has finalized rules that allow retail investors to buy Bitcoin, ether, and Tether's USDT through intermediaries starting November 17, the Bank of Russia said on November 6.
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Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, rejected the FBI's attribution in a statement carried by state media. According to published excerpts, she offered no technical rebuttal.
North Korea rejected US accusations that it stole more than $6 billion from Binance in the record October 29 theft, with Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, calling them "absurd rhetoric" in a statement carried by the state Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Tuesday, November 3, Korea time, according to Reuters and Australian Associated Press.
Macro
Speaking hours before the October CPI, the Fed governor said a 50 basis point increase should be considered if core inflation came in around 0.3% or higher. Core prices rose 0.3%.
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said on November 10 that he is leaning toward supporting a quarter-point interest-rate increase at the Fed's December meeting, and that a half-point increase should be considered if October's core inflation came in at around 0.3% or higher, according to the text of his speech in London. Hours later, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that core consumer prices rose 0.3% in October.
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Core prices rose 0.3% for a third month, and energy gains slowed after September's gasoline jump. Most October 2025 prices went uncollected during a funding lapse, so there is no all-items 12-month figure.
US consumer prices, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), rose 0.4% in October on a seasonally adjusted basis, down from 0.6% in September, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said on November 10.
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Euro-area finance ministers took stock of the nominations on November 9. Two more seats on the ECB's Executive Board are opening, and EU leaders may consider all three appointments together.
Spain's Pablo Hernández de Cos, who heads the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and former Dutch central bank president Klaas Knot are the only candidates to succeed Christine Lagarde as president of the European Central Bank (ECB), according to a statement by Eurogroup President Kyriakos…
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Speaking after the October CPI, the Fed's vice chair for supervision estimated core PCE inflation rose to 3.3% and stopped short of backing a December hike.
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said on November 10 that inflation pressures could last longer and that there is "still work to do," but that "the benefit of additional policy tightening has to be carefully weighed against its costs," according to the text of her speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.
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Goods prices rose 10.2% from a year earlier. The monthly gain was a little below forecasts, but the annual rate rose to its highest in almost four years ahead of the Fed's December meeting.
The US Producer Price Index for final demand rose 0.3% in October, seasonally adjusted, and 6.5% from a year earlier, the largest 12-month rise since November 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported at 8:30 a.m. ET (13:30 UTC) on Friday, November 13.
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The Chicago Fed president told CNBC that inflation is "going the wrong way" and pointed to demand from the AI data center buildout. He did not say directly whether the Fed should move more aggressively, CNBC reported.
The Federal Reserve "has definitely got work to do to continue to reestablish its credibility" on inflation, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said on Friday, November 13, in an interview with CNBC.
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The ECB president said she wants the freedom to speak on matters beyond monetary policy. Two candidates to succeed her were put forward by the November 6 deadline.
Christine Lagarde will step down as president of the European Central Bank (ECB) on February 7, 2027, the ECB announced on October 29. Her eight-year term, which began on November 1, 2019, would have run until the end of October 2027.
At the press conference that followed the ECB's October 29 decision to keep its deposit rate at 2.5%, Lagarde said she was leaving early "because I want to have the freedom of speech, the freedom of expression and the freedom…
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The pause followed a September hike. On October 29, money markets priced about a two-in-three chance of a December increase, according to LSEG data cited by CNBC; Eurostat's flash estimate later put October inflation at 4.0%.
The European Central Bank (ECB) kept its deposit facility rate, the rate it pays banks on overnight deposits, at 2.5% on October 29, it said, after raising it by a quarter of a percentage point in September. The decision was expected, CNBC reported.
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Consumer prices rose 0.6% in a month, with gasoline accounting for more than half of the increase. Core inflation was 2.6% over 12 months.
US consumer prices, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), rose 0.6% in September and 3.7% in the 12 months to September, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said on October 14. Gasoline accounted for more than half of the monthly increase.
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A revised schedule published on Thursday drops the policy decision from the October 26–27 meeting and makes November 17 the last decision of 2027.
The Federal Reserve will announce interest-rate decisions at seven meetings in 2027 instead of the usual eight, according to a revised schedule it published on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The October 26–27 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the group that sets US interest rates, will be used to discuss "broad monetary policy strategy issues" and will not end with a policy decision, the Fed said.
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Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack dissented in favor of a quarter-point increase. The statement says inflation remains elevated.
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) kept its benchmark rate unchanged on October 28, holding the target range for the federal funds rate at 3.75% to 4% in a 10–2 vote, according to its statement. The two dissenters wanted to raise rates. The Fed had raised the range by a quarter point in September.
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August and September were revised up by a combined 84,000, and average hourly earnings rose 0.4% in the month.
US nonfarm payrolls rose by 165,000 in October and the unemployment rate was little changed at 4.1%, down from 4.2% in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on November 6.
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