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Meta employees are testing Takes, a prediction app that rewards correct calls with credibility points.

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MEGA, formerly the MegaETH Foundation, laid off 20% of staff days after its rebrand and $30 million push into AI inference products.

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The House Oversight Committee is calling for new limits on government officials’ use of prediction markets, including a potential ban.

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Unocoin says suspected misuse of backup wallet access enabled unauthorized transfers outside BitGo as the exchange investigates losses.

Crypto exchange Unocoin said on Nov. 13 that disputed wallet transfers were signed and broadcast outside BitGo, while the freeze on its BitGo enterprise account had worked so far.

It has been revealed that the exchange suspended all services on Nov. 9 after detecting further unauthorized activity. It had requested freezes on its enterprise accounts at BitGo and Fireblocks after initially detecting the activity on Nov. 6.

In its incident enhancement, Unocoin mentioned a backup mechanism designed to preserve access to funds if BitGo became unavailable appeared to have been exploited. It is still investigating how that mechanism was used, cryptocurrency losses, and potential information exposure.

In a recent development, bitGo's wallet documentation describes three keys: the user key, backup key, and BitGo key. Normal transactions use the user and BitGo keys to meet a two-of-three signing requirement. The backup key can instead pair with either of the other two keys.

Pairing the backup key with the user key provides a signing route that does not require BitGo's key, and the two-of-three requirement still applies in that recovery arrangement.

What changes is the pair of keys used to satisfy it: the user and backup keys replace the usual user-and-provider combination, leaving BitGo outside that signing process.

BitGo notes that limit in its withdrawal-policy documentation, saying that those policies apply only to transactions involving BitGo. Recovery transactions using the user and backup keys bypass the policies configured with the provider.

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BitGo documents a recovery route that pairs the user and backup keys without its participation.

According to recent reports, the user and BitGo keys sign. BitGo participates, and its withdrawal policies apply.

The user and backup keys sign without BitGo. Its withdrawal policies are bypassed.

A provider's withdrawal controls do not cover every combination of keys that can sign a wallet transaction.

General BitGo documentation, not a reconstruction of Unocoin's incident. The exact keys and process used in that incident remain unestablished by this diagram.

According to recent reports, qualitative diagrams of the normal user-plus-BitGo route and the documented user-plus-backup recovery route. Connectors show signing participation, not value, timing or transaction flows.

General BitGo documentation, not a reconstruction of Unocoin's incident. The exact keys and process used in that incident remain unestablished by this diagram.

This recovery capability preserves access when the provider is unavailable and helps explain why an account freeze cannot be treated as a blanket restriction on every transaction the wallet's keys can sign.

Recent findings suggest that unocoin reported identifying outgoing transactions on Nov. 12 from an Ethereum address within its BitGo wallet infrastructure used to fund ERC-20 tokens. Its Nov. 13 explanation attributes the disputed activity to external signing, while the suspected misuse of backup access remains under investigation.

It has been revealed that in the Nov. 12 report, Unocoin said more than 90% of customer cryptocurrency funds were maintained in cold storage. It was still establishing the complete status of holdings and potential exposure, so that statement does not settle the loss assessment.

Unocoin's latest patch remarked work to restore services continued. Unresolved questions include how the suspected recovery path was accessed, what losses or information exposure resulted, and when services can resume.

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It has been revealed that elon Musk backs a petition to reinstate Jensen Huang, but only Nvidia's board can make him CEO again. Here's what it takes. The post Can Elon Musk Bring Jensen Huang Back as Nvidia CEO? appeared first on BeInCrypto.

Recent findings suggest that elon Musk backs a petition to reinstate Jensen Huang, but only Nvidia's board can make him CEO again. Here's what it takes.

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In a recent development, could a Former Nvidia Executive Replace Jensen Huang? Arm’s Rene Haas Emerges as Candidate.

Nvidia's board has approached Arm CEO Rene Haas as a potential successor to Jensen Huang, according to the Financial Times, putting a former Nvidia executive in contention for one of technology's biggest jobs.

Haas is one of several people under consideration, people familiar with the matter told the FT. There is no guarantee he will receive an offer or accept one. The FT noted he maintains strong ties to Huang and some Nvidia directors.

According to recent reports, nvidia's board told Reuters it was still selecting an executive search firm and had not formally engaged any candidate. “Any speculation regarding individual candidates, whether internal or external, is premature,” it noted.

Sources indicate that huang resigned Thursday after 33 years leading the company he co-founded, following reports of extramarital relationships, including one with a business executive suspected by U.S. officials of having Chinese intelligence ties. The company remarked it had no reason to believe its secrets were compromised.

It has been revealed that chief financial officer Colette Kress is now interim CEO, and longtime director Harvey Jones has become board chair. Analysts have also floated Nvidia data-center executive Ian Buck and AMD chief Lisa Su as possible successors, though those names are not confirmed appointments or offers.

Industry observers note that an internal Nvidia suggestion-box post has attracted more than 1,600 comments, many supportive of Huang's reinstatement, according to Wired. “If you believe in the mission, bring back THE boss,” one anonymous employee wrote.

Other staff members have demanded transparency around his departure. The campaign highlights Huang still has supporters inside Nvidia; it does not mean the board has opened talks to reinstate him.

In a recent development, haas, 64, is a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor executive whose career spans engineering, product development and sales. He earned an electrical engineering degree from Clarkson University and worked at chip companies Tensilica and Scintera Networks before joining Nvidia in 2006.

He spent seven years at Nvidia as vice president and general manager of its computing products business, then moved to Arm in 2013. At Arm, he rose from strategic alliances to chief commercial officer in 2015 and head of its intellectual-property products group in 2017, before becoming CEO in February 2022.

That appointment came as Nvidia's proposed $40 billion takeover of Arm collapsed under pressure from regulators. Haas was suddenly running a business his former employer had tried, unsuccessfully, to buy.

In a recent development, he steered Arm back onto the Nasdaq in September 2023 at an initial valuation of about $54.5 billion, one of the year's largest stock-market debuts. The IPO also gave Japanese owner SoftBank a way to sell shares while retaining control.

Unlike Nvidia, which primarily sells graphics processors and related computing systems, Arm licenses chip designs and computing architecture to companies including Apple, Amazon and Qualcomm, earning fees and royalties when customers use its technology. Arm-based designs are now increasingly found in cloud servers as well as phones.

Arm reported $1.44 billion in revenue for the quarter ended September 30, up 27% from a year earlier. Royalties from data-center chips doubled, while Arm remarked initial commercial deliveries of its fresh CPU remain on track for early 2027.

Haas also sits on SoftBank's board and, since April, has served as CEO of SoftBank Group International, helping oversee its semiconductor and AI interests. A move to Nvidia would require untangling those ties, particularly because the companies are partners whose interests increasingly overlap in data-center hardware.

For Nvidia, the next leader would inherit not just its lead in AI chips, but delicate relationships with governments and customers as Washington debates tighter export restrictions on China. Nvidia is scheduled to report earnings on November 17, with Kress at the helm and its permanent CEO search still underway.

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CFTC Chairman Michael Selig says disputes over whether event contracts are gambling shouldn’t put executives at risk of jail.

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About 7.12 million Bitcoin, or 35.4% of every coin in existence, now has a weak spot. Most owners can fix it in minutes. Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins may never be fixed. Analytics firm Glassnode counted coins whose “public key” already shows on Bitcoin’s public ledger. Think of a public key as a lock anyone can study. The post Over 35% of Bitcoin Supply Faces Potential Quantum Risk, New Data Shows appeared first on BeInCrypto.

Sources indicate that about 7.12 million Bitcoin, or 35.4% of every coin in existence, now has a weak spot. Most owners can fix it in minutes. Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins may never be fixed. Analytics firm Glassnode counted coins whose “public key” already highlights on Bitcoin’s public ledger. Think of a public key as a lock anyone can study.

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Hyperliquid’s share of open interest reached 11.7% across the platform and eight major centralized rivals.

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DOJ secured court authority over $1.2 billion from Binance’s $6 billion hack, with forfeiture and repayment timelines unresolved.

US authorities have secured court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion stolen from Binance funds, advancing the legal effort to recover assets from the October theft.

Industry observers note that the Department of Justice (DOJ) disclosed the authorization on Nov. 12 but did not announce completed forfeiture or a timetable for returning the money.

The court-covered assets sit within more than $2.7 billion frozen through combined US government and private-sector efforts, according to the department.

The larger figure measures the combined freezing effort, while the smaller one identifies the portion for which DOJ reports seizure or restraint authority.

According to recent reports, binance had already committed to covering its losses in its Nov. 3 incident report. The exchange promised to absorb the financial impact of the stolen funds and noted it had set aside more than 100% of what it would need to cover the loss.

DOJ attributes the theft of more than $6 billion on or about Oct. 29 to North Korean military actors known as TraderTraitor. Its announcement remarked efforts to trace, freeze, seize and forfeit the stolen assets remained ongoing as the attackers continued laundering them through cryptocurrency bridges, mixers and exchanges.

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In a recent development, the DOJ's Nov. 12 figures describe nested amounts. Binance's dated loss-coverage promise concerns a separate company undertaking.

More than $1.2bn is within the frozen pool; the release leaves return timing open.

Figures are lower bounds, not exact totals or a common valuation series. Areas are not proportional. No seized/restrained split or asset-return timetable is provided. Binance's promise is organization-reported, not independently audited reserves.

According to recent reports, conceptual containment using DOJ's reported lower bounds. The court-covered pool is part of the frozen pool. An undirected dotted connector links that pool to the unanswered return question, not to a documented distribution route. Binance's dated promise remains separate.

Industry observers note that figures are lower bounds, not exact totals or a common valuation series. Areas are not proportional. No seized/restrained split or asset-return timetable is provided. Binance's promise is company-reported, not independently audited reserves.

The department's detailed account uses the wording “seize or restrain” and does not break down how much of the covered pool falls into each category.

The authorization establishes the scope of court-backed action over part of the frozen assets, without establishing that the entire amount is already seized.

The release describes forfeiture efforts as ongoing, and leaves the eventual recipients and distribution route unspecified.

DOJ's general guidance on compensation from forfeited assets helps explain the distinction between securing assets and paying victims.

Before remission can occur, the government must identify, seize, and forfeit assets.

In a recent development, the court authorization marks progress in recovering the stolen haul. The Nov. 12 announcement leaves unanswered how much is ultimately forfeited, who receives the assets, and when any return occurs.

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According to recent reports, XRP is back at the $1 line, and the next break could be costly. The token traded near $1.03 on November 13 after losing around 15% in a week. It briefly slipped below $1 during Friday’s sell-off before recovering, leaving buyers with little room for another setback. The bigger concern is that XRP’s technical structure The post XRP Price Faces a Potential 20% Drop: Key Levels to Watch appeared first on BeInCrypto.

It has been revealed that XRP is back at the $1 line, and the next break could be costly. The token traded near $1.03 on November 13 after losing around 15% in a week. It briefly slipped below $1 during Friday’s sell-off before recovering, leaving buyers with little room for another setback. The bigger concern is that XRP’s technical structure.

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Kraken parent Payward’s third-quarter adjusted EBITDA fell about two-thirds year over year to $60 million, while funded accounts grew 37%.

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Industry observers note that need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.

Today in crypto, OpenAI introduced AI payments in ChatGPT, Jane Street nearly eightfold its Fidelity Bitcoin ETF holdings while trimming its BlackRock stake, and Trump nominated four SEC and CFTC commissioners, including a replacement for Hester Peirce.

OpenAI on Friday introduced a new feature allowing AI agents to make purchases on behalf of people directly within ChatGPT through existing payment networks, in collaboration with American Express, Mastercard and Visa.

The wallet lets people authorize transactions using biometric verification, such as facial recognition or fingerprints. Payment networks generate tokenized card credentials for each approved purchase, keeping users’ actual card details from merchants and AI agents, the firm said.

The launch comes as AI companies seek to move beyond product recommendations into executing transactions, potentially changing how consumers interact with online merchants. OpenAI noted it is working with payment processors and fraud prevention firms to support AI purchases through existing checkout systems.

Jane Street’s share count in Fidelity’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) rose nearly eightfold in the third quarter, while its holdings in BlackRock’s fund fell 19%.

Sources indicate that the trading giant ended September with 7.01 million shares of Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC0, up from about 887,000 at the end of June. The position was worth $509 million on Sept. 30, according to its second-quarter and third-quarter filings.

Industry observers note that jane Street’s holdings in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) fell to 20.22 million shares from 24.88 million. A higher share price lifted the reported value of its stake to $957 million from $828 million.

Jane Street was the largest reported institutional holder of BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF at the end of June after boosting its share count by 324% in Q2, according to 13F Pro. IBIT is the world’s largest spot Bitcoin ETF with $56 billion in net assets as of Thursday.

The firm also added nearly 9 million shares (about $249 million) of the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), while more than doubling its holdings in BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) by 7.83 million shares (about $158 million).

US President Donald Trump has nominated Steven Levine to replace former Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester Peirce, one of the agency’s most prominent crypto advocates, as part of four nominations to fill vacancies at the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Sources indicate that the White House’s latest announcement on Thursday named two nominees each for the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, agencies whose decisions help shape US cryptocurrency regulation, among other functions. All four nominations require Senate confirmation.

The nominations would replenish several commissioner roles. The SEC currently has only two of its five commissioner seats filled, while CFTC Chairman Michael Selig is the sole member of his agency’s five-seat commission.

The nominations come weeks before Democrats are set to take control of the Senate in January, giving a narrow window for Republicans to confirm Trump’s picks.

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Despite the market downturn, Hyperliquid is relatively stable; the asset gained around 7% to its value and might print a larger increase even sooner than anticipated.

Recent findings suggest that volume also shows an uptick, so expecting a recovery continuation is possible. The main reason is the oversold state of the asset prior to the enormous drop on the market. Plus, the crash we've witnessed has little to do with altcoins and DeFi, it's mostly tied to de-risking that was triggered by the sell-off in AI sector.

Recent findings suggest that HYPE is trading at $73.99 after bouncing from $69.83 earlier today. The low came close to the 200 EMA (black line on the chart), which coincides with the $68 price level.

RSI, as a momentum indicator, is bouncing from the 40 zone, so the bearish pressure here could be short-lived if it is mostly speculative.

It has been revealed that hyperliquid lost its pace by the end of September, and the spike at the beginning of November still formed a lower high. The first resistance is the orange moving average at approximately $78, so a breakthrough there should become a foundation for a price recovery.

Stellar follows Hyperliquid's path with a quick bounce at around $0.15; volume is too low to create an accelerated path and reinforce the bullish potential. The market in general reveals poor dynamic, with the lack of continuation potential.

XLM trades at $0.1497 after dipping to $0.1411. It is no coincidence that the bounce happened there, as it coincides with the lows of late May.

Recent findings suggest that moving averages keep extending, so there's no volatility fuel for the asset. Whenever moving averages converge, volatility is more likely to spike.

Industry observers note that from a fundamental standpoint, the mainnet validator vote on the Bell upgrade (Protocol 30) is set to take place on November 23. The Bell update for XLM is a significant fundamental development, but it has little to do with the price performance of XLM in the short-term.

The asset expresses oversold signs, so the correction here shouldn't be very surprising. From the momentum standpoint, RSI is sitting near 35, close to a local bottom.

Recent findings suggest that bitcoin had to endure almost $1 billion in liquidations; everything fell on the head of BTC, which fuels any bearish sentiment that already existed on the market. The price has already invalidated the $70,000 level, and things might get pushed even lower.

According to CoinGlass, $1.65 billion in positions were liquidated across the market over the past 24 hours, with $918.6 million coming from Bitcoin.

BTC is trading at $69,552, after dipping to $67,500 earlier today. The daily loss is around 2.6% so far. Bitcoin's price drop could scare off more investors, but it fits the overall trend and the price of BTC has already bounced and recovered a minor part of inflicted losses.

If the $67,500 low gets broken, our next stop would be the $65,000 area, where Bitcoin spent most of July and August.

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Should Government Officials Be Banned From Prediction Markets? House Oversight Says Maybe.

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is raising the prospect of barring government officials from trading on prediction markets, citing concerns that insiders are using nonpublic information to profit on platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket.

In a staff memorandum released Friday, the committee detailed an investigation into insider trading by government officials, military personnel and people holding security clearances who have placed bets using information not available to the public.

The probe gathered nearly 1,700 pages of documents and included five bipartisan staff briefings from prediction market platforms about how they detect and report suspicious activity.

Chairman James Comer framed the issue around public trust. “Americans are rightly concerned about public corruption,” he noted, arguing Congress “has a duty to ensure our laws adequately prevent insider trading” and prohibit officials “from profiting from nonpublic information.”.

He said lawmakers must weigh “additional reforms to prevent public corruption and restore the American people’s trust in government.”.

The memo’s central recommendation is that Congress consider new restrictions on federal personnel, ranging from an outright ban on trading prediction markets to narrower limits on specific contracts, such as those tied to government decisions.

Applying such rules across all branches, the committee argued, would reinforce that government employees shouldn’t financially benefit from access to nonpublic information, and would remove even the appearance of it.

In a recent development, the memo stressed that existing insider trading laws already apply to prediction markets. It cited the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended by the STOCK Act, which bars federal employees, members of Congress and others from trading commodity futures, options, or swaps on nonpublic information drawn from their positions.

The committee credited the platforms themselves for policing their markets, noting that most reported insider trading incidents were first detected and flagged to regulators by the platforms. It singled out Polymarket, which recently hired a former law enforcement expert and rolled out surveillance software called “PolyGraph” built with analytics firm Chainalysis, and Kalshi for strengthening their detection protocols.

The scrutiny follows a string of cases involving alleged insider trading by public officials and government employees.

Recent findings suggest that A U.S. soldier was charged in April over alleged Polymarket trades tied to a military operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Then, in August, the CFTC fined a former White House teleprompter operator for betting on presidential speeches.

The push also lands amid broader pressure on the sector, with the CFTC moving to assert authority over prediction markets in its fight against several states, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren sets her sights on the industry as the incoming Senate Banking chair.

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In a recent development, on October 29, in about twenty minutes, $6.3 billion left Binance’s wallets. The largest crypto theft in history, more than four times the Bybit hack of February 2025. The entry point, according to the exchange itself, was an engineer’s computer, infected after a fake job interview. Two days later, Binance revealed it had restored 98% The post Crypto Exchange Hacks and What You Shouldn't Conclude From Them appeared first on BeInCrypto.

It has been revealed that on October 29, in about twenty minutes, $6.3 billion left Binance’s wallets. The largest crypto theft in history, more than four times the Bybit hack of February 2025. The entry point, according to the exchange itself, was an engineer’s computer, infected after a fake job interview. Two days later, Binance unveiled it had restored 98%.

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OpenAI’s fresh payment wallet lets AI agents complete purchases using existing card networks, with plans to eventually allow preauthorized transactions.

OpenAI on Friday introduced a fresh feature allowing AI agents to make purchases on behalf of users directly within ChatGPT through existing payment networks, in collaboration with American Express, Mastercard and Visa.

Industry observers note that the wallet lets consumers authorize transactions using biometric verification, such as facial recognition or fingerprints. Payment networks generate tokenized card credentials for each approved purchase, keeping users’ actual card details from merchants and AI agents, the organization remarked.

The launch comes as AI companies seek to move beyond product recommendations into executing transactions, potentially changing how consumers interact with online merchants. OpenAI remarked it is working with payment processors and fraud prevention firms to support AI purchases through existing checkout systems.

OpenAI joins a growing field of companies developing payment systems for AI agents. Google introduced its Agent Payments Protocol in 2025, while Visa and Mastercard have introduced initiatives to support AI-initiated transactions.

It has been revealed that crypto companies are also developing payment infrastructure for AI agents. Coinbase introduced its x402 protocol in 2025, enabling autonomous stablecoin payments for digital services, while Circle launched its Agent Stack in May, allowing agents to hold and spend USDC within predefined limits. Crossmint, which provides stablecoin infrastructure, has taken a different approach, combining stablecoin wallets with traditional card networks.

Global agentic commerce transaction value is expected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030, according to an April report from Juniper Research, up from an estimated $8 billion in 2026.

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October’s PPI slowed at the headline level, but higher freight prices and firm underlying inflation leave financing relief uncertain.

US wholesale inflation slowed in October, but rising freight prices and firm underlying pressure complicate the case that cheaper fuel will make financing easier for Bitcoin (BTC) holders while BTC remains below $70,000.

Sources indicate that the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ October producer-price report, released Nov. 13, demonstrated diesel prices falling 7.9% as truck freight prices rose 3.9%. Headline wholesale inflation slowed sharply, but the measure excluding food, energy, and trade services kept rising at September’s monthly pace.

Final-demand PPI rose 0.3% in October, seasonally adjusted, after September’s revised 1.4% increase.

The measure excluding food, energy and trade services rose 0.5% for a second month. Its annual increase eased to 4.9% from 5%, while headline annual PPI accelerated to 6.5% from 6.3%. Those readings support a mixed assessment of some comparisons improved, but underlying monthly pressure held firm.

In a recent development, BLS attributed more than 80% of October’s 0.2% rise in final-demand services prices to truck freight. Transportation and warehousing services rose 2%, even as final-demand energy prices slipped 0.1%. Goods prices increased 0.5%.

Industry observers note that cheaper diesel coexisted with higher prices for moving goods. For now, the freight increase undercuts an assumption that a lower fuel bill immediately means cheaper transport.

In a recent development, unprocessed intermediate goods prices fell 3.1%. Alongside slower monthly headline inflation and the easing annual exclusion measure, that gives the more optimistic interpretation real evidence. The question is whether that cooling broadens and lasts.

Diesel and truck freight moved in opposite directions in October. The inflation picture also changes with the comparison window.

September → October 2026: headline PPI slowed; the measure excluding food, energy and trade services stayed at 0.5%.

September → October 2026: annual headline PPI rose from 6.3% to 6.5%; the exclusion measure eased from 5.0% to 4.9%.

Fuel relief coexists with firm underlying monthly inflation; annual readings are mixed.

Sources indicate that PPI series describe different producer prices. Concurrent diesel and freight changes do not establish cause or pass-through timing. Monthly changes are seasonally adjusted; annual changes are unadjusted. PPI is distinct from CPI and PCE.

Reported BLS figures. Main signed bars share a linear −10% to +5% axis. Panel bars start at zero, with monthly scale 0–1.5% and annual scale 0–7%. September monthly figures use the release's revisions. No causal or policy effect is calculated.

PPI series describe different producer prices. Concurrent diesel and freight changes do not establish cause or pass-through timing. Monthly changes are seasonally adjusted; annual changes are unadjusted. PPI is distinct from CPI and PCE.

PPI measures the selling prices domestic producers receive, CPI measures prices paid by consumers, while the Fed targets inflation measured by personal consumption expenditures (PCE).

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The measures overlap in the economic pressures they describe, but their readings are not interchangeable.

Speaking before that day’s CPI release, Fed Governor Christopher Waller leaned toward further tightening through a 25-basis-point December rate increase if conditions developed as expected.

He mentioned a 50-basis-point increase should be considered if October core CPI resembled the previous two readings around 0.3% or higher.

The subsequent CPI report revealed a 0.4% monthly headline increase and a third consecutive 0.3% increase excluding food and energy.

The Fed’s explanation of monetary policy describes how policy-rate changes affect short-term interest rates and broader financial conditions. Applied to Bitcoin, the conditional mechanism is that lower financing costs could make borrowed exposure easier to carry, while easier conditions could encourage investors to allocate more to risk.

Recent findings suggest that the route from producer prices to financing relief remains conditional. Persistent inflation could keep policy restrictive even when one fuel price falls, while a recovery case based on financing relief needs evidence beyond cheaper diesel.

According to recent reports, farside Investors' completed Nov. 12 row records US Bitcoin ETF net outflows of $284.1 million, preceding the PPI release.

In a recent development, ETF flows describe one investment channel. Still, completed inflows would provide firmer evidence of buyers returning than an inflation-based expectation alone.

Broader cooling in consumer and producer prices, less restrictive assessments from policymakers and observable financing relief would strengthen the case that fuel declines are becoming useful for Bitcoin holders.

Sustained ETF inflows would add demand evidence, while continued underlying inflation pressure and further withdrawals would keep that case weaker, even if diesel keeps getting cheaper.

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In a recent development, as per its latest quarterly financials, David Bailey's Bitcoin treasury firm Nakamoto Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA) has sold an additional 184 BTC from its Bitcoin stash.

Nakamoto Inc., a firm that built its corporate strategy around Bitcoin, held a total of 4,283 BTC as of Sept. 30. The figure is down from 4,467 BTC at the end of June.

Bitcoin Treasuries data demonstrates that Nakamoto Inc. sold 184 BTC in the third quarter of 2026. The firm now has a total of 4,283 BTC in its Bitcoin stash. Nakamoto currently sits in 21st place on the Bitcoin 100 corporate treasury rankings.

The recent company filing indicates that Nakamoto Inc. generated around $13.2 million in proceeds from digital asset sales in the third quarter. However, the filing does not appear to specify whether the 184 BTC were sold in a single transaction.

Nakamoto currently holds approximately $357.9 million worth of Bitcoin despite selling more BTC in the latest period.

This is not the first time in 2026 that David Bailey's firm has reduced its Bitcoin stash.

Sources indicate that in March, Nakamoto Inc. sold around 284 BTC worth $20 million to meet working capital needs and fund operations following its acquisitions of BTC Inc. and UTXO Management.

According to recent reports, nakamoto sold its BTC at an average price of around $70,422 per Bitcoin. That was far less than its original Bitcoin purchase price.

According to recent reports, in the first quarter, Nakamoto Inc. also received a premium of around 43 BTC from its derivatives strategies before selling around 40 BTC.

Industry observers note that nakamoto Inc. also sold a large chunk of Bitcoin in June.

The manufacturer sold around 600 BTC for 35.6 million USDT, as per the company's second-quarter financials.

Combined with proceeds from certain Bitcoin derivative positions, the manufacturer generated around $48 million from those transactions.

Nakamoto Inc. used $45 million of that sum to partially repay its Bitcoin-backed loan from cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, reducing its principal amount from 210 million USDT to 165 million USDT.

The recent Bitcoin sell-off comes as Nakamoto continues working to meet its substantial debt obligations while expanding its business operations.

Recent findings suggest that it had roughly 3,030 BTC pledged as collateral for debt as of Sept. 30. That left 1,253 BTC unpledged.

Recent findings suggest that on Nov. 11, Nakamoto Inc. extended the maturity of a 60 million USDT loan from Kraken by one year. The tech giant moved the loan maturity date from December 2026 to December 2027. Nakamoto at the moment has no remaining principal maturities in 2026.

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CEO Rapha Zagury remarked fair-value crypto gains are a starting point as the firm evaluates mining, lending and potential share buybacks.

Twenty One Capital Twenty One Capital (XXI) reported third-quarter net income of $1.087 billion, almost entirely from $1.093 billion in fair value gains on its bitcoin holdings, according to an SEC filing.

Industry observers note that the Tether-backed manufacturer held 43,514 BTC as of Sept. 30, valued at roughly $83,700 per BTC, plus $102.8 million in cash and cash equivalents. Its convertible notes carried $486.5 million in principal and were collateralized by about 16,116 BTC.

Twenty One Capital also recorded a $4.8 million operating loss and $1.34 million in interest expense for the three months ended Sept. 30, the filing demonstrates. For the first nine months of 2026, it reported a net loss of $186.5 million, reflecting bitcoin's price decline.

It has been revealed that CEO Rapha Zagury acknowledged the results but said, "A balance sheet is not a business. It is our starting point.".

"We welcome Bitcoin’s appreciation," Zagury wrote in a letter to shareholders. "But gains from an asset we own are not the same as earnings from businesses we operate. Building the latter is our job.".

Industry observers note that zagury said the company was evaluating opportunities across bitcoin mining, lending, treasury and energy. The company would consider buying back shares when they trade below the value of the assets attributable to them, according to the CEO.

Twenty One Capital was established with backing from Tether, Bitfinex and SoftBank in April last year, with the USDT issuer subsequently acquiring SoftBank's stake this May.

The tech giant's shares fell 19.48% over the past month, compared with Bitcoin's 16.06% decline over the same period, according to The Block's data.

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Bitcoin went from 57,000 to 82,000 in less than 90 days earlier this year, and Joe Carlasare states that's why he rejects the idea that capital can't flood back in.

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The United States has ordered a nationwide halt to flight departures after a major air traffic control communications failure, raising fresh concerns for airline stocks already under pressure on Wall Street. Every US airport was ordered to stop departures on Friday afternoon, November 13, just six minutes before Wall Street closed. The sudden shutdown threatens The post US Shuts Down All Flights, Stock Market Faces Major Risk appeared first on BeInCrypto.

Recent findings suggest that the United States has ordered a nationwide halt to flight departures after a major air traffic control communications failure, raising fresh concerns for airline stocks already under pressure on Wall Street. Every US airport was ordered to stop departures on Friday afternoon, November 13, just six minutes before Wall Street closed. The sudden shutdown threatens.

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The treasury manufacturer now holds 673,783 BTC, but flow is more likely to be episodic in this year’s financial climate.

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China’s $3.2 Billion AI Pipeline Still Calls for Nvidia Chips Washington Restricts.

Chinese developers are planning and building billions of dollars worth of AI data centers around Nvidia processors restricted by Washington, according to a Reuters investigation published Friday.

In a recent development, after examining more than 150 procurement notices, investment aims and corporate records, the news agency identified projects worth over 23 billion yuan ($3.2 billion). Many specify Nvidia's H100, H200, or H800 chips, which provide the computing power used to train and run advanced AI models.

It has been revealed that but $3.2 billion is the total value of the projects, including buildings, electricity and other infrastructure. The documents do not establish that all the processors were obtained, or that any export laws were broken.

One proposed computing center in Fujian province is valued at 6.2 billion yuan ($873 million). Its official investment listing specifies H100 servers but is still seeking financing partners.

In Shaanxi, a state-owned engineering group won a contract linked to a 3 billion yuan center naming H100 and H200 chips. A 2.26 billion yuan project in Jilin proposes combining Nvidia hardware with Chinese processors.

Inner Mongolia has another proposed development specifying 625 H200 servers. Meanwhile, authorities in Wuxi reported that an H800 computing cluster began operating in March 2025. Operating facilities and proposed investments are not evidence of the same level of chip access.

Nvidia's processors can carry out thousands of calculations at once, making them valuable for AI training. Its widely used software also makes switching to rival systems more complicated and potentially expensive.

The United States began restricting advanced AI chip sales to China in 2022, citing national security concerns. In January 2026, the Commerce Department moved H200 export applications to case-by-case review, although sales still require licenses. H100 shipments remain more tightly restricted.

That leaves Chinese developers with a dilemma: design facilities around familiar Nvidia equipment they may struggle to acquire, or invest in alternative processors that can require software changes and additional engineering.

An IDC report cited by Reuters estimated Nvidia accounted for 34% of China's AI accelerator shipments in the first half of 2026, compared with 28% for Huawei. Those figures cover the broader chip market, not confirmed shipments of restricted models.

Chinese AI developer Z.AI has already released an image-generation model trained entirely on Huawei chips, demonstrating that competitive systems need not depend on American hardware.

Still, the newly introduced project records show how deeply Nvidia remains embedded in Chinese AI infrastructure plans. They also add pressure on U.S. officials facing congressional scrutiny over how advanced chip export rules are enforced.

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Strategy, the world's largest corporate Bitcoin (BTC) holder, has sent an vital message regarding Bitcoin’s future resistance to quantum computing attacks.

The tech giant, which was co-founded by renowned Bitcoin champion Michael Saylor, recently posted on X that the Bitcoin network can implement upcoming security measures as and when they are needed.

“Quantum-resistant upgrades can be adopted if & when it's needed,” wrote Strategy.

These comments come at a time when the crypto industry is debating whether the rise of quantum computing could, in the long run, threaten Bitcoin’s cryptographic security.

Given that Bitcoin leverages elliptic curve cryptography for transaction security, quantum computing could pose a significant threat to Bitcoin.

A sufficiently powerful quantum computer has the potential to reverse-engineer private keys from exposed public keys. This could give attackers access to the Bitcoin holdings associated with those keys.

At this point, there is no known publicly available quantum computer that can successfully break Bitcoin’s cryptography in this manner.

While speaking at the World Bank in Washington in October, Saylor remarked that the Bitcoin network would be able to defend itself against any realistic quantum computing threat by coming together and upgrading the software.

Saylor estimated that such an upgrade would take about 90 days once a worldwide consensus is reached on the need for quantum-resistant cryptography.

Saylor also warned against the hasty introduction of fresh cryptography. He reasoned that more complex security measures may themselves introduce weaknesses.

However, the 90-day estimate has come under scrutiny because such a network-wide shift would involve developers agreeing on technical changes and Bitcoin consumers moving their funds to upcoming, secure addresses.

Interestingly, Strategy has also initiated efforts aimed at research and development for Bitcoin’s long-term security.

In July, Strategy was part of a group of seven major financial institutions and crypto companies, including BlackRock and Coinbase, that formed the Bitcoin Security Consortium.

Recent findings suggest that the Bitcoin Security Consortium has committed $15 million over three years. One of the areas of focus of the consortium is post-quantum cryptography.

In fact, Bitcoin developers are already working on ways to address the quantum computing problem.

One of the most prominent proposals is Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 360 (BIP-360). This BIP introduces a newly introduced type of transaction output, Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR).

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Morpho liquidators seized 4.18 million cbXRP as XRP-backed borrowers repaid $4 million in debt, with $53.5 million still outstanding.

XRP-backed borrowers surrendered about 4.18 million cbXRP in 883 liquidation events on Morpho, as liquidators repaid just over 4 million USDC of debt.

The activity took place in a lending market on Base where borrowers pledge cbXRP to borrow USDC.

In a recent development, cryptoSlate's analysis of Morpho's indexed transaction records covers Nov. 7 at 10:30:51 UTC through Nov. 13 before 13:00 UTC. The 883 events count individual liquidation logs, so one person can be represented more than once.

A later snapshot on Nov. 13 still indicated 53.53 million USDC outstanding.

An earlier loan-stress coverage used Nov. 6 positions to estimate that a further 10% oracle-price decline could bring 8.84 million USDC of debt across 1,070 positions to liquidation eligibility, assuming balances stayed unchanged.

The market's liquidation threshold is 62.5% loan-to-value, which compares the debt with the collateral's value: falling collateral prices can push the same loan above the permitted ratio.

Recent findings suggest that under Morpho's liquidation mechanism, an outside liquidator can repay some or all of an eligible position's debt and receive collateral plus an incentive. Here, that means paying USDC and taking cbXRP.

Collateral leaves the position while the debt obligation shrinks, and the records alone do not fully capture each borrower's economic outcome.

Recent findings suggest that the largest daily repayment total in the selected window was about 1.58 million USDC on Nov. 8, followed by about 1.06 million on Nov. 10. All 883 selected liquidation records reported zero bad debt, the debt left uncovered by collateral.

Industry observers note that the decoded liquidation log for a Nov. 10 transaction reveals about 202,394 USDC repaid, and 218,175 cbXRP seized in the same market.

The liquidator then sent that cbXRP amount to another address and received USDC and wrapped ETH from that address in the same transaction. A separate Nov. 7 log records about 1,050 USDC repaid against 1,029 cbXRP seized.

Establishing native XRP selling would require evidence linking the seized collateral to subsequent XRP trading, including any redemption or custody movement along the way.

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According to recent reports, window: Nov. 7, 2026 at 10:30:51 UTC to Nov. 13 before 13:00 UTC. Liquidations repaid 4.016m USDC and seized 4.182m cbXRP.

At 15:35:42 UTC, one liquidation repaid 202,394.36 USDC and seized 218,174.72 cbXRP. Both amounts belong to this one event.

In the same transaction, the liquidator sent the seized cbXRP onward and received USDC and wrapped ETH. This apparent Base exchange leaves native XRP trading untraced.

Recent findings suggest that liquidation reduces USDC debt and transfers cbXRP. The path to native XRP trading remains untraced.

In a recent development, counts refer to liquidation logs; borrowers can recur and the earlier at-risk cohort was not matched. Debt repaid is distinct from borrower economic loss. The selected Base transfers do not trace a native XRP redemption or sale, or explain XRP's broader price movement.

Sources indicate that window: November 7, 2026 10:30:51 UTC to November 13 before 13:00 UTC. Original Morpho POST analysis, UTC-day partitions, log deduplication and six-decimal scaling. Totals rounded to three decimals in millions; November 10 example rounded to two token decimals. Arrows show direction, without a quantity scale.

Recent findings suggest that counts refer to liquidation logs; borrowers can recur and the earlier at-risk cohort was not matched. Debt repaid is distinct from borrower economic loss. The selected Base transfers do not trace a native XRP redemption or sale, or explain XRP's broader price movement.

Industry observers note that at the API's 16:28:22 UTC state timestamp on Nov. 13, the Base market still carried approximately 53.5 million USDC of debt against 121.7 million cbXRP of collateral.

In a recent development, coinbase's loan-health guidance indicates repaying debt or adding collateral can improve a position's health. Optional automatic collateral protection depends on available assets and can fail during volatility or technical problems.

The next consequences for remaining borrowers depend on their own collateral buffers, repayments, and top-ups. The next evidence for XRP holders assessing selling pressure is the destination and use of seized cbXRP, followed by any traceable redemption or native XRP trade.

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Sources indicate that first it was Mukesh Ambani. Now India’s other telecom billionaire, Sunil Mittal, has a condition for Elon Musk: Starlink can come, but the power to switch it off stays in India. Last month, Musk mocked Ambani as India’s “real boss” for keeping out Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet service. What Did Airtel’s Chairman Say About Starlink? The post After Mukesh Ambani, India’s Other Telecom Billionaire Targets Elon Musk appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Two Bitcoin whale addresses moved 100 BTC worth $6.89 million after more than 16 years of dormancy on Friday.

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has shared in a post on X the comments he planned to make on CNBC after the TV channel cut his segment short to cover the news about Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia.

Armstrong says security is the top topic for clients.

Industry observers note that according to Armstrong, security is presently the main topic that clients of Coinbase ask about. "Trust and security is more notable than ever," the Coinbase CEO wrote.

Industry observers note that armstrong noted that seven of the world's largest banks work with Coinbase, and the company has more than 80 licenses around the world. Besides, Coinbase uses the latest AI models for defense, and it often gets early access to them.

Recent findings suggest that according to Armstrong, more than 99% of the crypto stored by Coinbase is kept in cold storage. "We always assume humans can be tricked, and build our defenses with this in mind. No single person, laptop, or system can move your money at Coinbase," the Coinbase CEO said.

Sources indicate that armstrong also remarked that there will soon be more AI agents than humans in the economy. According to the forecasts cited by the Coinbase CEO, agents will process $3 trillion to $5 trillion of transactions by 2030.

In a recent development, "Crypto is an ideal execution rail, and we're building the most AI-enabled financial account as one of our top priorities," Armstrong wrote. "I am incredibly bullish on agentic finance (AiFi).".

It has been revealed that in this context, Armstrong said that every public organization CEO should want their stock tokenized. According to the Coinbase CEO, the trading volume of tokenized stocks on Base has already exceeded $5 billion.

"Tokenized stocks are more accessible and useful than traditional stocks, especially when composed with DeFi (think earning yield on your stocks)," he added.

Sources indicate that armstrong also thanked SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and CFTC Chairman Michael Selig for bringing equity perpetual futures to U.S. traders. According to the Coinbase CEO, the regulators "have put historical agency turf wars aside" to launch the product.

Industry observers note that "Incumbents trying to block competition in the US won't stop these products. They already exist offshore. The only question is whether America will win or lose here, and we intend to help America win," Armstrong mentioned.

Finally, Armstrong mentioned that Coinbase Pro would return soon. Coinbase closed the platform in 2022. "Trading in the US is about to level up," the Coinbase CEO wrote.

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The FBI says North Korean hackers reuse stolen accounts and webcam footage to draw the next contact into a fake meeting.

North Korean hackers are using stolen webcam recordings to impersonate crypto workers in fake meetings with their contacts, turning one victim's familiar face into bait for the next attack, the FBI warns.

Industry observers note that the Justice Department announced disruption of cloud-based infrastructure used in FaceStealer on November 12. It remarked the scheme had caused more than $400 million in cryptocurrency theft over the preceding 18 months and that the FBI had seized over 900 victim webcam videos under a federal warrant.

The DOJ release treats FaceStealer separately from the Binance theft, which CryptoSlate has covered through the FBI's attribution and the exchange's asset-replenishment delays.

In a recent development, in its November 12 FLASH advisory, the FBI describes attackers taking over genuine accounts on services including Telegram, LinkedIn, Slack and Discord. Access to chat histories lets them tailor an invitation to earlier conversations, giving a upcoming approach the context of an existing relationship.

A legitimate calendaring service can handle the scheduling. The malicious meeting link arrives shortly before the call, directing the target to a copycat Zoom or Microsoft Teams session controlled by the attackers.

According to recent reports, once the target enters, stored webcam footage makes it appear that the known contact has joined. Attackers can simulate several participants. The familiar person on screen can therefore be a real prior victim's recording, rather than a live participant.

The FBI claims FaceStealer still overwhelmingly relies on stolen genuine videos. Generated deepfakes provide an additional way to impersonate participants.

The target's webcam becomes part of the attack before the supposed troubleshooting begins. The FLASH says recording starts when the target first clicks the imposter meeting link. The attackers can later use that footage to impersonate the target.

In a recent development, that is where the scheme joins theft to impersonation. Access to the computer can expose cryptocurrency or other valuable access. Stolen communication accounts, contact lists and webcam footage give the hackers material for the next approach. The FBI's FaceStealer resource page describes the same cycle of compromise, account hijacking and fake meetings.

The damage is not necessarily immediate. The FBI reported cases in which cryptocurrency theft and communication-account takeovers came months to more than a year after the initial compromise. A quiet period after a suspicious meeting therefore does not establish that a device or account is safe.

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A condensed view of the attack sequence described in the FBI's November 12 advisory.

Opening the imposter meeting link records webcam footage; following the fake fix installs malware.

In a recent development, the cycle reveals reuse, not a fixed timetable or every encounter. The FBI indicates genuine stolen footage predominates, while generated deepfakes are also used.

Editorial condensation of the FBI's reported attack cycle. Arrows show reuse of compromised accounts and footage, not a fixed timetable, growth rate or new calculation.

Industry observers note that the cycle demonstrates reuse, not a fixed timetable or every encounter. The FBI notes genuine stolen footage predominates, while generated deepfakes are also used.

The FBI recommends using the official meeting application with an invite code and, where possible, confirming an invitation through a different communication channel. That checks the approach beyond the account the attacker may already control.

It also advises delaying webcam activation until the inviter can be seen, heard and communicated with. An apparent technical fault should not lead to running scripts or pasting terminal code presented as a video-client enhancement.

Sources indicate that for people who suspect compromise, the bureau recommends securing cryptocurrency in a upcoming crypto wallet created on an unaffected device, securing communication and developer accounts, alerting contacts and employers, and reporting to IC3 with the keyword FaceStealer. Alerting contacts can interrupt further approaches that could reuse the stolen account and recording.

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Twenty One Capital reported a $1.087 billion third-quarter profit on Friday. The money came from Bitcoin (BTC) rising in value, and about 60% of it has already disappeared. Bitcoin has fallen since the quarter closed on Sept. 30. The Texas firm’s coins are now worth about $700 million less than it paid. Where Did Twenty The post Twenty One Capital Made $1 Billion in Bitcoin Profit. 60% is Already Gone appeared first on BeInCrypto.

According to recent reports, twenty One Capital reported a $1.087 billion third-quarter profit on Friday. The money came from Bitcoin (BTC) rising in value, and about 60% of it has already disappeared. Bitcoin has fallen since the quarter closed on Sept. 30. The Texas firm’s coins are now worth about $700 million less than it paid. Where Did Twenty.

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Ripple has continued to post substantial growth in the stablecoin ecosystem, outpacing major stablecoin issuers as its native stablecoin RLUSD is also seeing a corresponding increase in its market capitalization.

Per the latest data from CoinMarketCap, RLUSD has surged to over $2.69 billion in market capitalization as of November 13, placing it among the largest stablecoin projects in the global crypto market.

Following the substantial increase in RLUSD’s market capitalization over the last 24 hours, RLUSD now sits as the seventh-largest stablecoin by market capitalization across the globe.

Following this impressive growth, RLUSD now ranks above PayPal USD (PYUSD), whose market capitalization stands at about $2.67 billion as of the same period.

While RLUSD has continued to post unmatched growth since it introduced in late 2024, this further positions the asset as a strong competitor in the stablecoin market.

With Ripple’s unrelenting commitment to expanding its presence in the stablecoin market and across the global space, this growth marks a major milestone for the firm as it tends to also strengthen RLUSD’s role in digital payments and blockchain services.

RLUSD’s surge to over $2.69 billion in market capitalization has drawn attention across the crypto market as it highlights its growing adoption since it launched in December 2024.

The stablecoin has continued to attract substantial interest as it is designed to support payments, liquidity, and other financial activities across the XRP Ledger and Ethereum networks.

With its latest market capitalization, it is evident that the demand for Ripple's dollar-pegged token has continued to grow.

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Blockstream’s new custody system, developed with Thales, uses dedicated hardware for transaction signing as Adam Back advocates for offline security to reduce cyber risks.

Adam Back’s Bitcoin infrastructure tech giant Blockstream has released a new institutional digital asset custody solution developed with French technology group Thales, as the cryptographer pushes for simpler, offline security systems to protect Bitcoin against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

The solution, announced Friday, combines Thales’ hardware security modules (HSMs) with Blockstream’s Secure Multi-Party Computation (Secure-MPC) technology, allowing institutions to authorize transactions while keeping sensitive cryptographic operations within dedicated security hardware, according to the company.

Unlike conventional MPC implementations that may perform portions of the signing process outside dedicated security hardware, Blockstream stated its architecture executes the entire signing protocol within the protected environment of Thales’ HSMs.

Blockstream co-founder and CEO Adam Back, a pioneering cryptographer whose Hashcash system helped lay the groundwork for Bitcoin’s proof-of-work mechanism, told Cointelegraph that conventional MPC protocols are often too complex and require too much communication between devices to be practical for fully offline cold storage.

“When people talk about MPC, they’re talking about some very esoteric and complicated protocols that are hard to secure and are very interactive. So you can’t really use them in a cold storage setting,” Back said.

Related: Blockstream rejects ransom as Liquid hackers hold nearly 600 BTC.

Back pointed to the Binance $6.3 billion hack as an example of the risks facing internet-connected custody infrastructure, arguing that keeping signing devices offline can help prevent unauthorized access.

According to Binance’s investigation, attackers compromised employee devices and obtained credentials that allowed them to access the exchange’s wallet-signing infrastructure.

He also mentioned that AI could make existing security challenges more difficult to manage, particularly by helping attackers discover subtle flaws in complex MPC implementations.

“The AIs can help attackers find small implementation errors and things like that, which may not be obvious,” he noted.

Asked whether the broader custody industry would adopt similar offline security models, Back remarked he hoped so, arguing that institutions should “adapt to the environment” by moving assets into cold storage to reduce exposure to potential AI-assisted attacks.

“Complexity is the enemy of security. And going back to basics is the answer, you know, just cold-store it,” Back added.

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JPMorgan’s Bitcoin and Crypto-Linked Holdings Approach $1 Billion.

JPMorgan Chase, whose CEO has spent years deriding crypto, is now sitting on close to $1 billion worth of crypto-linked stocks and funds, a regulatory filing demonstrates, after the bank deepened those positions in the third quarter.

It has been revealed that adding up the disclosures in JPMorgan’s quarterly 13F, the form large institutional managers must file with the Securities and Exchange Commission to report their holdings, the bank held roughly $981 million across spot Bitcoin ETFs, Michael Saylor’s Strategy, and crypto exchange Coinbase as of Sept. 30.

Counting its stakes in Robinhood and Bitcoin miners, the total likely tips past $1 billion.

Sources indicate that the largest piece is BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, or IBIT, where JPMorgan reported 11,408,930 shares worth about $540 million, a 9.6% increase in shares from the prior quarter, when the holding was valued at roughly $356 million. It held smaller positions in Grayscale’s and Bitwise’s Bitcoin ETFs, bringing its total spot Bitcoin ETF exposure to around $549 million.

The bank also leaned further into Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury firm, raising its stake 36% to 848,932 shares, up from 624,387 at the end of June. That position was valued at about $131.3 million, up from $57.9 million a quarter earlier, reflecting both the added shares and a rise in Strategy’s stock over the period.

A roughly $301 million stake in Coinbase rounds out the core holdings, alongside positions in Robinhood and miners including Core Scientific and Hut 8. JPMorgan also disclosed sizable options tied to both IBIT and Strategy.

The company’s 13F is a snapshot as of Sept. 30 and doesn’t capture moves since, nor does it necessarily reflect directional bets. Banks often hold such positions to hedge or to facilitate client trades rather than to wager on price, so the near-$1 billion figure is better read as the scale of JPMorgan’s crypto-market activity than as a conviction call.

That nuance matters given CEO Jamie Dimon, who has called Bitcoin worthless and likened crypto to a fraud, even as the bank he runs steadily builds out digital-asset services.

Sources indicate that those services have expanded quickly. JPMorgan recently issued its first price forecast for Bitcoin, rolled out a deposit token called JPM Coin tied to bank dollars on Ethereum, and explored tokenized stocks alongside BlackRock and the DTCC.

Sources indicate that the disclosure also lands during a rough stretch for Bitcoin funds. Spot Bitcoin ETFs have bled more than $1.4 billion over a recent five-day span as investors cut risk, a reminder that the institutional appetite captured in JPMorgan’s September snapshot has cooled since.

Bitcoin, which traded near $155 per Strategy share levels at quarter-end, has since slid well off its highs, today trading below $69,000.

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According to recent reports, bitcoin sank to about $68,000 on Friday. That is its lowest price since August. US stocks tied to the coin went down with it. The companies that mine new Bitcoin took the worst hit. Hut 8 dropped 6%. Riot Platforms and MARA Holdings each lost 3.9%. Coinbase, the largest US crypto exchange, slipped just 0.5%. The post Bitcoin Miners Lead Wall Street's Crypto Sell-Off: Why Are They Falling Hardest? appeared first on BeInCrypto.

Bitcoin sank to about $68,000 on Friday. That is its lowest price since August. US stocks tied to the coin went down with it. The companies that mine upcoming Bitcoin took the worst hit. Hut 8 dropped 6%. Riot Platforms and MARA Holdings each lost 3.9%. Coinbase, the largest US crypto exchange, slipped just 0.5%.

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JPMorgan reported 224,545 more Strategy shares in the third quarter as its BlackRock bitcoin ETF holdings climbed to 11.4 million shares.

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Polygon DAI lenders would keep just 30% of borrower interest under the proposal, down from 75%, as Aave’s treasury takes a larger share.

According to recent reports, aave lenders supplying DAI on Polygon could see their share of borrower interest fall from 75% to 30% under a November 12 proposal by TokenLogic. The proposal would redirect more interest to Aave’s DAO treasury, with uneven cuts to lender returns across its markets.

In a recent development, the November 12 proposal covers 54 reserves across 12 Aave V3 instances and Ethereum V2. TokenLogic estimates about $4 million in additional annualized DAO revenue using November 9 balances and rates. That total includes roughly $1 million from Plasma USDT0, a change that would enter the formal proposal only once its terms are finalized.

According to recent reports, in Aave’s lending system, the mechanism is the reserve factor: the portion of borrower interest allocated to the DAO instead of suppliers. Raising it changes who receives the interest, without directly changing the borrowing-rate curve. TokenLogic argues the larger share would better compensate the DAO for the risks attached to borrowable reserves.

Polygon V3 DAI illustrates how much that allocation can matter. TokenLogic proposes raising its reserve factor from 25% to 70%, with a modeled supply APY reduction of 270 basis points, or 2.70 percentage points. The same line projects $94,373 in additional annual DAO revenue.

Recent findings suggest that with the amount of borrower interest unchanged, suppliers’ share would fall from 75% to 30%. The treasury would receive the difference. In that fixed-input model, the revenue gain comes from a smaller payment to lenders, without requiring more borrowing or a higher price for the same loan.

Polygon DAI illustrates TokenLogic’s November 12 proposal: the interest allocation changes while the model holds borrowing and rates fixed.

The proposed 70% reserve factor leaves suppliers 30% of borrower interest, down from 75%.

Proposal-listed current and proposed factors, not execution evidence. Total borrower interest is held fixed; subsequent liquidity or rate responses can change realized income. The shares concern lending interest, not deposit principal.

Supplier share = 100% minus reserve factor: 100-25=75 and 100-70=30. DAO share rises by 70-25=45 percentage points. Verified with JavaScript arithmetic; bar widths scale linearly to a fixed 600-unit desktop or 312-unit mobile interest pool. This is derived allocation arithmetic, not an APY calculation.

Recent findings suggest that proposal-listed current and proposed factors, not execution evidence. Total borrower interest is held fixed; subsequent liquidity or rate responses can change realized income. The shares concern lending interest, not deposit principal.

It has been revealed that the comparison with other stablecoins shows that the proposal does not apply a uniform yield reduction. TokenLogic models cuts of 173 basis points for Avalanche DAI.e, 78 for Avalanche USDt and 61 for Avalanche USDC. Their proposed reserve factors are 90%, 25% and 25%, respectively.

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For savers choosing where to lend stablecoins, those reductions change the return offered for keeping liquidity in the affected reserve. TokenLogic identifies Polygon DAI as a legacy reserve and explicitly uses lower returns as an incentive to move liquidity out of declining markets.

According to recent reports, modeled supply APY changes in TokenLogic’s November 12 proposal using November 9, 2026 balances and rates. Negative values are reductions; 100 basis points equals 1 percentage point. Selected reserves, not the complete proposal.

Source: TokenLogic proposal; model inputs November 9, 2026.

A separate Aavescan observation puts the Polygon DAI pool in perspective. Its November 12 midnight-UTC snapshot records 3.30 million DAI deposited, 2.65 million borrowed and a 4.81% supply APR, excluding historical incentives.

Aavescan’s observed APR and TokenLogic’s modeled APY reduction, based on November 9 inputs, describe different rate measures at different dates.

The largest reserve-factor percentages do not necessarily impose the largest yield cuts. TokenLogic proposes 100% factors for selected bitcoin-wrapper and liquid-staking collateral reserves whose lending APYs are already close to zero. Its model puts the lost lending yield in that group at no more than 1 to 2 basis points.

It has been revealed that A 100% reserve factor applies to lending interest, not deposit principal. For wstETH, it is also separate from the staking accrual reflected in the token’s stETH value. Redirecting Aave’s incremental lending interest would leave that underlying accrual mechanism intact.

Plasma USDT0 reveals why a modest yield cut can still produce a large revenue estimate. TokenLogic models a reserve-factor increase from 5% to 7.5% against about $632 million borrowed. The projected supply APY reduction is 16 basis points, alongside about $1 million in additional annual revenue. Its inclusion remains conditional on finalized Plasma terms.

Even for the other lines, annualizing November 9 balances and rates holds the inputs fixed. The proposal also seeks to change supplier behavior, which could alter those inputs.

For Ethereum V2, TokenLogic proposes raising five remaining borrowed reserves to 99.99%, directing nearly all their interest to the DAO. It expects reduced returns to encourage exits. If suppliers withdraw, utilization could rise and borrowing costs could increase, creating pressure on borrowers to close positions.

Aave’s utilization-based borrowing curve links borrowing costs to how much liquidity is in use. That potential response is separate from changing the curve itself, as in the USDT borrowing-rule patch CryptoSlate covered in October.

It has been revealed that the November 12 publication lists feedback and escalation to the Aave Improvement Proposal stage as next steps. Its yield cuts and revenue gains remain proposed estimates.

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Home » Ripple (XRP) » XRP Backer Counters SWIFT’s Latest Speed Report.

The preference for nearly-immediate settlement time windows unites a roster of banks in SWIFT’s chain trial.

A Swift report highlighting faster cross-border payments drew a pointed response from Digital Asset Investor, who replied that he prefers 3-4 seconds and pointed to XRP.

The exchange underscores the ongoing contrast between improvements in traditional interbank messaging and the settlement times associated with blockchain-based rails.

Swift’s Spotlight on Speed report, released this week, shows that 50% of payments on its network now reach the recipient institution within 40 seconds, with 75% arriving within 10 minutes.

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The cooperative noted that these figures put the industry ahead of the G20’s target for one-hour end-to-end processing by 2027 in the interbank leg of the journey.

The same report emphasizes that the “last mile”, the period after a payment reaches the receiving bank and before it is credited to the beneficiary’s account, still accounts for about 80% of the average end-to-end journey time.

Across 40 receiving markets analyzed, median last-mile processing sat near one hour in roughly one-third of cases, with wide variation between cross-border markets.

The conglomerate has called for greater use of one-leg-out models that connect international payments to domestic instant systems to reduce those final delays.

According to recent reports, digital Asset Investor’s reply to the Swift post was brief: “I prefer 3-4 seconds. XRP.” The comment references the XRP Ledger’s typical ledger close time of roughly 3-5 seconds, which provides finality for on-ledger transfers.

I prefer 3-4 seconds. XRP. https://t.co/tBqXtEsqeM.

In Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) model, XRP is used as a bridge asset so that currency conversion and settlement can occur without pre-funded nostro accounts.

End-to-end ODL flows that include exchange conversions have been described in the 3-5 second range for the core ledger step, though real-world completion including compliance and local payouts is often measured in seconds to a few minutes depending on the corridor.

The two claims are not measuring identical segments of a payment. Swift’s 40-second figure tracks time to the recipient institution, while the longer last-mile delays occur after that point.

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XRP’s cited 3-4 second window refers primarily to ledger settlement of the bridge asset itself.

Traditional systems still handle the bulk of global bank-to-bank volume and benefit from established compliance and messaging standards; blockchain rails emphasize reduced pre-funding and faster finality on the asset transfer.

Whether the shorter settlement window on XRP produces a meaningfully better end-user experience continues to depend on how the on- and off-ramps, local banking rails, and compliance steps are integrated in any given corridor.

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Stellar (XLM), the blockchain co-founded by Jed McCaleb, has become the leader in daily market cap growth for tokenized real-world asset (RWA) funds, according to Token Terminal data published by the RWA Foundation. Over the 24 hours to Nov. 13, the market cap of tokenized funds on Stellar went up by $44.9 million, and the network surpassed both Ethereum and Solana.

Over the same period, the market cap of tokenized funds on Solana, Ethereum and zkSync Era increased by $29 million, $10.8 million and $3.5 million, respectively.

According to recent reports, stellar is currently the second-largest blockchain for tokenized funds after Ethereum, according to Token Terminal. Over the past year, the RWA market on Stellar has grown roughly sixfold and reached $4.67 billion, according to rwa.xyz. At press time, the price of XLM stands at $0.1476.

According to the Stellar Development Foundation, Stellar was designed with the requirements of banks and transfer agents in mind. In this context, the compliance tools are built into the base layer of the network, and an issuer can vet investors through trustlines, freeze accounts and claw back assets.

Recent findings suggest that transactions on Stellar settle in 3 to 5 seconds, and the fees on the network are measured in fractions of a cent. Besides, customers can move funds to and from fiat currencies through local providers, which are called anchors on Stellar.

It has been revealed that franklin Templeton's BENJI money market fund has run on Stellar since 2021, and it was the first U.S. mutual fund on a public blockchain.

Today, Spiko, Ondo and WisdomTree are also building their own funds and tokenized U.S. Treasuries on Stellar. Spiko offers euro funds managed by Amundi, and Ondo has debuted its USDY token on the network.

It has been revealed that in May 2026, DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation declared that the Depository Trust Company (DTC) will tokenize the assets it holds in custody on Stellar. According to DTCC, DTC-tokenized assets are expected to become available on the network in the first half of 2027.

On Nov. 12, DTCC also declared that it will connect its tokenization service to Solana in the second half of 2027.

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Payward’s adjusted EBITDA fell 66% year over year to $60 million, even as its share of global spot trading nearly doubled and fee-based services expanded.

Kraken’s parent tech giant Payward nearly doubled its share of global crypto spot trading to 6.5% in September from 3.3% a year earlier, even as weaker trading activity weighed on its earnings.

Industry observers note that the market-share gain means Payward captured a larger portion of spot trading relative to competitors, rather than an increase in trading activity across its platforms. The company handled $353 billion in transactions in the third quarter, down 30% from a year earlier, according to financial results released Friday.

According to recent reports, the two figures measure different things. The market share tracks its portion of global spot trading across its platforms in September, compared with a year earlier, while Payward’s quarterly transaction volume includes activity across multiple products, including spot, margin, equities, payments and certain derivatives.

It has been revealed that adjusted EBITDA fell to $60 million from the $178.6 million reported a year earlier. Total platform margin fell 12% to $487 million. Payward introduced that measure this quarter to replace adjusted revenue, adding a deduction for staking rewards paid to customers.

Payward has spent the past two years expanding beyond its core cryptocurrency exchange business through acquisitions in derivatives, proprietary trading, tokenized assets and payments. The strategy aims to diversify revenue beyond transaction fees, which fluctuate with market activity.

Industry observers note that its purchases include futures broker NinjaTrader and proprietary trading firm Breakout in 2025, followed by the acquisition of US-regulated derivatives platform Bitnomial in May 2026. The tech giant also expanded into stablecoin payments with its purchase of Reap in July.

According to recent reports, those businesses contributed to a broader mix of trading and service-based activity in the third quarter. The number of derivatives contracts on which Payward charges a per-contract fee rose 84% to 66 million. Margin from subscriptions, trader evaluations and other paid services rose 59% to $125 million.

Industry observers note that breakout, which charges traders for evaluations that can qualify them for funded trading accounts, was included for the full quarter after joining in September 2025. The July purchase of Reap added a stablecoin payments and card-issuing business. The organization did not quantify either acquisition’s contribution to the quarter.

Related: Kraken parent Payward acquires Magic Labs’ wallet business.

In a recent development, results improved from the second quarter despite remaining below year-earlier levels. Total transaction volume rose 22%, while total platform margin increased 12% to $487 million from $436 million.

It has been revealed that the improvement was not driven by trading alone. Margin earned from assets customers hold on Payward’s platforms, including staking-related services, rose 26% to $128 million. That accounted for roughly half of the $51 million quarterly increase in total platform margin.

Adjusted EBITDA climbed to $60 million from $23 million, while its margin relative to total platform margin rose to 12% from 5%. Compared with a year earlier, however, adjusted EBITDA was down 66%, underscoring the pressure on profitability despite a growing contribution from services less directly tied to trading activity. Asset- and access-based services accounted for 52% of total platform margin, up from 46% a year earlier.

In a recent development, that shift could matter for an eventual public listing. Payward confidentially filed for a US IPO in November 2025 but paused its plans in March as market conditions weakened. By September, the earliest potential listing window under consideration was the second quarter of 2027.

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Mark Suman, co-founder and CEO of Maple AI, joins BMTV to talk about private AI built so that even its own team cannot read your chats.

Mark Suman, co-founder and CEO of Maple AI, joins BMTV to talk about private AI built so that even its own team cannot read your chats. He notes AI is weaving its way into every aspect of life, including financial transactions and agents paying each other, and he would not want those chats read by a firm whose source code you cannot inspect. Maple was built from the ground up with open-source code and encryption. Much like Bitcoin, he wants people not to trust the company, but to verify. All of your data, all of your thoughts, everything that’s precious to you stays encrypted all the way throughout the pipeline, and he says you do not have to sacrifice security to use the best open-weight models.

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Dormant Bitcoin Wallets Wake Up After 16 Years, Moving $6.9 Million.

Two Bitcoin addresses that had been dormant since 2010 suddenly moved $6.9 million worth of BTC on Friday, bringing two early mining rewards back into circulation after more than 16 years.

Blockchain tracking service Whale Alert flagged the first transfer at 4:08 a.m. UTC on November 13, when 50 BTC worth approximately $3.44 million moved from an address that had not spent its original mining reward since September 2010.

Just over two minutes later, another 50 BTC moved from a separate wallet with an equally long history.

Sources indicate that both transfers involved Bitcoin originally generated through mining, rather than coins purchased on an exchange. Their combined value today was approximately $6,885,068.

The coins came from two blocks mined on September 8 and September 19, 2010, respectively. Back then, Bitcoin traded for roughly six cents, meaning each 50 BTC reward was worth about three bucks.

At Friday's transaction prices of around $68,800 per Bitcoin, their combined value had increased approximately 1,147,511 times, equivalent to a 114,751,033% increase.

It has been revealed that that percentage measures the appreciation in Bitcoin's market price (what’s known as unrealized gains), not money the holder has actually made by selling (which would be known as realized gains). In fact, it’s unknown whether this was a peer-to-peer transaction, an OTC sell, or simply a wallet switch for security reasons.

According to recent reports, the $3 valuation is also an estimate. Bitcoin barely had a functioning market in September 2010, with historical prices showing a trading range of around five to seven cents. The Mt. Gox exchange had only opened that July, with its first recorded trade taking place at $0.04951 per coin.

The transfers are part of a broader trend of ancient Bitcoin wallets waking up in 2026. According to Galaxy Research data highlighted in August, Bitcoin that had remained untouched for at least a decade was moving at a pace rarely seen in previous years. In one 10-day stretch alone, six wallets dating back to 2011, 2012, and 2014 transferred a combined 553.59 BTC, worth more than $40 million at the time.

It has been revealed that some of those movements have been linked to security concerns, wallet upgrades, or transfers to professional custodians rather than outright selling. Friday's activity adds another 100 BTC to the growing list of early Bitcoin holdings changing hands—or at least changing addresses—after more than a decade of silence.

The blockchain provides a detailed record of where the money moved, but it doesn't reveal who controls the receiving wallets.

The first transaction split the 50 BTC into two latest addresses, sending nearly 49.99 BTC to one and approximately 0.01 BTC to another, minus a tiny network fee.

The second transaction followed a similar pattern, transferring nearly 49 BTC to one address and approximately 1 BTC to another.

It has been revealed that both transactions cost just 1,110 satoshis each in network fees, equivalent to approximately $0.75. A satoshi is Bitcoin's smallest unit, worth one hundred-millionth of a BTC.

As of an on-chain check at approximately 14:00 UTC Friday, the 100 BTC had not moved again from their fresh destinations following the consolidation, and no sale has been identified.

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Japanese tech and fintech conglomerate Rakuten Group is among the institutional holders of a U.S. spot XRP ETF, according to the firm's latest 13F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Rakuten also holds funds tracking Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, and these positions were worth roughly $6.42 million combined at the end of the quarter on Sept. 30, 2026.

According to recent reports, the filing indicates that Rakuten held 6,690 shares of the Bitwise XRP ETF worth $111,255. At press time, the price of XRP stands at $1.03, and the shares of the Bitwise fund trade at $11.51, according to SoSoValue, so the XRP ETF stake of Rakuten is now worth about $77,000.

Rakuten is not the only institutional investor in the upcoming XRP funds, and Raymond James Financial has also disclosed positions in spot XRP ETFs, according to SEC filings.

Recent findings suggest that the largest position of Rakuten is in BlackRock's spot Bitcoin fund, the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, and Rakuten held $5,893,593 worth of its shares at the end of the third quarter. Besides, Rakuten owns $263,632 of the iShares Ethereum Trust ETF and $150,728 of the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF.

U.S. rules require any institutional manager holding more than $100 million in U.S. exchange-listed securities to disclose its portfolio every quarter, no matter where it's based. Rakuten Group holds about $1.4 billion in U.S. equities, and most of that amount is in shares of satellite operator AST SpaceMobile. In this context, the crypto ETF positions account for less than 0.5% of the U.S. portfolio of Rakuten.

Rakuten is one of the largest tech companies in Japan. The market capitalization of Rakuten stands at about ¥1.4 trillion ($9 billion), and the annual revenue of the organization is more than ¥2.5 trillion ($16 billion).

In a recent development, the Rakuten ecosystem spans more than 70 services, from the Rakuten Ichiba marketplace and carrier Rakuten Mobile to banks and brokerages. According to Rakuten, these services have more than 100 million people in Japan and more than 2.1 billion users worldwide.

The latest filing comes amid outflows from spot XRP ETFs. According to SoSoValue, the funds lost $10.42 million on Nov. 9 and another $7.62 million on Nov. 10, and there were no flows on Nov. 11 and Nov. 12. On Oct. 28, the total net assets of the funds stood at $1.51 billion.

It has been revealed that still, the cumulative net inflow of spot XRP ETFs stands at $1.79 billion, and the total net assets of the funds are $1.16 billion, or 1.77% of the market cap of XRP. Finally, the Bitwise XRP ETF is the largest of the five spot XRP funds, and its net assets stand at $420.29 million, according to SoSoValue.

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Sources indicate that human engineers designed the guardrails and release checks. Application security still needs testing on the real cloud.

Amazon released AWS Emulator on Nov. 11, a local tool that imitates AWS services so developers can test cloud applications on their own machines. The firm says autonomous AI agents wrote and reviewed its implementation.

In a recent development, in Amazon's engineering account, engineer Matthew Goldberg indicates his team neither wrote nor reviewed the emulator code. He also describes the substantial engineering work needed to turn an experiment into a product, including the guardrails and checks that determine which changes can ship.

According to recent reports, amazon describes three teams of agents: one manages fidelity tests, another finds differences between the emulator and real AWS, and a third fixes individual challenges. Changes face checks for compilation, coding standards, security and regressions before merging, according to the firm.

In a recent development, the test agents work from public AWS API models and verify their scenarios against the real cloud. The public evaluation suite indicates every fidelity test was checked against at least two sandboxed AWS accounts.

AWS calls the degree of agreement with its cloud services “fidelity.” A test passes when the emulator matches AWS for every call in that workflow, including status codes, resulting resources, side effects and errors, according to its fidelity documentation. Returning success where AWS returns an error fails that test.

The boundary is coverage. The evaluation repository explicitly says behavior without a fidelity test is unverified. Passing a scenario establishes a match for that scenario; it does not establish that every way an application uses AWS will work.

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AWS defines a pass within a tested workflow. Untested behavior and application security sit beyond that conclusion.

A passing workflow is evidence for that scenario. It does not validate all AWS behavior or application security.

Diagram shows AWS's pass rule, not a particular test result or measured coverage. Application security still requires testing on real AWS before production.

Industry observers note that qualitative diagram of AWS's published fidelity definition and testing limits. Branches compare the real-AWS reference with emulator replay; they do not represent simultaneous live tests, amounts or coverage proportions.

Recent findings suggest that diagram highlights AWS's pass rule, not a particular test result or measured coverage. Application security still requires testing on real AWS before production.

Security has a separate limit. AWS's security guidance warns against using the emulator to determine whether an application is secure. It does not check AWS KMS key policies or Amazon S3 bucket policies, and a request denied by AWS may succeed locally.

Agent review of implementation security therefore cannot be read as validation of a user's application permissions. The emulator is for building and testing, not production workloads. AWS instructs developers to test their whole application and security settings on real AWS before production.

For builders adopting agent-written software, the release makes the acceptance process as relevant as the code's authorship: which behaviors are checked, what remains outside coverage, and where the developer must still test against the real service.

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Coinbase’s trust organization received final clearance as lawmakers seek records on crypto firms’ compliance and potential conflicts of interest.

Sources indicate that federal regulators are opening more avenues for crypto companies to operate under US rules, while congressional investigators are asking to see the records behind those decisions. Lawmakers want to know how regulators justified new trust charters, how crypto companies handled compliance and what dealings they had with people tied to President Donald Trump’s administration.

On Nov. 9, Coinbase announced that its national trust company had received final approval to open. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted preliminary conditional approval in April. The company stated the charter gives its custody business a consistent federal framework.

Recent findings suggest that lawmakers had been questioning how federal regulators were using their existing authority to expand crypto companies’ reach. In a May 18 letter to the OCC, Sen. Elizabeth Warren challenged at least nine crypto trust-charter approvals, including Coinbase’s earlier conditional approval. She asked for the applications, the legal analyses behind the approvals and any related communications between OCC officials and the White House or Trump family.

According to recent reports, four days before Coinbase’s announcement, Sen. Richard Blumenthal renewed demands for records from Binance, Tether and two Trump-linked ventures. He gave them until Jan. 4, 2027, to turn over the requested records voluntarily and warned that his subcommittee could take other steps to obtain them.

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Home » Ripple (XRP) » Ripple Prime CEO Steps Down Ahead Of XRP Expansion.

XRP’s financial utility goes way beyond cross-border operations: leadership shift shakes Ripple’s prominent brokerage arm.

Recent findings suggest that ripple’s Ripple Prime institutional crypto brokerage platform is witnessing a major change. Ripple Prime founder Marc Asch is going to leave the position at year-end as Noel Kimmel assumes leadership.

Noel Kimmel, already serving as Vice President of Ripple Prime, will assume leadership of the business and their team within Ripple Labs. This marks Ripple Prime’s transition from a regular custody & brokerage platform to major-scale financial services & infrastructure provider.

Sources indicate that marc Asch founded Hidden Road back in 2018, instantly becoming the growing brokerage’s CEO. The firm offered a wide variety of digital-asset powered services, including foreign exchange, derivatives and fixed income. Ripple made a deal to acquire the platform in 2025.

Since the massive acquisition, Ripple Labs expanded the newly-acquired subsidiary’s business towards leveraged ETF financing. The branch even processed $13 trillion in payments during 2025, but the vague regulations kept all of that trading action outside of crypto’s boundaries.

In a recent development, ripple Prime founder Marc Asch is stepping down at year end, per CoinDesk, with Noel Kimmel taking over the prime brokerage Ripple bought for $1.25B in 2025. Founders leaving a year after a sale is normal. The test is whether institutions keep growing there. Red flag or nothing?

Right now, Ripple Prime serves over 300 institutions worldwide. The freshly-appointed CEO Noel Kimmel was already deeply involved in this expansion. He previously represented Ripple Prime in its $200 million financing agreement, designed to raise institutional margin capacity.

Sources indicate that the brokerage platform went on to introduce equity-linked derivatives and financing for Ripple’s institutional customers. Another key milestone was the deal with Brevan Howard, an accounting manufacturer looking after $35 billion in assets under management (AUM) for clearing services.

Presently, XRP coin’s trading dangerously close to the psychological $1 level on November 13, 2026. This extends a sharp dip as Bitcoin (BTC) falls below $68,000 and with the crypto ETF market taking a multi-billion dollar hit on Friday. The $0.99 support zone comes into play now.

XRP REVERSES ALL GAINSIt happened.$XRP failed to break above the $1.55 resistance at the top of the channel and has now completed a full reversal toward the channel’s lower boundary at $0.99.Now, $0.99 must hold.If XRP loses this support, the correction could extend… https://t.co/nq0F2R2a3a pic.twitter.com/hf3DPgaS9m.

According to recent reports, judging from Ali Martinez’s updated XRP price analysis, the full reversal toward the channel’s lower boundary at $0.99 has been completed, which now serves as a key near-term magnet. Breaking it upwards would mean a retest of $1.29 as mid-point, then $1.55 as the main target.

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Fed Chair Warsh Wants Answers on AI Inflation—and Bitcoin May Feel the Impact.

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will convene a public forum Monday to examine whether artificial intelligence will bring down inflation, drive prices higher, or replace American workers.

The November 16 conference in San Francisco will bring together technology executives, economists, and employers to examine how AI is reshaping the economy.

The findings could influence how the Fed approaches interest rates, a major factor in Bitcoin's price movements as investors weigh whether to put money into risky assets or safer alternatives.

Warsh has argued that AI could help companies produce more goods and services at lower costs, easing inflation without requiring the Fed to keep borrowing expensive.

But some of his colleagues see a different problem: The AI boom is already making things more expensive, while the promised productivity benefits remain largely theoretical.

Building data centers requires enormous quantities of electricity, computer chips, construction materials, and skilled workers. When technology companies compete for those limited resources, prices rise.

Fed Governor Lisa Cook warned in September that AI investment was adding inflationary pressure and delaying the central bank's return to its 2% inflation target.

If AI eventually allows businesses to produce more without raising costs, inflation could cool, giving policymakers room to lower interest rates.

Lower rates generally make risky assets like Bitcoin or tech stocks more attractive because government bonds and savings accounts offer smaller returns, encouraging investors to seek higher gains elsewhere.

But if AI spending keeps inflation elevated, the Fed could maintain high interest rates or raise them further. That would make borrowing more expensive, strengthen the appeal of interest-bearing assets, and potentially drain money from speculative investments, including cryptocurrencies.

Recent findings suggest that bitcoin is already feeling that pressure. The cryptocurrency dropped below $69,000 Friday as stronger-than-expected inflation figures fueled concerns about another Fed rate hike.

AI also has a more direct connection to the Bitcoin industry than most may think of.

Industry observers note that both AI data centers and Bitcoin mining operations need access to large amounts of electricity. As AI companies compete for power and infrastructure, miners face pressure to secure affordable energy or consider more profitable alternatives.

Some are already abandoning Bitcoin mining altogether. Hyperscale Data shut down mining operations at its Michigan facility in September to accommodate an AI customer under a deal potentially worth more than $1.2 billion. The same has happened with other big names like Coreweave and other former Ethereum miners from its proof-of-work era.

Meanwhile, AI's potential impact on employment adds another complication.

Fed Governor Michael Barr warned Thursday of possible “serious short-term disruptions” as businesses increasingly replace human tasks with AI systems.

Widespread job losses could weaken consumer spending, slow economic growth, and eventually increase pressure on the Fed to cut rates. But a deteriorating economy could also push investors away from Bitcoin as they look to reduce risk.

Warsh himself acknowledged in August that AI represents “a newly introduced variable” for monetary policy.

The question now is whether AI's economic benefits will arrive quickly enough to outweigh the costs of building it.

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According to prominent crypto analyst Vetle Lunde, Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest cryptocurrency, might be presenting a massive buying opportunity despite the cryptocurrency market crash. He’s calling on investors to remain calm amid another significant drop for the world's largest cryptocurrency.

On X, Lunde recently shared some technical indicators suggesting the possibility of a major Bitcoin turnaround after weeks of massive selling.

“This is a great place to buy BTC,” Lunde said.

Among the indicators Lunde considers is the fact that BTC has returned to its 200-week moving average (MA). This is a long-term technical indicator widely tracked by crypto traders. It’s used to identify potential market bottoms.

According to Lunde, the daily Relative Strength Index (RSI) for Bitcoin has fallen to 25, which indicates that the market has become oversold.

Whenever the RSI goes below 30, it suggests that the asset has been oversold, experiencing heavy selling pressure. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the price will reverse higher.

Lunde also noted that Bitcoin has experienced the fifth-largest wave of exchange-traded fund (ETF) outflows on record. There’s also been a large reduction in leverage on Bitcoin ETFs.

According to recent reports, exposure to 2x leveraged ETFs has now reached a level not seen in the last 2.5 years. That’s a massive reduction in leverage on the asset. “So, speculative stuff is off,” Lunde said.

“Don’t press the red panic button!” Lunde added.

Recent findings suggest that lunde's bullish take comes as Bitcoin suffered yet another devastating sell-off on Friday, Nov. 13. The price of Bitcoin dropped below the psychologically significant $70,000 level for the first time since August.

BTC dropped as low as $67,770, marking its lowest price in the last 12 weeks. The cryptocurrency’s prolonged decline continues.

Recent findings suggest that the number one cryptocurrency has now lost more than 21% from its late September highs. The recent correction has been immense.

In the meantime, another bullish voice on Bitcoin's potential comes from Zach Pandl, head of research at Grayscale. He believes that Bitcoin is in a much better position than it was earlier in the year.

“Bitcoin IMO is in a much different place than earlier this year,” Pandl wrote on X.

According to him, the key difference is the balance sheet of Michael Saylor’s Strategy, which is the world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin.

It has been revealed that however, Peter Schiff, the prominent Bitcoin critic and gold advocate, has a different view on the matter. He thinks that Strategy's financial obligations could create significant selling pressure.

In his latest post on X, Schiff suggested that a further drop in Bitcoin's price could prompt holders of Strategy's STRC preferred stock to consider trimming their positions.

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Bitcoin sales, valuation losses and rising borrowing costs weighed on the Japanese company’s earnings despite higher revenue and operating profit.

Metaplanet swung to a $170 million net loss in the first nine months of 2026, hit by a decline in the value of its Bitcoin holdings and a loss on the sale of 10,000 coins to demonstrate its ability to raise cash.

According to recent reports, the Japanese tech giant, the world’s second-largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin (BTC) holder, posted a net loss of 27.16 billion yen (about $170 million), compared with a profit of 13.53 billion yen ($84.6 million) in the same period last year. A 19.17 billion yen ($119.8 million) loss on the Bitcoin sale and an 8.04 billion yen ($50.3 million) loss from a decline in the value of its Bitcoin holdings outweighed gains in the operating business.

Sources indicate that over the quarter, Metaplanet sold the 10,000 BTC for 124.7 billion yen and temporarily held the proceeds in cash, stablecoins and other liquid assets. It then spent 149.9 billion yen to buy 11,000 BTC, paying 9.3% more per coin on average. The company said the sale was meant to show rating agencies and bond investors that it could turn its Bitcoin into cash to meet financing obligations. At the end of September, holdings rose by a net 1,000 coins to 44,000 BTC.

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Metaplanet borrowed against its Bitcoin holdings during the quarter, increasing the amount it owed under the credit line to $649.5 million at the end of September from $414 million at the end of June.

The company remarked it funded Bitcoin purchases from the second quarter onward with money borrowed under the credit line, proceeds from bond sales and the exercise of stock acquisition rights, and revenue from its Bitcoin options business.

Metaplanet’s interest expense rose 56% from the previous quarter to 1.36 billion yen ($8.5 million). Short-term borrowings and bonds payable totaled 110.5 billion yen ($691 million) at the end of September.

Recent findings suggest that for the nine months through September, revenue rose 30.5% to 5.9 billion yen ($36.9 million), while operating profit increased 26.5% to 3.48 billion yen ($21.8 million). The manufacturer cut its full-year revenue forecast to 6.5 billion yen ($40.6 million) from 16 billion yen ($100 million).

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Metaplanet’s earnings come as Bitcoin treasury companies face mounting pressure from incoming stock index removals and falling Bitcoin prices.

Industry observers note that index provider MSCI confirmed Wednesday that Strategy, Metaplanet and Upexi would be removed from its equity indexes at the Nov. 30 market close, potentially prompting funds that track those benchmarks to sell the shares. JPMorgan previously estimated that Strategy’s removal could result in roughly $2.8 billion in selling pressure from MSCI-linked funds.

Bitcoin fell below $70,000 on Friday and was trading around $68,600 as of 4:51 p.m. UTC, down about 9% over the previous week, according to CoinGecko data.

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Lido’s illustration puts conditional loss cushions at 7.2% for EarnETH and 12.1% for EarnUSD, not guaranteed repayment.

It has been revealed that lido Earn’s DeFi vaults gained a upcoming layer of loss protection on Nov. 5, 2026, with different potential cushions for ETH and dollar depositors. Lido’s published illustration puts combined protection near 7.2% of EarnETH assets and 12.1% of EarnUSD assets, subject to eligibility, approval and available capital.

Recent findings suggest that firelight, an onchain protection protocol, now absorbs eligible approved losses before the existing Lido DAO buffer. Each layer has its own conditions and capital limits.

Recent findings suggest that lido Earn’s vaults put deposits into DeFi strategies. EarnETH allocates ETH and stETH, while EarnUSD offers dollar-denominated strategies. Users receive tokens representing their vault shares, whose value reflects performance. Protection attaches specifically to Earn vault deposits, with stETH used as an input to EarnETH’s strategies.

It has been revealed that for the first 30-day period beginning Nov. 5, Lido indicates Firelight can absorb eligible, approved losses up to 5.7% of EarnETH’s total value locked, or TVL, and 8% of EarnUSD’s, within limits for each protected market.

Its November illustration puts EarnETH’s assets at $212.9 million, with up to $12.1 million from Firelight and $3.2 million from the DAO position. Lido states a combined ceiling of $15.4 million. For EarnUSD, it lists $50.3 million in assets, up to $4 million from Firelight and $2.1 million from the DAO, totaling $6.1 million.

Recent findings suggest that dividing Lido’s stated combined totals by those vault assets gives approximately 7.2% for EarnETH and 12.1% for EarnUSD. Its rounded ETH components add to $15.3 million rather than $15.4 million; both produce 7.2% to one decimal place.

Industry observers note that this snapshot combines Nov. 5 vault sizes and first-period Firelight limits with DAO positions referenced to its Sept. 30 quarterly reporting. The dollar estimates come from Lido’s November illustration and should not be treated as Nov. 13 balances.

The totals also assume Firelight can fund a payout in full. Lido says settlement capital may leave payment below the validated loss. A larger illustrated percentage therefore does not, by itself, establish that EarnUSD has lower overall investment risk.

In a recent development, lido’s November 5, 2026 illustration implies about 7.2% combined protection for EarnETH and 12.1% for EarnUSD. Each layer has separate conditions.

The dollar vault has the larger illustrated cushion, but eligibility, approval and finite capital determine recovery.

Recent findings suggest that conditional illustration, not November 13 balances or a risk ranking. November 5 TVL/Firelight limits reference September 30 DAO positions. Rounded ETH components total $15.3m versus Lido’s stated $15.4m; both round to 7.2%. Payouts depend on eligibility, approval, per-market limits and settlement capital.

Combined ratios: 15.4/212.9 × 100 = 7.2334%; 6.1/50.3 × 100 = 12.1272%, rounded to one decimal. Outlines plot those rounded ratios, solid bars plot stated first-period Firelight limits of 5.7% and 8%, on one 0–15% scale. The outline is not a separately verified DAO percentage. Flow shows sequence, not amounts or probability.

Recent findings suggest that conditional illustration, not November 13 balances or a risk ranking. November 5 TVL/Firelight limits reference September 30 DAO positions. Rounded ETH components total $15.3m versus Lido’s stated $15.4m; both round to 7.2%. Payouts depend on eligibility, approval, per-market limits and settlement capital.

Firelight’s integration announcement identifies six failure categories: smart contract exploits, oracle failures, governance exploits, and bad debt, depegs or redemption failures caused by a protocol mechanism failing. A falling asset price or a depeg alone does not establish eligibility.

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Recent findings suggest that lido says ordinary price moves and liquidations using accurate prices are excluded, alongside stolen keys, user error, offchain challenges and flaws known before a protection period began. Protected markets and limits remain fixed for each 30-day period. Capital moved into a new market midway through a period becomes protected only when a later period includes it.

An independent consortium of five security and risk firms must approve Firelight’s loss assessment. Approved payments draw first on its reserve, then on staked capital.

According to recent reports, lido noted on Nov. 5 that Current Meta Treasury pays for this protection, so the premium does not come out of vault returns. That funding is separate from the DAO’s invested loss-absorbing position.

Industry observers note that the DAO layer operates under its own mandate and is not restricted to specific causes. Once a loss of at least 1% of a vault’s TVL is confirmed, the Growth Committee can burn up to all DAO-held shares in that affected vault. The mandate can be changed by DAO vote.

Lido’s original DAO mechanism was backed by an allocation of $3 million worth of wstETH to EarnETH and $2 million in USDC to EarnUSD. Those deposits hold shares on ordinary depositor terms, earning returns and carrying risk. Burning them reduces the share supply to offset losses for other holders. The capital available through this mechanism is limited to the DAO’s vault position.

Industry observers note that both layers operate at vault level, so depositors do not need to submit individual compensation requests. Incident approval, the DAO’s activation threshold and each layer’s capital limits still apply. Lido also states neither layer is insurance or a guarantee, and that Firelight protection gives depositors no right of action against a Firelight party.

A loss outside Firelight’s scope may still qualify under the DAO’s separate mandate. Any loss left after applicable protection, including amounts above market limits or beyond available capital and DAO shares, can remain with depositors.

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FutureBit is putting its Apollo III Full Node on sale Friday at four Micro Center stores, the first time customers can walk into a shop and take home one of the Brooklyn organization’s bitcoin miners.

Industry observers note that the compact home miner, which also runs a full bitcoin node, will be sold in Brooklyn, Miami, Tustin, California, and Austin, Texas, as those stores open Friday, FutureBit stated in a release. The four-store launch coincides with the grand opening of Micro Center’s fresh Austin store, the chain’s 31st U.S. location and its third in Texas.

In a recent development, customers will also be able to reserve a unit online for in-store pickup, the company stated. It did not say how many units each store has in stock, or what Micro Center is charging for them.

Until now, buyers in North America had to order the machine from FutureBit’s website, where the company indicates units are in stock and ship in two to three days. Putting it on a computer-store shelf lets a customer look at the hardware, ask how it works and carry it out the same day.

Industry observers note that “When we started FutureBit, we made weekly trips to the DIY electronics section at the Brooklyn Micro Center to buy parts,” stated John Stefanopoulos, founder of FutureBit. “On Friday, someone can walk into that same store, ask how Bitcoin mining works and take home a miner we designed just down the street. We couldn’t be more excited to work with Micro Center on our first physical store launch.”.

In a recent development, futureBit’s own shop lists the Apollo III Full Node at $1,099.99 without a storage drive, $1,299.99 with 1 terabyte of SSD storage and $1,399.99 with 2 terabytes. A cheaper, miner-only “Standard” model starts at $899.99 but does not include the full node.

The Full Node is rated at up to 18 terahashes per second in Turbo mode, at about 325 watts. In Eco mode, it is listed at about 12 TH/s and 150 watts, with noise under 35 decibels. A Super Eco mode is listed at about 8 TH/s and 80 watts. Power can be adjusted from 50 to 400 watts, and Turbo mode is much louder, at about 55 decibels. Those power figures are measured at the board and can vary by 10%, the product page claims.

In a recent development, the unit is a 6.5-by-6.5-by-6-inch cube that weighs 6.5 pounds, comes with a one-year limited warranty and is assembled in the United States. It uses latest 3-nanometer, American-designed chips, a custom controller and 8 GB of memory, and it includes a built-in solo mining pool. Buyers can also point the miner at a standard bitcoin mining pool. FutureBit claims the full node and solo-mining features require an SSD, which is not included in the $1,099.99 configuration.

According to recent reports, bitcoin Magazine covered the Apollo III’s debut in February, when FutureBit introduced the hardware as a way for individuals to run both a miner and a node at home. The point, the tech giant has long argued, is not to compete with industrial mines on cost.

A single Apollo III at 18 TH/s is a sliver of the bitcoin network. A home-scale setup in that range still faces expected times to a solo block measured in centuries at recent difficulty, Bitcoin Magazine previously noted. Even so, a miner running through FutureBit’s Apollo Solo setup found block 973,262 on Oct. 26 and collected the full 3.154 bitcoin reward.

Recent findings suggest that futureBit, based in Brooklyn, has built consumer mining hardware since 2015. Stefanopoulos has framed store shelves as a way to put more hash rate and more nodes in living rooms. The manufacturer did not say whether the Micro Center test will expand beyond the four stores that began selling the Apollo III on Friday.

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Copper fell to its weakest level since July as AI fears and Fed hike bets hit futures, while China's Yangshan premium hit a record $240 per ton. The post China Is Running Low on Copper. So Why Are Prices Falling? appeared first on BeInCrypto.

Copper fell to its weakest level since July as AI fears and Fed hike bets hit futures, while China's Yangshan premium hit a record $240 per ton.

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Dogecoin cofounder Billy Markus, who goes by Shibetoshi Nakamoto on X, responded to an unusual question about his identity, saying, "I am a Shiba Inu.".

The markets were shocked by the news that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was stepping down as CEO of the chipmaker he co-founded 33 years ago and built into a $4 trillion manufacturer that powered the artificial intelligence boom.

The development triggered widespread reactions on social media, with Dogecoin cofounder Billy Markus commenting on one of those related posts. Markus’s participation in the discussion, which seemed outside crypto, drew a response from an X user who seemed surprised at his interest in the matter.

Sources indicate that "I thought you were a dog," the X user noted, obviously referring to his connection with Dogecoin, a dog-themed cryptocurrency launched in December 2013 by Markus himself and Jackson Palmer as a lighthearted alternative to Bitcoin. To this, Markus responded in his characteristic playful manner, saying, "I am a Shiba Inu.".

Kabosu, a Japanese Shiba Inu, inspired the viral "doge" meme, became the face of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, and passed away in 2024.

In another X reply, the Dogecoin cofounder reiterated that "Billy is a Shiba Inu with glasses.".

Markus’s response is a tribute to Dogecoin’s lasting association with its early internet meme roots, with the Shiba Inu dog integral to the cryptocurrency’s identity. The Dogecoin cofounder's response also serves as a reminder of the playful personality that helped distinguish Dogecoin from other digital assets during its early years.

The markets slumped early Friday as traders priced in a Fed rate increase next month, strengthening the dollar, raising bond yields and making riskier assets less attractive.

According to recent reports, thursday's resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also impacted the crypto market and sent shares of the AI chip maker, the world’s second-largest company by market cap, tumbling 4%. At the time of writing, Dogecoin was down 0.93% in the last 24 hours to $0.0659 and down 7% weekly.

Leveraged traders took the brunt, as liquidations surged 150% to $1.4 billion, with longs making up the majority of the wipeout at $1.16 billion while shorts came in at $245 million.

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Bitcoin was down about 4% on the day amid a tepid market reaction to October’s US PPI reading, which came in below expected levels.

Bitcoin (BTC) hovered around $68,700 following Friday’s Wall Street open, rebounding from an earlier dip to roughly $67,500.

Data from TradingView highlighted BTC/USD down 4% on the day after bouncing from a roughly 12-week low near $67,500.

Industry observers note that BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView.

The US Producer Price Index, which tracks changes in the prices domestic producers receive for their goods and services, rose 0.3% month over month and 6.5% year over year in October. Both readings were 0.1 percentage points below market expectations but the annual increase was the largest since November 2022.

In a recent development, “Leading the October advance in final demand prices, the index for final demand goods increased 0.5 percent. Prices for final demand services moved up 0.2 percent,” the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday.

In a recent development, US PPI one-month percentage change. Source: BLS.

Stocks revealed little sign of relief at the start of the US trading session, with traders still parsing developments around Nvidia after its co-founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, resigned on Thursday.

The S&P 500 was down 1.2% at the time of writing, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index was 1.5% lower.

Nasdaq Composite Index one-day chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView.

The PPI release led markets to slightly adjust expectations for Federal Reserve rate hikes. Odds of a minimal 25-basis-point hike at the Fed’s December meeting rose from 85.4% on Thursday to 89.7%, while odds of a larger 50-basis-point move decreased from 14.5% to 10.3%, per data from CME Group’s FedWatch Tool.

Fed target-rate probability comparison for the December FOMC meeting. Source: CME Group.

Economist Robin Brooks described a 25-basis-point hike in December as “all but inevitable.” He argued, however, against a steeper increase, seeing it as ineffective in the face of current inflation drivers: the oil-price spike from the US-Iran war and potential long-term acceleration in underlying inflation.

“If high inflation is about the Strait of Hormuz and oil, 75 basis points won’t do anything about that. If the issue is that the pace of underlying inflation has risen, then 75 basis points is much too timid to get this under control,” he wrote.

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Crypto trader and analyst Rekt Capital warned that a BTC close below $73,000 on Sunday would mark a support breakdown already seen in 2026.

“Last week’s Weekly Candle Closed below 3 Weekly levels,” he wrote on X, referring to $75,000, $76,800 and $78,300. “This Weekly Candle looks set to do something similar. Which is testament to sell-side momentum still gaining and the bears being in control.”.

After each of the two previous breakdowns, Bitcoin fell to around $60,000.

Recent findings suggest that BTC/USD one-week chart. Source: Rekt Capital on X.com.

Recent findings suggest that at $68,700, BTC/USD is down 17.7% in the fourth quarter and 11.2% month to date. The quarterly performance is currently Bitcoin’s second worst on record, data from CoinGlass confirms.

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XRP exchange balances have reached a one-year high, while the share of tokens untouched for over a year nears its annual peak.

XRP held on exchanges has reached a one-year high even as the share of coins untouched for more than a year approaches its own annual peak, according to figures cited by wealth-focused commentator Kamilah Stevenson.

Her latest video examines that split following a roughly 10% price decline, arguing that investors’ financial circumstances can matter as much as their market convictions.

Sources indicate that stevenson cites CryptoQuant data showing approximately 11.8 billion XRP on exchanges, the highest balance in a year. That puts more tokens within easy reach of trading, although exchange deposits alone do not establish that holders intend to sell.

Meanwhile, Glassnode figures cited in the video put the share of XRP unmoved for more than a year at roughly 56%, up from 51% in January. Stevenson also claims XRP exchange-traded funds still hold about 1.19 billion tokens, despite a small outflow ending a reported 13-week inflow streak.

“Both groups saw the same price,” she notes. “They reacted to it in completely opposite ways.”.

The contrast is striking, but the metrics have limits. Coins remaining stationary demonstrate inactivity, not necessarily fresh buying or confidence, and neither measure establishes where XRP’s price goes next.

Dr. Stevenson identifies three recurring sources of selling pressure: leverage, investing money needed for near-term expenses, and entering a volatile market without a plan.

She cites roughly $25.7 million in XRP liquidations on Binance during a recent sell-off as an example of positions being closed regardless of investors’ intentions.

Her broader bullish case rests partly on institutional activity involving Ripple and its RLUSD stablecoin.

The YouTube video names Standard Chartered, Cross River Bank and DriveWealth among firms involved in custody, banking or settlement developments.

Recent findings suggest that those developments should not be treated as equivalent to demand for XRP itself. Nor does institutional infrastructure guarantee that token prices will recover.

The most durable point is about liquidity: cash reserves and manageable exposure reduce the likelihood that an unexpected bill or margin call dictates a sale.

Exchange balances may signal potential selling pressure across the market; they cannot reveal which holders can afford to wait.

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Trump’s First Democratic Picks for SEC and CFTC Could Reshape Crypto’s Regulators.

President Donald Trump has nominated four people to fill vacant seats at the two federal agencies writing the rules for crypto, in a bipartisan slate that could reshape the commissions that have increasingly taken the lead on digital-asset policy after Congress stalled.

The White House said Thursday it sent the nominations to the Senate: Nathan Anonick and Matthew Rowland for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Kristin Johnson and Steven Levine for the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Industry observers note that each requires Senate confirmation. Notably, the slate pairs a Republican and a Democrat at each agency, with Anonick and Levine the Republicans and Rowland and Johnson the Democrats, marking the first time the administration has put forward Democratic nominees for either commission.

In a recent development, the appointments matter because of how depleted both agencies have become. The CFTC in particular has been running on a skeleton crew, operating with Michael Selig as its lone Senate-confirmed member after a wave of departures, even as it has pursued one of the most aggressive crypto agendas in its history.

Filling those seats would give the commissions the quorum and staying power to turn proposals into durable rules.

Industry observers note that both CFTC nominees come from the Senate Agriculture Committee, which shares jurisdiction over crypto market structure and will vet their nominations. Anonick, a Republican, is legislative counsel to committee Chairman John Boozman and was a lead negotiator on the panel’s portion of the Clarity Act, the crypto market-structure bill that collapsed in the Senate this fall.

It has been revealed that rowland, a Democrat, is a career CFTC attorney detailed to the committee who also worked on the Clarity Act and an earlier 2024 crypto bill. His enforcement-heavy background and party lean could introduce a dissenting voice to a commission that, under Selig, has leaned firmly pro-industry.

On the SEC side, which the Senate Banking Committee will review, the picks would replace two commissioners central to crypto policy in opposite ways. Levine, a Republican, is slated to fill the seat of Hester Peirce, the agency’s most prominent crypto advocate and the head of its Crypto Task Force.

Levine’s own views on digital assets are not well established publicly, making his future votes a key variable for whether the SEC’s crypto-friendly push holds.

Johnson, a Democrat and former CFTC commissioner, would take the seat of frequent crypto skeptic Caroline Crenshaw; at the CFTC she focused on digital-asset custody and DeFi and pressed for stronger customer protections and conflict-of-interest rules.

The timing underscores a shift following the collapse of the Clarity Act, the crypto industry’s marquee market structure bill that would have established more-favorable-than-not rules for most of crypto.

Recent findings suggest that after the legislation failed to advance in the Senate, the SEC and CFTC moved to fill the vacuum with their own authority, leaving the industry to get its “clarity” from regulators rather than legislators. A fully staffed pair of commissions would cement that dynamic.

Those agency efforts have been sweeping: The CFTC has cleared perpetual futures on individual stocks, floated bringing crypto exchanges under federal oversight, and moved to define event contracts as “swaps.” The SEC, meanwhile, rolled out an “innovation exemption” for tokenized stocks, proposed rules letting investment advisers custody crypto, and issued guidance suggesting most crypto assets aren’t securities.

Sources indicate that the nominations are the first Trump has sent for these seats in roughly a year, a gap that reflected turbulence around crypto appointments. The administration previously pulled its CFTC chair nominee, Brian Quintenz, amid a clash involving the Winklevoss twins.

The confirmation window is now tight: with the Senate heading toward Democratic control in January, Republicans have only a short lame-duck stretch to move the slate before the calculus changes.

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XRP added almost 20% in open interest on MEXC, which could be a double-edged sword for the price of the asset. Across all exchanges, open interest went up by only 0.86%, reaching $2.25 billion.

XRP is not benefiting directly from an increase in open interest; it could reflect an increase in futures positions.

Sources indicate that futures by themselves are a source of strong volatility and liquidity for assets. Considering the state of the market, XRP's increase in open interest is not unexpected.

Over the past 24 hours, $18.83 million in XRP positions were liquidated, with longs making up 94%.

Futures could be opened by speculative traders who are trying to catch a falling knife. The data, however, suggests that most of the new positions are shorts, as the price went down while open interest went up.

According to recent reports, XRP is at the moment trading at $1.02, down 1.46% over the past 24 hours. The price is approaching the $1 price threshold, and it might be the level where the recovery should finally happen.

Realistically, the closest 'fair' support is the $1 price level, both psychological and technical.

Recent findings suggest that XRP already dipped to $0.9961 earlier today before going back above the threshold. A cluster of long liquidations sits right below that level.

XRP is teetering on the edge of the $1 threshold, which, if broken, essentially enables a rapid decrease.

In a recent development, funding rates also tilt towards bulls, and there is a good chance we are going to see stabilization and then a recovery. The funding rate sits at 0.0080%, slightly below the 0.01% base, so the tilt is rather small.

In addition, US spot XRP ETFs recorded zero net flows on November 12.

In a recent development, unfortunately, volume shows an uptick, a direct sign of increasing pressure on the asset. Spot volume went up by 46.7%, with sellers outweighing buyers by $48.2 million.

It is not a guarantee of a bearish market strengthening, but it highlights that sellers are there and ready to push the price lower. Whether buyers can defend the $1 level or not is the main test for the asset right now.

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The November 12 report confirms that Treasury used euro reserves to buy yen on July 31, not newly created Fed dollars.

Recent findings suggest that the US Treasury financed July’s yen intervention with euros from its reserves, the Latest York Fed confirmed in a November 12 report. For Bitcoin, the funding currency limits the operation’s significance as a signal of fresh Federal Reserve dollar liquidity.

It has been revealed that on July 31, the New York Fed bought 79.4 billion yen in the spot market against euro sales from Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund, or ESF. The aim was to counter what Treasury viewed as disorderly yen moves.

The Fresh York Fed executed the trade as Treasury’s fiscal agent. The Federal Reserve itself did not intervene in foreign-exchange markets during the third quarter. Treasury’s ESF operating framework identifies yen and euros as its foreign-currency assets and describes the New York Fed’s trading role. An exchange of those reserve currencies alone supplies no evidence of new Fed dollars entering Bitcoin markets.

A separate mechanism does provide dollar funding abroad: central-bank dollar liquidity swaps. Under those arrangements, the Fed exchanges dollars for a foreign central bank’s currency, with an agreement to reverse the transaction.

Recent findings suggest that the report highlights less borrowing outstanding through that facility at quarter-end. Aggregate balances fell from $250 million on June 30 to $207 million on September 30, 2026. The Bank of Japan had none outstanding at September’s end; the remaining balances were with the European Central Bank and Bank of England.

According to recent reports, offshore dollar funding conditions were stable during Q3, the report states, with generally low borrowing premiums in major currency pairs. Those quarter-end stocks do not measure gross lending during the quarter or establish November’s funding conditions.

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Sources indicate that the July trade used Treasury euros. A Fed dollar swap is a different funding route.

July 31 operation, disclosed November 12: the Upcoming York Fed traded ESF euros for 79.4 billion yen on Treasury’s behalf.

Facility mechanics only: dollars are exchanged for a foreign central bank’s currency, with a binding reversal.

It has been revealed that this euro-funded trade does not establish upcoming Fed dollars for Bitcoin. Leverage remains a possible spillover channel.

July 31 operation and November 12 disclosure are distinct. The swap option explains a facility, not a newly observed transaction. Neither route identifies Bitcoin purchases or current yen-funded deleveraging.

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July 31 operation and November 12 disclosure are distinct. The swap option explains a facility, not a newly observed transaction. Neither route identifies Bitcoin purchases or current yen-funded deleveraging.

The more recent BOJ exchange-rate sheet recorded dollar/yen at 159.70–71 at 17:00 JST on November 12. That is a dated market observation, not an announced intervention threshold.

Bitcoin’s potential exposure runs through leverage. A stronger yen makes unhedged yen borrowing more expensive to repay in another currency. If volatility raises margin demands, leveraged investors may need to raise cash or cut positions, spreading pressure beyond the original currency trade.

Industry observers note that research by the Bank for International Settlements found that leveraged equity and currency unwinds amplified August 2024’s market shock, with margin increases and further reductions in leverage worsening volatility. Crypto also responds to wider financial conditions: IMF working-paper authors found that US monetary tightening reduced a broad crypto price factor through investors’ appetite for risk.

Industry observers note that these mechanisms explain how a yen-funded unwind could pressure Bitcoin, but the report does not establish current Bitcoin flows or a present unwind. July’s euro-funded yen intervention is not evidence of new Fed dollars entering crypto.

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In a recent development, the daily trading volume of the NVDA-USDC perpetual contract on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid has reached a record $2.14 billion, according to CoinGlass. The contract is provided by the Trade.xyz protocol, and only Bitcoin had higher trading volume on Hyperliquid over the same period.

Nvidia futures also surpassed Ethereum, Solana and XRP in trading volume, and the combined volume of Nvidia derivatives across all tracked crypto exchanges reached $9.51 billion, according to CoinGlass.

Sources indicate that the latest surge in trading comes amid the resignation of Jensen Huang, the co-founder of Nvidia and the only CEO in the history of the company. Huang stepped down on Nov. 12 amid an internal investigation, and Nvidia CFO Colette Kress has taken over as interim CEO.

On Nasdaq, the price of NVDA went down by as much as 14% during the day, but the stock later recovered most of the loss and closed at $166.19, down 4.34%.

Sharp price moves cost leveraged traders on crypto exchanges $40.86 million, according to CoinGlass. Of that amount, $26.23 million came from the on-chain ticker XYZ:NVDA, and $14.63 million came from the base NVDA contract. The largest single liquidation on Hyperliquid was a $1.54 million long position.

In the base NVDA contract, $8.87 million in long positions and $5.89 million in short positions were liquidated. During the same period, the price of Nvidia futures on crypto exchanges went up by 5.6% to $171.17.

Liquidations in the NVDA contracts were almost twice as large as those in XRP, where traders lost $20.75 million over the same period. The price of XRP went down by 2.5% to $1.0192, and long positions accounted for 94.5% of XRP liquidations, or $19.6 million.

Industry observers note that the liquidations came amid a sell-off across major cryptocurrencies. The price of Bitcoin dropped below $70,000 to $69,450.50, down 5.3% over 24 hours, and Ethereum fell 4.1% to $1,958.71.

Industry observers note that over the past 24 hours, crypto exchanges liquidated 187,389 traders for a total of $1.65 billion, and 88% of that amount came from long positions, according to CoinGlass. Bitcoin traders lost the most at $919.56 million, followed by Ethereum traders at $297.24 million.

In a recent development, finally, Nvidia is expected to report its quarterly earnings on Nov. 17.

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Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a set of new rules to regulate stablecoin transactions conducted through licensed digital asset operators.

Unveiled on 12th November, the draft notification aims to prevent cryptocurrencies and stablecoins from being used for money laundering, cybercrime, and bypassing regulations governing international money transfers.

Here, it’s worth noting that this patch came soon after September’s public consultation. During the same, the regulator collected feedback from industry participants.

In a recent development, as it stands, the SEC has incorporated those changes into the latest draft. It is now seeking further public comments until 26th November.

In this, one of the key proposals is to introduce a daily transfer limit of 5 million Thai baht per customer at each regulated digital asset operator. That remarked, the limit would apply separately to incoming and outgoing stablecoin transfers. However, the value of these transactions must also be consistent with the customer’s declared income and financial position.

However, it’s notable to note that transfers between a customer’s own accounts at two SEC-supervised operators would be exempt from the limit, provided both operators follow the Travel Rule.

Simultaneously, the SEC also wants to strengthen wallet ownership verification. In this, the SEC has enabled customers to deposit stablecoins from their own verified wallets and withdraw them to wallets registered in their names.

Additionally, operators would also need to follow the Travel Rule, analyze customers, identify suspicious accounts, and track transactions connected to high-risk wallets.

These requirements would be done in order to make it harder for criminals to move illicit funds through regulated platforms.

Finally, the proposal also introduces stricter responsibilities for exchanges and brokers. Exchanges would have to publicly disclose their market makers and the digital assets for which they provide liquidity. Meanwhile, brokers would be prohibited from using liquidity providers for stablecoin-to-Thai baht trading pairs.

It has been revealed that besides that, brokers and dealers offering off-platform transactions would face a minimum transaction threshold of 3 million baht and would have to publish trading prices for transparency. Brokers would no longer be allowed to arrange off-platform trades directly between customers.

Taken together, these steps would help the SEC combat crimes that are concerning the stablecoin ecosystem in Thailand.

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Crypto trading on Robinhood fell by almost half from a year ago in October, the organization said Thursday, as customers traded $17 billion of digital assets while their bets on event contracts more than doubled.

The $17 billion figure was down 21% from September and 48% from October 2025, when crypto notional volume reached $32.5 billion. It covers both the flagship Robinhood app and Bitstamp, the crypto exchange the company bought in 2025.

Volume in the Robinhood app fell to $6.8 billion, down 24% from September and 51% from a year earlier. Bitstamp handled $10.2 billion, down 18% month over month and 45% year over year.

Average daily crypto volume across both platforms came to $548 million, compared with $713 million in September and about $1.05 billion a year ago. Daily average crypto trades slipped to about 700,000 from 900,000 in September and 1.1 million in October 2025.

Recent findings suggest that the contrast with Robinhood’s prediction markets business is stark. Customers traded 5.9 billion event contracts in October, up 5% from September and 136% from the 2.5 billion traded a year earlier. Average daily volume reached 190 million contracts.

It has been revealed that robinhood counts crypto and prediction markets on the same 31-day calendar, since both trade every day, so the comparison is apples to apples. Event contracts let consumers bet on outcomes such as elections, sports and economic data, and October’s tally covered the final weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

It has been revealed that that growth has drawn scrutiny in Washington. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is set to chair the Senate Banking Committee in January, aims to crack down on prediction markets and election betting platforms.

The rest of Robinhood’s brokerage held up better than crypto. Equity notional volume rose 2% from a year earlier to $325 billion, and options contracts traded climbed 8% to 289 million. Margin balances reached $22.9 billion, up 39% year over year.

Funded customers rose by about 130,000 in the month to 28.9 million, and net deposits came to $15.1 billion. Total platform assets slipped 3% from September to $383 billion but were up 12% from a year earlier.

Recent findings suggest that robinhood did not say why crypto activity fell. The release, like all of the company’s monthly updates, is unaudited and preliminary.

The slump in Robinhood’s crypto numbers lines up with a broader retreat by retail traders. Bitcoin ended September near $83,500 and has slid since, falling below $70,000 early Friday for the first time since August as a hot inflation report raised bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike in December.

In a recent development, institutional demand has cooled alongside it. U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds posted a sixth straight day of net outflows on Thursday, and BlackRock’s IBIT, the largest of them, bled about $2 billion over nine sessions through Wednesday. Spot bitcoin ETFs have now erased their net inflows for 2026.

Crypto trading generates transaction revenue for Robinhood, so lower volume generally means fewer fees, even when assets on the platform keep growing. The company reports full fourth-quarter results early next year, and October’s figures are the first look at how the quarter started.

Industry observers note that the firm has kept expanding its crypto footprint anyway. In October, Robinhood won a license in Dubai to offer bitcoin and stock trading in the Middle East starting in 2027.

Robinhood also said cash and deposit balances fell 20% in October to $16.4 billion, mostly because customers were net buyers, and that the decline has largely reversed in early November. November’s operating data will show whether this month’s selloff below $70,000 brought crypto traders back or pushed more of them toward event contracts.

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Crypto exchanges are seeing a surge in trading tied to traditional markets, but will token holders benefit most?

Crypto exchanges handled $3.16 trillion in trading tied to stocks, gold, oil and other traditional markets over the period tracked by research cited in a new Firehustle video episode.

The channel’s host, discussing crypto investment themes, argues that the notable question is not how much trading these platforms attract, but whether that activity actually benefits HYPE, ONDO and INJ holders.

It has been revealed that the figures, attributed to CoinMarketCap research covering 19 exchanges, describe trading exposure to traditional markets, not necessarily purchases of underlying shares. According to Fire Hustle, monthly volume climbed from roughly $100 billion in January to $800 billion in August, with stocks accounting for 62.3% of activity.

According to recent reports, the expert identifies Hyperliquid as the closest to strengthening that connection. Trade.XYZ, which operates most of the platform’s traditional-market contracts, reportedly splits trading fees equally with Hyperliquid, whose share largely supports HYPE buybacks.

According to recent reports, there is a catch: Trade.XYZ is operating with trading fees discounted by more than 90% to attract users. The YouTube video notes those discounts are expected to shrink as markets mature, potentially increasing buyback funding, although higher fees could also change trading behavior.

According to recent reports, ONDO presents a different problem. Fire Hustle says Ondo Finance surpassed $4 billion in total value locked, including more than $1.3 billion in tokenized stocks and ETFs, while ONDO holders currently receive no direct fee distributions, buybacks or burns.

A holder-led forum proposal would direct 20% of revenue toward token buybacks and burns, eventually rising to 40%. The host stresses that it is not an approved policy and states the team had not responded.

Crucially, the $4 billion figure represents assets deposited, not revenue available to distribute.

Injective already links application revenue to INJ buybacks and burns, according to the video. But its scale remains modest: the host cites roughly $215 million in traditional-market trading over 30 days and a largest buyback round of about $315,000.

The potential catalyst is Pineapple Prime, a planned mortgage-yield product.

More than $1 billion in mortgage records reportedly moved onto Injective, but the host makes an notable distinction: those records are data, not yet money flowing through a live investment product.

In conclusion, these are three way different bets: higher fee capture, an unapproved governance change and a product launch.

None makes trading growth equivalent to token returns, especially when discounted fees, limited activity and concentrated infrastructure can interrupt the connection.

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Captured Deribit data show a November 27 put rising 127.6% between two BTC-denominated trades, even as its reported implied volatility fell.

Sources indicate that A Bitcoin hedge using a put with a $70,000 strike more than doubled in BTC terms between November 12 and 13, even as its reported implied volatility fell. On November 13, Deribit's broad volatility gauge hovered near 40, showing why a calm index alone cannot reveal the cost of protecting a holding.

Industry observers note that deribit observations from November 12–13 show its November 27 $70,000 put traded at 0.0145 BTC at 11:51 UTC on November 12 and 0.033 BTC at 10:15 UTC on November 13, an increase of 127.6% in BTC terms. Yet the implied volatility reported for those executions fell from 38.97% to 37.67%.

Bitcoin's index price at the two trades fell from $72,805.71 to $69,320.08, taking it from above the fixed strike to below it. A put provides protection against a fall below that strike at expiry. As Bitcoin falls, that fixed protection can become more valuable even without higher implied volatility.

For a new buyer at 10:40:51 UTC on November 13, the contract's order book indicated a 0.0325 BTC bid and a 0.0335 BTC ask. With the index at $69,245.85, that ask equaled about $2,319.74 for one contract before fees. The 127.6% increase compares executed BTC prices, rather than measuring a change in executable asks.

According to recent reports, A protective put's premium is the price of protection at a specified strike and expiry. Implied volatility is one component of that price. The underlying price, the strike, the forward price and the time remaining also matter. CryptoSlate’s crypto options platform comparison explains how contract design, settlement and execution costs differ across venues.

It has been revealed that the two executions do not isolate how much of the premium change came from each pricing input. The contract also had less time remaining at the second trade.

The currency of the quote adds another difference. Deribit's inverse Bitcoin options are priced in BTC, and one contract represents one BTC. Converting each selected trade at its own contemporaneous index gives about $1,055.68 on November 12 and $2,287.56 on November 13. The increase in those dollar equivalents was 116.7%, smaller than the BTC-denominated increase.

Industry observers note that the $70,000 strike also does not promise a $70,000 net sale price. The buyer pays the BTC premium upfront, and trading fees, delivery fees, currency conversion and the settlement reference affect the net result. At expiry, an in-the-money inverse put settles through an immediately settling inverse futures contract into BTC, with the economic result of cash settlement. An out-of-the-money put expires worthless.

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The Nov. 27 $70,000 put cost more in BTC between executions on Nov. 12 and 13, even as its reported trade IV fell.

A fixed-strike put can cost more as Bitcoin falls, without a rise in its implied volatility.

According to recent reports, different-sized executions, not matched executable bid/ask quotes. Same expiry, different time remaining and moneyness. IV is reported for each trade, not DVOL. Prices exclude fees; the $70,000 strike is not a net sale-price guarantee.

Two timestamped executions: Nov. 12 2026 11:51:01 UTC and Nov. 13 10:15:10 UTC. Index dots share a linear USD scale; premiums use a zero-based 0–0.04 BTC scale. Values reported by Deribit. No path, interpolation or causal decomposition is inferred.

Industry observers note that different-sized executions, not matched executable bid/ask quotes. Same expiry, different time remaining and moneyness. IV is reported for each trade, not DVOL. Prices exclude fees; the $70,000 strike is not a net sale-price guarantee.

In a recent development, deribit defines DVOL as forward-looking, annualized implied volatility over 30 days, assembled across strikes and expiries. The November 27 put had roughly 14 days remaining. One broad index and one shorter-dated contract therefore describe different exposures.

The completed November 13 hourly buckets from 00:00 through 09:00 UTC recorded intrahour lows and highs spanning 39.03 to 41.58. The 09:00 bucket closed at 39.93; the 10:00 bucket was still incomplete when captured at 10:40 UTC.

Industry observers note that A November 13 analysis by The Daily Digits on CryptoQuant supplies historical context. It reports DVOL of 40.77 against a median of 77.8 across 290 daily closes since March 2021 when Bitcoin was at least 17.4% below its rolling 30-day closing high. Its median for qualifying 2026 observations was 49.9, a closer current-year benchmark.

Recent findings suggest that those daily observations can overlap within a single selloff. They are not 290 independent crises, and the study does not give an exact intraday timestamp tying its reading to the put quotes. The comparison establishes the study's historical framing, rather than a fair price for this hedge.

Recent findings suggest that october's Producer Price Index was scheduled for November 13 at 08:30 Eastern, or 13:30 UTC, after these market observations. The scheduled inflation release provides a clear checkpoint for observing any repricing; it does not establish a cause for the earlier move.

A useful before-and-after comparison would track the same contract's bid, ask and implied volatility alongside its forward price and time remaining, then examine pricing across strikes. That separates a change in the cost of buying protection from a change in volatility pricing more clearly than DVOL alone.

For a holder, the immediate consequence is already visible: maintaining a Bitcoin hedge at a fixed dollar strike can become more expensive as Bitcoin falls, even while the broad volatility gauge remains subdued.

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Bitcoin Hits 12-Week Low as Fed Rate Fears Undo Most of Summer Rally.

Bitcoin fell to roughly $68,500 on Friday, hitting its lowest price in 12 weeks as renewed U.S. inflation worries and investor withdrawals pushed the cryptocurrency further into the red.

BTC was down about 4.5% over 24 hours and 9.5% for the week, according to Friday market data. Ethereum traded near $1,925, while Solana slipped below $80 as selling spread across major cryptocurrencies.

According to recent reports, the latest slide has erased most of Bitcoin's late-summer recovery. But not all of it: BTC remains approximately 16% above its late-June low near $59,000, even after retreating roughly 21% from its autumn peak around $86,000.

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee warned Friday that inflation had spread beyond energy and tariffs, with rising services and medical costs and demand from AI data centers adding to price pressures.

“Are we on a path back to 2%? My feeling right now is we are not and we've got to deal with that,” Goolsbee stated according to Reuters.

According to recent reports, goolsbee did not explicitly endorse a December rate hike. But other Fed officials have been more direct.

On Tuesday, Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he supported raising interest rates by at least 25 basis points, or 0.25 percentage points, at the December 8-9 meeting.

He also established a threshold for considering something more aggressive.

“If the October CPI inflation data out later today are similar to the past two monthly readings—with core CPI inflation around 0.3 percent or even higher—then a stronger policy move may be needed,” Waller mentioned in his official remarks.

The report subsequently indicated core CPI rising exactly 0.3%, exceeding the 0.2% forecast and meeting Waller's condition for considering a 50-basis-point increase.

Markets have responded accordingly. Futures-based rate probabilities as of November 13 indicated a 91.9% probability of a quarter-point increase and an 8.1% probability of a half-point increase.

Those figures reflect trader expectations, not a decision by the Fed. The central bank's current target range is 3.75% to 4.00%.

Sources indicate that friday's producer-price report added to the concerns. Wholesale prices rose 0.3% in October, less than forecast, but increased 6.5% year over year, the largest annual jump since 2022.

For Bitcoin, higher rates make traditional interest-bearing investments relatively more attractive, reducing the appeal of speculative assets.

Meanwhile, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have registered six consecutive sessions of net outflows, totaling approximately $1.49 billion between November 5 and November 12.

Thursday's $47.7 million withdrawal extended the five-day outflow streak, bringing another source of pressure to an already struggling market.

Industry observers note that that does not mean institutional investors have abandoned Bitcoin. The funds still hold approximately $55.5 billion in cumulative net inflows, but it does show the state of nervousness that investors are feeling.

Weakening ETF demand, combined with forced liquidations of leveraged traders, can accelerate a decline when buyers are scarce.

Bitcoin's daily chart now shows a clear sequence of lower highs and lower lows, confirming a bearish short-term trajectory.

It has been revealed that its relative strength index, or RSI, has dropped to 25.4. Readings below 30 are generally considered oversold, suggesting the selling may be stretched.The average directional index, or ADX, stands at 25.3, indicating an established trend. Combined with declining prices, that suggests bearish momentum remains meaningful.

Sources indicate that there is still one longer-term positive signal: the 50-day exponential moving average remains above the 200-day EMA, preserving a bullish moving-average configuration. But Bitcoin's price has fallen below the shorter-term average, indicating that recent momentum has turned against buyers.

Immediate support sits around $67,650, Friday's intraday low. Losing that level could expose a deeper support area near $64,000.

On the upside, Bitcoin needs to recover $70,815 and $72,775 before challenging the stronger resistance zone between $74,355 and $75,937.

The combination of extreme oversold readings and strong downward momentum leaves room for a temporary bounce, but not enough evidence to declare a bottom.

For now, traders face two major macroeconomic checkpoints: the Fed's November 18 meeting minutes and the November 25 PCE inflation report, both of which could influence expectations ahead of December's interest-rate decision.

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Recent findings suggest that major crypto exchange Coinbase is set to suspend trading in 12 crypto trading pairs as part of an effort to improve overall market health and consolidate liquidity on the platform. This decision affects two trading pairs involving Cardano (ADA) and Stellar (XLM): ADA/ETH and XLM/BTC.

According to recent reports, coinbase said it regularly monitors the markets on its exchange and, in line with this, trading will be suspended on the named markets on November 25, 2026. In an effort to improve overall market health and consolidate liquidity, Coinbase will be removing a number of non-USD trading pairs for supported assets.

According to an announcement, Coinbase will suspend trading on the following markets on November 25, 2026, at or around 12 PM ET: APE-USDT, ATOM-USDT, ALGO-BTC, CRV-BTC, ETC-BTC, ICP-BTC, XLM-BTC, APE-EUR, ADA-ETH, 1INCH-GBP, CHZ-GBP, SNX-GBP.

However, Coinbase Advanced Trade people in eligible regions can still trade these assets in the USD order books.

In light of this, APE-USDT, ATOM-USDT, ALGO-BTC, CRV-BTC, ETC-BTC, ICP-BTC, XLM-BTC, APE-EUR, ADA-ETH, 1INCH-GBP, CHZ-GBP have been moved to limit-only mode on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced.

In recent delistings, Coinbase has disabled trading for Balancer (BAL) and Tensor (TNSR), but customers will continue to have the ability to withdraw their funds at any time.

The suspension of trading for Stargate Finance (STG) and Vulcan Forged (PYR) has also been postponed to November 20, 2026, at or around 2 PM ET. Based on recent reviews, Coinbase will suspend trading for Ampleforth Governance Token (FORTH) on November 23, 2026, at or around 2 PM ET. Trading for Neon EVM (NEON) and Syndicate (SYND) will be suspended on November 16, 2026, at or around 2 PM ET.

According to recent reports, spot trading for Pearl (PEARL) will go live on November 13, 2026. The opening of the PEARL-USD trading pair will begin at or after 9 AM PT, if liquidity conditions are met, in regions where trading is supported.

Perpetual futures trading for GRAM, GRASS, QNT and ZRO will go live on November 13, 2026, at or after 12:00 PM UTC.

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Arthur Hayes said he was “flattered” by Coinbase’s defense of US stock perpetual futures, a decade after BitMEX launched perpetual swaps.

Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, mentioned he was “flattered” by Coinbase’s support for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in a US legal dispute over stock perpetual futures.

“When we launched the perpetual swap at BitMEX in 2016, Washington’s reaction was less than warm,” Hayes told Cointelegraph. “Ten years later, Coinbase is in federal court defending the right to offer them on US stocks. I’m flattered. Imitation is the sincerest form of regulation.”.

Industry observers note that coinbase and five other companies submitted a brief on Monday opposing the alliance’s request to block trading in perpetual futures tied to individual stocks. The court accepted the brief on Tuesday.

The Capital Markets Alliance Association (CMAA), which brought the lawsuit, says the contracts should be treated as security-based swaps, which face tighter restrictions on retail trading.

Hayes was CEO of BitMEX when the crypto derivatives exchange launched its Bitcoin perpetual swap, which let traders take leveraged positions on Bitcoin without a fixed expiration date. The product helped make perpetual swaps a staple of crypto trading.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reportedly submitted a proposed court brief on Monday, opposing the alliance’s request to temporarily halt trading in the contracts.

The agency said it was reviewing the exchanges’ rules for listing the contracts. The brief left open whether the SEC would set those rules aside and whether the contracts qualify as security futures or security-based swaps.

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In a Tuesday court filing, CMAA remarked that the CFTC had approved the contracts without adequately explaining its decision or addressing unresolved regulatory questions.

The group also cited about $375 million in reported 24-hour notional trading volume for Kalshi’s stock perpetuals shortly after launch, claiming the products were already diverting business from traditional stock markets.

Stock perpetuals let traders speculate on individual share prices without owning the underlying stocks. Unlike traditional futures, the contracts have no fixed expiration date.

In a recent development, on Nov. 3, US District Judge Valerie Caproni denied the group’s request for a temporary restraining order because it had yet to show likely irreparable harm. She found the alliance was likely to succeed on its claim that the CFTC exceeded its authority.

Wojciech Kaszycki, strategy adviser to BTCS SA, said the lack of a fixed expiration or delivery date could complicate the case for treating perpetual contracts as futures.

Kaszycki told Cointelegraph that the case “sale for future delivery.”.

However, he warned that a ruling against the CFTC could push trading activity toward offshore and decentralized platforms.

“The product doesn’t die; it just changes address,” he said.

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Organization (TSMC) confirmed on the 12th of November that some current and former employees’ personal information had appeared online without authorization.

Sources indicate that as per reports, the hacker has asked for 3 BTC, which is worth about $220K, for a database they claimed held 46,000 employee records. The hackers claimed to have 6.9 GB of data and threatened to publish it within a week without a buyer. However, no payment has been publicly verified, as of press time.

According to recent reports, for the unaware, TSMC makes chips for other companies. They mentioned that the leaked records matched data held by a cloud provider. Notably, these records included names, national ID numbers, and banking details, according to Taiwan News.

The company’s own review found no evidence of a break in its systems. As of the latest enhancement from the company, they were notifying affected staff and working with the cloud provider and investigators.

Industry observers note that looking at the impact this news had, TSMC’s U.S. listed shares opened 4.53% lower at $394.62 on the 12th of November. They recovered some ground to close at $405.49, down 1.90% on the day. By the way, the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) followed a similar path, opening 4.33% lower and ending the session down 1.03%.

With chip stocks also under pressure, it was difficult to tell how much of TSMC’s drop was due to the leak.

Needless to say, this leak surfaced before a volatile session for chipmakers and AI cloud providers. The semiconductor ETF recovered much of its early loss, even though the individual chip stocks went in different directions.

In a recent development, notably, Nvidia fell 4.34% after announcing CEO Jensen Huang’s resignation. On the other hand, AMD and Broadcom both gained, rising 5.86% and 5.54%, respectively.

Furthermore, the Kobeissi Letter identified intraday losses in Nebius, CoreWeave, and IREN.

According to recent reports, TSMC’s annual filing claims it sets security or confidentiality requirements for outside providers. Going back to 2023, it cut off data exchange with supplier Kinmax after a breach exposed server setup information.

That vendor connection actually raises liability questions that don’t get enough attention in breach discussions.

Another user shared a different perspective,.

Industry observers note that your employer picked the vendor. you just get the breach notice.

The type of employee data matters for a different reason. Binance said its October theft followed a campaign that targeted engineers before reaching its wallet signing service.

Sources indicate that furthermore, the ransom of 3 Bitcoin [BTC] puts the listing in the context of a wider trade in stolen data. Moreover, Chainalysis tracked $87.5 million in on-chain volume at fraud shops in 2025.

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Sources indicate that mason Lynaugh, executive director of Stand With Crypto, joins BMTV to talk through what the midterms mean for Bitcoin and crypto. Stand With Crypto’s race tracker indicated 29 of 45 endorsed candidates winning. Mason’s first reason for optimism is the makeup of Congress itself: about 96 pro-crypto members in 2023, and over 300 heading into the 120th, which he calls a pro-crypto majority you could get excited about. The second is that crypto voters made their voices heard in tight races. In Darren Soto’s Florida 9, Soto won by around 1,400 votes in a district with 11,000 Stand With Crypto advocates, and Mason claims they genuinely think crypto voters moved that election.

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As Bitcoin’s price continues to fall further, sparking a fresh wave of panic across the broader crypto market, renowned Bitcoin advocate Anthony Pompliano has issued a statement to investors.

In a recent X post published by the pro-Bitcoin advocate on November 13, Pompliano urged investors to remain calm even as Bitcoin revisited $67,000 for the first time since August.

While Pompliano acknowledged the current market weakness, pointing out that Bitcoin was falling to price levels last seen just three months ago, he urged Bitcoin investors to remain calm.

While addressing Bitcoin's price decline, Pompliano related the situation to AI, another fast-growing technology, drawing attention to the growing relationship between the two sectors.

Pompliano considers the ongoing market movements as evidence that both Bitcoin and AI have become part of one major investment trade.

Although he did not explicitly explain how Bitcoin and AI have become one massive trade, it appears that Pompliano is raising awareness of how closely investors may now view the two major investment products in the technology and financial markets.

As such, Pompliano is urging investors to remain positive about Bitcoin’s long-term potential, suggesting that the same market forces driving interest in AI could also influence a potential recovery for Bitcoin.

Pompliano’s comment has come as Bitcoin faces renewed selling pressure, retesting its three-month low at around $67,000 after declining over 5% in the last 24 hours.

Bitcoin’s current price movements have raised questions about whether the decline signals a deeper market correction or simply another temporary setback, causing commentators to disagree with Pompliano’s call for confidence.

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On the 13th of November, Arthur Hayes announced that Flop Labs will launch its testnet and airdrop. The AI-compute blockchain has a launch date for November 24 and a pitch revolving around “food for your AI agent.”.

In a nutshell, FLOP is a token that AI agents spend on inference and memory storage, and miners can earn it by offering up GPU processors.

Hayes became CEO of Flop Labs in August 2026, after a public bet against the AI bubble, that these debt-funded data centers will crash and leave behind an abundance of GPUs.

Flop Labs runs on “proof of useful inference”: miners supply GPUs to process “AI inference” requests, the validators confirm the delivery, and agents spend FLOP tokens for their expenses.

This case was further strengthened on the 9th of November, when a developer demonstrated FLOP mining on an Nvidia RTX 5080.

Hayes confirmed that this was the long-term goal of FLOP, stating,.

Recent findings suggest that mining FLOP isn’t just for folks with access to the highest spec GPUs. We specially want retail users to mine with consumer graphics cards, Mac Mini’s, etc.

Notably, Hayes confirmed that no token has been created yet. However, in August he stated that there is no presale, no memecoin, and no FLOP token, only,.

Still, the biggest criticism is that Flop Labs still lacks a full whitepaper and verification details.

In the past, crypto sleuth ZachXBT has publicly accused Hayes of promoting tokens like Worldcoin [WLD], Near Protocol [NEAR], Hyperliquid [HYPE], and Zcash [ZEC] before selling into the demand that his posts created. Hayes did not deny the trades; he admitted,.

I sold to a willing seller at a price… I just happened to call it right this time as it regards to my trading goals.

So, it’s difficult to believe Hayes when he tells his 800K followers that FLOP is the future of agent commerce.

In a recent development, the 24th of November will bring with it a testnet and an airdrop. However, Flop Labs and Arthur Hayes still have a ways to go before they can confirm that Hayes’ anti-bubble bet is real.

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Crypto Laundering a 'Material Risk' for UK Ahead of FATF Review: RUSI.

Britain's upcoming crypto rules will still be in transition when global anti-money laundering assessors arrive next year, and the country will be judged on whether it can enforce against crypto laundering, a taskforce convened by the Royal United Services Institute has warned.

Industry observers note that the report, published on Friday, sets out the issues the London-based defense and security think tank's taskforce expects to dominate the UK's 2027 evaluation by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The Paris-based body sets global standards against money laundering and terrorist financing, and its peer reviews, known as mutual evaluations, grade countries on whether their rules work in practice.

The UK's report is due to be agreed at FATF's February 2028 plenary. The taskforce, made up of experts from the private sector, law enforcement and civil society, met in September; its discussions are not attributed to individual members.

This will be the first UK evaluation in which FATF considers crypto, and the taskforce was clear that crypto is a "material risk" for the UK. The City of London Police assesses that 66% of investment fraud in the UK involves crypto, according to the report, while the UK's 2025 National Risk Assessment rated crypto money laundering high risk, up from medium in 2020.

The UK brought crypto firms under its money laundering rules in 2020, and legislation passed in February created a statutory crypto regime. The Financial Conduct Authority set out which crypto activities it will regulate in April and finalized its rulebook in June, but the mandatory regime does not take effect until October 25, 2027.

The taskforce doubted the UK would be able to show adequate implementation by the time FATF visits in June, and noted the UK had moved more conservatively than Hong Kong, the EU and Singapore.

Members were unanimous that assessors would examine this, and pointed to over-the-counter brokers, which the National Crime Agency estimated in the 2025 risk assessment are likely to launder hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Sources indicate that the taskforce cited the Metropolitan Police's £5.5 billion (about $7.3 billion) crypto seizure, linked to a Chinese professional money launderer sentenced in 2025, as an encouraging sign of what the UK criminal justice system can do when it has the capacity. But one member remarked the success had not been repeated in enough cases, and that the UK had barely scratched the surface of crypto laundering. FATF is expected to test whether results match the risk rather than rest on one headline case, the report said.

It also warned that because the UK's regime, which resembles the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, focuses on identifiable crypto firms, it risks pushing the highest-risk crypto outside the FCA's perimeter. That would leave law enforcement to trace assets the regulator cannot reach, such as Tether's USDT, with the taskforce pointing to a July 2025 Treasury report that flagged the stablecoin as having been "extensively exploited" by Russian-speaking laundering networks. Members doubted law enforcement had been given the capability and resources to keep pace.

The taskforce did praise UK international cooperation, including Operation Destabilise, which targeted Russian-speaking networks converting street cash into crypto. But it flagged resourcing of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit and law enforcement's economic crime capacity as likely vulnerabilities.

According to recent reports, FATF has been pressing countries on crypto enforcement more broadly. In July, it mentioned nearly 93% of jurisdictions it surveyed had yet to apply its standards to qualifying DeFiplatforms.

RUSI has previously argued that banning crypto privacy tools would be counterproductive, and in August reported that North Korea increasingly launders stolen crypto through criminal networks. The taskforce will meet again this month to examine trends from recent evaluations.

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The first line of code for the core of what would become the XRP Ledger (XRPL) was written about 15 years ago, on November 11, 2011, by David Schwartz.

According to the official XRP account on X, the date 11/11/11 marked the beginning of Schwartz's work on what would later support one of the cryptocurrency industry's established payment-focused blockchain networks.

Industry observers note that schwartz, now Ripple CTO Emeritus, was one of three engineers, alongside Jed McCaleb and Arthur Britto, who began developing the XRP Ledger in 2011. The three were inspired by Bitcoin to build an alternative that would address some of its problems, especially in the areas of sustainability and payments.

Industry observers note that in June 2012, the XRP Ledger went live. Shortly after Chris Larsen joined the group in September 2012, a tech giant called NewCoin was formed; it soon changed its name to OpenCoin before becoming Ripple. The founders of the XRPL donated 80 billion XRP, the network’s native digital asset, to the company.

Ripple has locked up most of its XRP in escrow, about 55 billion XRP, and releases 1 billion XRP on the first day of every month.

The anniversary on November 11 marks the start of the XRP Ledger’s development, as what began with Schwartz's first code in 2011 eventually morphed into a blockchain network designed to enable value transfers.

Sources indicate that november is also a significant month for XRP as U.S. spot XRP ETFs celebrate the first anniversary of their landmark launch.Canary Capital’s XRP exchange-traded fund, listed under the ticker XRPC, began trading on November 13, 2025, and is the first spot XRP ETF on a U.S. exchange.

In upgrade news, XRPL version 3.5.0 is scheduled for December 3, 2026. This release includes only improvements and fixes, including a permanent fix for occasional slow ledger close times.

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The AI Compute Race report prices GPU compute outside the biggest buyers: a three-year commitment cuts the median price by 48%, while 17 of 22 tracked GPU models rose in price over the past year.

DALLAS, Texas – November 13, 2026 – Fluence has published The AI Compute Race, a report that prices GPU cloud compute for every company that is not a frontier lab or a hyperscaler. It was produced with research partners NEAR AI, io.net, Boundless, Phala, Gensyn, Fortytwo, Theta, Compute Labs and GAIB. Its central finding: where a company buys a GPU-hour sets the price. Across H100, H200 and B200 models, hyperscalers list GPUs at 1.98 times the GPU-cloud median, from 1.4 times on the B200 to 2.8 times on the H100. The same H200 lists from $4.08 to $10.60 an hour.

Commitment length matters almost as much as provider choice. Against each provider’s own on-demand rate, a one-year reservation cuts the median price by 21% and a three-year term by 48%. Spot capacity lists at 53% of on-demand, for workloads that can be interrupted.

In a recent development, buyers who expect GPU prices to fall may need to recheck their budgets. Seventeen of the 22 GPU models tracked by GetDeploying cost more than a year earlier, and the median H100 rents for 13% to 30% more, depending on the window measured.

The report also traces why prices are rapidly rising:.

“Open-weight models are close behind the best closed ones, and companies are switching to them. Any organization with GPUs can now serve a near-frontier model on hardware it controls. The GPUs are the hard part,” noted Evgeny Ponomarev, Co-founder of Fluence.

The report closes with four ways to pay less for the same compute: compare the same chip across provider types, commit when the workload is steady, match the GPU generation to the model, and look beyond the hyperscalers, since much of the newest neocloud capacity is contracted to labs years ahead.

The full report is available at fluence.ai/compute-race-2026.

Industry observers note that fluence Cloud is a GPU cloud provider with capacity from independent data centers (fluence.ai). Founded in 2017 by Dmitry Kurinskiy, Evgeny Ponomarev and Tom Trowbridge, the tech giant has raised $14 million from investors including 1KX, Multicoin, Distributed Global, Blockchange, Tiger Global and Protocol Labs.

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Home » Exchanges » NYSE Taps Avalanche to Power Tokenized Stock Trading as Wall Street Embraces Blockchain Infrastructure.

NYSE has selected Avalanche technology to support settlement for its planned tokenized securities platform, bringing round-the-clock stock trading and faster settlement closer to reality, pending regulatory approval.

According to recent reports, the Latest York Stock Exchange is mixing together blockchain technology and traditional finance. It selected Avalanche to power the settlement infrastructure of its upcoming tokenized securities platform. The decision is part of a growing effort to bring crypto trading and its benefits to traditional finance.

Confirmed on November 9, 2026, the partnership will see Avalanche provide the core ledger technology for the clearing firm supporting the NYSE-affiliated digital trading venue. One of the goals is to enable round-the-clock trading, as well as clearing and settlement of tokenized securities, all of which still require regulatory changes.

NYSE has organized a yearlong test, and afterwards Avalanche emerged as a favorite provider and one that could meet its needs and provide a seamless inclusion of blockchain traders into the fold of the stock exchange account holders.

According to recent reports, the platform is designed to support equities issued across multiple blockchain networks, meaning Avalanche will not necessarily host every tokenized stock traded through the venue. The technology will therefore mostly be used to record and settle transactions.

Industry observers note that NYSE Head of Digital Issuance Dennis Lee stated that the focus was on speed, reliability, and predictable costs. Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer also highlighted the importance of dedicated infrastructure.

It has been revealed that the crypto infrastructure industry is huge, and there’s a growing list of cryptocurrency exchanges, including those reviewed by CryptoManiaks, to choose from. Platforms made for transfers and smart contracts automating payments have also grown and now include thousands of providers. NYSE chose Avalanche due to some of its unique characteristics.

Avalanche’s architecture allows businesses to create dedicated blockchain networks with rules tailored to their operational and regulatory requirements. It creates a flexibility that traditional financial institutions are looking for.

Industry observers note that stock exchanges handle countless transactions, and stability is the most vital feature they are looking for. Another important feature is atomic settlement. It allows the transfer of securities and corresponding payment to occur as part of the same transaction. Therefore, there’s no chance one side of a trade is completed while the other remains outstanding.

NYSE also aims to operate a custom blockchain built using Avalanche technology rather than relying directly on Avalanche’s public network.

The decision reflects a broader effort to tokenize traditional markets and get the best of both worlds. That way, crypto companies won’t dominate the space, but can combine their features with those of the stock market.

Nasdaq is among the NYSE’s most prominent competitors. It, too, has developed tokenized stock infrastructure and is pursuing partnerships that could help distribute blockchain-based securities. This is done in cooperation with Kraken and in a way that NYSE is responding to the demands of a competitive market.

Industry observers note that the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a central institution in US securities settlements, also has looks to introduce tokenization. It plans to use blockchain to support securities custody and transfers.

NYSE has also expanded its list of partners. It now includes Broadridge Financial Solutions, Computershare, Equiniti, and Superstate. These developments show that financial institutions are fighting to establish the underlying infrastructure that will determine how digital securities are traded, transferred, and settled.

What Tokenized Stocks Could Mean for Investors.

According to recent reports, tokenized stocks could change how investors are accessing traditional financial markets. The possibility of trading outside of business hours is the first thing investors have been looking for, alongside faster settlements. The NYSE’s broader platform prepares include stablecoin-based funding, fractional share trading, and immediate settlement.

Recent findings suggest that ownership will also change. The NYSE has indicated that its platform will support tokenized shares that are fungible with traditionally issued securities, as well as securities originally issued in digital form. Shareholders will continue to have the same rights as traditional owners, meaning they’ll receive dividends and take part in corporate governance.

All of these benefits aren’t regulated, and before investors can take advantage of them, traditional regulatory bodies need to act and establish rules and guidelines for the new features.

In a recent development, despite the institutional interest, the NYSE’s Avalanche-powered project still faces several challenges before it can become a functioning alternative to conventional securities infrastructure. The platform needs to demonstrate that it can maintain the safeguards expected of a major US stock exchange.

According to recent reports, there’s also a distinction between Avalanche’s institutional adoption and the potential benefits for its native AVAX token. It’s not clear if the cooperation with NYSE will generate demand for AVAX. The project will depend on its ability to attract issuers, brokers, and investors while delivering reliable settlement.

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President Donald Trump sent the Senate four nominees for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Thursday, his first picks for either agency in about a year and the first Democrats he has put forward for them.

Industry observers note that former CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson, a Democrat, and Republican Steven Levine were nominated to the SEC. Republican Nathan Anonick and Democrat Matthew Rowland were nominated to the CFTC, Bloomberg Law reported.

In a recent development, each nominee needs Senate confirmation. The Senate Banking Committee will handle the SEC picks, while the Senate Agriculture Committee will take up the CFTC pair before any vote by the full chamber.

Levine was tapped for the SEC seat left by Hester Peirce, whose term expired, for a term running through June 5, 2030. He most recently served as general counsel and a senior adviser at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and previously worked at the SEC as counsel and deputy chief of staff to Commissioner Mark Uyeda.

Peirce led the SEC’s Crypto Task Force and was one of the agency’s most vocal supporters of clearer crypto rules.

Recent findings suggest that johnson would take the seat formerly held by Democrat Caroline Crenshaw, for a term ending June 5, 2029. She served as a CFTC commissioner until 2025 and is a former law school professor. During her time at the CFTC, she spoke often about digital assets, including custody and decentralized finance.

According to recent reports, both CFTC nominees come from the Senate Agriculture Committee, which oversees the derivatives regulator. Anonick is legislative counsel to Chairman John Boozman and was a lead negotiator on the committee’s portion of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. He was nominated to the seat once held by former Chairman Rostin Behnam, for a term ending June 19, 2031.

In a recent development, rowland is a CFTC attorney detailed to the committee who also worked on the Clarity Act and the committee’s 2024 crypto bill. He previously served on Johnson’s staff at the CFTC, according to his LinkedIn profile. He would fill the remainder of former Commissioner Summer Mersinger’s term, which expires April 13, 2028.

Sources indicate that both agencies can seat up to five commissioners, with no more than three from one party. The SEC presently has two, Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioner Mark Uyeda. Chairman Mike Selig is the CFTC’s only sitting commissioner.

The timing puts the nominees in front of a Senate in its lame-duck session, weeks after Democrats swept both chambers of Congress in the Nov. 3 midterms. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, one of crypto’s sharpest critics, is expected to chair the Banking Committee when the upcoming Congress is seated in January.

Industry observers note that the pairing of Democrats with Republicans could matter for confirmation. After the election, TD Cowen’s Jaret Seiberg told clients he did not expect Democrats to confirm Trump nominees unless the president filled Democratic seats at agencies such as the SEC, a step he called unlikely. Thursday’s slate does exactly that at both regulators.

The nominations also land with crypto market structure legislation stalled. The Clarity Act failed a Senate cloture vote 49-50 on Sept. 15 and dies on Jan. 3 unless the lame-duck session revives it.

In a recent development, without new law, the SEC and CFTC have set crypto policy largely on their own this year. Selig’s CFTC opened the door to equity perpetual futures, and a federal judge later noted the agency likely overstepped while letting trading continue.

According to recent reports, the White House did not say when it expects the Senate to act. The open question is whether a Senate heading for Democratic control moves the four nominees before January, or leaves the SEC and CFTC running with skeleton commissions into 2027.

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Sources indicate that one of Ethereum's consensus clients has merged a fix for a validator pubkey cache poisoning attack, according to a pull request on GitHub. The patch addresses a vulnerability around the Gloas fork, which could result in some nodes rejecting valid signatures due to a bug in the global pubkey cache.

Gloas is the consensus layer part of the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade.

The issue lies in a mechanism where the client stores validator public keys and their indexes in a global cache.

Technically, deposits that are already finalized should give the same validators on every chain, though it is a different story at the fork boundary.

According to recent reports, the attacker needs 3 pending deposits just before the fork. The first one is a large top-up for an existing validator. The other two are new keys: A with builder credentials and B with regular validator credentials.

On the canonical chain, the top-up consumes the balance churn, so A and B are processed after the fork. A becomes a builder, and B takes the next validator index.

Sources indicate that on the attacker's side chain, the topped-up validator gets slashed before the fork, and its deposit is skipped. This leads to A being processed earlier, essentially taking B's index.

The buggy cache assumed both chains would produce the same validators and imported A's key globally.

At the fork, affected nodes would reject all valid signatures from B on the canonical chain and fork off.

Realistically, the attack is somewhat complicated, as it needs a slashing at the right moment and a side chain, so it's unlikely to happen by accident.

According to the PR, the fix is to only add keys to the global pubkey cache once their activation eligibility epoch is finalized.

A new HeadPubkeys structure also combines keys from the head state and the global cache, so nodes don't miss keys if the chain finalizes without new blocks.

Sources indicate that whether other consensus clients had a similar problem is yet to be confirmed. In other words, the closer Glamsterdam gets, the more edge cases around the fork boundary developers have to catch.

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On the 12th of November, TRON, Tether, and blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis jointly rolled out the Digital Crime Task Force (DCTF), an initiative aimed at identifying and disrupting illicit financial activities involving Tether’s USDT stablecoin on the TRON blockchain.

It has been revealed that in this proposal, TRON will contribute its blockchain network expertise, and Tether will provide support as the issuer of USDT. Meanwhile, Chainalysis will bring its blockchain intelligence, investigative expertise, and AI-powered monitoring tools.

According to recent reports, one of the major reasons behind the initiative is the growing sophistication of crypto-related financial crime. According to Chainalysis, AI-enabled scam operations were 4.5x more profitable than traditional scams in 2025. Meanwhile, impersonation scams increased by more than 1,400% year over year.

According to recent reports, defiLlama further reported that the crypto industry recorded $8.78 billion across 328 hacks in 2026 so far. This is the highest annual loss recorded in its database. In fact, the five biggest hacks together contributed more than 85% of the overall losses.

Recent findings suggest that interestingly, the number of attacks increased around 2.7 times compared to 2025, while the median loss declined from $1.07 million to $510,000. This suggests that hackers are carrying out more frequent attacks, although most incidents involve relatively smaller amounts.

Seeing this rise, the organizations believe that traditional approaches, which often depend on victims reporting crimes or investigators identifying suspicious funds, are no longer sufficient. Instead, they want to identify potential threats before criminals can move their funds.

Remarking on the same, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said,.

Criminals are using AI to move faster than ever, and waiting for a victim to report a crime is no longer good enough.

This remark comes as Tether has already frozen more than $7 billion linked to illicit activities while working with over 360 law enforcement agencies across 73 countries.

That noted, the new task force will therefore be built on these efforts by focusing on proactive investigations and faster coordination. It will also accept tips and asset-freezing requests directly from law enforcement agencies.

Needless to say, the DCTF will investigate several categories of financial crime, including investment and romance scams, stolen funds, cryptocurrency hacks, terrorist financing, North Korean cyber operations, and much more.

This coincided with the FBI recently launching ‘Operation Blackout,’ a coordinated international crackdown targeting scam compounds across Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East that defraud American citizens through fake investment platforms and online impersonation.

Meanwhile, ACAMS has partnered with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis to strengthen cryptocurrency anti-financial crime training through an updated CCAS certification.

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‘Roadmap is Complete,' Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson Indicates.

Charles Hoskinson said that the Cardano "roadmap is complete" and that everything he said would be built has finished. It came during a YouTube livestream Saturday where Hoskinson sparred with disgruntled investors as ADA sits down 94% from its 2021 high, per Decrypt data.

One viewer, named shevilkid1738, pushed Hoskinson's buttons by claiming he'd promised Cardano would overtake Bitcoin. The Cardano founder clapped back, saying there was no evidence he ever noted that.

In a recent development, "I never promised that. I mentioned I'd love for it to happen, and I believe that Cardano is a better store of value than Bitcoin is for a variety of reasons," Hoskinson said. "I don't promise price appreciation, or people overturning things. I say it's absolutely possible.".

According to recent reports, shevilkid1738 responded over an hour later with a quote where Hoskinson mentioned he "thinks" Cardano is "probably" going to become the biggest cryptocurrency in the world. Hoskinson highlighted the word think and said that he has "taken it as far as I can," explaining that the network is now decentralized and doesn't rely on him as a founder.

The viewer wasn't happy and called it "insane" for a founder to no longer have a responsibility to those who invested in their project.

Recent findings suggest that "Under what conditions does that obligation end?" Hoskinson said, "The roadmap is complete. Everything I said is going to be built has been built. It reached four times the value of Honda. There's millions of people that have used it, and millions of people continue to use it. It is self-determining and self-governing, with its ability to pick and choose its own leaders without my consent.".

Cardano’s roadmap was split into five eras: Byron, Shelly, Goguen, Basho, and Voltaire.

According to recent reports, byron debuted the network in September 2017, Shelley added staking in July 2020, and Goguen brought smart contracts via the Alonzo hard fork in September 2021. Basho, the scaling era, came via the Vasil upgrade in September 2022, before the Chang hard fork kicked off Voltaire, the governance era, in September 2024.

The final piece to the puzzle occurred in January 2025, when the Plomin hard fork gave ADA holders "real voting power" over the blockchain’s future. This marked the transition to "full decentralized governance," and apparently the end of the final roadmap era.

"The goal was simple. There's a roadmap. Byron, Basho, Shelley, et cetera, et cetera, and it's done," Hoskinson said. "I have no power over this ecosystem.".

Ultimately, though, Hoskinson states the concern that investors have is financial.

Recent findings suggest that "You want me to pump your bags. That's what you're really saying. The job's not done till it's pumped," he said. "But guess what? It's never done then, because somebody comes in at $3 ADA, and then expects it to be five. And then somebody comes in at $5 ADA and expects it to be seven. If you retire at five, you've defrauded the person at five. If you retire at three, you've defrauded the person at three. There's no winning.".

ADA hit an all-time high of $3.09 in 2021 and has been on a downward slide ever since. By 2023, it hit a low of $0.25 before pumping 384% to a high of $1.21 by the end of 2024. Since then, its price has tanked 86% to $0.17.

"Apparently, I have to go pump your bags, and if I don't, I'm a scammer," Hoskinson said. "Would you sign up for that deal? Would any human being sign up for that? I thought slavery was made illegal.".

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A $5.8 million Bitcoin options loss pushed Nakamoto’s quarterly operating revenue below zero, while the manufacturer extended repayment of $60 million in Kraken debt to 2027.

Revision (Nov. 13 at 19:04 UTC): This article has been updated to include details of Nakamoto’s amended loan agreement with Kraken.

In a recent development, shares in Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto fell 6.5% in premarket trading on Friday after the company reported that losses on Bitcoin options pushed third-quarter operating revenue below zero. Nakamoto also extended the repayment deadline for $60 million in Bitcoin-backed debt owed to Kraken by one year.

It has been revealed that nakamoto’s shares traded at $5.40 at 12:02 pm UTC on Friday, according to Yahoo Finance. At that price, the stock was down about 62% year to date.

Sources indicate that nakamoto reported its third-quarter results after the market closed on Thursday. The firm generated $3.9 million in revenue from its businesses. A $5.8 million net loss on Bitcoin options brought total operating revenue to negative $1.9 million, according to its quarterly filing.

Analysts had expected about $17.4 million in revenue, according to estimates compiled by Yahoo Finance.

Nakamoto reported $85.5 million in net income and a $15.8 million adjusted operating loss for the quarter. A $110.4 million gain from revaluing its digital assets, chiefly Bitcoin (BTC), drove the profit. The adjusted operating loss excludes that gain.

It has been revealed that nakamoto held 4,283 BTC worth $357.9 million as of Sept. 30, down from 4,467 BTC at the end of June.

In a recent development, nakamoto also disclosed that it had extended the repayment deadline for $60 million in Tether USDt (USDT) owed to crypto exchange Kraken by one year, from Dec. 4, 2026, to Dec. 4, 2027, according to an SEC filing.

Sources indicate that the amendment leaves the organization’s total outstanding debt to Kraken unchanged at 165 million USDT, with the remaining 105 million USDT due June 30, 2027. No principal repayments are scheduled for 2026.

The revised agreement also allows the positive net value of certain Bitcoin derivative positions held with Kraken to count toward collateral requirements, potentially helping Nakamoto offset declines in the value of its pledged Bitcoin before it must provide additional collateral or repay part of the loan.

Nakamoto had pledged 3,030 BTC as collateral at the end of September, representing about 71% of its total holdings, according to its quarterly report.

Related: Nakamoto taps Bitwise and Kraken for Bitcoin options strategy to hedge risk.

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Binance has published the final results of an unscheduled Proof of Reserves (PoR) report, two weeks after the cryptocurrency exchange lost $6.34 billion in an October hack.

According to Binance, the snapshot was taken on Nov. 12 at 00:00 UTC, and it shows that the exchange fully backs the balances of its clients. Shiba Inu (SHIB) is backed at 100.04%, and the other major assets on the exchange are fully covered as well.

The latest report comes after the Oct. 29 attack, during which hackers stole funds from Binance across ten blockchains in 20 minutes. Among the stolen funds were nearly 500 billion SHIB. After the attack, the exchange took an additional reserve snapshot at Bitcoin block height 975493.

Sources indicate that binance data demonstrates that the net account balances of customers stand at 50.67 trillion SHIB, and the exchange holds 50.69 trillion SHIB in its wallets. Of that amount, 50.68 trillion SHIB is held at the addresses of Binance itself, and the remaining 7.46 billion SHIB is held by third-party custodians.

Besides SHIB, the report also shows that the other major cryptocurrencies are fully backed. Compared with the previous check on Nov. 4, the BTC balances of users went up by 0.35% to 687,912 BTC, and the coverage ratio for Bitcoin stands at 100.05%. The ETH balances went up by 1.04% to 3.48 million ETH, and the BNB balances increased by 1.03% to 42.95 million BNB.

Still, the USDT balances of owners went down by 3.68% to 24.3 billion USDT. At the same time, the stablecoin has the highest coverage ratio in the report at 104.34%.

Arkham Intelligence data highlights that the known wallets of Binance currently hold 58.82 trillion SHIB. That is 5.88% of the total supply of the meme coin, and these tokens are worth $251.16 million. In this context, Binance wallets hold 8.13 trillion SHIB (about $34.7 million) more than the amount shown in the PoR report.

Recent findings suggest that according to Binance, the PoR report only covers the deposits of clients and the coins that the exchange keeps to back them, so the tech giant's own funds are not included in the report. Based on the Arkham data, Binance holds about 16% more SHIB than it owes to its clients.

Industry observers note that according to Arkham, Binance is still the third-largest exchange by SHIB holdings. Only the burn address with 410.44 trillion SHIB (or 41.04% of supply), the U.S.-based exchange Coinbase with 74.53 trillion SHIB, and South Korea's Upbit with 64.14 trillion SHIB hold more of the meme coin. Robinhood, Crypto.com and Bithumb come after Binance with 57.12 trillion, 34.95 trillion and 16.74 trillion SHIB, respectively.

Finally, Binance stated that the PoR system is still computing the final Merkle Root Hash using zk-SNARKs. After that, consumers will be able to log into their profiles and check that their balances are included in the overall ledger.

At press time, the price of SHIB stands at $0.00000426.

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Solo’s SDK confirms that each JellyJelly account belongs to a real, unique person, after a Solo AI agent passed CAPTCHA on 50+ Discord servers.

San Francisco, United States, November 13th, 2026 – Solo, a privacy-preserving proof-of-humanity company, is bringing its human verification software development kit (SDK) to JellyJelly. The social video app runs on Solana and was co-founded by Venmo co-founder Iqram Magdon-Ismail. The integration lets JellyJelly confirm that every account belongs to a real, unique person, with no government ID and no puzzles to solve.

Industry observers note that magdon-Ismail is co-founder and CEO of JellyJelly and an advisor to Solo. He co-developed the SDK behind the integration, shaping both its architecture and the way new users are onboarded.

The move comes as AI agents learn to pass the tests meant to keep them out. In an experiment run by Solo, an AI agent named Gary joined more than 50 Discord servers overnight and sent over 500 messages. No one identified it as an AI agent.

In a recent development, gary had two instructions: pass every CAPTCHA challenge and accept the terms of service. It completed both through ordinary browsing and clicking, without any custom exploits.

In a recent development, solo reads the result as a weakness in CAPTCHA. The challenges test whether a visitor can solve a puzzle, and capable AI agents can solve the same puzzles. Harder tests add friction for legitimate owners, but they do little to show that a human is behind an account.

It has been revealed that “CAPTCHA was built around the idea that humans could do things bots couldn’t. That’s becoming a harder assumption to make when AI agents can browse, click and solve the same challenges as people,” stated Edison Siu, co-founder and CEO of Solo. “Our approach is to verify the human directly. Platforms need to know they’re dealing with a real person. Consumers shouldn’t have to struggle through more puzzles or upload identity documents to prove it.”.

JellyJelly lets users share short videos and send cryptocurrency payments to one another. The rise of AI-generated video and automated accounts has made it harder for social platforms to know who is behind each account. Solo’s SDK brings human verification into that setting. It helps the platform tell genuine users from automated accounts, and it stops one person from registering several verified identities.

The process starts with a facial scan from a standard smartphone camera. Solo converts the scan into a biometric representation and encrypts it on the device using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). This type of encryption lets a system work on data without ever decrypting it. Solo uses it to compare the encrypted representation against existing records, so the matching step never exposes the underlying data.

Owners do not need special hardware or a government-issued ID. Raw facial images are not stored. Apps that use the SDK receive a verification result, not access to anyone’s biometric information.

The same SDK can be added to gaming platforms, payment services and other applications that need to block duplicate accounts or separate real consumers from automated activity.

Sources indicate that solo is backed by Draper Associates, the venture firm founded by Tim Draper. Draper Associates led a $1 million round in the manufacturer in March 2025. Solo was also selected for cohort 5 of the Solana Incubator.

Solo’s human verification technology is already live. The company is now working on tools that would let verified users authorize their own AI agents, so merchants and online platforms can confirm that a real, unique person stands behind each one. Solo also plans to enable AI agents and AI companies to pay verified people for work that only humans can do.

Magdon-Ismail, who co-founded Venmo and helped develop its peer-to-peer payment system, is advising Solo on how people and their AI agents will pay and get paid.

According to recent reports, “Venmo made it easy to pay a friend,” noted Magdon-Ismail. “The next step is your AI agent paying on your behalf. The business receiving that payment needs to know a real person authorized it. I’m working with Solo to make that process simple for everyone involved.”.

Sources indicate that solo develops proof-of-humanity technology that lets online platforms check that a user is a real, unique person, without asking who that person is. Its smartphone-based system uses fully homomorphic encryption to compare encrypted biometric data, and partners receive a verification result instead of raw biometric data. Solo provides an SDK for web and mobile applications. The firm is backed by Draper Associates and was selected for the Solana Incubator cohort 5. Its first product, SoloMission, lets AI agents collect feedback from verified humans.

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On-chain metrics show a massive 362,000 BTC demand gap opening up across major markets.

Recent findings suggest that bitcoin crashed below the key $70,000 support level on Friday, hitting a three-month low of $67,650 as a sudden leadership crisis at Nvidia, upcoming MSCI index rules, and hot U.S. inflation rattled global markets.

Bitcoin fell 8.6% in 24 hours to $67,650 on early Friday, its lowest mark since August 19, extending a 10.2% weekly decline.

While yesterday’s pullback below $73,000 was driven largely by macroeconomic jitters, Friday’s breakdown reflects a rare convergence of tech-sector turmoil, institutional index risks, and evaporating spot liquidity.

Adding structural pressure to crypto equities, index provider MSCI’s November Index Review has placed Bitcoin treasury companies, including Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) and Tokyo-listed Metaplanet, at risk of losing their place in major stock market indexes.

Under MSCI’s updated eligibility rules companies that hold too much of their assets in investments rather than running an operating business could lose their eligibility for indexes such as the MSCI USA and MSCI World.

When a manufacturer is dropped from a major index, funds that track it often have to sell their shares, which can drive down demand and put pressure on the stock price.

According to recent reports, strategy’s shares dropped 6.49% in extended trading on Thursday. The tech giant has previously warned that eventual removal from MSCI indexes could force passive funds to sell around $2.8 billion worth of its shares.

For Bitcoin, the bigger concern is that Strategy could slow its Bitcoin purchases if it becomes harder or more expensive to raise money. That would remove a major source of buying demand just as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have recorded five consecutive days of outflows totaling $1.43 billion, according to SoSoValue.

Market sentiment weakened further on November 12 after Nvidia confirmed that CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang was stepping down with immediate effect. CFO Colette Kress was named interim CEO.

Huang’s abrupt departure follows an internal board investigation and media reports detailing alleged extramarital affairs, including one with a alleged Chinese spy as well as relationships with Nvidia employees.

Sources indicate that nvidia shares fell as much as 4% on Thursday, extending a month-long decline that has wiped out 27.28% of the stock’s value. The Nvidia news added to pressure on risk assets, alongside declines in the Nasdaq Composite (-0.39%) and S&P 500 (-0.35%).

It has been revealed that rising inflation is adding pressure to both stock and crypto markets. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices rose 0.4% in October, above the 0.3% forecast. Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, also came in higher than expected at 0.3%, against a forecast of 0.2%.

The higher-than-expected figures have reduced hopes of near-term interest rate cuts and raised expectations of a rate hike.

According to CME Group’s FedWatch tool, markets are now pricing in an 88.5% chance of a 0.25-percentage-point rate increase in December. Higher interest rates could put further pressure on Bitcoin by making safer investments, such as U.S. Treasury bonds, more attractive.

Blockchain data suggests Bitcoin lacked enough buying demand to defend the $70,000 level.

According to a CryptoQuant report, demand across spot and perpetual futures markets fell by 362,000 BTC over 30 days, with spot demand declining by 280,000 BTC and futures demand by 82,000 BTC.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin miner transfers to exchanges surged to 2,077 BTC on November 10, roughly 16 times the 30-day daily average of 127 BTC. About 97% of the transfers came from Antpool.

At the same time, stablecoin supply contracted by $14.2 billion over 30 days, pointing to declining liquidity across the crypto market.

According to CryptoQuant analysts, the broader picture remains cautious. Leverage is being unwound, but fresh spot buying has yet to return convincingly. Until demand strengthens, ETF flows turn positive and market liquidity stabilizes, Bitcoin’s recovery is likely to remain fragile, with further downside risks still in play.

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The crypto markets are bleeding, and so is Bitcoin [BTC], the largest of them all. The total cap of the crypto market is down over 5% in the past 24 hours, as market status turned to extreme fear.

More than $856.01 million in crypto liquidations happened with longs, equating to $771.7 million. Of the total liquidations, Bitcoin accounted for $454.7 million, with longs taking 96%.

Recent findings suggest that as a result, BTC slid below $70,000 and was trading around $68,888, at press time, having lost 6% of its cap. A daily trading volume of $31.90 billion reinforced the sharp decline in price below $70,000.

Recent findings suggest that for Ethereum [ETH], 91% of longs were liquidated from its total of $131.95 million. Other crypto assets saw over $218 million wiped out, with long positions representing 75%.

At the same time, a Bitcoin rebound toward $71,000 was becoming more fragile considering other factors. For instance, the market sentiment from some analysts, like Benjamin Cowen, was shifting.

When replying to his post that bear market makes fools of both bulls and bears, Benjamin Bowen reiterated he thought Q4 could be weak.

This has been the case since the midterm US election results, implying investors were less optimistic as pro-crypto Republicans lost control of the house.

Additionally, monthly spot and futures demand was contracting at an accelerating rate. That of spot was at -280K BTC, while that of perpetual futures was at -82K, a total demand of -362K BTC.

Industry observers note that moreover, Bitcoin ETF outflows reached $300 million on the 11th of November and $48 million the following day. This indicated institutions were consistently withdrawing capital from Bitcoin and the crypto market in general. This adds institutional selling pressure to BTC.

More downside risks emanate from a spike in miner-to-exchange flows this week. The total surged to 2,077 BTC, about 16 times its 30-day average of 127 BTC.

However, it does not confirm selling, as it could mean treasury transfers or management. Though, it could mean miners’ margins are getting squeezed by low prices.

Sources indicate that there was more to this nose dive. US demand for BTC was quiet, with the Coinbase Premium Index below -4 from 0.8 in September. This was the deepest average since February, affirming the low demand.

Industry observers note that however, there was still a catch. The rallies of 2024 and 2025 all ran with a premium, with several of them starting from such deep discounts.

In a recent development, this could be driven by renewed spot demand as its CVD is closer to neutral, though the improvement did not last there. The Futures taker CVD was dominated by sellers.

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Bitcoin price traded near $69,800 on Friday morning after briefly crashing to about $67,555 around midnight Eastern, its lowest level since mid-August, according to Bitcoin Magazine Pro data. The rebound held after October producer prices rose less than economists had expected, though the U.S. dollar remained near a 19-month high and traders still fully priced a December Federal Reserve rate hike.

According to recent reports, bitcoin price was trading near $72,800 at this time Thursday. It slipped toward $71,000 by Thursday evening, then gave way late at night, breaking below $70,000 and sliding to that midnight low. The move also pushed the bitcoin price below its 200-week moving average, a long-term trend line near $68,000. Buyers lifted it back above $69,000 before sunrise, and the rebound extended toward $69,800 after the producer-price report.

The U.S. Dollar Index held above 103 Friday after a three-day rally took it to its highest level since April 2025. The 10-year Treasury yield was near 5.15% ahead of the data, and two-year yields, which track Fed expectations most closely, were on pace for their worst week since 2024, Bloomberg reported.

It has been revealed that traders still see an 88% chance of a quarter-point hike at the Fed’s Dec. 8-9 meeting and a 12% chance of a half-point move, CME FedWatch data show. Fed Governor Christopher Waller has added a 50-basis-point increase to the discussion, and Newly introduced York Fed President John Williams said Thursday that inflation remains high and policymakers need to take further action.

Higher rates raise the cost of holding an asset that pays no interest, and a stronger dollar tends to drain demand for risk assets. Both have pressured the bitcoin price since this week’s hotter-than-expected consumer price index.

Recent findings suggest that bitcoin has also broken from tech stocks. It fell 5.9% between Nov. 5 and Nov. 12 while the Nasdaq 100 gained 6.4%, a sign it is trading more on yields and the dollar than on the AI trade. Nasdaq 100 futures were up about 0.6% Friday after the producer-price report, as investors also weighed Nvidia’s announcement that Jensen Huang had resigned as CEO.

The break below $70,000 set off a wave of forced selling. About $1.64 billion in crypto positions were liquidated over 24 hours, with bets on higher prices making up nearly 89% of the total and bitcoin positions accounting for $916 million.

Recent findings suggest that U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs added to the pressure. The funds posted about $47.7 million in net outflows Thursday, their sixth straight day of withdrawals, bringing the run to roughly $1.49 billion. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) alone bled about $2 billion over nine sessions through Wednesday, and the group has now flipped to about $1.56 billion in net outflows for 2026.

Sentiment has soured with it. A widely watched crypto fear and greed gauge dropped to 20 Friday, its lowest reading since July 8, and bitcoin is now on track for a second straight down year.

Recent findings suggest that positioning has turned defensive. Average perpetual futures funding rates turned negative for the first time in a month as the price fell toward $68,500, meaning short sellers are now paying to hold their bets. Order books are also thin. Bitcoin order-book depth across major exchanges fell to $72 million on Nov. 9, roughly 33% below normal levels. “Liquidity remains thin while leverage stays elevated, leaving the market vulnerable to sharp moves in either direction,” stated Tanay Ved, a senior research associate at Talos.

Sources indicate that the Labor Department noted Friday that the Producer Price Index for final demand rose 0.3% in October, short of the 0.4% monthly increase economists had expected, after a revised 1.4% advance in September. Core prices, which exclude food and energy, increased 0.3%, matching forecasts. On an unadjusted basis, the headline index was up 6.5% from a year earlier, the largest 12-month rise since November 2022. The slightly cooler report took some pressure off the dollar, which still held above 103, but a December rate hike remains fully priced, leaving limited relief for the bitcoin price heading into the weekend.

At the time of writing, the bitcoin price is near $69,800.

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In a recent development, the "end of the world" candle printed on the Bitcoin chart is indeed pushing fear into crypto holders. This is not just a sell-off: it was fueled by futures CVD falling by $5.7 billion, while the spot market also saw a spike, with CVD down $438 million.

Since November 11, Bitcoin has lost roughly 9% of its value, with the lowest point at $67,449.

In cases like this, the usual explanation is a liquidation cascade triggered by one thing or another. Considering that this comes amid $1.65 billion in liquidations, it is no surprise that the spot and futures markets moved in sync and triggered a sell-off.

According to data from the analytical platform CoinGlass, 187,171 traders were liquidated across exchanges over the past 24 hours. Long positions accounted for $1.46 billion, compared with just $183 million in short liquidations.

Industry observers note that bitcoin saw the biggest liquidations, at $918.6 million in total, with longs making up 95.4% of it. The largest single liquidation, a $31 million long on BTC-USD, happened on Hyperliquid.

The price invalidated the $70,000 level and now trades around $68,000, with not much room for further decline, considering multiple momentum indicators.

It is the first time Bitcoin has traded below $70,000 since August. From the momentum perspective, RSI is approaching 30, close to the oversold zone.

But where will Bitcoin finally settle? Realistically, the closest "fair" support is the $64,000 price level, where the August rally started.

The crypto market downturn comes amid wide derisking across tech, AI, and cryptocurrency markets. In addition to the crypto turmoil, the tech industry as a whole is shaken by reports of Jensen Huang's exit from NVIDIA.

Sources indicate that investors might feel threatened by the rapid descent of investments pushed into high-risk markets. Even worse, the market in general is not favoring bulls, so bracing for a prolonged correction might be the wise choice.

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Police suspect the group drew up fictitious loan agreements to disguise crypto trading proceeds it transferred directly into bank accounts.

Israeli police arrested five people on Tuesday in a money laundering investigation involving about 16 million shekels ($5 million) in crypto transactions arranged through a WhatsApp group.

Recent findings suggest that investigators from the National Unit for Combating Economic Crime within Lahav 433 suspect the group provided crypto services without a license and failed to report transactions to Israel’s tax authorities. Police allege the group used fictitious agreements to make crypto proceeds transferred into bank accounts look like loans, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Authorities seized wallets, computers and tens of thousands of shekels in cash while searching the suspects’ homes. Investigators questioned the five on suspicion of money laundering, fraud and providing financial asset services without a license.

Sources indicate that israel’s Tax Authority announced two other arrests on Oct. 6 in cases involving suspected failures to report crypto activity. One involved trades worth tens of millions of dollars. In the other, an Ashdod resident allegedly failed to report income from about $13 million in crypto trades between 2019 and 2021.

A November 2024 audit by Israel’s State Comptroller found that about 500 people reported crypto activity each year on average from 2018 to 2022, out of at least 200,000 potential filers.

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📉 Crypto Sells Off as Jensen Huang Exits Nvidia.

It has been revealed that two weeks ago, The Upcoming York Times reported that Nvidia’s CEO had a close relationship with an executive at a Singapore chip buyer under US export-control investigation. Things escalated rapidly from there.

According to recent reports, on Sunday, Jensen Huang told employees he had been unfaithful to his wife of 40 years, and Nvidia’s board opened an investigation into whether he had been targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. On Wednesday, The Times reported a second relationship, this one with an executive who reports directly to him. Three Republican committee chairs were preparing a subpoena.

Industry observers note that thursday morning he resigned as president, CEO and board member, effective immediately. The tech giant gave no reason.

In a recent development, CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim CEO while keeping the CFO job. She has been Nvidia’s finance chief since 2013, through the entire AI buildout, and spent 13 years at Microsoft before that. The board also named Harvey Jones, formerly of Synopsys, as its first-ever chair, and started a search that will consider internal and external candidates with no timeline attached.

The stock fell as much as 14% before recovering to close down about 4%. Nvidia has now shed more than a trillion dollars in market value this month.

Bitcoin fell roughly 4% to a twelve-week low near $68,000, down from above $76,000 earlier in the week. ETH lost about 3% and is now below $2,000. Solana, BNB and XRP all fell between 3% and 5%. The broad market index was off about 4% on the day and 7% on the week.

It has been revealed that it’s a bleak picture. But there are some local reasons for hope.

First, this is the exact price action that we mapped out in Wednesday’s newsletter, after analyzing the SPCX impact on Bitcoin and what similar price action for the Anthropic IPO would mean. TLDR - it mapped to a bottom on Nov 12 around the 200-week moving average (which hit last night).

Industry observers note that second, Binance reported Thursday afternoon that it has completed coverage of the assets affected by its $6.34 billion hack and published an expanded Proof of Reserves snapshot covering all 44 cryptocurrencies impacted. Many believe that the Binance post-hack aftermath has been weighing on crypto prices, and now perhaps this coverage will help alleviate some pain.

Industry observers note that and then Nvidia reports fiscal Q3 results on Tuesday. Any positive news about Jensen succession planning, the Q3 results and/or future growth will likely stop the bleeding on one of the biggest assets across markets (also helping crypto most likely).

We will find out soon if it’s enough to stop the bleeding….

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TL;DR: Chainstack’s expanded incident report focuses on access-control failures. Its recovery guidance makes completed credential rotation a priority.

Chainstack has added technical detail to the security incident it first disclosed on November 3. Its updated report, with a technical section dated November 10, describes an October intrusion built around configuration and access-control failures. The company claims it found no evidence that a software vulnerability was exploited.

Industry observers note that according to Chainstack, the attacker entered through a development Grafana instance with unchanged default administrator credentials. An unauthenticated tool server with broad Kubernetes permissions then formed part of the access path. Machine credentials also connected the development and production environments.

The operational lesson is about the reach of an account after the first login. A low-profile testing service can become consequential if it can contact sensitive systems or holds privileges that extend beyond its immediate job.

NewsBTC's coverage of the NEAR AI infrastructure incident explored a related boundary between an application and the services supporting it. The mechanisms differ, but both make the surrounding infrastructure relevant to a crypto platform's security.

The report identifies account names, organisation details, email addresses and password hashes as potentially exposed. It treats node credentials as exposed despite finding no evidence they were read, and asks customers to change passwords, rotate node credentials and regenerate platform API keys where used.

A password hash and a working access token create different problems. Hashes are representations of passwords, while an active token may directly authorise requests. Replacing a login password therefore cannot be assumed to invalidate every other credential associated with an application.

According to recent reports, this is why incident guidance needs to identify the affected credential types clearly. A single instruction to change a password can leave developers uncertain about application endpoints, automated jobs and service integrations.

Chainstack's node-management documentation describes a staged rotation process. Latest credentials are generated while the existing ones remain active. Applications can then move to the replacements before the old credentials are deactivated.

The documentation says both sets continue working until that final step, with no automatic time limit. Completing the rotation permanently rejects requests using the previous credentials. It also says a node rotation does not change a multichain authentication token.

According to recent reports, for an operator, the overlap reduces the risk of interrupting a working service while updating applications. The corresponding responsibility is to finish the migration. Generating a replacement alone leaves the previous means of access available.

According to recent reports, A useful completion record would therefore track which applications have moved and when the old credentials were disabled. That is a practical control a team can verify after the initial emergency.

Grafana's security guidance warns that services on its local network may be reachable through its data-source proxy. It describes controls such as limiting permitted destinations and using firewall rules to restrict access to sensitive internal services.

Sources indicate that those precautions address what a tool can reach, as well as who can log into it. Authentication and network boundaries perform different jobs; permission limits provide another layer if either boundary fails.

NewsBTC's report on Chainalysis restoring screening services demonstrates why operational recovery and data-exposure analysis can follow different timelines.

According to recent reports, chainstack's expanded account gives customers more detail to assess. The remaining test is whether access changes are completed and whether the revised controls can prevent one compromised service from reaching far beyond its intended role.

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After the largest hack in the history of crypto, Binance has unveiled that it has fully recovered all $6.3 billion in digital assets stolen during the cyberattack.

For those unaware, Binance initially recovered most of the stolen assets within days using manufacturer profits and emergency reserves, while the remaining 10% required additional time.

Well, the hack was so widespread that the operation involved more than 20,000 wallets and at least 65,000 transactions within a week, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.

Recent findings suggest that of that, around $430,000 was also reportedly laundered through memecoins. Chainalysis also identified Chinese money-laundering networks as part of the cash conversion process.

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According to recent reports, this coincided with Binance publishing an updated Proof of Reserves snapshot dated 12th November. According to reports, user BTC holdings rose 0.35% to 687,900 BTC, while ETH reserves increased 1.04% to 3.48 million ETH.

Meanwhile, BNB holdings also climbed 1.03% to 42.95 million tokens. However, USDT reserves declined 3.68% to 24.3 billion tokens.

In a recent development, however, the U.S. federal authorities and private-sector partners have frozen more than $2.7 billion in cryptocurrency stolen during the Binance cyberattack.

According to recent reports, at the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice also secured court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion in stolen assets as efforts to trace the remaining funds continue.

Sources indicate that this further coincided with the U.S. Department of Justice’s announcement of coordinated actions against North Korean cybercriminal operations responsible for cryptocurrency thefts worth billions of dollars.

In fact, one major operation, called FaceStealer, has reportedly stolen more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over the past 18 months.

Additionally, the FBI also seized cloud infrastructure used in the campaign and more than 900 webcam videos of victims.

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It has been revealed that A Bitcoin (BTC) address from 2010 has become active after being dormant for over 16 years. The address has transferred around $3.4 million in BTC.

According to blockchain tracking platform Whale Alert, the address held 50 BTC, which was roughly equivalent to $3,442,939 at the time of activation.

The dormant address had been inactive for 16.2 years. Back in BTC's early days, all 50 BTC were worth just $3.

Notably, this wasn’t the only old Bitcoin address that suddenly became active.

According to Whale Alert, another dormant Bitcoin address holding 50 BTC worth roughly $3,442,129 became active after 16.2 years.

The two transfers took place within minutes of each other on Nov. 13. Hence, the total value of the newly activated Bitcoin comes to around $6.89 million.

There’s no confirmation about who owned these wallets. Also, it’s not confirmed if the same individual or entity owns these addresses.

The reason these addresses are significant is that they date back to 2010, which is considered to be the Satoshi era.

According to recent reports, in simple terms, the Satoshi era refers to the first few years of Bitcoin, mainly 2009 and 2010. During those years, the pseudonymous founder of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, was pretty active in the network's development.

Industry observers note that to be precise, Bitcoin came into existence in January 2009. It initially carried a block reward of 50 BTC. This block reward of 50 BTC continued until Bitcoin had its first halving in November 2012.

This is why these newly activated addresses’ holdings of 50 BTC match the rewards miners could receive during the early days of Bitcoin.

These old addresses always raise a lot of interest as Bitcoin had relatively few miners and users during those times.

However, this does not mean that these wallets are owned by the mysterious founder of Bitcoin.

According to recent reports, this recent activation comes after a series of interesting activations in the crypto world. These are long-dormant crypto addresses that have become active over the past month.

On Oct. 22, a Bitcoin address with 170 BTC worth roughly $14.38 million became active after being dormant for 13 years, as reported by Whale Alert.

Sources indicate that prior to this, on Oct. 20, a dormant address with 500 BTC worth around $41.54 million became active after 10.7 years. In 2016, these holdings were worth just $194,955.

Sources indicate that later, crypto analytics platform Arkham linked the 500 BTC transaction to addresses belonging to convicted Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins. Previously, his crypto holdings were deemed inaccessible.

On Oct. 17, Whale Alert tracked activity involving old Bitcoin addresses holding 248 BTC and 167 BTC worth roughly $20.24 million and $13.65 million, respectively.

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A $10.8 trillion payroll tax gap is accelerating Social Security’s 2032 shortfall—and reshaping retirement and investment strategies.

For years, the impending Social Security funding crunch has been framed as a simple demographic math problem: Baby Boomers are retiring faster than younger workers can replace them.

Industry observers note that while an aging population plays a role, a newly introduced economic analysis reveals a far bigger, largely overlooked culprit—a structural shift in how U.S. income is earned and taxed that has quietly starved the program of $10.8 trillion and shaved a quarter-century off its solvency timeline.

It has been revealed that according to a November 2026 study from the AARP Public Policy Institute, the program’s trust funds could have paid 100% of scheduled benefits until 2059 if the share of the U.S. economy subject to payroll taxes had simply held steady at 1983 levels.

Instead, the retirement fund is projected to deplete its reserves in late 2032, putting millions of Americans on track for automatic Social Security cuts exceeding $500 a month.

Social Security relies on payroll taxes for roughly 91% of its annual funding, according to the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report. However, a shrinking slice of U.S. economic output comes from traditional wages covered by that tax.

According to recent reports, AARP’s analysis found that wages subject to Social Security payroll taxes accounted for 41% of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 1983. By 2025, that share had fallen to 34%. That 7% represents an estimated $10.8 trillion in lost tax revenue and interest between 1984 and 2034.

The report attributes this erosion to several modern economic shifts:.

Under current projections from the Social Security Administration, the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) trust fund, which pays retirement and survivor benefits, will run out of reserves in the fourth quarter of 2032.

If Congress were to merge it with the separate Disability Insurance trust fund, combined reserves would last until 2034.

In a recent development, depletion does not mean Social Security payments will stop entirely, because active workers will continue paying payroll taxes into the system. However, without legislative action, incoming tax revenue will only cover 78% of scheduled retirement benefits in 2032 (or 83% on a combined basis in 2034).

Industry observers note that that translates to an automatic 22% across-the-board cut in 2032—reducing the average retiree’s monthly check by more than $500 in over half of U.S. states.

With less than six years before the 2032 deadline, lawmakers face a narrow window to either broaden how the program captures revenue from a shifting economy or let an automatic benefit reduction take effect by default.

A 22% reduction in Social Security payouts would directly compress disposable income for tens of millions of U.S. households, reshaping consumer spending, personal savings rates, and long-term fiscal deficit projections.

In a recent development, first, concerns about the long-term future of Social Security could lead some younger Americans to take more responsibility for their own retirement savings. For some investors, that may mean looking beyond traditional retirement accounts to alternative assets, including Bitcoin and crypto ETFs.

Second, proposals to strengthen Social Security by taxing a broader range of income could have implications for financial markets. If lawmakers eventually target investment income or adjust capital gains taxes, the changes could affect investor behavior and market liquidity across both traditional and digital asset markets.

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A simple four-part investor framework for evaluating Digital Credit.

According to recent reports, digital credit is an emerging asset class that transforms corporate Bitcoin balance sheets into income producing securities. Strategy pioneered the market with five perpetual preferred equity instruments: STRK, STRF, STRD, STRC, and STRE (the first four are listed in the U.S.). Strive subsequently introduced SATA and SATS, bringing the category to six U.S. instruments across two issuers.

It has been revealed that these securities offer investors preferred equity (read: credit-like) exposure to companies whose balance sheets are dominated by Bitcoin. Their perpetual structure means investors principally rely on recurring dividends and the continued financial strength of the issuer. Unlike term debt, there is no maturation date at which the full principal is ever paid back.

Evaluating digital credit requires examining four characteristics: creditworthiness, investor protections, liquidity, and dividend profile.

In a recent development, this article explains all four dimensions and then offers a ranking for the six digital credit instruments along these lines. None of this should be taken as investment advice—it is only a systematic framework for analyzing digital credit.

Creditworthiness measures an issuer’s ability to support its financial obligations.

Industry observers note that traditional credit analysis focuses on earnings, free cash flow, and refinancing capacity. Companies with strong cash generation can service interest and repay maturing debt. Digital credit issuers today derive financial strength primarily from their Bitcoin reserves, placing greater emphasis on net asset coverage. In the future we could certainly see digital credit issuers that also have significant cash flows on top of Bitcoin holdings, which would add to creditworthiness.

In a recent development, the central question is how much Bitcoin supports each dollar of credit obligations. One useful measure is the BTC Rating, which compares the dollar value of Bitcoin reserves with the outstanding credit, accounting for the seniority of each credit instrument. Cash reserves can further strengthen creditworthiness by reducing net obligations.

For example, a 5x BTC Rating indicates five dollars of Bitcoin supporting every dollar of notional credit claims. Higher ratings provide greater protection against Bitcoin price declines.

According to recent reports, seniority matters because instruments from the same issuer can have different claims on the same asset base. A senior preferred instrument benefits from greater coverage than a junior preferred instrument: all senior claims are included in the BTC Rating calculation of a junior instrument.

Industry observers note that creditworthiness also depends on corporate governance and capital allocation. Management must preserve sufficient Bitcoin coverage while funding recurring dividends. Issuing additional credit increases dividend obligations, while assets accumulation (Bitcoin or cash) strengthen the asset base. Excessive leverage, poor treasury management, or sustained Bitcoin declines can weaken coverage over time.

Investors must therefore evaluate both their assumptions about Bitcoin’s long term performance and management’s ability to maintain a sustainable capital structure.

Investor protections determine what happens when an issuer fails to pay its promised dividends.

While creditworthiness concerns an issuer’s ability to pay, investor protections govern the consequences of missed payments, and more specifically the compensation investors may receive for delayed income.

The first distinction is cumulative versus noncumulative dividends. Cumulative dividends continue accumulating when payments are skipped, preserving the investor’s claim to unpaid distributions. Noncumulative dividends permit the issuer to permanently forgo a payment.

The second distinction is the treatment of unpaid dividends. Some instruments preserve unpaid amounts without additional compensation. Others compound arrears at the regular dividend rate. The strongest protections impose penalty rates, which cause unpaid dividends to compound at progressively higher rates as deferrals continue.

According to recent reports, penalty rates create financial incentives for management to maintain regular payments. They also compensate investors for the additional risk and delay associated with missed distributions.

Other investor protections may include restrictions on payments to junior shareholders, preferred shareholder voting rights or director elections, and dedicated dividend reserves.

Sources indicate that these provisions establish the contractual guardrails surrounding dividend payments. Stronger protections increase the cost of deferral and improve the investor’s position to receive income.

Recent findings suggest that liquidity measures how easily investors can enter and exit positions without materially affecting market prices. This is especially important for digital credit, which does not mature and pay back principal on a fixed date. A liquid market is how an investor would “get his money back” if he wants to exit his position.

Digital credit has developed substantial secondary market liquidity, particularly in its leading instruments. The six U.S.-listed digital credit tickers are among the most actively traded preferred equity securities in the U.S. markets.

Two metrics help investors evaluate liquidity.

Recent findings suggest that absolute trading volume measures the total dollar value traded over a given period. Greater volume accommodates larger transactions and makes it easier for institutions to establish or liquidate positions.

Industry observers note that relative liquidity, or turnover, measures trading volume as a percentage of an instrument’s market capitalization. It captures how actively a security trades relative to its outstanding size.

In a recent development, for example, an instrument with $50 million in daily volume and a $1 billion market capitalization has 5% daily turnover. Another instrument trading $100 million daily with a $10 billion market capitalization has only 1% turnover. The second instrument offers greater absolute trading capacity, while the first experiences substantially greater trading activity relative to its size.

Absolute volume facilitates large transactions, while relative turnover reveals the level of trading activity relative to the capital outstanding.

According to recent reports, dividend profile describes the characteristics of the income an investor receives. Three main considerations are the dividend rate policy, payment frequency, and dividend yield.

It has been revealed that the first distinction is between fixed and variable dividends. Fixed dividends establish a predetermined annual payment per share. Investors know the nominal income they are entitled to receive, allowing them to proposal around a predictable cash flow stream. Variable dividends allow issuers to adjust the payout rate over time. These adjustments can respond to market interest rates, investor demand, or the trading price of the instrument. Fixed dividends prioritize income predictability for investors with reduced flexibility for issuers. Variable dividends provide flexibility for issuers but less predictability for investors.

The second consideration is payment frequency. Traditional preferred securities generally pay quarterly. Digital credit has introduced monthly, twice monthly, and daily dividend schedules. More frequent payments improve cash flow availability, accelerate reinvestment opportunities, and reduce the concentration of distributions around individual payment dates. After January 1 2027, all six instruments will be doing daily dividends.

The third consideration, and perhaps the most crucial out of anything mentioned in this article, is the raw dividend yield. This is the annualized income received divided by the trading price of the credit. A higher yield is generally preferred, but it also must be contextualized against risks and other considerations.

The following framework ranks the six instruments relative to one another. Rank 1 represents the strongest position and rank 6 the weakest, with ties where instruments share identical characteristics.

Recent findings suggest that creditworthiness and investor protections receive overall rankings. Liquidity is segmented into absolute trading volume and turnover. Dividend profile is segmented into rate certainty and yield. While each category’s segments can be evaluated together as a composite metric based on the investor’s own needs, I am choosing to segment them for more precision. I have also thrown out payment frequency since all six will be daily in less than two months.

Recent findings suggest that for dividend rate certainty, fixed dividends rank ahead of variable dividends because their nominal payments are predetermined. This ranking specifically measures income predictability.

According to recent reports, equal signs indicate tied rankings. Liquidity rankings are based on average daily trading volumes from November 2–11, 2026, and turnover is calculated using the latest reported shares outstanding.

Creditworthiness: Strategy’s preferreds rank ahead of Strive’s because of their greater asset coverage. Within each issuer, seniority determines the ranking. STRF has the highest BTC Rating because it is Strategy’s most senior preferred, while SATS has the lowest coverage because it ranks below SATA in Strive’s capital structure.

Investor protections: SATA and STRF rank first and second because unpaid dividends compound at escalating penalty rates and holders can elect directors following prolonged dividend deferrals. SATA’s higher penalty rate ceiling and dividend reserve give it the edge. STRC and STRK both compound unpaid dividends at the regular dividend rate. I rank STRC ahead of STRK based on its higher current compounding rate, although STRK also gives holders the right to elect directors after prolonged dividend deferrals. SATS has cumulative dividends, but unpaid dividends do not compound. STRD ranks last because its dividends are noncumulative, meaning any skipped dividends are permanently forgone. Investors also have no right to bring on directors.

Of the six, STRC and SATA are variable rate instruments and the remaining four are fixed rate. This makes the dividend rate policy pretty straightforward.

Industry observers note that the remaining columns—volume, turnover, and yield—are trackable numbers. For instance, here are turnover and volume numbers from the BFC Digital Credit Dashboard:.

Industry observers note that each of the six digital credit instruments has a different set of tradeoffs. Investors who prioritize creditworthiness may prefer STRF, while those who prioritize dividend certainty and yield may prefer SATS.

The relative importance of each of these dimensions depends on the investor’s own needs. As digital credit continues to develop, investors can use this framework to evaluate newly introduced instruments and determine which ones are best suited to their objectives.

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Industry observers note that TL;DR: Sygnum has revealed an ETH-denominated fund targeting 8–10% annual returns after fees. The target includes staking income, and investors remain exposed to ETH's market price.

Industry observers note that sygnum is pitching a different measure of investment performance: how much Ether an investor owns at the end of the year. In its November 12 announcement, the bank introduced the ETH Alpha Fund, which opened to investors on November 2 and is aimed at professional and qualified investors in approved markets.

Sources indicate that the fund's product page makes two distinctions explicit. Its 8–10% objective is the total portfolio target, including staking. It is also denominated in ETH, so the value of an investment in dollars or another currency continues to move with Ether's price.

That changes how the headline number should be read. As a hypothetical illustration, an investor starting with 100 ETH and achieving an 8% token return would finish with 108 ETH. If the dollar price of Ether fell 20% over the same period, the position's dollar value would still be 13.6% lower.

Industry observers note that that example describes arithmetic, not a forecast for the fund. It highlights why increasing a token balance and preserving purchasing power are different objectives. The meaning of a successful year depends on which currency the investor uses to measure it.

It has been revealed that sygnum states the portfolio combines native staking with options premiums, arbitrage and derivatives carry or funding strategies. The trading component aims to earn returns without relying on a directional call on ETH.

In a recent development, ethereum's staking documentation explains the underlying distinction. Validators receive rewards for their role in maintaining the network. They can also lose ETH through inactivity penalties or slashing, while using a service provider adds another counterparty to the arrangement.

In a recent development, trading income has a separate economic source. An options premium compensates the seller for accepting an obligation; an arbitrage strategy depends on a pricing difference that can be captured after costs. Neither is simply an extra protocol reward.

Sources indicate that combining these activities may diversify the sources of income. It also makes the resulting product more complex to evaluate than a straightforward staking position.

In a recent development, the launch announcement claims trading uses Sygnum Protect, keeping collateral off exchanges at the bank. The product page lists a minimum subscription of $100,000 or its ETH equivalent, monthly subscriptions and monthly redemptions, with advance notice requirements. It also lists an investor-level gate of up to 10%, although the page does not explain its mechanics.

Sources indicate that those terms matter for an institution that must meet cash demands on a different timetable. A quoted asset value does not necessarily mean that capital can be withdrawn immediately. A treasury evaluating such a structure has to match its investment horizon with the fund's dealing arrangements.

Custody deserves the same attention. NewsBTC's coverage of Sygnum's MultiSYG lending arrangement illustrates how the control of collateral can be designed separately from the financial exposure attached to it.

Sources indicate that this launch sits within the broader expansion of institutional ETH products, alongside developments such as Amundi's Ethereum-based fund share class. The products serve different purposes, even though both use Ethereum-related infrastructure.

According to recent reports, for the latest fund, the useful evidence will be realised returns, the consistency of those returns and how its strategies behave when market conditions change. Comparisons also need the same accounting basis: net with net, ETH with ETH and equivalent observation periods.

According to recent reports, an annual target gives investors an objective to assess. A live track record will show how closely the fund can follow it.

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Unocoin said the transfers were signed and broadcast outside BitGo’s platform, and BitGo said the account freeze worked as intended.

Sources indicate that update (Nov. 13, 2026, 12:30 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include BitGo’s response and clarify that the account freeze applied to activity routed through BitGo’s platform.

Indian cryptocurrency exchange Unocoin has kept deposits and withdrawals suspended as it investigates suspicious wallet transfers and a breach of its own systems.

BitGo froze Unocoin’s enterprise account on Nov. 6 at the exchange’s request. Unocoin stated the freeze appeared to have worked as intended and that the transfers were signed and broadcast onchain outside BitGo’s platform, according to its Friday enhancement.

Recent findings suggest that “Our review found that the transaction examined was signed using the user and backup keys held by Unocoin and broadcast externally onchain, without BitGo’s participation. BitGo’s systems were not breached in connection with that transaction,” BitGo said in a statement to Cointelegraph.

The tech giant stated the freeze applied only to activity routed through its platform and that the transfers were signed using keys Unocoin held outside BitGo’s systems.

Unocoin remarked it was investigating possible use of the wallet’s backup signing option and whether any cryptocurrency was lost. The exchange did not respond to Cointelegraph’s request for more information before publication.

Sources indicate that unocoin first detected unauthorized activity on Nov. 6 and suspended all services on Monday after detecting further activity. On Thursday, it disclosed outgoing transfers from an Ethereum address associated with its BitGo wallets and said its infrastructure had been compromised.

In a recent development, A Nov. 5 warning from India’s cybersecurity agency described an AI-assisted campaign targeting crypto exchanges and other financial firms. No connection to Unocoin’s incident has been established.

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Nvidia Employees Push Board to Bring Back Jensen Huang: Report.

Some Nvidia employees are calling on the tech giant's board to bring back Jensen Huang, days after he resigned as CEO following reports of extramarital relationships, according to internal correspondence reviewed by Wired.

An internal "suggestion box" post, submitted by a longtime engineer prior to Huang's resignation, urged the board to take employee sentiment into account before acting, Wired reported. It has since drawn more than 1,600 comments, several of which asked the board to find a way to reinstate Huang. "If you believe in the mission, bring back THE boss," one anonymous commenter wrote.

The post also called on the board to share the findings of its investigation with staff and to formally seek their views on Huang continuing as CEO. One employee went further, sending a companywide email demanding transparency about Huang's exit and declaring: "I stand by Jensen.".

In the hours following Huang's departure, some two dozen Nvidia employees posted supportive messages on LinkedIn, while Wired mentioned it could not find any employee posts backing his departure. The engineer behind the suggestion box post declined to comment, and Nvidia and its fresh board chair, Harvey Jones, did not immediately respond to the outlet.

Huang resigned as Nvidia's president, CEO and a board member on Thursday, ending a 33-year tenure at the company he co-founded. Chief financial officer Colette Kress is serving as interim CEO, and Jones, a former CEO of Synopsys, became the board's first chair. Nvidia did not give a reason for the resignation.

Huang told staff on Sunday that he had been "unfaithful" to his wife, without naming anyone.

Industry observers note that the Newly introduced York Times had reported in October that surveillance of Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, indicated that she had developed a "close relationship" with the Nvidia CEO. Per the Times, U.S. officials concluded she was a Chinese intelligence asset, while the Financial Times reported that a U.S. memo stated the two had been romantically involved. China has denied that she is a spy.

According to recent reports, alice Huang was CEO and chair of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based Nvidia customer, and was investigated by Singapore police over possible false declarations relating to the manufacturer's server purchases, the country's Ministry of Home Affairs stated on Thursday. She was not investigated for espionage, it said.

It has been revealed that police found insufficient evidence that she had committed any offenses, but concluded she had knowingly given them inaccurate information to downplay her role at Megaspeed, according to the ministry. She was issued a stern warning, left Singapore in February and was barred from returning. Investigations into Megaspeed and six other people are ongoing.

Alice Huang is now living in Beijing with the knowledge of security officials, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Thursday that the Justice Department had not yet concluded whether Huang was a spy, and that the FBI was investigating the reports, according to Reuters, which was unable to reach her for comment.

On Wednesday, the Times reported that Jensen Huang had also had a relationship with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia's vice president of health care, who reported directly to him. Powell has not commented.

On Thursday, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter, that Huang had an intimate relationship with a second Nvidia employee, whom it did not name. Nvidia declined to comment to Reuters, and Huang and a representative for the board did not respond. Huang has not commented on the reports since his Sunday email, according to Wired.

The calls inside Nvidia echo criticism of the board's decision from tech and crypto figures. Binance co-founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao called it a mistake for Nvidia to let Huang resign, while Elon Musk said hiring him would be "an honor.".

Recent findings suggest that huang still faces scrutiny in Washington. Congressional committees have asked him to sit for a closed-door interview on December 1 and to testify at a Senate hearing on December 3, as lawmakers examine Nvidia's chip exports to China.

He and Nvidia also face a proposed shareholder class action over his alleged ties to Alice Huang.

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Bitcoin demand weakens as miners transfer 2,077 BTC to exchanges; Antpool accounting for 97% ahead of an estimated 8% mining difficulty cut.

Industry observers note that bitcoin (BTC) demand is showing signs of weakness as miners move more coins to cryptocurrency exchanges. CryptoQuant recorded 2,077 BTC in miner-to-exchange transfers on November 10, approximately 16 times the 30-day daily average of 127 BTC. The move comes as Bitcoin struggles to regain momentum and the network approaches an estimated 8% reduction in mining difficulty.

The latest figures raise concerns about potential selling pressure, particularly as demand indicators weaken across spot and derivatives markets.

Meanwhile, miners could soon receive some relief from lower network difficulty.

Bitcoin's Rebound Fades as Spot Demand Weakens and Miner Flows Surge.

“Leverage is being unwound, but spot demand has not recovered sustainably.” – By @xwinfinance pic.twitter.com/n03axjQKqt.

— CryptoQuant.com (@cryptoquant_com) November 13, 2026.

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The 2,077 BTC transfer marked the largest daily miner-to-exchange movement since February 2026, according to CryptoQuant. Around 97% of the transferred Bitcoin came from Antpool, one of the network’s largest mining pools.

Recent findings suggest that the movement represents a significant increase compared with the 30-day average of 127 BTC. Miners often transfer Bitcoin to exchanges when they need to liquidate holdings to cover electricity bills, equipment costs and other operating expenses.

However, CryptoQuant’s Miner to Exchange Flow indicator tracks transfers rather than completed sales. Miners can also move coins for treasury management or other operational reasons.

The latest activity therefore signals a potential increase in available selling supply, rather than confirmation that 2,077 BTC entered the market as sell orders.

Miner transfers are adding to concerns about an already fragile market. CryptoQuant’s 30-day demand-growth indicators revealed negative readings across both spot and perpetual futures markets.

It has been revealed that spot demand stood at approximately -280,000 BTC, while perpetual futures demand reached around -82,000 BTC. Combined, the indicators produced a negative reading of approximately 362,000 BTC.

Industry observers note that these figures point to deteriorating demand conditions. Spot demand is particularly notable because it reflects activity in the underlying Bitcoin market, while perpetual futures activity provides insight into speculative positioning.

Recent findings suggest that the negative readings suggest that buying activity has struggled to absorb available supply. If miners continue transferring Bitcoin to exchanges while spot demand remains weak, the market could face additional downward pressure.

However, these indicators measure changes in estimated demand, not a direct count of Bitcoin sold by investors.

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Bitcoin’s next difficulty adjustment, expected around 14 November at block 975,744, may drop by roughly 8.4% after average block times rose to 655 seconds. The protocol reduces difficulty every 2,016 blocks (about two weeks) to maintain a 10-minute target; slower production eases mining and may boost BTC yield per unit of power.

This could aid miners amid weak prices and tight margins, but profitability still depends on electricity costs, hardware efficiency, fees and BTC value.

It has been revealed that bitcoin is trading near $69,200 after another sharp daily decline. The chart highlights that BTC has broken below the $75,000–$76,000 support zone, which now represents an notable resistance area. The immediate level to watch is around $69,000.

A sustained break below it could expose the $64,000–$65,000 support area, followed by $60,000. On the upside, Bitcoin would need to reclaim $75,000 to signal a potential recovery and improve its short-term outlook.

Bitcoin faces several challenges heading into the next difficulty adjustment. The increase in miner-to-exchange transfers, combined with negative demand indicators, suggests that the market is struggling to attract sufficient buying interest.

Still, the Antpool transfers should not be interpreted as proof of widespread miner capitulation. The data identifies a large movement from one mining pool, but does not establish that the coins were sold.

It has been revealed that the upcoming difficulty reduction could improve mining conditions and help struggling operators manage their costs. However, it is unlikely to resolve the broader weakness in Bitcoin demand.

According to recent reports, investors will be watching whether exchange transfers translate into actual selling and whether spot-market buyers return. A recovery in demand would help absorb additional supply and provide a stronger foundation for Bitcoin’s next move.

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The XRP Ledger (XRPL) will be delivering a major upgrade on Dec. 3, which will address the occasional sluggishness the blockchain network has been experiencing in recent weeks.

As stated in a recent XRP Ledger Operations announcement, the network will be rolling out its latest version 3.5.0, which will exclusively include technical improvements and bug fixes, such as a lasting fix for the relatively slow ledger closing times.

Industry observers note that "XRPL version 3.5.0 will be on Dec 3. Just improvements/fixes, including a long-lasting fix for the occasional slow ledger close times," XRP Ledger Operations remarked.

The developers have informed users that the interim fixes to help improve the situation have already been working effectively.

"Interim fixes already helped improve close times, and we are watching the network very closely," it added.

This is a critical advancement in improving the reliability of the XRP Ledger, a network widely used to process cryptocurrency payments, tokenization, and stablecoin transactions.

The latest improvement to the XRPL comes after the blockchain network suffered technical issues in October, when some ledgers were closing much slower than usual.

The XRP Ledger usually closes fresh ledgers once every three to five seconds. This ensures that transaction confirmations happen fairly promptly.

Sources indicate that however, intermittent sluggishness was seen on the network, as XRP Ledger Operations admitted on Oct. 21. The team later confirmed that its developers were already working on the concern.

Afterward, XRP Ledger Operations started sharing a recommended configuration update for xrpld software with network operators such as validators and other infrastructure providers.

The temporary fixes were helpful. On Oct. 22, XRP Ledger Operations shared that the occasional slower ledger closures were no longer happening, thanks to the upcoming recommended configuration.

That noted, the developers remain hard at work to deliver a software fix that will correct the matter once and for all, a long-term solution that would not rely solely on temporary changes.

That is why the December release is expected to finally bring that permanent fix.

In the meantime, Vet, one of the notable XRP Ledger validators, has already assured the community that the blockchain network is always being monitored as developers work on more improvements.

In a recent post on X, he stressed that a great amount of work has been put into network monitoring, information security and engineering.

Vet said that their engineers are always on call to address any possible incidents.

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Sources indicate that trezor confirmed on the 12th of November that three Safe 5 hardware wallets sold by CryptoBilis contained malicious implants. Fortunately, no customer had reported losing funds.

Still, Trezor urged affected buyers to move their crypto after releasing a firmware fix.

Customers bought those 3 devices between the 20th of August and the 23rd of September through CryptoBilis directly or its Tokopedia and Shopee stores. Trezor examined one device in its lab and identified two more from customer photos.

Recent findings suggest that 48 buyers had contacted the organization, and at press time, checks were ongoing. Trezor reported that there were no confirmed cases involving other models or resellers.

Apparently, the implants could take recovery phrases and passphrases that appeared on the wallet screen.

According to recent reports, on X, a user asked how a software update could stop a physical implant from recording the display. Trezor explained that firmware could “listen to the communication between the MCU and the display,” and the firm has now changed the order of commands needed for the trigger.

Regardless, Trezor still urged buyers to use a fresh recovery phrase because “the upgrade can’t protect a wallet backup that was captured before it.” This advice applied to customers who bought a Trezor from CryptoBilis from March 2026 onward.

The hardware wallet organization also urged those using its devices to move funds to a upcoming wallet with a fresh recovery phrase. It told buyers with unused devices to leave them unconfigured. Eligible buyers could contact Trezor Support for a replacement or a refund where shipping limited their options.

Industry observers note that trezor dropped CryptoBilis on the 9th of October after reports of tampered Ledger devices sold through them. A customer also flagged a suspected Safe 5 implant on the 28th of October.

Trezor issued a warning two days later, saying that it cut its reseller network by about 80% and tightened rules on sourcing, storage, and access.

This brought the debate back to what self-custody protects, and as Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier said,.

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Bitcoin price action interacted with its 200-week simple moving average for the first time since mid-August as it fell below $68,000.

Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $67,500 on Friday, slipping below its 200-week simple moving average on its first test of the level in nearly three months.

Sources indicate that tradingView data indicated that Bitcoin last touched its 200-week simple moving average (SMA) on Aug. 19.

Recent findings suggest that BTC/USD one-day chart with the 200-week SMA. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView.

Recent findings suggest that the 200-week SMA has served as a reference point for Bitcoin’s cycle lows, acting as support or resistance during bear markets. Bitcoin traded around the average from March to October 2023 and again from June to mid-August this year. Decisive moves back above it on the weekly chart have preceded sharper rallies.

In his latest analysis, Keith Alan, cofounder of crypto trading platform Material Indicators, flagged the 200-week SMA as having confluence with a resistance/support flip level on Bitcoin’s relative strength index (RSI).

Weekly RSI has returned to 41.5, a level that it established as support in late July after it spent several weeks attempting a breakout.

“Losing 41.5 on Weekly RSI opens the door to test the cycle low at $57.7k,” Alan wrote Friday on X, noting the bullish implications that successfully defending the support zone would have.

Industry observers note that BTC/USD one-week chart with 200 SMA; RSI data. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView.

BTC price downside accelerated on Friday as Asia markets reacted to the resignation and ongoing controversy around Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng finished the day down 1.55%, while South Korea’s KOSPI Composite Index ended 0.98% lower.

Related: Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, exits board; shares plunge.

US stock-market futures fell slightly, with the Nasdaq 100 falling 0.2% as analysis eyed a redistribution of capital into Nvidia’s competitors, preserving the AI trade.

Nasdaq 100 futures one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView.

“What you’re seeing in markets now is a bit of a rotation into other advanced chip design companies, on the assumption that this will enable other companies effectively to catch up,” said Mark Franklin, head of multi-asset solutions for Asia at asset manager Manulife Investment Management, told CNBC.

In a recent development, nvidia stock was 0.7% higher pre-market, meanwhile, amid reports of growing support for Huang’s return. An internal post quoted by Wired drew more than 1,600 comments from employees.

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TL;DR: Chainlink and Moody's Ratings completed a cross-chain distribution pilot using test data. It ran on testnets and did not publish live rating actions or change Moody's existing publication processes.

It has been revealed that tokenized finance needs information to move alongside assets. In a November 10 announcement, Chainlink and Moody's Ratings reported a completed pilot that used the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, or CCIP, to distribute credit information across multiple networks.

The exercise connected Moody's Token Integration Engine, known as TIE, with cross-chain messaging. Its significance lies in a familiar market problem: investors need consistent information about an instrument even when different pieces of financial infrastructure represent or hold it.

The pilot used representative data in a controlled testnet environment, spanning permissioned and permissionless networks. No actual rating actions were published onchain, and live dissemination processes were not involved.

Sources indicate that that scope makes the result useful as an interoperability test. It leaves the separate work of operating a production service, setting responsibilities and integrating it with financial institutions.

Consider a hypothetical bond represented across several networks. If its credit assessment changes, a reliable system needs to identify the relevant instrument and ensure each destination receives the appropriate update. Otherwise, applications can act on different versions of information about the same underlying obligation.

Chainlink's documentation describes CCIP as infrastructure for transferring both data and tokens between blockchains. Its developer tools cover standalone messages and transactions that combine value transfers with instructions.

Sources indicate that this matters because a rating enhancement is information. Delivering it does not necessarily require moving the asset itself. A recipient application can receive a message and decide how to use it according to its own rules and permissions.

Recent findings suggest that the documentation also includes message-status, execution and finality tools. Those operational details become important when a financial workflow needs to determine whether an revision has arrived, whether it has been processed and how to handle an exception.

NewsBTC has examined the configurable controls around this infrastructure in its report on CCIP 2.0's security and compliance features.

It has been revealed that the new test sits within a longer programme. In June, Moody's confirmed an Alphaledger integration for Solana, giving issuers on that platform an option to integrate ratings with tokenized fixed-income assets. That followed TIE's March deployment on Canton.

According to recent reports, moody's described TIE as network-agnostic. The aim is to make its analytical information available within different blockchain environments, with the underlying credit opinion retaining its established role.

Industry observers note that this history is useful because connecting a ratings service to one network and distributing information across several networks are related but separate tasks. The latest pilot tests a way to extend that reach; it should not be presented as the first time Moody's explored blockchain delivery.

Our assessment is that the hardest questions extend beyond whether a message can cross a network boundary. A production workflow needs clear instrument identifiers, controls over who can publish updates, a record of changes and rules for handling delayed or disputed information.

It also needs to preserve the meaning of the data. A credit rating is an analytical opinion about credit risk. Putting that opinion onchain does not make an asset risk-free or remove the need to assess its liquidity, price and legal terms.

In a recent development, similar lifecycle work appears in NewsBTC's coverage of Chainlink's tokenized-equity dividend demonstration. A ledger can carry an asset, but the asset's obligations and information still need maintenance.

According to recent reports, the pilot offers evidence that one distribution route can work in a test setting. Named production integrations, defined enhancement policies and operating records would provide the next evidence of how it performs for real portfolios.

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Home » Altcoins » Binance Halts Luna Classic Burns: What’s Going On?

Terra Luna Classic’s community got used to the monthly burning ceremonies, but this time it’s postponed.

A few weeks after Binance’s $6.4 billion hack following an employee’s laptop breach, the largest digital asset exchange across the globe is resuming most of their regular services. However, the Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) community has missed the monthly LUNC burn, coming from 50% of fees garnered from Binance’s LUNC-related trading pairs.

According to recent reports, typically done on the first of the month, this time Binance’s LUNC burn didn’t arrive at all, chain records show. That’s the first break in a pattern running since March 2023, when Binance pledged to help restore the downtrodden Terra Luna Classic community’s hope in LUNC’s long-term restoration efforts via continuous token burns.

On-chain records show 50 batches of LUNC burns being carried out by Binance on an earlier note. The last one, which was on October 1, 2026, eliminated 335 million tokens, pushing the exchange’s cumulative Terra Luna Classic burn count towards 91 billion.

That’s roughly 19.6% of all LUNC burns to this date, a considerable contribution in the deflationary campaign.

It has been revealed that still no statement from @Binance regarding the monthly #LUNC burn.. Although we understand the massive hack, I feel as though a statement should at least be made to #LunaClassic investors. Is this a temporary pause or indefinite?.. pic.twitter.com/Od2yH1kFgn.

Some LUNC community members are floating the main reason for the delay to be apparent changes in wallet security, but Binance confirmed no such action. Naturally, the internal wallet reshuffling can be a normal practice following the multi-billion dollar hack and the day-by-day withdrawal restoration efforts done with diligence.

It has been revealed that back in August, the community behind Terra Luna Classic revisited the proposal 12223 to raise the on-chain transaction tax to 1.5%. Of that, 1.2 percentage points go towards burning even more LUNC coins. Meanwhile, strong voices in the crypto community have been advocating for more exchanges beyond Binance to burn fixed-fee allocations.

KuCoin & OKX were among the ones named in negotiations. The game-tested altcoin still has a massively over-minted supply of 5.5 trillion tokens in circulation, a figure normally ascribed to meme coins.

$LUNC AND $USTC BURN ENHANCEMENT pic.twitter.com/hboLcOFNdN.

However, the LUNC chain restoration efforts have torched nearly 500 billion out of the original pile, showcasing what years of strict coordination can do for an embattled community.

Aside from the 19% portion claimed by Binance, the on-chain transaction tax and direct LUNC community burns make up the rest of the historical total. Regardless, the biggest hurdle for a proper Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) restoration point remains the stagnant trading volume.

Since the hard fork in May 2022, the cumulative burn efforts crunched 6.7% of total supply so far.

Token burning is a considerable deflation measure for long-term holders to ensure the asset remains at relatively bearable market value.

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Recent findings suggest that on Friday, the Crypto Fear & Greed Index entered the red zone. According to CoinMarketCap data, market sentiment is at the moment in “Extreme Fear.”.

This comes as Bitcoin's price continues to fall below the psychological $70,000 mark, down 5% in the past 24 hours.

At this point, the BTC price is 45% below its all-time high of $128,198.

Crypto liquidations reached $1.31 billion, more than $1 billion of which came from long positions.

The general market sentiment is rather dim as the long-awaited recovery fails to arrive.

Institutional demand has also crashed, with Bitcoin ETFs posting $1.44 billion in net outflows this past week. The outflows have been consistent for almost a month.

In a recent development, the resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is yet another unfortunate event that has coincided with bearish market sentiment. This resulted in a flash crash across all financial markets.

The crypto treasuries are also having trouble lately. Recently, MSCI has published the results of its November 2026 Index Review, with Strategy and Metaplanet among the companies set to leave the MSCI USA Index. Dropping out of such an index could influence investment flows as well as stock prices.

As Bitcoin's price has dropped below $70,000 for the first time since August, bearish sentiment overwhelms social media.

Sources indicate that however, a further decline is not necessarily inevitable. Bitcoin’s RSI is near 30, which is close to the oversold zone.

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The DOJ said Thursday it has court authority to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance, part of a freeze of more than $2.7 billion that officials said halted about half of North Korea’s October exchange heist.

In a Thursday announcement, the department said that on or about Oct. 29, members of the North Korean military, referred to by the FBI as TraderTraitor, stole more than $6 billion worth of virtual assets from Binance. That is below the $6.34 billion figure Binance has covered since the attack.

Industry observers note that binance said it had completed coverage of the assets hit in the breach, replacing the tokens from firm funds rather than by recovering the stolen coins. Those are separate tracks: the DOJ is trying to interdict what was taken, while the exchange has said users were made whole from its Secure Asset Fund for Users, a portion of its futures insurance fund and its treasury.

Industry observers note that assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the DOJ’s Criminal Division said the department and its partners were able to “immediately halt about half of this historic breach” by freezing stolen assets “before they got beyond law enforcement reach.” The freeze of more than $2.7 billion is a joint figure for U.S. government and private-sector efforts. Of that amount, the DOJ said it has already obtained court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion. The underlying court papers were not posted with the announcement.

The $1.2 billion is not newly recovered money but comes out of the roughly $2.85 billion Binance remarked on Nov. 3 had been frozen or intercepted, and Thursday’s court authorization is the legal step that lets the government move toward taking ownership of those funds through forfeiture, where until now they had simply been frozen at the token issuers.

According to recent reports, even that freeze is not the end of the trail. The DOJ stated TraderTraitor actors are still moving the stolen assets through cryptocurrency bridges, mixers and exchanges, and that tracing, seizure and forfeiture work continues. Last week, on Oct. 31, the FBI, with the U.S. Secret Service and IRS Criminal Investigation, issued a Cyber Alert attributing the theft to North Korea and urging virtual asset service providers to block transactions with or derived from addresses the actors are using. The alert said investigators have seen the stolen assets converted primarily into ether.

Separately from the DOJ and Binance case, the U.S. attorney’s office in the Central District of California and the FBI announced the seizure of cloud-based infrastructure used in a social engineering campaign the FBI is calling FaceStealer. The FBI mentioned the scheme has resulted in the theft of more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over the last 18 months and has also been used in attempts to compromise people who maintain open-source software, a step the bureau said appears calculated to enable supply-chain attacks.

The method is a fake video call. The FBI remarked North Korean hackers, known publicly under names including APT38 and BlueNoroff, lure targets with meeting invitations sent from accounts stolen from earlier victims. Once a target joins, the hackers play a prerecorded webcam video of a person the target knows, or a deepfake of a well-known figure in the cryptocurrency industry, then introduce a fake technical error and send a “fix” that installs malware. In several cases, the theft came months to more than a year after the first compromise, as the hackers waited for wallet balances to grow.

A Thursday FBI FLASH report stated the meetings run on imposter versions of Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, with invitations often moving through hijacked Telegram, LinkedIn, Slack or Discord accounts. Pursuant to a federal warrant, the FBI seized more than 900 webcam videos of FaceStealer victims. The bureau has posted a hub for the campaign at fbi.gov/facestealer.

Recent findings suggest that principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security M. Scott Proctor tied both Thursday’s actions to the same charge: “North Korea’s government bankrolls its rogue regime and illicit weapons program through cryptocurrency theft.”.

The Binance recovery is still being run by the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, Cyber Division and Virtual Asset Unit, with the Secret Service and IRS-CI. The DOJ did not say how much of the more than $2.7 billion freeze, or of the $1.2 billion under court authority, is bitcoin.

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Authorities froze over $2.7 billion in Binance hack proceeds, while the separate FaceStealer scam stole over $400 million in 18 months.

The US Department of Justice said Thursday it had obtained court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion of the $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance.

The authorization covers part of the more than $2.7 billion in stolen assets that US authorities and private-sector partners have frozen since the Oct. 29 hack. Investigators are still working to recover additional funds, the department stated in its announcement.

According to recent reports, the FBI attributed the Binance hack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group in a cyber alert. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, denied North Korea’s involvement.

Binance mentioned it had covered the affected assets with its own funds and that a new proof-of-reserves snapshot showed at least one-to-one backing for customer assets, according to its Thursday post on X.

In November 2025, the DOJ announced a separate enforcement action targeting about $15 million in cryptocurrency linked to North Korean hackers known as APT38.

Related: Crypto hack losses equal 57 cents per $1 earned onchain: Ark’s Valente.

In a separate case, US authorities seized cloud infrastructure used in FaceStealer, a North Korean social engineering campaign that stole more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over the past 18 months, the DOJ said.

Industry observers note that the hackers used secretly recorded footage of previous victims and AI-generated deepfakes of prominent crypto figures to gain targets’ trust on video calls. They used bogus technical fixes to trick targets into installing malware, the DOJ said.

The campaign targeted people working in crypto and Web3. The hackers also increasingly targeted open-source software developers and maintainers in attempts to gain access to their devices and software repository accounts.

It has been revealed that the FBI seized more than 900 webcam videos of FaceStealer victims under a federal warrant. The bureau also published guidance on how to protect against the scheme and what to do after a compromise in a public advisory.

Sources indicate that redacted stills from webcam videos recorded by FaceStealer hackers. Source: FBI.

The DOJ noted the hackers behind FaceStealer are known publicly by several names, including Sapphire Sleet, UNC1069, Dangerous Password, CryptoCore, APT38, BlueNoroff and Stardust Chollima.

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According to recent reports, bitcoin news: BTC hit $67,568 as longs were liquidated. Fear is Extreme, but BTC fell further after 15 of 16 past readings.

Recent findings suggest that in Bitcoin news on Friday, November 13, the BTC USD price fell as low as $67,568 on Binance as a wave of forced selling wiped out leveraged bets on a rebound. It was the cryptocurrency’s lowest price since August 19.

Bitcoin trades at $68,772, down 6.7% in 24 hours and 9.1% in a week. Ether lost 5.5% and Solana 3.4% on the day.

BREAKING: Bitcoin falls below $69,000 and ETH nears $1,900 as selling pressure accelerates in crypto.

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In a recent development, most of the damage came from liquidations, when an exchange closes a leveraged trade by force once the trader’s collateral runs out. CoinGlass data cited by several outlets put the 24-hour total at about $1.4 billion, close to 90% of it from longs, the bets that prices would rise. Those forced sales pushed Bitcoin through $70,000 in about two hours overnight.

The mood has flipped with it. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index dropped from 28 to 20 on Friday, its first Extreme Fear reading since July.

In a recent development, in Bitcoin news this week, the question is no longer whether the market is scared. It is whether Extreme Fear means the bottom is close, and what the daily and weekly charts say.

According to recent reports, the slide started on Thursday afternoon, when Nvidia confirmed that CEO Jensen Huang had resigned. It picked up speed after midnight UTC, when Bitcoin broke below the $72,727 low from Tuesday and kept falling.

We added up every forced closure in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and Dogecoin futures on OKX, one of the largest exchanges, over the past 24 hours.

Recent findings suggest that investors have also kept pulling money from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, funds that buy and hold the coin itself, adding to the selling.

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Recent findings suggest that on Thursday, we listed three signs that would point to a bottom: the fear index dropping toward the teens, the funding rate turning negative and open interest, the value of open futures bets, falling as longs give up. Overnight, two of them highlighted up.

In a recent development, one sign still points the other way. On OKX, 3.19 accounts are long for every one that is short, about the same as before the crash. Many traders are still buying the dip with leverage.

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Recent findings suggest that extreme Fear sounds like a buy signal. History says it usually comes early. We found every time since 2018 that the index first dropped to 20 or lower after at least a month without such a reading. There were 16, and we followed Bitcoin for 90 days after each.

The most recent case fits the pattern. Extreme Fear first appeared on June 3 at $64,014, and Bitcoin still fell another 8.5% before it bottomed at $57,800 on July 1. Then it rallied to $87,396 in September.

Industry observers note that for anyone reading this Bitcoin news as a buy signal, Extreme Fear says the bottom is getting closer. It has rarely noted the bottom is here. A move to the 2026 lows would match the median path.

On the daily chart, where each candle covers one day, Bitcoin sits far below both of its exponential moving averages (EMAs), averages that give recent prices more weight. The 50-day EMA is at $78,226 and the 200-day EMA at $76,325.

According to recent reports, on the weekly chart, where each candle covers one week, the key level is the 200-week EMA at $69,555. Bitcoin trades just below it, and the week closes on Sunday.

That line matters. Bitcoin closed below the 200-week EMA for 16 weeks this year, in February and March and again from June to mid-August, and both of 2026’s bottoms formed during those stretches.

The overnight flush did part of the work a bottom needs: leverage came out and funding turned negative.

It has been revealed that for traders following Bitcoin news, the Sunday weekly close against $69,555 is the next test. History states the final low often comes weeks after the first Extreme Fear reading.

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Crypto evaluation, especially for Bitcoin [BTC], tends to be shifting from highly volatile to a mature asset. Bitcoin volatility has fallen to 45% over its 18 years of existence, within the range of common large-cap U.S. stocks.

For instance, JPMorgan and Amazon are at 80% and 90%, respectively, meaning they are a bit more volatile than BTC. Oracle, Coinbase, Micron, and Sandisk are more stable, with their volatilities well below 20%.

This current reading of Bitcoin volatility reflects an asset that has matured with greater institutional participation. However, this does not mean that BTC is now a low-risk asset.

Therefore, the asset deserves another risk framework different from how it was viewed in the past 10 years. During its initial stages, the volatility was exceeding 100% against a capitalization of single-digit billions.

Recent findings suggest that interestingly, during periods of strong positive momentum, Bitcoin’s gains were achieved faster than the downside deviation as per the Sortino ratio. Still, that does not negate sudden and more aggressive nosedives.

Industry observers note that therefore, maturity has been driven by clearer regulations, more secure investment vehicles like ETFs, and institutional involvement. BlackRock, Grayscale, Strategy, and Morgan Stanley are a few of the deeply involved institutions in BTC adoption.

According to recent reports, the maturity of Bitcoin has created opportunities for a more diversified crypto portfolio. Other crypto sectors are becoming less tied to Bitcoin’s price performance, an edge ahead of traditional assets.

Most traditional assets are related to one another.

For instance, the annualized volatility of Smart Contracts Platforms is at 58%, with BTC contributing 38% while sector-specific drive was 20%.

In a recent development, however, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was at 85%, probably because it was somehow fresh in the financial markets. For this, Bitcoin-driven volatility was 35%, while sector-specific was 50%.

Events like the resignation of the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, after having an affair with a Chinese spy, have greatly impacted the AI market sector.

Other sectors in crypto, like financials, are at 59%, with 30% being Bitcoin-driven. This phenomenon is quite evident with seasonality in the crypto market.

According to recent reports, but Bitcoin seasons are characterized by selective altcoin performance. On the other hand, altcoin seasons have BTC being performed by more than 75 alts in the top 100 by capitalization. At the moment, only 45 altcoins have performed better than Bitcoin in the past 90 days.

All in all, crypto maturity is not only on Bitcoin but also in the whole sector. Therefore, a crypto risk framework should be done across more than one dimension to reflect its evolution.

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Bitcoin Drops to $69K On 'Concentrated Liquidation' and 'Weakening' Demand.

Leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin has dropped 5.6% on the day, and is presently trading at just over $69,300, per Decrypt data. It comes after the latest consumer price index, or CPI, results came in "hotter than expected," experts noted, with the drop was triggered by a "concentrated liquidation.".

Bitcoin's plunge took it to a 24-hour low of $67,922, its lowest level since mid-August, when it boosted from $63,000.

According to recent reports, "Bitcoin’s drop below $69,000 was directly triggered by a concentrated liquidation of leveraged long positions," Tim Sun, senior analyst at Hashkey, told Decrypt. "Though the deeper problem lies in steadily weakening market demand.".

Sun highlighted U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recording six consecutive days of net outflows, according to CoinGlass. He also pointed to stablecoin supply shrinking and MSCI removing digital asset treasury firm Strategy from its funds.

"ETFs, stablecoin liquidity, and corporate treasuries have served as the primary capital pillars supporting this Bitcoin rally," Sun mentioned. "With all three coming under simultaneous pressure, the market is losing the marginal buying power that previously propelled prices higher.".

Meanwhile, other major cryptocurrencies have also taken a hit. Ethereum has dropped 4.6% on the day to $1,953, BNB has slipped 4.7% to $639.46, and Solana is down 3.1% to $80.47, according to Decrypt data. The global crypto market cap has dropped 4.6% over the past 24 hours to $2.39 trillion.

Recent findings suggest that it follows U.S. CPI rising 0.4% in October, which is "hotter than expected, even if the headline monthly rate eased to 0.4% from September’s 0.6%," according to CoinShares head of research James Butterfill. "More troubling was the composition," he added. "Food rose 0.5%, services remained firm, and core CPI increased 0.3%, with services excluding rent, a gauge of domestic price pressure the Fed watches closely, rising 0.5%. The inflation problem is therefore no longer easily dismissed as an oil story.".

Recent findings suggest that the consumer price index, or CPI, is a way of measuring inflation that tracks the average price changes of everyday goods and services over time. Central banks tend to use CPI to inform whether they'll cut or hike interest rates, meaning higher-than-expected CPI signals a potential Federal Reserve hike.

Polymarket predictors put a 97% chance on the Fed raising interest rates this year, up from 75% at the start of the week. The CME FedWatch tool, meanwhile, sees an 88% chance of a 25 basis point hike, with 12% anticipating a 50 basis point rise.

On top of the CPI, Bitcoin's downward move comes following Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned from the organization, after reports of multiple affairs including with a suspected Chinese spy and a senior company executive spread.

Huang's departure has sparked "severe volatility across tech stocks, further dampening market risk appetite," Sun told Decrypt. "This has prompted broader portfolio de-risking, amplifying the downward pressure on Bitcoin," he added.

For a crypto rebound to happen, Sun stated that Bitcoin needs "long-term allocation capital" to flow back into crypto after ETFs, stablecoins, and digital asset treasury companies have taken a hit in recent weeks.

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It has been revealed that TL;DR: Helius debuted Solana Privacy Rings on mainnet on November 10. The default ring hides assets and amounts within private transfers, while sender and recipient addresses remain visible.

Industry observers note that solana applications have a new way to offer confidential balances. Helius's launch announcement introduces Privacy Rings as programmable pools that execute on Solana, giving developers tools for private payments and financial applications on the same network.

The feature addresses a practical obstacle for public-ledger payments. A business may want the settlement benefits of a blockchain without publishing every payment amount to competitors or employees. Individual users can have similar concerns about exposing the size and history of their financial activity.

The technical documentation separates confidentiality from anonymity. In the default confidential ring, assets, amounts and optional memos are encrypted during private transfers, while the participating wallet addresses remain public. A visible transaction hash also remains part of the record.

Entering from a public balance has a different footprint: the deposit's asset, amount and addresses are visible, even though the resulting private balance is encrypted. Consumers should therefore understand each step of a payment, rather than assume that selecting a private balance hides all earlier activity.

This is a meaningful improvement for applications that mainly need to conceal amounts. It also establishes a clear limit: a counterparty relationship can still be observable. Product designers will need to explain that distinction before users rely on it.

Helius notes developers can integrate the system through APIs and build private escrows for financial activity. Its planned uses include confidential swaps, staking and yield-related applications. The launch provides a foundation that other teams can incorporate into their products.

Our reading is that the integration experience will matter as much as the cryptography. A useful payment screen must tell a user which information is exposed, how to review a transaction and what happens if an application stops working. Privacy that is difficult to understand can create expectations the software does not meet.

The broader usability question also appears in NewsBTC's reporting on Samsung Wallet's live USDC rollout on Solana. Reaching consumers requires a workable product around the underlying network capability.

Industry observers note that the Solana Foundation's account of the launch describes Custom Rings as an upcoming product in audit. Those environments are intended to give institutions configurable privacy, auditor access and controls such as eligibility restrictions.

The foundation notes the enterprise version is expected in the coming weeks. That expectation should be tracked as a delivery milestone. The current permissionless launch and the planned enterprise release have different operating requirements.

For an institution, confidentiality is only one part of the problem. Staff still need appropriate access, auditors need reliable evidence, and a payment's legal and accounting treatment must remain clear. NewsBTC's coverage of Solana's delivery-versus-payment programme examines another piece of that wider settlement workflow.

The foundation reports audits of the core programmes and proof circuits by Certora, OtterSec and ZK Security, while formal verification is still underway. It also identifies applications and service providers working with the infrastructure. These are useful implementation details, with separate questions still open about usage and long-term reliability.

It has been revealed that an audit evaluates a defined version and scope; it cannot establish that every future integration handles keys, permissions and disclosures correctly. Developers adding privacy features inherit their own responsibility for the surrounding application.

Industry observers note that the next useful evidence will be applications people can repeatedly use, clear documentation of their privacy boundaries and sustained security review. The launch makes confidential activity more accessible on Solana, while the quality of each integration will determine how much protection a user actually receives.

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Sources indicate that near Protocol is simply following the broader market trend, breaking through one support level after another without showing any signs of a recovery. NEAR is trading at around $3.385, with the latest decline taking it below the orange moving average.

From a technical perspective, it is unlikely that we will see any hints of a quick rebound until NEAR reaches the 200 EMA. That is the potential recovery scenario here, with the longer-term average sitting near the $3 area on the chart.

Industry observers note that from a price development perspective, the only positive outcome we are witnessing here is the breakthrough of the 200 EMA back in May, which might become a support at some point, though that has not happened yet. NEAR remains above that average despite losing the shorter-term support levels.

Recent findings suggest that the asset mostly followed the uptrend in September, but tumbled rapidly due to the general reversal of the cryptocurrency market. The downtrend is much stronger than the bullish reversal attempts NEAR had in October.

As for volume, it is right now on a downward trend, which leaves the door open for a potential recovery in the medium term.

The RSI is also in a weak position and may soon reach oversold territory. This could leave room for a recovery sooner than expected, though a test of the aforementioned 200 EMA remains the main scenario. An oversold reading alone wouldn't guarantee that.

Unfortunately, the market is brutal right now and clearly demonstrates a serious level of pressure. A bounce from the longer-term average would be a good sign, but the confirmation of a market recovery would only come if we witness higher highs and sustained buying.

It has been revealed that meanwhile, the price has begun to follow a similar trend and has even fallen below the range of the previous zone of active buying, which was observed on August 18, 2026. It is now at 0.14, which coincides with the previous accumulation point as far back as May 2026.

According to recent reports, the RSI trend is also bearish, and we may not see a recovery until a catalyst emerges in the broader market. Despite the RSI being in the oversold zone, there is no strong catalyst to help it rebound rapidly, and the moving averages are also beginning to diverge.

According to recent reports, this is an indication that the price will most likely continue to fall. Conversely, when the moving averages converge, we should expect a rise in volatility, which would be a more positive development for this asset than any other scenario.

Meanwhile, Chainlink's struggles in the market continue. The price has already broken below the 200-period moving average, and it's now in something of a free fall. LINK is trading at around $9.89, with the asset losing the $10 level as the decline continues.

The next support area in this scenario is around $8.20; below this, another potential support sits near $7. There are earlier trading ranges between the current price and those levels, so the path down isn't necessarily clear. However, a drop towards the lower level would essentially invalidate all of the gains LINK has seen since June.

Overall, the situation isn't much different from that of other tokens. If we overlay the charts for Stellar, Chainlink, Ethereum and others, we'll get roughly the same picture: recovery attempts followed by renewed pressure.

It has been revealed that the difference is that with LINK, we might see an additional spike in volatility that promptly weakens the possibility of a rapid rebound, as the moving averages are only just converging. Such a move would be especially damaging if sellers remain in control. When a downtrend is accelerating, the price drop can become critical.

Overall, positive factors for LINK are quite hard to find right now. Despite the fact that the RSI is already approaching the oversold zone, LINK could still find a way to drop even lower.

A recovery is unlikely until a catalyst emerges in the broader market, with higher highs and sustained buying needed to show that the asset is finally moving towards a proper recovery.

It has been revealed that although Cardano usually follows the rest of the cryptocurrency market, here we see a situation similar to the three other tokens we have already discussed. The asset has already broken a fairly strong support that formed around $0.20, and the next potential buying area is now under substantial pressure, being tested around $0.17.

Sources indicate that apart from that, Cardano has already dropped below the halfway point of the recovery from June to October. Despite the RSI already showing oversold conditions, we aren't seeing much room for a bounce here.

Sources indicate that on the positive side, volume is clearly moving down and isn't adding strength to the downtrend, which is a substantial advantage. We should also keep in mind that without a bullish catalyst, we most likely won't see a quick recovery here.

There is even a slight increase in volume compared with the beginning of November, hinting at the possibility that bears still have enough strength to pull the price down. The moving averages could come together closer to the next support, which might become the basis for a faster price surge. However, this is not guaranteed at this point.

Overall, Cardano has been in a downtrend since 2025, so the local spikes we could see from July to October shouldn't be taken as a guaranteed sign that the asset is recovering. Even though the price previously broke above the 200-day moving average, that wasn't enough to keep the recovery going.

Cardano might eventually move above it again and go further, but that is not guaranteed either.

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Home » Bitcoin (BTC) » Russia Legalizes Crypto Trading While XRP Stands Apart.

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Recent findings suggest that russia’s crypto bid is going at a faster pace since the fourth largest economy around the globe introduced crypto trading for retail & businesses. The new set of rules, coming from the Central Bank Of Russia, limits regular investors to a 300,000 rubles yearly cap (roughly $3,600).

In a recent development, this allows buying & holding Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) & USDT through regulated intermediaries (brokers, trust managers & licensed exchanges). Everyone must pass a knowledge test plus review risk disclosures before starting trading activities, while XRP is considered an asset for advanced customers only.

Industry observers note that the Moscow Exchange already lists cash-settled perpetual futures (XRP/USDF) and related indices tracking XRP prices. These are available only to qualified investors, settle in rubles (no actual XRP is delivered), and form part of a broader set of crypto derivatives with substantial turnover among Futures traders across the scene.

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It has been revealed that the fresh legal framework dates back to August. Then, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed the inaugural comprehensive cryptocurrency law (Federal Law No. 282-FZ, “On Digital Currencies and Digital Rights”), setting September 1, 2026 activation window: contrastingly to the entry-level investor restrictions, qualified ones have no limits.

Meanwhile, businesses face hard limits, needing to meet a minimum equity requirement (15 million rubles, roughly $187,000) to run crypto services or custody services. The regulatory framework is way more lenient on businesses conducting cross-border sanctions to dodge the 21-chapter European Union sanction packages.

Sources indicate that the retail crypto trading gets legalized on November 22, 2026, the related Duma documents state. The approved exchanges & crypto brokers are obliged to report the trading data and results to the central bank in accordance with existing reporting procedures for XRP & others.

For XRP traders in the region, the MOEX XRP Futures index allows up to 5x leverage.

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According to recent reports, paying with XRP or any other popular crypto coin at a local store is still off the table. Goods & services are prohibited as a result of a separate ban, pushing crypto adoption in the perspective of an investment vehicle rather than a means of payment.

Still, setting up state-surveilled crypto brokers is a pretty massive move that could inspire other major economies to do the same.

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Following Huang’s resignation as Nvidia CEO, who is the Apple exec being tipped for the permanent role, and how has the NVDA price reacted?

Today (November 12, 2026), Nvidia announced that co-founder and longtime CEO Jensen Huang has resigned as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Board member, effective immediately.

Recent findings suggest that the decision follows intense scrutiny over personal and potential national-security-related controversies. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress has been appointed Interim CEO while remaining CFO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aioLZFt2Xwc The board has also named longtime director Harvey C. Jones as its first-ever Chair and rolled out a search for a permanent successor, with a high-profile Apple exec tipped as an early frontrunner.

Industry observers note that nvidia shares reacted sharply, falling more than -10% in premarket trading and extending recent losses that have erased hundreds of billions in market value. As of midday trading, NVDA was fluctuating near the mid-$150s to low-$160s range.

Recent findings suggest that nvidia CEO Jensen Huang allegedly has a second affair on top of the suspected Chinese spy.He also had a romantic relationship with Kimberly Powell, someone who worked at Nvidia since 2008, according to a New York Times report. pic.twitter.com/QJRTnJb8c6— Pubity (@pubity) November 11, 2026.

Recent findings suggest that nvidia CEO Jensen Huang allegedly has a second affair on top of the suspected Chinese spy.He also had a romantic relationship with Kimberly Powell, someone who worked at Nvidia since 2008, according to a Fresh York Times report. pic.twitter.com/QJRTnJb8c6.

The resignation stems from revelations of two extramarital affairs. The first involved Alice Huang, a businesswoman linked to the Singapore-based AI company Megaspeed, a significant Nvidia customer. US authorities have identified her as a suspected asset of China’s Ministry of State Security.

Reports indicated Huang had been photographed with her on multiple occasions, raising concerns about potential intelligence targeting of the Nvidia CEO.

Huang publicly apologized to employees for being unfaithful to his wife but denied compromising national security or organization secrets. The situation escalated further when additional reporting alleged a second relationship with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare and a direct report to Huang.

These dual revelations prompted Nvidia’s board to open an internal investigation and ultimately accept Huang’s resignation after a late-night meeting.

The combination of personal misconduct involving a subordinate and the national-security implications surrounding the alleged Chinese intelligence connection proved decisive.

Sources indicate that https://twitter.com/JesseCohenInv/status/2120779503119012207 Colette Kress has served as Nvidia’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since September 2013. Before joining the company, she spent nearly 25 years in senior finance roles at major technology firms,.

These firms include Cisco (where she was CFO of the Business Technology and Operations organization) and Microsoft (where she was CFO of the Server and Tools division), as well as earlier positions at Texas Instruments.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Arizona and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. During her tenure as CFO, Nvidia’s revenue grew dramatically from roughly $4Bn to over $200Bn as the firm became the dominant force in AI accelerators.

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Sources indicate that hyperliquid offers leveraged perpetual contracts tied to Nvidia’s share price, allowing traders 24/7 exposure without holding actual shares. These instruments track the underlying stock closely and have seen heavy volume during the scandal.

Since the initial reports of the affair and board investigation emerged in early November, the Hyperliquid NVDA perpetual has mirrored the traditional stock’s sharp decline.

The mark price has dropped from near or above $170–$175 to the mid-$150s, settling around $158–$160 by November 12, representing roughly a 9–11% decline in the most recent sessions alone and larger cumulative losses from pre-scandal highs.

Open interest has remained elevated (hundreds of millions of dollars), reflecting active speculative positioning, while funding rates have fluctuated as longs and shorts adjust.

Volume spiked significantly on the resignation news, consistent with forced liquidations and rapid repositioning. Technically, the contract has broken key short-term support levels, with momentum indicators deeply oversold in the near term.

Any stabilization in traditional NVDA stock would likely be reflected rapidly on Hyperliquid, though the platform’s high-leverage environment amplifies both downside volatility and the potential magnitude of a bounce.

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Billionaire and longtime Bitcoin (BTC) supporter Tim Draper predicts a future where Bitcoin absorbs the innovations of other altcoins.

Draper's statement has major implications for major cryptocurrencies like XRP, Ethereum (ETH) and Dogecoin (DOGE), which have built their own ecosystems and now compete in the wider cryptocurrency market.

In a recent post on X, Draper compared Bitcoin's rising dominance to Microsoft's path to becoming the dominant software company, as the company absorbed successful innovations from other businesses.

According to recent reports, "Microsoft never invented the spreadsheet, word processor, or slide deck. They absorbed them," stated Draper.

The billionaire investor brought up pioneering software like Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect, which eventually saw their dominance give way to Microsoft's Excel and Word.

Draper predicts that this could apply to the cryptocurrency industry, as Bitcoin could become the ultimate absorber of innovations from alternative blockchain networks.

"Altcoins are the Lotus 1-2-3s and WordPerfects of this time," wrote Draper.

Smaller cryptocurrencies are thus essentially incubators for technological innovations that could eventually become part of the bigger Bitcoin ecosystem, according to Draper.

"They show that it works, then the innovation that pulls the strongest gets ported to the Bitcoin platform," he added.

Draper also supported his statement by citing the rising market share of Bitcoin in the overall cryptocurrency market.

The billionaire investor recalled observing how Bitcoin dominance rose from about 40% to 50% and then even further to 61%.

"Bitcoin is that platform," remarked Draper, claiming that the biggest cryptocurrency could follow a path similar to Microsoft's.

This statement has implications for the future of significant altcoins like Ethereum, XRP and Dogecoin.

Industry observers note that ethereum is the leading smart contract and dApp platform, while XRP is mainly known for its cross-border payments and the wider XRP Ledger ecosystem. Meanwhile, Dogecoin is one of the most iconic meme coins in the cryptocurrency market.

Still, the growing ecosystem around Bitcoin, which adds more scaling and programmability through solutions such as the Lightning Network and projects like Stacks, demonstrates how Bitcoin is trying to expand beyond its basic use case as a cryptocurrency.

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According to recent reports, TL;DR: TokenLogic proposes changes to Aave's reserve factors across 54 reserves. Its model estimates $3.5 million in additional annual revenue, using November 9 balances and rates; governance has not yet approved the changes.

According to recent reports, aave's latest revenue proposal focuses on how lending income is divided. A November 12 submission from TokenLogic covers 12 V3 instances and V2 Ethereum, with the modeled blended reserve factor rising from 12.0% to 12.7%.

Industry observers note that the practical concern is straightforward: the protocol treasury would retain a larger share of interest, leaving a smaller share for suppliers where a change applies. Whether that improves the economics over time depends partly on how those suppliers respond.

Aave's official FAQ defines the reserve factor as the percentage of borrowing interest that accrues to the treasury. It is set for each asset through governance. The treasury is controlled by Aave Governance, rather than functioning as a conventional firm's bank account.

Sources indicate that A simplified example makes the mechanism clearer. Suppose borrowers generate $100 of interest and a reserve factor is 20%. Before considering other mechanics, $20 goes to the treasury and $80 remains for suppliers. Raising the factor to 25% changes that split to $25 and $75. The underlying $100 of interest has not grown simply because the allocation changed.

Industry observers note that this hypothetical illustrates why a higher reserve factor can improve treasury receipts while reducing the attractiveness of supplying to the same market. It also indicates why the percentage should not be read as an annual return paid to either group.

Sources indicate that tokenLogic proposes moving Ethereum Core DAI's factor from 25% to 30%, while Avalanche V3 USDC would move from 10% to 25%. The proposal's stated purpose includes changing incentives across legacy markets as Aave's newer infrastructure develops.

The immediate parameter change does not itself alter the borrower interest rate. Over time, however, a supplier response could change available liquidity and utilisation. Those subsequent effects make it crucial to distinguish a mechanical estimate from a forecast of the eventual outcome.

NewsBTC's report on Aave's externally curated V4 markets offers context on how the protocol is developing different arrangements for managing liquidity and risk.

Industry observers note that aave's official protocol changelog records the launch of V4 on Ethereum in March and on Avalanche in July. The architecture groups liquidity into hubs and lending activity into separate spokes, giving the network a different way to organise markets.

According to recent reports, that deployment history helps explain why comparisons between versions now matter commercially. A supplier considering a change in yield can compare not only competing protocols but also different Aave deployments, with their own assets, liquidity conditions and operational characteristics.

Our reading is that governance is making an allocation decision about where activity should be encouraged. That deserves scrutiny at the individual-market level: a portfolio-wide revenue estimate can hide quite different experiences for suppliers of different assets.

According to recent reports, the revenue figure annualises a snapshot. Borrowed balances can rise or fall, interest rates can change, and liquidity can move after a parameter enhancement. The estimate therefore gives a basis for comparison, while the realised result remains open.

Governance also has to consider the cost of retaining liquidity and the resilience of each market. An extra dollar of treasury income is less useful if the settings create an offsetting loss of activity or a more fragile funding base.

According to recent reports, interest in AAVE ownership, including Payward's recently disclosed investment, makes these economic decisions relevant to a wider audience. The next steps are community feedback and an onchain proposal, followed by measurable results if the changes are approved and executed.

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Sources indicate that sui [SUI] crypto token was trading at $0.7799 as of writing, after a drop of 4.6% in the past 24 hours. In fact, in just one month the altcoin has fallen by over 26%, which has raised eyebrows across the community.

In a recent development, however, the SUI Community has taken this drop from an optimistic lens and suggested that SUI’s price may be nearing its bottom. They argue that sell-side liquidity, such as stop-loss orders, is piling up just below the low range.

Their theory, based on Wyckoff-style analysis, is that price may briefly dip below the range to trigger those orders, then reverse sharply upward and break out.

If the candles break lower, we could see a short‑term bounce back soon.

For context, this analysis was done when SUI was trading around $0.81, and since then the altcoin has fallen even further.

Echoing similar sentiments, another X account added,.

However, not everyone shared the same sentiment, as another analyst shared his opinion and stated,.

Recent findings suggest that so, if looked at carefully, SUI has already experienced its major price decline and is now in a consolidation phase. During this period, impatient investors may sell their holdings out of frustration, while patient investors continue accumulating.

Many believe that this phase could eventually lead to an expansion phase, potentially triggering another upward price move.

This comes as Suiet, a self-custodial wallet for the Sui blockchain, has unveiled plans to shut down development and maintenance, with its API services ending on the 14th of November.

All of this also resulted in Sui’s total value locked (TVL) falling more than 23% in a month, from $510.9 million to $394.27 million, raising more questions.

However, with more than $100 million worth of stablecoins entering the Sui ecosystem in less than a month, hope remains.

According to recent reports, meanwhile, the 24-hour liquidation heatmap for SUI/USDT on Binance from CoinGlass shows that the brightest clusters sit above the current price near $0.81, $0.82, and $0.83. So, if the price pushes up, it could trigger a wave of short liquidations that adds fuel to the rally.

However, there is also a cluster near $0.775 to $0.78 and another around $0.76, which is where the recent dip already swept through, so those long positions have largely been flushed. This somewhat fits the Sui Community’s “shake-out” idea, since the dip below the range likely cleared out leveraged longs before the bounce.

Remarking on the same, known crypto analyst, Ted Pillows added,.

Late longs have been wiped out, and now shorts are getting aggressive. Only a matter of time before these shorts will get liquidated.

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Congress Summons Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Lutnick Over Chip Exports to China.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has asked former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify, widening a congressional inquiry that has moved from Huang's private life to U.S. controls on chip exports to China. "The American people deserve answers," Scott wrote in a tweet announcing the requests on Thursday evening.

Industry observers note that in a letter dated November 12, Scott asked Huang to appear voluntarily at a public hearing on December 3 over public reports that "raise significant national security concerns." The committee has jurisdiction over export controls, "including their application to NVIDIA's exports of advanced semiconductors," he wrote. If Huang does not appear, the committee "is prepared to use all tools at our disposal, including subpoenas.".

Industry observers note that recent reports raise serious concerns about our national security and the protection of sensitive U.S. technology.

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Scott asked Lutnick to testify on December 10, noting Commerce's "central role in issuing and enforcing export control regulations." A Lutnick spokesperson told NBC News that he had "proactively agreed to appear voluntarily," while the White House remarked President Donald Trump "maintains complete confidence" in Lutnick.

Separately on Thursday, the Republican chairs of the House Foreign Affairs, China and Intelligence committees, Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Rick Crawford (R-AR), wrote to Huang, Nvidia General Counsel Tim Teter and Jeffrey Kessler, the Commerce Department's under secretary for industry and security.

Huang was asked to sit for a closed-door, transcribed interview on December 1 and Teter on December 2, with each given until 8 p.m. on Friday to agree or face a subpoena. Kessler, whose bureau administers export controls, was invited to a hearing on December 3.

"As reports continue to come to light regarding Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, and MegaSpeed, there are clear national security concerns that need to be addressed immediately," the three chairs said in a statement. They called on Congress to add four chip security bills to the annual defense authorization bill.

It is their second request. A letter dated November 4 had asked Huang to brief the committees on November 18. Mast told reporters on Thursday that Huang had agreed to brief lawmakers, NBC News reported.

Industry observers note that at the center of the inquiries is Megaspeed, a Singapore-based Nvidia customer. U.S. officials suspected the company of helping Chinese firms get around restrictions on advanced AI chips, The Upcoming York Times reported in October. Its sister company in Malaysia bought at least $4.8 billion of AI equipment containing Nvidia chips between June 2024 and February 2026, according to trade records cited by the Times.

Sources indicate that megaspeed told the Times it had hired outside counsel to conduct an internal investigation. Nvidia has said it complies with U.S. export laws, according to NBC News.

Recent findings suggest that the Times reported that U.S. officials had concluded that Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive, was a Chinese intelligence asset. China has rejected that as a smear, and Attorney General Todd Blanche remarked on Thursday that the Justice Department had not reached a conclusion on whether she was a spy, according to BBC News.

Jensen Huang admitted on Sunday to being unfaithful to his wife and resigned on Thursday. Nvidia's board has mentioned it has no reason to believe national security or manufacturer secrets were compromised.

According to recent reports, moolenaar told reporters that Huang had "been one of the strongest proponents for not having export controls," Roll Call reported. On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the Banking Committee's ranking member, and Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) asked Lutnick, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to preserve records on Nvidia chip exports to China.

It has been revealed that china's foreign ministry warned on Friday that tighter U.S. export controls on semiconductors would threaten the stability of global supply chains, Al Jazeera reported.

Industry observers note that nvidia shares closed down 4.3% at $166.19 on Thursday and were up 2.7% at $170.63 in premarket trading early on Friday, according to Yahoo! Finance. The firm has lost almost $500 billion in market value since the close on Friday, November 6. It reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday, the first under interim CEO Colette Kress.

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Ripple's US dollar-backed stablecoin RLUSD has set a new record by surpassing PayPal USD (PYUSD) in market capitalization to cement its position as a top stablecoin globally.

Recent data from CoinGecko reveals that RLUSD's market cap has grown to around $2.71 billion, enabling it to surpass its competitor, PayPal's stablecoin, with a market cap of around $2.69 billion.

This milestone was achieved less than two years after Ripple's formal introduction of RLUSD in December 2024, underscoring its rapid growth in the crypto market.

A prominent XRP Ledger validator, Vet, also commented on this development to underscore the increasing significance of RLUSD in the stablecoin industry.

Industry observers note that "RLUSD is now a Top 5 USD backed stablecoin. On its way to be in Top 3," Vet commented.

It has been revealed that vet noted Ripple's long-standing contribution to building the XRP Ledger. He added that the increasing adoption of RLUSD could potentially lead to faster adoption of the blockchain by traditional financial institutions.

Vet stressed the increasing relevance of RLUSD's rising payment volume and increased use of the stablecoin on the XRP Ledger.

He also noted that RLUSD has opened the door to numerous integrations with banks and crypto exchanges.

The XRP Ledger validator further noted that these integrations could motivate financial institutions to not only run infrastructure to support the XRPL but also integrate other tokenized assets on it.

This new record for RLUSD comes on the back of several key institutional partnerships and exchange integrations for RLUSD that Ripple has been announcing recently.

On Oct. 28, Ripple declared a partnership with Coinbase to provide RLUSD for retail and institutional consumers across Coinbase Exchange, Coinbase Prime and its retail trading app.

As part of the partnership, Coinbase also announced support for RLUSD across different blockchain networks such as the XRP Ledger, Ethereum and Base.

On the other hand, Ripple's partnership with banking giant BNY, which is the custodian of reserves for RLUSD, is also deepening.

Besides this, Ripple has also managed to secure support from Standard Chartered, which launched institutional custody services for RLUSD on the XRP Ledger back in October.

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TL;DR: Solana Company reported $3.4 million in third-quarter revenue, mostly from staking. Its results show how validator operations can add an operating business to a corporate SOL treasury.

Solana Firm is beginning to report more of the economics behind its infrastructure strategy. In its November 11 earnings release, the Nasdaq-listed company said revenue reached $3.4 million in the quarter ended September 30, compared with $697,000 a year earlier.

The question for shareholders is how much of that business can grow beyond the size of the manufacturer's own token holdings. A balance sheet gives exposure to SOL; an operating validator business adds a different set of customers, costs and performance measures.

Sources indicate that the company reported approximately 2.4 million SOL across its holdings categories at quarter-end. It earned 30,800 SOL in quarterly staking rewards and restaked them. Its Pacific Backbone infrastructure had about 1.3 million SOL delegated, including roughly one million from third parties.

It has been revealed that those figures describe different relationships with tokens. Treasury assets belong to the company, while third-party delegations represent outside stake using its infrastructure. Combining the two into a single ownership figure would overstate the company's treasury.

NewsBTC's coverage of DeFi Development Corp's SOL accumulation provides useful context on the distinction between growing a token balance and creating value for each share.

The company's February infrastructure roadmap set out aims to connect Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong through a low-latency validator network. Its intended customers included trading firms, exchanges and institutional partners.

According to recent reports, the stated business logic was to bring more infrastructure work in-house while developing services that outside customers could use. That provides a useful baseline for judging the latest patch: the original strategy involved building an activity that could generate fees as well as supporting treasury staking.

Industry observers note that the programme also envisaged additional liquidity and execution services. Those earlier ambitions should be assessed separately from what subsequent financial reports demonstrate. A roadmap is useful for tracking delivery, but it cannot substitute for revenue, customers and operating margins.

According to recent reports, solana's official staking documentation explains that token holders delegate stake to validators that process transactions and participate in running the network. Validators may retain a commission from rewards to cover their work and costs.

This structure creates two routes to an operating benefit. A tech giant can earn rewards on its own delegated tokens, and a validator operator can earn commissions for serving other holders. The economics depend on performance, expenses and the amount of stake retained.

The documentation also makes a useful accounting distinction: staking increases are measured in SOL units. Their value in dollars moves with SOL's market price. More tokens therefore do not automatically mean a higher fiat value at the end of a reporting period.

Recent findings suggest that our assessment is that third-party delegation makes the business more interesting to analyse, because it introduces demand from customers outside the treasury. It also makes the reporting more demanding. Investors need to distinguish rewards earned on organization assets from fees earned on client stake and then compare both with operating costs.

Industry observers note that capital structure remains important. Issuing shares can expand a treasury while changing the amount of token exposure attributable to each shareholder. Cash expenses can also require financing even when reported token holdings rise.

Sources indicate that custody and access are additional parts of the picture, as NewsBTC examined in Solmate's disclosure of its SOL custody arrangements. Subsequent reports showing delegation retention, fee income and cash expenditure will help establish whether Solana Firm's infrastructure adds durable earnings alongside its asset exposure.

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Jane Street ended Q3 with 19% fewer shares in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, and a higher share price lifted the stake’s value to $957 million.

Jane Street’s share count in Fidelity’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) rose nearly eightfold in the third quarter, while its holdings in BlackRock’s fund fell 19%.

The trading giant ended September with 7.01 million shares of Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC0, up from about 887,000 at the end of June. The position was worth $509 million on Sept. 30, according to its second-quarter and third-quarter filings.

Jane Street’s holdings in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) fell to 20.22 million shares from 24.88 million. A higher share price lifted the reported value of its stake to $957 million from $828 million.

Industry observers note that jane Street was the largest reported institutional holder of BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF at the end of June after boosting its share count by 324% in Q2, according to 13F Pro. IBIT is the world’s largest spot Bitcoin ETF with $56 billion in net assets as of Thursday.

The firm also added nearly 9 million shares (about $249 million) of the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), while more than doubling its holdings in BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) by 7.83 million shares (about $158 million).

JPMorgan Chase increased its IBIT holdings by 9.6% in the third quarter, adding about 1 million shares to reach 11.41 million. The US banking giant’s reported IBIT position rose to around $540 million.

In contrast, JPMorgan nearly erased its direct holdings in BlackRock’s ETHA, reducing its position from 1.17 million shares at the end of June to just 399 shares.

Related: Barclays boosts BlackRock’s IBIT stake 48% ahead of key Q3 13F filings.

The bank also increased its holdings in Bitcoin treasury company Strategy by 36% to nearly 849,000 shares, worth about $131 million at the end of Q3.

Laurore, which lists a Hong Kong business address in its SEC filing, reduced its IBIT holdings by 33%, cutting its position by 1.6 million shares to 3.25 million, worth about $154 million by the end of Q3. Laurore drew attention in February 2026 after disclosing an IBIT position worth $436 million at the end of 2025.

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According to recent reports, the crypto market crash deepens as $1B+ in longs get liquidated. Bitcoin sits mid-range at $72,969; fear at 28 isn’t a bottom yet.

Bitcoin fell below $73,000 on Thursday, November 12, extending a week-long crypto market crash in which traders who bet on a rebound were forced out of their positions again and again.

Industry observers note that bitcoin touched $72,735 on Binance, a hair above Tuesday’s $72,727 low and its weakest price since August 20. It trades at $72,969, down 9.4% from the November 4 close.

BREAKING: $BTC just fell to its lowest level since August.

Over $210 million worth of longs liquidated in the past 24 hours.

The dumping continues… pic.twitter.com/R7NVGivFnD.

— Crypto Rover (@cryptorover) November 12, 2026.

In a recent development, the altcoins are doing worse. Over seven days, Ethereum has lost 16.4%, Solana 14.7% and XRP 21.3%. CoinGecko values the whole crypto market at $2.42 trillion on Thursday, and Bitcoin makes up 60.5% of it.

According to recent reports, leverage made every drop bigger. More than $1 billion of bets were liquidated on Monday alone, almost all of them longs, the positions that profit only if prices rise. Liquidation means the exchange closes a trade by force once the trader’s collateral runs out, and those forced sales push the price down further.

So is this the flush that ends the crypto market slide, or is there more to come? The data has an answer, and it is not a comforting one.

The sell-off had no single cause. Four pieces of bad news landed one after another:.

Each hit forced out more leveraged longs across the crypto market. Thursday’s slide continued the pattern on a smaller scale. We added up every forced closure in Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP and Dogecoin futures on OKX, one of the largest exchanges, over the past 24 hours. Longs lost $27.6 million, against $12.3 million for shorts.

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It has been revealed that substantial liquidations usually clear out the crowd. This time, the crowd came back.

In plain terms, traders keep buying every dip with borrowed money. That leaves fuel for another round of forced selling if Bitcoin drops through the next support. Bottoms tend to come when funding turns negative and open interest falls hard, a sign that leveraged buyers have given up.

Market Intelligence: Crypto Analyst Predicts Next Crypto to Hit 1 Dollar.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index, which scores market mood from 0 (extreme fear) to 100 (extreme greed), reads 28 today. Fear is usually read as a buy signal. The history states it is not enough on its own.

We checked every day since February 2018 when the index sat at 28 or lower, 943 days in all, and where Bitcoin stood later.

This year’s two bottoms came with real panic. When Bitcoin hit $60,000 on February 6, the index read 9. When it bottomed at $57,800 on July 1, it read 11. Today’s 28 is fear, but it is not capitulation, the moment sellers give up all at once.

On the weekly chart, where each candle covers one week, Bitcoin has spent 2026 in a wide range. The low is $57,800 from July 1 and the high is $87,396 from late September. The midpoint is $72,598, almost exactly where Bitcoin trades now.

Sources indicate that the price lost its 50-week exponential moving average (EMA), an average that gives recent prices more weight, at $78,219. Its 200-week EMA sits at $69,597. Bitcoin closed below that line for 16 weeks this year, in February and March and again from June to mid-August, and both of the year’s bottoms formed during those stretches.

For the crypto market, three signs would say the bottom is close: the fear index dropping toward the teens, funding turning negative, and open interest falling as longs give up. None has shown up yet. Until they do, the 200-week EMA at $69,597 is the line that separates a pullback inside the 2026 range from a retest of the summer lows.

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Home » Ripple (XRP) » XRP Funding Rate Hits One-Year High, ETFs Still Bleed.

In a recent development, XRP’s hurdles on the ETF markets conflict with the generally-bullish sentiment on Perpetuals. Who’s right?

Industry observers note that XRP’s Derivatives crypto traders have been on the look-out for a bear trap. The latest Binance Funding Rate data showcases a scenario where the 30-day cumulative rate reached 0.18%, the biggest point in more than a year.

According to recent reports, cryptoQuant’s analyst Dark Frost has dug into the historical data behind the shift, witnessing a similar structure just two months before XRP hit $3.55 back in 2025. The rolling monthly figure is particularly crucial to swing traders looking for the price bottom, below all 4 moving averages.

Traders have taken a keen interest in the $0.98 – $1 liquidity pocket, the same that served XRP as a trampoline to $1.67 back in August, 2026. With the positioning on Binance’s Derivatives now on the bullish side, the sentiment needs confirmation from whales buying on Spot.

In regards to the XRP coin funding rate hike on Binance, that kind of shift often precedes a price trend reversal. “Extreme readings in either direction can signal that traders are crowding into the same side of the market”, states Dark Frost on X. The 30-day sum hints at a few scenarios.

🗞️ XRP funding rates on Binance hit a 1Y high while spot ETFs see $10.4M in net outflowsFunding rates for ripple:native perpetual futures on Binance have reached their highest level in more than a year. The last time rates were this high was in October 2025, a few months after… pic.twitter.com/ZZte6Vfud4.

Over the period shown, peaks in bullish sentiment coincided with XRP price tops, while the most negative funding readings occurred near market bottoms. XRP has already entered a 30% price correction from the cycle peak, similarly to when XRP rebounded 53% after falling to $0.70.

For CryptoQuant’s experts, this resembles strong conviction. “XRP’s 30% correction illustrates the risk of maintaining a bullish bias as prices fall” said the analyst. However, that comes with a price on its own. The data from Futures markets tells a story of XRP bulls getting beat down.

The liquidation data has been lob-sided, with XRP’s bulls incurring a $11.01 million deficit in the 24-hour time-frame, notes CoinGlass. The ratios from all five top-traded XRP coin venues are displaying long versus short figures drastically below 1, meaning a bearish crowd sentiment.

On Wall Street, the bearish sentiment is felt even harder. Spot XRP ETFs recorded one of their worst sessions of the year, with daily net outflows hitting 9.37 million XRP, equal to $10.4 million. The altcoin’s ETF items slimmed by $18 million in two days, leaving bears hungry for more.

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The renowned San Francisco-based blockchain firm associated with XRP, Ripple, has posted substantial growth in its stablecoin market over the last month.

The firm has also gained dominance in the sector, outperforming several major stablecoin-issuing firms.

Known for its growth and development, the firm has consistently maintained its dominance in the stablecoin sector. However, the past week saw Ethena challenge Ripple’s dominance by taking over the top spot over a 24-hour period.

Nonetheless, the latest data from Token Terminal demonstrates that Ripple has maintained dominance across the stablecoin market over the last month.

According to the data, Ripple has emerged as the leading contributor to stablecoin market growth over the past 30 days, recording a $258.2 million increase in market capitalization.

This shows that even though Ripple’s associated crypto token XRP has continued to face persistent volatility over the period, Ripple has maintained strong momentum in the stablecoin market.

In addition to its impressive increase over the last month, further data demonstrates that Ripple has outpaced several other major stablecoin issuers over the period.

While Ripple took the top spot in monthly stablecoin market growth, the data reveals that Open Standard ranked second, with an increase of $165.1 million over the same period.

While Ethena had frequently ranked next to Ripple, the project took the third spot this time, recording an increase of only $78 million in its market capitalization.

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Republican Senator Wants to Freeze AI Data Center Boom as Congress Pushes to Expand It.

Republican Senator Josh Hawley wants Congress to hit the brakes on new data centers, just as lawmakers are moving forward with legislation intended to make building the infrastructure behind America's AI boom easier.

The Missouri senator called for a nationwide moratorium Wednesday, listing it among five priorities for Senate Republicans during the six weeks before Democrats take control of the chamber.

According to recent reports, “Senate Republicans trying to figure out what to do in the next 6 weeks?” Hawley wrote on X. His answer included a moratorium on data centers, alongside defunding Planned Parenthood, suspending the gas tax and other Republican priorities.

A spokesperson told Politico that Hawley wants a federal pause until Congress passes a “bill of rights giving taxpayers guarantees of no rate increases.” Hawley has not presented detailed legislation specifying which projects would stop or how long the freeze would last.

Industry observers note that data centers are the warehouses packed with powerful computers that train and operate services such as ChatGPT. Building more AI systems means installing more servers, which requires additional electricity, cooling equipment and often upgrades to local power grids.

Industry observers note that senate Republicans trying to figure out what to do in the next 6 weeks? Here you go:DEFUND Planned ParenthoodMORATORIUM on data centersSUSPEND the gas tax FUND rural hospitals SAVE AMERICA ACT.

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) November 11, 2026.

In a recent development, the scale helps explain the concern. U.S. data centers consumed an estimated 183 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024, according to figures cited by Pew, and that could climb to 426 by 2030. In other words, their annual electricity demand could more than double in six years.

On Monday, the Senate voted 73-25 to advance debate on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, a proposal backed by lawmakers from both parties and President Donald Trump's administration.

The bill would speed federal reviews for energy projects and transmission lines, helping bring new power supplies online. It would also require data center operators to pay the additional grid costs their projects create, rather than shifting those expenses onto ordinary electricity customers.

In practical terms, Congress is considering how to keep construction moving without making households subsidize it. Hawley is asking lawmakers to stop new construction until consumer protections are in place.

Sources indicate that his position is not entirely newly introduced. In February, Hawley introduced the GRID Act with Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, seeking to make new data centers obtain electricity from their own sources rather than relying on existing grid supplies.

He now joins independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in publicly supporting a national pause. Their moratorium proposal goes further, calling for rules addressing AI's effects on workers and public safety as well as the environment.

Recent findings suggest that the politics have shifted quickly. In the November 3 elections, voters backed restrictions on data center development across the country, including local bans and measures requiring public approval before construction.

A Pew Research Center analysis published Wednesday found 60% of Americans uncomfortable with a upcoming data center in their area, including 54% of Republicans and 68% of Democrats. Another survey found 58% disliked political leaders who support building data centers near them.

According to recent reports, opponents worry about rising bills, water consumption and noise. Cities have already imposed restrictions, while OpenAI recently promised to cover electricity and grid costs at future campuses it owns and operates.

Industry supporters see a bigger economic risk. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned last month that a construction moratorium could trigger a recession because so much investment now depends on AI infrastructure.

A federal construction freeze could delay the additional computing capacity that AI companies expect to bring online, along with the power infrastructure built to support it. Existing data centers would not necessarily shut down, but the scope of Hawley's proposed moratorium remains undefined.

Sources indicate that hawley's call does not freeze a single project, and he has not mentioned whether he would support the Sanders bill. For now, the Senate is debating legislation to speed infrastructure approvals, not legislation to ban new data centers.

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Recent findings suggest that altcoins have been waiting for their moment all year. Bitcoin [BTC] keeps taking it from them. However, it would seem now that the latter’s market share could decide who wins the next few weeks.

Coinglass’s Altcoin Season Index had a reading of 42 at press time.

Anything above 75 ordinarily counts as altcoin season. This means that the press time reading still leaned towards Bitcoin.

There’s numbers to back this up too. According to CryptoRank, for instance, Bitcoin was up 16.6% over the last 90 days.

It has been revealed that bitway [BTW] has risen by about 220%, Quant [QNT] went up 184%, Midnight Network [NIGHT] by 172% and Raydium [RAY] by 152%. Stacks and NEAR also doubled on the price charts.

A lot of the big names didn’t even keep up with BTC. Solana [SOL], for instance, went up a measly 10% over the same stretch. Binance Coin [BNB] also rose by 10.6%, and Chainlink [LINK] outdid them… with 12%.

Sources indicate that so yes, a few altcoins are having a great run. Most of the rest are just watching Bitcoin ride off into the sunset.

At the time of writing, BTC.D was at 60.9%.

Industry observers note that on the weekly chart, that’s a range that’s been narrowing for more than a year. The top of that has been sliding since late 2025. The bottom has been going up from around 57%.

Right now, it’s pushing right against the top.

If dominance breaks above 61.5%, Bitcoin will maintain its lead and altcoins will stay stuck in the mud. If it diverges near 61%, that would mean that the latter group will get a little breathing room.

A drop below 58% is where things could really swing towards Ethereum [ETH] and the rest of the market though.

For context, its dominance peaked at about 66% back in mid-2025. We are nowhere near that yet.

Sources indicate that until then, the market should lie in wait. Altcoin holders will really want that rejection at the 61%-level though.

Only 31 altcoins surpassed Bitcoin’s 16.6% gains over the last 90 days.

Samyukhtha L KM is a financial journalist and market analyst at AMBCrypto. She covers key market moves, blockchain adoption, and socially-driven crypto trends. She also enjoys providing fresh takes through commentaries on emerging narratives.

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Yoshitaka Kitao, head of Japanese financial group SBI Holdings, answered "YES" when asked point-blank whether he still trusts XRP.

Industry observers note that the question came from an X user. The user wrote that the past few weeks had been "truly exhausting" for XRP holders, and noted that token holders feel that Ripple has left them behind.

Recent findings suggest that kitao answered in English. Most of his recent posts on X are in Japanese, and the rest of them are reposts of other accounts.

Kitao previously worked as an executive at Nomura Securities and later served as CFO of SoftBank. In 1999, he founded SoftBank Investment, which later became SBI Holdings. Today, SBI includes banks, brokerage, and insurance businesses, as well as crypto services.

The partnership began in 2016. SBI joined Ripple's Series B round and introduced a joint venture with Ripple, SBI Ripple Asia. SBI owns about 60% of the venture, and Ripple owns the remaining 40%.

The same year, SBI Ripple Asia set up a consortium of Japanese banks to test Ripple's technology for payments, and the consortium later grew to more than 60 banks.

In 2018, SBI launched the interbank app MoneyTap. The same year, SBI's crypto exchange, now called SBI VC Trade, started operations with XRP trading. In 2019, Kitao joined Ripple's board of directors.

From 2020, SBI began handing the token out to shareholders as bonuses, and the payment service SBI Remit introduced remittances using it with on-demand liquidity (ODL), including in the major Japan-Philippines corridor.

SBI kept working with Ripple during the SEC lawsuit against the tech giant, which lasted from December 2020 until 2025.

Recent findings suggest that back on February 15, 2026, in rare long-form tweets in English, Kitao denied rumors that SBI holds $10 billion worth of XRP: "Not $10 billion in XRP, but around 9% of Ripple Labs. So our hidden asset could be much bigger." By his account, the combined valuation of Ripple Labs and its ecosystem is "enormous," and SBI owns more than 9% of all of it.

Kitao also talked about XRP at SBI's quarterly briefing on November 2, 2026. He mentioned that investors buy Bitcoin mostly to hold it, and that the value of XRP depends on its use in payments and business ecosystems.

In August 2025, SBI VC Trade and Ripple agreed to bring the RLUSD stablecoin to Japan. In October 2025, SBI also invested $200 million in Evernorth, a manufacturer that holds XRP in its treasury. By now, SBI VC Trade has more than two million accounts.

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