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Thailand Sets Dec. 5 Bitget Block As Local Exchange Deal Awaits Approval
Seller GMO Internet has pushed the planned share transfer to Nov. 30 while it works through Thai regulatory procedures.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Paraguay USDT Offers Show 13% Premium After Ueno Closure
Bybit listings show a sharp gap between buying and selling USDT, while Paraguay’s central bank prepares deposit-guarantee payments for Ueno savers.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance Revokes SignalPlus API Keys After Security Warning
The exchange told SignalPlus users to review positions and open orders directly on Binance and wait for confirmation of a full resolution before reconnecting.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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France’s Budget Rejection Shelves Stablecoin Tax and Wallet Reporting
The Assembly voted 458–0 against the revenue section. The crypto measures could return through amendments in the Senate, whose budget debate is scheduled to begin Nov. 20.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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ZetaChain Opens Vote to Shut Down Layer 1 Around Dec. 9
Staked and unbonding ZETA would count toward claims, while exchanges would set their own conversion windows.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Arkansas Sues Kalshi to Stop Alleged Illegal Gambling
The state seeks restitution, unpaid taxes and civil penalties as Kalshi continues its federal appeals against state gambling-law enforcement.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OKX–ICE Stock Venue’s Issuer Objections Reach 62
Boeing and ServiceNow’s objections leave eight of the venture’s 63 originally proposed symbols without a disclosed opt-out.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Trump Media-Linked Wallets Send 4,259 BTC to Crypto.com
The movement equals about 30% of the bitcoin treasury disclosed for July 31. Arkham labels both sending wallets as convertible-note collateral.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Pendle Volume Hits $221.5 Million, a 30-Day High
Ethereum accounted for nearly all the trading, while reported locked value stayed near $1.03 billion through the day's latest snapshot.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Mercado Bitcoin Plans View-Only Reopening on Nov. 9 After Hack
The exchange says it will use company funds to replace affected assets, while withdrawals and trading await security clearance.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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TSV Begins Tokenized CNTN Trades Under SEC Innovation Exemption
Tradecraft's public feed recorded $30,296 in purchases, while Fairmint maintains the shares' official onchain ownership register.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto Groups Seek to Strike Down Illinois’ 0.2% Tax
The levy would tax asset value rather than gains, with covered brokers required to collect it from Illinois customers.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Nasdaq Approves Listing of Canary’s Staked Injective ETF
The proposed INJC fund would stake at least 90% of its INJ holdings and charge a 1.10% annual sponsor fee.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Lightning Labs Releases LND Mitigation for Critical Linux Flaw
LND v0.20.7-beta and v0.21.6-beta disable Multipath TCP by default, but operators still need a patched kernel to fix the underlying vulnerability.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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What Are Privacy Coins? Bitcoin, Monero and Zcash Compared
Monero requires privacy mechanisms for ordinary transfers, while Zcash supports transparent and shielded modes. Neither erases an exchange’s identity records.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Strategy’s STRC Hits $100 for First Time Since May
The recovery follows roughly $2.25 billion of buybacks and brings the preferred stock back to Strategy’s stated minimum price for new issuance.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Stripe Lets US Businesses Send Stablecoins to Wallets in 160-Plus Markets
The public preview supports USDC and Open USD, funded from a Treasury balance. Businesses in New York are excluded.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Polygon Proposal Seeks Hard Fork to Recover 70.49 Million POL
Funds tied to the Polymarket and Binance incidents would go to recovery wallets, without changing POL’s total supply.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Osmosis Burns 55.5 Million OSMO From Community Pool
The community pool retains about 63.78 million OSMO, but new token issuance no longer replenishes its reserves.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Zcash Climbs 9.5% Ahead of NU7 Network Upgrade
The upgrade is expected around Nov. 5 and will shorten target block times without materially increasing scheduled daily issuance. Node operators face a software-upgrade deadline.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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ApeChain Plans Switch From LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP
The plan includes upgrading APE and USDC to Chainlink Cross-Chain Tokens, but the announcements do not specify holder migration steps or a legacy-bridge shutdown date.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Privacy Cash Pauses Deposits After Binance Hack
Elliptic traced about $1.2 million in theft-linked ETH and SOL into its pools; the team says withdrawals remain open.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Coinbase Brings Deribit Options and Perpetuals to US Prime Clients
Institutions can access global derivatives through Coinbase Financial Markets, but shared liquidity does not mean a single margin pool.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Blast Shuts Down Layer 2, Directs Users to Recovery Site
DefiLlama’s latest daily reading puts bridge assets at $6.51 million, about 84% below the reading reported on Oct. 26.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance Expands Proof of Reserves to 44 Tokens After Hack
The exchange says it has replenished about 98% of affected assets, but the new cryptographic proof is unfinished and withdrawals are not fully reopened.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Riot Signs $28 Billion AI Lease for Entire Corsicana Campus
The miner has sold 20,264 BTC this year to help fund data centers, while mining still supplied about 64% of third-quarter revenue.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Polkadot Treasury Lost $1.38 Million After XCM Patch Missed Production
The flaw distorted DOT/dotUSD pool pricing. A later upgrade repaired the stablecoin’s supply accounting without changing holders’ balances.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin Reclaims $79,000 After 5% Rebound From Election-Night Low
Ether and Solana joined the recovery, while S&P 500 and gold futures gained about 3% over a matched overnight window.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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NEAR Adds 24/7 NIFTY 50 Perpetual With Cross-Chain Funding
The Hyperliquid-based contract allows up to 20x leverage and settles index-point gains and losses in USDC, without delivering Indian shares.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Dialectic Launches SpaceX Yield Vault Using Aave Loans on Base
Starloop borrows USDC against tokenized shares, adding liquidation risk to a strategy operating within Aave’s 37,000-token collateral cap.... Read the full story at The Defiant