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Binance to Close Accounts in Four EU Countries Dec. 31, Charging Idle Balances From Nov. 29
Bitcoin Magazine Binance to Close Accounts in Four EU Countries Dec. 31, Charging Idle Balances From Nov. 29 Binance will close customer accounts in France, Spain, Italy and Poland on Dec. 31 and begin charging a monthly fee on leftover balances from Nov. 29, as the world's largest crypto exchange...
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NYSE Taps Avalanche to Settle Its Planned Tokenized Stock Platform
Ava Labs said Avalanche will serve as the “core ledger technology” for the clearing firm behind the NYSE-affiliated venue, which aims to bring 24/7 trading, clearing and settlement of tokenized securities onchain.
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Dropbox Plans $350 Million Tigris Deal to Expand Into AI Storage
DBX Agent Cloud starts with standalone S3-compatible object storage, with filesystem and content-processing capabilities planned next.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Buterin Urges Store-of-Value Focus for ETH, Not Fee Burns
The Ethereum co-founder backs keeping EIP-1559 but argues that maximizing fees could price out users and undermine decentralization.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ethereum treasury Sharplink’s Q3 net income hits $751 million on unrealized ether gains
Sharplink posted Q3 revenue of $13.5 million and net income of $751.4 million, driven by unrealized ETH gains.
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Google’s AI chip push adds more pressure on Nvidia
Google’s specialised AI chips threaten greater competition as Nvidia faces a leadership investigation.
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Prediction market broker River Markets registers affiliate as CFTC futures commission merchant
River Markets' affiliate registered with CFTC as an FCM as it builds a prime brokerage for institutional prediction market traders.
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North Korean hackers are creating memecoins to wash loot from $6.3 billion Binance hack
North Korean hackers used six homemade memecoins to launder 117,000 NEAR, worth about $430,000, from the $6.3 billion Binance hack, Elliptic says.
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U.S. Regulators Drop $250 Travel Rule Plan, Crypto Language Too
Bitcoin Magazine U.S. Regulators Drop $250 Travel Rule Plan, Crypto Language Too FinCEN and the Federal Reserve have formally withdrawn a 2020 proposal that would have cut the Bank Secrecy Act threshold for cross-border funds transfers from $3,000 to $250 and spelled out that the rules cover...
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Cosmos Contributes IBC to Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
Cosmos Labs holds five places on the initial seven-person technical committee, alongside maintainers from Datachain and OpenZeppelin.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Kinetiq Launches Elysium Mainnet for Hyperliquid
Pump.fun and Fomo say Elysium trading is live, while native HyperCore data reads and fast order submissions await a later upgrade.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Base’s Retired Flashblocks Feeds Accept Connections but Send No Data
Denim replaced block previews with complete blocks every 200 milliseconds, requiring developers to change subscriptions and review pending-state reads.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Kraken’s Dave Ripley: “That Was the Bear Market” and Bitcoin Is “On Our Way Out of It”
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Kraken's Dave Ripley: “That Was the Bear Market” and Bitcoin Is “On Our Way Out of It” Is the Bitcoin bear market already over? Kraken co-CEO Dave Ripley says the move back above $80K makes him think “that was the bear market,” and that it may be the softest bear market in...
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Tom Lee’s Bitmine nears 5% Ethereum supply target with $20 million ETH buy as he predicts tokenization and AI ‘supercycle’
Bitmine bought another 9,587 ETH last week, closing in on its target of 5% of Ethereum's circulating supply.
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Strive (ASST) Adds 29 Bitcoin for $2.2 Million as Weekly Buys Slow After Crossing 43,000
Bitcoin Magazine Strive (ASST) Adds 29 Bitcoin for $2.2 Million as Weekly Buys Slow After Crossing 43,000 Strive bought another 29 bitcoin last week for about $2.2 million at an average of $75,721 per coin between Oct. 31 and Nov. 6, a Monday 8-K filing shows , lifting total holdings to 43,153 BTC...
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Durov Says 700,000-Plus Wallets Were Created on Telegram in 48 Hours
The Gram explorer’s creation count includes wallets without onchain transactions, a different measure from active wallets.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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NYSE Picks Avalanche for Tokenized Stock Settlement
The planned venue would retain NYSE’s Pillar matching engine while offering instant settlement and stablecoin funding, subject to regulatory approval.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Coinbase Wins Full Federal Trust Charter From OCC
Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase Wins Full Federal Trust Charter From OCC Coinbase has won a full national trust bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, upgrading the conditional approval it received in April and putting its institutional custody business under direct federal...
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What ‘Instant Settlement’ Means for Tokenized Stocks
A stock token and its payment can change hands together, but custody arrangements and conversion into bank dollars remain separate parts of the process.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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NYSE to settle tokenized stocks on Avalanche in planned 24/7 market
NYSE picked Avalanche to supply the core ledger technology for the clearing firm of its affiliated tokenized-securities platform.
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Bullish Names Former NYSE President Stacey Cunningham as President
The company’s planned $4.2 billion Equiniti acquisition would combine shareholder registries with its tokenized-securities trading business.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Analysts see no broader ‘contagion’ from $6.3B Binance hack
Binance’s pledge to cover all user losses helped contain the fallout from the $6.3 billion hack, analysts said.
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Bitcoin Price Drops Below $74,000 as Nvidia Probe and Regulation Fears Spark $1 Billion in Liquidations
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Drops Below $74,000 as Nvidia Probe and Regulation Fears Spark $1 Billion in Liquidations Bitcoin price traded near $74,700 on Monday morning after sliding to $73,477 overnight, its lowest since August, then bouncing back, Bitcoin Magazine Pro data shows. Bitcoin...
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Strategy (MSTR) Adds 1,036 Bitcoin for $81.9 Million as Holdings Slip Below Cost
Bitcoin Magazine Strategy (MSTR) Adds 1,036 Bitcoin for $81.9 Million as Holdings Slip Below Cost Strategy bought another 1,036 bitcoin last week. The Saylor-led firm spent $81.9 million at an average of $79,012 per coin between November 2 and November 8, a Monday 8-K filing shows, lifting total...
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NYSE picks Avalanche to settle tokenized stocks amid Wall Street's blockchain race
Avalanche will serve as the core settlement ledger for the exchange's planned blockchain stock market
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Mercado Bitcoin Begins View-Only Reopening After Hack
The exchange says it is replacing stolen assets with company funds, while payments and trading will return in later phases.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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The $2.85B Binance hackers lost shows why the UK needs stablecoin freeze rules
The Binance hack proved stablecoin freezes work. Now the UK should make clear freeze rules a condition of listing coins.
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Strategy buys 1,036 Bitcoin as BTC holdings climb to 850,364
Strategy bought $81.9 million in Bitcoin last week while spending $188.3 million repurchasing STRC preferred shares, according to its latest SEC filing.
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IRIS Sets Nov. 10 Launch for Fixed-Rate Borrowing on SparkLend
Borrowers can request custom loan durations, with solvers posting capital to absorb differences between fixed quotes and floating funding costs.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Strategy Buys $82M in Bitcoin, Buys Back $188M of STRC
The Bitcoin treasury firm sold $284 million of MSTR stock to fund the moves, days before MSCI names companies facing index removal.