Crypto Newsletter

• Circle CEO: USDC at 79% of stablecoin volume

• Coinbase said it holds more than 99% of customer assets in cold storage in a blog post responding to the Binance hack, detailing split cold-wallet keys that are never fully reassembled, rate limits on cold-to-hot transfers, and kill switches that take signing keys offline entirely

• Dems plan 'aggressive' Trump crypto probes

• Trump Media moves $344M BTC to Cryptocom

• Binance and Deribit revoked all API keys linked to third-party trading platform SignalPlus after SignalPlus flagged a potential security issue

• Strategy's STRC rallies back to par

• JPMorgan adds BTC to long-term forecasts

• WatcherGuru: U.S. judge lets stock perps continue

• Court rejects request to halt stock perps

• Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin sued Kalshi over its sports event contracts, alleging the exchange operates an unlicensed gambling platform and sidestepped state licensing and taxes

• Solana's Toly calls memecoins 'digital slop'

• Robinhood Crypto releases activity roundup

• Hyperliquid led onchain protocols in revenue on the day with $3.67M, followed by Pump.fun at $1.71M and Uniswap at $364k

• Polygon mulls hard fork to recover stolen POL

• Riot dumps $1.5B BTC, shares jump on AI deal

• AI equity dilution could hit crypto: Hayes

• Morgan Stanley converted US equities and Treasuries into tokenized form through the DTCC Tokenization Service, which launched October 28 on the Canton Network and DTCC’s private Besu chain

• Nasdaq approves Canary's staked Injective ETF

• Stripe opens stablecoin global payouts

• Paragon introduces Power Perps on Hyperliquid

• ApeChain migrates to Chainlink CCIP

• Binance : 98% of stolen assets covered

• ZachXBT named French banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as the alleged victim of a crypto theft now exceeding $133 million, up from the $106 million he flagged Monday

• Jupiter Bridge Aggregator goes live in beta

• First tokenised US stock trades under SEC relief

• Coinbase says Binance hack left it untouched

• A Polygon Labs validator support team member proposed a hard fork of Polygon PoS to move roughly 70.49 million POL stolen in the Polymarket and Binance hacks, worth about $6.5 million, from the attackers’ addresses to recovery addresses designated by both companies

• France eyes self-custody crypto declarations

• India warns AI hacker hitting crypto exchanges

• Robinhood Chain TVL hits $1.07B

• Pump.fun adds NEAR tokens to its app

AI & NFTs, Tech.

• 6529 Opens Node for Validators

• MSFT, Apple hit ATH

• Wall Street sees risks to AI boom from Dems

• Apple cuts internal AI usage budgets

• Meme leaders were mixed; DOGE +2%, SHIB +1%, PEPE -2%, PENGU -1%, TRUMP -15%, SPX -1%, Bonk -1%

• OpenAI shifts quarter of engineers to security

• OpenAI agrees to buy Pierre to bolster Codex

• Google walks back school AI policy after outcry

• Google offers voluntary buyouts to employees

• Claude helped scientists map mystery structure

• Robinhood chain leaders were mostly red; Pons -1% to $145M; Cashcat -3% at $102M; AI -12% at $52M; Standard +12% and Ubik +40% led top movers

• Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor

• AI must offset 'population collapse’: Meta exec

• SpaceX, Qualcomm plan Starlink 5G

• Solana top movers included HIGH +12x, GTA +76x, and Rambo +600%; Cards +20% on Upbit listing

• Goldman warns of data center building bans

• China blocks SoftBank's ABB robotics takeover

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