Crypto Newsletter

  • 🏦 Coinbase wins OCC approval for a national trust company

  • Record whale demand for BTC to IBIT swaps

  • BTC proved resilient after Binance hack: Fitch

  • Fourteen public companies have sold roughly 108,247 BTC worth $8.08 billion so far in 2026 according to Lookonchain, with MARA at 40,581 coins and Riot at 20,264 accounting for 56% of the total

  • Strategy buys $82M BTC, $188M STRC

  • MARA sold $1.1B BTC

  • BitMine buys 9.6K ETH

  • BlackRock said demand from large holders converting self-custodied bitcoin into IBIT shares is “the highest we’ve seen at any point,” citing security concerns, with roughly $3.6 billion of such swaps since the SEC permitted in-kind transactions

  • Money Machines launches podcast on programmable finance

  • Ledger ships Agent Intent 0.4.0 with swap approvals

  • Uniswap v2, v3 and v4 go live on Elysium

  • NEAR AI pauses cloud after breach

  • Binance hackers use memes to launder funds

  • Binance ignored Iran probe: Ex-Investigator

  • Ava Labs said Avalanche will serve as the core ledger for the clearing firm behind NYSE’s forthcoming tokenized securities platform, handling round-the-clock clearing and settlement across equities listed on several chains

  • Ex-EF staffer sues Vitalik over retaliatory firing

  • Elliptic found North Korea’s TraderTraitor group laundering Binance hack proceeds through freshly minted meme coins, creating tokens for about $90 apiece and washing roughly $430,000 through six of them on NEAR between November 5 and 7

  • NYSE picks Avalanche to settle tokenised stocks

  • Ondo to tokenise Anthropic on IPO day

  • Robinhood approves OKX-ICE tokenisation

  • Former Ethereum Foundation protocol support lead Kayleen Fulton sued the foundation, Vitalik Buterin and four other defendants in Colorado federal court, alleging she was fired in retaliation for helping organize a 53-signature staff letter opposing a provision in the foundation’s new mandate

  • MEXC offers to co-operate with FinCEN

  • CertiK urges hot wallet caps

  • Yat Siu sets out Animoca’s agentic-era vision as CEO

  • Galxe shuts core services

  • Warren plans prediction markets oversight

  • Coinbase received final OCC approval for a national trust charter, moving its institutional custody business under federal oversight and joining Circle and Ripple, which won approvals in July and October

AI & NFT

  • Google takes aim at Nvidia with two new chips

  • Anthropic unveils Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2

  • Formation Securities notified the SEC it intends to run a tokenized securities venue on Solana under the agency’s Innovation Exemption, launching in early 2027

  • Anthropic targets $1T valuation

  • Anthropic withdrew IPO pricing sent to banks

  • Big Tech to buy $26B of Anthropic's IPO shares

  • Hyperliquid led onchain protocols in revenue with $2.53M, followed by Pump.fun at $1.19M and Venice at $489k

  • Anthropic faces suit over Claude Max claims

  • OpenAI control room can halt models in 35 secs

  • Meta drops Muse Ember

  • Pumpfun adds Elysium crosschain trading to its app

  • Pudgy Penguins floor hits 2.07 ETH, lowest since 2022

  • Blur’s website goes dark on November 12

  • Grok nears 100 million monthly users

  • AI financing remains strong: Goldman CEO

  • Binance stopped processing transactions involving MEXC and its affiliates after FinCEN designated the exchange a primary money laundering concern, rejecting outgoing transfers and holding incoming deposits for compliance review

  • SpaceX eyes Starship double catch on Friday 13

  • Tesla's Austin robotaxi zone dwarfs Waymo's

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