Crypto Newsletter

  • Moca Network partners with OKX Ventures

  • A consortium of 21 banks including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Santander and Deutsche Bank committed about $270 million to fund five years of operations for a US-incorporated dollar stablecoin issuer, known internally as Project Faro

  • Ethereum Foundation-linked wallet sells 1,000 ETH

  • Near AI disclosed a breach in which an attacker exploited a remote code execution flaw in the open-source SGLang inference engine to move through its infrastructure, exposing names and emails for about 100 users and chat histories from 18 AI agents

  • Two Bitcoin miners reported nearly $2 billion in profit. The biggest boost wasn’t cash. Pretax non-cash revaluations lifted earnings;

  • Circle partners with Global Citizen on USDC in Africa

  • Grayscale pledged $1 million to Zcash ecosystem nonprofits, funded by reinvesting sponsor fees from its Zcash ETF for up to the fund’s first year, with $100,000 already sent to each of four organizations (along with a full page ad in the WSJ)

  • Binance rejects MEXC transfers after FinCEN designation

  • The missing step in the warning that Japan could trigger Bitcoin’s next selloff.

  • Former Ripple CTO David Schwartz said he has cut his crypto holdings from roughly 26 million XRP to 3 million, from 1,500 BTC to one, and from 40,000 ETH to six, describing years of sales under a longstanding agreement with his wife to sell into new highs

  • PNC pilots incoming USDC payments on Ethereum

  • The CFTC warned Kalshi it may bring enforcement charges over how it notified the agency about new contracts, with Politico reporting dozens of products under review while Kalshi calls it a “procedural error” affecting a handful

  • Pendle launches USDe Fixed-Term Markets on Ethereum

  • Hyperliquid led onchain protocols in revenue on the day with $2.53M, followed by Pump.fun at $1.16M and Papertrade at $1.01M

  • Jupiter launched four products extending it beyond trading, including Baskets for one-click token bundles that rebalance automatically and Vaults for curator-managed yield strategies

  • Coinbase, Kalshi back CFTC on single stock perps

  • XRP’s new euro cash-out route had less than €100 in its direct market.

  • Alta launches with $80M in total funding

  • Nvidia erased its 2026 gains as Spygate fallout continued, falling to $166.95 and down 18.4% in November, as House Foreign Affairs Chairman Brian Mast threatened to subpoena CEO Jensen Huang over his dealings with a former executive at a Singapore chip buyer

  • NEAR AI pauses Cloud inference after unauthorized access

AI & Tech

  • AI stack bounces, KOSPI halted

  • Moody’s Ratings and Chainlink completed a pilot distributing credit ratings across multiple blockchains using Chainlink’s cross-chain protocol and Moody’s Token Integration Engine

  • Helius launches Solana Privacy Rings on mainnet

  • Nvidia, Jensen hit with shareholder lawsuit

  • A Brazilian crypto exchange plans to show customers their money, not let them move it. Planned viewing would show November 2 crypto balances and valuations; the supplied recovery timetable gives no transaction restart dates.

  • Lens comes to Monad as a fully onchain social graph

  • Rain introduces Agent Vaults for agentic payments

  • Decrypt added confidential transfers to its Money Account through Solana infrastructure firm Helius, using zero-knowledge proofs to hide transfer amounts from the public ledger while leaving viewing keys available for compliance

  • Pumpfun perps add limit orders, TWAPs and cross margin

  • MegaETH Foundation rebrands as MEGA with a $30M product push

  • Trump Media posted a $409.7 million third-quarter profit after a $238 million loss in Q2, on $496.1 million of unrealized gains on digital assets and securities as Bitcoin rose 42% during the quarter

  • Nvidia intervened in US probe of Megaspeed

  • House GOP summon Jensen to Congress

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