Crypto Newsletter

  • Orbio raises $1.2M for agent compute

  • Coinbase BTC premium lowest since July

  • Morgan Stanley tokenized equities move to Q1 2027

  • CME to add UNI futures trading

  • BitMine buys 12.5K ETH

  • XRP Ledger developers patched a bug that could have let someone create XRP out of nothing a flaw that sat unnoticed in the payment engine since 2015

  • Solana halves target slot time to 200ms

  • Robinhood Chain leads capitulate, mids rally

  • Justin Sun holds $2.25B onchain: Arkham

  • Strategy bought 250 BTC for $21.5 million at an average $86,194 between October 5 and 11 while repurchasing 1.93 million STRC shares for $192.4 million

  • Binance to shut Binance Pool on 10 Nov

  • Monad to add confidentiality, compliance tools

  • Aptos launches encrypted mempool

  • Morgan Stanley now expects to support tokenized equities on its alternative trading system in Q1 2027 rather than the second half of this year

  • Robinhood tokenised stocks go live on Hedera

  • Morgan Stanley delays tokenised stocks to Q1 2027

  • Russia authorises Sberbank to exchange crypto

  • Moscow Exchange to open BTC to retail on 1 Dec

  • Sanctioned Russian A7 unveils USDT service

  • S Korea blocks KuCoin, MEXC, BingX, 24 more

  • Bybit launches US stock trading

  • Australia moves to regulate crypto-settled CFDs

  • Ledger said every confirmed case in the $87 million wallet drain involves devices sold by one reseller Southeast Asian distributor CryptoBilis

  • Johannes: Ledger incident also reported in Europe

  • BVNK adds Plasma stablecoin payment support

  • TOKEN2049 Singapore takeaways

AI & NFT

  • Muse Wonder Full competes for top spot in tests

  • FOMO launches replay share cards

  • Microsoft unveils its third-gen AI chip Maia 300

  • OpenAI plans to revive Sora

  • NFT leaders were red as Blur announced its shutdown; Punks even at 31.5 ETH, BAYC -17% at 5.09 ETH, Pudgy -19% at 2.2 ETH

  • Quotrons (+26%) and Argonauts (+19%) led top movers; Statements +90%

  • Anthropic cuts data harvested by distillers 90-99%

  • Pump.fun earned $15.76 million in fees last week, its second straight week above $15 million, and burned $7.30 million of PUMP

  • Epic Games reportedly orders devs to use Claude

  • SpaceXSI merges Grok, Cursor and X Premium

  • Blur announced that its front end will be deprecated on Nov 12, 2026, signaling the final shutdown of the project

  • Polygon ranks 3rd in app market share

  • CPU demand could top $200B by 2030: AMD

  • US rejects power cuts to DCs in grid emergencies

  • Papertrade led onchain protocols in revenue on Monday with $5.9M, followed by Hyperliquid with $2.36M and Pump.fun with $2.29M

  • AI testing officials to move to White House

  • Iran threatens to attack cables, data centers

  • Meta bans ByteDance ads on its platforms

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