Crypto Newsletter

  • Binance publishes initial findings on the October 29 hack

  • ETH ETF outflow streak continues

  • Ethereum edges closer to quantum resistance

  • 98% of hacked tokens replenished: Binance

  • Circle reported third-quarter revenue and reserve income of $865 million, up 17% year over year, with average USDC circulation reaching $73.3 billion

  • Hackers used fake job interview to get in Binance

  • Binance hacker pivots to THORChain to launder

  • The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance said it won’t recommend enforcement over Canton Coin’s programmatic issuance, treating the token as a digital commodity in a no-action letter

  • Credit Mutuel Arkea hacked for $133M: ZachXBT

  • BitMart suffers ‘minor’ hack

  • GitBook hit by AI agent-driven attack

  • Ethereum privacy network Aztec shipped its Tierra upgrade, patching a critical vulnerability from the prior version and cutting client-side proof generation for private transactions to about one second

  • Mercado Bitcoin to refund hacked users

  • CARDS surges, as Coinbase adds to listing roadmap

  • Robinhood Chain hits $100B Uniswap volume

  • Justin Sun asked a federal court to sanction World Liberty Financial over a disclosure that initially listed the Trump-backed venture as a Florida company; Sun says the late amendment was a tactic to push his $45 million dispute out of federal court

  • Justin Sun seeks sanctions on WLFI

  • Circle beats Q3 earnings estimates

  • Vitalik opens Devcon with Ethereum mission agenda

  • Documentation platform GitBook disclosed a breach of its infrastructure credentials that it called “a sophisticated, highly targeted attack using AI agents,” exposing API tokens, integration secrets and Git Sync keys

  • Pyth collabs with Kalshi on midterms index

  • Moscow Exchange to list BTC, ETH, USDT in Dec

  • S Korea mulls exchange cold wallet rule

  • Crypto’s $64 million campaign against Sherrod Brown failed as he returns to the Senate, where he could land a committee leadership role with jurisdiction over the industry

  • Chainstack contains AI-powered attack on its systems

  • Railway accused of hacking competitor’s infrastructure

  • Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company holds “give or take 150,000 bitcoin” at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, worth roughly $11.5 billion; the Q3 attestation accounts for $8.37 billion of bitcoin, or about 100,100 coins, leaving some 50,000 unexplaine

  • Aave submits DeFi lending legal framework to SEC

AI & Tech

  • Buy any AI dip after a Dem sweep: JP Morgan

  • ChatGPT achieves ~20% of Google search: OpenAI

  • Anthropic unlikely to top SpaceX IPO

  • Orbio relaunched from an AI credit marketplace into a private chat interface (and VVV competitor), offering 25 confidential models across Phala and NEAR alongside major commercial models priced below list

  • OpenAI renames DCs 'compute campuses'

  • Elon's SpaceX blocks tokenised shares on OKX

  • Schools that turn off Google AI to lose Search too

  • Stonk.fun introduced a new feature allowing new tokens to start at 20k mc and bond at 150k to enable deeper liquidity

  • CrowdStrike to buy 2 AI security startups

  • ZachXBT suspects $133M+ EU institution exploit cover-up

  • Meta seeks up to $25B in debt sale

  • Robinhood and Arbitrum opened applications for the second cohort of the Arbitrum Mentorship Program

  • Space data centers 'pretty appealing' now: Elon

  • Apple opens Siri AI to third-party apps

  • Shopify slumps on Q3 revenue miss

  • Canva cuts 22% of staff

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