Crypto Newsletter

  • Visa: nearly 17% of stablecoin-linked card volume from business programs YTD

  • ETH sentiment lowest since June: Santiment

  • Ethereum Foundation launches zkAPI on mainnet

  • Trump is hosting a third dinner for his memecoin’s biggest holders on November 22 at his Virginia golf club; the top 185 get in, the top 29 get a reception, and the top four get an 18-karat gold watch

  • SEC proposes crypto custody rules for advisers

  • Trump to host third "exclusive" memecoin event

  • MetaMask reports infrastructure security incident

  • Polygon live with stablecoin checkout in Polygon OMS

  • Bitwise NEAR ETFs drew $50M+ in two days

  • Evernorth’s shareholders approved its Nasdaq listing, making it the largest public company built purely around XRP.

  • PUMP leads alts, tops 24hr revenue again

  • Iconic 7-trait Punk reportedly sold for $5.9M

  • Fiserv's digital asset platform went live Thursday, starting with Roughrider Coin from the state-owned Bank of North Dakota

  • Quant plans tokenized deposits for US banks

  • Illinois agreed to delay its crypto tax by six months while a court fight continues

  • Pharaoh DEX posts ATH $2.9B monthly volume

  • Fiserv digital asset platform goes live for banks

  • The Ethereum Foundation launched zkAPI a way to pay for AI without the provider knowing who you are.

  • 69% Polymarket retail users lose money: Galaxy

  • Zano exploiter minted a quadrillion+ fUSD

  • Dutch BTC holders may face unrealised gains tax

  • USDT is coming back to Bitcoin this month through Utexo, a Tether-backed company with a license to issue it there.

  • US sanctions Russia-linked A7 Network

  • Solana app revenue hit nine-month high of $180M in September

  • Lido: MetaMask Staking exiting Ethereum validators in protocol

  • Orbio launches Incognito encrypted inference

AI & NFT

  • SpaceX launches Google AI chips into orbit

  • Gemini Live adds Guided Vision for fine print

  • Trump floats US stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic

  • GONDI: Zombie CryptoPunk #3609 sold for 875,000 USDC

  • Kalshi ending volume incentive program no earlier than Oct. 13

  • Trump asked Grok before Venezuela invasion

  • OpenAI ousts three safety researchers over leak

  • OpenAI warns 100+ orgs of sketchy AI behavior

  • Anthropic eyes mid-November IPO

  • NFT leaders were mixed; Punks even at 33 ETH, BAYC -1% at 6.18 ETH, Pudgy -7% at 3 ETH

  • Anthropic consults religious scholars on Claude

  • Amazon plans to offload $8B of Nvidia chips

  • Reddit kills RSS, public API to fight AI scrapers

  • Netflix paid $587M cash for Affleck's AI startup

  • The only 7-Trait CryptoPunk sold for ~$5.9M on Gondi, though the full sale details were not disclosed overnight

  • Porsche concludes Web3 project and PIONEERS CIRCLE

  • Apple developing a no-video home camera

  • Figure AI trains retired robots for molten steel

  • Quotrons (+6%) and OTC Desks (+14%) led top movers

  • Hegseth reveals $74B drone push

  • Europe is lost to Chinese EVs: Ford

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