Crypto Newsletter

  • Privy partners with Ripple to bring wallets to the XRP Ledger

  • Coinbase presses for BTC quantum migration now

  • AI agents made 138M crypto payments in a year

  • Top priority for zkEVM is now security: Vitalik

  • Solana Foundation opens Shanghai office

  • Witt leaves White House amid CLARITY deadlock

  • Polygon Labs closed its acquisition of Coinme, picking up 37 state money transmitter licenses, 11 exemptions and FinCEN registration to cover 48 states, and turning its Open Money Stack into a licensed U.S. payments rail

  • HEX founder Heart reportedly arrested in Istanbul

  • Nine top US banks had debanking policies: OCC

  • Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said state-led oversight would drive prediction markets offshore, telling DC Fintech Week the court fight is “a choice of whether prediction markets exist in the U.S. or whether they go offshore”

  • Turkish media report Richard Heart detained in Istanbul on Interpol notice

  • Debanking won't happen again: Bessen

  • SEC approves prediction market style options

  • Papertrade flipped Circle in revenue with $7.5M, highest of all onchain protocols; Hyperliquid was next with $2.64M, then Pump.fun with $2.04M

  • Tether paid $6.3M to firm tied to Bo Hines

  • StandX perp DEX to shut down, scrap token

  • WSJ reports Tether payments to a Bo Hines-linked firm during GENIUS Act work

  • FBI shuts 241 crypto scam sites, 112 servers

  • Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan told Bloomberg that U.S. regulators should police the firms building on his blockchain rather than the network itself, arguing “the deployers are the ones that exercise these controls”

  • USDC is EU's first 'significant' e-money token

  • Sberbank wins approval to trade Bitcoin

  • The European Banking Authority designated Circle’s USDC as the EU’s first “significant” e-money token under MiCA, the only one of 45 notified tokens to clear the bar, which puts it under direct EBA supervision of its reserves, capital and liquidity from November 12

  • Australia seeks feedback on crypto platform rules

  • Coins.ph faces scrutiny over gambling links

  • Over $900M in crypto longs were liquidated over the past 24 hours, led by Eth and BTC

  • Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, won approval to trade crypto for its 110 million retail clients, with a December 1 launch planned covering Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT

  • SEC approves Cboe binary options tied to public-company KPIs

AI & NFT

  • Apple joins the $5T club

  • Yield Field Deeds (+10%), aligndraw (+38%) and Robinpunks (+230%) led top movers

  • Halting AI data centres risks recession: Larry Fink

  • PONS rallies, defies the crypto slump

  • OpenAI suspect booked one-way Saudi flight

  • GONDI adds a bridge to refinance Blend loans and migrate NFT collateral

  • McKinsey makes applicants spar with fake AI client

  • NFT leaders were mostly flat; Punks even at 31.2 ETH, BAYC -1% at 5.45 ETH, Pudgy +2% at 2.42 ETH

  • Morgan Stanley CEO expects decade of AI spend

  • Anduril tender offer values the startup at $90B

  • OpenSea fees near $1.6M over 30 days; historical peak claims need context

  • Japan to fund $21B GlobalFoundries plants: Trump

  • Microsoft, Japan take down scam ring

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