Crypto Newsletter

  • Stripe details Tempo stack behind Link balance

  • Sub $80K BTC risks drop to $73K: CryptoQuant

  • Robinhood went live with Ripple’s RLUSD on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp and will run its global cash operations on Ripple Treasury, while using RLUSD on the XRP Ledger for institutional settlement across Bitstamp

  • BTC bear market is behind us: Fidelity

  • Liquid Network to fully cover 600 BTC hack

  • Ripple won final OCC approval for Ripple National Trust Bank, a federally supervised national trust bank that will hold and act as collateral trustee for the reserves backing its $2.6 billion RLUSD stablecoin

  • Binance files in Brazil, delists 22 tokens there

  • Solflare validator halts SOL staking rewards

  • Robinhood stock slumps 7% on profit miss

  • Google opened a private preview of a crypto custody service for banks that splits a signing key into fragments held across separate environments and runs every transaction past a policy engine before signing, with commercial availability targeted for early 2027 and Alphabet already using it to secure its own assets on Ethereum and Solana

  • Justin Sun holds 2.82% of PEPE supply

  • US sells seized FTX Anthropic stake

  • South Korea’s second-largest exchange Bithumb confirmed an outside party accessed its internal staff groupware system and leaked personal information, on the same day two major Korean brokerages disclosed their own intrusions

  • USDC overtakes USDT in EU trading: Kaiko

  • SEC, CFTC could fill Clarity Act gap: Bessent

  • Pump.fun led onchain protocols in revenue on the day with $1.88M, followed by Hyperliquid at $1.65M and Polymarket at $366k

  • Galaxy swings to $323M Q3 profit

  • Ondo Stocks go live on Robinhood Chain

  • Circle began piloting USDC settlement inside Colombia’s instant-payments network, partnering with ACI Worldwide to plug the stablecoin into Bre-B’s real-time account-to-account rails rather than replacing them

  • US again probes Polymarket over 2022 deal

  • Polymarket adds 5-minute crypto markets

  • Polymarket has investigated dozens of midterm election bets for insider trading and manipulation, with at least two cases referred to the CFTC

  • Amplitude breach leaks Coinbase user contacts

  • S Korea’s Bithumb hit by security breach

  • Intel, Oracle, IBM and IonQ joined the issuers objecting to tokenized versions of their shares on the OKX-ICE venue, pushing the count to 26 in twelve days

AI, NFT and Tech.

  • Trump to ban the term 'artificial intelligence'

  • Google to sell AI chips to OpenAI, Oracle

  • Google's Genie 4 adds audio, real-time steering

  • Anthropic begins drug-discovery efforts

  • Ripple expands Robinhood ties across RLUSD and Prime

  • Rain powers SeatGeek’s Game Day Your Way

  • Anthropic flags gas supply as a top risk

  • We hacked Anthropic in 12hrs: Ex-DOGE staff

  • Invisible Friends drops The Walk, $5 open edition

  • Microsoft Maia will be 10% of MSFT chip spend

  • 0xQuit details ApeStr bug that swapped out 21 apes

  • iPhone Duo breaks after 75,001 folds

  • Ukraine violated Starlink service terms: Elon

  • Robotaxis in Miami 'coming soon’: Elon

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