Crypto Newsletter

  • Polymarket unveils Protocol V2

  • USDC bridge now supports Solana

  • OKX raises at $25B valuation from Circle, Ripple

  • Abstract to shut down on Dec 15

  • Metaplanet targets 85%–90% of assets in Bitcoin

  • Solana Adds MKS PAMP Tokenized Gold

  • CFTC Seeks Crypto Market Rule Comments

  • Strike launches 3.6% cash yield paid in Bitcoin

  • Ethereum ran its first transaction that works across the main chain and a layer-2 at the same time moving 0.001 ETH in a test under the Ethereum Economic Zone framework; the two halves either both succeed or both reverse, and the goal is to stop Ethereum's dozens of networks from feeling like separate places

  • Aptos MonoMove runs contracts ~55x faster

  • Sui partners with Alibaba Cloud on AI payments

  • Stripe plans to run stablecoin cards in more than 100 countries by year-end as spending on them hit $1.2 billion last month, triple a year ago

  • Ondo launches tokenised notes on private firms

  • ZachXBT spent $349,700 of his own money to pose as a client of a Chinese crime ring laundering for North Korea; he lost 5% on every order, held the story 18 months while the case was live, and the intel helped freeze Bybit hack funds including $442,000 Tether locked

  • Coinbase Pro to return via Deribit integration

  • Predict dot fun teased its token launching soon

  • Strategy booked a $20.91 billion paper gain on Bitcoin in the third quarter its first profitable quarter in a year; it bought just 334 BTC for $28.7 million while spending $176 million buying back STRC

  • Metaplanet sold 10,000 Bitcoin for $789 million and bought back 11,000 for $949 million to show credit agencies it can turn Bitcoin into cash on demand

  • S Korea open to scrap/delay 20% crypto tax

  • Binance launched an AI suite that turns plain-English trading ideas into working strategies alongside a free market assistant and a developer platform

  • Germany denies MiCAR license to Bitcoin Group

  • S Africa's top bank FNB to launch BTC trading

  • The SEC approved six funds that triple the daily moves of Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, silver, oil and gas clearing a Cboe rule change on October 2

  • OKX says AI now does the main work on about 95% of its code changes with engineers left to review and approve.

  • S&P Global launches a risk framework for digital-asset lending vaults

AI & NFT

  • Meta joins group for agentic commerce standards

  • Mistral AI releases massive 'Le Chonk' model

  • Claus debuted at a 0.9 ETH floor; new collection tied to the Claus AI token

  • AI startup Lambda raising $4B ahead of IPO

  • Henri Stern says he will lead crypto and stablecoins at Stripe

  • Hyperscaler capex to hit $5.5T in 2026-29: UBS

  • Long Neck Brokers (+46x) and Quotrons (+9%) led top movers

  • Polymarket takes Dutch regulator to court

  • Kalshi launches first US stock perp futures

  • Apple partners with LG on home devices

  • DeepSeek considers doubling funding to $14.9B

  • HubSpot cuts 7% of staff, denies AI is the cause

  • NFT leaders were mostly fla; Punks even at 33 ETH, BAYC even at 5.95 ETH, Pudgy +3% at 3.07 ETH



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