Visa Adds Monad to Stablecoin Settlement Options as Institutions Seek More Rails
Monad has been added to Visa's stablecoin settlement options for participating institutional clients, according to a statement from the Monad…
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Strategy Adds 1,036 BTC While Repurchasing $188M of STRC Preferred Shares
Strategy has disclosed a 1,036-BTC purchase alongside $188 million of STRC repurchases. The combination shows that the company's Bitcoin strategy…
MARA Sells 13,597 Bitcoin for $1.1B as Its AI Pivot Reshapes Treasury Strategy
MARA disclosed $1.1 billion of post-quarter Bitcoin sales and repayment of $750 million in BTC-backed borrowing. The miner is increasingly monetizing…
Ether ETFs Shed $184.6M in a Day as BlackRock Leads Redemptions
US spot Ether ETFs lost $184.6 million on November 9. BlackRock's ETHA recorded $119.3 million in outflows, with additional withdrawals from several…
US Bitcoin ETFs Lose $201M as BlackRock Withdrawals Extend the Slump
Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost a net $201.0 million on November 9, following $430.2 million on November 5 and $411.9 million on November 6. BlackRock drove…
Bitcoin Faces a Tougher Rate Outlook After US October Inflation Rises 0.4%
October US CPI rose 0.4% month on month and core CPI increased 0.3%. The hotter reading strengthened expectations of tighter monetary policy. For…
Valour Lists Eight New Crypto ETPs Including Canton, Morpho and Raydium
Valour, a subsidiary of DeFi Technologies, says it has added eight digital asset exchange-traded products to Sweden's Spotlight Stock Market. The November 5 announcement expands the issuer's range beyond the most established cryptocurrencies into a…
Circle Makes the Case for AI Agent Payments, With Spending Controls at the Center
Circle is arguing that stablecoins could become a useful payment layer for AI agents that buy software, access services or settle transactions on behalf of people and businesses. A November 4 explainer from the USDC issuer sets out what it calls…
Solana Changelog Puts Faster Web3.js Builds and Validator Work in Focus
Solana's November 5 developer changelog highlights a collection of tooling and validator improvements rather than one headline-grabbing network upgrade. Among them are faster builds for JavaScript applications, changes affecting validator…
Bybit Says $17.3B Proof of Reserves Covers 50 Assets, but the Audit Has Limits
Bybit says the latest snapshot of its proof-of-reserves system covered $17.3 billion in customer assets across 50 cryptocurrencies. The exchange's November 3 announcement describes its 41st report, with figures independently checked by security…
Re Protocol Tops $400M in Deposits as Onchain Reinsurance Yield Attracts Capital
Re Protocol says deposits across its reUSD and reUSDe products have exceeded $400 million, putting a relatively unfamiliar type of real-world asset exposure into the spotlight: insurance and reinsurance. Its November 4 announcement says the latest…
American Bitcoin Says Q3 Net Income Reached $126M as BTC Reserve Grew
American Bitcoin reported approximately $126 million in third-quarter net income and said its Bitcoin reserve increased through mining rather than new spot purchases during the period. The November 4 release also cites about $221 million in…
Hyperliquid Strategies Reports 38.5M HYPE Treasury After $802M Deployment
Hyperliquid Strategies says its HYPE token treasury reached 38.5 million tokens at September 30 after a quarter in which it deployed $802 million. The Nasdaq-listed company reported the figures on November 5 alongside plans to pursue futures…
Alchemy Pay Says Mississippi Licence Expands US Money Transmission Coverage to 20 States
Alchemy Pay says it has secured a money transmitter licence in Mississippi, taking the number of US states where it holds such authorizations to 20. The November 5 disclosure is another example of crypto payment providers building a state-by-state…
Lombard Systems Raises $4M to Make Tokenized Assets Easier to Borrow Against
Tokenizing an asset is only the beginning; financing it is another problem entirely. Lombard Systems announced $4 million in pre-seed and seed funding on November 5 to expand a standard it calls Delivery-versus-Lock, or DvL. The company wants…
Blockchain.com Adds Trading API for Institutional Crypto Execution
Blockchain.com has introduced a trading API intended to give institutions automated access to its principal liquidity across digital assets. The company announced the service on November 5 as an extension of its prime brokerage offering,…
BitPay Brings Apple Pay and Google Pay Checkout to Crypto Purchases
BitPay is trying to make buying cryptocurrency look more like an ordinary mobile checkout. On November 5, the company introduced an in-wallet purchase flow powered by MoonPay that supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, cards and SEPA in eligible European…
Bitso Business Says Stablecoin Payment Volume Now Runs Above $150B Annualized
Bitso Business says the payment flows passing through its infrastructure have reached an annualized rate above $150 billion, up 83% from $82 billion a year earlier. The November 4 disclosure puts Latin American cross-border payments back in focus…
EDX Markets Adds Bitcoin-Backed CBTC Trading for Canton Institutions
EDX Markets says it has partnered with BitSafe to introduce spot trading in CBTC, a Bitcoin-backed asset built for the Canton Network. The November 5 announcement describes the token's first centralized-exchange listing and an institutional…
21X and LayerZero Report 10,000 Onchain Order Matches Per Second in Pilot
European trading venue 21X and LayerZero say a private, permissioned deployment of Zero handled 10,000 order matches per second in a month-long technical pilot. The companies disclosed the result on November 4, reporting a 45-fold performance…
Schroders Emerging-Market Bond Strategy Moves Onto Solana Through Centrifuge
Schroders is bringing an emerging-market bond strategy into the tokenized fund market through Centrifuge on Solana. The November 4 announcement concerns the Schroder International Selection Fund Emerging Market Bond strategy, with Centrifuge…
Ondo Claims $4B in Tokenized Assets as RWA Market Gains Institutional Depth
Ondo Finance says its tokenized real-world-asset products have crossed $4 billion in value, with 484 distinct assets and more than 565,000 onchain holders. The figures appear in a corrected November 5 company announcement citing RWA.xyz data. They…
Dinari Adds Broadridge Voting Rails to Tokenized US Shares
Tokenized stocks have often promised easier access and faster settlement, but a less glamorous question keeps surfacing: can the holder vote? Broadridge and Dinari announced an integration on November 5 that aims to connect eligible holders of…
Broadridge Says Blockchain Repo Platform Processed $7.6T in October
Broadridge says its Distributed Ledger Repo service processed $7.6 trillion in repurchase agreement transactions during October, averaging $345 billion a day. The November 6 disclosure is a striking reminder that some of blockchain's largest…
Canton Hosts Tokenized US Share Trade Under SEC Innovation Exemption
A tokenized share transaction involving a Nasdaq-listed company has taken place on Canton under a US regulatory exemption, according to an announcement from venue operator TSV. The November 4 transaction involved shares of Canton Strategic Holdings…
SEC Staff Gives Canton Coin No-Action Relief, but the Conditions Matter
Canton Coin received an important piece of US regulatory clarity on November 3 when staff in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporation Finance issued a no-action response. The staff said, based on representations made to it,…
US Sanctions More Prince Group-Linked Companies as Crypto Scam Network Crackdown Widens
US officials are pursuing the corporate structures behind online investment scams, not merely the wallets receiving stolen funds. On November 5, Treasury sanctioned four individuals and 41 entities it says supported the Prince Group transnational…
FATF Plans Closer Scrutiny of Countries With Weak Virtual Asset Controls
Global crypto compliance rules may face a tougher practical test after the Financial Action Task Force agreed to review jurisdictions with longstanding shortcomings in virtual asset oversight. In a November 6 readout, the US Treasury said the…
US Sanctions Eight Canadian Money Services Firms Over Iranian Crypto Transfer Allegations
The US Treasury has added eight Canada-based money services businesses to its sanctions list, alleging that they helped move value for the Iranian regime and sanctioned actors. The November 6 action explicitly focuses on exchanges between local…
Stellar Foundation Backs Marketnode to Expand Tokenized Funds Across Asia-Pacific
The Stellar Development Foundation announced a strategic investment in Marketnode on October 29, aiming to widen institutional access to tokenized…