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Arkham Traces $63 Million in Bitget Hack Funds to CoinJoin
The firm traced 847.26 BTC into mixing transactions and reported another 959.29 BTC in labelled wallets, as recovery efforts continue.
Nomura Explores Laser Digital Sale, Bloomberg Reports
Marex is among the potential buyers, according to Bloomberg. The talks concern a business spanning crypto trading, asset management and onchain credit partnerships.
Extended Opens XTEN Checker With Dec. 31 Signing Deadline
Unaccepted allocations will move to the Ecosystem Fund. Starknet accounts must nominate a self-custodial EVM wallet, while the token launch date remains unannounced.
Variational Ends Omni Beta, Removes Invite-Code Gate
The trading API remains unavailable under Variational’s published documentation, while its VAR token is still scheduled for Q4 2026.
Stacks Tests Post-Quantum Signatures With sBTC Transfer
A mainnet vault withdrawal used a Lamport one-time signature. The test does not upgrade ordinary sBTC wallets or the Bitcoin backing the token.
Anthropic Perp Exposure Tops $300 Million in Snapshots
Buildix readings span multiple Hyperliquid markets. The Trade.xyz contract alone showed $109.4 million, about 30% above The Defiant’s Nov. 10 snapshot.
Keplr User Reports 1,200 ATOM Move Amid Recovery Effort
Onchain records confirm the staked assets moved to an address outside the Nov. 8 recovery list. That does not establish who controls it.
OKXICE Sets Nov. 23 Stock-Token Launch After Objections
The venture expects more than 70 assets, including 59 Direxion ETFs, but issuer objections still constrain shares tokenized by unaffiliated third parties.
iOS 27.2.1 Leaves Sandbox Flaw Open, Researcher Says
The worse_query escape could expose wallet data stored in plaintext, SlowMist warned. Trust Wallet and Zerion said their iOS users are not affected.
xStocks Adds 200-Plus UK and EU Stock Tokens With GTN
The rollout includes LVMH, Rolls-Royce and SAP, but does not open xStocks to UK investors. GTN handles execution and custody of the underlying assets.
Evernorth Slides 24% After 73.7 Million-Share Filing
The XRP treasury company's prospectus covers potential resales by existing investors, but it does not lift key holders' six-month lock-ups.
Uphold Marks Crypto Withdrawal Disruption Resolved
Fiat deposits, withdrawals and trading continued normally while the platform worked around an outage at its transaction-monitoring provider.
MetaMask Adds Mobile Limit Orders Across Four Chains
Orders use revocable wallet permissions and a default 3% price tolerance. Reaching the target price does not guarantee a fill.
Ether, SOL and XRP Slide as Liquidations Hit $580 Million
Coinbase spot markets recorded SOL below $82 and XRP below $1.05, while bitcoin extended its decline beneath $73,000.
Banks Commit $270 Million to Stablecoin Venture: Report
The reported funding would cover five years of operations for the issuer, whose consortium has targeted a first-half 2027 dollar stablecoin launch.
HYPE Falls 18% in a Week, Lagging Bitcoin and Ether
Hyperliquid’s token reached a four-week sampled low as daily fees recovered from an early-November dip.
PNC Launches USDC Payments Pilot With Coinbase
Eligible corporate and institutional clients can accept USDC on Ethereum, with proceeds automatically converted into dollars in their PNC accounts.
BitGo Returns to Profit on Crypto Gains as Revenue Halves
Platform clients rose 33.1% year over year, but revenue after direct costs fell 32.1%.
Pump.fun Adds Cross Margin to Hyperliquid-Powered Perps
The app adds TWAP execution and manual margin adjustments after launching its perpetual futures service with isolated margin on Oct. 28.
Luke Dashjr Promotes Rival BIP Repository as 'Official'
The fork restores Dashjr's editor listing and BIP-110's 'Complete' status, while bitcoin/bips remains active with five editors.
Bitcoin Falls Below $73,000 to Fresh 10-Week Low
The Coinbase low undercut Sunday's trough by nearly 1%; Kraken also recorded a sub-$73,000 print.
Polymarket Says Revenue Run Rate Tops $1.8 Billion
The US exchange recorded $14.77 billion in October face-value turnover, while its fees vary by contract price, product and trader tier.
Visa Adds Monad to Stablecoin Settlement: The Block
Visa’s seven-day settlement model lets institutions move funds beyond the banking week; Mastercard announced a similar expansion in June.
Anthropic Perp Trades Above IPO Range on Hyperliquid
The ANT contract references one Class A share, but gives traders no equity or IPO allocation rights and is expected to continue trading after the listing.
XRP Drops 24% in Four Weeks, Lagging Bitcoin and Ether
XRP's seven-day loss reached 18.3%, compared with bitcoin's 5.7% decline, as conversions of stolen XRP into bitcoin continued.
Zcash Falls Below $1,100 as Daily Loss Reaches 10.5%
Monero also sank 9.2%, while bitcoin and ether posted smaller declines. ZEC traded about 31.5% below a late-September level above $1,600.
Solana Hits Four-Week Low as Losses Outpace Bitcoin
SOL has lost 22.9% in 28 days, while Solana ETF trackers recorded fresh withdrawals on Nov. 6 and Nov. 9.
Grayscale Pledges $1 Million in Zcash ETF Campaign
ZCSH trades on NYSE Arca and held $675.7 million in assets as of Nov. 9. Its prospectus sets a 2.5% annual sponsor fee.
Jupiter Adds Token Baskets and Curated Yield Vaults
Third-party curators will run the vault strategies, while basket users authorize automatic trades from individual vaults rather than pooled funds.