Headlines from leading crypto publishers, updated every 15 minutes. Each item shows a short summary from the publisher's own feed and links to the full original story. Our own reporting is in Latest news.
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa says attackers reached it through a service provider’s platform, not through Fortuneo. The hackers used the bank’s own account to send money to other banks, and it was then likely converted into crypto.
Hong Kong’s Legislative Council passed a crypto tax-reporting bill on Nov. 4, 2026. Covered crypto providers must start collecting user information on Jan. 1, 2027. The Inland Revenue Department will begin sharing the data with partner jurisdictions in 2028.
Hong Kong passed new crypto tax reporting legislation on November 4, 2026. Covered crypto exchanges and brokers must begin collecting customer transaction information in January 2027. Hong Kong will begin exchanging crypto tax information with participating overseas authorities in 2028.
MARA Holdings moved 1,650 BTC, worth about $132.8 million, to Galaxy Digital, Copper and other platforms around November 5. MARA stock fell 4.05% while Bitcoin edged down 0.10%. The transfer follows 996.105 BTC sent to a Galaxy-linked wallet on October 8-9.
Arthur Hayes says share unlocks at SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI could weigh on markets. He estimates 8.6 billion more SpaceX shares could become tradable by June 2027. He projects an 83% rise in Anthropic’s available share supply by that date.
Eligible US businesses can send USDC or OUSD to crypto wallets in more than 160 recipient markets. The service is in public preview, and New York companies are excluded for now.
Official Trump token fell 17% and World Liberty Financial’s token dropped over 7% after Democrats won Congress. Bitcoin rose more than 4% to about $80,500 while Trump-linked tokens slid. Trump Media & Technology Group stock hit a record low of $5.23 at the open.
ZEC rose about 9% to $1,310 on Nov. 4 and returned to the top 10 by market cap. NU7 is set to activate at block 3,543,405, expected around Nov. 5.
Robert Kiyosaki said on X on Nov. 4 that he bought more bitcoin, gold and silver while others panicked. He points to rising global debt, especially in the US, and calls fiat money a way to take wealth from savers.
Chainlink launched Chainlink 24/7, an always-on pricing service for tokenized stocks and other real-world assets. Aave is the first partner, using the feeds on its institutional Horizon platform. LINK traded near $11.52 on November 4, with a market cap of about $8.84 billion.
Wallets tied to Trump Media sent 4,259 bitcoin, worth about $342 million, to Crypto.com. The amount nearly matches the 4,260.73 bitcoin pledged as collateral for its convertible notes. Noteholders can demand repayment on Nov. 30, which could cost the company about $1 billion.
Ethereum has the larger market cap, the most stablecoins and tokenized assets, and a longer track record. Solana offers faster blocks, very low fees and a falling inflation rate, but has had outages.
XRP rose 4% to $1.31 on Wednesday. A security upgrade on the XRP Ledger went live. Wallets holding 1 million or more XRP reached 2,147, a 2026 high. Whale net outflows from exchanges climbed to 696 million XRP.
Ethereum rose above $2,400 on November 4, its first time over that level since October 23. ETH gained about 8% from its election-night low of $2,245. The ETH/BTC ratio rose 2.2% to 0.0302, and Ether led the large coins.
Coinbase says the $6.3 billion Binance hack did not affect it. More than 99% of customer assets sit in cold storage. Coinbase uses split signing keys, withdrawal limits and activity monitoring. Binance says the attack began with a fake job interview.
Bitcoin rose 3.5% to about $80,500 on Wednesday after the US midterm elections. Ether gained nearly 6% to $2,433, while Solana and XRP rose about 2.5%. Crypto futures volume climbed 27%, but open interest rose only 3%.
StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson warned that Bitcoin needs stronger security against future quantum attacks. Blockstream co-founder Adam Back rejected predictions that quantum computing would inevitably cause Bitcoin to collapse. Quantum computers running Shor’s algorithm could theoretically break Bitcoin’s current digital signatures.
Charles Hoskinson is developing an undisclosed concept that he says only Midnight can deliver. Crypto commentator Fire Hustle believes NIGHT could benefit more directly than ADA from the proposed project.
Schroders is bringing its emerging markets bond strategy to Solana through a partnership with Centrifuge. The London-based asset manager oversaw approximately $1.1 trillion in assets as of June 2026. The offering marks Schroders’ first investment fund on the Solana blockchain.
US spot XRP ETFs have attracted approximately $1.81 billion in cumulative net inflows. The five tracked XRP funds held about $1.46 billion in assets following November 3 trading. Estimated unrealized losses stood near $440 million, down from approximately $489 million on October 31.
Cryptocurrency has had a hard year. Bitcoin closed June 2026 at $58,524, then rallied to $87,397 on September 21, its highest price since January. That swing has many people asking if now is a good time to invest.
Proof of work and proof of stake are the two main ways cryptocurrencies check and record transactions. Both aim to stop anyone from spending the same coin twice without a bank in the middle. They go about it in very different ways.
Crypto bridges move tokens and data between blockchains that cannot talk to each other on their own. They are also one of the most attacked parts of crypto. This article explains how bridges work and what the numbers show about hacks.
Objections to OKX-ICE’s tokenized stock plan have reached 56 companies, up from 50 on Friday. About 79% of the 62 companies first picked for the venue have objected. Thirteen companies from the original list have not disclosed an objection, including Apple and Coinbase.
Onchain investigator ZachXBT named Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as the alleged victim of a crypto theft above $133 million. He said total losses could be higher because of over-the-counter activity not counted in earlier estimates.
RUNE traded near $0.64 on Wednesday, up about 15% in 24 hours, per CoinMarketCap. THORChain restarted swaps on 10 external networks after running its v3.21.1 update. Cosmos Hub, BNB Smart Chain and Solana remain halted with no reopening date.
Democrats won control of the Senate and House in the 2026 midterms, according to the Associated Press. Sherrod Brown won in Ohio despite about $63 million in crypto industry spending against him. Several crypto-friendly Republicans lost or faced close races, including Maine’s Susan Collins.
Solana (SOL) trades near $92.91 on Wednesday, November 4, after an intraday low of $89.73. SOL is down about 25% from its late-September high near $124. US spot Solana ETFs lost about $71.6 million between October 26 and October 30.
BitMart founder Sheldon Xia confirmed a hack on November 2 and called the loss small. Bitquery traced about $391,000 in outflows from BitMart-linked wallets to an address used in the Mercado Bitcoin attack.
DOGE trades near $0.0750 after falling about 25% from early-October highs near $0.10. The coin sits below the $0.0792 resistance level, with $0.068 as the next major support. Dogechain data shows weekly transactions down 41% from a year earlier.