Hyperliquid’s POPCAT wipeout: inside the $63m liquidation cascade
On Thursday, Hyperliquid (one of DeFi’s busiest perp venues on its own Layer-1) endured what analysts dubbed “peak degen warfare.”
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Newly released emails show Epstein-linked money helped fund MIT’s Bitcoin Core initiative
Newly disclosed emails from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein show that the late financier helped underwrite MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative in 2015, money that, at least in part, supported work on Bitcoin Core, the reference implementation of the Bitcoin protocol.
Uniswap launches Continuous Clearing Auction for fair token launches
Uniswap Labs has unveiled Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA), a permissionless, on-chain mechanism for price discovery and liquidity bootstrapping on Uniswap v4.
UAE completes first government payment using Digital Dirham CBDC
The United Arab Emirates has executed its first government-to-government payment using the Digital Dirham, marking the CBDC’s debut in live public-sector operations on 11 November.
UK Sentencing of Zhimin Qian, the China crypto fraudster
On 11 November 2025, Southwark Crown Court jailed Qian for 11 years and eight months for laundering proceeds from a vast China-based fraud that targeted more than 128,000 victims.
Coinbase token sales platform targets regulated issuance
Coinbase’s move toward a dedicated token sales platform signals a shift: from improvised listings to a defined, regulated primary market for crypto assets. If implemented with discipline, it will not resemble the 2017 ICO carousel. it will not resemble the 2017 ICO carousel.
IOSCO Tokenisation warning for RWA markets
IOSCO‘s tokenisation warning lands at exactly the wrong moment for anyone selling tokenisation as a free, clean structural upgrade.
IRS staking safe harbor unlocks institutional proof-of-stake ETFs
The U.S. Treasury and IRS released Revenue Procedure 2025-31, a staking safe harbor that finally gives spot crypto ETFs and other grantor-investment trusts permission to stake proof-of-stake assets without blowing up their tax status.
Chainlink launches CRE: Chainlink Runtime Environment
Chainlink Labs has officially brought its Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to mainnet, a modular, cross-chain orchestration layer designed to bridge traditional finance and blockchain ecosystems.
How privacy coins are reshaping blockchain analytics
For over a decade, the blockchain analytics sector (dominated by heavyweights like Elliptic, TRM Labs and Chainalysis) has thrived on a foundational truth: transparency as the unassailable bedrock of the crypto economy.
James Chanos closes Strategy short
Renowned short-seller James Chanos, founder of Kynikos Associates, has exited his eleven-month hedged trade (short Strategy (MSTR), long Bitcoin) at the 7 November 2025 market open.
Suspects in Roman & Anna Novak case now in custody
Russian authorities have arrested multiple suspects accused of abducting and killing crypto fraudster Roman Novak and his wife Anna Novak in the UAE this October.
The Bank of England stablecoin consultation
The Bank of England stablecoin consultation published on Monday does something rare in crypto policy: it stops hand-waving and lays out a concrete operating model for sterling stablecoins that want to sit inside the UK’s monetary system rather than on its fringes.
SharpLink turns ETH staking into a corporate flex
Since June 2025 the Nasdaq-listed firm SharpLink has stacked 859,853 ETH, worth around $2.9 billion, and put it to work in an institutional staking strategy that has already accrued 6,575 ETH in rewards, with 459 ETH earned in a single week.
The SANDBOX: Crypto gaming isn’t dead, it just stopped shouting
Every crypto conference nowadays, I hear the same line. On panels, in side rooms, over burnt coffee, someone declares with great authority that “crypto gaming is dead.” The metaverse was a fad, play-to-earn was a scam, nothing shipped, it’s all gone.
USDX depeg: DeFi’s “delta-neutral” blind spot
USDX, a delta-neutral stablecoin issued by Stables Labs, snapped its $1, flushing to $0.3887 and hovering far below par on a circulating supply that recently sat near $680 million.
Bank of England Stablecoin rules set to match the US framework
The Bank of England Stablecoin framework is finally taking shape, as Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden confirmed the UK intends to roll out its rules “just as quickly as the US.”
Cathie Wood cuts BTC Price Target
Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood has shaved $300,000 off her 2030 BTC price target, trimming the bull case from $1.5 million to $1.2 million in a CNBC appearance, and blaming stablecoins for doing the transactional work she once expected from Bitcoin, especially in emerging markets.
Reentrancy Family of Attacks
The reentrancy family of attacks occur when a smart contract makes an external call to another untrusted contract before it resolves its own state.
zachXBT and BNB: lowering the noise, raising the bar
BNB Chain has done something grown-up: it has hired scrutiny. The zachXBT and BNB collaboration isn’t myth-making or a new lick of paint; it proceeds on the view that proof travels further than posture.
Coinbase Embedded Wallet to Support Google and Apple Logins
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced today that the Coinbase Embedded Wallet now supports sign-in via Google, Apple, and X.
Gemini Enters Prediction Markets
The crypto exchange Gemini, founded by the Winklevoss twins, is gearing up to expand into the increasingly hot business of prediction markets.
Linea Exponent puts numbers ahead of narratives
Linea’s Exponent is a three-month growth programme on its Ethereum L2 that pays for provable user adoption. Teams deploy on Linea, verify users, and rise on a public leaderboard based on on-chain activity.
MEV bot operator returns $12.8M in Berachain Balancer exploit
A white-hat MEV operator has emerged at the centre of the Berachain exploit, playing a decisive role in recovering and returning nearly $12.8 million drained from the network’s native DEX, BEX, during the broader Balancer V2 vulnerability on 3 November 2025.
Moonwell exploit highlights perils of stale oracles
The Moonwell exploit on 4 November 2025 drained roughly $1 million (about 292 ETH) from the multi-chain lending protocol after it relied on a deprecated Chainlink rate feed for the rsETH/wrsETH pair, a case study in the risk of stale oracle data.
Bitcoin’s hashprice slumps as price dips below $100K
Bitcoin briefly slipped below the psychologically charged $100,000 line this week, unsettling miners, traders and analysts. The asset touched $99,800 on Bitstamp, marking its first sub-six-figure print since late June.
Prosecutors seek maximum sentence in Samourai Wallet case
U.S. prosecutors have urged a Manhattan court to impose the maximum five-year prison term on Samourai Wallet co-founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, who pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money-transmitting business that helped launder more than $237 million.
Balancer hack, V2 vaults drained in $100M exploit
Balancer’s V2 vaults were picked clean for roughly $70.6m on Ethereum and (via forks and clones) roughly $116m across chains (figures under verification). The incident underscores how migration inertia and latent code paths can magnify residual risk.
Berachain hard fork. Emergency response after Balancer exploit
Berachain, a high-performance EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, executed an emergency hard fork following a critical exploit linked to Balancer V2’s smart contract vulnerability.
CZ Aster buy sparks 30% rally
Aster’s token (ASTER) jumped nearly 30% on Sunday after Binance founder Changpeng Zhao disclosed that he had personally purchased around $2 million worth of the asset. The move, shared publicly on X, marks one of the few times Zhao has announced a token acquisition using his own funds.
Telegram Anonymous Numbers, privacy feature or NFT hype?
Telegram Anonymous Numbers are back in the picture – prices are up, supply looks capped, and privacy-minded users are asking whether they’re worth it.
Zcash hashrate surges to multi-year high ahead of halving
After years in the shadows, Zcash (ZEC) is back in the spotlight. As of early November 2025, the Zcash hashrate has rocketed to 12.53 Giga Solutions per second (GS/s), marking a multi-year high and a surge of over 50 percent since early October.
ConsenSys IPO moves into view, lines up Wall Street heavyweights
Axios reports that ConsenSys (the Ethereum infrastructure studio behind MetaMask, Infura and Linea) has tapped JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to lead a potential listing.
Human Rights Foundation raises alarm over The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has sounded a clear warning: The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin is no longer a sci-fi edge case but a planning mandate.
Zcash’s privacy promise – and the edge where surveillance lives
Privacy rarely breaks at the math, it frays at the edges. As Zcash draws fresh attention, it’s worth separating robust on-chain cryptography from the real-world seams (servers, traffic patterns and defaults) where observers have always found leverage.
NEAR Intents, a simple way to move value across chains
NEAR Intents collapses multi-chain busywork into one signed request.
Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade locked for 3 December
Ethereum core developers have formally set 3 December 2025 (~21:49 UTC, slot 13,164,544) for mainnet activation of the Fusaka Upgrade, following clean rollouts on all public testnets and a final green light on today’s ACDC call #168.
Arc Public Testnet goes live. Circle’s ‘Economic OS’ for the internet
The Arc Public Testnet is now open. Circle is inviting developers, fintechs, banks, stablecoin issuers and infrastructure providers to start building on what it calls an Economic OS for the internet, a Layer 1 designed for real-world finance with USDC at its centre.
Ondo Finance RWA expands with Chainlink and BNB chain
Ondo Finance is redefining real-world asset tokenisation. In the span of 48 hours, it launched Ondo Global Markets on BNB Chain, introduced 100+ tokenised U.S. stocks and ETFs, and announced a strategic partnership with Chainlink. Wall Street, now on BNB Chain.
Solana Rings NYSE Bell as BSOL ETF Shatters Records
At exactly 4:00 PM ET on October 30, Solana’s founders rang the iconic New York Stock Exchange closing bell, and the message couldn’t have been clearer: “We’re still open.”
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