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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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, 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.
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.”
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.
The reentrancy family of attacks occur when a smart contract makes an external call to another untrusted contract before it resolves its own state.
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 CEO Brian Armstrong announced today that the Coinbase Embedded Wallet now supports sign-in via Google, Apple, and X.
The crypto exchange Gemini, founded by the Winklevoss twins, is gearing up to expand into the increasingly hot business of prediction markets.
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.
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.
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 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.
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’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, 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.
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 are back in the picture – prices are up, supply looks capped, and privacy-minded users are asking whether they’re worth it.
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.
Axios reports that ConsenSys (the Ethereum infrastructure studio behind MetaMask, Infura and Linea) has tapped JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to lead a potential listing.
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.
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 collapses multi-chain busywork into one signed request.
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.
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 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.
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.”
PayPal and OpenAI have struck a deal to make PayPal the first embedded payments wallet inside ChatGPT, with “Instant Checkout” and agent-driven shopping set to roll out from 2026. Today’s announcement places PayPal as the default wallet for conversational commerce inside OpenAI’s flagship product.
The US market is set to list a first wave of Altcoin ETFs this week (Solana, Litecoin and Hedera) despite a federal shutdown that has paused most non-emergency regulatory work.
Coinbase and Citi have announced a collaboration to make stablecoin-powered payments feel ordinary (faster, round-the-clock, and audit-friendly).
IBM has unveiled Digital Asset Haven, a blockchain orchestration platform built with wallet-infrastructure specialist Dfns.
What is x402? A machine to machine payment standard that revives HTTP 402 Payment Required so clients can pay for web resources using stablecoins inside the request itself.
Crypto startups funding hits $99.6 million in a week, driven by infrastructure and banking projects.
KGST launches as Kyrgyzstan advances its national cryptocurrency strategy, including a stablecoin and CBDC.
The new CFTC Chair is set to be Michael Selig after President Donald Trump chose the crypto-savvy lawyer to run the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, according to multiple briefings that the White House sent to reporters on 24 October 2025.
Bitcoin vs Tokenised Gold debate intensifies as Peter Schiff challenges CZ amidst soaring asset prices.
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