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Thailand SEC Files Complaint Against Bitget, Sets Dec. 5 Block
Binance Revokes All SignalPlus API Keys After Security Warning
French Assembly Rejects 2027 Budget, Shelving Stablecoin Tax
Trump Media Moves 4,259 BTC to Crypto.com Near Note Collateral Size
Arkansas Sues Kalshi Over Alleged Illegal Gambling Platform
Polygon PIP Proposes Hard Fork to Recover 70.49M Stolen POL
American Bitcoin Posts $126M Q3 Profit, Driven by $197M BTC Gain
Tesla and SpaceX Shares Fall After Democrats Win Congress and Texas
Lightning Labs Ships LND Mitigation for Critical Linux Kernel Bug
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Binance Revokes All SignalPlus API Keys After Security Warning
French Assembly Rejects 2027 Budget, Shelving Stablecoin Tax
Trump Media Moves 4,259 BTC to Crypto.com Near Note Collateral Size
Arkansas Sues Kalshi Over Alleged Illegal Gambling Platform
Polygon PIP Proposes Hard Fork to Recover 70.49M Stolen POL
American Bitcoin Posts $126M Q3 Profit, Driven by $197M BTC Gain
Tesla and SpaceX Shares Fall After Democrats Win Congress and Texas
Lightning Labs Ships LND Mitigation for Critical Linux Kernel Bug
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Binance Revokes All SignalPlus API Keys After Security Warning
Binance removed all API keys linked to SignalPlus on Nov. 5 after the options trading platform reported a potential security issue. The exchange says its systems were unaffected and user funds remain safe, but has not disclosed whether any accounts saw losses.
Trump Media Moves 4,259 BTC to Crypto.com Near Note Collateral Size
Wallets linked to Trump Media sent 4,259 BTC, roughly $342M to $344M, to Crypto.com on Nov. 5. The amount nearly matches the 4,260.73 BTC pledged against convertible notes that holders can put back on Nov. 30. No source confirms a sale.
Polygon PIP Proposes Hard Fork to Recover 70.49M Stolen POL
A Polygon Improvement Proposal would zero out five attacker-controlled addresses and credit about 70.49 million POL, stolen in the Binance and Polymarket incidents, to verified recovery wallets, without changing total supply.
American Bitcoin Posts $126M Q3 Profit, Driven by $197M BTC Gain
American Bitcoin swung to about $126 million in Q3 net income on a $197.3 million digital asset gain. Strip it out and operations lost about $5.5 million, with mining revenue, margins and production all down while holdings rose to about 8,427 BTC.
Regulation
Thailand SEC Files Complaint Against Bitget, Sets Dec. 5 Block
Thailand's SEC has filed a criminal complaint against Bitget operator BG Limited and asked the digital ministry to block the exchange from Dec. 5, while Bitget's purchase of licensed GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics (Thailand) awaits approval.
French Assembly Rejects 2027 Budget, Shelving Stablecoin Tax
France's National Assembly rejected the 2027 budget revenue section by 458 votes to none on Nov. 4, so the bill is deemed rejected at first reading. A stablecoin swap tax and self-custody reporting rule fall away but could return in the Senate from Nov. 20.
Arkansas Sues Kalshi Over Alleged Illegal Gambling Platform
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin sued Kalshi on November 4, calling its sports event contracts illegal gambling. The state seeks restitution, unpaid taxes and civil penalties, while Kalshi and the CFTC argue prediction markets fall under exclusive federal oversight.
Tesla and SpaceX Shares Fall After Democrats Win Congress and Texas
Musk gave at least $446 million to Republicans. After Democrats won both chambers of Congress and the Texas governorship, Tesla and SpaceX fell while the broad market rallied, and the incoming House Oversight chair told Musk's side to "lawyer up."
DeFi
Premia Labs Loses $464K in Arbitrum Vault Exploit
Premia Labs, the firm behind Kyan, lost an estimated $464,600 from its Arbitrum options vaults on November 1. PeckShield traced the funds through Chainflip and NEAR Intents into Bitcoin, and no reimbursement plan has been published yet.
Israel Extradites Nomad Bridge Hack Suspect Alexander Block to US
Alexander Block, accused of taking more than $2.8 million in the August 2022 Nomad bridge exploit, was handed to U.S. authorities on Oct. 29 after Israel's Supreme Court ruled that exploiting a smart-contract flaw is no different from exploiting any other program.
THORChain Pauses Swaps on 12 of 13 Chains After Ethereum Reorg Refund
An Ethereum reorganization led THORChain to refund the same 10 ETH deposit twice, tripping an emergency pause that froze swaps on 12 of 13 chains. Chainalysis says the halt slowed laundering of funds stolen from Binance, though the reorg, not policy, caused it.
Hackers Hijack 12 DeFi Sites via Name.com, Steal About $138K
At least 12 DeFi websites, all registered through Name.com, were hijacked late Friday and turned into wallet drainers using the Step Drainer toolkit. About $138,000 has been traced on EVM chains, while blame for the breach is split between Name.com and Vercel.
Technology
Nvidia Earnings Beat and $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Push Nasdaq Futures Up 1.1%
Nvidia stock jumped 7% in premarket trading Thursday after posting an earnings beat and announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1% on the news, arriving ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.
Mystery AI Model Ox Alpha Beats Claude Fable on Benchmarks, Creators Unknown
A new AI model called Ox Alpha has surfaced with no identifiable creators, a free price tag, and benchmark scores that outperform Anthropic's Claude Fable. The model ships with a 1 million token context window, accepts video as input, and is available at no cost.
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown
Inception Labs released Mercury 2, an AI model that outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma while preserving model intelligence during the shift from sequential to parallel processing. The development marks a significant architectural transition in the post-autoregressive era.
Quantinuum Surges 13% on Nasdaq IPO Debut, Raising $1.68B
Quantinuum's shares opened at $68 on their first day of trading on Nasdaq, a 13% jump from the $60 IPO price, raising $1.68 billion in total proceeds and valuing the quantum computing company at approximately $17.63 billion market capitalization.
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