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Groma Launches First Permissioned Asset Pool on Uniswap v4
Anchorage Digital Applies for CFTC Swap Dealer Registration
Kraken Parent Payward and Clients Buy Undisclosed Amount of AAVE
Ukraine Central Bank Refuses to Back Crypto Bill 10225-d
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
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French Assembly Rejects 2027 Budget, Shelving Stablecoin Tax
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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
Anchorage Digital Applies for CFTC Swap Dealer Registration
Anchorage Digital Swap Dealer, LLC has applied to the NFA for CFTC swap dealer registration. If approved, it plans European-style bitcoin and ether options of up to one year. The NFA review is open and no timeline was given.
Ukraine Central Bank Refuses to Back Crypto Bill 10225-d
Ukraine's central bank says draft crypto law 10225-d fails to address foreign tokens acting as electronic money, regulatory arbitrage and operator licensing, and wants lawmakers to revise it before second reading. The finance committee recommended approval anyway.
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.
DeFi
Groma Launches First Permissioned Asset Pool on Uniswap v4
Uniswap now hosts its first permissioned asset: Groma's GRO-USDC pool on Base lets accredited, allowlisted investors buy and redeem tokenized REIT equity at net asset value, with compliance enforced by the Permissioned Pools Hook.
Kraken Parent Payward and Clients Buy Undisclosed Amount of AAVE
Kraken parent Payward and its asset management clients bought an undisclosed amount of AAVE through an affiliated fund. The deal is tokens only, unlike June talks that included a 15% equity stake in Aave Group, and the two sides are exploring collaboration.
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.
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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