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NYSE Names Avalanche Core Settlement Ledger for Tokenized Stocks
IRIS to Launch Borrowing at Fixed Rates on SparkLend Nov. 10
Formation Securities Notifies SEC of Solana Tokenized Stock Venue
Polish Sejm Votes to Let Minister Freeze Crypto Without Court Order
Robinhood Opens US IPO Access to UK Retail Investors
Coinbase Wins Full National Trust Charter From the OCC
Solana Draft SIMD-0723 Would Retire Durable Nonces After May 2027
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Durov Says Telegram Users Opened 700,000 Wallets in Two Days
Pavel Durov says Telegram users created more than 700,000 self-custodial wallets in 48 hours. The explorer count includes wallets with no onchain activity, TON TVL is about $42 million, and GRAM sits more than 87% below its 2024 high.
Strategy Buys 1,036 BTC, Spends $188.3M on STRC Buybacks
Strategy put more than twice as much MSTR sale money into STRC buybacks as into bitcoin last week: $188.3M versus $81.9M for 1,036 BTC. Holdings reached 850,364 BTC at a $75,456 average cost, with BTC trading near $74,800.
NYSE Names Avalanche Core Settlement Ledger for Tokenized Stocks
Avalanche will run the core clearing and settlement ledger for NYSE's planned tokenized securities venue. AVAX popped about 8% to near $8.7, but the role is settlement only, the platform still needs regulatory approval and the token remains down over 28% year-to-date.
Formation Securities Notifies SEC of Solana Tokenized Stock Venue
Formation Securities has notified the SEC it intends to run a permissioned Solana market for tokenized U.S. stocks under the Innovation Exemption, starting with Exodus, Forward Industries and Galaxy Digital in early 2027. The notice is not SEC approval.
Regulation
Polish Sejm Votes to Let Minister Freeze Crypto Without Court Order
Poland's lower house approved the Act on Restrictive Measures on Nov. 6, letting the interior minister freeze crypto, bank balances and property by administrative decision. Exchanges would have to block listed customers' assets before judicial review.
Blumenthal Sets Jan. 4 Deadline for Binance, Tether, Trump Firms
Binance, Tether, World Liberty Financial and Fight Fight Fight LLC have until Jan. 4, 2027 to voluntarily produce records. Blumenthal lacks subpoena power as ranking member, but his office now calls him the incoming PSI chair.
Paris Court Jails Former Holograph Employee 5 Years Over HLG Theft
A former Holograph Foundation employee got five years, two to be served, over the illegal minting and theft of 1 billion HLG tokens. The court awarded direct damages but refused compensation for the token's price decline, finding it had already fallen before the fraud.
FinCEN Cuts MEXC Off From US Banks Over $16B Illicit Flows
FinCEN has ordered US financial institutions to stop processing transfers to or from MEXC Global, alleging at least $16 billion in illicit transactions tied to Russian sanctions evasion, Iran and North Korea. The order takes effect 30 days after Federal Register publication.
DeFi
IRIS to Launch Borrowing at Fixed Rates on SparkLend Nov. 10
IRIS plans to go live Nov. 10 with fixed-rate loans that settle on SparkLend. Solvers compete via off-chain RFQ to quote fixed terms, backed by bonds that absorb floating-rate swings. Borrowers still face collateral liquidation and owe full-term interest.
Greece Passes 10% Crypto Gains Tax and 15% Levy on DeFi Income
Greece's parliament approved its first dedicated crypto tax framework on Nov. 5: 10% on capital gains, 15% on staking, lending and DeFi liquidity income, and a €500 annual exemption that disappears once crossed. The rules apply from Jan. 1, 2027.
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.
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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