Thailand Supreme Court Rules Bitcoin Is Property in Robbery Case
Fed Holds Rates at 3.75% to 4% in 10 to 2 Vote, Bitcoin Nears $81K
Coinbase Lists Ripple RLUSD Across Prime, Exchange and Retail App
SpaceX Stock Falls 3% to $143 as Russia and India Unveil Starlink Rivals
Jupiter and BitGo Launch Institutional SOL Validator in Custody
Avail Launches ShieldTX to Block Bots Copying Hyperliquid Traders
DTCC Launches Tokenization Service With 20 Banks and Firms Signed On
Ripple Expects $900M Product Revenue Run Rate by End of 2026
Bithumb Confirms Hack of Internal Groupware, Probes Data Leak
Coinbase Denies Breach as Amplitude Incident Hits Customer Contact Data
Datavault AI Shares Drop Up to 48% as Biconomy Bitcoin Withdrawal Stalls
Robinhood Q3 EPS Misses at $0.51 as Crypto Revenue Drops 55%
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Fed Holds Rates at 3.75% to 4% in 10 to 2 Vote, Bitcoin Nears $81K
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SpaceX Stock Falls 3% to $143 as Russia and India Unveil Starlink Rivals
Jupiter and BitGo Launch Institutional SOL Validator in Custody
DTCC Launches Tokenization Service With 20 Banks and Firms Signed On
Ripple Expects $900M Product Revenue Run Rate by End of 2026
Bithumb Confirms Hack of Internal Groupware, Probes Data Leak
Coinbase Denies Breach as Amplitude Incident Hits Customer Contact Data
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Fed Holds Rates at 3.75% to 4% in 10 to 2 Vote, Bitcoin Nears $81K
The Fed held its benchmark rate at 3.75% to 4% in a 10-2 vote, with Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack pushing for a hike. Bitcoin whipsawed between $81,687 and below $80,500 before settling near $81,000 as $167M in crypto liquidations hit, mostly shorts.
Coinbase Lists Ripple RLUSD Across Prime, Exchange and Retail App
Ripple's RLUSD, a $2.6 billion stablecoin, is now live on Coinbase Prime, Coinbase Exchange and the retail app, with 1:1 dollar conversion and support on XRP Ledger, Ethereum and Base. Collateral support on Coinbase Global Exchange is expected to follow.
SpaceX Stock Falls 3% to $143 as Russia and India Unveil Starlink Rivals
SpaceX stock dropped 3.38% to $143, its lowest since October 15, as Russia showed off Rassvet and India's Jio builds a Starlink rival. Rassvet has 31 satellites against Starlink's 11,190. The FCC spectrum vote on October 29 looms larger.
Jupiter and BitGo Launch Institutional SOL Validator in Custody
Jupiter and BitGo launched the Jupiter x BitGo validator, letting institutional clients stake SOL directly from custody accounts while assets stay in BitGo cold storage, backed by up to $250 million in insurance.
Regulation
Thailand Supreme Court Rules Bitcoin Is Property in Robbery Case
Thailand's Supreme Court has ruled that Bitcoin qualifies as property under criminal law, rejecting a defendant's claim that it has no intrinsic value and upholding a 10-year sentence for a 2022 Koh Samui robbery.
Polymarket Probes Dozens of Midterm Bets, Refers Two Cases to CFTC
Polymarket's investigations chief Shana Bautista told NPR the platform has probed dozens of midterm election bets, with at least two cases referred to the CFTC, as its surveillance system flags hundreds of alerts a day ahead of the Nov. 3 vote.
Binance Files for Brazil Crypto License, Delists 22 Tokens for Local Users
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Hyperliquid Plans Payward as First HIP-3 Deployer Regulated by the CFTC
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DeFi
Avail Launches ShieldTX to Block Bots Copying Hyperliquid Traders
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