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TSMC Confirms Employee Data Leak as Hackers Seek 3 BTC
Blockstream and Thales Launch Offline Bitcoin Custody System
House Oversight Memo Floats Prediction Market Ban for Officials
Meta Tests Takes Prediction App With Employees Using Cred Points
Israeli Police Arrest Five in $5M WhatsApp Crypto Laundering Probe
MEGA Cuts 20% of Staff Days After $30M AI Product Pledge
FBI Warns of North Korean FaceStealer Scam, $400M Stolen in 18 Months
BitGo Says Unocoin Transfers Were Signed With Two Unocoin Keys
Bitcoin Heads for Sixth Weekly Loss as Anthropic IPO Looms
BTCS Sells ETH Below Cost to Manage $64.1M Aave Loan
Coinbase Backs CFTC in Court Fight Over Stock Perpetuals
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Blockstream and Thales Launch Offline Bitcoin Custody System
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TSMC Confirms Employee Data Leak as Hackers Seek 3 BTC
TSMC confirmed employee personal data appeared online without authorization. Forum sellers want 3 BTC for a claimed 46,000 records and 6.9 GB of data. TSMC says the records matched data held by an unnamed cloud provider and its own systems show no breach.
Blockstream and Thales Launch Offline Bitcoin Custody System
Blockstream's new institutional custody system, built with Thales, runs the full Secure-MPC signing protocol inside hardware security modules. CEO Adam Back argues complex MPC is a liability as AI-assisted attacks grow.
FBI Warns of North Korean FaceStealer Scam, $400M Stolen in 18 Months
North Korean hackers behind the FaceStealer campaign used fake video calls to steal $400 million in crypto over more than 18 months, the FBI warned. Authorities shut down the campaign's cloud infrastructure and recovered over 900 victim webcam videos.
BitGo Says Unocoin Transfers Were Signed With Two Unocoin Keys
BitGo says its systems were not breached and the disputed Unocoin transfers were signed with the exchange's own user and backup keys. Unocoin suspects misuse of a backup mechanism, gives no loss figure, and services remain suspended during a server rebuild.
Regulation
House Oversight Memo Floats Prediction Market Ban for Officials
Chairman James Comer released a staff memo from the committee's insider trading probe, recommending Congress consider restrictions on officials' prediction market trading while crediting Polymarket and Kalshi for self-policing.
Meta Tests Takes Prediction App With Employees Using Cred Points
Meta has started internal testing of Takes, a prediction market app where employees wager cred points instead of real money. Meta gave no launch timetable and has not said whether real-money contracts are possible, as 13 states pursue enforcement against the sector.
Israeli Police Arrest Five in $5M WhatsApp Crypto Laundering Probe
Lahav 433 detained five suspects over about $5 million in crypto transactions arranged through a WhatsApp group. Police allege fictitious loan agreements disguised proceeds sent to bank accounts, amid a wider gap in crypto tax reporting in Israel.
Coinbase Backs CFTC in Court Fight Over Stock Perpetuals
Coinbase filed an amicus brief on November 10 backing the CFTC's approval of single-stock perpetual futures. A trade challenger says the contracts are security-based swaps; the SEC has left the classification open, and Arthur Hayes says he is flattered.
DeFi
BTCS Sells ETH Below Cost to Manage $64.1M Aave Loan
Ethereum treasury firm BTCS sold ETH below its cost basis to manage a $64.1 million Aave loan backed by 46,676 ETH. The figures imply a liquidation price near $1,717 as ETH trades around $1,935, though BTCS reports no liquidations.
Hyperion DeFi Posts Record $39.6M Q3 Net Income on HYPE Gains
Hyperion DeFi reported record Q3 2026 net income of $39.6 million, driven mostly by HYPE treasury gains, while core operations turned a profit for the first time since its June 2025 DeFi pivot. Cash flow stayed negative and the $20M buyback is barely used.
Suiet Wallet to Shut Down as API Services End After Nov. 14
Suiet, a self-custodial browser extension wallet for Sui, is shutting down with API services ending after Nov. 14. Funds stay on chain, but users need their recovery phrase to migrate as Sui TVL drops more than 22% in a month.
Jupiter Launches Baskets and Curated Vaults Ahead of Breakpoint
Jupiter is rolling out Baskets, Vaults, Portfolio V3 and Pulse ahead of Solana Breakpoint. Vaults open November 11 in private beta, with curator-run strategies, share-diluting fees, withdrawals of up to 30 days and no loss coverage from Jupiter.
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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