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Bitget Wallet Expands AI Checks After Phishing Alerts Rise 7.4x
SEC Enforcement Actions Fall 24% to 348, Lowest Since 1991
Deutsche Bank Launches Crypto Custody for European Institutions
Across Protocol Regains Domain After Hijack, GoPlus Sees $350K Loss
CFTC Warns Kalshi of Imminent Charges Over Contract Notices
XRP Ledger Foundation Outlines Quantum Upgrade Targeting 2028
Uphold Closes Crypto Withdrawal Incident After Six Days of Delays
Helius Launches Solana Privacy Rings on Mainnet
Banks Reportedly Commit $270M to Joint Dollar Stablecoin Venture
Visa Adds Monad to Stablecoin Settlement Program
HYPE Drops 18% in a Week, Lagging Bitcoin and Ether
Plume Affiliate Kimber Digital Securities Wins SEC, Finra Approval
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SEC Enforcement Actions Fall 24% to 348, Lowest Since 1991
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Deutsche Bank Launches Crypto Custody for European Institutions
Deutsche Bank has launched a paid crypto custody service for European institutional and corporate clients, covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, EURC and EURAU under its October MiCA registration. Trading, retail access and fees are not part of the initial offering.
Across Protocol Regains Domain After Hijack, GoPlus Sees $350K Loss
Across Protocol has its across.to domain back after a November 10 hijack routed users to a phishing page. GoPlus estimates nearly $350,000 lost across six chains. Across has not confirmed the figure but says all affected users will be made whole.
XRP Ledger Foundation Outlines Quantum Upgrade Targeting 2028
The XRP Ledger Foundation has outlined ML-DSA-44 post-quantum signatures for accounts, validators and list publishers. Base fees stay flat, transactions grow about 213%, and review costs are put at $215,000 to $255,000. No mainnet date is set.
Uphold Closes Crypto Withdrawal Incident After Six Days of Delays
Uphold closed its crypto transfer incident on Nov. 10, six days after delays began. It blamed an unnamed transaction-monitoring partner. Fiat kept running, but users reported waits of up to four days and bank-run claims spread online.
Regulation
SEC Enforcement Actions Fall 24% to 348, Lowest Since 1991
The SEC filed 348 enforcement actions in fiscal 2026, down about 24% from 456 and the fewest since 1991. Remedies totaled about $1.095 billion, the lowest since 2008, as Chair Paul Atkins defended a focus on fraud.
CFTC Warns Kalshi of Imminent Charges Over Contract Notices
The CFTC has privately warned Kalshi of possible charges over how it notified the agency about new products, Politico reported. A source says dozens of products are involved; Kalshi says a handful, many never live, and that it is already addressing the issue.
Plume Affiliate Kimber Digital Securities Wins SEC, Finra Approval
Kimber Digital Securities, affiliated with Kimber Labs and Plume, registered with the SEC and won Finra membership, becoming a U.S. broker-dealer. Its platform, linking self-custodial wallets to DTC entitlements, targets a first-half 2027 debut, though ATS registration is still pending.
Shareholder Suit Accuses Nvidia and Huang of Hiding Spy Ties
A shareholder suit filed Monday in federal court in California accuses Nvidia and Jensen Huang of misleading investors about Huang's alleged ties to a Megaspeed executive US officials reportedly view as a Chinese intelligence asset. Nvidia shares closed down 4.27%.
DeFi
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.
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.
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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