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Justin Sun Seeks Sanctions Against World Liberty Over UAE Disclosure
CFTC Clears Perpetual Futures on Individual Stocks for US Exchanges
Binance Ties $6.3B Hack to Fake Job Interview, Says 98% Replenished
Aztec Tierra V6 Fixes Critical V5 Bug, Doubles Proof Speed
Tether CEO Says Firm Holds About 150,000 Bitcoin, Worth $11.5B
Liquid Network Restores 1:1 LBTC Backing After September Exploit
France Delays 2027 Budget Vote Again After Crypto Exit Tax Defeat
NEAR Falls 9% to $3.75 as AI Tokens Sell Off, Issuance Cut Passes
North Korea Rejects FBI Blame for $6.3B Binance Hack
Claude Writes Linux Exploit for Bug Ubuntu Has Not Patched
Trezor Raises Wallet Passphrase Limit From 50 to 128 Characters
Securitize Adds 13 Tokenized Stocks on Solana, Bringing Total to 25
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CFTC Clears Perpetual Futures on Individual Stocks for US Exchanges
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Tether CEO Says Firm Holds About 150,000 Bitcoin, Worth $11.5B
Liquid Network Restores 1:1 LBTC Backing After September Exploit
France Delays 2027 Budget Vote Again After Crypto Exit Tax Defeat
NEAR Falls 9% to $3.75 as AI Tokens Sell Off, Issuance Cut Passes
North Korea Rejects FBI Blame for $6.3B Binance Hack
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Markets
Binance Ties $6.3B Hack to Fake Job Interview, Says 98% Replenished
Binance says hackers used a fake job interview in a months-long social engineering campaign. 98% of impacted tokens are replenished, a second withdrawal phase began Nov. 3, and a new reserve snapshot lands Nov. 4.
Aztec Tierra V6 Fixes Critical V5 Bug, Doubles Proof Speed
Aztec Foundation launched Tierra, Alpha V6, on its privacy Ethereum L2. It fixes a critical V5 bug, doubles proof speed to about one second and cuts Ethereum message delivery from two minutes to 12 seconds. Builders must recompile and redeploy.
Tether CEO Says Firm Holds About 150,000 Bitcoin, Worth $11.5B
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the issuer holds about 150,000 BTC, worth roughly $11.5B. Its BDO-prepared Q3 attestation implies about 100,060 BTC, and Ardoino gave no wallet breakdown or purchase schedule for the gap.
Liquid Network Restores 1:1 LBTC Backing After September Exploit
Four deposits totaling about 602.5 BTC, the last on Nov. 2, restored 1:1 backing for LBTC after the September exploit. The federation has not published who paid, and direct federation peg-outs remain restricted.
Regulation
Justin Sun Seeks Sanctions Against World Liberty Over UAE Disclosure
Tron founder Justin Sun has filed a sanctions motion against World Liberty Financial, alleging the Trump family-backed protocol disclosed its UAE citizenship only after months of litigation, in a bid to escape federal court. He plans to refile in California state court.
CFTC Clears Perpetual Futures on Individual Stocks for US Exchanges
The CFTC said Tuesday that perpetual futures on individual stocks can trade on US exchanges registered with both the CFTC and SEC. No exchange, contracts or launch date were named, and CME's pending lawsuit over funding-payment contracts hangs over the product.
France Delays 2027 Budget Vote Again After Crypto Exit Tax Defeat
The French National Assembly delayed its 2027 budget revenue vote again with 758 amendments pending and a November 17 deadline. Two crypto exit tax amendments failed, while self-custody reporting and a stablecoin-swap tax remain in play.
New Jersey Rescinds Coinbase Staking Order and $5M Penalty
New Jersey has rescinded its cease-and-desist order against Coinbase staking, dropping a $5 million penalty without prejudice. Residents have been locked out since June 2023; California, Maryland, Washington and Wisconsin still restrict the product.
DeFi
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.
THORChain Pauses Swaps on 12 of 13 Chains After Ethereum Reorg Refund
An Ethereum reorganization led THORChain to refund the same 10 ETH deposit twice, tripping an emergency pause that froze swaps on 12 of 13 chains. Chainalysis says the halt slowed laundering of funds stolen from Binance, though the reorg, not policy, caused it.
Hackers Hijack 12 DeFi Sites via Name.com, Steal About $138K
At least 12 DeFi websites, all registered through Name.com, were hijacked late Friday and turned into wallet drainers using the Step Drainer toolkit. About $138,000 has been traced on EVM chains, while blame for the breach is split between Name.com and Vercel.
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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