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Fidelity Macro Chief Timmer Still Favors Bitcoin Over Gold
FinCEN Cuts MEXC Off From US Banks Over $16B Illicit Flows
Chainalysis Says Password Hashes, Live Tokens Exposed for All Users
Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to $2.47M Crypto Theft
US Treasury Sanctions 45 More Targets Tied to Prince Group
Ondo to Offer Tokenized Anthropic Shares on IPO Day Outside the U.S.
Gnosis Pay Confirms Card Data Breach, Mandates 3D Secure
Treasury and Fed Withdraw $250 Travel Rule Threshold Proposal
Bank of Russia Sets Nov. 17 Date for Retail Bitcoin, Ether, USDT Rules
GOPAX Halts Trading and Withdrawals After Hacking Threat Email
PBOC Confirms Halt of Solana Shanghai Event, Opens Probe
Greece Passes 10% Crypto Gains Tax and 15% Levy on DeFi Income
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FinCEN Cuts MEXC Off From US Banks Over $16B Illicit Flows
Chainalysis Says Password Hashes, Live Tokens Exposed for All Users
Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to $2.47M Crypto Theft
US Treasury Sanctions 45 More Targets Tied to Prince Group
Ondo to Offer Tokenized Anthropic Shares on IPO Day Outside the U.S.
Gnosis Pay Confirms Card Data Breach, Mandates 3D Secure
Treasury and Fed Withdraw $250 Travel Rule Threshold Proposal
Bank of Russia Sets Nov. 17 Date for Retail Bitcoin, Ether, USDT Rules
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Fidelity Macro Chief Timmer Still Favors Bitcoin Over Gold
One Bitcoin now buys about 21 ounces of gold, up from 12 at the cycle low. Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer says that relative strength is why he still prefers BTC over gold, even with both assets 60-70% correlated to the S&P 500.
Chainalysis Says Password Hashes, Live Tokens Exposed for All Users
A Nov. 4 Chainalysis update says password hashes and live tokens for all users were exposed, reversing its Oct. 30 finding. KYT and Address Screening are returning in phases behind IP allowlists; Reactor and Data Solutions stay offline.
Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to $2.47M Crypto Theft
Former FBI agent Patrick Steven Yaroch pleaded guilty to stealing $2,474,380.66 in crypto through roughly 100 transfers tied to 35 FBI investigations. He faces up to 20 years in prison, with sentencing set for March 4, 2027.
Ondo to Offer Tokenized Anthropic Shares on IPO Day Outside the U.S.
Ondo Finance plans to offer tokenized Anthropic shares through Ondo Stocks from the AI company's first trading day. Holders get structured notes backed by real shares, not equity, and U.S. persons are excluded.
Regulation
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.
US Treasury Sanctions 45 More Targets Tied to Prince Group
OFAC sanctioned four individuals and 41 companies tied to Prince Group, including an airline, a Hong Kong lender and a Tokyo mansion transfer. No wallet addresses were listed, but US holders must still block and report covered crypto.
Treasury and Fed Withdraw $250 Travel Rule Threshold Proposal
FinCEN and the Federal Reserve Board have withdrawn a 2020 proposal to lower the cross-border recordkeeping threshold from $3,000 to $250, effective Nov. 9. The existing Travel Rule still applies to crypto, and the agencies left room for future rules after public comment.
Bank of Russia Sets Nov. 17 Date for Retail Bitcoin, Ether, USDT Rules
The Bank of Russia set Nov. 17 as the effective date for rules opening Bitcoin, Ether and USDT to retail investors, capped at 300,000 rubles a year per intermediary with mandatory testing. Moscow Exchange plans pilot trading from Dec. 1.
DeFi
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.
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.
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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