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XRP Ledger Foundation Outlines Quantum Upgrade Targeting 2028
Uphold Closes Crypto Withdrawal Incident After Six Days of Delays
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Visa Adds Monad to Stablecoin Settlement Program
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Plume Affiliate Kimber Digital Securities Wins SEC, Finra Approval
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Jupiter Launches Baskets and Curated Vaults Ahead of Breakpoint
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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.
Helius Launches Solana Privacy Rings on Mainnet
Helius switched on Solana Privacy Rings on mainnet on Nov. 10. The permissionless default Ring hides assets and amounts but keeps sender and recipient addresses visible. Decrypt, Ore and Aurora Intents are live; compliance-focused Custom Rings target Q4 2026.
Banks Reportedly Commit $270M to Joint Dollar Stablecoin Venture
Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Santander and Deutsche Bank are among firms that reportedly committed about $270 million to a joint stablecoin venture, funding five years of operations for a U.S. dollar stablecoin issuer targeting a first-half 2027 launch.
Regulation
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%.
Trump Says He Knows Nothing About World Liberty UAE Stake
In a 60 Minutes interview published Nov. 8, Trump confirmed he co-owns World Liberty Financial but said he knows nothing about its UAE-linked investors, as Justin Sun seeks sanctions over the company's citizenship filings and Democrats gain subpoena power.
Polish Sejm Votes to Let Minister Freeze Crypto Without Court Order
Poland's lower house approved the Act on Restrictive Measures on Nov. 6, letting the interior minister freeze crypto, bank balances and property by administrative decision. Exchanges would have to block listed customers' assets before judicial review.
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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