Vantage and Rio Bank Settle Loan Payment With Tokenized Deposits on Ethereum
Trump Skips the Word Crypto at White House Cybercrime Roundtable
Binance Drops 2h44m of Blue Ocean Data From US Stock Perp Funding
Bitcoin Volatility Nears 2026 Lows Ahead of Fed Meeting and $12B Options Expiry
Dogecoin Labs Launches to Unite MyDoge, DogeOS and Such App
UK FCA Opens Consultation on DeFi Guidance GC26/7, Closes November 18
Securitize to Mint Stablecoins Directly With Anchorage Digital Bank
Eclair Ships Two Security Releases in Five Days for Lightning Nodes
Polkadot Warns Fearless Wallet Users: Assume Compromise, Move Funds Now
Musk Backs Tesla SpaceX Merger That Would Hold 30,221 BTC
Glassnode: Late 2025 Bitcoin Buyers Are Capping Rallies Near $87K
Stand With Crypto Logs 10,092 UK Complaints Over Blocked Crypto Transfers
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Polkadot Warns Fearless Wallet Users: Assume Compromise, Move Funds Now
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Vantage and Rio Bank Settle Loan Payment With Tokenized Deposits on Ethereum
Principal and interest reached the receiving bank's wallet in under three minutes. Vantage Bank and Rio Bank used tokenized deposits on Ethereum mainnet, running the payment through Participate and the Hazel Network built with Custodia Bank.
Binance Drops 2h44m of Blue Ocean Data From US Stock Perp Funding
A connectivity failure at US overnight trading venue Blue Ocean led Binance to exclude nearly three hours of premium index data from the 08:00 UTC funding calculation on its US stock perps, exposing the third-party risk behind TradFi perpetuals.
Bitcoin Volatility Nears 2026 Lows Ahead of Fed Meeting and $12B Options Expiry
Bitcoin volatility is closing in on its 2026 lows as K33 Research points to thin trading activity. DVOL sits near 37 and Bollinger Bands span about 6.5% of price, with the FOMC meeting on October 28 and a roughly $12 billion options expiry on October 30.
Securitize to Mint Stablecoins Directly With Anchorage Digital Bank
Securitize, home to tokenized funds from BlackRock, Apollo and KKR, will source settlement dollars from federally chartered Anchorage Digital Bank instead of intermediaries, bringing OCC supervision to the cash leg of its trades.
Regulation
Trump Skips the Word Crypto at White House Cybercrime Roundtable
At a White House cybercrime roundtable billed as a push against foreign crypto scams, Trump and Attorney General Todd Blanche never said "cryptocurrency," even as Trump faces scrutiny over his family's crypto ventures.
UK FCA Opens Consultation on DeFi Guidance GC26/7, Closes November 18
The UK Financial Conduct Authority published GC26/7, draft non-Handbook guidance on how firms using or offering access to DeFi protocols meet existing obligations, alongside CP26/36 on perimeter exclusions. Both close November 18, 2026; final guidance is due January 2027.
Stand With Crypto Logs 10,092 UK Complaints Over Blocked Crypto Transfers
A Stand With Crypto UK report counts 10,092 complaints over blocked or capped bank transfers to FCA-registered crypto exchanges in 90 days. Lloyds, Barclays and NatWest account for about half, and Lloyds has no published restriction policy.
OCC Finalizes First GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rule, Effective Jan. 18
The OCC is the first regulator to finalize its GENIUS Act stablecoin rule, effective Jan. 18, 2027. It drops a proposed presumption on third-party rewards, will review programs case by case and gives existing rewards no safe harbor.
DeFi
Dogecoin Labs Launches to Unite MyDoge, DogeOS and Such App
Dogecoin Labs, a joint effort between the Dogecoin Foundation and House of Doge led by CEO Jordan Jefferson, unites the MyDoge wallet, the DogeOS rollup and Such App. DogeOS is on testnet with no mainnet timeline yet.
UK FCA Opens Consultation on DeFi Guidance GC26/7, Closes November 18
The UK Financial Conduct Authority published GC26/7, draft non-Handbook guidance on how firms using or offering access to DeFi protocols meet existing obligations, alongside CP26/36 on perimeter exclusions. Both close November 18, 2026; final guidance is due January 2027.
Nectar Group Raises $5M at $30M Valuation for Bitcoin Income Platform HoneyB
Nectar Group closed a $5 million seed at a $30 million post-money valuation for HoneyB, a pre-launch platform that lets holders borrow stablecoins against BTC and route them into income strategies. The CEO targets 2% to 4% net on bitcoin; launch is planned for Q4 2026.
Lulo Boost Deposits Take 6.4% Drawdown on Neutrl NUSD Exposure
Lulo's Boost tier took a roughly 6.4% drawdown from Neutrl NUSD exposure while Protected deposits stayed whole. Neutrl is redeeming NUSD at 0.51 USDC, and the hit may wipe out more than a year of Boost's yield premium.
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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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