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Grayscale Pledges $1M and Launches Zcash Invest for ZCSH ETF
Jupiter Launches Baskets and Curated Vaults Ahead of Breakpoint
Alta Raises $47.5M Series A From Index Ventures, $80M in Total
Moody's and Chainlink Pilot Credit Ratings Across Blockchains
Shareholder Suit Accuses Nvidia and Huang of Hiding Spy Ties
Ripple Prime Head Marc Asch to Step Down; Noel Kimmel Takes Over
Binance Warns iOS Flaw Could Expose Wallet Seed Phrases and Keys
Fed Governor Waller Backs December Hike as Bitcoin Slips Toward $74K
SpaceX Stock Jumps 5.8% to $142 Amid $24B Texas Data Center Plan
BitGo Q3 Revenue Falls 51% to $2.85B as Treasury Gain Lifts Profit
Bitcoin Loses 108,700 Wallets as Smart Money Adds 14,200 BTC
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Alta Raises $47.5M Series A From Index Ventures, $80M in Total
Moody's and Chainlink Pilot Credit Ratings Across Blockchains
Jupiter Launches Baskets and Curated Vaults Ahead of Breakpoint
Shareholder Suit Accuses Nvidia and Huang of Hiding Spy Ties
Ripple Prime Head Marc Asch to Step Down; Noel Kimmel Takes Over
Binance Warns iOS Flaw Could Expose Wallet Seed Phrases and Keys
Fed Governor Waller Backs December Hike as Bitcoin Slips Toward $74K
SpaceX Stock Jumps 5.8% to $142 Amid $24B Texas Data Center Plan
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Grayscale Pledges $1M and Launches Zcash Invest for ZCSH ETF
Grayscale launched Zcash Invest and committed $1 million to the Zcash ecosystem, with $400,000 already granted to four groups. The money comes from ZCSH's 2.5% sponsor fee, which holders still pay, and the 12-month pledge can be changed at any time.
Alta Raises $47.5M Series A From Index Ventures, $80M in Total
Alta has raised a $47.5 million Series A led by Index Ventures, bringing total funding to $80 million. The company is building privacy-preserving, compliance-ready blockchain infrastructure for regulated institutions, with Airwallex as an early design partner.
Moody's and Chainlink Pilot Credit Ratings Across Blockchains
Moody's Ratings and Chainlink completed a testnet pilot delivering sample credit ratings to permissioned and permissionless blockchains simultaneously via CCIP and Moody's Token Integration Engine. No live ratings were published, and neither party has said when, or whether, they will follow.
Ripple Prime Head Marc Asch to Step Down; Noel Kimmel Takes Over
Marc Asch, founder of Hidden Road and head of Ripple Prime, leaves at the end of the year. SVP Noel Kimmel steps up to lead the prime brokerage unit Ripple bought for $1.25 billion in April 2025.
Regulation
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.
Blumenthal Sets Jan. 4 Deadline for Binance, Tether, Trump Firms
Binance, Tether, World Liberty Financial and Fight Fight Fight LLC have until Jan. 4, 2027 to voluntarily produce records. Blumenthal lacks subpoena power as ranking member, but his office now calls him the incoming PSI chair.
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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