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Visa Adds Western Union USDPT to VisaNet Settlement via Anchorage
Visa and eligible partners can now settle VisaNet obligations in Western Union's USDPT. Anchorage Digital, which issues the token, says it is building a framework with Visa to add more of its bank-issued stablecoins.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
Unocoin Flags Outgoing ETH From BitGo Address as Lockout Continues
Unocoin says ether moved out of a BitGo address six days after it asked BitGo to freeze its enterprise account. BitGo has opened an investigation, the amount and destination are undisclosed, and users remain locked out while a server rebuild runs four to five working days.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
Securitize and Ethena Open $100M Liquidity Facility for BUIDL
Securitize and Ethena Labs launched a 24/7 facility letting eligible investors swap BlackRock's tokenized BUIDL fund for stablecoins and back. It opens with $50M split between BUIDL and USDC, with a $100M maximum that is conditional, not guaranteed.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
SoFiUSD Goes Live on Polygon as Its Third Blockchain
SoFiUSD, the dollar stablecoin issued by SoFi Bank, N.A., is now live on Polygon, its third chain after Ethereum and Solana. SoFi members can buy, sell, hold and convert it in the app with no separate wallet or manual bridging.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
Nvidia Names Kress Interim CEO as Huang Resigns; NVDA Drops 10%
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia president, CEO and director effective Nov. 11. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO, Harvey C. Jones became the first board chair, NVDA fell about 10% premarket, and Citi, Bernstein and KeyBanc turned cautious ahead of Nov. 17 earnings.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
DTCC to Add Solana to Its Tokenization Service in 2H 2027
DTCC will connect its tokenization service, live since Oct. 28 on Canton and Besu, to Solana in the second half of 2027. It gave no Solana securities list, and cross-chain conversions remain reserved for future releases.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
BNY Taps Figment to Add Staking to Digital Asset Custody
BNY will use Figment's validator infrastructure to let eligible institutions stake assets held in its Digital Asset Custody service and earn rewards without moving them. It is the bank's second staking partnership of 2026, after an August deal with Galaxy Digital.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
Sygnum Launches ETH Alpha Fund Targeting 8% to 10% in ETH
Swiss bank Sygnum opened its ETH Alpha Fund SP on Nov. 2, targeting 8% to 10% annual returns in ETH by layering options, arbitrage and funding strategies on top of staking yields of about 2% to 3%.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
Backpack Signs Yen Banking Agreement With Minna Bank in Japan
Backpack's Japanese subsidiary Trek Labs Japan has signed a cooperation agreement with Minna Bank to explore yen deposits and withdrawals via BaaS, tokenized deposits and app integration. Everything depends on Trek Labs Japan securing crypto exchange registration.
MarketsHadi Ghadban
Tron, Tether and Chainalysis Launch Digital Crime Task Force
Tron, Tether and Chainalysis launched a Digital Crime Task Force using Chainalysis data and AI to flag illicit USDT on Tron and help law enforcement freeze funds faster, months after the T3 Financial Crime Unit with TRM Labs disbanded.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
Ethlabs Pulls Quick Slots, Urges 2027 Ethereum Quantum Upgrade
Ethlabs is pulling Quick Slots from the Hegotá hard fork and proposing pqai27, a plan to bring Ethereum's post-quantum and post-AI readiness forward to 2027, two years ahead of the Ethereum Foundation's December 2029 roadmap. Core developers have not approved it.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
Nomura Explores Sale of Crypto Unit Laser Digital, Marex Interested
Nomura is exploring a sale of its crypto unit Laser Digital, with Marex Group among potential buyers. The talks are preliminary and follow four straight quarterly losses at Nomura's European operations, including a 7.4 billion yen pretax loss for the September quarter.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
MidChains Names Standard Chartered as Banking Partner in UAE
VARA-licensed broker-dealer MidChains has named Standard Chartered as its banking partner, with the bank providing fiat settlement, segregated client money accounts and correspondent banking for the UAE-headquartered firm's institutional services.
MarketsHadi Ghadban
Zcash Holders to Vote on Removing 50,000 ZEC From Grants Treasury
A draft Zcash proposal by Sean Bowe, Zooko Wilcox and Jason McGee would pull 50,000 ZEC, about $49 million, from the grants treasury into the Network Sustainability Mechanism and redirect ZCG's 8% stream into a locked legal and dev fund. Polling opens Nov. 16.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
Solana Company Q3 Revenue Hits $3.4M as Staking Income Climbs
Solana Company reported $3.4 million in Q3 revenue, about $3.3 million of it from staking at a 5.9% net yield. Net income hit $105.2 million, but $102.7 million was an unrealized gain on SOL that can reverse if the token falls.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
Ava Labs Exec Says NYSE Deal Ends the General Purpose Chain Era
John Nahas, chief business officer at Ava Labs, says the NYSE-affiliated tokenized securities platform using Avalanche for settlement marks "the end of the general purpose era" as institutions seek control and predictable costs.
MarketsBlockchain Academics Newsroom
Scottish Court Jails Robert Barr for 8 Years Over Prison Crypto Plot
A Scottish court jailed Robert Barr for eight years for plotting a £2 million ($2.7 million) crypto theft from prison. Accomplices were to force the victim to install AnyDesk; the plot failed when the couple refused to open their door.
MarketsBlockchain Academics Newsroom
Apex Group Joins Hedera Council, Eyes Tokenization on the Network
Apex Group, which services more than $3.5 trillion in assets, has taken a seat on the Hedera Council and plans to explore the network for tokenization. Here is what the seat does and does not mean for HBAR.
MarketsJulie "Mooncat" Wolf
Bitcoin Core Flaw Let Thousands of Nodes Trust Incoming Tor Peers
A non-default -whitelist setting covering the Tor daemon's IP gave incoming Tor peers exemptions from denial-of-service limits and privacy protections on thousands of nodes. Bitcoin Core disclosed the flaw on Nov. 10, alongside two other bugs fixed in October 2025.
MarketsHadi Ghadban
Stacks Labs Moves sBTC on Mainnet With Lamport Signatures
Stacks Labs moved 0.00001 sBTC through a hash-based Lamport signature verifier on Stacks mainnet on Oct. 15. It is an opt-in vault path, not a quantum upgrade for existing sBTC or the Taproot-held Bitcoin backing it.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
Derive Options Price 31% Odds of Bitcoin Below $70,000 by Christmas
Bearish odds on Derive more than doubled in a week as bitcoin posted five straight weekly losses. Puts now make up 55% of premiums, a whale hedged 300 BTC below $60K, and K33 says perps leverage leaves the market ripe for a squeeze either way.
MarketsJulie "Mooncat" Wolf
Nvidia Sheds $430B in Two Days as Senator Urges Huang to Resign
Nvidia fell 5.5% Tuesday after a 4.3% Monday drop, erasing 2026 gains. Sen. Cramer and Larry Kudlow urged Jensen Huang to resign, the board hired Wachtell Lipton, and Rep. Mast set a Wednesday subpoena deadline.
RegulationAlejandro Silva Ramírez
Deutsche Bank Launches Crypto Custody for European Institutions
Deutsche Bank has launched a paid crypto custody service for European institutional and corporate clients, covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, EURC and EURAU under its October MiCA registration. Trading, retail access and fees are not part of the initial offering.
MarketsHadi Ghadban
Across Protocol Regains Domain After Hijack, GoPlus Sees $350K Loss
Across Protocol has its across.to domain back after a November 10 hijack routed users to a phishing page. GoPlus estimates nearly $350,000 lost across six chains. Across has not confirmed the figure but says all affected users will be made whole.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab