Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) designated crypto exchange MEXC Global as a primary money laundering concern over alleged illicit flows tied to Russia and Iran, threatening severe penalties for non-compliant U.S. financial institutions. The enforcement action carries an open effective date, setting a 30-day enforcement clock that will officially begin only after ...
Key Highlights: Federal crypto legislation remains impeded following the Senate procedural failure of the CLARITY Act, leading observers to conclude: “We do not expect substantial movement in Congress on key digital assets legislation.” While industry and AI political action committees saw victories in 40 non-competitive races, they dropped nine of 12 closely contested races called ...
Key Highlights: Santiment on-chain metrics show top profitable XRP trader wallets leaning heavily bearish, with three active short positions accumulating roughly 2.1 million XRP since late October. A contested XRP downside prediction pointing toward a $0.99 price target on Santiment’s Score Arena platform is slated for final resolution on November 19. Despite active shorting in ...
Key Highlights Strategy’s Stretch (STRC) preferred shares combine an active monthly dividend framework with large-scale corporate bitcoin reserve backing. Capital management tools, including shelf registrations, at-the-market offerings, and share buybacks authorized up to $3 billion, manage market pricing around the $100 stated value. STRC holders have no direct collateral claim on underlying bitcoin, relying on ...
Key Highlights: Bitcoin mining difficulty reached 148.36 trillion on 29 October 2026, remaining roughly 4.88% beneath the historic record of 155.97 trillion set precisely one year earlier on 29 October 2025. With Bitcoin trading near $75,577 and total network hashrate averaging roughly 1.02 zettahashes per second (ZH/s), hashprice has dropped to approximately $33.4 per petahash ...
Key Highlights: Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs and the FBI have attributed the largest cyber theft in cryptocurrency history to the North Korean state-backed hacking unit TraderTraitor. Binance committed more than $6.34 billion from its internal reserves to fully back user assets as the broader ecosystem worked swiftly to freeze between $2.7 billion and $3 ...
Key Highlights: Falcon-1024 outperforms Dilithium in block space efficiency, requiring 3,073 bytes for its combined public key and signature compared to Dilithium’s 5,261 bytes at Category 3. Blockstream identified significant deployment hurdles for Falcon-1024, including a 90 KB signing memory footprint, floating-point math complexity, and a lack of hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallet derivation. While Falcon ...
Key Highlights: Binance France will halt all deposit services on November 29, leaving withdrawals as the sole remaining platform function before accounts permanently close on December 31. Remaining balances after November 29 will incur a monthly maintenance fee of 0.025%, subject to a minimum charge of 10 $USDC. The shutdown follows the expiration of Binance ...
Key Highlights: Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) defied broad crypto ETF redemptions, securing $42.8 million in net inflows on an otherwise negative day. Outflows remained heavily concentrated, with BlackRock’s IBIT shedding roughly $403 million out of a broader $412 million category loss, while Spot Ethereum ETFs lost $93.19 million. The dual-day outflow streak followed ...
Key Highlights BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) experienced $405.3 million in net outflows on November 2, driving the bulk of the $398.6 million total sector-wide redemptions. The massive withdrawal extended IBIT’s losing streak to five consecutive sessions, bringing total redemptions to over $1 billion during that timeframe. Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) bucked the ...
Key Highlights: The open-source project Tether enables Linux desktops to access iPhone SMS, iMessage conversations, contacts, and app notifications over Bluetooth without iOS modifications. By emulating a trusted Bluetooth accessory, the tool leverages BlueZ alongside standard profiles including MAP, PBAP, and Apple Notification Center Service (ANCS). November 2026 documentation updates focus on classic Bluetooth (BR/EDR) ...
Key Highlights: Elon Musk warned that the United States faces national bankruptcy without massive productivity gains driven by artificial intelligence and robotics as national debt surpassed $40 trillion in late 2026. JPMorgan Asset Management included Bitcoin in its Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions report for the first time, projecting a 10% annualized return through 2036. Elon ...