Binance says hackers used fake job interview and internal AI tool in $6.3B breach; CZ warns of more AI-driven attacks
The disclosure details how North Korea-linked intruders spent months inside Binance using social engineering and an internal AI tool, a scale of loss that raise
The Block · +14 outlets
Democrats sweep House and Senate; crypto braces for new direction as Clarity Act prospects dim
A blue Congress puts the stalled market structure bill at risk after $170.5M of industry campaign spending, and Fairshake's losing record suggests crypto money
CoinDesk · +12 outlets
Circle beats earnings estimates on strong revenue but cuts 5% of its workforce
Stablecoin revenue growth alongside headcount cuts highlights how issuer economics are tightening even as USDC supply and transactional demand expand.
CoinDesk · +12 outlets
Morgan Stanley tokenizes US equities and Treasuries via DTCC service; bank leads Wall Street tokenization push
Twenty firms have signed up for the DTCC Tokenization Service, marking the first broad use of existing market plumbing for on-chain securities.
Decrypt · +12 outlets
Bitcoin rebounds after midterm dip; briefly fell to $75,700 as Democratic sweep bets rattled markets
BTC recovered after an election-night selloff while DeFi tokens led gains, with analysts framing the political outcome as a modest headwind rather than a struct
finance.yahoo · +4 outlets
CFTC approves crypto-style perpetual futures on US stocks, then faces lawsuit the same day
The agency cleared stock perpetuals through a crypto-adjacent route and was sued immediately, setting up a legal test for how equity derivatives get regulated.
Decrypt · +14 outlets
ZachXBT names French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as suspected victim of $133M crypto theft
The on-chain attribution gives a rare public link between a mainstream European lender and a nine-figure crypto loss.
CoinDesk · +14 outlets
SEC staff call Canton Coin a 'digital commodity' in letter covering network rewards
The staff guidance is a narrow but concrete signal on how tokens tied to institutional settlement networks may be treated outside securities law.
Yahoo Finance · +10 outlets
Schroders launches tokenized emerging markets debt fund on Solana with Centrifuge
A $1.1T asset manager putting an EM debt fund on a public chain extends tokenization beyond Treasuries into higher-yield credit.
The Block · +11 outlets
South Korea orders crypto wallet lockdown and weighs single cybersecurity czar after Binance hack
Seoul is tightening exchange and bank defenses in direct response to the Binance breach, including stress-testing lenders on hack scenarios.
CryptoSlate · +2 outlets
Jack Dorsey's Block faces $764M DOJ settlement as bitcoin profit falls 50%
A nine-figure federal penalty lands alongside a sharp drop in bitcoin gains, pressuring the payments firm's crypto-linked earnings.
CoinDesk · +3 outlets
Chainlink expands APAC equity price streams to six exchanges, covering $40T in Asian markets
Extending 24/7 on-chain pricing to Shanghai, Hong Kong and other Asian venues fills a gap that has limited tokenized equity products to US market hours.
ad-hoc-news.de · +5 outlets
US midterms: voters rebuff data centers in every ballot measure but one
Local opposition to data center buildouts is now showing up at the ballot box and hitting AI infrastructure stocks, a live risk for power-heavy crypto mining an
CNBC · +14 outlets
ApeChain plans switch from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP; ZRO drops 3.5%
A chain migrating its interoperability layer is a direct competitive loss for LayerZero and a win for Chainlink's cross-chain messaging business.
The Defiant · +1 outlets
Amazon, Tesla and SpaceX join objections to OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue as deadline looms
Issuers arguing their shares cannot be wrapped without consent could constrain how tokenized equity venues source underlying stock.
CoinDesk · +14 outlets
Riot Platforms sold 79% of its bitcoin last quarter, cutting holdings to 2,418 BTC
Large-scale miner liquidations reflect how post-halving economics push miners toward selling production to fund operations and AI hosting pivots.
finance.yahoo · +14 outlets
Justin Sun seeks sanctions against Trump-linked World Liberty Financial over UAE ties
The dispute pulls a politically connected DeFi venture into federal litigation and adds scrutiny to its foreign ownership structure.
CoinDesk
Polkadot loses $1.38M after hacker exploits dotUSD flaw that was fixed four months earlier
Treasury funds were drained via an unpatched deployment, a reminder that patched code is only as safe as the instances actually running it.
Cryptoslate · +1 outlets