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Analysts see no broader ‘contagion’ from $6.3B Binance hack
Analysts see limited contagion from the $6.3B Binance hack after Binance pledged to cover all user losses.
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Bitcoin Price Drops Below $74,000 as Nvidia Probe and Regulation Fears Spark $1 Billion in Liquidations
Bitcoin fell below $74,000 and about $1B in liquidations hit after a Nvidia probe and regulation fears.
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Strategy (MSTR) Adds 1,036 Bitcoin for $81.9 Million as Holdings Slip Below Cost
Strategy added 1,036 BTC for $81.9M, lifting holdings to 850,364 BTC while its average cost sits above the market price.
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NYSE picks Avalanche to settle tokenized stocks amid Wall Street's blockchain race
NYSE has picked Avalanche as the core settlement ledger for its planned blockchain stock exchange, a notable institutional infrastructure move.
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Mercado Bitcoin Begins View-Only Reopening After Hack
Mercado Bitcoin is reopening view-only after a hack, replacing stolen assets with company funds; trading and payments return in later phases.
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Coinbase Wins Final OCC Approval to Charter a National Trust Company for Crypto Custody
Coinbase received final OCC approval for a national trust charter for crypto custody, with no date yet for customer custody transfer.
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Bitcoin loses 50-week moving average as 24-hour crypto long liquidations top $1 billion
Bitcoin closed below its 50-week moving average as over $1B in long positions were liquidated.
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Binance faces renewed scrutiny as CFO exits amid compliance turmoil
Binance CFO exit nine days after a major theft raises compliance questions, though the exchange says the timing was planned.
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Robinhood opens access to US IPOs for UK retail investors
Robinhood UK customers can now request shares in eligible US IPOs at the offer price before trading starts.
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Bitcoin ETFs shed $1.3B in biggest weekly outflow since late June
Bitcoin ETFs saw $1.3B in weekly outflows, the largest since late June, with IBIT alone losing $1.21B as BTC fell below $76,000.
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Bitcoin Trades Near $73,900 After Four-Week Low
Bitcoin fell to about $73,900 after a four-week low, with ether down 18.8% over 28 days versus bitcoin's 12.2%.
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Binance's bitcoin mining pool finds just one block in a week as shutdown nears
Binance's mining pool has nearly vanished from block rankings ahead of its November 10 closure, a concrete signal of shrinking industry share.
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Long Term Holders Just Set a Multi-Year Record Low For Volume This Weekend
On-chain data shows coins held over three years had a sharp drop in weekend movement, the lowest since June 2023.
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Onchain data casts doubt on insider-trading theory in NYT’s ‘suspicious’ election betting story
Onchain data and two outside experts undercut the NYT's suspicious-betting claims about election markets, finding no strong sign of insider trading.
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Binance names new CFO days after $6.3 billion cryptocurrency hack
Binance named a new CFO days after a $6.3 billion hack; the snippet lacks detail on the hack or its impact.
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Bitcoin Trades Below Strategy’s $75,451 Average Purchase Price
Strategy's 849,327 BTC is now worth about $63.58B against a $64.08B cost basis, so the company sits underwater on its average purchase price.
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Stablecoin growth has stalled. The payments boom hasn't
Stablecoin supply has stalled even as payments activity surges, a useful divergence to watch, with Circle earnings as the example.
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BlackRock's IBIT holders sold 56,800 BTC near $63K in June, then bought 78,000 back near $77,600. Their average cost is $81,136 a coin, so they're about 6.5% under water now.
Analysis of IBIT holder flows from the fund's daily holdings files, showing average cost near $81k and holders about 6.5% under water.
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Binance France emails announce closure of its users’ accounts on Dec. 31
Binance France is closing all user accounts on Dec. 31, with monthly fees on remaining assets starting Nov. 29.
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We ran an agent swarm (34 to 56 agents) on Claude Opus 5.5 against live Polymarket markets, locked the forecasts before resolution, then scored them. The swarm was one Opus call at 500x the price
A Reddit team ran a MiroFish swarm on Claude Opus 5.5 to forecast four live Polymarket markets; the swarm scored worse than one direct Opus call and the market price.
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Binance’s finance chief Kaiser Ng to leave company, report says
Binance's finance chief Kaiser Ng is leaving, to be replaced by Justin Yek from Airwallex, per a report.
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Tornado Cash-Funded Wallet Builds $26 Million Bitcoin-Ether Trade
A Tornado Cash-linked wallet converted 3,100 ETH to about 6.92M USDC and opened a $26M Bitcoin long against an Ether short on Hyperliquid, a notable onchain trading trail.
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Binance CFO steps down nine days after record hack; co-CEO says transition was planned six months ago
Binance's CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving nine days after a record $6.34B theft, but co-CEO Yi He says the transition was planned six months earlier.
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Binance users in some European countries told to pull crypto before fees kick in, with accounts closing by year end
Binance is closing accounts in several European countries by Dec. 31 after telling users to withdraw before new fees start.
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U.S. Treasury moves to cut off crypto exchange MEXC over $16 billion in alleged illicit flows
US Treasury moves to cut off exchange MEXC over alleged role in roughly $16 billion of illicit Russian-linked flows.
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Apple Completes the Set: Every Magnificent Seven Stock Opts Out of OKX-ICE Venue
All seven Magnificent Seven tech firms have asked to keep their shares off the planned OKX-ICE venue after Apple and Meta objected.
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Bitcoin ETFs flip negative for 2026 after $1.28 billion outflow week, worst since June
Bitcoin ETFs turned negative for 2026 after a $1.28B outflow week, with BlackRock's IBIT taking most of the selling.
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STRK Slumps 57% in Four Weeks as Starknet Rally Unwinds
STRK fell 57% in four weeks as Starknet DeFi TVL dropped to $35.8M after Extended moved settlement to Arc.
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MEXC Says Withdrawals Continue as FinCEN Orders US Financial Cutoff
MEXC says withdrawals continue while FinCEN orders a US financial cutoff; the transfer ban takes effect 30 days after Federal Register publication.
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U.S. Treasury Cuts Off MEXC From U.S. Financial System Over Alleged $16 Billion in Illicit Flows
FinCEN's final order under section 9714(a) bars U.S. financial institutions from dealings with MEXC Global 30 days after Federal Register publication, citing at least $16B in alleged illicit flows.