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Keel (KEEL) Sells Entire Bitcoin Treasury for $192 Million, Will Sell BTC Daily
Keel sold its 2,520 BTC treasury for $192 million and will sell mined bitcoin daily as it pivots to AI data centers.
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U.S.-Sanctioned Moscow Exchange Will List Bitcoin on Dec. 1 as Russia Pulls Crypto Trading Home
Moscow Exchange, which is US-sanctioned, will open bitcoin trading Dec. 1 with retail purchases capped at 300,000 rubles a year.
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Arkansas Attorney General Sues Kalshi, Saying Bets on Razorbacks Games Are Gambling
Arkansas's attorney general sued Kalshi, arguing that bets on Razorbacks games are gambling and that its self-exclusion and deposit-limit tools show it knows it runs a betting business.
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Bitcoin Price Crashes Over 5% to $75,000 as Tech Rout Wipes Out Leveraged Longs
Bitcoin fell to about $75,000 as a chip and AI stock selloff liquidated leveraged longs.
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Trump Media Bitcoin Transfer of 4,259 BTC Nearly Matches Pledged Loan Collateral
Trump Media moved 4,259 BTC to CDC as its DJT stock hit lows; the post argues the holdings may be sold to repay pledged loan collateral. Onchain-checkable, but the snippet is a Reddit analysis.
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Binance Pulls Every SignalPlus API Key, Tells Users to Check Their Positions and Orders
Binance pulled every SignalPlus API key and told users to check positions and orders, but neither party has explained the issue or whether anyone lost money.
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Gate CEO says crypto exchanges must prove they can survive a hack like Binance’s
Gate's CEO says the exchange holds cold-storage reserves to cover customer balances even if hot wallets are drained, with an independent audit underway. Useful post-hack signal, but a self-description until the audit lands.
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Selling Tokenized Stocks After Hours: What Determines the Price
Tokenized stock sales after hours depend on two separate schedules: token venue trading and issuer redemption. Practical explainer for anyone holding tokenized equities.
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Trump-linked American Bitcoin swings to $126 million profit but misses revenue estimates
American Bitcoin posted a $126M quarterly profit, but it came from a bitcoin treasury accounting gain and revenue missed estimates.
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Thailand to block Bitget in December over unlicensed crypto trading
Thailand's SEC filed a criminal complaint against Bitget's operator and will block its website and app from Dec. 5.
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Paraguay USDT Offers Show 13% Premium After Ueno Closure
USDT trades in Paraguay show a 13% premium on Bybit after the Ueno closure, as the central bank prepares deposit guarantees.
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Schroders Tokenizes an Emerging Markets Debt Strategy With Centrifuge in Its Solana Debut
Schroders tokenized an emerging markets debt strategy with Centrifuge on Solana, a traditional asset manager's onchain debut.
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Bitcoin miner Riot could pay Anthropic 12% interest under $28 billion AI deal
Riot's $28 billion AI data center deal with Anthropic could give Anthropic financing returns of about 12% interest via rent deductions.
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South Korea seeks 4th crypto tax delay, targets 2029 start
South Korea is seeking a fourth delay of its 22% crypto gains tax, now pushing the start to 2029.
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Trump Media moves $342 million in bitcoin to Crypto.com, blockchain data show
Arkham data shows a large BTC transfer from a Trump Media-linked wallet to Crypto.com, about $342 million.
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OKX–ICE Stock Venue’s Issuer Objections Reach 62
Issuer objections to the OKX-ICE stock venue reached 62, leaving 8 of 63 proposed symbols without an opt-out.
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American Bitcoin (ABTC) Posts $126 Million Profit as Holdings Gain $197 Million
American Bitcoin swung to about $126 million in Q3 net income, driven by a $197.3 million gain on its bitcoin holdings.
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Mercado Bitcoin says phased reopening to begin Monday, will cover losses
Mercado Bitcoin will reopen in phases after a hack, starting with view-only access, and says it will cover losses from company funds.
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Crypto PACs spent $170 million on the midterms—and came up nearly dry
Crypto PACs spent about $170 million on the midterms and saw several high-profile backed candidates lose.
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TSV Begins Tokenized CNTN Trades Under SEC Innovation Exemption
Tradecraft began tokenized CNTN trades under the SEC innovation exemption, with $30,296 in public-feed purchases and onchain ownership kept by Fairmint.
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Strategy raises $5.4B but barely buys bitcoin
Strategy sold $5.4B of stock but put only $588M into bitcoin, per its own 10-Q filing.
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Jack Dorsey’s Block (XYZ) Sets Aside $764 Million for DOJ Settlement as Bitcoin Profit Halves
Block agreed in principle to a $764M deferred-prosecution deal over Cash App AML failures, and bitcoin gross profit fell 50% after fee cuts.
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Circle’s ARC token sale lifts earnings as lower yields weigh on USDC income
Circle's ARC token sale lifts earnings, but lower yields are squeezing USDC income and the company is pushing payments fees and staking to diversify.
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Coinbase says 99% of customer assets sit in cold storage after Binance’s $6.3 billion breach
Coinbase says 99% of customer assets are in cold storage and it was unaffected by the $6.3B Binance breach.
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Wall Street’s Plumbing Goes Onchain as Morgan Stanley Tokenizes Securities
Morgan Stanley converted US equities and Treasuries into tokenized form via the DTCC Tokenization Service, with 20 firms signed up.
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Circle Beats Q3 Estimates on Arc Token Sale, Cuts 5% of Staff
Circle's Q3 revenue rose 17% to $865M, helped by a $182M ARC token presale, while USDC reserve interest slipped and 5% of staff were cut.
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Riot (RIOT) and Hut 8 (HUT) Sell Thousands of Bitcoin to Fund AI Ventures, Share Buybacks
Riot and Hut 8 sold thousands of bitcoin to fund AI data centers and buybacks, a sign miners are shifting balance sheets toward AI.
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Idling at Support
Glassnode on-chain analysis: short-term holders shifted from mostly in profit to mostly at a loss as Bitcoin pulled back about 10% into support.
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Circle (CRCL) Cuts About 5% of Workforce as Q3 Revenue Hits $865M
Circle cut about 5% of staff while Q3 revenue rose 17% to $865 million, with a $9.1 million restructuring charge.
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Binance hack may be ‘temporary setback’ for crypto, Grayscale’s Pandl says
Grayscale's Zach Pandl argues the record $6.3 billion Binance hack may be a temporary setback, citing institutional custody safeguards.