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Bitcoin
Metaplanet repurchases 96.45 million shares for ¥25.27 billion
The Japanese Bitcoin treasury company bought back about 7.1% of its shares between Oct. 14 and Oct. 31, using roughly 42% of its ¥60 billion authorization.
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Altcoins
Tria founder says XRP could flip Ethereum on payments growth
John Lilic argues that capturing a slice of Visa's weekly volume could push billions through the XRP Ledger and lift XRP's value.
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Hacks & Security
Mercado Bitcoin losses top $46M as funds keep moving after hack
Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin paused deposits and withdrawals after a breach drained over $46 million, with transfers continuing hours later.
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Technology
Nvidia, Costco and Nike join 12-company wave objecting to OKXICE tokenized stocks
The new filings lift the total to 50 companies, roughly 79% of the issuers the OKX-ICE venture originally targeted for round-the-clock tokenized trading.
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Hacks & Security
Trade.xyz restores GitBook docs but warns users off documentation links
The Hyperliquid perps platform says unauthorized activity hit its GitBook pages and that an investigation is ongoing.
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Hacks & Security
ZachXBT links 27,553 ETH 'whale' buy to suspected $106 million hack
The overnight ether purchase looked like bullish whale activity, but ZachXBT ties the wallet to a suspected $106 million theft from an EU entity.
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Hacks & Security
Trezor raises passphrase limit to 128 characters after Coldcard attacks
The hardware wallet maker says longer passphrases give users another safeguard when recovery phrases are exposed.
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Altcoins
Perplexity AI floats extreme Cardano scenario with $12 target
Coinspeaker reports that Perplexity AI described a hypothetical public-sector catalyst that could, under extreme assumptions, put ADA at $4.50, $8.00 by 2027.
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Markets
Ethereum whales buy tens of millions in ETH, on-chain data shows
Large wallets bought tens of millions of dollars of ETH in early November, reports say, even as the token traded below key moving averages.
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Hacks & Security
Mercado Bitcoin freezes deposits and withdrawals after security incident
Brazilian exchange Mercado Bitcoin says clients lost nothing, Hypernative estimates more than $40 million left wallets it links to the platform.
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Stablecoins
HSBC's RedCoin stablecoin draws 50,000 users in first week
The Hong Kong dollar-backed token launched through PayMe on October 23 and is now being expanded toward mobile banking and tokenized investments.
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Altcoins
Chainlink's 24/7 price feeds adopted by Aave's Horizon platform
Aave's institutional lending platform is using Chainlink's round-the-clock feeds to value tokenized equities and other real-world collateral.
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Bitcoin
Strategy buys 811 bitcoin for $65.5M as dollar assets reach $4.9B
The purchase lifts Strategy's bitcoin holdings to 849,327 BTC, while the company also repurchased $208.2 million in STRC preferred shares.
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Hacks & Security
BitMine buys 8,573 ETH, closing in on 5% supply target
The Ethereum treasury company now holds 6,060,506 ETH, about 4.9% of supply, after its smallest weekly purchase in recent updates.
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Bitcoin
Strategy adds 811 bitcoin while STRC buybacks dwarf the purchase
The firm funded its latest coin purchase entirely with common stock sales, then spent more than three times as much retiring preferred shares.
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Bitcoin
Strategy resumes bitcoin buying with 811 BTC purchase after one-week pause
The company spent $65.5 million on bitcoin last week and repurchased $208.2 million of its STRC preferred stock, according to an SEC filing.
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Altcoins
Ripple CEO says XRP can become institutional gold standard within five years
At Ripple Swell, Brad Garlinghouse said XRP could anchor institutional crypto payments, while David Schwartz predicted broad retail adoption.
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Bitcoin
Bitcoin holds $82,500 support as CPI, ETF flows and unlocks loom
Crypto markets enter a busy week with U.S. inflation data, spot Bitcoin ETF outflows and token unlocks in focus.
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Bitcoin
Aave curbs $136 million tBTC market after Threshold halts redemptions
Threshold paused tBTC minting and redemptions on Oct. 31, Aave and Gauntlet moved to limit exposure while the bridge remains offline.
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ETFs
Bitcoin ETFs shed $643 million in a day, erasing the week's inflows
Five US spot Bitcoin funds posted redemptions on October 30 with no inflows to offset them, turning the week negative.
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Stablecoins
Hong Kong opens 24/7 tokenized settlement, eyes stablecoin debt trials
HKMA's EnsembleTX now settles tokenized transactions around the clock, with regulated stablecoins set to join government debt trials.
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Hacks & Security
Claude AI sketches extreme BNB scenario amid $6.3bn Binance hack
A speculative Anthropic model scenario ties a huge BNB move to institutional RWA settlement, while the exchange handles the largest hack on record.
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Hacks & Security
Binance draws on futures insurance fund to cover $6.3 billion hack
The exchange says it released only surplus reserves, but public snapshots show the insurance pools it tracks fell about 25% in a day.
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ETFs
OneKey founder flags BlackRock Bitcoin ETF as possible North Korea target
Yishi Wang says IBIT may be on North Korea's shortlist after the Binance breach, while Coinbase says its custody systems remain secure.
