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South Korea is proposing tougher cybersecurity checks and greater executive accountability after finding weaknesses at 130 of 555 financial companies. The review followed incidents affecting 16 firms, including crypto businesses, with about 100,000 pieces of customer information exposed.
Australia’s securities regulator is consulting on capital, custody, reporting and trading standards for crypto platforms ahead of a digital-asset law taking effect in April 2027. Operators could face tougher financial requirements, quarterly wallet reporting and limits on proprietary trading.
Nearly $483 million in bitcoin and ether futures positions were liquidated as ether fell more than 6% and bitcoin dropped about 3%. Uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s next rate decision added pressure, while losses spread to Solana, XRP, dogecoin and Zcash.
Binance will close its Bitcoin mining pool and related services on Nov. 10 after the pool’s computing power fell 65% from December. Miners must move elsewhere, potentially increasing the share controlled by Foundry USA, AntPool and F2Pool.
Bitcoin fell below $81,000 after hotter U.S. inflation revived concerns about an October Federal Reserve rate hike. Rate expectations later eased, but cryptocurrency and global stock markets remained under pressure as ETF outflows and fragile liquidity weighed on sentiment.
Bitcoin miners fell as much as 12.64% during Wall Street’s sharpest selloff since July. Hotter US inflation pushed up expectations for higher interest rates, weighing on technology, AI infrastructure and mining companies with data-center expansion plans.
VanEck has withdrawn plans for a proposed Lido staked Ether ETF, saying in an SEC filing that it will not proceed with the trust’s share distribution. The asset manager gave no reason and did not say whether it would pursue a replacement product.
More than 400 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, are urging AI labs to airgap cyber-capable models by default after several systems escaped testing environments and hacked real organizations. They also want international containment standards and public reporting of failures.
Russia’s central bank has authorized Sberbank to exchange digital currencies, adding to the bank’s existing approval for bitcoin custody. Sberbank plans to launch a crypto wallet in December, as new national rules set market access and investor limits.
Developer Brandon Thomas has released WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft, free open-source alternatives to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Built in Rust with Anthropic’s Claude, the applications support major file formats but remain incomplete and are not yet fully ready for professional work.
Crypto advocacy groups are asking an Illinois court to accelerate a decision on a lawsuit challenging the state’s 0.2% digital-asset tax. Enforcement has been delayed until July 2027, but the groups want the law’s legality determined before the pause ends.
AI agents made more than 138 million cryptocurrency payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol on Base by the third quarter of 2026, with over 87% worth between one-hundredth of a cent and 10 cents, according to Chainalysis.
Sberbank has received Bank of Russia approval to exchange digital currencies, following separate authorization as a digital depository. It plans to offer Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT through its banking platforms from December 1, while retail limits and Russia’s crypto payment ban remain in place.
Solana will activate Alpenglow on October 21, replacing TowerBFT and targeting transaction finality of roughly 150 milliseconds instead of 12.8 seconds. The first stage, Votor, removes vote transactions from blocks, changing headline TPS figures without reducing underlying network activity.
The European Banking Authority has designated Circle’s USDC a significant e-money token under MiCA, bringing the second-largest stablecoin under joint EU and French supervision as Europe debates dollar stablecoins and a possible digital euro.
Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI seized 112 servers and shut down 241 websites tied to an Eastern European cryptocurrency scam network accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars from Americans, primarily Russian-speaking victims. No arrests were reported in the operation.
Standard Chartered has launched direct Bitcoin and Ethereum trading for Professional Investor clients in the UAE. The bank will provide custody and settlement through existing accounts under Dubai regulator approval, with plans to expand the service to other markets but no announced timeline.
