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Horizen’s Nov. 4 Bridge Cutoff Leaves USDC.e Outside DAO Recovery Plan
The DAO plans to return remaining ZEN, including staking rewards, and eligible ETH balances on Base in the second half of November.
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Researcher Puts Mercado Bitcoin Freezes Near $7 Million
Onchain records show Circle freezing USDC on Polygon and Paxos freezing gold tokens on Ethereum, while exchange withdrawals remain suspended.
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NYSE Taps Broadridge for Onchain Shareholder Voting
Token holders would use wallets, broker interfaces or ProxyVote, while the planned trading venue still awaits regulatory approval.
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SBI Plans $100 Million Investment in US Digital Bank Erebor
Erebor held more than $7 billion in deposits in September, SBI says, and supports blockchain settlement outside banking hours.
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Arkham Says Mercado Bitcoin Attacker Holds $46 Million
The tracker groups 36 addresses. Mercado Bitcoin says customers suffered no losses but has not disclosed a total loss.
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Relay Reports Route Disruptions in Bid to Block Binance-Hack Funds
The bridge says no user action is needed and is working with Binance and law enforcement to screen hacker-linked addresses.
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Uniswap Extends VolatilePair Hook to Robinhood Chain
The ETH/USDG pool has about $3.5 million in liquidity and uses a tighter resting fee spread than its Ethereum counterpart.
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Tether Says It Froze Over 4.5 Million USDT Tied to Mercado Bitcoin Incident
Ethereum and Tron records confirm blacklist actions against exchange-identified wallets, while deposits and withdrawals remain suspended.
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Injective Introduces Priority Transaction Rail for Institutions
Injective says the service is in limited production, offering early execution feedback while leaving settlement with the full validator network.
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Jito Names First Outside BAM Node Operators
Triton One, Bitwise and SOL Strategies begin with testnet onboarding. Access for any mainnet validator is targeted for early Q1 2027.
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Mercado Bitcoin Keeps Withdrawals Suspended, Identifies Incident Wallets
The exchange says customers suffered no losses. Its latest disclosure links the incident to destination wallets receiving bitcoin, ether and other assets.
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Binance Sees $5.14 Billion in Daily Net Outflows After Withdrawal Restart
Weekly net outflows reached nearly $14 billion, while the next nine venues by tracked assets recorded $507 million in combined daily net inflows.
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Crypto Treasury Stocks: How mNAV and Dilution Affect Value
A bigger bitcoin or ether treasury need not mean more crypto per share—or a positive stock return. Strategy’s disclosures show why the valuation formula matters.
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XRP Ledger Token-Permission Fix Heads for Wednesday Activation
The amendment has 33 of 35 trusted validators behind it. Separate proposals to block unapproved token holders remain under review.
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ZachXBT Flags Suspected $106 Million-Plus Theft From EU Entity
The investigator says funds withdrawn from multiple exchange accounts were being swapped into ETH and routed through instant exchanges, Monero and cross-chain bridges.
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Core Fork Recovers 68.15 Million CORE After b14g Hack
The recovery covers about 70% of affected tokens, but users have not been repaid and no claims process is open.
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Standard Chartered Launches 24/7 Tokenized Deposits in Hong Kong
China AMC, Finloop and PantherTrade have already executed live tokenized-deposit and money-market-fund transactions, the bank says.
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Coinbase Opens Deribit-Powered Perpetuals to AI Agents
The global offering requires eligible non-US accounts and derivatives onboarding; trade approvals depend on the connected AI app.
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Elliptic Flags First Bitcoin Mixing of Binance Hack Proceeds
The analytics firm traced roughly 12,000 wallets across 11 blockchains and put remaining linked balances at $3.24 billion.
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Visa Stablecoin Payments Explained: Settlement, Spending and Payouts
A shopper can spend a stablecoin balance while the merchant receives ordinary money. That is different from using stablecoins to settle between institutions or fund payouts.