What happens if North Korea steals Wall Street’s tokenized assets next
The $6.3 billion Binance hack showed how quickly cryptocurrencies can disappear on blockchain rails. Tokenized securities may offer better recourse than crypto after a theft, but the markets around them can still break down when stress hits.
Aave Freezes New tBTC Supply and Borrowing After Mint-and-Redeem Pause
Aave contributors said the protocol had frozen additional tBTC supply and borrowing in its Ethereum Core market after Threshold’s temporary pause of the…
Tether Holds 150,000 Bitcoin, CEO Says—About 50,000 More Than Its Reserve Report Shows
Paolo Ardoino told the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano the company owns “give or take 150,000 Bitcoin,” but its Q3 reserve report implies just 100,060.
Mercado Bitcoin Assures Users Won’t Lose Funds Following $38M Security Breach
The exchange says services will resume only when full security conditions are met.
Justin Sun Seeks Sanctions as World Liberty’s UAE Citizenship Pushes His Suit Toward State Court
The Tron founder says WLF's ownership disclosure went from one Florida entity to 22 members, with UAE citizenship among them, after an August hearing went partly his way, and that WLF now argues the federal court can't hear the case. The post Justin Sun…
CFTC gets into legal clash over stock perps after having cleared path for crypto version
A group backed by Citadel Securities and other firms sued the U.S. derivatives regulator for opening a path for perps that it argued belong in the SEC's hands.
SEC division views Canton Coin as digital commodity in no-action letter
SEC's Division of Corporation Finance won't recommend enforcement over Canton Coin's programmatic issuance, calling CC a digital commodity.
THORChain Restarts Most Swaps After Analyst Said Operators Would Expect North Korea to Launder
Jonty, founder of Pangolin Intelligence, said in an Unchained episode recorded Nov. 2, while 10 chains were still halted, that a node operator voting to switch THORChain back on would be doing so "knowingly," expecting North Korea to launder billions in…
Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Has South Korea Asking Exchanges to Hold More Crypto Offline
The Financial Services Commission called Upbit, Bithumb and other exchanges to an emergency meeting and asked for more offline storage, extra reserves and round-the-clock withdrawal monitoring. The post Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Has South Korea Asking…
BitMine Reports 6.06M ETH Holdings, With More Than 5.22M Staked
BitMine Immersion Technologies reported holdings of 6,060,506 ETH as of November 1 in a November 2 filing exhibit.