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North Korean hackers used six homemade memecoins to launder 117,000 NEAR, worth about $430,000, from the $6.3 billion Binance hack, Elliptic says.

Avalanche will serve as the core settlement ledger for the exchange’s planned blockchain stock market

Formation Securities plans to launch in early 2027 with Galaxy, Exodus and Forward Industries shares, expanding the U.S. regulator’s experiment in blockchain-based stock trading.

Trump confirmed he co-owns World Liberty, whose UAE ownership could derail Justin Sun’s federal lawsuit over frozen WLFI tokens

Your day-ahead look for Nov. 9, 2026

Only five of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market value are up 1% or more over the past 24 hours. That is the state of the market today.

Early data shows Zcash’s orphan-block rate holding close to pre-upgrade levels despite blocks arriving three times faster, encouraging developers to push for another reduction.

Neocloud stocks retreat after Friday’s rally, while gold holds above $4,000 and bitcoin trades near $74,000.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency elevated the biggest U.S. exchange’s trust status from conditional to a full-fledged charter, the company said.

Your look at what’s coming in the week starting Nov. 9.

The $24 billion project, which includes an AI supercomputer in Texas with its own gas-fired power plant, is about 17 times the value of SpaceX’s bitcoin holdings.

A draft proposal would end the ‘durable nonces’ feature no earlier than May 5, 2027, forcing custodians that sign offline to rebuild how they move coins.

The proposals aim to keep Ethereum’s planned gas changes from breaking existing contracts, using different approaches to what contracts see and what users pay.

The exchange’s once significant mining operation has nearly disappeared from Bitcoin’s block-production rankings ahead of its November 10 closure.

Volatile price action has once again liquidated leveraged bullish plays worth millions.

Democrats had an astoundingly good night, smashing all expectations. Is that actually bad news for the industry?

Stablecoin supply has barely grown this year, even as payments using the tokens surge. Circle’s latest earnings offer another example of the divergence between dollars outstanding and activity on blockchain networks.

A Finnish startup has 30 bitcoin mining systems working as central heating, and at today’s prices each one earns slightly more than the electricity it burns.

Affected accounts are reportedly set to close on Dec. 31. Users in Spain, France, and Poland say they’ve received similar notices.

Treasury billed the move as part of its campaign against Iran, but the order rests on MEXC’s alleged role in Russian illicit finance.

One user said the exposed data tied his home address and card number to every crypto wallet linked to his account, raising the risk of targeted scams.

Strategy, Coinbase, Circle and Robinhood are among six companies from the venture’s initial selection with no disclosed objection, after 90% of issuers opted out.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said regulated exchanges can’t cut off customers state-by-state, but firms like Kalshi are under court orders to do so.

Coinbase, Robinhood and Circle are expanding into stablecoins, payments and prediction markets, but their latest earnings show how hard it is to escape crypto’s boom-and-bust cycles.

Thailand’s SEC filed a criminal complaint against Bitget’s operator, alleging it ran an unlicensed crypto exchange for Thai users from 2022 to 2025.

The unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 4.1%. The strong showing surely puts a December rate hike in play, but next week’s inflation numbers and the fate of the stock market could prove more important.

Your day-ahead look for Nov. 6, 2026

Bitcoin bounced from around $75,200 after Thursday’s AI-led selloff, which drove more than $1 billion in liquidations, as traders await the U.S. jobs report.

Bitcoin recovered above $76,000 Friday after dropping below that level during Thursday’s tech-driven market rout.