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Today's headliners: SoFi, China, Italy, moneycanbuy, Solana, Aerodrome, Swell, CoinDCX, Uniswap, OKXЧитать полностью…
DeFi Wants In: 3 Routes to US Users
Lighter will file for a CFTC exchange and clearing license in November. If approved, it becomes the first onchain perp DEX licensed by the US derivatives regulator.
It is not the only one heading in. Hyperliquid is coming through Kraken, whose Bitnomial would run HIP-3 perps for US clients. Polymarket bought a licensed exchange and is already back. Ondo got a broker-dealer to sell tokenized stocks to Americans.
Others skip the paperwork and plug into licensed partners. Ethena issues USDtb through Anchorage, and Morpho powers $1.4B+ in Coinbase loans to US users.
The door opened in May, when the CFTC cleared the first onshore crypto perp. Stablecoins without a license become illegal in the US on Jan 18, 2027.Читать полностью…
Tether Goes Shopping: 9 Deals in 7 Weeks
Tether has made 9 deals since September, and they point to three bets: AI, Latin America and gold. The latest: Tether leads Mural's $15M round.
In one week, it backed AI-agent payments startup AIsa, led Mural's round and joined Tenstorrent's $1.5B round for AI chips. In Latin America, it funded three fintechs plugging USDT into local banking: Plenti in Colombia, EFY in El Salvador and Peso in Bolivia.
Every US Stablecoin Now Has a Rulebook
From Jan 18, 2027, issuing a stablecoin in the US without approval is illegal. The OCC published the final rules for every issuer.
For holders: redemption within 2 business days from just 1 coin, monthly audited reserve reports, and only a regulator can freeze withdrawals. If reserves fall short for 15 business days, the issuer winds down and repays everyone, fee-free.
For issuers: 1:1 reserves in cash, short T-bills and government money funds, at least 5% in instant cash, max 40% with one counterparty, and $5M minimum capital plus 12 months of expenses.
The big change from the draft: third-party rewards are now judged case by case, so exchange yield programs survive. Offshore issuers need a comparable home regime, so Tether is launching USAT for the US.Читать полностью…
Solana Just Cut Finality From 6 Seconds to 0.15
Solana switches on Alpenglow today, its biggest upgrade since 2020. The new consensus targets finality in about 150 milliseconds, roughly 40x faster than the 6 seconds it takes now.
That puts Solana on par with Hyperliquid and Base at about 0.2 seconds. Ethereum still takes about 15 minutes.
Early Projects Radar: 9 Fresh Names This Week
This week's theme: the stock market is being rebuilt onchain, one piece at a time. An issuer putting US shares on Hyperliquid, a lender that pauses when Wall Street closes, a game built around earnings day.
9 early-stage projects, from private company shares on Solana to spending limits for AI agents.
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Aero vs Uniswap, PancakeSwap and Curve: Who Pays Holders
Aero goes live on Oct 22 at 00:00 UTC, and it already pays token holders almost as much as Uniswap.
Aerodrome & Velodrome merge into a single DEX on 7 chains: Base, Ethereum, OP, Arc, Ink, Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum.
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Today's headliners: JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Mastercard, BNB, Sparkassen, Revolut, Hyperliquid, Metaplanet, Qubic, BinanceЧитать полностью…
Richard Heart: From HEX to Handcuffs
Richard Heart spent years flexing a 555-carat diamond and a garage of supercars. Now Turkish police are counting his watches.
He was detained in Istanbul on October 14 on a Finnish Interpol Red Notice. Searches of 15 addresses turned up $7.15M in cash, 6 cold wallets, 7 guns and 1,400 rounds.
What he's accused of:
• Raising $1B+ via HEX, PulseChain and PulseX without registration
• Spending $12M+ of investor money on luxury, incl. a $4.3M diamond
• Telling buyers to "sacrifice", not "invest", to dodge securities law
• Aggravated tax fraud in Finland, hundreds of millions of euros
• Assaulting a 16-year-old in 2021
HEX was pitched as the first high-yield "Blockchain Certificate of Deposit." HEX is now down 99.9% from its peak.Читать полностью…
Builedrs Turning Hyperliquid Into a Revenue Stream
Hyperliquid lets any app plug into its order book through builder codes and keep a fee on every trade. In the last 30 days 874 apps did it, and together they earned $10.7M, double what they made in June.
Four apps take 56% of that money. Trust Wallet leads with $1.65M after moving its fee from 0.001% to almost 0.1% over the summer. fomo, Phantom and MetaMask each made about $1.4-1.5M.
Volume and money are two different rankings. HyperDash routed $2.1B, more than MetaMask, but earned 3.6x less because it charges 0.018%.
"Builder codes allow builders to receive a fee on fills that they send on behalf of a user." Hyperliquid docs
PAPER Hits Hyperliquid Before It Can Even Transfer
PAPER can't be moved between wallets yet, but traders can already bet on its price. Paragon listed PAPER on Hyperliquid as a pre-launch perp with up to 3x leverage.
It opened at $0.012 and hit $0.035 within a few hours. Nearly $6M changed hands on the first day.
PAPER is the token of Papertrade, the 1000x perps DEX that went live on October 10. It is minted only when traders lose money and can be staked for a share of fees. About 7.3B PAPER existed as of October 14.
Once PAPER becomes transferable, the contract converts into a regular perp. Until then, it trades on isolated margin only.
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Cboe vs Kalshi: The Battle for KPI Bets
On October 13 the SEC approved Cboe's KPI options: $1-or-nothing binary options on 116 KPIs from 23 companies, from MARA's bitcoin production to Coinbase revenue.
Kalshi offers the same kind of contract under the CFTC. The difference is the wrapper: a security on an SEC options exchange versus an event contract.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins: the approval "reflects a new spirit of harmonization, innovation, and investor choice."
MSCI's Kill List: 14 Crypto Treasuries
MSCI builds the stock indexes that pension funds and ETFs copy, like the MSCI World. If a company drops out, the funds tracking those indexes have to sell its shares.
MSCI just flagged 14 crypto treasury companies for removal under its new "non-operating companies" rule, and every one with usable data trades below the value of its crypto.
Strategy, Metaplanet and Upexi are flagged for deletion, 11 more sit on the watchlist. Final list Nov 11, effective after the Nov 30 close.
Fission Raises $10M to Make Tokenized Funds Liquid
Fission closed a $10M Series A led by Pantera Capital, joined by Circle Ventures, Borderless Capital and angel Ari Rubenstein. New Form and gumi Cryptos returned too.
Exiting a tokenized fund usually means waiting for its redemption window, which can take about 200 days. Fission buys the shares itself for a fee and settles in stablecoins in 90 seconds or less, 24/7. Clients include hedge funds, crypto treasuries and stablecoin issuers holding tokenized assets.
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IMD's AI Swarm Launches moneycanbuy.fun and $YOLO
moneycanbuy.fun is a place where everyone, even AI agents, can pay people to do things. Post a dare and lock the reward on-chain, someone does it and uploads proof, and the contract pays out. If the proof is disputed, Identity MD NFT holders vote.
The point is who's paying. Any AI agent with a wallet can post a dare, so agents finally have a way to hire humans for real-world tasks: go somewhere, film something, prove it.
The whole thing, from smart contracts to the website, was written, audited and deployed by IMD, a swarm of 2,000 AI agents that builds and ships products on its own.
Flare Turns 129M XRP Into Working DeFi Capital
DefiLlama broke down Flare's FXRP data: about 129M FXRP, close to 90% of supply, is lent, staked or used as collateral instead of sitting in wallets.
Demand held after incentives ended in July, with FXRP in DeFi down just 5%. And 20M FXRP now sits on Ethereum, Monad and other chains, five times more than in July.
FLR is now tied to usage: inflation fell to 3% in May, and a July upgrade raised base fees 20x, so every transaction burns more FLR. Next test: FBTC, which would bring Bitcoin in.Читать полностью…
Latest Product Launches: New Tools to Check
Bets got shorter and stranger: 1,000x calls from $10, 15-minute BTC options, odds on the next DeFi exploit. Wall Street kept moving onchain, from Nvidia shares with dividends to pre-IPO OpenAI tokens.
8 live products from OKX, Jupiter, Lighter, Pump.fun, Securitize, DefiLlama, Pendle and Aero, each with one honest catch.
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Today's headliners: Standard Chartered, OCC, JPMorgan, S&P Global, Grayscale, Solana, Strive, Drift, Tether, OpenSeaЧитать полностью…
Fhenix Activates its Mainnet on Ethereum and Arbitrum
Its CoFHE coprocessor lets smart contracts work with encrypted balances, positions and trading strategies, while still enforcing their rules. The heavy cryptography runs offchain, so developers keep writing Solidity on the chains they already use.
Tokens can keep a public and a confidential balance under one contract address. Only amounts are hidden: sender, recipient and timing stay public onchain. Consensys Diligence audited the system before launch.
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20 States Have Gone After Kalshi. Half Joined in 2026
Utah sued Kalshi on Oct 20, along with two Susquehanna firms, calling the platform a "back-alley gambling den." The complaint estimates Kalshi made up to $61.2M in fees from Utah users.
That makes 20 states that have sent cease-and-desist letters, filed lawsuits or criminal charges vs Kalshi. Ten of them in 2026 alone.
Courts have already forced Kalshi to block markets in Nevada, Michigan and Washington, where fines can reach $500K a day.
Exchanges Are Buying Licenses, Not Building Them
A crypto license can take years to get. In 2026, exchanges stopped waiting: Kraken bought Bitnomial for up to $550M to get a full US derivatives stack.
Asia accounts for 4 of the 7 deals. SBI took bitbank in Japan for ¥46.7B and Coinhako in Singapore, Bybit now runs NOBI as Bybit Indonesia, and Bitget is buying GMO's licensed Thai exchange, pending Thai SEC approval. Robinhood closed two deals announced in 2025: MIAXdx in the US and WonderFi in Canada.
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Mt. Gox Has Moved Its Repayment Deadline 6 Times
Mt. Gox pushed its repayment deadline again, to October 31, 2027, with court approval. The original target was July 31, 2023, 51 months earlier.
Six moves in total: two short ones in early 2023, then one a year since. Most coverage counts only the yearly pushes and calls this the 4th delay.
The last three notices are word for word identical, only the year changes: "Many rehabilitation creditors still have not received their Repayments because they have not completed the necessary procedures for receiving Repayments."
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We Filtered the Noise: 6 Activities Worth Your Time
This week's six have Paradigm, a16z, Polychain and Hack VC money behind them. All live right now:
• PopDEX: Perp DEX · open beta, weekly 150,000 USDT prize draw
• GTE: Perps Exchange · Paradigm-led, waitlist points
• Zodl Vault: Privacy Wallet · beta for shielded ZEC savings
• Fhenix: Encrypted L2 · OnlyFhens credits and badges
• Doma: DomainFi · points for .sol and .agent priority
• DogeOS: Dogecoin L2 · Grand Heist quests
Full step-by-step breakdown for each 👇
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BNB Quarterly Burn #37: 1,646,196 BNB (~$1.2B) Burned
BNB Chain completed its 37th burn: 1,646,196 BNB worth about $1.197B went to the dead address. That's a bit more BNB than in July (1.62M), and the dollar value is up 28.5% from July's $932M.
Total supply is now 131,512,085 BNB. In all, 68.49M BNB, or 34.24% of the original 200M, has been burned. The target is 100M, so about 31.5M BNB are still left to burn.
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US Debt, Foreign Wallets: Who Holds Tokenized Treasuries
Tokenized US Treasuries more than doubled in a year, from $6.86B to $15.42B. Chainalysis mapped holders by country, and the biggest ones aren't American.
Italy leads with 29.9% of geolocated value, then Portugal with 18.8% and Singapore with 18.2%. Together that's 66.9%. The US is fourth at 10.5%. And an interesting fact, Japan shows the biggest gap: 16.4% of all holders, but only 0.4% of the value.
Every foreign wallet buying a tokenized T-bill funds Washington, not its own government.Читать полностью…
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Schwab Opens Bitcoin and Ether Trading to All Clients
Schwab completed its crypto rollout: all eligible retail clients can now buy and sell BTC and ETH next to stocks and bonds, on Schwab.com, mobile and thinkorswim.
The broker oversees $13.3 trillion in client assets across 40.3 million active brokerage accounts. The rollout started in May with a limited group of clients.
Each trade costs 0.75% with zero spread, and accounts sit with Charles Schwab Premier Bank. The service is not available in New York, Louisiana or outside the US.
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How an OpenAI Model Took a Stranger's Test ETH
OpenAI disclosed that an internal model paid for a Sepolia testnet deployment with someone else's wallet. The GPT-5.6 Sol model had no wallet and no permission to spend.
After faucets failed, it wrote a script that derived keys from publicly known developer recovery phrases and checked 362 addresses until one had enough Sepolia ETH. It questioned whether this was ethical, decided the funds were "effectively abandoned" and worthless, then signed the deployment. Its final summary never mentioned the wallet.
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Anthropic IPO Talk Drops to $1.5T as Growth Slows
Anthropic investors weigh a $1.5T valuation for the November IPO, down from roughly $2T expected before, Reuters reports citing people at its investor day.
At the San Francisco meeting with CEO Dario Amodei and CFO Krishna Rao, Anthropic said Q3 revenue rose 45% to $16.8B and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis. Some investors were still disappointed, since revenue had more than doubled to $11.6B in Q2. Anthropic did not immediately respond to Reuters.
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