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November 10, 2026

Bitcoin Drops Below $74,000 as Core Inflation Runs Above Forecasts

Bitcoin swung more than $1,100 in the five minutes after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released October inflation data, then traded in the high-$73,000s.

PODCASTS

November 6, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Midterm Mega Tsunami, a16z Goes Frontier, the CFTC Clears Equity Perps, and the Fight Over Abliterated AI Models

Haseeb is back after two weeks away. The boys break down the midterm blue tsunami and how prediction markets called it, what a 2:1 pro-crypto Congress means with Trump corruption on the agenda, the CFTC clearing single-stock perps and Cboe and Citadel suing within hours, Anthropic’s S-1 update and the data center backlash, and a think tank’s push to regulate abliterated AI models.

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Episode #1266 | November 5, 2026

What the 2026 Midterm Elections Mean for Crypto Regulation and the Clarity Act

Democrats won both chambers in a historic midterm wave. Mike Katz and Justin Slaughter on what that means for the Clarity Act, DeFi and crypto’s next 2 years.

November 5, 2026

Uneasy Money: What the $6B Binance Hack Revealed About Who Can Freeze Stolen Funds

November 3, 2026

Binance Lost $6.3 Billion. Why Does Crypto Still Lack Circuit Breakers?

Episode #1262 | November 3, 2026

How North Korea Stole $6.3 Billion From Binance in 20 Minutes

October 31, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Binance Hack, Circle’s Fast Freeze, YC’s Crypto Wishlist, and ICE Bringing Hyperliquid Perps Onshore

Episode #1260 | October 29, 2026

Bitcoin’s Price May Have Bottomed. One Reason Is the AI Debasement Trade

October 29, 2026

Uneasy Money: Why Anthropic’s IPO Governance Has Crypto Veterans Worried

October 27, 2026

How AI Agents Are Exposing a Bank Business Model Built on ‘Laziness’

Episode #1257 | October 27, 2026

Why America’s New Cyber Privateers Can’t Go After North Korea

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Bitcoin

November 10, 2026

Bitcoin Miner MARA Clears Its BTC-Backed Debt and Approves $500 Million Buyback After Q3 Profit

Paying off its $750 million in bitcoin-collateralized loans left MARA Holdings with about $350 million from its bitcoin sale, by Unchained’s calculation.

November 9, 2026

Strategy Buys 1,036 BTC but Spends More Repurchasing Its Preferred Stock Just Under $100

Michael Saylor's company spent $188.3 million buying back Stretch preferred shares at about $99.76 each last week, and sold none even after the stock touched $100 intraday on Nov. 4.

November 9, 2026

Strive’s Weekly Bitcoin Buying Shrinks for a Second Straight Week, to 29 BTC

Strive paid about $75,721 per coin from Oct. 31 to Nov. 6, the lowest average cost of its last three weekly purchases, a new SEC filing shows.

November 7, 2026

Texas Voted to Pause New Data Centers. Which Bitcoin Miners Are Already Past the Freeze?

Texas’s governor-elect wants data center approvals on hold until lawmakers act. For AI-pivoted miners, what matters is which projects already have theirs.

Business

November 10, 2026

NYSE-Listed BitGo Buys Into Aptos’ APT, Keeps the Size Quiet

BitGo, which already holds and stakes APT for its clients, did not say how much of the token it now owns or how it got it.

November 10, 2026

Securitize Grows Revenue 13% in First Public Quarter, Agrees to Buy River One

Revenue at the tokenization firm rose 13% to $18.6 million, its board approved a $50 million share buyback, and the company said most of the loss came from charges tied to its listing.

November 10, 2026

Bitcoin Gains Lift Trump Media to a Q3 Profit as Operations Lose $23.6 Million

The $23.6 million operating loss is Unchained’s calculation excluding a $378.1 million digital-asset gain, which the 10-Q books inside operating results, while revenue came to $3.0 million.

November 9, 2026

Bullish Makes Ex-NYSE President Stacey Cunningham Its President Ahead of Equiniti Deal

Bullish plans to pay for its $4.2 billion Equiniti takeover partly with about 61 million of its own shares, by Unchained’s math. Its new president, Stacey Cunningham, succeeded Bullish CEO Tom Farley at the top of the NYSE.

DeFi

November 7, 2026

Why Coinbase Wallet’s Solana Trading Jumped 12x Without Incentives

Ox Bid, who leads trading at Coinbase Wallet, joins Unchained Premium to explain a 12x jump in Solana trading and what trading activity suggests about where we are in the market.

November 5, 2026

Aave’s Risk Manager Wants a Borrowing Speed Limit After Binance Hackers Took $44.6 Million

CEO Adam Sadowski said LlamaRisk will cap what can be borrowed on Aave over certain periods of time, six days after a wallet tied to the Binance hack drew a $44.6 million ETH loan from the lender.

November 5, 2026

Base Says Users Unaffected as Reth and Base Ship Fixes for State Root Bug

Reth's maintainers rated the release carrying the fix high priority, and Base told node operators to upgrade to v1.5.3, saying it had recomputed its state root and found it correct.

November 5, 2026

dYdX Team’s Arcus Opens Stock-Token Collateral to All Perps Traders, With a $20,000 Cap

The Robinhood Chain exchange dropped the $25 million volume requirement from its October early access, but non-USDG deposits stay capped at $20,000 per trader and $2 million overall.

Ethereum

November 9, 2026

Fired Employee Sues the Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin

Kayleen Fulton, who facilitated Ethereum’s core developer calls, alleges she was fired 13 days after telling leadership she had cancer and 12 days after sending a staff letter on the foundation’s new Mandate.

November 9, 2026

Bitmine Gets Within About 40,000 ETH of Tom Lee’s 5% Target After Another Week of Buying

The Ethereum treasury company said it held 6,070,092 ETH as of Nov. 8, or 4.97% of the token's supply, part of $14.3 billion in crypto, cash and stakes.

November 9, 2026

Vitalik Buterin Says Maximizing ETH’s Fee Burn Would Cost Ethereum Its Decentralization

In a four-part X thread, the Ethereum co-founder argued that chasing burned fees would push the network toward corporate-style spending and governance, while a store-of-value focus fits its decentralization goals.

November 5, 2026

Base Now Makes a Block Every 0.2 Seconds After Its Denim Upgrade

The switch from two-second blocks took effect at 1 p.m. ET Thursday, so any timer started since then that counts blocks instead of minutes now runs out 10 times faster.

NFTs

October 13, 2026

NFT Marketplace Blur Is Retiring Blur.io on Nov. 12, Keeping Its Contracts Live Onchain

Blur set Nov. 12 as the date it retires the blur.io interface, saying the marketplace protocol stays live onchain and the BLUR token keeps control of its fee switch.

September 1, 2026

StonkBrokers Are Popular on Robinhood Chain. But Is the NFT a Security or Collectible?

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

August 4, 2026

POAP Winds Down After Five Years and Nearly 7.6 Million Onchain Badges

Co-founder Isabel Gonzalez said POAP could not build a sustainable business without undermining what made the project matter, ending a protocol used by Coinbase, Amex, and Warner Music Group.

July 2, 2026

Melania Trump Raked in Over $6 Million From NFTs and Collectibles in 2025

The first lady's annual financial disclosure shows nearly $17 million in total earnings, driven by her Amazon documentary, memoir, and a booming NFT business.

Regulation

November 10, 2026

Elizabeth Warren Targets Trump Family Crypto Firms in Her Banking Committee Oversight List

The Massachusetts Democrat likely takes the Senate Banking gavel in January, and her team says prediction markets are also in line for scrutiny.

November 10, 2026

Coinbase, Kalshi and Jump Trading Urge Judge to Keep Single-Stock Perps Trading

Six crypto and trading firms filed a brief backing the CFTC against a trade group of exchanges and brokers that wants perpetual futures on U.S. stocks blocked.

November 9, 2026

With Probe Gavel in Reach, Blumenthal Warns Binance and Tether of ‘Alternative Measures’

Sen. Richard Blumenthal says Binance, Tether and two Trump crypto ventures have produced no records in an 18-month inquiry, and he gave them until Jan. 4 before considering "alternative measures."

November 9, 2026

Galaxy, Exodus Tokenized Shares Headed to Orca-Powered Solana Venue in 2027

Formation Securities says it will launch in early 2027 under the SEC's Innovation Exemption, which lets it operate without registering as an exchange.

Tech

November 10, 2026

Binance Tells iPhone Users to Delete Sideloaded Apps Over iOS Exploit

Binance says the flaw could expose seed phrases and keys on iPhones.

November 3, 2026

Consensys Bets Banks Will Pay to Connect Their Private Ledgers, With Canton on Deck

The Ethereum software firm says its new product lets banks, custodians and asset managers settle trades across separate ledgers while assets stay where they are.

November 3, 2026

How North Korea Stole $6.3 Billion From Binance in 20 Minutes

A compromised developer laptop and 50 pre-signed transactions let North Korea drain $6.3 billion from Binance. Jonty and Pablo Sabbatella trace how it happened.

November 2, 2026

Trezor Now Accepts 128-Character Passphrases, Pointing to Coldcard’s Seed Flaw

Trezor's Nov. 1 update lets most of its hardware wallets take passphrases up to 128 characters, and the company opened the announcement with the Coldcard seed failure.

In Case You Missed it

November 6, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Midterm Mega Tsunami, a16z Goes Frontier, the CFTC Clears Equity Perps, and the Fight Over Abliterated AI Models

Haseeb is back after two weeks away. The boys break down the midterm blue tsunami and how prediction markets called it, what a 2:1 pro-crypto Congress means with Trump corruption on the agenda, the CFTC clearing single-stock perps and Cboe and Citadel suing within hours, Anthropic’s S-1 update and the data center backlash, and a think tank’s push to regulate abliterated AI models.

October 31, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Binance Hack, Circle’s Fast Freeze, YC’s Crypto Wishlist, and ICE Bringing Hyperliquid Perps Onshore

Rob Hadick guest-hosts for a second week with Tom and Robert, joined by Nemil Dalal of Y Combinator. Hours before the show, Binance lost an estimated $5 billion in what looks like the largest hack in crypto history, Circle and Tether froze funds faster than anyone expected, YC lays out its crypto Request for Startups, and ICE signs with trade.xyz to bring regulated perps built on Hyperliquid’s technology to US customers.

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September 16, 2024

Top Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Alternatives You Should Know About

Several WBTC alternatives have emerged to bring Bitcoin liquidity to DeFi ecosystems across the cryptoverse. Discover the most prominent ones in this guide.

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