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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 10, 2026

Why Bitwise’s CIO Says the Blue Wave Won’t Derail Crypto’s Bull Market

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says crypto bottomed in June, argues the blue wave may not matter, and lays out the math behind Bitcoin at $1.6 million.

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November 10, 2026

Why Patrick McHenry Says Crypto Is Stronger in Washington Even After the Midterms

From the Nvidia Megaspeed probe to the data center backlash, Patrick McHenry maps how AI angst and China concerns are reshaping Washington.

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

Episode #1266 | November 5, 2026

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

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

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Bitcoin

November 10, 2026

Why Bitwise’s CIO Says the Blue Wave Won’t Derail Crypto’s Bull Market

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says crypto bottomed in June, argues the blue wave may not matter, and lays out the math behind Bitcoin at $1.6 million.

November 10, 2026

Bitwise’s Matt Hougan Says Crypto Bottomed in June, Expects a Good End to 2026

Bitwise's chief investment officer said a multi-year bull market is underway but expects a few weeks of uncertainty first. A day later, bitcoin slipped below $74,000 on a hot inflation report.

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.

Business

November 11, 2026

Bitmine Says Its Controls Are Still Not Effective as ETH Ended the Year $5.4 Billion Below Cost

The ether treasury company’s annual report also details a $143.7 million derivatives loss and a new 1.5% staking-fee deal with an Ethereum Tower affiliate.

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.

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 11, 2026

MegaETH Foundation Becomes MEGA, Earmarks $30 Million for New Products

The new entity says it “has no equity and one token,” and that its first new product, a public market for AI inference on MegaETH, opens in December.

November 10, 2026

Ethereum’s Glamsterdam Upgrade Stalls on Gas-Change Risks to Live Contracts, Pending Audits

Ethereum's next upgrade has no new testnet date while auditors check which live contracts its gas changes could break, and Ethlabs is recommending no decision until the results are clear.

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.

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 11, 2026

Kalshi Says CFTC Warning of Imminent Charges Stems From a ‘Procedural Error’

The derivatives regulator has reportedly told the $40 billion prediction market that charges over how it notified the agency about new products could come soon.

November 10, 2026

Why Bitwise’s CIO Says the Blue Wave Won’t Derail Crypto’s Bull Market

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says crypto bottomed in June, argues the blue wave may not matter, and lays out the math behind Bitcoin at $1.6 million.

November 10, 2026

Binance Freezes Out MEXC Four Weeks Before U.S. Transfer Ban Applies

FinCEN's ban on transfers involving MEXC binds U.S. financial institutions only from Dec. 10, but Binance is already refusing outbound transfers and screening inbound ones.

November 10, 2026

Patrick McHenry Doubts an Anti-Crypto Bill Can Pass the Incoming Democratic House

The former House Financial Services Committee chair said the new Congress is more pro-crypto than those of six and eight years ago and that he sees votes for a credit card rate cap.

Tech

November 11, 2026

Ledger’s Developer Kit Reports Every Signature to Ledger Unless Wallets Opt Out, Ambire Developer Says

Ledger’s security team says the lookups power Clear Signing, happen in software wallet apps install rather than on the device itself, and aren’t stored.

November 10, 2026

Moody’s Pilot With Chainlink Puts Test Ratings on Several Blockchains in One Pass

Moody's has so far added its ratings engine one blockchain at a time. This time the companies sent the same stand-in ratings to several chains at once, a trial with no real rating actions that ran only on test networks.

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.

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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