Strategy and Metaplanet, both flagged by MSCI’s non-operating company screen, drop out of its indexes at the Nov. 30 close, and Strategy is the only one of 24 USA Index deletions not moving down to small cap.
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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.
Paying off its $750 million in bitcoin-collateralized loans left MARA Holdings with about $350 million from its bitcoin sale, by Unchained’s calculation.
The pool opens with $50 million for weekend and after-hours swaps between BUIDL and USDC, and a matching $50 million can be added within an hour.
No deal has been announced, but a KAST job listing describes moving Gemini’s UK and EU staff to KAST and integrating acquired UK and EU entities.
The prediction market reportedly says the cuts came out of a reorganization under new executives but has not said how many people lost their jobs.
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.
As Glamsterdam’s gas changes sit on hold, Markou blamed bundled upgrades and a surge of proposals he said has grown with AI, and said app teams should test early and report what breaks.
Zach Herbert says the Universal Ethereum Signer, built by Ledger co-founder Nicolas Bacca, is the first signing app the EF has collaborated on for hardware wallet-like devices, though it has no public release yet.
Ethlabs says it is giving up on 10-second blocks in Hegota so its researchers can work on quantum- and AI-resistant cryptography, a plan core developers have yet to take up.
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.
The Financial Services Commission said it will issue a no-action letter covering exchanges that block deposits and withdrawals on suspicion of a hack, a step the industry says current law leaves unclear.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley gave Will Scharf until Nov. 23 to answer seven questions on White House ethics after the case of Gabriel Perez, who settled federal charges over bets on the wording of Trump’s speeches.
The SEC reportedly filed a brief supporting the CFTC, while Better Markets and two former SEC officials asked a federal judge to block perpetual futures on U.S. stocks.
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.
Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun on ETH as a store of value, Bitcoin’s quantum problem, the EF’s seppuku license lawsuit, Jensen Huang’s alleged Chinese spy, Trump on World Liberty, and McHenry blaming Coinbase for CLARITY.
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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