NEWS

November 12, 2026

Strategy to Leave MSCI Indexes By Month End, Metaplanet Also Out

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.

PODCASTS

November 11, 2026

The Chopping Block: Vitalik Says ETH Is a Store of Value, the EF’s Seppuku License Lawsuit, Jensen Huang and the Alleged Chinese Spy, and McHenry Blames Coinbase

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.

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Latest 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.

November 10, 2026

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

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

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Bitcoin

November 11, 2026

Bitcoin Core Discloses Bugs That Could Freeze Mining Nodes

The fixes shipped in October 2025, and the project held back the details until its last vulnerable release line, 29.x, reached end of life on Oct. 27.

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.

Business

November 12, 2026

Polymarket Says Viral Contractor-Cut Email Is Real, Won’t Say How Many Jobs Went

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.

November 11, 2026

Deutsche Bank’s Bitcoin and Ether Custody Is Open to Clients, Bank Says

Unchained counted 30 European countries on the bank's EU crypto register entry, which rests on a notification to its regulator, not a new license.

November 11, 2026

Kraken Parent Expands Beyond US Names With Over 200 UK and EU Stocks

The first UK and EU batch lifts Payward's tokenized equities lineup past 1,500 assets, while a London Stock Exchange listing waits until 2027 at the earliest, pending regulatory approval.

November 11, 2026

Anchorage Digital Lets Institutions Borrow Against Tether’s Tokenized Gold

The crypto firm says clients can now hold, trade and pledge Tether Gold (XAU₮), the first of several tokenized real-world assets it plans to support through its Prime platform.

DeFi

November 11, 2026

LlamaRisk Asks Aave to Freeze StakeWise, Lombard and Rocket Pool Tokens on Its V3 Core Market

Two of the five assets named in the proposal are already frozen, and StakeWise's founder has asked the Aave DAO to vote on its osETH token separately.

November 11, 2026

Across Back Online After Namecheap Social Engineering Handed Domain to Attacker

Across says its site is back under its control and affected users will be made whole, while a security firm's loss estimate has not been confirmed by the protocol.

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.

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 12, 2026

Senators Ask White House if Kalshi-Betting Aide Could Get Clemency

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.

November 12, 2026

SEC Reportedly Backs CFTC Against Stock-Perps Injunction

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.

November 11, 2026

Judge Calls CFTC’s Swap Rules ‘Inherently Contradictory’ as Novig Loses Bid to Block New York

Judge Colleen McMahon refused to defer to the CFTC, whose October rules she called irreconcilable, and found at the preliminary-injunction stage that New York can require a state gambling license for Novig's sports event contracts.

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.

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 11, 2026

The Chopping Block: Vitalik Says ETH Is a Store of Value, the EF’s Seppuku License Lawsuit, Jensen Huang and the Alleged Chinese Spy, and McHenry Blames Coinbase

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.

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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