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.
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Paying off its $750 million in bitcoin-collateralized loans left MARA Holdings with about $350 million from its bitcoin sale, by Unchained’s calculation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Massachusetts Democrat likely takes the Senate Banking gavel in January, and her team says prediction markets are also in line for scrutiny.
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.
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.
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.
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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