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Bitcoin gave back its post-midterm rally as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite posted their worst day since April 2025, though it fell less than the Nasdaq 100.
Alexander Blume said the rewards that Babylon and Stacks offered bitcoin holders pay out less as deposits grow, and pointed to a vault Two Prime runs on Pareto that lends to borrowers offchain.
Matt Corallo explains why patching four legacy bugs is about rebuilding muscle memory, just as much as it’s about Bitcoin maintenance.
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.
The bitcoin miner turned AI cloud provider blamed a customer-requested change and supplier timing for the delay, as AI cloud revenue rose to $200 million last quarter.
Alexander Blume of Two Prime and Matteo Pandolfi of Pareto lay out how their vault gathers wrapped bitcoin onchain while Two Prime lends it offchain, and why Blume thinks that beats token-subsidized Bitcoin L2 yields.
The change keeps validator deposits pending at the Gloas fork from being credited to a builder that shares the same key, a scenario its author called a conditional finding, not a live exploit.
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.
Central Bank of Nigeria rules that took effect Nov. 5 require stablecoin issuers serving Nigerians to incorporate locally, hold at least 10 billion to 15 billion naira in capital and back tokens with 2% extra reserves.
The White House regulatory office logged the SEC draft on Nov. 3, but its text is not public, so what it would change for brokerages holding crypto is not yet known.
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.
Several WBTC alternatives have emerged to bring Bitcoin liquidity to DeFi ecosystems across the cryptoverse. Discover the most prominent ones in this guide.
Based rollups are an exciting new addition to rollup scaling solutions.
