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Circle Asks the SEC to Zero Out the 2% Stablecoin Haircut. Those 200 Basis Points Are the Whole Fight.

6 days ago

Circle Asks the SEC to Zero Out the 2% Stablecoin Haircut. Those 200 Basis Points Are the Whole Fight.

Circle wants the SEC to treat qualifying payment stablecoins as cash and cut the broker-dealer haircut on them from 2% to zero. The request is narrow, technical, and completely unglamorous. It also decides whether stablecoins become real settlement collateral or stay a payments side show.

The Stock-Pocalypse Question: What Actually Matters This Week

6 days ago

The Stock-Pocalypse Question: What Actually Matters This Week

Friday's selloff wasn't a crash, but it set up a genuinely high-stakes week. Between midterm nerves, AI capex anxiety, and a stacked earnings calendar, three separate fears are landing in the same five-day window. Here's how to read it without panicking.

ATOM's Tokenomics Review Drops November 20. Cutting Issuance Won't Save Your Bags.

6 days ago

ATOM's Tokenomics Review Drops November 20. Cutting Issuance Won't Save Your Bags.

Cosmos contributors are pushing ATOM's economics into a public review process, with details landing around November 20 and reviews starting in early December. Everyone's focused on lower issuance. That's the wrong trade, and here's why.

Cosmos Won't Bundle ATOM's Tokenomics. That's the Smart Play.

6 days ago

Cosmos Won't Bundle ATOM's Tokenomics. That's the Smart Play.

Cosmos contributors say tokenomics research has reached the preparation stage for public review, and each proposed change will be debated on its own instead of as one packaged redesign. That's slower, messier, and exactly the right approach for a chain changing its monetary policy.

BTCPay Told Bitcoin Merchants to Shut Down. Hot Wallets Are Getting Drained on Old Builds.

6 days ago

BTCPay Told Bitcoin Merchants to Shut Down. Hot Wallets Are Getting Drained on Old Builds.

BTCPay Server urged operators to kill their servers after reports of attackers draining hot wallets, and the fine print points at outdated software. The warning came without a version number, a CVE, or a count of affected merchants. That gap is the real story.

HashKey On-Chain Taps RD Technologies to Stress-Test RDUSD Where It Actually Matters

6 days ago

HashKey On-Chain Taps RD Technologies to Stress-Test RDUSD Where It Actually Matters

HashKey On-Chain and RD Technologies are teaming up to run on-chain testing for RDUSD, the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin aimed at cross-border trade and corporate payments. The testing is happening on licensed infrastructure, which is the part most stablecoin announcements skip.

Bank of Korea Stress-Tests 31 Firms on Crypto Risk. Game Studios Should Read the Fine Print

6 days ago

Bank of Korea Stress-Tests 31 Firms on Crypto Risk. Game Studios Should Read the Fine Print

The Bank of Korea is surveying 31 financial institutions on how an exchange shutdown, a long crypto winter, or a counterparty blowup would hit their books. That's a confession dressed as a questionnaire, and the fallout lands on the token-heavy Korean studios funding your next game.

The Digital Euro Picks Its Plumbers for 2029. Stablecoins Won't Wait That Long.

6 days ago

The Digital Euro Picks Its Plumbers for 2029. Stablecoins Won't Wait That Long.

The ECB just named the network providers that will connect banks to the digital euro, with one contract live since September 28 and another not starting until May 2027. Everyone's reading this as a CBDC victory lap. What if the opposite is true?

RLUSD Supply Drops 29% on XRPL While the Main XRP Pool Barely Blinks

6 days ago

RLUSD Supply Drops 29% on XRPL While the Main XRP Pool Barely Blinks

A 29% cut to RLUSD's supply on the XRPL should have rattled the deepest XRP/RLUSD trading pool on the ledger. It didn't. Pool reserves look nearly unchanged, funded offers are patchy, and nobody has explained where the float went. That's a divergence worth pulling apart.

Bitcoin Core 32.1 Is Out. Your Integrations Are the Real Test

6 days ago

Bitcoin Core 32.1 Is Out. Your Integrations Are the Real Test

Bitcoin Core 32.1 lands with network, privacy, and interface changes, while 31.2 and 30.4 keep the maintenance lane open. The version number isn't the story. The integrations downstream of it are.

THORChain Froze Swaps on 10 Chains. A Reorg Bug Broke the One Thing It Sells.

6 days ago

THORChain Froze Swaps on 10 Chains. A Reorg Bug Broke the One Thing It Sells.

THORChain node operators paused swaps across 10 networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Tron after a block reorg bug. The halt exposes the ugly truth about cross-chain liquidity: the product is uptime, and uptime just went to zero. Here's what the data says about who gets hurt and what happens when swaps come back.

Two XRP Ledger Fixes for Token Permissions Are Open, and Neither One Is Live Yet

6 days ago

Two XRP Ledger Fixes for Token Permissions Are Open, and Neither One Is Live Yet

Two pull requests opened October 27 would tighten how permissioned tokens are checked inside liquidity pools and on existing trust lines. Both sit under the fixCleanup3_5_0 amendment, which means code review, a release, and 80% validator support stand between the design and mainnet. Developers building on issued assets should be reading the diffs now, not the headlines.

Cardano's 2027 Budget Would Let Grant Judges Apply for Grants

6 days ago

Cardano's 2027 Budget Would Let Grant Judges Apply for Grants

The proposed 2027 Cardano budget creates funding stewards who assess proposals, and those same stewards could chase grants of their own. DReps still hold the spending votes, but that's not the firewall people think it's. Here's why this design choice matters more than any roadmap.

Polymarket Refunds $3.9 Million After a Rogue Script Sold User Positions

6 days ago

Polymarket Refunds $3.9 Million After a Rogue Script Sold User Positions

A compromised third-party monitoring script used live sessions to sell positions and move funds on October 29. Polymarket's postmortem puts total refunds at $3.9 million, including $1.2 million for losses tied to the trading pause itself. The bigger story is where the security boundary actually sits.

Binance Loses $5.8B in Withdrawals After Record Hack. That's Only 3.4% of Customer Assets

6 days ago

Binance Loses $5.8B in Withdrawals After Record Hack. That's Only 3.4% of Customer Assets

Binance reopened withdrawals after a record hack and $5.8 billion walked out the door. The scary part isn't the size of the exit. It's how small it was compared to the roughly $171 billion still sitting on the exchange.

$3.6B Out the Door: Binance Reopens and THORChain's Co-Founder Draws a Line

6 days ago

$3.6B Out the Door: Binance Reopens and THORChain's Co-Founder Draws a Line

Binance reopened withdrawals after the biggest breach in crypto history and $3.6 billion left on day one. Meanwhile, THORChain's co-founder is refusing to freeze coins for the FBI, and that fight matters more than the hack itself.

2 Countries, 0 Public Deadlines: KuCoin's Russia Exit and the Access Risk Nobody Prices In

6 days ago

2 Countries, 0 Public Deadlines: KuCoin's Russia Exit and the Access Risk Nobody Prices In

KuCoin ended services for Russia and Belarus on October 29 and declined to publish a single universal withdrawal deadline. That operational detail is the real story, especially for miners who convert bitcoin through exchanges to pay for megawatts. Access risk lives one layer above the asset, and most treasury teams still don't price it.

Binance Lost $2.5 Billion in One Day, and More Than Half of It Was Stablecoins

7 days ago

Binance Lost $2.5 Billion in One Day, and More Than Half of It Was Stablecoins

Binance reopened withdrawals on Nov. 1 after a $6.3 billion security breach. Within the day, its tracked wallets bled $2.51 billion in net outflows. The composition of that exit tells you more than the headline number does.

Cardano's Linux Problem: 21.5 Billion ADA Sits on Servers With a Critical Flaw

7 days ago

Cardano's Linux Problem: 21.5 Billion ADA Sits on Servers With a Critical Flaw

Cardano is warning stake pool operators about a critical Linux vulnerability touching servers that control 21.5 billion staked ADA. No attack has been reported. But the real risk isn't your wallet, it's block production and a very concentrated pool setup.

Strategy Booked $19.12 Billion in Profit. The Number That Actually Matters Is $5.07 Billion

7 days ago

Strategy Booked $19.12 Billion in Profit. The Number That Actually Matters Is $5.07 Billion

Strategy's third quarter showed $20.91 billion of digital-asset gains and $44.75 of diluted EPS, and the market is cheering a number that never touched a bank account. The $5.07 billion cash pile and the 3.4-year coverage claim tell you far more about what common shareholders actually own.

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