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Strategy Bought 1,036 Bitcoin and Retired $188M of Preferred. The Second Number Is the One to Watch

3 days ago

Strategy Bought 1,036 Bitcoin and Retired $188M of Preferred. The Second Number Is the One to Watch

Strategy's November 9 filing pairs a 1,036 BTC purchase with roughly $188 million of STRC preferred repurchases. Most coverage will lead with the coins. The capital structure is where the actual signal sits, and it's the part almost nobody prices in.

Crypto Custodians Want a Seat at the $7.5 Trillion Derivatives Table

3 days ago

Crypto Custodians Want a Seat at the $7.5 Trillion Derivatives Table

Custody firms are pushing into a settlement business that moves billions a day, and they're getting real regulatory relief for the first time. The problem is that the banks already own the plumbing, and nobody has figured out what happens to a custodian's balance sheet on a Sunday. Here's who wins, who loses, and the three dates that decide it.

The NYSE Just Bought a Lane, Not a Ledger, and Ava Labs Says the General Purpose Era Is Over

3 days ago

The NYSE Just Bought a Lane, Not a Ledger, and Ava Labs Says the General Purpose Era Is Over

Ava Labs' John Nahas says the NYSE collaboration marks the moment institutions stopped piloting onchain markets and started building their own rails. He's directionally right, but the token math is messier than the press release suggests.

MARA Sold 13,597 BTC at an $81,039 Average. The Bitcoin Proxy Trade Just Broke.

3 days ago

MARA Sold 13,597 BTC at an $81,039 Average. The Bitcoin Proxy Trade Just Broke.

MARA dumped 13,597 BTC for about $1.1 billion after quarter-end and used $750 million to kill its Bitcoin-backed loans. The collateral ratio fell from 57% to under 5%. That's financial flexibility bought with upside, and it changes what shareholders actually own.

Kimber Digital Securities Wins Broker-Dealer Status for Tokenized Stocks, ETFs and Bonds

3 days ago

Kimber Digital Securities Wins Broker-Dealer Status for Tokenized Stocks, ETFs and Bonds

A Plume affiliate now holds broker-dealer status and plans to put tokenized US equities, ETFs and bonds inside self-custodial wallets, with shareholder rights preserved. The approval is the easy part. Proving voting and dividend rights survive an onchain transfer is the hard one.

Ether ETFs Shed $184.6 Million in a Day. BlackRock's ETHA Did 65% of It.

3 days ago

Ether ETFs Shed $184.6 Million in a Day. BlackRock's ETHA Did 65% of It.

US spot Ether ETFs just posted a third straight red session, with $184.6 million leaving on November 9 alone. BlackRock's ETHA accounted for $119.3 million of it, and the three-day total now sits near $377.8 million. The biggest, cheapest product in the category is the one bleeding hardest, and that's the tell.

Two AI Agents, 20 Human Messages, and a Cryptography Test That Should Worry Every Audit Team

3 days ago

Two AI Agents, 20 Human Messages, and a Cryptography Test That Should Worry Every Audit Team

DeepMind says two AI agents completed a cryptography research task with only about 20 human messages, plus approval gates and a specialist helper agent. The agents burned more CPU time than a known RSA benchmark, which is exactly the trade that should make crypto compliance teams sit up: expert attention is now scarcer than compute, and every licensing regime in the industry is built on the opposite assumption.

Bitcoin ETFs Lost $1.04B in Three Sessions, and BlackRock Ate Almost All the Damage

3 days ago

Bitcoin ETFs Lost $1.04B in Three Sessions, and BlackRock Ate Almost All the Damage

Spot Bitcoin ETFs bled another $201 million on Monday, pushing the three-session total past $1 billion. But the pain was lopsided: IBIT accounted for more than the entire net outflow. Here's why that matters more than the headline number.

Mercado Bitcoin Reopens Cash Withdrawals Next Week, $49M Hole Still Open on the Crypto Side

3 days ago

Mercado Bitcoin Reopens Cash Withdrawals Next Week, $49M Hole Still Open on the Crypto Side

Brazil's oldest exchange is turning the fiat rails back on through PIX next week. Crypto transfers stay frozen after a $49 million breach. That split tells you exactly where the hole is, and it isn't in the bank account.

October CPI Landed at 0.4%. Bitcoin Miners Felt It in the Power Bill.

3 days ago

October CPI Landed at 0.4%. Bitcoin Miners Felt It in the Power Bill.

October CPI came in at 0.4% month over month, a tenth hotter than consensus, and the energy component rose 0.7%. For bitcoin miners, that's not an abstraction. It's a repricing of the two inputs that decide whether a rig makes money: electricity and capital.

AI Found 120% More Bugs in Crypto Code. Now Comes the Part Nobody Wants to Underwrite

3 days ago

AI Found 120% More Bugs in Crypto Code. Now Comes the Part Nobody Wants to Underwrite

A new preprint says AI-assisted security teams surfaced 120% more flaws while measured fix rates held steady. That sounds like a win until you look at what 'kept pace' actually means and who's stuck holding the queue. I think the crowd is reading this stat backwards.

Apple Shipped Two iOS Patches and Said Nothing About the Wallet Sandbox Escape

3 days ago

Apple Shipped Two iOS Patches and Said Nothing About the Wallet Sandbox Escape

A public sandbox escape called worse_query can read files inside other apps' containers on iOS, and Binance just told iPhone users to check their seed phrases. Apple patched twice the next day without mentioning it. The bug is overhyped. The silence isn't.

Trump Media Pledged 11,385 BTC to a Counterparty That Can Lend It Out. The $1B Note Comes Due in 21 Days

3 days ago

Trump Media Pledged 11,385 BTC to a Counterparty That Can Lend It Out. The $1B Note Comes Due in 21 Days

Trump Media disclosed that 73% of its bitcoin sits in an options program where an unnamed counterparty can rehypothecate the coins at will. At the same time, holders of its $1 billion in convertible notes can demand cash back on Nov. 30. The math here's not comfortable.

Stablecoins Don't Need to Win the Banking Wars to Win the Settlement War

3 days ago

Stablecoins Don't Need to Win the Banking Wars to Win the Settlement War

The convergence of banks and crypto firms raises a question about stablecoins' lasting value. The answer lies not in deposits, but in the plumbing of global settlement. Here's why the $160 billion stablecoin market is a solution looking for a problem that banks can't solve.

Valour Lists Eight Crypto ETPs in Stockholm, and Half the Shelf Is Meme Trades

3 days ago

Valour Lists Eight Crypto ETPs in Stockholm, and Half the Shelf Is Meme Trades

Valour put eight SEK-denominated crypto ETPs on Sweden's Spotlight Stock Market on November 5, spanning Canton, Morpho and Raydium alongside Pump.fun, Dogwifhat and Bonk. The brokerage wrapper cuts out wallets. It doesn't cut out the price risk, the currency risk, or the fact that each product tracks one token, not a basket.

Strategy Spent 2x More on Its Own Preferred Stock Than Bitcoin Last Week. That's the Tell.

3 days ago

Strategy Spent 2x More on Its Own Preferred Stock Than Bitcoin Last Week. That's the Tell.

The November 9 filing covers November 2 through November 8, and the line items don't match the story everyone's been told. Strategy put more than twice as much capital into buying back its STRC preferred than into buying Bitcoin. Preferred holders got serviced first. Common holders are now at the bottom of a stack that's getting defended before it's extended.

MARA Sells 13,597 Bitcoin at $81,039 to Retire $750M in Loans

3 days ago

MARA Sells 13,597 Bitcoin at $81,039 to Retire $750M in Loans

MARA dumped 13,597 BTC for about $1.1 billion right after Q3 closed, wiping out every bitcoin-backed term loan and cutting its treasury by 40%. Management says more sales are coming, and the money is headed for AI infrastructure and buybacks.

Hyperscale Data Sold Its Last 211 BTC at $76K, and Left Roughly $8M on the Table

3 days ago

Hyperscale Data Sold Its Last 211 BTC at $76K, and Left Roughly $8M on the Table

GPUS finished dumping its bitcoin reserve on Nov. 8, closing out a $74.4 million exit that averaged about $66,800 a coin. The cash goes to debt and 10 megawatts of AI capacity in Michigan. Here's the math on what the trade actually cost, and what comes next on Nov. 23.

Bitcoin Sits at $73,500, and the ETF Bid Just Blinked

3 days ago

Bitcoin Sits at $73,500, and the ETF Bid Just Blinked

A hot October CPI print knocked bitcoin from $74,300 to $73,400 in minutes and revived bets on a half-point Fed hike in December. But the real damage came from the ETF desk, where IBIT logged its seventh straight day of redemptions. The buy-the-dip crowd may be gone.

Moody's Pushed Credit Ratings Across Two Blockchains at Once. That's the Dull Plumbing Tokenization Actually Needed.

3 days ago

Moody's Pushed Credit Ratings Across Two Blockchains at Once. That's the Dull Plumbing Tokenization Actually Needed.

Moody's ran a testnet pilot with Chainlink's CCIP that carried its credit ratings onto permissioned and permissionless chains simultaneously, without touching its publication or governance process. It's unglamorous, it's not production-ready, and it's the most important piece of infrastructure news for tokenized credit this year.

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