
Kraken Parent Payward Secures Full VARA License to Launch UAE Operations
Kraken parent Payward received full VARA approval to launch UAE operations, offering dirham-denominated trading and institutional services following a preliminary May license.
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Kraken parent Payward received full VARA approval to launch UAE operations, offering dirham-denominated trading and institutional services following a preliminary May license.

Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with Disney bidding $20 million for IP licenses, citing heavy losses and legal hurdles after losing key founders to Google.

Binance will shut down its Bitcoin mining pool and related services on Nov. 10, ending a six-year operation that held 2.3% of network hashrate.

Blockworks data shows over 70% of tokenized stock trades on BNB Chain occur outside US market hours, with Solana and Base also seeing majority off-session volume.

ECB Chief Economist Philip R. Lane reports that while AI drives 10% of firm investment and doubles worker usage, Europe lags behind the US in computing capacity and frontier model development.

With key leadership vacancies at the SEC and CFTC, new quorum rules allow a single commissioner to approve crypto regulations, shifting oversight from Congress to a small group of appointees.

D.C. Circuit upholds Chainalysis Reactor's Daubert admissibility, validating its clustering methodology and conservative attribution approach as reliable evidence in federal crypto crime trials.

Open-source project AnyPS5 uses AI to convert PS5 executables for native PC play, sparking speculation about running GTA VI at launch despite technical hurdles.

Bitcoin fell to $83,400 as ETF outflows continued and altcoins dropped up to 12%, driven by rising Treasury yields and oil prices rather than crypto-specific catalysts.

Ledger found a hardware implant in devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis that steals recovery phrases via LTE, with unverified reports linking it to $86 million in suspected thefts.

Sberbank received Bank of Russia approval to trade Bitcoin and other cryptos, joining an expanded list of authorized operators ahead of its planned December 1 product launch.

London's High Court ruled Chinese law applies to claims on 61,000 BTC seized from fraudster Zhimin Qian, improving UK chances of keeping the $5 billion haul while victims prepare an appeal.