Summary: South Korea's FIU approved blocking 27 unregistered crypto exchange websites, including KuCoin and MEXC, expanding enforcement beyond prior mobile app restrictions.
Summary: Kraken parent Payward secures full Dubai VASP license, enabling dirham-denominated trading and institutional services, with launch targeted for coming weeks.
Summary: Standard Chartered introduces RLUSD custody via its DIFC branch, while Tether freezes $1.45M in THORChain USDT and Sberbank tests crypto features in its mobile app.
Summary: Binance revamped its Points programme to integrate rewards across Convert, Spot, Futures, and Earn, allowing users to earn points through varied activities while automatically migrating pre-April 2026 balances.
Summary: Bitcoin reclaimed $84,000 as institutional ETF inflows absorbed supply and derivatives markets saw long liquidations, though rising funding rates signal accumulating leverage.
Summary: Aptos launched an optional Encrypted Mempool on mainnet to shield users from MEV attacks like frontrunning, though it requires double the base gas price and adds 20ms latency per block.
Summary: KuCoin launched version 5.0 featuring an AI assistant and unified account management for spot, margin, and futures trading to streamline user experience.
Summary: Standard Chartered offers RLUSD custody in Dubai and plans LMAX integration using collateral mirroring to keep assets at the bank while enabling trading.
Summary: IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warns AI will affect 40% of global jobs, hitting young workers first, while noting it sustains 3% growth despite energy shocks.
Summary: Jeonbuk Bank becomes South Korea's first lender to offer won-denominated loans backed by bitcoin, limiting the service to corporate clients and utilizing registered custodians for asset storage.
Summary: Moscow Exchange begins testing cryptocurrency trading with professional participants ahead of a planned December launch, following Russia's new digital currency laws.
Summary: Open-source toolkit REA surged past 100,000 GitHub stars, enabling AI-driven reverse engineering that fueled game mods and prompted Adobe competitor ArtCraft's release amid publisher legal pushback.
Summary: Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier models from Superintelligence Labs, competing with OpenAI and Anthropic despite mixed independent benchmark results.
Summary: Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack advocates for fast, incremental rate hikes to combat inflation, signaling potential further tightening despite market expectations of a near-term pause.
Summary: The S&P 500 marked its fourth bull market anniversary with a 120% gain led by AI stocks, but analysts warn deteriorating breadth and high valuations make a fifth year challenging.
Summary: Fairshake affiliates spent $2.7 million supporting House candidates favoring digital asset policies, targeting incumbents like Pete Aguilar and Josh Gottheimer ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Summary: Ledger investigates Southeast Asian fund losses linked to Malaysia-based reseller CryptoBilis, confirming one device contained a hardware implant while investigators estimate $86 million was drained.
Summary: Payward, parent of Kraken, is in talks with Wells Fargo to provide liquidity for digital asset trades, aiming to expand client access without building new infrastructure.
Summary: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong backs the SEC's proposal to allow professional credentials and a new exam to determine accredited investor status, moving beyond traditional wealth thresholds.
Summary: Ledger links all confirmed wallet-draining cases to reseller CryptoBilis, stating its direct channels are safe while investigators trace over $86 million in suspected thefts across multiple blockchains.