Live Feed

Strive said in a filing with the U.S. SEC that it bought a total of 8,136 BTC in the third quarter at an average price of $78,885. As of Sept. 30, the company held 28,000 BTC with a fair value of $2.34 billion. Strive posted third-quarter revenue of $2.696 million and net income of $509 million, with most of the profit recorded as unrealized gains from cryptocurrency revaluation. The company also bought an additional 15,124 BTC from Oct. 1 to Oct. 30 at an average price of $83,310, and as of Oct. 30 held 43,124 BTC and $490 million in cash and cash equivalents.

Solana-based liquid staking protocol Sanctum has introduced a two-of-three multisig security system for all wallets in its mobile app, Crypto Briefing reported. The setup requires approval from at least two of three keys to execute a transaction. The keys consist of a biometric device key, a cloud key stored on iCloud or Google Drive, and a recovery key linked to an email account. The feature uses multisig infrastructure from Squads, which protects more than $15 billion in assets across the Solana ecosystem. Sanctum has expanded a security model previously used mainly by DAOs and project teams to individual users.

Crypto-focused hedge fund Room40 Capital plans to return all outside investor capital and revamp its investment strategy, Bloomberg reported. The firm will manage only its own capital and funds from a single institutional partner going forward, while broadening its existing crypto-focused strategy into macro trading. In a letter to investors, Room40 Capital CEO Paul Yablon pointed to last month’s $6.3 billion Binance asset theft as an example of the crypto industry’s security problems. Room40 Capital said it had no exposure to Binance. Yablon also said investment opportunities in the crypto market offering high returns relative to risk have fallen sharply over the past year.

Whale Alert reported that 247,000,000 USDT has been transferred from an unknown wallet to Bitfinex. The transaction is valued at about $247 million.

Bitcoin has remained relatively resilient even as U.S. technology stocks weaken, Bloomberg reported. Axel Rudolph, senior technical analyst at IG, said selling in tech stocks has spread amid doubts over the profitability of AI investments and concerns about tighter data center regulation, while BTC is holding its current range on buying demand. Rudolph added it is worth watching whether BTC is starting to decouple from tech stocks. Samuel Lane, co-head of crypto trading at Marex, said selling pressure is easing, but the recent rebound looks more like a temporary relief rally. Lane added BTC needs to reclaim $77,000 to secure upward momentum and could retest $75,000 if the stock-market decline continues.

Russia’s central bank has allowed non-qualified investors, or retail investors, to invest in BTC, ETH and USDT, TASS reported. Detailed trading conditions and investment limits were not disclosed.

High-performance smart-contract layer-1 blockchain Vara Network said governance proposal No. 90, which calls for the creation of a community treasury, has been approved. Users with ideas that could benefit the network will soon be able to request funding through treasury spending proposals.

Nasdaq-listed Solana Company plans to expand in Hong Kong as demand for tokenized assets rises there, SCMP reported. The company, which focuses on buying and holding SOL, was designated a strategic enterprise by the Hong Kong government last month. It plans to make Hong Kong its new Asia-Pacific headquarters and explore digital asset infrastructure and service opportunities with local financial institutions.

BlackRock’s preferred stock ETF PFF has made its first investment in Strive’s SATS shares, adding 412,353 shares worth about $38.8 million, BitcoinTreasuries reported. The product is a high-dividend digital credit instrument issued by Strive, a Bitcoin treasury company, and the purchase marks PFF’s first SATS investment.

Taiko, an Ethereum-based layer-two scaling network, announced a maintenance-focused update for Hoodi and the mainnet execution engine alethia-reth. The project recommended node operators update as soon as possible to avoid unexpected issues and maintain connectivity. The recommended versions are alethia-reth v1.5.0 and simple-taiko-node v2.6.6.

North Korean-linked hacking group TraderTraitor likely obtained access to Binance’s systems eight weeks before the hack, according to a Cointelegraph report citing nonprofit cybersecurity group Security Alliance (SEAL). SEAL said the hackers were able to move in and out of the system while maintaining a high degree of stealth for an extended period after the initial intrusion. It added that similar patterns were seen in past hacks involving Bitget, KelpDAO and AFX, where access had been secured three to six weeks in advance. Binance had previously disclosed that an employee device was infected through a fake job interview, leading to the theft of wallet infrastructure credentials. North Korea has denied carrying out the hack.

A Binance hacker swapped $50 million worth of XRP into BTC, mainly through THORChain, with the total converted amount reaching 1,650 BTC, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. Elliptic said most of the directly stolen BTC and ETH have not yet been moved, while the total amount of stolen XRP stands at about 233 million tokens.

Nasdaq-listed Hyperliquid Strategy (PURR) bought an additional $785 million worth of HYPE last quarter, raising its holdings to 38.5 million HYPE, according to Crypto Briefing. The holdings account for about 16% of HYPE’s total circulating supply. The company funded the purchases through a $911 million stock issuance and is currently sitting on about $803 million in unrealized profit on its HYPE position.

Near-based EVM-compatible layer-two network Aurora (AURORA) said Aurora Intents Connect has been integrated into RabbitHole. Under the feature, users can choose assets on Solana or Tron and deposit them to open a position on Ethereum. The function runs on NEAR Intents.

Binance said via its official X account it plans to resume withdrawals for HYPE, INJ, APT, PLASMA, NEAR and LTC by next weekend. Binance has been gradually restoring cryptocurrency withdrawals since Nov. 1.

Bittensor (TAO), a decentralized AI model network, announced the release of a quantum-resistant wallet. The update offers users an optional feature for quantum-resistant signatures and automatic rotation of signing keys.

The number of companies opposing a tokenized stock trading platform by Intercontinental Exchange and OKX has risen to 67, according to Crypto in America host Eleanor Terrett. Meta, Palantir, S&P Global, KLA and Super Micro recently joined the objections, and 56 of the 62 companies originally proposed for listing on the platform have now expressed opposition.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has proposed bringing cryptocurrencies further into anti-money laundering regulations and strengthening transaction tracking, TASS reported. At a UN Convention Against Corruption asset recovery working group meeting in Vienna, committee representatives said crypto transactions can be tracked through a dedicated system run by Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service, allowing authorities to secure evidence needed for criminal investigations. The committee also stressed the importance of international judicial cooperation and said it had seized and confiscated more than $486 million in corruption-related assets by 2026 in coordination with financial intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

Pump.fun deposited 68,260 SOL, worth about $6.15 million, to Kraken for the first time in 15 days as Solana fell 6.9%, according to Onchain Lens. Exchange deposits are typically interpreted as intended for selling.

Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz bought about $9.9 million worth of company shares, The Block reported, citing a U.S. SEC filing. Galaxy (GLXY), a crypto financial firm listed on the Nasdaq, is down 43.5% over the past month. Novogratz said there is a significant gap between the current share price and the company’s intrinsic value. Galaxy shares were up 7% in premarket trading today.

China’s central bank judged Solana’s promotional activity in China to be in violation of regulations and halted the offline "Solana Accelerate China 2026" event just before it was due to begin, the Financial Times reported. A People’s Bank of China official said SOL is inherently a cryptocurrency and Solana also provides technical services for the issuance and trading of assets such as USDT. Under regulations issued by eight government bodies in February, the official said, promoting Solana constitutes a rules violation. Authorities plan to step up enforcement against cryptocurrency trading firms in China and China-linked organizations affiliated with overseas platforms. CoinNess previously reported that police were dispatched to a Solana Foundation event in Shanghai in October and the event was abruptly suspended.

Analysts said the slide in U.S. tech stocks spilled over into the crypto market as asset managers sold alternative assets and cut leverage. Simon-Peter Massabni, head of business development at XS.com, told CoinDesk asset managers were selling alternative assets to meet margin calls and reduce portfolio leverage. Analysts at FalconX and GSR also said concerns that a Democratic Party landslide in the U.S. midterm elections could slow the pace of AI data center construction added to selling pressure, while market doubts over the profitability of large-scale infrastructure spending have also grown.

BNB Chain plans to migrate network validators to the Reth-based BSC-Reth client, aiming to improve throughput and speed. Internal tests showed block recording latency fell 34.9%, while transaction execution latency was cut 35.5% to 56.5 milliseconds. BNB Chain also plans to review support for BEP-675 to enable longer block production times and the adoption of EVM2, a high-speed execution environment.

Loss-driven selling by Bitcoin investors has been expanding, according to on-chain analyst Darkfost. Weekly realized losses reached $191 million, while daily realized losses over the past three days came to $657 million-$703 million. The analyst said that scale was close to the heavy-loss period seen in early August. Selling to lock in losses also accelerated as BTC fell back below $80,000, with $80,000 described as a key price level that investors react to sensitively and whose breach increased selling pressure.

South Korean exchanges including Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone and DigitalX, formerly Korbit, announced notices urging caution on withdrawals to GOPAX. GOPAX has temporarily suspended deposits, withdrawals and trading as part of measures to protect user assets and strengthen security. GOPAX told Digital Asset it took the preventive step after receiving a threatening email saying its exchange would be hacked. The exchange said the restrictions were not imposed because of a hack and that no hacking attempt had occurred so far.