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  • Michael Saylor, founder and chairman of Strategy. Image: Swan Bitcoin/YouTube/Decrypt

    Strategy Buys $82M in Bitcoin, Buys Back $188M of STRC

    Strategy bought 1,036 BTC for $81.9 million last week, its second straight weekly purchase, the company said on Monday. The Bitcoin treasury firm paid an average of $79,012 per coin between November 2 and November 8, according to an SEC filing. It now holds 850,364 BTC, acquired for a total of $64.16 billion at an average of about $75,456 per coin. Strategy has acquired 1,036 $BTC and repurchased $188M of $STRC. As of 11/8/26, we hold 850,364 BTC and $4.9B of USD Assets. $MSTRhttps://t.co/dNzTP...

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    Microsoft-Backed Space and Time Launches Platform to Let AI Agents Verify Private Data

    Space and Time, a Microsoft-backed blockchain data project, has launched a platform designed to let businesses use private data in AI tools without handing over the underlying records, the company announced on Monday. Space and Time Enterprise lets companies prove that calculations made on their private data are correct, so that AI applications, auditors and other stakeholders can check the results without accessing the database itself. Launch partners include onchain asset manager Maple Finance...

  • Coinbase. Image: Decrypt

    Coinbase Joins Circle, Ripple With Final OCC Approval for Federal Trust Bank Charter

    Coinbase has received final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter Coinbase National Trust Company, the crypto exchange said on Monday. The OCC approved the application last Friday, according to Coinbase. The firm said the charter will let it expand its custody business, which holds digital assets on behalf of institutional clients, under a federal regulatory framework. "Custody is foundational to our business," the company said, describing itself as the lea...

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  • Donald Trump. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Trump Says He Knows 'Nothing' About World Liberty Financial as He Defends UAE Ties

    U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his family's stake in crypto venture World Liberty Financial, saying he knows "nothing" about the firm despite being a co-owner, in an interview after last week's midterm elections. Asked by columnist Ross Douthat why his co-ownership of a company partly owned by investors linked to the United Arab Emirates government was different from the kind of arrangement he would call corrupt if it involved the Biden family, Trump replied: "Here's the difference [.....

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  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Image: World Economic Forum/Thibaut Bouvier/Decrypt (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

    Nvidia Board Investigates Jensen Huang After Report He Was Target of Chinese Spy Effort

    Nvidia's board of directors has opened an independent investigation following reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort, the company said on Sunday. A committee of independent directors, assisted by outside counsel, will oversee the inquiry. "While the Board has no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised, the Board's inquiry will examine all available information," it said, adding that it "has confidence in Jensen and...

  • Exterior view of the Department of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    US Sanctions 45 More Targets Tied to Alleged Crypto Scam Empire Prince Group

    The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned four individuals and 41 entities that it says support Prince Group, the Cambodian conglomerate accused of running scam compounds that use trafficked workers to defraud victims through crypto investment and romance scams. The new designations, announced on Thursday by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), target the offshore companies, nominee owners and administrators that Treasury says have helped Prince Group executives conceal assets and evad...

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  • Anthropic. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Anthropic IPO Valuation Could Be Slashed in Half to $1T After AI Stock Rout: Report

    Major investors are increasingly doubtful that Anthropic's initial public offering can go ahead at its expected valuation of $1.5 trillion, after a sharp sell-off in AI stocks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Anthropic, which filed last month to list on Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT," has been aiming to go public the week before Thanksgiving and raise up to $100 billion, according to the Journal. But three major investors who plan to take part in the IPO told the paper the valuation...

  • North Korea and hacking. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    $3.1B in Stolen Binance Crypto Has Yet to Be Laundered: Elliptic

    Around half of the $6.43 billion stolen from Binance last month has yet to be laundered, blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said in a report updated on Friday. About $3.11 billion remains in addresses linked to the theft, mostly in ETH and Bitcoin, and those funds are "very likely" still held by North Korea, Elliptic said. A further $2.85 billion, or 44% of the haul, has been frozen or seized, mostly stablecoins that issuers such as Tether and Circle froze within an hour of the theft. That compa...

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  • Tesla Cybertruck. Image: Tesla/Decrypt

    Tesla to Wind Down Cybertruck Production as Elon Musk Pivots to Robotaxis and AI

    Tesla will stop making the Cybertruck at its Texas Gigafactory around the middle of next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday, as the company shifts its focus to autonomous vehicles. "Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production," Musk tweeted. Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab pr...

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  • Handcuffs and Bitcoin logo. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing $2.5M in Crypto From 35 Investigations

    A former FBI agent has pleaded guilty to stealing about $2.47 million in cryptocurrency using wallet credentials the bureau had collected during its own investigations, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, of Ashburn, Virginia, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in federal court in Alexandria. He faces up to 20 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 4, 2027. Former FBI agent Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, of Ashburn, pled guilty today...

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  • Zcash. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Zcash's NU7 Upgrade Goes Live, Recycling 60% of Fees to Fund Future Block Rewards

    Zcash's NU7 network upgrade went live at block 3,543,405 early Friday, activating the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM), a change designed to help pay for the privacy coin's security as its block rewards shrink. "NU7 has successfully activated on mainnet. A new era of Zcash is here," the project's official account tweeted. NU7 has successfully activated on mainnet. A new era of Zcash is here. $ZEC pic.twitter.com/rPaSFe9h7j — Zcash 🛡️ (@Zcash) November 6, 2026 "This is a huge milestone f...

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    3 min read
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  • The Hollywood sign. Image: Drei Kubik/Unsplash/Decrypt

    Hollywood Studios Quietly Ban Staff From Betting on Prediction Markets: Report

    Hollywood studios and production companies have been quietly issuing guidelines barring employees from betting on prediction markets, entertainment industry trade paper The Hollywood Reporter reported on Thursday. The warnings prohibit staff from betting on events such as studio earnings, casting decisions and release dates, or passing information to friends and family so they can bet instead, according to the report. At least one company has reportedly set up a hotline for employees to anonymou...

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  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Image: Decypt/Shutterstock

    Sam Altman Says It's 'Fucking Annoying' His RAM Comments Were Taken Out of Context

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has hit back at criticism of his comments about computer memory, saying they were taken out of context and that he has long argued for the world to make more of it. "I actually do want the world to have tons of memory and people to put as much as they want in their computers, and it is fucking annoying that this was taken out of context," Altman tweeted early Wednesday. "I have been arguing for the world to ramp up memory production for a long time." but only because...i a...

  • Binance. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Binance Cuts Off SignalPlus API Keys Over 'Potential Security Issue' at Trading Platform

    Binance has removed all API keys linked to SignalPlus, a third-party crypto trading platform, after SignalPlus reported a "potential security issue," the exchange said on Thursday. "Binance's own systems are unaffected. User funds remain safe," the exchange said, describing the move as an "immediate precautionary measure." Following a potential security issue reported by third-party platform SignalPlus, we have proactively removed all API keys linked to SignalPlus as an immediate precautionary...

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    3 min read
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  • Man in handcuffs. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Canadian Man Extradited to US Over Plot to Hijack University Supercomputers for Crypto

    A Canadian man has been extradited to the United States to face charges that he helped hack into university computers to steal login credentials and secretly mine cryptocurrency, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. A federal grand jury in the Western District of New York indicted Ryan James Roach, 35, of Saskatchewan, and Mathiew James Stubbings, 41, of Ontario, on charges of conspiracy to obtain information from and damage a protected computer, obtaining information from a protected compute...

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    3 min read
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  • Kalshi. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Arkansas Sues Kalshi, Joining a Growing List of States Targeting Prediction Markets

    Arkansas has sued Kalshi, accusing the prediction market of offering an illegal, unregulated gambling platform to the state's residents, Attorney General Tim Griffin said on Wednesday. The lawsuit, filed against KalshiEX LLC and Kalshi Inc., alleges multiple violations of the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The state is seeking restitution, penalties, taxes and an injunction. Today I filed a lawsuit against @Kalshi for violating the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by operating...

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    4 min read
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  • What Is x402? How AI Agents Pay With Crypto

    Nobody really built the web with payments in mind. Early HTTP specifications included a status code, 402 "Payment Required", that was reserved for a future system of online payments. Then it sat unused for about 30 years. Payments were slow and expensive, and they needed accounts, card details and middlemen who could reverse charges. None of that works for a small payment made by software. That gap matters more now because AI agents are starting to browse, call APIs and buy services for their us...

  • A hacker. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Confirms Cyberattack After ZachXBT Ties It to $133M Crypto Theft

    French banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa has confirmed that it was hit by a cyberattack that allowed fraudulent operations, a day after onchain investigator ZachXBT named it as the alleged victim of a crypto theft of more than $133 million. In a statement shared with Decrypt on Wednesday, the bank said the incident was "closed and now under control," and that operations were resuming gradually after it put stronger security measures in place. It said customers' assets were not affected, and that...

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    3 min read
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  • Source: Circle/Decrypt

    USDC Issuer Circle Quietly Cuts 5% of Staff in Profitable Quarter

    Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has cut about 5% of its workforce, according to its third-quarter earnings release on Wednesday. The reduction was "designed to better align our organizational structure with our operating model and strategic priorities," the company said in footnotes to its financial tables. Circle did not say how many employees were affected or which teams were cut. It recorded $9.1 million in restructuring expenses in the quarter, mostly cash payments for notice...

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    3 min read
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  • Judge's gavel. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Judge Orders Bitcoin Wallet Returned to Family of Convicted Canadian Killer

    A Canadian judge has ordered that a laptop containing a Bitcoin wallet be returned to the family of William Sandeson, who is serving a life sentence for the 2015 murder of fellow university student Taylor Samson during a drugs deal, Global News reported. Justice John Bodurtha of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that prosecutors had not proved the cryptocurrency was linked to the killing. Sandeson, who appeared virtually at the hearing in Halifax, had filed a motion in April seeking...

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    2 min read
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