A task scammer lost 60 BTC ($4.9M+) after thieves drained three Ledger wallets hit by the CryptoBilis spy chip — Chainalysis

Hourly volume on Hyperliquid's Tesla perp jumped from $2.8M to $47M overnight after Musk unveiled a flying Roadster prototype while US stock markets were closed — CoinDesk

Nine crypto firms launched the Quantum Alliance to set quantum-resistant standards, estimating 6.4M BTC, 30.2% of supply, already have exposed public keys — CoinDesk

Circle plans to push USDC into about 40 new emerging markets across Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, backed by its $400M Tazapay deal — CoinDesk

The SEC approved Cboe binary options on KPIs of 23 US companies, from Coinbase volume to MARA bitcoin output, with listings planned this month and Robinhood first to offer them — CoinDesk

Deutsche Bank plans to launch BTC and ETH custody for institutional clients within weeks, starting in Germany, with expansion to Asian hubs in 2027 — Wu Blockchain

Deutsche Bank plans to launch BTC and ETH custody within weeks, then add stablecoin conversion, tokenized deposits and digital bonds before expanding to Asian hubs in 2027 — Wu Blockchain

Visa Direct moved USDC prefunding into commercial production with Inyo Global, letting the payments firm prefund Visa Direct payouts in USDC instead of fiat — The Block

Nillion is winding down its Nillion L2 in the coming weeks after moving to Ethereum mainnet, and NIL holders on the L2 need to bridge to Ethereum L1 before then — Nillion

Vitalik Buterin showed his private AI agent setup, routing each chat through a separate Tor circuit, paying via zkAPI and rewriting prompts with a local Qwen model — Wu Blockchain

Charles Schwab, with $13.3T in client assets, completed its BTC and ETH trading rollout to eligible US retail clients at 0.75% per trade, adding SOL, AVAX and LINK by year-end — TokenPost

Circle made about $1.4B in H1 2026 revenue but paid $819M, 59%, to USDC distribution partners and transaction costs, keeping roughly 7% as profit — Crypto Briefing

Cobo Wallet, launched by F2Pool's co-founder, shuts down December 1, and leftover balances will be charged 2% a month with a $100 minimum fee — Cobo

A US court approved a three-way settlement between Chapter 11-bound Movement Labs, its original founders and the Movement Foundation, closing more of the legal fallout from the MOVE market-making scandal — TechFlow

Toronto police laid 82 charges against seven men, three of them Canadian Armed Forces members, over the July gunpoint kidnapping of a crypto exchange owner — Decrypt

Marqeta will plug into Coinbase custody, conversion and Base settlement so its enterprise card-issuing customers can launch stablecoin-backed cards with 24/7 funding — The Block

Ledger reportedly received reports of hardware wallets fitted with malicious implants as early as December 2025, ten months before the CryptoBilis spy-chip incident, without issuing a public warning — Cointelegraph

Google's Willow quantum chip cut errors about 40-fold when preparing magic states, a costly step toward machines that could crack bitcoin keys exposed since the Satoshi era — CoinDesk

Claude traced the long-mysterious NSA seeds behind NIST's P-256 and four other ECDSA curves to a 1990s C random-number generator seeded with Unix timestamps, not a hidden backdoor — Anthropic

Bitget added Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to its prohibited jurisdictions in an October 16 terms update, sending affected users account-specific deadlines to close positions and withdraw — The Defiant

After the Bitget exploiter started shielding stolen funds in Zcash, other attackers followed, including proceeds from the CryptoBilis Ledger incident and the $12M Triple-A hack — ChainCatcher