Crypto News. November 19, 2025
Filecoin Foundation launched Filecoin Onchain Cloud yesterday in Buenos Aires during a major Cloudflare outage, offering blockchain-integrated decentralized storage with over 25 exabytes capacity, early integrations including ENS and Monad, and mainnet deployment planned for 2026.
Taurus, the digital asset infrastructure provider serving nearly 40 global banks including State Street and Deutsche Bank, has integrated Kaito’s institutional-grade pricing and liquidity data from over 100 centralized and decentralized venues directly into its platform.
Circle launched Reserve, allowing developers to create custom stablecoins backed 1:1 by USDC, with early adopters including Stacks’ USDCx for Bitcoin DeFi and Canton Network for privacy-focused institutional RWA applications
BlackRock’s IBIT bitcoin ETF saw its largest ever single day outflow of $523 million on Tuesday, while spot Solana ETFs extended their winning streak to 16 consecutive days with $420 million in total inflows.
Saudi developer Dar Global is seeking to tokenize up to 70% of $300 million Trump Maldives resort and sell tokens to US retail investors to finance construction from the ground up.
US Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott aims to vote on crypto market structure bill in both Senate committees by year end
Kraken raised $800 million across two tranches at a $20 billion valuation, led by institutional investors including Jane Street and DRW Venture Capital, as they prepare for an IPO.
Ethereum privacy startup 0xbow raised $3.5 million led by Starbloom Capital to develop Privacy Pools, a protocol for compliant fund anonymization co-authored by Vitalik Buterin that blocks bad actors while enabling legitimate privacy.
Revolut selected Polygon for stablecoin transfers and payments, integrating USDC/USDT remittances, in-app crypto card payments, and POL staking directly into its app with fee-free transfers and covered gas costs.
OpenLedger mainnet went live, a decentralized network tracking AI data lineage and automatically compensating contributors, after raising $8 million from Polychain Capital and Borderless Capital.
Sentient airdrop eligibility portal went live
Build on Bitcoin, BOB completed its community sale raising $4.2M from 2,133 participants buying 2% of token supply, bringing total funding to $25M ahead of its token generation event with FDVs of $165M-$230M and 50% day-1 unlock.
Dapp Radar shutdowns after 7 years due to financial issues
The timing of Filecoin Onchain Cloud launch during the Cloudflare outage is almost poetic. Real world demonstration of why decentralized infrastructure matters. Also intresting to see Circle's Reserve enabling custom stablecoins - that could unlock a lot of experimention with domain-specific stable assets. The $523M IBIT outflo is notable but the Solana ETF momentum tells a more compeling story about diversification.