Bitget began a phased resumption of withdrawals after its security incident
Strategy bought 1,665 BTC and repurchased $152M of STRC, bringing holdings to 847,666 BTC and $6.02B in USD assets
Coinbase and Citi brought stablecoins into the banking system, enabling instant stablecoin acceptance for institutions
Chainlink announced it was working to connect financial institutions to Swift’s blockchain ledger
Tether supported nearly $550M in Iran linked USDT freezes as the US expanded its sanctions campaign
Ondo launched spot trading for Ondo Stocks, enabling the basis trade on a single platform
SEC updated its crypto FAQ on token buybacks: no central party behind them likely means no investment contract
Coinbase got CFTC approval for its own derivatives clearing house
Franklin Templeton expanded its off-exchange collateral program to Bybit, letting users pledge shares of its $686M tokenized money market fund to borrow USDT or USDC
Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0, letting companies add their own security verifiers to cross-chain transfers
Circle and Volante partnered to integrate USDC workflows into Volante’s payments platform, whose clients included 4 of the top 5 global corporate banks and 7 of the top 10 US banks
DeFi Development Corp added about 47,706 SOL since Sept. 21, bringing total holdings to about 2.54M SOL and SOL equivalents worth $309M
Strive bought 1,107 BTC for $94.5M at an average of $85,396, bringing total holdings to 27,462 BTC
Bitmine passed 6M ETH, worth about $16B and 4.9% of circulating supply, after adding 17,362 ETH this week
Circle co-founder Sean Neville stepped down from the board, and CFO Jeremy Fox-Geen planned to leave by end of December
Capital B bought 13 BTC for $1.1M, bringing total holdings to 3,538 BTC
RedotPay received a clean Big Four audit opinion on its 2024 and 2025 financials ahead of a potential listing
NEAR Intents blocked over $50M in Bitget hack flows, with about $503K frozen mid-execution and $166K passing through, and waived its share of the recovery bounty
ETHFI announced it would fully exit EigenLayer restaking this quarter, with less than 1% of assets still restaked
Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla tokenized stocks from Coinbase went live as collateral on Aave V4 on Base to borrow USDC
Binance Wallet let users pay gas fees in USDT on BNB Chain, Ethereum, Solana and TRON
Aave founder Stani Kulechov said the protocol was considering an AAVE token burn in Aavenomics 3.0
Chainlink CCIP integrated Ethereum’s Fast Confirmation Rule, cutting reorg guarantees from about 15 minutes to 12-24 seconds
Blockchain[.]com reportedly targeted a $500M raise at a $4-6B valuation in its IPO
Goldman Sachs brought its $100B flagship Treasury fund to Avalanche via Lynq, a permissioned L1 used by 30+ institutional firms
