Iran War Grounds Flights — and the Trump Family's Maldives Token Sale, Too
World Liberty Financial planned to sell tokens next year tied to loan proceeds from a Maldives resort, but the Iran war's disruption to regional flights has pushed back the launch — proof that even tokenized real-world assets still depend on whether planes can land.
Bitcoin Price Drops, But ETF Inflows Keep Coming: The Institutional Signal Grayscale Is Watching
Bitcoin has been under pressure lately, yet U.S. spot ETFs keep pulling in money. Grayscale says fiscal deficits, maturing financial infrastructure, and clearer regulation are the real indicators to watch for long-term capital flows.
Simulated Profit Screens Spark Backlash: NYC Council Sends Letters Demanding Polymarket, Kalshi Answer 60+ Marketing Questions
The New York City Council has sent investigative letters to four prediction market platforms—Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, and Gemini—over advertising practices, risks of exposure to minors, and consumer protection, focusing on whether simulated trading videos mislead users.
Samsung Puts Two Health AI Models on Your Watch: PPG Learns to Read ECG, Runs in Under 1 Millisecond With No Cloud Needed
Samsung Research America has unveiled xMAE and HiMAE, two wearable health foundation models that let watches derive cardiovascular data from PPG alone—no manual ECG measurement required—while completing on-device analysis in under 1 millisecond.
Interviewer Never Turned On Camera: Singapore Uncovers $11.8M LinkedIn Job Scam
Singapore police and the Cyber Security Agency have exposed a scam that used fake LinkedIn recruitment as bait, with hackers planting malware through bogus coding tests to steal session tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication — racking up total losses of $11.8 million.
StablecoinX Reveals 20% Stake in ENA Supply, Stock Jumps 12% in a Day
Ethena treasury firm StablecoinX confirmed it holds 20% of ENA's total token supply. The news sent shares up 12% in a single day, though for now the disclosed information stops at the holding percentage itself.
Binance Blocks HTX and 10 Other Exchanges Under EU Russia Sanctions
Binance has announced it will stop processing transactions from 16 exchanges, with HTX among them. Five others were already blocked previously, with the official reason cited as regulatory compliance requirements.
Israel's Largest Bank Teams Up With Galaxy to Open Bitcoin, Ether, Solana Trading
Israel's largest bank is opening trading in three major cryptocurrencies through a partnership with Galaxy, echoing the roughly $22 billion in on-chain fund flows the country has seen over the past year.
Israel's Largest Bank Knocks on Bitcoin Trading's Door Again — Same Gatekeeper Still Blocking the Way
Five years ago, Bank Leumi partnered with Paxos but got stuck waiting on approval from Israel's central bank. Now it's back with Galaxy's trading and custody systems, targeting early 2027 for launch — but facing the exact same regulatory checkpoint.
SEC Delays Tokenized Exchange Exemption Again, Bullish and Coinbase Slide in Tandem
The SEC abruptly canceled a meeting on crypto asset issuance rules and pushed back its long-awaited "innovation exemption," sending Bullish tumbling 8% and Uniswap's UNI leading declines on the CoinDesk 20 Index, even as bitcoin and U.S. stock indexes stayed nearly flat on the same day.
Coldcard Heist Goes Quiet, But 1,500 Stolen Bitcoin Still Sit Untouched
Galaxy Research has been tracking the Coldcard seed reconstruction attack and found no new waves of victims since August 6, but confirmed losses have now topped 1,778 BTC — with the vast majority of the stolen funds still sitting untouched by the attackers.
GLM-5.3 Claims to Be the Strongest Open-Source Coding Model — Its Own Benchmarks Say Otherwise
Z.ai has launched GLM-5.3, a 743B-parameter model, but its official blog's own benchmark scores show it losing to Claude Fable 5 — and even falling behind Chinese rival Kimi K3 on some tests. The so-called "open-weights" aren't even downloadable yet.
SharpLink Drops $200M in ETH Into Lido, Betting on Liquidity Over Yield
The Miami-based digital asset treasury firm chose to stake 12% of its ether via wstETH — not for the interest alone, but for the flexibility to keep deploying assets across DeFi even while staked.
Nuclear Referendum Merges with Local Elections: Five Demands Trimmed Down to One Make-or-Break Question
The Legislative Yuan voted 59 to 51 to greenlight a referendum on restarting nuclear power, to be held alongside the nine-in-one local elections on November 28, with a threshold of 4,887,133 votes. The question has been condensed from five demands into a single sentence, and AI's growing power demand is the real wild card.
SEC Pulls the Plug the Night Before, Reg Crypto Rules Stall on an Eight-Word Excuse
New crypto asset issuance rules set for a vote were quietly postponed by the chairman's own agency the night before the meeting, with only an eight-word reason given. The same week, the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate, and Polymarket odds got cut from 80% to under 20%.
The Man Ousted from Pudgy Penguins Is Back—Openly Runs the Old Playbook, Still Mints $1.28M in 53 Minutes
Four years after being voted out of Pudgy Penguins over a treasury controversy, Cole Villemain openly admits he's rerunning his old 2021 NFT playbook. Spritehood still sold out in 53 minutes, and in the process pushed Robinhood Chain's NFT trading volume past Ethereum's.
X's Algorithm Doesn't Just Judge Your Posts — Your Account Gets a Credit Score Too
In its breakdown of X's For You algorithm, BlockTempo/ABMedia points to a key detail: beyond the weighting of likes, comments, and reposts, there's an account-level credit score at play — meaning good content alone doesn't guarantee visibility.
NUSD Hasn't Depegged—Because It Can No Longer Be Traded
96 seconds after Neutrl pulled $3.51 million in liquidity from its Curve pool, the same pool address was added to NUSD's blacklist. The price is holding at $0.998, not because of reserves, but because no one can buy or sell.
The AI Godmother's Other Past: Dario Amodei's Wife Cami Clark Was Once an Adult Site Entrepreneur
According to a report from BlockTempo, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's wife Cami Clark has a background as an adult website entrepreneur, and is now referred to as a godmother in AI circles — though she holds no formal position at the company.
Apple Breaks Its Own Rules in China: In-House AI Model, With Alibaba as Coach
In an exclusive Reuters report, Apple has trained a proprietary large language model for the Chinese market with support from Alibaba, potentially making it the first foreign company to get Beijing's green light to deploy its own AI model.
Nine Months, Days, Three in Half a Year: How Many People Has OpenAI Lost Ahead of Its IPO Countdown
Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is out after less than a year on the job, replaced by former Wiz President Dali Rajic — the second executive departure within days, and the third within half a year, timed right as OpenAI quietly files for its IPO.
Sandisk Investor Day Unveils HBF: Management Vows to Defend 80% Gross Margin, Price Target Called Up to $1,900
At its annual investor day, Sandisk unveiled its in-house HBF technology, with management setting an 80% gross margin floor. The market is now eyeing a stock price as high as $1,900, though further details are still pending.
Uranium Miners, Bitcoin Treasuries, and a Taiwanese Drugmaker on the Same List: MSCI Can Catch Them All Without Even Mentioning Bitcoin
MSCI's new proposal drops the term "digital assets," instead screening non-operating companies using financial ratios. Simulations still knock out Strategy and Metaplanet — while Taiwan's Sinphar Pharmaceutical lands on the watch list.
Valuation Doubles in Half a Year! Kalshi Eyes $750M Raise to Hit $40B, With the World Cup as the Biggest Driver
Prediction market platform Kalshi is reportedly in talks with Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management to lead a new funding round, with its valuation set to double from $20 billion in May to $40 billion—driven by a surge in revenue from sports contracts.