Weekly Newsletter

Ledger attributes the implant campaign to a “highly organized criminal group” that bought devices, implanted them and returned them through resellers, as tracker loss estimates run $86M–$102M.

A trader netted ~$1.28M on new 1,000x exchange Papertrade by moving the Hyperliquid prices it copies; Papertrade is tightening its trading limits.

MSCI adopted non-operating company rules that put Strategy and Metaplanet at risk of index removal from the November review; the list of potentially affected companies publishes 11 November.

WSJ reports Tether paid $6.3M to Nxum, a firm co-founded by Bo Hines, with the first payment landing while he was still the White House’s top crypto adviser; Hines now runs Tether’s US arm.

Bank of Russia guidance says peer-to-peer crypto trading stays legal only until 1 July 2027 and bars transfers from licensed accounts to self-custody wallets; Sberbank’s first crypto products land 1 December.

SEC broadens crypto custody rulemaking to explicitly cover both investment advisers and funds

Five weeks after an exploit drained Liquid’s bitcoin reserve, redemptions remain frozen at ~86% backing and Blockstream has refused the attacker’s 10% bounty demand.