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CFTC proposes new regulations for crypto exchanges to strengthen security against cyberattacks. @headlines

North Korea says international sanctions do not work. The statement comes just one day after North Korea’s $6.3 billion Binance crypto hack, the largest heist in human history. @headlines

Russia officially registers first crypto exchange regulator. @headlines

Whales bought 2,573 $BTC worth $202 million today - Arkham. @headlines

⚠️ ALERT: Allium, the blockchain data provider serving Visa, Stripe and Coinbase, discloses a security breach into its systems. The company detected the breach on October 25, notified affected customers and brought in an independent cybersecurity firm. The full scope and whether customer data was exposed remain undisclosed. Core services are back online, but existing API keys are being revoked, and access to uploaded data remains disabled. @headlines

🇰🇷LATEST: Bithumb confirms a internal data leak as cyber intrusions hit THREE South Korean financial firms. South Korea’s second-largest crypto exchange detected unauthorized access to its internal mobile groupware system on October 27. Whether customer information was exposed remains under investigation, according to Yonhap. Daishin Securities separately confirmed that personal and credit information belonging to 38,490 customers was leaked. Mirae Asset Global Investments also reported a hack…

⚠️ DATA BREACH ALERT: Coinbase customer contact information exposed in security incident at analytics provider Amplitude. Hackers have allegedly accessed contact information belonging to more than 70,000 Coinbase users. Coinbase confirms there is no evidence of unauthorised access to its own systems but its analytics vendor Amplitude experienced a security incident which impacted customer contact data. While all customer funds remain unaffected, Coinbase is notifying impacted customers and re…

🇯🇵 JUST IN: BlackRock officially signs on to explore linking tokenized funds with a yen stablecoin. The $15.5 TRILLION asset manager is working with SBI and Startale, the companies behind JPYSC, a stablecoin tied to the Japanese yen. They want to see if tokenized money market funds can plug into JPYSC. SBI's chairman says the shift to onchain finance "is becoming an unavoidable global trend." @headlines

🚨BULLISH: Bitcoin is LESS VOLATILE than Oracle, Coinbase, Honeywell and Sandisk, per Grayscale. Bitcoin’s annualized realized volatility stood at 43%, below its decade-long average of 64% and the 81% recorded five years earlier. Grayscale places Bitcoin below roughly 19% of S&P 500 stocks on this measure, a quiet reminder that some familiar equities have experienced bigger price swings than BTC. @headlines

🚨HUGE: CZ confirms BNB Chain plans for a NEW parallel high-speed Layer 1. The EVM-compatible network will run alongside BNB Smart Chain, connected through a native bridge, using BNB for gas, staking and governance. CZ summed up the approach: “Multiple chains, one coins.” It targets 200-millisecond blocks and 20-millisecond pre-confirmations, aiming to support high-frequency trading and real-time payments. Planned features include native account abstraction and onchain privacy pools. An inter…

🇺🇸BITCOIN: The US Defense Secretary told Congress Bitcoin is a tool to project power, and the Pentagon runs CLASSIFIED efforts on it. Pete Hegseth answered "yes and yes" in April when asked if Bitcoin is a tool to project power and if the Pentagon has initiatives on it, adding that much of the work involves "classified efforts." A week earlier, the head of US Indo-Pacific Command told the same committee his command has "a node on the Bitcoin network right now." @headlines

UPDATE: Israel's central bank REJECTS Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to use CRYPTO to bypass potential international financial sanctions, per FT. The central bank warned that crypto cannot help Israel avoid sanctions and urged the government to protect its ties with major trading partners. The warning comes as the UK, France, Canada and other Western allies move to impose sanctions over Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Opposition leaders warned that the plan could leave Israel …

why are we so weird ? @headlines

🚨BREAKING: Wall Street is fighting against tokenized stocks as 22 companies oppose OKX’s plan to bring their shares onchain. Wells Fargo, Arm and Intuit are among the latest companies objecting to tokenized trading through OKXICE, the OKX–ICE joint venture. The number of objecting companies has climbed from 9 last week to 16 on Wednesday and now 22, per Reuters. OKXICE had planned to tokenize 63 U.S. stocks, but under the applicable exemption, an issuer’s objection prevents its shares from bei…