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  • Canton Network

    What Is Canton Network? The Privacy Blockchain Built for Wall Street

    The majority of blockchains are designed in such a way that anyone can see every transaction, every balance and every smart contract call. While that may work for retail crypto traders, banks, asset managers and clearinghouses can't work that way. They can't show their trading positions, client data or collateral flows to competitors, and privacy and confidentiality rules require them to protect client information. Canton Network was built to fix that. It is a public layer-1 blockchain designed...

  • The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Crypto Laundering a 'Material Risk' for UK Ahead of FATF Review: RUSI

    Britain's new crypto rules will still be in transition when global anti-money laundering assessors arrive next year, and the country will be judged on whether it can enforce against crypto laundering, a taskforce convened by the Royal United Services Institute has warned. The report, published on Friday, sets out the issues the London-based defense and security think tank's taskforce expects to dominate the UK's 2027 evaluation by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The Paris-based body sets...

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  • Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Nvidia Employees Push Board to Bring Back Jensen Huang: Report

    Some Nvidia employees are calling on the company's board to bring back Jensen Huang, days after he resigned as CEO following reports of extramarital relationships, according to internal correspondence reviewed by Wired. An internal "suggestion box" post, submitted by a longtime engineer prior to Huang's resignation, urged the board to take employee sentiment into account before acting, Wired reported. It has since drawn more than 1,600 comments, several of which asked the board to find a way to...

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    Congress Summons Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Lutnick Over Chip Exports to China

    Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has asked former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify, widening a congressional inquiry that has moved from Huang's private life to U.S. controls on chip exports to China. "The American people deserve answers," Scott wrote in a tweet announcing the requests on Thursday evening. In a letter dated November 12, Scott asked Huang to appear voluntarily at a public hearing on December 3 over public rep...

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    Tether Gold Gets Clean KPMG Audit Confirming $2.2B in Physical Gold Backing

    Tether's gold-backed stablecoin, Tether Gold (XAUT), has completed its first full audit by KPMG, which found the token fully backed by physical gold, the company announced on Thursday. KPMG issued an unqualified opinion on the financial statements of TG Commodities, which issues XAUT, for the year ended December 31, 2025. An unqualified, or "clean," opinion means the auditor found that the statements fairly present the company's financial position, without reservations. Tether Gold (XAU₮) Becom...

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  • Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Image: Anderseidesvik/Wikimedia Commons/Decrypt (CC BY-SA 4.0)

    Jensen Huang Resigns as Nvidia CEO, With CFO Colette Kress Named Interim Chief

    Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of Nvidia, ending a 33-year tenure at the helm of the chipmaker he co-founded, after reports of affairs with a suspected Chinese spy and a senior company executive. Huang has stepped down as president, CEO and a member of the board, effective immediately, Nvidia said on Thursday. Colette Kress, Nvidia's chief financial officer since 2013, will serve as interim CEO while remaining CFO, as the board searches for a permanent successor from both inside and outside th...

  • Solana is one of the top crypto assets by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    DTCC to Bring Tokenized Stocks and Treasuries to Solana in 2027

    The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the backbone of U.S. securities settlement, plans to bring its tokenized securities to Solana, it announced on Thursday. The firm will connect the DTCC Tokenization Service (DTS) to the Solana network, allowing eligible assets held by its Depository Trust Company (DTC) subsidiary to be converted into tokens on Solana. The integration is planned for the second half of 2027. BREAKING: @The_DTCC to tokenize custodied assets on Solana. announced p...

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  • CoinDCX. Image: Decrypt

    India's Financial Crimes Agency Searches CoinDCX, Delta Exchange Over Offshore Trades

    India's Enforcement Directorate has searched three premises in Bengaluru linked to crypto exchanges CoinDCX and Delta Exchange, alleging the platforms carried out unauthorized cross-border transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars through crypto derivatives and tokenized assets. The searches were carried out on November 4 and 5 under India's Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), the agency, India's main financial crimes investigator, said in a statement dated November 6, which it shar...

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  • Bitcoin ETF. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $1.4B in Five Days as Investors Cut Risk

    U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have recorded five consecutive days of net outflows, as investors retreat from risk assets after a turbulent week for markets. The funds lost some $1.44 billion between November 5 and November 11, including $299.9 million on Wednesday, according to SoSoValue data. That brings net outflows for November so far to $1.88 billion, after $520 million left the funds in October. The outflows have coincided with a sell-off in AI and technology stocks. On November...

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  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Image: Raysonho/Wikimedia Commons/Decrypt (CC0 1.0)

    Pressure Mounts on Nvidia's Jensen Huang Amid Reports of Second Affair

    Nvidia's board is preparing to remove CEO Jensen Huang after reports that he had two extramarital affairs, one with a woman U.S. intelligence believes is a Chinese spy and another with a company executive, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The board was planning to meet as soon as Wednesday to determine Huang's future, according to people familiar with the matter cited by the Journal. It was not immediately clear who would succeed him, the paper said. The New York Times reported on...

  • Solana Privacy Rings. Image: Decrypt

    What Are Solana Privacy Rings? Inside Helius’ Privacy Protocol for Solana

    Every transaction on Solana is public by default. Anyone can look up a wallet address and see its balance, what it has sent and received, and when. That transparency is useful for verifying the network, but a problem for anyone who doesn't want their finances on display: a business paying salaries, a trader building a position, or an individual who simply doesn't want strangers seeing their savings. Solana Privacy Rings are designed to fix that, without asking users to leave Solana for a separat...

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    Kraken Parent Payward Brings 200 UK and EU Stocks Onchain as xStocks

    Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has tokenized more than 200 UK and European stocks through its xStocks platform, it announced on Wednesday. The first batch covers some of the most actively traded companies listed in the UK and the European Union, with more to be added on a rolling basis. Like other xStocks, each token is backed 1:1 by the underlying share, which is bought and held by a regulated custodian for as long as the token trades, according to Payward. Payward's @x...

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  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Image: World Economic Forum/Thibaut Bouvier/Decrypt (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

    Nvidia Sheds $430B in Two Days as Jensen Huang Faces Calls to Resign

    Nvidia has lost about $430 billion in market value in two days, as pressure grows in Washington over CEO Jensen Huang's ties to a businesswoman U.S. intelligence reportedly concluded was a Chinese spy. Nvidia shares closed down 5.5% at $168.89 on Tuesday, following a 4.3% drop on Monday, according to Yahoo! Finance. That leaves the stock down about 9.5% since Friday's close, wiping out roughly $430 billion in market value, according to Yahoo! Finance data. The sell-off, which saw shares slide as...

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    Prisoner Jailed for 8 Years Over $2.7M Crypto Theft Plot Run From His Cell

    A man who directed an attempted £2 million ($2.7 million) cryptocurrency theft from his prison cell has been jailed for eight years by Scotland's High Court of Justiciary. Robert Barr, 29, pleaded guilty along with Sean Favier, 26, and Iain Doyle, 37, to being involved in serious organised crime as part of the attempted theft, according to a sentencing statement published by Scotland's Judicial Office on Tuesday. Lord Cubie sentenced Favier to four years and Doyle to five years at the High Court...

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    Solana's Jupiter Expands Beyond Trading With Token Baskets, Yield Vaults and New Portfolio

    Jupiter, the largest trading platform on Solana, is rolling out four new products this week as it aims to expand from a place to trade tokens into an all-in-one home for onchain assets. The company announced a new mission on Tuesday, "to make the world's assets universally accessible and useful," alongside the releases, which cover discovering, owning, earning on and managing assets. Jupiter built its business by aggregating liquidity from across Solana so that each trade gets the best availabl...

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  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Image: Decrypt/Anthropic

    Anthropic Sets IPO Price Range at $70 to $78, Valuing Company at Up to $1.4 Trillion

    Anthropic has set a price range of $70 to $78 per share for its initial public offering, according to an updated filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. The AI company plans to sell 825 million shares of Class A common stock, 801.4 million of them new shares and 23.6 million from existing shareholders, on the Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT," which it revealed when it made its IPO filing public last month. At the top of the range, the offering would raise about $64.4 billion,...

  • Apple iPhone. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Binance Warns of Apple iOS Flaw That Could Expose iPhone Users' Private Keys

    Binance has warned iPhone users about a vulnerability in Apple's iOS that it says could let malicious apps read files stored by other apps, putting crypto wallet seed phrases, private keys and login credentials at risk. The flaw, dubbed "worse_query," affects iOS 26.7.1, 27.0.1 and 27.2, the exchange tweeted on Tuesday. "This is an iOS-level issue, not unique to Binance," it said. A vulnerability (worse_query) affecting iOS 26.7.1, 27.0.1, and 27.2 allows malicious apps to read local files from...

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    3 min read
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    Binance Halts MEXC Transfers as FinCEN Cuts Exchange Off From US Financial System

    Binance has stopped processing transactions involving MEXC, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges, days after the U.S. Treasury Department designated MEXC a primary money laundering concern. "Effective immediately, users should not send funds to, receive funds from, or otherwise transact through Binance involving MEXC, MEXC Global, MEXC affiliates or related entities," Binance tweeted on Tuesday. Binance is applying enhanced compliance measures following FinCEN’s designation of MEXC as a...

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  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Image: Anderseidesvik/Wikimedia Commons/Decrypt (CC BY-SA 4.0)

    Nvidia, Jensen Huang Sued by Shareholders Over Alleged Ties to Suspected Chinese Spy

    Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang have been sued by a shareholder who accuses them of defrauding investors by concealing Huang's alleged relationship with a suspected Chinese spy. The proposed class action, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday, accuses Nvidia and Huang of making materially false and misleading statements about the company's dealings with Megaspeed, a Singapore-based Nvidia customer, according to the complaint. It alleges that Huang "had an...

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  • Elizabeth Warren. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    'Tough Questions' Ahead: Warren Targets Prediction Markets, Trump Crypto as Banking Chair

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), one of the crypto industry's most prominent critics, is preparing to use the chairmanship of the Senate Banking Committee to launch an oversight campaign aimed at Trump family crypto businesses, Big Tech and Wall Street, Politico reported on Monday. "Big Tech CEOs, Administration officials, Trump family crypto businesses, Wall Street executives, and giant corporations should preserve their documents and prepare to answer tough questions," a Warren Banking Committee...

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