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South Korea wants crypto exchanges to go even further on cold storage after Binance’s $6.3B hack. Upbit already keeps 99%+ of customer crypto offline, Bithumb ~94% and Coinone ~85%. What regulators want tightened next 👇 webopedia.com/news/south-kor…

The FBI wants THORChain operators to block addresses tied to Binance’s $6.3B hack. About $25M in suspected proceeds had already moved through THORChain by Oct. 31 — reviving an old debate: how much responsibility does a decentralized protocol have? webopedia.com/news/fbi-thorc…

Bitcoin’s odds of hitting $130K before year-end have fallen to around 3% on Polymarket. A recovery to $100K looks more achievable — traders are pricing that at roughly 21%.

Wall Street closes at 4 p.m. Tokenized stocks don’t. Around 60% of tokenized-equity trading volume now happens outside regular US market hours, while the number of onchain equity products has climbed above 360 — up 200% YTD.

Webull is bringing Kalshi’s crypto perpetual futures to eligible US traders in November. That means exposure to Bitcoin and selected crypto prices through leveraged contracts — without actually owning coins you can withdraw to a wallet.

Bitcoin is heading into the Nov. 3 US midterms with history getting traders’ attention. BTC suffered steep corrections during both the 2018 and 2022 midterm years — before eventually establishing late-year bottoms.

Visa just moved USDC-powered international payouts from pilot to commercial deployment. Through Inyo Global, eligible businesses can use USDC to prefund payments in near real time instead of relying entirely on traditional banking hours. 🌍

Sui’s native stablecoin USDsui has hit a record $80M in circulation, up about 20.5% in 90 days. Issued by Stripe-owned Bridge, it’s designed for payments, DeFi, wallets and gaming across the Sui ecosystem.

Citi says tokenization has moved beyond pilot programs and into real institutional infrastructure. Its base case: $5.5T in tokenized financial assets by 2030, with a bull case of $8.2T.

Ethereum has now passed 72M cumulative smart contract deployments, up roughly 20% from 60M in January. Daily active addresses have also remained relatively resilient despite ETH’s volatile price.