🇰🇿 KAZAKHSTAN'S AIFC COURT BARS COINBASE $COIN, HTX AND 4 OTHER CRYPTO PLATFORMS FROM OFFERING UNLICENSED SERVICES IN THE ASTANA INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE APPLE AND GOOGLE MUST GEO-RESTRICT THE PLATFORMS' APPS INSIDE THE AIFC

🇰🇿 LATEST: Kazakhstan’s AIFC Court barred Coinbase, HTX, BingX, BitMart, Bitcoincom and WEEX from offering unlicensed crypto services and ordered app store restrictions.

THE BLOCK: Kazakhstan has barred Coinbase, BingX, HTX, BitMart, Bitcoin[dot]com, and WEEX from offering unlicensed digital asset services within the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC). The restriction is limited to the AIFC and does not extend to the rest of the country, according to a court ruling.

🇰🇿 Binance signed 3 strategic MoUs in Kazakhstan with the Ministry of AI and Digital Development, the National Bank, and AIFC, focused on digital assets, payments, and investments. Another step toward a more connected digital finance ecosystem in Kazakhstan. Read more ↓

🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 Ripple backs the SEC’s Reg Crypto proposal in a comment letter, saying the investment contract, not the token, is the security and that oversight should end once an issuer’s promises are fulfilled. 🔹 Elon Musk says SpaceX and Tesla have set up special committees to weigh a merger that could become the biggest corporate deal ever. 🔸 Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows soaring revenue but an $80B net loss, with up to $750B in computing spend planned in the coming years, per WSJ. 🔹 The SEC will keep accepting public comments on its Reg Crypto proposal even after today's deadline, Eleanor Terrett reports. 🔸 Utah sues to halt Kalshi operations. 🔹 At least 82 crypto projects have reportedly shut down in 2026 as weak demand, depleted funding, falling revenues and security breaches force closures. 🔸 SpaceX reports Q3 revenue of $14.58B, beating $12.87B estimates. 🔹 Goldman Sachs, McDonald’s and Microsoft are pushing back against efforts to tokenize their shares under a new regulatory framework, The Wall Street Journal reports. 🔸 Kazakhstan’s AIFC Court barred Coinbase, HTX, BingX, BitMart, Bitcoincom and WEEX from offering unlicensed crypto services and ordered app store restrictions. 🔹 Switzerland approves its first spot Bitcoin ETF for retail investors, allowing direct $BTC investment under Swiss fund rules.