LATEST: French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa confirms it was hacked for $133M+ in crypto, with @zachxbt tracing $108.8M in $USDC withdrawn from @Krakenfx, @cryptocom and @OKX accounts over 21 hours, then converted to $ETH to avoid stablecoin freezes.

JUST IN: The CFTC has cleared perpetual futures tied to individual stocks for trading on regulated U.S. exchanges for the first time, bringing a popular crypto trading model to Wall Street under joint CFTC and SEC oversight.

🎥 How did North Korea get past Binance’s security and take $6B? @TRMLabs’ @ARedbord says the better question is: “How could a hack happen to the US Treasury Department or the Department of Commerce or large financial institutions?” Even the most protected institutions are targets

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“Just 10 years ago we were creating about $3 to 4 billion a day of margin efficiencies amongst our products. Today it's over $100 billion every single day.” @CMEGroup CEO Terry Duffy says at @Ripple Swell that those efficiencies free up capital for participants “to deploy in other places.”

“It’s the largest bank robbery in human history.” On CoinDesk’s Public Keys at the @NYSE, @TRMLabs’ @ARedbord breaks down the $6.4B Binance heist and North Korea’s role in it, @googlecloud’s @RichJWidmann unveils a crypto custody security system, and Tim Grant of @tensorx_ai on sovereign AI compute. Watch with @JennSanasie. Chapters/Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome to Public Keys 00:32 Morgan Stanley Downgrades Coinbase to $120 02:26 Binance Hit by Crypto's Largest Hack 02:53 TRM Labs' Ari Redbord on the $6.4B Heist 03:32 "The Largest Bank Robbery in Human History" 05:33 Midterms, GENIUS and CLARITY in Focus 08:41 How the Breach Happened and Hardening Cyber 11:58 Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs See Outflows 12:55 Tim Grant on Flows and Institutional Risk 16:47 Private Keys, Crypto's Weak Point 17:15 Google's Rich Widmann on Multi-Party Compute 21:30 The Quantum and AI Threat to Custody 23:51 Could MPC Have Stopped the Binance Hack? 27:25 Tim Grant on TensorX and Sovereign AI

NEW: Nvidia, Costco, Nike and Micron are among 12 additional companies objecting to OKXICE’s tokenized stock trading plans, bringing the tally to 50 firms pushing back against listing on the venue.

More than $6 billion in crypto leaves Binance-linked wallets following a record hack, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs see their biggest daily outflow since June, and the crypto industry pours millions into the midterm elections. @jennsanasie has what you need to know.

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UPDATE: The XRP Ledger is set to activate a fix on Wednesday closing a loophole that lets authorized token-burners also create new tokens, a security patch affecting stablecoin issuers, with 33 of 35 trusted validators already in support.

LATEST: @StanChart launches tokenized deposits in Hong Kong, the first market in its global network enabling real-time 24/7 inter-bank settlement in central bank money for corporate clients, with China AMC, Fireblocks and HashKey among early partners.

JUST IN: @HSBC’s Hong Kong dollar stablecoin RedCoin hits 50,000 users in its first week, with HK$87.75M in circulation and plans to expand beyond PayMe to tokenized investment products.

NEW: China’s Communist Party calls for a crackdown on corruption carried out through “virtual currency, cross-border funds and blockchain” in a Central Committee decision.

UPDATE: @Binance records $3.64B in net outflows as it resumes withdrawals following the $6.3B hack, representing just 2.1% of its $171B in total assets, with @cz_binance noting “98% choose to stay.”

LATEST: @Circle expands CCTP to support third-party ERC-20 tokens on its @arc blockchain, letting token issuers move assets cross-chain using Circle’s burn-and-mint infrastructure without relying on separate bridges or wrapped tokens.

NEW: Tether reports $1.5 billion in Q3 profit, bringing its total earnings to $4.5 billion for the first nine months of 2026. The USDT issuer's excess reserves nearly doubled to $7.95 billion, while its U.S. Treasury holdings reached $132.4 billion.