India's Enforcement Directorate says it searched four premises in Bengaluru and Madhya Pradesh on Oct. 27 under FEMA, the country's foreign-exchange law, citing shell companies in tax havens and large OTC crypto deals.

Franklin Templeton's FBEQ (0.09% fee) and FIBT (0.19%) plan to get bitcoin exposure without holding the coin itself. Their prospectuses list bitcoin ETPs, futures and options, and depositary receipts, some of which may be held through a Cayman Islands subsidiary.

"The token that you get is the stock," Securitize's Brett Redfearn said of issuer-sponsored tokens in September. Canton Strategic Holdings is now trying that route, with Fairmint issuing its CNTN tokens for TSV LLC's Canton venue.

Russia's registered crypto exchange operators have 90 days to join an industry self-regulator, the Bank of Russia said Thursday. NAUFOR, a securities-industry group with 725 members, says it now holds that status.

Bitcoin has held above its 50-week moving average for five or six weeks. 📈 @intangiblecoins says that in every prior bear market, that meant there was no lower bottom left to come, and he thinks this one came in late June.

Israel's Supreme Court likened exploiting a smart-contract bug to using an ATM that pays out cash for a sheet of paper. Alexander Block, accused of taking more than $2.8 million through the flaw, was handed to U.S. authorities Thursday.

DSJ Exchange blocked withdrawals and asked investors for a "tax" to unlock accounts, the SEC alleges. In September, DSJ Exchange renamed itself Horizon Crest Capital on EDGAR and filed a new Form D, according to the complaint.

Allium has not disclosed how the unauthorized access happened or what data it reached; Visa, KPMG and Coinbase are among the firms that use its data. Allium revoked existing API keys on Oct. 28 and plans to share a summary of findings once its investigation, supported by an outside cybersecurity firm, ends.

More than nine hours after Jupiter Lend flagged a liquidity crunch, Unchained's 2:21 p.m. ET pull of Jupiter's own API found 8.44 USDC withdrawable from its roughly 413.7 million USDC vault.

Has the Bitcoin Price Bottomed? Yes, According to Multiple Metrics Is being long Bitcoin now the contrarian trade? 🤔 Alex Thorn [@intangiblecoins] says every time the industry wrote off BTC for "blockchain," it was a great time to buy. He walked me through his data and the tripwires that would prove him wrong. 📉 Timestamps: 🎬 00:00 Intro 📋 00:29 Unchained Survey: complete the listener survey at 🎙️ 01:28 Bits + Bips: search Bits + Bips and subscribe at 🧭 01:50 Why Alex says retaking the 50-week average means Bitcoin bottomed in June 🏦 06:36 Who sold and who bought: macro funds out, sovereign wealth funds in 💳 12:19 Nexo: Generate daily interest on your crypto or borrow funds against your assets at 🐋 13:09 Why fewer old coins are waking up in 2026, and what that means for supply 💵 16:42 Why Alex says the debasement case is stronger than at the October high 🕵️ 19:56 Why Alex sees Bitcoin as an exit from an AI-powered surveillance state 🧱 23:48 Why Alex sees the tokenization boom as a contrarian signal to buy Bitcoin ⚠️ 29:31 The tripwires that would invalidate Alex's bottom call 🎯 34:09 Alex's $125K target and his $250K call for the end of 2027

"You've got enough problems to solve. Like, why do this to yourself?" 🤷 That's @kain's message to Anthropic's founders on their pooled voting bloc, with @tayvano_ and @austingriffith on Uneasy Money. 🏛️

Bubblemaps told Reuters that 101 Polymarket accounts got their first funding on Israel's election day, before polls closed. Polymarket says it has referred more than 90 accounts to law enforcement to date.

The scale of the danger North Korea poses to crypto has become impossible to ignore. This is the story of the investigators exposing North Korean operatives working inside the industry. You think you know who your developer is. But do you? 🎬 Introducing THE DEVELOPER.

The Bowe and Zooko plan for Zcash Community Grants comes a day after the grants committee offered to taper its own funding to 2032. One forum critic of the new plan says there is "no emergency."