Mian Faisal

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Crypto keeps a seat at the GOP leadership table: Rep. Tom Emmer won the House Republican minority whip race 103-76 as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress in January. Sen. Lummis praised his fight against a US CBDC. #Crypto #Congress #Policy

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Coinbase, Kalshi, Kraken's parent Payward, DRW, Jump Trading and Paradigm filed a proposed brief backing the CFTC in the lawsuit over single-stock perpetual futures, days after a judge said the CFTC likely exceeded its authority. #CFTC #Perps #Coinbase #Regulation

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Security alert: Across Protocol's https://t.co/Wv90RdCncC domain was hijacked via social engineering at registrar Namecheap and sent users to a phishing page. GoPlus puts losses near 350K dollars. Across regained control and says users will be made whole. Revoke odd approvals. #DeFi #Security

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Square finished rolling out Bitcoin payments to eligible US sellers on Nov 10. Customers pay over Lightning, merchants get dollars by default or can keep BTC. Fees are 0% through Dec 31, then 1%. New York businesses are excluded. #Bitcoin #Lightning #Payments

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Deutsche Bank's crypto custody is live: eligible institutional and corporate clients in Europe can now hold and transfer BTC, ETH, USDC, EURC and EURAU, with the bank managing wallets and keys under its MiCA registration. No retail access yet. #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Custody #MiCA

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Prediction markets keep scaling: Polymarket says annualized revenue topped 1.8 billion dollars, up from 1 billion+ in June, as its US exchange hit 14.5B+ dollars in October volume. A broad CFTC probe is still a headwind. #Polymarket #PredictionMarkets #Crypto

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Canada's Budget 2026 proposes banks and insurers can't issue stablecoins directly. They'd have to use non-financial subsidiaries under the Stablecoin Act, and covered tokens wouldn't be deposit-insured. Still needs legislation. #Canada #Stablecoins #Regulation

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

XRP Ledger maps a quantum-safe path: a proposed amendment lets accounts add NIST-approved ML-DSA-44 keys and disable old ones, keeping the same address and no higher base fee. Migration study set for H1 2027, full transition targeted by 2028. #XRP #XRPL #Quantum

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Europe's stablecoin milestone: from Nov 12, USDC from Circle's EU entity enters dual MiCA supervision as the first significant e-money token. The EBA takes over reserves, liquidity and redemption plans; France's ACPR keeps governance. #USDC #MiCA #Stablecoins

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Hot CPI hits crypto: US October CPI rose 0.4% m/m (core 0.3%), both above forecasts. #Bitcoin slipped about 2% to near 73.6K dollars, ETH near 2,050, and the CMC Fear & Greed Index fell to 26. The 10-year yield is knocking on 5%. #BTC #CPI #Fed

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Charles Schwab expanded its crypto trading to Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink, while XRP is notably still missing from the lineup. Another big US broker widening altcoin access for mainstream clients. #Solana #SOL #AVAX #LINK #Crypto

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Stablecoins at the checkout: Stripe and wallet app miPlata launched a Visa prepaid card that spends straight from USDC balances, auto-converting so merchants receive dollars. Built for Latino workers and families. #Stablecoins #USDC #Stripe #Payments

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Cosmos and the Interchain Foundation donated the IBC interoperability protocol to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, aiming to make it a neutral open standard for finance. IBC has moved $50B+ across 200+ networks since 2021. #Cosmos #ATOM #IBC

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Strategy keeps stacking through the dip: it bought 1,036 more #BTC at an average ~$79,012, bringing its total to ~850,400 BTC. Bitcoin is back near $75K after a $1.2B liquidation wave. Conviction buying vs. ETF outflows, who wins? #Bitcoin #MSTR #Crypto

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Elliptic says the Binance hackers are laundering stolen funds via self-made memecoins on NEAR, moving ~117K NEAR (~$430K) through 6 new tokens and liquidity pools. ~11.8M NEAR (~$43.7M) hasn't moved yet. The trick slows tracing but can't hide flows. #Binance #NEAR #Security

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

ETF demand is fading for altcoins too: US spot #XRP ETFs posted ~$530K in weekly outflows after four straight zero-flow days, the longest lull since August. #Solana ETFs lost $26M+, a fifth straight week of outflows, per SoSoValue. #ETF #Crypto

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Solana devs proposed retiring durable nonces (SIMD-0723), the feature attackers used to drain at least $270M from Drift in April. It wouldn't activate on mainnet before May 5, 2027, so custodians that sign offline must rebuild their flows. #Solana #SOL #Security

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Coinbase's national trust company now has full OCC approval, upgraded from the conditional status it got in April. It can offer federally regulated custody and payments, but can't take deposits or make loans. Ripple won its full charter last month. #Coinbase #Crypto

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Over $1B in crypto positions were liquidated in 24h per CoinGlass, $913M of it longs. #BTC hit ~$73,761, its lowest since August, then bounced above $75K. #ETH liquidations ($448M) nearly doubled BTC's ($272M) as the Nvidia CEO scandal hit risk assets. #Crypto

[Mian Faisal @aibarfasi]

Spot #Bitcoin ETFs saw $1.282B in net outflows last week, the biggest weekly exit since late June per SoSoValue. Four of five days were red, and year-to-date flows have flipped to -$914M. Institutional demand is cooling into year-end. #BTC #ETF #Crypto