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[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

A 3.7% inflation print, the Binance hack, an election tsunami. @matt_hougan says none of it has shaken crypto.

He tells @laurashin where he thinks we are in the market, live at 4:10pm ET.

https://t.co/lTiUiswrBg

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Novig lost its bid on Tuesday for a preliminary injunction against New York's attorney general, leaving the state free to demand a gambling license from the sports prediction exchange. The federal judge also called the CFTC's October swap rules "inherently contradictory."

https://t.co/SKHQ1gLSeh

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Deutsche Bank says its bitcoin and ether custody service is now live for paying clients, Reuters reported. Unchained counted 30 European countries on the bank's entry in the EU crypto register, which rests on a notification, not a new license.

https://t.co/vnm5FkynHT

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

LlamaRisk has proposed that Aave freeze osETH, LBTC and rETH on its V3 Core market, plus six smaller reserves, while steering riskier collateral toward Aave V4. Those three tokens back $364.1 million of loans, by Unchained's sum of LlamaRisk's Nov. 9 figures.

https://t.co/RsWdTUcICA

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

🚨 @kain and @austingriffith are joined by Sprinter CEO @gregthegreek : what the EF lawsuit says about the org behind Ethereum, Ledger's signing reports, MEGA's $30M product bet and an ANT perp trading above Anthropic's IPO range.

Later today at 4pm ET

Join us live on our platform: X - https://t.co/2gpjhnTjGX
Youtube - https://t.co/gKu1P4rSaF

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Britain’s own investors are shut out of xStocks’ newest tokens. Payward just put more than 200 UK and EU stocks onchain, and UK buyers still aren’t eligible.

https://t.co/bk422p4bcu

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Across Protocol says its cross-chain bridge is “fully restored” after a social engineering attack on registrar Namecheap handed its across[to] domain to a bad actor on Tuesday.

https://t.co/hCRRzhM9op

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

A chain reorganization could leave a Bitcoin mining node unable to build blocks until it was restarted, Bitcoin Core said Nov. 10, detailing a High-severity bug it fixed in October 2025 and two Medium-rated ones.

https://t.co/QzEYDDmmuO

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Anchorage Digital now supports Tether Gold (XAU₮) for custody, trading and collateral, and says clients can pledge the gold token as collateral to borrow USD or USDT while keeping their exposure to gold’s price.

https://t.co/NRQwhAQx8e

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Robinhood now makes more from event contracts than from crypto. It has paused sports contracts in three states, and the CFTC says blocking customers by state breaks its rules. Who wins?

https://t.co/N3V1mm62qT

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Vitalik says ETH doesn't need the burn: its value "comes from elsewhere." @kain , @tayvano_ and @austingriffith dig into that, plus the lawsuit against the EF and Vitalik, Anthropic's $1.4T IPO and MegaETH becoming MEGA.

Live today at 4pm ET here on X

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

OKXICE, the joint venture between OKX and NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange, will open its tokenized securities venue on Nov. 23. It has confirmed more than 70 assets, including shares of Circle, Coinbase and Robinhood, though not all may trade on day one.

https://t.co/BRk2Ct78Qm

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

In today's Unchained Daily newsletter:
🔥 A developer says Ledger's signing kit reports every signature to Ledger
⚖️ The CFTC reportedly warns Kalshi that charges could come soon
📉 Bitcoin falls below $74,000
🤖 The MegaETH Foundation becomes MEGA

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[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Kalshi calls it a procedural error. The CFTC has reportedly told the $40 billion prediction market to brace for charges over how it filed dozens of new products.

https://t.co/ZSgMnAYXlR

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Wallets built on Ledger’s developer kit ping a Ledger server every time a user signs, an Ambire developer says, including where the money is going and whether the user signed blind.

https://t.co/LtAv4jyO5T

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Bitmine says its internal controls over financial reporting were not effective for a second straight year, per its new 10-K. Its 5,901,837 ETH were worth $14.56 billion on Aug. 31, against a $19.95 billion cost basis.

https://t.co/HKM1z4JTNi

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Why is MegaETH’s team going after AI inference? Staying “a chain-only company felt wrong,” co-founder Shuyao Kong says. The renamed MEGA has earmarked $30 million for products on its chain, with a public inference market slated for December.

https://t.co/TCR20uMYXs

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Binance's MEXC block list includes an entity with no counterpart in the U.S. Treasury's FinCEN order, MEXC (Comoros) Ltd. Binance said Tuesday it is refusing transfers to MEXC, a month before the U.S. ban takes effect.

https://t.co/dIzxOKQ1Ol

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Patrick McHenry, former chair of the House Financial Services Committee, said on Bits + Bips that he does not think an anti-crypto bill can pass the House Democrats will control in January, and that the incoming Congress is more pro-crypto in both parties than those of six and eight years ago.

https://t.co/buDkN6MB5Q

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says crypto bottomed in June and a multi-year bull market has begun, though he expects "a few weeks of uncertainty" before "a good end of the year."

https://t.co/LAnPUYiZjr

[Unchained @Unchained_pod]

Project Faro, the bank-led stablecoin venture unveiled in September, has about $270 million committed to cover its first five years, according to a report. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Banco Santander and Deutsche Bank are among its backers.

https://t.co/Y5t5ljBgcX