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CoinDesk reports:Key pointsGalaxy applies for federal trust bank authorization amid ongoing legal disputes.Community banks question the OCC’s authority to issue crypto bank charters.The proposed institution will integrate crypto custody, trading, and staking services.Galaxy Digital has applied to es

CoinDesk reports:Hong Kong leader John Lee apologized on Thursday and said the Secretary for Housing had resigned after an investigation into the city’s deadliest fire in decades found regulatory shortcomings.The fire broke out in November last year, engulfing seven buildings in an apartment complex

CoinMarketCap reports:Cohere, a leading provider of sovereign AI services for regulated industries and governments, today announced that its Series E funding round has reached its initial close. With a target of up to CAD 7 billion, this round would value the company at CAD 35.7 billion.The committe

CoinDesk reports:The French AI company Mistral has released the weights of its trillion-parameter open-source AI model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4), enabling businesses and governments to download and deploy the system themselves. The model, nicknamed "Le Chonk," was first unveiled earlier this month.This

ChainThink reports that the suspected Polymarket attacker address, 0x3F99Ffc18, exchanged the acquired USDC.e and USDC for POL, briefly holding approximately $2.65 million worth of POL, before transferring out about 28.64 million POL in three transactions.Cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock stated that t

Polymarket has suspended new trading on its international platform after a third-party provider suffered a security breach. The prediction market operator said it had fixed the issue and would compensate affected users. However, reports of unauthorized withdrawals have raised concerns about the safe

An unidentified crypto whale has repeatedly withdrawn about $290 million in USDC from Aave and Sky, temporarily draining liquidity and raising borrowing costs.Related Asset USDC USDC · StablecoinBlockchain analytics firm Bitquery reported on Oct. 28 that the withdrawals occurred around midnight UTC,

CoinMarketCap reports:A miner running through a FutureBit Apollo Solo setup mined Bitcoin block 973,262 earlier this week, earning the full block reward of 3.154 BTC plus transaction fees from 2,477 transactions.Multiple block explorers, including mempool.space, label the discoverer as "FutureBit Ap

Six funds linked to Hyperliquid ranked among Thursday's strongest-performing ETFs, led by leveraged products tracking Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (PURR). Hyperliquid's HYPE token rose about 20% on Thursday following an announcement from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).Billionaire investor Stanley Dr

Six funds linked to Hyperliquid ranked among Thursday's strongest-performing ETFs, led by leveraged products tracking Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (PURR). Hyperliquid's HYPE token rose about 20% on Thursday following an announcement from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).Billionaire investor Stanley Dr

An unidentified crypto whale has repeatedly removed about $290 million in USDC from Aave and Sky, temporarily reducing available liquidity and increasing borrowing costs. Bitquery, a blockchain analytics firm, reported on October 28 that the transfers happened near midnight UTC. Bitquery said approx

An unidentified crypto whale has repeatedly removed about $290 million in USDC from Aave and Sky, temporarily reducing available liquidity and increasing borrowing costs. Bitquery, a blockchain analytics firm, reported on October 28 that the transfers happened near midnight UTC. Bitquery said approx

CoinDesk reports:Enterprise Security Tech recognized NewCore’s unified identity platform for human and AI agent access, which assigns independent identities to each agent, designates human owners, and enforces governance at runtime.Tel Aviv and San Francisco, October 29 /PRNewswire/ -- NewCore, an a

Headline: RedStone wins 15.78M Canton Coin grant to build CAPS — a private pricing standard for institutionsRedStone has won unanimous approval from the Canton Development Fund for a 15,775,000 Canton Coin grant (baseline value ≈ $1.83 million) to build CAPS — the Canton Access and Privacy Standard

Solana’s president Lily Liu signaled a thaw in terse fashion — posting “unblocked and unmuted” — as Solana officially announced on Oct. 29 that its network is now integrated with Polygon’s Open Money Stack (OMS) for stablecoin payments. The integration links bank on‑ramps and off‑ramps, wallets and