Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Polymarket limited trading to order cancellations and suspended relayer actions amid user reports of unauthorized withdrawals. Users reported a possible compromise of the prediction market's frontend. Polymarket is investigating a security incident. The platform's status page lists a major outage af

Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR) shares climbed 19% on Thursday, reaching a three-week high, after hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller posted about investing in TradeXYZ. Druckenmiller's post also moved the HYPE token and generated extensive social media activity. Hyperliquid Strategies invests in

Key InsightsThe Anthropic IPO filing reports $16.3B in first-half revenue, up from $1.2B a year earlier.Net loss hit $80.7B, largely due to noncash convertible-debt adjustments.Seven co-founders will control 50.1% of voting power; the trust appoints most of the board.The Anthropic IPO entered the pu

Key takeawaysWall Street funds AI infrastructure through long-term leasesBlackstone and Blue Owl target predictable rental incomeData center owners face growing tenant and financing risksOpenAI may be building the future of artificial intelligence, but some of the companies positioned to profit from

ChainCatcher report: According to an official notice from the Singapore Police Force, Singaporean authorities have issued a warning that, since September 10, at least two cases involving tampered Ledger cryptocurrency hardware wallets have been reported, with combined losses of approximately S$3.5 m

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged BG Wealth Sharing Ltd and DSJ Exchange Pty Ltd over an alleged investment fraud that raised more than $130 million from tens of thousands of retail investors. Both entities were incorporated in Colorado and operated from abroad. The SEC alleges th

Most measured XRP fund exposure remained in place despite XRP trading roughly 25% below estimated acquisition costs. XRP Insights calculated that holdings in the same measured group fell roughly 0.26% between October 23 and October 28. XRP Insights recorded a net decrease of about 2.96 million XRP o

CoinDesk reports:SMSThe survey found that only 13% of Americans said that candidates supporting emerging technologies such as cryptocurrency and DeFi is “very important.”The broadest appeal—keeping fintech builders in the U.S.—scored the highest at 35%, with Republicans leading Democrats at 45% to 3

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged BG Wealth Sharing Ltd and DSJ Exchange Pty Ltd over an alleged investment fraud that raised more than $130 million from tens of thousands of retail investors. Both entities were incorporated in Colorado and operated from abroad. The SEC alleges th

Celestia Labs unveiled Voyager on Oct. 29, a blockchain architecture for payments by AI agents that it says sustained more than 21 million transactions per second in a single-node test.Voyager is still in development: Celestia says it is “taking Voyager towards production.” It is an application-spec

CoinDesk reports:Key pointsDTCC launches tokenization services covering 34 Wall Street-eligible securities.JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup join; 20 companies can now access this blockchain infrastructure.Canton is now live, and Stellar integration is still planned for 2027.The Depository Trust & Cleari

CoinDesk reports:The cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin stated that it will immediately suspend services for users in Russia and Belarus due to concerns regarding legal and regulatory compliance.In a notice released on Thursday, KuCoin stated that it has suspended access to all its products and services

Blue Owl Capital's credit platform achieved record institutional fundraising in the third quarter, with demand for private credit strategies continuing. Co-CEO Mark Lipschultz said on Thursday's third-quarter earnings call that year-to-date credit fundraising roughly matched the full-year 2024 total

ChainCatcher reports that Grayscale’s HYPG has listed on Nasdaq, providing investors with exposure to the HYPE token and supporting staking. The fund began trading on June 3, with an annual sponsorship fee of 0.29%, and held assets under management of $186.9 million as of October 28.

CoinDesk reports:After Alphabet (GOOGL) released its earnings report, its stock plummeted on Thursday, while Microsoft (MSFT) remained unaffected—in other words, Microsoft’s stock did not follow Google’s decline. The reason behind this is actually quite simple.The market views Microsoft’s performanc