Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

According to an SEC 8-K filing and CEO Matthew Cole's X post, Strive (ASST) purchased 29 bitcoin for approximately $2.2 million at an average price of $75,721 per coin during the week ended November 6, bringing total holdings to 43,153 BTC. The buy represents a significant slowdown from the prior we

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, former FBI agent Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, pleaded guilty on November 6 to wire fraud and money laundering for stealing $2,474,380.66 in cryptocurrency from FBI investigations. Yaroch made approximately 100 fraudulent tra

According to TD Cowen Washington analyst Jaret Seiberg, in a Monday policy note, banks will likely pursue a ban on stablecoin yield payments in the Democrat-led Congress, though Seiberg assigns only a 10% probability of such legislation passing over the next two years. The ban would prevent exchange

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Strive reported $474.8 million of net income attributable to common stockholders for Q3 ended September 30, with a bitcoin yield of 63.2% year to date through the same period. The company's Class A shares outperformed bitcoin by 103.7% year to date. Strive holds 43,124

According to an official 8-K filing, Strategy purchased 1,036 Bitcoin between November 2 and November 8 for $81.9 million at an average cost of $79,012 per coin. The acquisition lifted Strategy's total Bitcoin holdings to 850,364 BTC, acquired for a cumulative $64.16 billion at an average cost of $7

According to BlackRock's head of digital assets Robbie Mitchnick, large bitcoin holders are converting their self-custody coins into shares of iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) at record levels as of November 2026. The firm reported $3.6 billion in in-kind conversions, with the real figure potentially hi

According to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, hackers tied to the October 29 Binance theft converted approximately 42 million stolen XRP (roughly $50 million) into bitcoin as of November 6, mostly through THORChain. The converted bitcoin from stolen assets nearly doubled overnight to about 1,650

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Senator Elizabeth Warren plans to crack down on prediction markets once she chairs the Senate Banking Committee in January, citing concerns over insider trading and platform manipulation. Warren's aide told Punchbowl News she aims to address the sector's "Wild West-sty

FinCEN and the Federal Reserve formally withdrew a 2020 proposal on Monday, November 9, 2026, that would have lowered the Bank Secrecy Act threshold for cross-border funds transfers from $3,000 to $250 and expanded the Travel Rule to explicitly cover cryptocurrency. The notice, published in the Fede

According to Bitcoin Magazine, South Korea's government announced on November 5, 2026, that it will delay implementing its 22% cryptocurrency gains tax to 2029, marking the fourth postponement since the law was enacted in 2020. Finance Minister Lee Hyeong-il said the government will seek parliamenta

According to Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission statement No. 241/2026, the regulator filed a criminal complaint Thursday against BG Limited, operator of crypto exchange Bitget, for unlicensed trading from 2022 to 2025. The complaint also named promoter Kritsana Kritsananuwat for marketin

According to Business Insider, multiple semiconductor analysts said on November 11 that despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's scandal involving extramarital affair and alleged China intelligence connections, the issue is unlikely to cause material damage to TSMC's business. Counterpoint Research senior

According to Bitcoin Magazine, citing Yonhap News Agency, South Korean exchange Gopax halted standard withdrawals at 2:55 p.m. local time and suspended trading at 3:53 p.m. on Friday (November 6) after receiving a hacking-threat email. The exchange is transferring all customer assets held in hot wal

According to a Form 13F filing released Nov. 6, Amundi, Europe's largest asset manager, raised its Strategy (MSTR) stake by 44% in the third quarter to 1,903,725 shares valued at $291.4 million at Sept. 30 prices, up from 1,324,053 shares worth $115.1 million three months earlier.
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According to Moscow Exchange's official announcement, Russia's largest trading venue will begin bitcoin, ether and USDT trading on Dec. 1. Retail investors must pass a qualification test and face an annual purchase limit of 300,000 rubles, approximately $3,700, per broker. Trading will follow the ex

According to its official announcement today, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MGC) raised its fiscal 2026 (April 2026–March 2027) consolidated net income forecast to 650 billion yen from 550 billion yen, boosted by rising prices for IC substrate BT materials. The company also increased its operating profit

On Wednesday, Tether unveiled QVAC BotPsy, an 800-million-parameter AI agent designed to perform multi-step tasks on personal devices including phone settings, messaging and scheduling. According to Tether's technical testing, BotPsy outperformed competitors with up to 2.5 times larger models on fiv

According to FINRA's filing published on November 10, 2026, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority proposed reducing its board to 20 governors from the current maximum of 25, with industry representatives outnumbering public governors. Under the new structure, the board would have 7 to 10 indus

According to Yunanalyze, Advantech Technology (3167-TW) has developed integrated equipment for co-packaged optics (CPO), consolidating three to four manufacturing steps—bare chip pre-processing, metrology, and inspection—into a single machine. The equipment is priced approximately 3 to 4 times highe

According to its November 11 statement, Lithium Americas raised construction costs for its Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada by nearly $900 million, citing tariffs, rising labor costs, and increased logistics expenses. Phase one of the project now has an estimated cost of $38.3 billion, up from th