Complete chronological archive of CoinPaladin reporting covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, altcoins, security incidents, and global crypto regulation.
Kava Lend lost roughly $3.8 million to a hack, and about 49.2 million KAVA was bridged to BNB Chain via LayerZero and sold for roughly $2.1 million in BNB and USDT. KAVA fell nearly 40% as the crypto Fear & Greed Index sat at 10/100, an Extreme Fear reading.
The XRP Ledger has processed 11.7 million sub-dollar AI agent microtransactions, per an XRPL Foundation interview with t54.ai founder Chandler Fang published on X on November 15, 2026. Fang himself cited more than 10 million transactions through the company's x402 Facilitator, with over 200 merchants and most payments covering single AI compute tasks at about $1 or 50 cents.
Binance's ETH reserves dropped to about 2.9 million on 15 November 2026, the smallest stockpile in nearly five years and down nearly 42% from more than 5 million in July 2025. ETH traded at $1,826.23 after touching roughly $1,711, while whale wallets bought the dip and spot volume across major venues fell 53.6%.
CoinGlass spot cumulative volume delta on Coinbase reached -$1.08 billion between Oct. 31 and Nov. 15, while Binance, OKX and Bybit all recorded positive CVD over the same window. The flow data undercuts the trader narrative blaming Binance for Bitcoin's roughly 24% slide from $81,188 on Nov. 4 to $61,956 on Nov. 14, and instead lines up with selling ahead of Anthropic's Nov. 19 Nasdaq listing.
Forta's Nov. 10, 2026 investigation identified 32 counterfeit dollar tokens on BNB Chain whose prices were held near $1 by allowlisted keeper wallets trading inside PancakeSwap Infinity pools, while simulated outsider sell orders were rejected in all 32 pools. Forta puts the wider network's $22 million at counterfeit payment face value, not confirmed losses or a victim count.
Zcash is trading near $877 with roughly $1.4 million of leveraged long positions clustered at $860, per CoinGlass data cited by U.Today. The asset has fallen for seven consecutive sessions since November 7, 2026, and lost the 50-day moving average that supported its August rally.
Bitcoin broke below $66,000 on Saturday morning UTC and lost $64,000 by Saturday evening, with CryptoSlate data showing a rolling 24-hour range of $63,278 to $69,052. Newhedge recorded individual Binance and Bybit long liquidations between $65,571 and $65,976, while the Fear & Greed Index sat at 10 out of 100.
XRP is trading near $0.9892, down 3.94% in 24 hours and 11.3% on the week, and Kalshi traders now assign only single-digit probabilities to any November recovery above $1.40. The prediction market board puts 7% odds on a move above $1.40, 8% on $1.50 and 4% on $1.60, with the Crypto Fear & Greed Index at 10 out of 100.
US spot XRP ETFs lost $19.13 million in the week ending November 13, their largest weekly outflow in eight months, as XRP fell below $1.00. Bitcoin ETFs shed $2.35 billion over two weeks with BlackRock's IBIT posting an 11th straight negative session, while the Fear & Greed Index sits at 13/100.
Bitcoin fell to $66,397 on Bitstamp on Nov. 13, 2026, roughly 46% below the October 2025 record above $126,000, and traded at $68,289 the next day with a 14-day RSI of 24.99. Sell-side targets for year-end now range from Citi's $82,000 and a $53,000 bear case to Bernstein's roughly $125,000, with Standard Chartered at $100,000.
Greeks.Live data cited by CoinDesk on Nov. 14, 2026 showed market makers net short gamma across bitcoin's roughly $58,000 to $72,000 range, with the flip near $73,000. Dealers hedging in the direction of price can amplify swings in both bitcoin and ether until those levels are reclaimed.
A House Oversight staff memorandum released Nov. 13, 2026 recommends Congress consider new limits, including a possible outright ban, on government officials, lawmakers and staff trading prediction markets. The recommendation follows a probe covering Kalshi, Polymarket, Hyperliquid Labs, Crypto.com and PredictIt that reviewed nearly 1,700 pages of documents and five bipartisan platform briefings.
Two Bitcoin addresses dormant since September 2010 moved 50 BTC each on November 13, 2026, totaling 100 BTC worth about $6.89 million at prices near $68,800. No sale has been identified on-chain, and the identity and intentions of the owners remain unknown.
Coinbase will suspend trading in 12 crypto pairs on November 25, 2026, at or around 12 PM ET, including ADA-ETH and XLM-BTC, with none of the affected markets quoted in U.S. dollars. Eleven of the 12 were moved to limit-only mode, while eligible Advanced Trade users keep access through USD order books.
Bitcoin fell to roughly $68,500 on Nov. 13, 2026, a 12-week low, as traders priced an 88% chance of a December Fed rate increase and spot Bitcoin ETFs logged a sixth straight session of net outflows. Liquidations topped $1.64 billion over 24 hours, with longs accounting for 88.7% of the damage, per CoinDesk.
Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin reached roughly $2.71 billion in market capitalization, overtaking PayPal’s PYUSD ($2.67B) to claim seventh place globally even as wider market liquidity tightened and XRP traded steadier than BTC or ETH.
Formation Securities—created by the Orca and Loopscale merger—formally notified the SEC to launch Solana’s first regulated tokenized securities venue in early 2027 under the Innovation Exemption, featuring Galaxy Digital, Exodus, and Forward Industries shares.
Bitcoin tumbled below $70,000 for the first time since August, touching $67,568 intraday before trading near $68,134 as 24-hour liquidations topped $1.3 billion, MARA Holdings disclosed a $1.1B BTC sale, and cooler October PPI triggered only a fleeting rebound.
Bitcoin slid below $72,000 and Ether below $2,000 for the first time since August as a hot October CPI print, a December rate hike being priced in, spot ETF outflows, and the resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang triggered more than $650 million in liquidations.
The U.S. Justice Department secured court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion traced to the $6.3 billion Binance hack and dismantled FaceStealer, a North Korean deepfake video call scheme that stole over $400 million.
MSCI will remove Strategy from the MSCI USA Index and Metaplanet from the MSCI Japan Small Cap Index after the close on November 30, the first major use of its new non-operating company framework. JPMorgan estimates about $2.8 billion in passive selling of Strategy shares.
Live November 2026 DefiLlama benchmarks show smart-contract capital splitting into specialized tiers: Ethereum anchors $41.47B in institutional TVL, while Base ($5.83B), Solana ($5.11B), and BNB Chain ($5.07B) battle for high-velocity DEX execution.
South Korea's Finance Ministry and ruling party have proposed delaying the country's 22% tax on annual crypto gains above 2.5 million KRW from 2027 to January 2029—its fourth deferral—while introducing a three-year net loss carryforward rule.
Moody's Ratings and Chainlink Labs completed a joint testnet pilot connecting Moody's Token Integration Engine (TIE) with Chainlink CCIP to transmit verified institutional credit ratings across permissioned and public blockchains.
On-chain data from Glassnode shows aggregate stablecoin capitalization shrinking by $14.2 billion over the past 30 days, marking the steepest monthly dollar-liquidity contraction since June 2022 as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs log concurrent net redemptions.
Polymarket's US exchange saw trading volume surge 266% from June to October, fueled by sports betting, even as the platform faces mounting regulatory scrutiny. The growth highlights the rising popularity of prediction markets despite legal challenges.
Anthropic set an IPO price range of $70 to $78, valuing the Claude developer at up to $1.4 trillion, alongside a reported $26 billion private placement from Nvidia, Google, and other tech giants. The listing could reset how traders value AI crypto tokens and AI-related blockchain narratives.
Pepe (PEPE) has re-entered CoinGecko trending search interest at rank 42, pulling retail attention back toward high-beta meme tokens. The signal points to a short-term risk appetite rotation, but PEPE's elevated volatility and whale concentration keep the setup fragile without a fundamental catalyst.
Greece's parliament approved its first comprehensive crypto tax framework on Nov. 5, 2026, imposing a 10% levy on annual net gains above a €500 exemption and a 15% charge on staking, lending and DeFi rewards. The rules take effect Jan. 1, 2027, but the treatment of crypto-to-crypto swaps remains undefined, leaving DeFi users unable to compute reliable liabilities.
Trump Media & Technology Group reported $409.7 million in third-quarter 2026 net income on just $3 million of revenue, with $496.1 million in digital asset and equity gains doing the work. The Nov. 9 Form 8-K reversed a $238 million second-quarter loss, yet DJT shares remain more than 94% below their March 2024 peak.
Bitcoin dropped below $74,000 to $73,518, its lowest since August 21, after October CPI rose 0.4% month over month versus a 0.3% forecast. Fed Governor Christopher Waller's endorsement of a December 8-9 hike pushed implied odds to 96% and triggered roughly $178 million in leveraged long liquidations.
Binance France has emailed customers that all accounts will close on Dec. 31, 2026, after the EU's MiCA transition ended without authorization for the local entity. Balances left on the exchange incur a 0.025% monthly maintenance fee, minimum 10 USDC, starting Nov. 29, making that date the real withdrawal deadline.
Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields has proposed "quantum landmines," hidden cryptographic proofs that let prepared holders seize an attacker's posted BTC collateral if vulnerable wallets are raided. The design turns quantum risk into an economic deterrent problem rather than a pure cryptography race.
Vitalik Buterin argued on Nov. 8, 2026 that ETH's value should rest on decentralization and capture resistance rather than EIP-1559 fee burns, retiring the 'ultrasound money' pitch. With ETH near $2,200 amid ETF outflows, the pivot forces DeFi and institutional allocators to reprice Ethereum's monetary story.
Ethereum's 'Glamsterdam Upgrade' is a key focus, with discussions on whether it can help ETH catch up to Bitcoin and its role in a projected 2026 DeFi reboot. This upgrade aims to improve efficiency and scalability, potentially driving increased adoption and developer activity within the Ethereum ecosystem.
Visa's October 19, 2026 Mesh partnership makes crypto and stablecoin balances spendable at over 175 million merchants without merchants touching onchain assets. The network now runs 160+ stablecoin-linked card programs with a $20 billion annualized settlement run rate, roughly 15 times year-earlier levels.
Gnosis Pay detected unauthorized access to its legacy consumer card system on Nov. 3, 2026, and disclosed the breach three days later, exposing card numbers, home addresses and linked crypto wallet addresses. The company says customer funds were untouched, but it has imposed mandatory 3D Secure until the legacy card program shuts down on Dec. 20.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially classified XRP, Bitcoin, and Solana (SOL) as digital commodities under the Nasdaq Texas Commodity Trusts framework. This interpretive guidance provides crucial regulatory clarity for these specific assets, distinguishing them from securities and potentially fostering greater institutional adoption and market stability.
Solana (SOL) is actively pursuing significant transaction time improvements by 2026, aiming to achieve sub-second finality at scale. These advancements are critical as the network seeks to challenge Ethereum's market share in decentralized finance (DeFi) and attract a broader range of high-frequency applications.
The US Treasury has taken action against crypto exchange MEXC, citing alleged involvement in $16 billion of illicit transactions. This move underscore...
Decentralized exchange volumes on Solana reached $3.5 billion in a single trading day, signaling a substantial shift in global digital asset liquidity flows. Sub-second transaction finality and high throughput are driving significant consumer application expansion.
The Financial Stability Board and the International Monetary Fund have released joint guidelines that establish crucial standards for stablecoin reserve backing and exchange licensing requirements. This shift marks a significant move toward global regulatory convergence in the digital asset space.
Record capital inflows into spot Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds have driven significant price appreciation, marking a new phase of institutional acceptance and market maturity.
Total Value Locked across major Ethereum Layer-2 networks has recently surpassed the $40 billion mark, signaling a major shift in decentralized finance adoption.