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- Runway Releases Praxis-1 Robot Model With Open Weights
Apache 2.0 weights and code move the robot controller beyond partner testing, but new hardware still requires substantial adaptation.
- Maple Co-Founder Flanagan Exits Over Strategy Split
Joe Flanagan said he will support a handover through year-end. Maple described an agreed transition and said its direction remains unchanged.
- Pyth Adds Real-Time NYSE Data to Its Data Marketplace
The Level 1 feed covers five NYSE Group exchanges. Clients must license the data directly with NYSE before receiving it through Pyth.
- Anthropic Perp Exposure Tops $300 Million in Snapshots
Buildix readings span multiple Hyperliquid markets. The Trade.xyz contract alone showed $109.4 million, about 30% above The Defiant’s Nov. 10 snapshot.
- Keplr User Reports 1,200 ATOM Move Amid Recovery Effort
Onchain records confirm the staked assets moved to an address outside the Nov. 8 recovery list. That does not establish who controls it.
- OKXICE Sets Nov. 23 Stock-Token Launch After Objections
The venture expects more than 70 assets, including 59 Direxion ETFs, but issuer objections still constrain shares tokenized by unaffiliated third parties.
- IBM Targets 520 Qubits With Next Nighthawk Processor
IBM plans to link two r3 chips in 2027. Developers can use new managed quantum-classical workflows now, but the processor remains a design target.
- iOS 27.2.1 Leaves Sandbox Flaw Open, Researcher Says
The worse_query escape could expose wallet data stored in plaintext, SlowMist warned. Trust Wallet and Zerion said their iOS users are not affected.
- Anthropic’s $1.4 Trillion IPO Target May Rise: Report
The Nov. 10 share-price range implied a valuation of about $1.4 trillion. Bloomberg subsequently reported, citing the Financial Times, that bankers were weighing $1.5 trillion or more.
- xStocks Adds 200-Plus UK and EU Stock Tokens With GTN
The rollout includes LVMH, Rolls-Royce and SAP, but does not open xStocks to UK investors. GTN handles execution and custody of the underlying assets.
- Evernorth Slides 24% After 73.7 Million-Share Filing
The XRP treasury company's prospectus covers potential resales by existing investors, but it does not lift key holders' six-month lock-ups.
- LlamaRisk Proposes $1.33B Collateral Exit From Aave Core
Affected reserves would be frozen first, leaving existing loans open while borrowers switch collateral or migrate to V4.
- Across Urges Users to Avoid App Over Domain Issue
The bridge's alert does not establish whether its smart contracts or bridging operations are affected.
- Uphold Marks Crypto Withdrawal Disruption Resolved
Fiat deposits, withdrawals and trading continued normally while the platform worked around an outage at its transaction-monitoring provider.
- MetaMask Adds Mobile Limit Orders Across Four Chains
Orders use revocable wallet permissions and a default 3% price tolerance. Reaching the target price does not guarantee a fill.
- Leverage Shares Plans Cash-First Anthropic 3x ETP
The planned European product would hold interest-bearing assets before Anthropic’s debut, then seek three times the stock’s daily performance.
- Ether, SOL and XRP Slide as Liquidations Hit $580 Million
Coinbase spot markets recorded SOL below $82 and XRP below $1.05, while bitcoin extended its decline beneath $73,000.
- Banks Commit $270 Million to Stablecoin Venture: Report
The reported funding would cover five years of operations for the issuer, whose consortium has targeted a first-half 2027 dollar stablecoin launch.
- HYPE Falls 18% in a Week, Lagging Bitcoin and Ether
Hyperliquid’s token reached a four-week sampled low as daily fees recovered from an early-November dip.
- Commerce Halted Megaspeed Chip Probe After Nvidia Outreach, NYT Reports
The Justice Department is conducting a criminal inquiry into the Nvidia customer, according to the report, while Commerce says it handled the case by the book.
- PNC Launches USDC Payments Pilot With Coinbase
Eligible corporate and institutional clients can accept USDC on Ethereum, with proceeds automatically converted into dollars in their PNC accounts.
- BitGo Returns to Profit on Crypto Gains as Revenue Halves
Platform clients rose 33.1% year over year, but revenue after direct costs fell 32.1%.
- Norway Pauses New Data Center Grid Reservations
Existing connections are unaffected, but reserved capacity alone will not shield projects from a separate freeze on technical approvals.
- Pump.fun Adds Cross Margin to Hyperliquid-Powered Perps
The app adds TWAP execution and manual margin adjustments after launching its perpetual futures service with isolated margin on Oct. 28.
- Ledger SDK Sends Signing Metadata by Default
The reporting code includes destination addresses and device details; Ambire says it kept the affected versions out of production.
- Luke Dashjr Promotes Rival BIP Repository as 'Official'
The fork restores Dashjr's editor listing and BIP-110's 'Complete' status, while bitcoin/bips remains active with five editors.
- NVIDIA Unveils GR00T 2 With Onboard Humanoid Control
A 100,000-hour human-demonstration dataset and companion tools are available now, while model weights and adaptation recipes are due in December.
- Bitcoin Falls Below $73,000 to Fresh 10-Week Low
The Coinbase low undercut Sunday's trough by nearly 1%; Kraken also recorded a sub-$73,000 print.
- Polymarket Says Revenue Run Rate Tops $1.8 Billion
The US exchange recorded $14.77 billion in October face-value turnover, while its fees vary by contract price, product and trader tier.
- Visa Adds Monad to Stablecoin Settlement: The Block
Visa’s seven-day settlement model lets institutions move funds beyond the banking week; Mastercard announced a similar expansion in June.
- Anthropic Perp Trades Above IPO Range on Hyperliquid
The ANT contract references one Class A share, but gives traders no equity or IPO allocation rights and is expected to continue trading after the listing.
- MEGA Pledges $30 Million for Products, Starting With AI
An inference marketplace is planned for December, with the product-development budget coming from MEGA's existing treasury, according to co-founder Shuyao Kong.
- NRC Permits Four X-energy Reactors at Dow's Texas Site
The proposed plant would replace aging electricity and steam assets, but Dow has not made a final decision to build it.
- XRP Drops 24% in Four Weeks, Lagging Bitcoin and Ether
XRP's seven-day loss reached 18.3%, compared with bitcoin's 5.7% decline, as conversions of stolen XRP into bitcoin continued.
- Zcash Falls Below $1,100 as Daily Loss Reaches 10.5%
Monero also sank 9.2%, while bitcoin and ether posted smaller declines. ZEC traded about 31.5% below a late-September level above $1,600.
- Solana Hits Four-Week Low as Losses Outpace Bitcoin
SOL has lost 22.9% in 28 days, while Solana ETF trackers recorded fresh withdrawals on Nov. 6 and Nov. 9.
- Grayscale Pledges $1 Million in Zcash ETF Campaign
ZCSH trades on NYSE Arca and held $675.7 million in assets as of Nov. 9. Its prospectus sets a 2.5% annual sponsor fee.
- Jupiter Adds Token Baskets and Curated Yield Vaults
Third-party curators will run the vault strategies, while basket users authorize automatic trades from individual vaults rather than pooled funds.
- Malicious Pull Requests Target Vizor and Zingo Wallets
None of the six requests was merged; the campaign paired credential-stealing code with instructions telling AI reviewers not to flag secret uploads.
- Alta Raises $47.5 Million for Bank-Focused Blockchain
Airwallex plans to connect the network to local payment rails, while Alta builds privacy and institutional policy checks into settlement.