Crypto News

Westpac Sets an A$10,000 Monthly Cap on Crypto Exchange Payments

The limit starts on 1 December, counts cumulatively per customer and admits no exemptions. The bank's own wording is softer than the headlines.

DeFi

Name.com Restores the Hijacked DeFi Domains After a $138,000 Drain

The registrar says it restored every affected domain and has applied transfer locks. Two loss tallies published for the same drain do not match.

Market

Bitcoin Opens November in Its Tightest Range Since 17 October

Only $656 separated Sunday's high and low, against a 2.28% median for October. Two accounts put the month's loss at 7.67% and 7.32%.

Altcoin

Ripple Releases 1 Billion XRP While October's Billion Sits Unspent

Whale Alert logged two 500 million XRP releases early on Sunday. Three accounts disagree on how much of a monthly tranche usually goes back into escrow.

Chainalysis Says an Agentic Attack Reached Customer Records

The firm says an outside actor used offensive agentic techniques to reach user IDs, names and emails. Three accounts list four fields, a fourth lists five.

Binance Opens Phase One of Its Withdrawal Restart at 06:00 UTC

Binance set phase one for 06:00 to 09:00 UTC on Sunday. The accounts split on how much of the theft is replaced and on how many networks open first.

Blockchain

Zcash Plan Would End the Grants Stream and Move 50,000 ZEC

Four accounts price the same 50,000 ZEC anywhere from $50 million to $65 million, and they disagree on whether the coins are destroyed.

Tether Books $1.5B in Q3 Profit and Doubles Its Reserve Buffer

The cushion over what USDT owes holders nearly doubled to $7.95 billion in three months while issuance stayed flat near $184 billion.

Market

Bitcoin ETFs Shed $643M and Ether Funds Close Their Worst Month

Friday's withdrawal narrowly beat 22 October's and turned a positive week negative. Two flow trackers disagree on when the last bigger day was.

Blockaid Names 12 DeFi Front Ends Serving the Step Drainer

Kintsu and Flap confirmed DNS hijacks and Flap has moved domains. No project or security firm has published a victim count or a loss figure.

Coinbase Auto-Converts 14 Non-MiCA Tokens for EEA Customers

Balances left on the exchange after Friday's cutoff were converted at market rates, not one for one. Two of the fourteen are not dollar stablecoins at all.