Coinbase Europe Limited has been fined €21.5 million by the Central Bank of Ireland for breaching anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regulations between April 2021 and March 2025. The exchange failed to monitor over 30 million transactions worth more than €176 billion, representing approximately 31% of its total activity during a period of technical disruptions. Following a nearly three-year review, Coinbase filed 2,708 suspicious transaction reports with Irish authorities.

Changpeng Zhao will appear on Fox News on November 8 for his first television interview following his presidential pardon. The interview is expected to address Binance's decentralization strategy and regulatory developments affecting the cryptocurrency industry.

JPMorgan increased its December 2026 price target for IREN to $28 from $24, citing the company's $9.7 billion Microsoft contract as validation of its pivot from bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure. Analysts project IREN will need to deploy approximately 120,000 GPUs and 320 megawatts of capacity within 13 months. The buildout is expected to require more than $9 billion in capital expenditure despite Microsoft's upfront payment.

Leading decentralized applications are generating more fee revenue than their underlying blockchains. PumpFun accumulated $724 million in fees over the past year, while Hyperliquid earned $667 million, both exceeding Solana's $632 million in fees, data show. The trend highlights a fundamental shift in value capture within blockchain ecosystems.

Binance will delist COIN-M perpetual contracts for Decentraland (MANA) and MultiversX (EGLD) on November 13 at 9:00 a.m. UTC. All positions will be closed and automatically settled before delisting. The exchange advises traders to close positions before the deadline to avoid automatic settlement.

A Columbia University study identified wash trading in approximately 25% of Polymarket's transaction volume across three years. The research, published on SSRN, analyzed blockchain data from Polygon and found artificial trading activity peaked at 60% of total volume in December and stood at around 20% in early October. Polymarket is preparing to re-enter the U.S. market through its acquisition of QCX.

Kazakhstan plans to establish a national cryptocurrency reserve fund valued between $500 million and $1 billion using seized overseas assets. The fund will prioritize investments in crypto ETFs and equities of digital currency companies rather than direct cryptocurrency holdings, according to Central Bank Governor Timur Suleimenov. The initiative targets operational readiness by late 2025 or January 2026.

Stream Finance's xUSD stablecoin collapsed to zero following a $93 million loss, sparking $1 billion in outflows across DeFi platforms. The incident marks the largest stablecoin withdrawal event since the UST collapse in 2022. Protocols including Coinshift, Elixir, and Euler experienced significant total value locked declines, with Euler recording $137 million in bad debt.