Russia's Ministry of Justice has registered a Bank of Russia directive allowing domestic exchanges to begin cryptocurrency trading from Nov. 22, 2026, provided their trading rules are approved by the regulator.
South Korea's Financial Services Commission said it will issue a no-action letter letting crypto exchanges suspend deposits and withdrawals when hacking is suspected, before a breach is confirmed.
The CFTC has approved tZERO's subsidiary tZERO DCM as a designated contract market, following its October clearinghouse registration, as the company prepares for a proposed $350 million merger with FG Imperii Acquisition Corp.
Israel Discount Bank announced it will become the first Israeli bank to offer direct Bitcoin and Ethereum trading through its mobile app, going live on November 26.
Robert Barr, already imprisoned for crypto fraud, was sentenced at Glasgow High Court on Nov. 10, 2026, along with two accomplices for a plot to steal up to £2 million in cryptocurrency from a couple in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian.
A $6.3 billion Binance hot-wallet breach has sparked a debate between Lorenzo Valente, who proposes temporary validator-level rollbacks, and Omid Malekan, who warns such reversibility would undermine permissionless blockchains.
Ethereum's combined stablecoin and tokenized fund market fell from $206.7 billion to about $168 billion between April and early November 2026, following the April 18 KelpDAO exploit.
Bitcoin Runes trading and liquidity platform radFi announced a phased wind-down, citing limited time and resources rather than a security breach, with its app set to go offline on February 11, 2027.
KAST has launched Asset Account Convert, a feature for tokenised stocks on the Solana blockchain, according to The Paypers.
Bitcoin Cash's proposal CHIP-2026-06, which would add quantum-resistant and hybrid signature schemes, faces a lock-in deadline of November 15, 2026, with mainnet activation targeted for May 15, 2027.
WasabiCard has rolled out local card issuing across more than 100 markets, according to a report by The Paypers.
PNC Bank has launched incoming USDC stablecoin payment services for eligible Corporate & Institutional Banking clients, converting funds to U.S. dollars at a 1:1 rate via Coinbase-provided infrastructure.
Senator Cynthia Lummis said on November 11, 2026, that stablecoins could compress payroll settlement from five days to near-instant, framing the ACH window as a cost and friction problem, though no bill, pilot or specific stablecoin has been named.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is preparing aggressive congressional scrutiny of cryptocurrency firms, prediction markets and Trump family digital asset ventures after Democrats' Nov. 3 midterm victories, with investigations and subpoenas possible when the new Congress convenes in January.
Former CFTC chairman Chris Giancarlo told BMTV that the SEC and CFTC have settled their regulatory roles and cooperate well, but that the coming jurisdiction battle is more about turf than good regulation.
Chainlink Labs has submitted a comment letter to the SEC on its Innovation Exemption proposal, joining other crypto firms in pressing for clearer digital asset rules.
Binance Research's November 2026 report argues that the pace of global monetary tightening matters more for bitcoin than rate levels, citing a -0.62 correlation, while flagging tokenized equities as a growing adoption area.
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic identified six newly created memecoins on the NEAR blockchain that North Korea-backed hackers used to disguise the movement of funds stolen in the $6.4 billion Binance hack.
