Dubai set up VARA in 2022 as one of the first regulators built only for crypto. It licenses eight virtual asset activities across the city, from exchanges to custody, and leaves the Dubai International Financial Centre to a separate watchdog. Here is how the system works and where its reach stops.
Bitcoin dropped below $70,000 on Friday for the first time since August, as a stronger dollar and rising Fed rate-hike bets drove more than $1.3 billion in liquidations across crypto.
The White House sent four names to the Senate on November 12 to fill empty seats at the SEC and the CFTC, the two agencies that police most of the crypto market. Two of the four are Democrats, the first the administration has put forward for either agency.
Saudi Arabia has no law that bans people from owning crypto, but it has not licensed a single onshore exchange, and its banks do not process crypto payments. The clearest official word still dates to a 2018 government warning. Here is where the rules stand in 2026.
US prosecutors won court orders to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion of the crypto that North Korean hackers stole from Binance on October 29. The money was already frozen, not recovered, and sits inside a wider $2.7 billion the government and private firms have locked down.
Gemini's third-quarter revenue fell 19% to $40.9 million as trading volume dropped about 73%, while cost cuts narrowed its net loss to $58.6 million.
Slippage is the difference between the price you expect on a crypto trade and the price it fills at. Thin order books, fast markets and big orders all widen that gap. Here is how it works, with a worked example, and the settings that cut it.
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Some read the drop below $70,000 as the start of a deeper crash that could take Bitcoin toward $50,000.
Our read: The fall and more than $1.3 billion in liquidations are confirmed by exchange data. But the move tracked a stronger dollar and a wobble in technology stocks, not a crypto-specific failure, and the lower targets rest on chart readings rather than hard triggers.
The White House is restoring bipartisan leadership at the SEC and CFTC and clearing the way for crypto market-structure rules.
Our read: The slate does include two Democrats and four people with crypto-policy experience, confirmed by a White House notice and two outlets. But none are confirmed yet, no hearing dates are public, and the Senate's lame-duck calendar is short. Any effect on rulemaking is a plan, not a result.
The Justice Department says it seized or restrained more than $1.2 billion of the crypto North Korean hackers stole from Binance, halting about half the breach.
Our read: Court orders cover $1.2 billion of the more than $2.7 billion already frozen by investigators and private firms, under a quarter of the more than $6 billion stolen. The coins were frozen in place, not clawed back, and officials say tracing the rest continues. Binance says it already covered customer losses, so any return would repay the company and the government, not users.
Gemini says tighter costs and a push to own regulated crypto infrastructure put it on a durable path, with operating expenses down for a third straight quarter.
Our read: Operating expenses did fall 30% and the net loss narrowed sharply, but revenue dropped 19%, trading volume fell about 73%, the company still spent nearly three times its revenue, and it set no timeline or revenue target for the Gemini 2.0 plan.
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LNbits shipped an emergency update, version 1.7.0, on 10 November 2026 after users reported stolen Bitcoin from Lightning wallets. The creator says the team suffered losses too. A patch alone does not undo a breach, and a full exploit report is still to come.
Bitcoin Core published three security advisories on November 10, 2026. The high-severity flaw could stop mining nodes from building blocks after a chain reorganization. All three were patched in October 2025, and no funds were at risk.
The honest answer is not 10 minutes. The network releases a fresh batch of coins about every 10 minutes, but what any miner earns depends on their slice of a vast pool of computing power. For a single home machine, a whole coin can take decades.
Gemini's third-quarter revenue fell 19% to $40.9 million as trading volume dropped about 73%, while cost cuts narrowed its net loss to $58.6 million.
Figure Technology Solutions reported third-quarter net revenue of $287 million, up 84% from a year earlier, as loan marketplace volume jumped 135% to $5.8 billion. Net income stayed flat, and a large share of the growth came from its Kiavi acquisition.
Solana Company reported net income of $105.2 million for the third quarter of 2026. Operating revenue was just $3.4 million. Almost all the profit was an unrealized gain on its SOL holdings, a mark that has shrunk since the token fell.
Across Protocol said attackers seized its across.to domain through a social engineering attack on registrar Namecheap, redirecting users to a phishing site. The team restored the domain a day later and promised to repay affected users.
A draft proposal would strip durable nonces out of Solana, a feature that lets a signed transaction sit unspent for weeks. Attackers used it to drain at least $270 million from the Drift trading platform in April. Custodians that sign offline would have to rebuild how they move funds.
A blockchain oracle feeds outside prices to smart contracts, and that number is often the real target. How price feeds work, why attackers manipulate them, and what the Mango Markets, KiloEx and Ostium cases show.
Bitcoin dropped below $70,000 on Friday for the first time since August, as a stronger dollar and rising Fed rate-hike bets drove more than $1.3 billion in liquidations across crypto.
The OKX and Intercontinental Exchange joint venture will start trading tokenized US stocks on November 23 under a temporary SEC exemption. Sixty-seven companies, including Apple and Tesla, have told the venue to keep their shares off it.
One route hands you a fund share in a brokerage account. The other hands you the coin itself, and the job of keeping it safe. The gap between a Bitcoin ETF and owning bitcoin comes down to control, cost, and what happens if something goes wrong.