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🏛️ @HyperliquidX $HYPE Strategies filed to register as a futures commission merchant with the CFTC. If approved, it could carry U.S. client accounts for HIP-3 perpetual futures. The company also reported $13.3 million in quarterly revenue.

📋 @Anchorage applied for CFTC swap dealer registration. If approved, it plans to offer institutions European-style options on $BTC and $ETH with maturities of up to one year. The NFA is still reviewing the application.

📱 @SamsungUS has launched a Stablecoin Account in Samsung Wallet. Eligible US Galaxy users can buy, hold and transfer $USDC on @solana. New York residents are excluded.

🏦 The Bank of England raised its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 4%, citing inflation pressure from higher energy prices. Eight policymakers backed the move. One voted for a larger hike to 4.25%.

📈 Canary Capital’s Staked INJ ETF debuted on @Nasdaq as $INJC. It gives investors exposure to @injective’s $INJ and aims to earn staking rewards, with net rewards reflected in the fund’s net asset value.

🛡️ SC Ventures and SBI Group joined crypto insurer Soter Insure at the second close of its Series B. Soter plans to use the funding to expand its capacity to insure digital asset risks.

🏛️ France’s National Assembly rejected the budget’s revenue section, removing proposed stablecoin conversion taxes and €100,000 self-custody reporting from the text sent to the Senate. Senators can still reintroduce them.

🔐 XRP Ledger (@XRPLF) activated a fix preventing accounts with token-burning permission from also minting tokens under certain conditions. $XRP itself was unaffected, and no exploitation has been publicly confirmed.

🗳️ Democrats won control of the U.S. House and Senate in the midterms, CoinDesk reports. The CLARITY Act stalled in September. The result changes who sets the next Congress’s agenda, while the crypto market structure bill’s future remains uncertain.

📊 @circle’s Q3 revenue and reserve income rose 17% year over year to $865 million. Onchain $USDC transaction volume rose 49% to $13.9 trillion. Circle also cut its workforce by 5%.

🏦 Schroders is bringing its emerging-market bond strategy to @solana $SOL with Centrifuge. Investors will hold tokenized shares in a feeder fund that invests in Schroders’ underlying bond fund.

🗳️ Sherrod Brown defeated incumbent Jon Husted in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race. The former Senate Banking Committee chair returns to Congress after crypto PAC Fairshake spent $30 million opposing him, The Block reports.

⚖️ Block disclosed a proposed $764 million net payment to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into its anti-money-laundering controls. The deal still requires a final agreement and court approval.

🗳️ @NEARProtocol's House of Stake approved a plan to lower maximum annual $NEAR issuance from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months. Validators still need to adopt a protocol upgrade before the reduction can begin.

🏦 @StanChart launches tokenized deposits for corporate clients in Hong Kong. Eligible clients can transfer deposits across participating banks 24/7 through EnsembleTX, with interbank settlement in central bank money.

🚨 @BtcpayServer urges operators to shut down their servers while investigating unauthorized Bitcoin $BTC hot-wallet withdrawals. No loss total or fix has been announced, and newer versions have not been confirmed safe.