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The payment service Square, through whose terminals and cash registers ordinary stores and cafes accept money, has opened Bitcoin payment acceptance to American retail outlets. The announcement appeared on November 11 at around 19:00 Moscow time.
By 11:57 Moscow time on Tuesday, US WTI crude lost the $84 per barrel mark and dropped to lows not seen since late August. This is the second consecutive day of heavy selling, with Brent plunging below $90 over the same period.
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC, the federal bank regulator) upgraded the trust status of the largest American crypto exchange from conditional to full. Now Coinbase conducts cryptocurrency custody and payments under federal supervision, rather than only under individual state licenses.
Alphabet (the holding company that owns Google) bought an additional 3.85 million SpaceX shares in the third quarter, bringing its stake to 555.04 million shares. At the November 5 closing price, that is about $68.6 billion - and that is noticeably less than the stake was worth in the summer.
On November 6, FinCEN (the US Treasury's financial crimes unit) banned American banks from making any transfers to or from the MEXC Global crypto exchange. The exchange was named a "primary source of money laundering threat," with claims totaling $16 billion in transactions over five years.
The Capital Markets Alliance Association, which includes Cboe Global Markets, Citadel Securities and Healthy Markets Association, challenged in federal court the CFTC's November 3 decision on perpetual futures on individual US stocks. The judge has already noted that the plaintiffs are likely to prevail.
Microsoft abandons its agreement with Oracle to lease computing capacity for artificial intelligence. This concerns two of the top ten US companies by market capitalization, and both are part of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100.
Intercontinental Exchange (owner of the New York Stock Exchange) has agreed with Trade[XYZ] to move its Hyperliquid-based perpetual markets into a regulated US framework. Ordinary retail clients will be able to trade round-the-clock contracts on stocks, indices, commodities, currencies and crypto - if regulators give the go-ahead.
In its 10-Q report (a mandatory quarterly report public companies file with the SEC, the US market regulator), Microsoft for the first time named the exact amount of money OpenAI brings in: $10.0B for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. That is about 11% of the company's total quarterly revenue.
On October 20, 2026, the MEXC crypto exchange announced that it is ceasing to serve users from Russia and Belarus. There is no single shutdown date: each client will receive their deadlines individually.
Payment system Visa has agreed on a partnership with crypto platform Mesh: payments can be made with cryptocurrencies and stablecoins at more than 175 million locations worldwide - without a separate card and without prior conversion.
