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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.
Germany's largest bank, with assets of around $1.7 trillion, began offering cryptocurrency custody services to paying clients on November 11. It filed its application with regulator BaFin back in June 2023 - the wait stretched to 41 months.
CoreWeave (Nasdaq: CRWV - an American data center operator that leases computing capacity for artificial intelligence tasks) reported third-quarter results: revenue grew 2.7x to $3.66B, while net loss widened to $709M. After the main session closed, the stock was up as much as 8%.
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.
Starting November 5, Samsung Wallet allows users to buy, store, send and receive USDC (Circle's stablecoin pegged to the dollar) on the Solana network. According to the company, the feature covers about 82 million compatible Galaxy smartphones in the US.
Google signed agreements to provide credit support for the TeraWulf project - an American company that used to mine Bitcoin and now builds data centers. Under a 20-year contract with Anthropic worth about $19 billion, it will become easier for it to borrow money from banks.
Two addresses linked to Trump Media & Technology Group (owner of Truth Social) transferred 4,259 BTC worth about $342 million to the Crypto.com exchange. Both addresses are labeled as collateral for convertible bonds, and the deadline when holders may demand redemption falls on November 30.
The issuer of the USDC stablecoin (a coin with an exchange rate pegged to the dollar) laid off about 5% of its employees and spent $9.1 million on it, even though net profit for the quarter grew. The reduction is mentioned in a footnote to the third-quarter report.
Block (Jack Dorsey's payment company, founded by the Twitter co-founder, owns the Cash App with Bitcoin purchases) has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to pay $764M and close the case over weak anti-money laundering controls. This is more than the company's entire quarterly profit of $566M.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Tuesday approved the listing of perpetual futures on individual US stocks. Until now, Americans could trade such contracts only on foreign venues.
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.
From October 25 to 31, 30,435 BTC more were withdrawn from crypto exchanges than deposited - about $2.34 billion at the current rate. A week earlier the picture was the opposite: a net inflow of 3,434 BTC to the platforms.
The largest prop firm comparison site prop firm Match admitted that it substituted its affiliate link even for those who simply opened the company's page or copied a promo code. Within a few days, at least six partners left it, including Apex Trader Funding and Blue Guardian.
S&P Global Ratings affirmed Meta's AA- credit rating but changed its outlook from "stable" to "negative". The reason is spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure: for the quarter, it exceeded the money the company earned from operations.
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.
Strategy (Michael Saylor's company, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin) reported third-quarter 2026 results with net income of $19.53 billion versus $2.79 billion a year earlier. Almost all of it is paper: it is a revaluation of crypto reserves, not business income.
In its 10-Q filing (a mandatory quarterly document for the US market regulator, the SEC), Microsoft disclosed for the first time how much its deal with OpenAI brings in: $10 billion for July-September. That is about 11% of the corporation's total revenue.
Shareholders of Strategy (Michael Saylor's company, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin) approved amendments: dividends on preferred shares will accrue daily rather than once a month or quarter. This is an attempt to revive demand for the securities through which the company finances its BTC purchases.
Payments giant Visa is discussing the acquisition of one of the world's largest crypto custodians, Fireblocks. The deal amount is being discussed at around $2.5 billion, Axios reports.
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.
