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Ripple now has a federally chartered trust bank to hold the reserves behind its RLUSD stablecoin, and RLUSD went live on Robinhood’s chain and Bitstamp the same day. Janus Henderson put a Nasdaq-100 tracker fund on Stellar, and an MEV bot beat a hacker to $7.45 million on Avalanche. Health leads with athletes and protein, plus a small trial on why a late dinner changes overnight fat burning. Locally, the Iwo Jima statue case has gone federal, and Prince William shelter dogs got a red carpet and marigold garlands.
The OCC is nudging community banks to issue their own stablecoins, and Aviva Investors put a share class of its roughly £22 billion sterling money-market fund on the XRP Ledger. A retired DotSwap signing server cost Bitcoin LPs about $685,000. Health leads with athletes: beetroot and nitrate supplements showed no pooled benefit across 659 of them, and 30 g of whey a day lowered muscle-damage markers. Locally, a Manassas Park teacher was charged over a loaded gun at a school, and Northern Virginia’s Costcos got roasted in a national ranking.
India’s largest crypto exchange, CoinDCX, says it quietly lost $16 million because deposits kept landing in a wallet it had retired after last year’s hack. Korea’s two biggest exchanges flagged Initia’s token while its chain stays halted, and CLARITY Act negotiators tightened the bill’s fundraising caps. Health leads with athletes: a whiff of menthol let trained runners last about 10% longer, and a breathing-trainer warm-up gave competitive athletes a small edge.
Electrum, one of the oldest Bitcoin wallets, patched a flaw that thieves were already using to turn an ordinary fee bump into a payment to themselves. Two of the three “Senate” seats at X100 were bought with a flash loan and used to drain about $4.85 million, and Initia has named the bug behind Friday’s chain halt. Health leads with athletes: caffeine for early bouts and beetroot juice for late ones, flywheel lifting for jumps and cutting, and six breaths a minute for a quick heart-rate-variability lift.
Initia froze its whole network after an attacker minted bridged tokens out of thin air and walked off with about $2.7 million. Malaysia and Thailand signed on to Singapore’s digital-money settlement project, and the list of companies refusing to have their shares tokenized on OKXICE has grown to 22. Health leads with athletes: stop speed sets earlier, don’t count on caffeine for late-game decisions, and use the cold plunge for soreness, not gains.
Ethereum’s next big upgrade just lost its Oct. 26 test date after security researchers flagged a gas-accounting risk to existing contracts. HSBC rolled out a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin to 3.3 million PayMe users, and Swell froze its staked-ether tokens over a suspected admin-key compromise. Health leads with a 147,000-person study on how much lifting is enough, plus a step count that protected premenopausal bones and a sleep window tied to sharper thinking.
The first final rule under the GENIUS Act is out: the OCC dropped its presumption against exchange-paid stablecoin rewards and will judge them one at a time. Solana’s Alpenglow is now live, Standard Chartered is buying all of Zodia Custody, and LayerZero set Nov. 30 for its Zero chain and ATLAS exchange engine. Health leads with flywheel split squats that made soccer players quicker at changing direction, plus a 10 p.
Solana switches to its new Alpenglow consensus today, aiming to finalize payments in about 150 milliseconds instead of roughly six seconds, and Zcash has a November date for an upgrade that makes blocks three times faster. Malaysia had a big tokenization day: a licensed bank launched a dollar stablecoin and the central bank opened a platform for tokenized bonds and sukuk. A web certificate authority turned out to have private keys as small as the number 4.
Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs have joined the companies refusing to let their shares trade as tokens on OKXICE, and the SEC’s comment period on its main token-fundraising rule closes today. Switzerland approved its first retail fund that holds bitcoin directly, and Mastercard opened its AI-agent payment system to developers. Health leads with trained athletes: a bedtime protein snack that didn’t hurt sleep, beetroot juice for recovery, and how much of caffeine’s kick is in your head.
JPMorgan’s deposit token, JPMD, is now live on Ethereum mainnet. Stablecoin payments are up 45% even though supply has stalled, and two hacks, at Cysic and Qubic, again came down to off-chain software rather than smart-contract code. Health leads with trained athletes: when to cut a squat set short, and an app-based mindfulness program that eased sprinters’ pre-race nerves. In Science, a new theory asks whether the brain is part superconductor, top mathematicians have confirmed one of OpenAI’s AI-generated proofs, and duct tape beat sandbags at keeping floodwater out of a front door.
