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The company is starting with $366,000 worth of copper stored in Germany, hoping to build a market for investors to own and trade physical metal onchain.

Your look at what’s coming in the week starting Nov. 2.

The outflows followed a 45-hour withdrawal freeze after a $6.3 billion theft, with rival exchanges attracting deposits as customers regained access to their funds.

China’s Communist Party calls for a crackdown on corruption that uses crypto and blockchain CoinDesk

China's Communist Party has named virtual currency and blockchain in a new anti-corruption call.

The $6.3 billion Binance breach has revived a debate over whether crypto exchanges are less secure than banks or simply harder to protect once hackers get inside.

The first trading day after the Binance hack saw the biggest ETF outflow since June 25.

Bitcoin ETFs lost $643 million in outflows Friday, and 2026 is barely green now CoinDesk

The 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC have taken in nothing since Thursday except payments worth under a dollar, each carrying a message, from pleas to laundering pitches to a token shill.

Strangers are begging the Binance hacker for bitcoin, one ‘help me bro’ at a time CoinDesk

ZEC led the majors and oil slid on a report that Trump wants to give Iran diplomacy more time, with U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday.

BTCPay, a bitcoin payment tool, tells users to switch off their servers after reports of drained wallets CoinDesk

Bitcoin claws back toward $79,000 as markets shake off crypto's biggest hack CoinDesk

The open-source project says it is still investigating and hasn't given a loss figure or announced a fix. Its founder said the reports appear to involve versions older than 2.4.2.

America is going to the polls, and the results will shape crypto legislation and regulation over the next two years. Here's what to know.

The researchers say any approval an agent can reach is unreliable, and they built Countersign, an app tying approval to a physical action the agent can’t fake.

While crypto isn't a major issue in the 2026 election, the industry will be shaped by who takes office in January. Here are the main races CoinDesk is tracking.

Providers are betting trading, lending and staking revenue can cover rewards and turn card users into profitable customers.

Even as polling and online wagers put Democrats at a high chance to claim greater power in Congress, the industry's high-profile support has gone the other direction.

The industry's $63 million question revolves around whether its political adversary in Ohio rides the Trump backlash back into the Senate.