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Big week for near:native :
@BitwiseInvest's NEAR ETF solana:7ukDd3E3PSupATuK4yvJ49jyZr8nNrkXKcq8pioiq98F launches this week while NEAR Intents was hit by a $3.8M exploit today. Service is back up and users are being made whole
That came days after NEAR Intents blocked the Bitget hackers from moving $50M+ through the protocol (only ~$166K got through)
There's a lot to talk about with NEAR. We sat down with CEO Illia Polosukhin (@ilblackdragon) for the full picture 👇
0:00 Intro
0:38 Private trading on NEAR Intents
6:19 SHIELD: stopping hacked funds
8:41 Tokenized stocks with any asset
15:09 IronClaw and private AI
20:30 The Bitwise NEAR ETF
22:40 Roadmap to 2027
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⚖️ New Jersey dropped its 3-year Coinbase (@coinbase) staking ban, without prejudice, so a new case is possible.
Three states still bar new staking. Coinbase's blockchain rewards revenue fell 54% in Q3.
cryptocoinshow.com/new-jerse…
💸 $3.64B net left Binance (@binance) on day one of reopened withdrawals, even with about 95% of the $6.3B hack covered.
One compromised laptop was the way in. How much of your crypto sits on one exchange?
cryptocoinshow.com/binance-h…
🚨 Over $40M moved out of Mercado Bitcoin-linked wallets across at least 10 chains, per Hypernative.
The Brazilian exchange halted deposits and withdrawals. Tether (@Tether_to) froze USDT at two addresses.
cryptocoinshow.com/hypernati…
📉 $NEAR stakers will earn less. NEAR (@NEARProtocol) governance voted to cut issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%, taking yield from 5.27% to 3.37%.
24 of 405 validator pools can't cover costs. Good trade for holders?
cryptocoinshow.com/near-gove…
Hollywood is coming on chain, and the fans will move first. New interview with Jordan Schlosser of @IPXExchange:
- How box office and brand deal revenue flows to fans in $USDC
- Why this is not another celebrity meme coin
- What protects backers if a project flops
"The ivory towers they sit in are strong enough that there's no incentive to open that up."
🏦 BitMine now holds 6.06M $ETH, 4.9% of all supply, worth $13.7B.
About 5.07M is staked, projected to earn $363M a year. Tom Lee calls 5% a hard cap. What happens when they hit it?
cryptocoinshow.com/bitmine-a…
🎙️ "Q Day isn't going to arrive with a trumpet sounding. It will happen quietly and lethally."
James Stephens of Krown Technologies told us he expects quantum's first big hit on crypto in 2027 or 2028.
cryptocoinshow.com/interview…
🧮 Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) fears AI could speedrun 50+ years of math in 5 and break the cryptography securing $ETH and $BTC.
Post-quantum fixes may not fully protect holders. Bigger risk than quantum?
cryptocoinshow.com/buterin-w…
🔓 The Arbitrum (@arbitrum) Security Council moved 8,425 $ETH and 74.6M $ARB from a Binance exploiter's address without its private key, using zero-signature transactions.
Who really controls an L2 wallet?
cryptocoinshow.com/arbitrum-…
Which Linux distros are patched and which are still waiting, in our full story: cryptocoinshow.com/critical-…
📉 Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) crypto revenue fell 55% to about $120M in Q3.
Event contracts brought in $173M, up sixfold, beating crypto.
Is retail done with crypto trading, or just taking a break?
cryptocoinshow.com/robinhood…
🎙️ "If you're a regular user, you have no problem. If you're a criminal, this is not a place for you."
Illia Polosukhin (@ilblackdragon) of NEAR (@NEARProtocol) on "pragmatic" privacy, not Zcash-style secrecy.
cryptocoinshow.com/interview…
🇰🇵 The FBI named North Korea's TraderTraitor for the $6.3B Binance (@binance) hack, the same unit behind Bybit.
Withdrawals reopened Sunday and about $2B left in three hours, per Whale Alert.
cryptocoinshow.com/fbi-north…
📰 This week on Crypto Coin Show:
- Binance (@binance) lost $6.3B in the biggest hack on record
- About $2.8B frozen within hours, mostly stablecoins
- Chainalysis says AI agents breached its systems
We broke it down with Golden Yogi on CCS Weekly:
cryptocoinshow.com/interview…
🧊 $3.33B of the Binance haul can never be frozen, per Elliptic.
18,270 $BTC and 511,861 $ETH sit in about 43 wallets. Tether (@Tether_to) and Circle (@circle) led the $2.84B that was.
Is freezable money safer?
cryptocoinshow.com/binance-h…
🔐 The Binance (@binance) hacker swept 167,464 $ETH via EIP-7702, per TRM Labs.
Researchers say 7702 wasn't the cause. A draft EIP would let wallets opt out for 33,500 gas.
Should exchanges switch it off?
cryptocoinshow.com/eip-7702-…
Chainalysis, the firm tracking the $6.3B Binance hack, says it was breached itself by a hacker using AI agents.
- Customer names, emails and role labels accessed
- No sign case files, passwords or MFA secrets were taken
- Chainalysis says the two incidents aren't linked
🎙️ "Institutions have an interest in data that's very different from a developer building a dapp in their garage."
Nick Hansen of The Graph Foundation (1.27T queries processed) on what they need.
cryptocoinshow.com/interview…
Binance withdrawals are set to reopen by Sunday, 3 days after the $6.3B hack.
- ~$3B frozen, mostly USDT and USDC
- 18,270 stolen BTC still hasn't moved
- $6.34B set aside to cover users
- Proof of Reserves due Monday
Would you withdraw first chance you get?
cryptocoinshow.com/binance-h…