The news is the leaks. His past is why a screenshot from him is still only his claim. Sahil Arora is back on X. Posting as @villainmonkey, he has spent the past two days dumping screenshots, alleged chats, and payment figures about crypto influencers. The spark was Bubblemaps teasing that...
Minos Bittensor Public Beta Opens Without Subnet Rewards
Minos opened a public macOS beta on November 7, 2026, for Bittensor Subnet 107. The Minos Bittensor public beta is a downloadable Apple Silicon client. It asks a user's own AI to draft scientific literature briefs. Then the Mac audits that work and uploads a signed evidence bundle. On-chain subnet...
USDC Circulating Supply Falls $800M as Redemptions Lead
USDC circulating supply fell about $830 million in Circle’s November 5 transparency window. Circle issued about $12.66 billion of USDC over seven days and redeemed about $13.49 billion. Net, that leaves about $69.21 billion of USDC in circulation. Total reserves sit near $70.49 billion. That is the plain read. More...
FinCEN Cuts Off MEXC Global From the US Financial System
A FinCEN MEXC Global order issued on November 6, 2026, cuts the crypto exchange off from the US financial system. The Treasury Department cast the step as part of Operation Economic Outcast. US banks and other financial firms may no longer process funds that involve MEXC. Treasury says the platform...
Nubank, Mercado Pago Freeze Crypto Transfer Screening Rails
Nubank and Mercado Pago froze key cryptocurrency transfer paths on Friday, November 6, 2026, after external screening and data providers failed. Deposits and wallet moves stalled. In-app buy and sell kept running. The split shows how Latin America's largest retail crypto gateways still depend on third-party crypto transfer screening rails...
Aave Labs Buys Avon Team to Push Fixed-Rate Onchain Lending
This is not Aave inventing fixed rates from a blank repo. It is a tuck-in. Aave is buying the engineers and the order-book stack that already priced fixed and floating credit onchain. Then it points that capacity at institutions, fintechs, and retail. Score the Aave Labs Avon acquisition as product...
CBN Crypto P2P BVN Match Required Before Token Release
The Central Bank of Nigeria has set a hard CBN crypto P2P BVN match rule for platform peer-to-peer deals. Section 10.3.3 of its Regulations for the Operations of Non-Security Virtual Assets in Nigeria (November 2026) is clear. A provider may not release or credit a Regulated Token, including stablecoins, until...
CBN Sets N15bn Capital Bar for Dollar Stablecoin Issuers
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has set an N15 billion paid-up capital floor for Class 2 foreign-currency stablecoin issuers. That CBN stablecoin capital requirement sits in its Regulations for the Operations of Non-Security Virtual Assets in Nigeria (November 2026). Dollar tokens such as USDT and USDC can reach Nigerian...
US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Flip to $74.6M Inflows as FBTC Leads
US spot Bitcoin ETFs flipped back to net inflows on Wednesday, November 4. The move ended a three-session stretch of heavy redemptions. The funds took in $74.6 million, per Farside Investors. Fidelity's FBTC led with $236.7 million in creations. BlackRock's IBIT still shed $201.2 million. The pause follows about $1.16...
Zcash NU7 Upgrade Freezes $16M in Sprout Privacy Pool
The Zcash NU7 upgrade activates at block 3,543,405 on November 5, 2026. It makes remaining funds in the old Sprout privacy pool unspendable. Chain data shows about 12,224 ZEC still in Sprout, roughly $15 million to $16 million near recent ZEC prices around $1,230. Holders keep their keys. They lose...