Crypto Pulse—Industry Perspectives

Approximately 233.46 million XRP left Binance wallets during the security incident in late October 2026. TRM Labs placed the transfers between 8:05 p.m. and 8:09 p.m. UTC on October 29, equivalent to 3:05 a.m. through 3:09 a.m. Jakarta time on October 30. Five wallets sent the assets to one receiving address.The incident raised a question about why the funds could not immediately be frozen. The answer concerns the asset’s design: XRP is the XRP Ledger’s native asset and has no issuer-controlled

Bitcoin’s whitepaper turned 18 on October 31, 2026. Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System to a cryptography mailing list on October 31, 2008, proposing electronic payments that could be verified without a central institution.The document’s age differs from the network’s age. The whitepaper announced the design, while the software and network began operating in 2009. The anniversary marks publication of the proposal.Its relevance remains visible in transaction

Indonesia’s Directorate General of Taxes reported IDR58.75 trillion in digital-economy tax revenue through September 30, 2026. The figure combines collections across several years from digital services, crypto assets, fintech, and electronic government procurement.The headline can easily be mistaken for revenue collected between January and September 2026. Each category, however, has its own accumulation period. VAT on electronic commerce, for example, has been collected since 2020. Comparing th

PLN’s electricity rates for November 2026 remain subject to the fourth-quarter schedule covering October through December. Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources kept rates for 13 nonsubsidized customer categories unchanged from the previous quarter. Rates for 24 subsidized categories also remain unchanged.The decision provides certainty about the price of energy per kilowatt-hour, or kWh. A household’s total payment can still rise when consumption increases, the measurement period

Indonesia’s 2026 wage subsidy, known as Bantuan Subsidi Upah or BSU, provides IDR300,000 per month for three months, paid as a single IDR900,000 payment. Distribution is planned for November through December 2026 through state-owned Himbara banks and PT Pos Indonesia. That window does not establish a common transfer date for every recipient.The legal framework is Minister of Manpower Regulation No. 16 of 2026, effective October 28, 2026. It updates the eligibility requirements, wage thresholds,

IntroductionTesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) closed Friday, November 6, at $358.22, up 4.23%, one session after a 10.77% plunge to $343.69 that was the lowest close of the past 50 sessions. The stock traded as low as $338.15 on Thursday, which pushed below a cluster of lows between $345.20 and $351.67 that had held since late August, and then recovered to close back above that area on Friday. The drop followed the November 3 midterm elections, after which investors worried about the pace of data-center const

IntroductionAdvanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) closed Friday, November 6, at $449.04, up 11.04%, one session after a 17.26% plunge to $404.40 that came during a broad selloff in AI-linked stocks. The rebound recovered 52.9% of Thursday's $84.38 drop from Wednesday's $488.78 close, yet the shares still sit 8.13% below that level and 30.86% below the $649.42 record close of October 6. The swing came three days after AMD reported record third-quarter revenue of $13.4 billion and guided the fourth

IntroductionMicron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) closed Friday, November 6, at $690.00, up 5.12%, after a 17.46% plunge on Thursday to $656.39 that was the lowest close of the past 50 sessions. The stock has now fallen 33.24% from its October 28 close of $983.23 and sits 43.12% below its record close of about $1,213 from June 25. Thursday's drop came on about 77.9 million shares, nearly three times the recent average, as AI-linked stocks were sold across the board and a report said Micron had suspended

Gnosis Pay, a provider of Visa payment card programs linked to cryptocurrency, has confirmed a cybersecurity incident that exposed sensitive customer information, including card numbers, CVV codes, expiration dates, home addresses, and crypto wallet addresses.Although the company stated that customer funds were not affected, the incident raises important questions about the security of payment services that bridge traditional finance and digital assets.As stablecoins and crypto payment cards bec

Amundi, Europe's largest asset management company, has launched a tokenized version of its Amundi Core STOXX Europe 600 equity fund on the Ethereum blockchain. This marks a notable step in bringing traditional investment products onto blockchain infrastructure, particularly as tokenization is gradually expanding beyond bonds and money market funds into equity investment products.The fund is designed to track the STOXX Europe 600 Index, which represents approximately 600 large-, mid-, and small-c