Payment Revolution or Narrative Hype? The Technical Principles and Sober Reflections on the x402 ProtocolCoinbase evaluates x402 based on four factors: average transaction fee, settlement finality time, refundability, and TPS (throughput). x402 is a payment system, not an asset-issuance platform. The flood of so-called “x402 assets” circulating today is fundamentally meme-driven. They may be entertaining in the short term, but they should not be taken seriously over the long run. Read more: https://t.co/cGf ...

U.S. filing initial jobless claims for the week ending November 15 was 220,000, below the market consensus of 230,000. U.S. unemployment rate rose to 4.4% in September, exceeding expectations of 4.3% and marking the highest level since October 2021. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 119,000 in September, beating the forecast of 50,000. The previous reading was revised down from 22,000 to -4,000. ...

Tether has announced an investment in Latin American digital asset infrastructure platform Parfin to accelerate institutional adoption of USDT in the region, including use cases such as global payments, RWA tokenization, and credit market settlement. Parfin provides custody, trading, asset management, and Rayls on-chain settlement solutions. https://t.co/Vh3KXzKGD9 ...

Crypto ETP issuer 21shares has listed six new products on Nasdaq Stockholm — Aave (AAVE), Cardano (AADA), Chainlink (LINK), Polkadot (ADOT), and two crypto index baskets (HODL, HODLX) — bringing its total offerings on the exchange to 16. The move responds to sustained demand for regulated crypto exposure in the Nordic market. https://t.co/XOFKKUgIuc ...

India plans to launch ARC, a stable digital asset pegged 1:1 to the rupee, in the first quarter of 2026. Developed jointly by Polygon and Anq, ARC will operate under a two-tier framework complementary to the Reserve Bank of India's CBDC, with minting only available to corporate accounts and token swaps restricted to whitelisted addresses via Uniswap v4 hooks. https://t.co/tgr94DgFhM ...

Quarkslab, under funding from Brink and coordination by OSTIF, has completed the first publicly disclosed third‑party security audit in Bitcoin Core’s history. The team focused on core components including the P2P network, mempool, chain management, and consensus. The audit reported no high‑ or medium‑severity vulnerabilities, identifying only two low‑risk issues and 13 improvement recommendations. https://t.co/YSFZS5NEPi ...

Maple Finance said on X that the dispute is strictly limited to the BTC Yield pilot conducted with Core Foundation and has no impact on its broader operations. The firm denied any wrongdoing and said it will pursue all available legal remedies to hold Core Foundation responsible for the consequences of its actions. https://t.co/HGVnLh5Eam ...

Cloudflare's large-scale outage temporarily disrupted ~20% of global internet traffic, briefly taking multiple crypto platforms (Blockchain com, Coinbase, Ledger, BitMEX, Toncoin, Arbiscan, DeFiLlama, etc.) offline. EthStorage said the incident underscores the need for end-to-end decentralization—extending beyond L1 consensus to RPC, DNS, API, indexing, and storage—and urged teams to phase out centralized dependencies. Vitalik Buterin's recent "Trustless Manifesto" likewise cautions against sacrificing dece ...

On Nov. 19 (ET), U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of $75.47M, per SoSoValue. BlackRock's IBIT led with $60.61M in single-day inflows. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw a net outflow of $37.35M, extending a seven-day streak of redemptions. U.S. spot Solana ETFs registered a net inflow of $55.61M. https://t.co/QHxqsa3ngS ...

His “Base is for everyone” content coin famously flash-crashed from a market cap above $10M within minutes, raising concerns about blurred lines with perceived official backing. The new $JESSE creator token—issued in a personal capacity—is seen by some as a continuation of that playbook. ...