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Deutsche Bank plans to launch crypto custody for institutions in Germany within weeks and expand it to Asia in 2027, starting with BTC, ETH, USDC, EURC and EURAU — CoinDesk

Qubic halted its network after an attacker exploited weak randomness in wallet seeds to drain 1,404 wallets of 2.94T QU, about $1.3M, with 87.1% of the funds frozen — Bitcoin.com News

World launched its first industry-specific World ID suite for banks and financial firms, bundling the app, World ID for Agents and a Zoom deepfake check now out of beta — The Block

Crypto.com and Novig sued Missouri in federal court over its order to stop offering sports event contracts, while fellow targets Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood and Underdog have not filed — The Block

Tether Capital invested an undisclosed sum in AIsa, a network letting AI agents pay for data, APIs and compute, which claims 250K agents and 100M+ transactions — Tether

Cysic suspended its bridge after an attacker minted tokens and moved about $727,000 of the proceeds to Ethereum — The Block

Latvia plans to let residents pay personal taxes in crypto as early as 2027, after parliament voted to tax only withdrawals exceeding deposits rather than each trade — CoinDesk

Stablecoin payments rose 45% to $482B in 2026 through September while supply grew just 0.4% to $305B, and stablecoin card spending jumped tenfold to $3.9B — CoinDesk

Hackers stole $1.18B across 107 crypto incidents in Q3, up 55% quarter over quarter, with $906.8M lost through suppliers, dev tools, unpatched fixes or components left out of audits — CoinDesk

Binance and Coinbase joined a UK-hosted crackdown on West African scam networks that led to 28 arrests in Ghana and Nigeria and flagged $11M in funds for possible freezing — CoinDesk

El Salvador's Bitcoin reserve passed 7,800 BTC, worth about $638M, after adding 31 BTC over the past 30 days despite IMF loan limits on public purchases — Crypto Briefing

Italy, Portugal and Singapore hold 66.9% of geolocated tokenized US Treasuries, at 29.9%, 18.8% and 18.2%, while American holders own just 10.5% — Crypto Briefing

Justin Sun said he sold 80-90% of his ETH at $3,600-$4,000 last year and never bought back, moving most of it into US stocks while keeping his BTC untouched — ChainCatcher

CoreWeave, Broadcom and Verizon are among nine public companies objecting to tokenized versions of their shares trading on OKXICE — The Block

Turkey officially confirmed the arrest of Hex founder Richard Heart, with police seizing $7.15 million and six cold wallets during the operation — The Block

Pump.fun launched perpetual futures built on Hyperliquid, which handles orders, margin and liquidations, charging up to 0.10% per order and blocking US and Ontario users — crypto.news

A BIS working paper on 2019-2025 US data finds stablecoins and bank deposits are partial substitutes: higher deposit rates slow stablecoin growth, hitting USDC harder than USDT — BIS

Polygon Labs closed its Coinme acquisition, gaining a US-regulated fiat-crypto conversion arm, and expects its payments business to turn profitable in 2027 as it takes on Visa and Stripe — CoinDesk

After the Bitget exploiter started shielding stolen funds in Zcash, other attackers followed, including proceeds from the CryptoBilis Ledger incident and the $12M Triple-A hack — ChainCatcher

Bitget added Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to its prohibited jurisdictions in an October 16 terms update, sending affected users account-specific deadlines to close positions and withdraw — The Defiant