• Ethereum Beacon Chain launched [The Block]
• Libra Association renamed ‘Diem’ [CoinDesk]
• 20% of PayPal users have used its crypto service [U Today]
• High hopes for Bitcoin in Kraken survey [Kraken]
• Sberbank cryptocurrency slated for 2021 [FinBold]
• USDC issuer hires Wall Street veteran as CEO [CoinDesk]
• BTC Markets leaks 270,000 names and emails [Business Insider AU]
  

• $100M of crypto stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 is on the move [Dr Kiril Kretov]
• Bitcoin surges to a new all-time high [CoinMarketCap]
• Yearn merges with Sushi [Andre Cronje]
• Tezos looking to incorporate shielded transactions [Tezos]
• Ethereum’s hashrate and mining difficulty increase amidst Ether rebound [EtherScan]
• Bernstein Research admits Bitcoin’s asset allocation role [CoinDesk]
• Huawei partnership to increase BitTorrent reach by billions [UToday]
• BitMEX welcomes Alexander Hoptner as CEO [The Block]

• Chinese authorities have seized over $4.2B of crypto from the PlusToken Ponzi scheme [The Block]
• Ripple is reportedly selling a third of its stake in payments processor, MoneyGram [SEC]
• Guggenheim Partners has reserved the right to allocate up to 10% of its Macro Opportunities Fund in Bitcoin [SEC]
• Yearn Finance is to join forces with market coverage platform, Cover [Andre Cronje]
• Investment firm, Cypherpunk has boosted its BTC holdings by 279% [NewsFile]
• Ethereum 2.0’s deposit contract now has over 852,000 ether – worth half a billion dollars – locked in [Dune Analytics]
• Pizza Hut has confirmed that it will start accepting crypto payments for food orders [CoinDesk]

OKEx sees $110M dollars leave its platform, just hours after reopening asset withdrawals [The Block] Facebook is to move forward with the launch of its own dollar-pegged stablecoin, Libra, in January next year [FT] Lending protocol, Compound saw over $100M worth of collateral liquidated on its platform yesterday [LoanScan] Glassnode has revealed that the total […]

• BTC miners bag over $353M in October [ComprarAcciones]
• VanEck launch Bitcoin ETN [VanEck]
• Over 725,000 now locked for Ethereum 2.0 [Dune Analytics]
• Armstrong concerned about wallet tracking [Brian Armstrong]
• PayPal block user for using its own crypto service [Reddit]
• Was Bitcoin born in London? [ChainBulletin]