MSCI will remove Strategy, the largest corporate bitcoin holder, from the MSCI USA Index as of the close of Nov. 30, the index provider said Wednesday, after a new screen classified the company as a non-operating issuer.

The decision is part of MSCI’s November 2026 Index Review, posted shortly after 5 p.m. ET. Official additions and deletions lists show Strategy (MSTR) out of its USA Index, which also takes it out of the broader MSCI World and ACWI indexes. The same review deletes Japan’s Metaplanet from the MSCI Japan Small Cap Index and uranium holder Yellow Cake from the MSCI United Kingdom Small Cap Index, and it removes Iceland’s Skel Fjárfestingafélag from the MSCI…

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MSCI will say Wednesday evening whether Strategy stays in its global stock indexes, after its own potential list already marked the largest corporate bitcoin holder as Deleted.

The index provider publishes its November 2026 Index Review shortly after 5 p.m. ET. MSCI said on Oct. 15 that the review would carry the final list of current constituents hit by the new screen, with any deletions taking effect at the close of Nov. 30.

MSCI’s list of potentially impacted securities, published with the Oct. 15 decision and built on Sept. 30 financial data and Oct. 9 market values, already marks five companies as Deleted: Strategy (MSTR), uranium holder Yellow Cake, Japan’s Metaplanet,…

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OKX and New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) will open their tokenized stock venue on Nov. 23, the companies said Wednesday, offering more than 70 assets under a temporary SEC exemption even as 67 companies, including Apple, Tesla and Meta, have already objected.

The OKX announcement said more than 70 assets are expected to be listed, including securities from Better.com, BitGo, Circle, Coinbase, Robinhood, Securitize and Strategy (MSTR), as well as 59 exchange-traded funds from Direxion. Strategy will also list its preferred stocks, such as STRC.

Access at launch is limited to eligible U.S. customers of OKX Inc. who have activated a CeDeFi Wallet,…

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The Bank of Russia said Wednesday that exchanges may start organized trading in cryptocurrencies on Nov. 22, once the central bank has approved their trading rules, a step that lands just ahead of Moscow Exchange’s planned Dec. 1 bitcoin launch.

The ordinance, which amends the Bank of Russia’s rules for organized trading, was registered by the Justice Ministry on Nov. 3 and published Wednesday on the regulator’s site. It takes effect 10 days after publication, on Nov. 22.

Exchanges will have to register the brokers, trust managers and central counterparties that take part in crypto trades, keep registers of orders and deals, and monitor the activity. They must also…

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Deutsche Bank has switched on its digital asset custody service for paying clients, the German lender said Wednesday, letting institutions and corporations in Europe hold bitcoin with the country’s largest bank less than two months after it first unveiled the plan.

The bank announced the service on Sept. 16, saying it would go live with first clients this year once regulators signed off. It now supports bitcoin and ether, along with the USDC, EURC and EURAU stablecoins, according to its product page.

Under the setup, Deutsche Bank manages the wallets and private keys on behalf of clients, who can store the assets and transfer them to third parties. The bank pitched that as a way for…

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Washington Bitcoin merchant list has 278 businesses, from coffee shops and salons to a hot tub maker that heats its tubs with bitcoin mining. The list spans 94 named cities, and Seattle leads the way with 46 listings! First up is a homegrown US manufacturing business from Washington that makes a super unique product.

Snorkel: A Hot Tub Maker That Heats With Bitcoin

Snorkel has been making hot tubs in the Pacific Northwest since 1979, and its wood-stove business dates to the late 1970s. What makes them special is their full cedar tubs, and the wood stove which is fully submerged into the water of the cedar hot tub and has the “snorkel” coming out of the water! This is one…

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LNbits, the open-source Lightning Network wallet and accounts platform, released version 1.7.0 on November 10 as an urgent security update and instructed all operators to upgrade before restarting their servers. The project’s official X account posted the announcement with a link to the GitHub release, calling it a “SECURITY UPDATE”.

The release follows a wave of attacks that began over the weekend. On November 8, LNbits posted on X that all users should stop their LNbits servers immediately after reporting active attacks, adding that security patches were being prepared and that it was “better to err on the side of caution.” 

The project also disabled instances on…

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A Texas lawmaker filed a bill Monday that would let each city and county in the state invest up to $10 million of public money in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency, without setting any rules for how those coins would be held.

House Bill 815, filed by Rep. Ron Reynolds, a Missouri City Democrat, on the first day of prefiling for the 90th Texas Legislature, carries the caption “Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to invest money in cryptocurrencies.” The introduced text, posted on the Texas Legislature’s site, is two sections long.

The bill would amend the Public Funds Investment Act, Chapter 2256 of the Texas Government Code, by adding a new Section…

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Poland’s lower house of parliament voted 240-202 on Friday to let the interior minister freeze crypto assets, bank accounts and other property of people placed on a national sanctions list, before any court reviews the order.

The Sejm, Poland’s lower house, passed the Act on Restrictive Measures at its 68th sitting, with one member abstaining and 17 not voting. The Senate received the bill Monday and has 30 days under Article 121 of the Constitution to adopt, amend or reject it, after which it would go to President Karol Nawrocki.

The law, a government bill that also implements European Union sanctions rules, treats crypto assets as financial means that can be frozen, using…

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Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) swung to $8.0 million of third-quarter net income on a $51.9 million fair-value gain in its bitcoin holdings and derivatives, the mining-rig maker said Tuesday, even as machine sales collapsed 96%.

The company filed the unaudited results Tuesday in a 6-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Total revenue fell to $14.5 million from $150.5 million a year earlier, including $4.8 million from product sales and $9.5 million from mining. Canaan sold 1.0 million terahashes per second of computing power and mined 133 bitcoin.

The profit did not come from the business. Canaan posted an $8.6 million gross loss and a $42.9 million operating loss. Chief financial…

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