Andreas Severin, CSO at Virtune, says the roughly $6.3 billion Binance hack shows exchanges are the industry's weak point, and that no MiCA-regulated exchange has been hacked. The market has weathered the shock far better than feared.

The blockchain was never the weak point in crypto's biggest-ever hack, says Morten Myrstad in this week's Kaupr Weekly. The weak point is permission — who holds it, who grants it, and how far it reaches.

At a webinar with Kaupr, BPI Norway presented its input: that the oil fund report more openly on its indirect bitcoin holdings, and that Folketrygdfondet, Norway's domestic pension fund, consider investing directly in bitcoin. BPI meets the Finance Ministry next week.

On October 31, it was 18 years since Satoshi Nakamoto published Bitcoin's whitepaper, in the middle of the financial crisis. The document has since turned the world's financial system upside down: bitcoin is today worth around $1.55 trillion.

Sweden's Finansinspektionen is inviting companies and other market participants to join a reference group for a new guidance project on tokenised money and DLT-based payments. The deadline to register interest is 22 November.

Finnish Agion and Sweden's SIROS Foundation have entered a strategic partnership on infrastructure to verify AI agents' identity, their permissions, and whether they have the authority to act on an organisation's behalf.

Crypto platform Kryptos has connected portfolios to ChatGPT, letting users ask about value, cost basis and gains, pulled directly from the wallets and exchanges they've linked to the service. The app cannot move funds, and requires a paid ChatGPT plan.