CANDY Weekly: The Week in Crypto and the CANDY Ecosystem (Nov 9–15, 2026)

Welcome to CANDY Weekly, your seven-day catch-up from CandyPulse. If you only have five minutes, this is the week in crypto: what moved, what changed and what is happening across the CANDY ecosystem.

Between November 9 and November 15, CandyPulse published 40 stories. Here are the ones worth your time.

CANDY ecosystem

• Cardaxo Physical Card Coming Soon as CANDY Builds Toward Everyday Payments: Cardaxo, the payments platform in the CANDY ecosystem, is preparing a physical card, the team says. It's coming soon: no launch date, countries, pricing or delivery details have been announced yet.
• Swipe. Earn CANDY: How Cardaxo Turns Everyday Spending Into Crypto Rewards: Cardaxo, the CANDY ecosystem's crypto card, lets you load crypto, pay wherever Mastercard is accepted and earn cashback in CANDY. Here's how it works and what to check first.

Security

• Kava Lend Hit by $3.8 Million Exploit as KAVA Token Falls Nearly 40%: An attacker drained about 55.2 million KAVA, worth roughly $3.8 million, from Kava Lend through a little-used BUSD market. KAVA fell about 40% and Korean exchanges paused deposits and withdrawals.

Regulation and policy

• Prediction Markets in a Regulatory Clash as the CFTC Sues Louisiana Over Event Contracts: The CFTC has sued Louisiana to void a state court order that told Kalshi, Polymarket, Coinbase and Robinhood to block residents. It's the twelfth state the regulator has sued over event contracts.
• Deutsche Bank Crypto Custody Goes Live for Institutional and Corporate Clients: Deutsche Bank's crypto custody service is live for institutional and corporate clients, covering Bitcoin, Ether, USDC, EURC and EURAU under BaFin authorization. Retail customers are excluded.
• Bitcoin Slides Below $74,000 as Regulatory Concerns Return and ETF Outflows Mount: Bitcoin fell below $74,000 on Nov. 9, its lowest since August, as worries about tougher U.S. oversight returned, spot ETFs lost about $1.28 billion in a week and over $1 billion in bets were liquidated.

Markets, Bitcoin and ETFs

• U.S. Producer Inflation Hits 6.5% in October, Keeping Fed Tightening in Focus: U.S. producer prices rose 6.5% year on year in October, the biggest annual gain since November 2022, though the monthly rise slowed to 0.3%. Markets still lean toward a Fed hike in December.
• Dollar Hits 19-Month High as Tech Shares Come Under Pressure: The dollar index reached about 103.17 on Nov. 13, its highest since April 2025, as rate-hike bets rose and chip stocks fell about 4%. A strong dollar is a headwind for Bitcoin.
• MSCI to Remove Strategy and Metaplanet From Its Indexes at the Nov. 30 Close: MSCI will drop Strategy from the MSCI USA Index and Metaplanet from the MSCI Japan Small Cap Index after Nov. 30 under a new screen for non-operating companies. Neither has to sell Bitcoin.
• Bitcoin Breaks Below $64,000 as the Weekend Sell-Off Deepens: Bitcoin fell below $64,000 on Saturday to a three-month low, with lows near $62,900–$63,800, as about $1.93 billion of leveraged crypto bets were liquidated in 24 hours.
• Global Equity Fund Inflows Hit a Seven-Week High as European Demand Leads: Global equity funds took in $50.99 billion in the week to Nov. 11, the most in seven weeks. European funds drew $35.13 billion, their biggest week since June 2021.
• Ethereum Falls Below $1,850 as Weekend Selling Intensifies: Ether dropped to about $1,826–$1,840, its lowest since July, down about 18% on the week, as leveraged positions were liquidated and the Ethereum Foundation sold 7,500 ETH over four days.
• XRP Falls Below $1, Trading Around $0.96 as the Crypto Sell-Off Spreads: XRP dropped under $1 on Nov. 14 to about $0.96, down roughly 18% in a week, as Bitcoin's slide dragged the market lower. ETF outflows have slowed and large-holder wallets are at a record.
• Bitcoin ETFs See $1.91 Billion Withdrawn Over Seven Consecutive Trading Sessions: U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have lost about $1.91 billion across seven straight sessions through Nov. 13. Friday's $185.4 million outflow was smaller than earlier in the week, a sign the selling is slowing.

More news

• Hyperliquid's Q3 Open Interest Jumps 80% to $16.8 Billion, Passing Bybit, Kraken and OKX: Hyperliquid ended Q3 with a record $16.8 billion in open interest, up nearly 80%, according to a Hyperliquid Research Collective report. Other research ranks it differently depending on the measure.
• Apex Group Joins the Hedera Council as Institutional Tokenization Takes Focus: Apex Group, which says it services more than $3.5 trillion in assets, has joined the Hedera Council. It plans to explore tokenization on the network, though no products or volumes have been announced.

Guides and analysis

• A Dollar Built on Kaspa? The KSD Whitepaper Outlines a New Path for Native DeFi: A working whitepaper proposes KSD, a decentralized dollar backed only by KAS and priced by a miner-supported oracle. It could be Kaspa's missing DeFi piece, but it's a draft: not live, not audited, no launch date. Here's the full, honest picture.
• Create Tokens Without Code: What CandyChain Studio Could Mean for Creators, Games and Communities: CandyChain Studio is being built for no-code token creation on CandyChain. It's in development with no launch date yet. Here's how no-code tokens work, who uses them, what you can do today with CRC-20, and a checklist before launching any token.

The week in numbers

Coming up in the CANDY ecosystem

Cardaxo, CandyRush and SugarPen are live, and Claimo is in beta. Still to come: CandyBet prediction markets, Candy RWA rewards tokenization, the CandyWorld app for CANDY and RUSH swaps, and the AI Agent Marketplace. CandyPulse will cover each launch as it happens.

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