TREE NEWS update: Russia’s central bank finalized crypto trading rules allowing retail investors to trade BTC, ETH and USDT through regulated intermediaries from Nov 17, with non-qualified investors capped at 300,000 rubles per intermediary annually. Binance said it aims to restore withdrawals for all remaining networks and assets by next weekend. Anthropic’s IPO is expected to price Nov 18 and begin trading on Nasdaq Nov 19.
Russia Opens Retail Crypto Trading, Binance to Restore Withdrawals, Anthropic IPO Set for Nov 18
Russia's move is notable less for the assets on offer than for the architecture: retail access runs through regulated intermediaries with a per-intermediary annual cap, which effectively makes the cap a tool for steering flows toward specific providers rather than a single national limit. The simultaneous Binance withdrawal restoration and Anthropic's IPO pricing are unrelated in substance, but together they signal a market still repairing operational trust while testing public-market appetite for AI exposure. Whether Russia's intermediary-by-intermediary cap produces a fragmented retail market is the open question.
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