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US Senate Democrats say X gives Polymarket preferential treatment
US Senate Democrats accused Elon Musk's X of giving prediction market Polymarket preferential treatment, saying users cannot select a reporting reason for Polymarket ads through X's standard interface, unlike ads such as Kalshi's.
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PANewsAIBearishChina's central bank to run 1-year swap facility operation on 3 Nov
The People's Bank of China said it will conduct a one-year securities, fund and insurance company swap facility operation on 3 Nov, extendable as needed, to support stable capital markets. Thirty-one securities and fund firms have applied for more than Rs 100bn equivalent, over 100bn yuan in total.
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OpenAI and Anthropic to set up midterm election war rooms
OpenAI and Anthropic will each set up a war room to help ensure their platforms provide accurate information about the US midterm elections, a first for both companies.
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GoPlus says attack on Premia Labs vault on Arbitrum cost over $400,000
GoPlus said an attacker hit Premia Labs' vault contract on Arbitrum on 1 Nov, losing users more than $400,000. The vault reportedly lacked checks on option pools, which the attacker used with a flash loan to drain collateral.
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See all 2 updates on Premia Labs Arbitrum vault attackHKMA launches Project SAGE for agentic finance and forms expert panel
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority launched Project SAGE to promote responsible agentic finance, with an expert panel drawn from finance, technology, professional services and academia. It will study consumer, business and machine-to-machine use cases, agent identity checks such as Know Your Agent, interoperability standards and legal and regulatory issues.
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PANewsAINeutralIMPUS spot-bitcoin ETFs lose $643m in a day, erasing 64% of 2026 net inflows
US spot-bitcoin ETFs lost $643m in a single day, erasing 64% of their 2026 net inflows.
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Hyperliquid's top two traders this month hold $1.06bn in short positions
The two most profitable traders on Hyperliquid this month hold combined short positions of about $1.06bn across crypto, precious metals and memecoins. The top account, with $618m of shorts across 22 markets at roughly 4.7x leverage, is up about $99.1m this month.
Animoca Brands unit wins Abu Dhabi licence for collective investment funds
Animoca Brands says its subsidiary Animoca Asset Management (AD) Limited has received a financial services permission from Abu Dhabi Global Market's FSRA to manage collective investment funds in or from ADGM. The licence is to support work on blockchain infrastructure, tokenised assets and AI agents combined with Web3.
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Dormant address moves 999.953 Bitcoin worth $78.1m after six years
An address that had been inactive for more than six years moved all 999.953 Bitcoin it holds, worth $78.1m, according to Lookonchain. The coins were received over six years ago, when Bitcoin traded at $10,727.
DefiLlama data shows Binance net outflows of $4.91bn in 24 hours
DefiLlama data shows Binance saw about $4.91bn in net outflows over 24 hours and $13.7bn over seven days, with assets near $128bn. Its BTC wallet fell by about 20,300 coins in a day to about 647,800 coins.
Upbit to suspend AERO deposits and withdrawals for token swap
South Korean exchange Upbit will temporarily suspend AERO deposits and withdrawals from 02:00 UTC on 3 Nov to support the Aerodrome Finance token swap.
HKEX to extend derivatives after-hours trading to 4:15 am from March 2027
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing will extend the close of its derivatives after-hours trading session from 3:00 am to 4:15 am from March 2027. It will consider a further extension to 5:15 am in November 2027 depending on market developments.
Franklin Templeton's Julian Love argues for neutral on-chain AI harness
Franklin Templeton Digital Assets managing partner Julian Love argues for a neutral, decentralised on-chain harness, the software layer that gives AI models context, tools and memory and routes requests to the best model. He examines what the shift could mean for AI users, developers and the blockchain ecosystem.
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TokenInsight says Bitget ranked third in stock perpetual futures share in Q3
TokenInsight's Q3 2026 exchange report put total stock perpetual futures volume at nine major exchanges at about $1.61tn, more than three times the commodities perpetual market. Binance led with about $943bn and a 58.60% share, OKX was second at $254bn and Bitget third at about $122bn, or 7.60%.
HSBC says HKD stablecoin RedCoin draws about 50,000 users in first week
HSBC chief executive Georges Elhedery said the Hong Kong dollar retail stablecoin RedCoin has attracted about 50,000 users in its first week and aims to reach millions. RedCoin, one of only two licensed stablecoins in Hong Kong, opened to more than 3.3m PayMe users from October.
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OdailyAIBullishSolana says ecosystem app revenue reached almost $300m in the third quarter
Solana says apps in its ecosystem earned almost $300m in the third quarter, up 50% from the second quarter. It says spot DEX volume reached $197bn and stablecoin market value hit a record $17.5bn.
Bithumb to suspend NEAR deposits and withdrawals on 4 Nov for network upgrade
Bithumb says it will temporarily suspend NEAR deposits and withdrawals from 12:00 a.m. UTC on 4 Nov because of a network upgrade for Near Protocol.
Axel Adler Jr. says Bitcoin active addresses fall 43% from peak as transfer volume slips 5.4%
Axel Adler Jr. says Bitcoin's 30-day average active addresses were about 629,000 on 1 November, down 43% from a local peak of about 1.1m in December 2024. The 30-day average daily transfer volume fell about 5.4% to about 819,000 BTC since 10 December 2024.
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- Axel Adler Jr. says Bitcoin long-term holders' 30-day distribution fell 22%
- Axel Adler Jr. says Bitcoin's 30-day range has narrowed to 6% as it holds $80,000-$86,000
- Axel Adler Jr. says Bitcoin risks deeper decline if $80,400 fails
South Korea to tax offshore US stock perpetual futures profits at 11%
South Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance will treat US stock-linked perpetual futures traded on overseas crypto exchanges as overseas equity derivatives and tax profits at 11% from next year, half the 22% rate on overseas spot stocks, after a 2.5m won basic deduction, Maeil Business Newspaper reported.
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- Lee Kang-il says government will submit Digital Asset Basic Act in November
- Park Min-kyu calls for virtual-asset tax delay and swift passage of Digital Asset Framework Act
- Bae Jun-young presses Democratic Party to settle crypto tax delay before 2 Nov review
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CoinNessAIBearishProton CTO Bart Butler says coding is dead and engineers should help models write code
Proton CTO Bart Butler said in an internal memo that large language models can now write code and that manual coding's era has passed, with models able to handle documentation, tests and boilerplate. He said productivity has not risen much despite widespread model use.
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