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Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake said he aims to complete Ethereum’s transition to quantum resistance and a post-AI architecture by the end of 2028, Cointelegraph reported. The target is one year earlier than the timeline for achieving quantum resistance set out in the foundation’s existing roadmap. At Devcon 8 in Mumbai, India, Drake outlined a plan to complete the transition through three additional network upgrades over the next 24 months. The plan does not amount to an official roadmap change, however, and the foundation is set to review the existing schedule in January 2027.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $78,000. BTC is trading at $78,028 on the Binance USDT market.

The number of wallets holding more than 1 million XRP rose by 28 over the past 10 days to 2,147, the highest level this year, according to on-chain analytics firm Santiment.

The hacker behind the attack on Brazilian exchange Mercado Bitcoin has so far distributed $11.45 million worth of altcoins across multiple wallet addresses in preparation for a sale, Arkham reported. Mercado Bitcoin previously said it would absorb the losses from the hack on Nov. 2, which totaled $40 million.

U.S. spot Ether ETFs recorded a net outflow of $85.3 million on Nov. 3, according to data compiled by Farside Investors. The outflow streak extended to seven consecutive trading days. - BlackRock ETHA: -$74.4 million - Grayscale Mini ETH: -$10.9 million

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $115.6 million in net outflows on Nov. 3, according to Farside Investors. The funds posted net outflows for a third straight trading day. - BlackRock IBIT: -$95 million - Fidelity FBTC: +$6.8 million - Bitwise BITB: +$21.9 million - Morgan Stanley MSBT: +$3.3 million - Grayscale Mini BTC: -$52.6 million

XDC Network said native XDC and USDC on the XDC Network can now be used across Scallop’s financial infrastructure, including for Scallop card top-ups, payouts to more than 70 markets worldwide, and payments through supported local QR payment networks. The support comes after XDC Ventures made a strategic investment in Scallop. Scallop and XDC Network plan to explore agentic AI payments, ISO 20022-compatible messaging, and white-label financial applications.

French banking giant Societe Generale said it completed a $10 million U.S. Treasury token collateral transaction on the Canton Network. The Treasurys were tokenized during the initial rollout of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s tokenization service. The transaction demonstrated the feasibility of transferring Treasury tokens on-chain and linking them with traditional bank collateral management systems. Societe Generale previously issued its first U.S. bond token on the Canton Network in November 2025 and joined as a super validator in May this year. The bank is pursuing broader collateral management, finance and payment infrastructure using tokenized assets.

Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown, who has taken a critical stance on cryptocurrencies, defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Jon Husted in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, Cointelegraph reported. Earlier, a crypto super PAC had spent about $63 million to unseat Brown, including $56 million from Fairshake, but failed to block Brown’s victory.

Democrats were increasingly likely to secure an edge in both the Senate and the House in the U.S. midterm elections, CNN reported. Democrats had won 50 Senate seats, while Republicans secured 37, leaving Democrats with a net gain of five seats from the previous makeup. Democrats were also leading in the House. Of the 234 seats decided as of the report, Democrats won 141, ahead of the Republicans' 93. If Democrats secure majorities in both chambers, the party would regain control of Congress for the first time in four years. President Donald Trump said he would accept the midterm election results and was willing to work with Democrats.

Crypto exchange BitMart said it was hacked on Nov. 3, with losses limited, and added it quickly launched an investigation and took steps to strengthen security. BitMart founder Sheldon Xia said an initial probe suggests the attack may have been carried out by the same group that targeted Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin that day.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $77,000. BTC is trading at $77,054.83 on the Binance USDT market.

Vivek Ramaswamy, co-founder of Strive and the Republican candidate in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, lost to Democratic candidate Amy Acton, according to election forecaster Decision Desk HQ. The result shifts the Ohio governorship from Republican to Democratic control.

Major exchanges have seen $133 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $375 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

The Binance hacker is converting stolen funds into BTC through THORChain (RUNE), according to Lookonchain. The attacker split the stolen SOL across multiple wallets, exchanged it for USDC, moved the funds to the Ethereum network, and bought ETH. The laundering has continued by swapping ETH into BTC through THORChain.

Pro-crypto Republican Byron Donalds defeated Democratic candidate David Jolly in Florida’s gubernatorial election, Cointelegraph reported. Donalds is set to become the state’s first Black governor. While serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Donalds introduced a bill on Bitcoin reserves and holdings aimed at writing President Donald Trump’s executive order on a strategic Bitcoin reserve into law.

Decentralized exchange Cow Protocol said CoWSwap has begun supporting Aave V4 position swaps. Initial support covers Ethereum, Base and Avalanche.

An anonymous whale withdrew 303.8 BTC worth $23.4 million from Binance and then dispersed the funds across multiple addresses, according to Onchain Lens. Exchange withdrawals are typically interpreted as a sign of holding intent.

An address linked to Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, deposited another 32,862 HYPE worth $2.67 million to exchanges over the past 10 hours, according to ai_9684xtpa. The address has transferred a total of $15.02 million worth of HYPE to exchanges over the past five days.

Major exchanges have seen $127 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $345 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $76,000. BTC is trading at $75,944.42 on the Binance USDT market.

Jack Yi, founder of crypto-focused investment firm LD Capital, said Bitcoin is showing stronger resilience than U.S. stocks despite setbacks including uncertainty around the U.S. midterm elections and the Binance hack. In a post on X, Yi said Republicans were likely to lose both the House and Senate, while the outcome in Texas, a key battleground area, remained uncertain. In that scenario, Yi said, U.S. stocks could face a further correction. Bitcoin, meanwhile, was due for a rebound after a recent 40-day correction, but had yet to reach an optimal correction range amid the Binance hack and midterm-election uncertainty, he said. Even so, Yi said BTC remains in a bull-market trend and is holding up better than U.S. equities despite a concentration of external negative factors.

Google Cloud, Google’s cloud business, has demonstrated technology that combines AI and blockchain to automate processes ranging from corporate loan contracts and bond transfers to interest payments, Digital Asset reported. The core of the project is the use of blockchain-based smart contracts to automate work that traditional financial institutions have handled manually. The company conducted a proof of concept with fintech firm Nammu21 to automate syndicated corporate lending operations on blockchain. The demonstration used Google Cloud Universal Ledger, or GCUL, the company’s distributed ledger infrastructure for financial institutions, along with Nammu21’s AI-based contract analysis technology.

The European Union-based crypto firm previously believed to have been hit by a hack was identified as French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, on-chain analyst ZachXBT said. Crédit Mutuel Arkéa is a bank with $235 billion in assets under management. ZachXBT had said on Nov. 2 that the institution suffered a $106 million hack, and the estimated losses have since risen to $133 million.

Cross-chain interoperability protocol THORChain said swaps have resumed on AVAX, BASE, BCH, BTC, DOGE, ETH, LTC, RUNE, TRON, XRPL and ZEC following its 3.21.1 update. Trading remains halted for ATOM, BSC and SOL. THORChain said 14 active nodes have not yet upgraded to version 3.21.1, and all active nodes must update to that version to resolve swap performance issues. The protocol added the update also brings it one step closer to integrating Monero.