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Cryptocurrency-related legislation in the U.S. could be delayed and regulatory pressure could increase if Democrats win control of both chambers in the U.S. midterm elections, Cryptopotato reported. In an interview with Decrypt, crypto analyst Tyler D said a Democratic victory could slow the pace of bringing the crypto industry into the regulatory fold over the next two years, while potentially creating a more favorable environment for privacy coins. Tyler D added the crypto industry has already grown too large for its expansion to be easily halted by political change alone. By contrast, crypto market analyst VirtualBacon said crypto legislation has bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress, so the election outcome is likely to have a greater effect on short-term investor sentiment than on the long-term direction of regulation.

Groupe Amaury, the organizer of the Ballon d'Or, is preparing a lawsuit over suspected insider-information betting on decentralized prediction market Polymarket, Bitcoin.com reported, citing French outlet Upside. According to the report, 12 Polymarket accounts opened ahead of the Oct. 26 awards ceremony bet a combined $264,000 and correctly predicted the exact rankings of the top five Ballon d'Or candidates, generating about $200,000 in profit. Some of the accounts placed bets immediately after being created, and around $374,000 was withdrawn within three hours after the results were announced. The organizer is investigating whether the awards results may have leaked in advance, although it has not been confirmed whether actual insider information was used.

A hacker behind the attack on Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin transferred $8 million worth of ETH to a new wallet, according to blockchain analytics firm Arkham. The hacker still holds about $46 million in crypto, while Arkham said the ETH could be deposited into Tornado Cash, although no such deposit had been confirmed. Mercado Bitcoin previously said the attack targeted a hot wallet and that it planned to absorb the roughly $40 million loss itself.

South Korea’s Korea Deposit Insurance Corp. is seeking to extend deposit protection to defined benefit retirement pensions and temporarily large deposits exceeding 100 million won, such as home sale proceeds, Money Today reported. The agency is also reviewing a protection system based on the actual owner of funds rather than the account holder’s name, along with measures to protect digital assets. The Korea Deposit Insurance Corp. held the launch ceremony and first meeting of the Financial Consumer Protection Committee on Nov. 3, where it reviewed a roadmap for promoting financial contract holder protection that includes those measures, according to the report.

Spot CVD is an order book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper panel shows a volume heatmap, while the lower panel shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The volume heatmap tracks trading volume at each price level. The background color becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter zones may act as support or resistance levels. - The CVD indicator in the lower panel reflects buy and sell orders by capital size. As buy orders increase, the line in the corresponding color moves higher. The yellow line is based on orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line is based on large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the world’s three largest crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 48.84% long, 51.16% short - Binance: 49.07% long, 50.93% short - OKX: 49.6% long, 50.4% short - Bybit: 47.91% long, 52.09% short

SBI Holdings’ cryptocurrency business posted revenue of 23.083 billion yen ($196 million) in the first half of fiscal 2026, covering April through September 2026, down 30.1% from a year earlier, NADA News reported. Pretax loss widened to 1.595 billion yen from 147 million yen a year earlier. Revenue for July through September is estimated to have fallen nearly 60% on the year to about 9.2 billion yen. By contrast, groupwide revenue rose 17.2% to a record 1.0575 trillion yen for a first half, with the crypto business accounting for about 2% of the total. SBI Holdings has continued to expand the crypto business despite weak earnings. In June, it launched the yen-based stablecoin JPYSC, and on Oct. 1 it made Japanese cryptocurrency exchange bitbank a wholly owned subsidiary.

North Korean hackers who stole $6.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency from Binance last week may need months to launder the funds, the Financial Times reported. About $3.3 billion of the stolen assets is still believed to remain under the hackers’ control.

Binance said that as of 3:00 a.m. UTC today, users’ hourly deposits had exceeded hourly withdrawals, reflecting an improvement in user activity and more stable flows. The exchange said last week’s hack caused losses of about $6.34 billion.

The estimated unrealized loss for Bitcoin short-term holders that last moved their BTC one to three months ago stands at about $452 million, which may signal the market is nearing a bottom, according to an analysis by crypto analyst Darkfost. Darkfost said the cohort broadly falls into the trader category, and rising unrealized losses among those holders have historically suggested the market is approaching a bottom. From a short-term perspective, the market is now in a transition phase and overall conditions are improving, Darkfost said, while adding the trend could still reverse but upward momentum appears intact so far.

Whale Alert reported that 7,499 BTC has been transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance. The transaction is valued at about $575 million.

Thai police have begun tracing fund flows linked to crypto gambling site Shuffle.com and set up 80 dedicated investigative teams, Bitcoin.com News reported. Thailand’s cyber police said they had secured transaction data tied to the funds from three cryptocurrency exchanges and planned an enforcement crackdown. Shuffle, a company registered in Curacao, a Dutch Caribbean territory, operates by having users convert cryptocurrency into the platform’s own token for gambling. Earlier, Thailand’s House committee on law, justice and human rights disclosed that Gulf Binance, the operator of Binance TH, had identified two crypto wallets linked to Shuffle. Authorities said the two wallets were tied to 44 people and had handled more than 400 transactions with Shuffle, exchanging about $113,000 worth of cryptocurrency.

An anonymous whale deposited 184,203 AAVE worth $25.5 million and 56.15 million WLD worth $25.85 million to multiple exchanges over the past 10 days, Lookonchain reported. Exchange deposits are typically interpreted as a sign of intent to sell.

Binance has used about half of the BTC held in its Secure Asset Fund for Users, or SAFU, and has not disclosed when it will replenish the reserves, CoinDesk reported. According to blockchain explorer mempool.space, SAFU wallet holdings fell to about 7,500 BTC, worth $580 million, as of Nov. 3 from 15,000 BTC in February after four transactions on Oct. 31. Binance said part of the $6.34 billion set aside to compensate users for hack-related losses would be covered by the SAFU fund, and it plans to restore the fund to around $1 billion. However, Binance’s existing policy of topping up the fund to $1 billion when its value falls below $800 million due to a decline in Bitcoin prices does not apply when the fund is used, as in this case.

Arbitrum’s security council recovered 8,425 ETH and more than 74 million ARB from addresses linked to the Binance hacker without signatures from the attacker’s private key, CoinDesk reported. The recovered crypto was worth about $30 million. Using its emergency upgrade authority, which requires approval from at least nine of its 12 members, the council temporarily changed the code of Inbox, a core contract, moved the funds to a separate address, and then restored the original code. The recovered assets can be moved again only through an Arbitrum DAO governance vote. CoinDesk said the move had the clear purpose of recovering hacked funds, but it could also fuel debate over decentralization and user control of assets because it showed the Arbitrum community could forcibly move funds from specific addresses without a private-key signature. CoinNess previously reported that Arbitrum’s security council had frozen about $30.5 million in cryptocurrency stolen in the Binance hack.

Lee Chan-jin, governor of South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service, has ordered a full inspection of external access points across the financial sector, including the virtual asset industry, in response to recent hacking incidents in the sector, Digital Asset reported. According to the report, the Financial Supervisory Service said on Nov. 3 that Lee reviewed each sector’s response status to the recent hacking incidents at an executive meeting and discussed ways to strengthen security. The watchdog said external access points connected to systems handling customer and financial company assets, where an attack could cause financial losses, should be checked first, and outside access should in principle be blocked until vulnerabilities are resolved. It also said security readiness needs to be stepped up further at virtual asset service providers and online investment-linked finance firms, where actual financial losses have occurred.

According to Manta, a zk-based Ethereum layer-two network, cross-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero (ZRO) will end support for Manta Pacific, the Manta mainnet, on Dec. 15. Users holding LayerZero-based OFT assets on Manta Pacific need to bridge those assets to another chain before Dec. 15 to maintain cross-chain transfer functionality.

Gravity said its native bridge now supports transfers of G from the Gravity layer-one mainnet to Ethereum. Users can transfer G in both directions between Ethereum and the Gravity L1 mainnet through the same interface.

A Russian programmer in his 20s was robbed of about 10.4 BTC after becoming a target for assailants who tracked signs of wealth from social media posts, Bits.media reported. Investigators found the suspects identified the victim’s wealth through posts showing luxury cars and overseas travel, then kidnapped, beat, and threatened the programmer before taking 1 million rubles ($16,410) in cash, along with an iPhone, a MacBook, and other items. The suspects then transferred about 10.4 BTC from the victim’s crypto wallet to an anonymous wallet. Total losses came to 84 million rubles ($1.38 million). Local police arrested five suspects on charges including kidnapping, robbery, and theft, and the suspects could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

Consensys, an Ethereum infrastructure developer, unveiled a technology stack called 'Sovereign Network Interoperability' to connect and coordinate transactions across financial institutions’ ledgers, according to its official blog. The solution supports cross-ledger transactions through cryptographic verification while keeping assets on existing ledgers, without separate bridges or trusted intermediaries. It supports four functions: collateral transfers, settlement of tokenized securities, inter-institutional and cross-currency payments, and trading in tokenized funds. Consensys said the stack is based on its proprietary cross-ledger interoperability protocol, CLIP, and is also expected to support major protocols including EEZ and IBC.

Bitcoin fell below $77,000 ahead of the U.S. midterm elections as selling in technology shares, led by semiconductor stocks, spread through the market, CoinDesk reported. The outlet said the U.S. semiconductor stock index fell 12% over the past three trading sessions, while the Nasdaq 100 dropped 10% from its peak and entered correction territory. The weakness also spread to Asian markets, with South Korea’s KOSPI falling more than 3%. BTC was down about 2%, giving back all of yesterday’s rebound, while ZEC plunged 10% to $1,140. HYPE and SOL also fell 5% and 3%, respectively.

U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded a net inflow of $3.2 million on Nov. 2, snapping a five-session outflow streak, according to SoSoValue. Morgan Stanley’s MSSE posted a $3.2 million net inflow, while the other ETFs saw no net flows.

U.S. spot BTC ETFs recorded $6.68 million in net inflows on Nov. 2, reversing to net inflows after one day of net outflows, according to SoSoValue. - BlackRock IBIT: +$6.68 million

Solana Foundation said on its official X account that card payment volume using Solana-based stablecoins reached $141 million in October, up sevenfold from a year earlier and marking a record high.

The Ethereum Foundation has launched a website introducing how governments, international organizations and NGOs can use Ethereum as digital public infrastructure, according to its official blog. The site includes an overview of Ethereum, real-world adoption cases and practical materials. The foundation said Ethereum, as a shared infrastructure not controlled by any single institution, can help public bodies maintain independence, verify records on their own and cooperate with one another. As one example, the foundation pointed to Bhutan’s national digital identity system, in which individuals store digital credentials in their own wallets and selectively disclose only the necessary information, while service providers can verify the authenticity of those credentials without exposing personal data on-chain. It added that it also developed an Ethereum-based proof of concept that tested how aid groups could coordinate support efforts without sharing sensitive personal information with one another.