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Peter Anthony, founder of The House of Crypto, an educational platform with over 400,000 followers, suggests that the next altcoin season might arrive sooner than traders currently anticipate, despite Bitcoin's struggles below $80,000.
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Gate Spot has updated the top gainers in various categories including $ELA, $RVV, $PEPE2, $LN, and $LITE3S in the crypto space, alongside $CPRI, $MEOH, $REGN, $CVCO, and $GPN in the US stock market, and $VCIG, $IDXX, $NXT, $ARRY, and $SFM in TradFi CFDs. The updates are available on the Gate.com platform.
Exchange Listing
Bitget, a cryptocurrency exchange, has listed the LNGUSDT and MOUSDT stock perpetual futures trading pairs on November 2, 2026 (UTC+8). LNG (Cheniere Energy, Inc.) is a U.S. liquefied natural gas producer, while MO (Altria Group, Inc.) is a U.S. tobacco company. The exchange now offers these stock perps for trading via its official website or app.
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Binance announced on November 2 that the zero-knowledge proof for its October 31 reserve snapshot is now available for user verification across ten specified tokens. Withdrawal restoration continues, and the platform will bear the financial impact of the incident.
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Tether's CEO, Paolo Ardoino, disclosed that the company now holds about 150,000 Bitcoin, worth more than $11.5 billion. This represents a significant increase from earlier 2026 disclosures, pushing Tether further into the territory usually occupied by corporate treasuries built around Bitcoin. The announcement was made during Ardoino's keynote at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano on November 3, 2026.
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Perpetual contracts have a fixed margin ratio. The initial margin is related to the leverage used. Higher leverage leads to lower initial margin and closer to the maintenance margin, making liquidation easier. Higher leverage also increases the profit ratio. Risk and return are directly proportional.
News
Vance pledges to use his access to classified information to uncover the truth about UFOs, and this statement is said to have caused Intel shares to fall by 27 percent.
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OpenAI has hired Mark Esper, the former US Secretary of Defense, to expand its military AI efforts. The appointment was announced on November 2, 2026, and Esper is described as a strategic advisor for the company's military AI initiatives. OpenAI's policies previously barred military and warfare applications, but the company now has a former Pentagon chief on its roster. The company has also signed an agreement with the Department of Defense to deploy its AI models in classified environments, setting boundaries against mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Price Prediction
BitMine chairman Tom Lee suggests that Ethereum's 4% decline following the Binance hack is constructive, citing a 20% comparison covering a full week after the Bybit breach. Lee attributes the muted market reaction to Binance's swift intervention and the resilience of the crypto industry. The BitMine chairman points to six factors behind the industry's response, including Binance's ability to cover customer losses and the absence of cascading failures across decentralized finance platforms.
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OKX Card, a stablecoin payment solution, is now available in the US. Users can use USDC, USDT, or USDG to make purchases on OKX Pay, which can then be used to pay with Mastercard. The platform offers cashback rewards on eligible USDG purchases, starting at 2% and up to 10% at the top tier. Additionally, users can earn 50% back on eligible subscriptions such as OpenAI, Claude, and Netflix, up to $20 per month. No transaction or FX fees are charged by OKX.
Growth
Brave Browser has reached 130.77 million monthly active users (MAU) in October, marking a 1.9% increase from September. The browser also saw a daily active user (DAU) of 54.19 million, with a record 7.26 billion minutes of daily use. Search queries hit a record 91.77 million daily on October 25.
Funding
Cryptocurrency exchange Strategy spent a significant amount on buying back STRC preferred shares, with $208.2 million allocated to this purpose, while also investing $65.5 million in Bitcoin and $98.5 million in its USD Cash balance.
News
Crypto-focused Custodia Bank has filed a reply brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a 10th Circuit decision that allowed regional Federal Reserve banks to deny master accounts to eligible institutions. The bank argues that only the high court can 'put an end to the Fed’s tyranny over financial innovation.'
News
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is launching a targeted review of jurisdictions with significant crypto activity to address gaps in anti-money laundering (AML) standards. The review will focus on VASP activity and will be followed by monitoring and faster reporting to track progress in addressing deficiencies. Initial findings will be published in June 2027, with further results in October 2027.
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A proposal has been posted to the Mantle forum for the recognition of Halo Prime Limited as a strategic partner of Mantle. The proposal asks the Mantle community to vote on the recognition of Halo Prime, which would authorize Mantle Foundation SA to publish a statement recognizing Halo Prime and formally document the scope and limits of this recognition. Halo Prime is the issuer of mStocks, a product of tokenized certificates referencing listed shares built on Mantle's infrastructure. The recognition is non-exclusive, revocable, and non-financial, with no on-chain code changes or treasury allocation.
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Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange, has warned its users about fake support agents in their direct messages (DMs). The exchange lost about $6.3 billion in crypto after an Oct 29 attack on its hot wallets. Binance says 95% of the loss has already been replaced with company funds. The remaining 5% will be replaced with less-liquid coins bought on the market and OTC. Users are advised to be cautious and not to authorize any wallet transactions to regain access to their funds, as this could be a tactic used by attackers. The exchange has also announced that withdrawals will reopen in phases starting from Nov 1.
Hacking News
Binance has warned customers about potential scams exploiting withdrawal delays as the exchange recovers from a $6.3 billion security breach. Scammers may promise to speed up pending withdrawals, sell customers priority access to withdrawal queues, or instruct them to transfer their holdings into supposedly secure wallets. Binance does not charge fees to unlock withdrawals or ask customers to authorize wallet transactions to regain access to their funds. The exchange emphasized that it does not charge fees to unlock withdrawals, offer paid recovery services or ask customers to authorize wallet transactions to regain access to their funds.
News
SBI Digital Markets signed an MOU with Ember Protocol to explore tokenizing institutional real‑world assets on Arbitrum, covering structuring, issuance, initial purchases, redemptions and secondary‑market distribution.
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New Jersey’s Bureau of Securities rescinded its 2023 cease‑and‑desist order and $5 million penalty against Coinbase, allowing the exchange to resume staking services in the state.
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The SEC Division of Corporation Finance added guidance on how governance and operational control affect crypto asset classification, clarifying the treatment of staking receipt tokens and distinguishing functional from decentralized systems.
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Consensys introduced a stack that coordinates transactions across independent institutional ledgers while keeping assets on their native networks, using zero‑knowledge proofs and supporting collateral mobility, securities settlement, cross‑currency payments and fund servicing.
Price Prediction
NEAR Protocol is in a short-term bearish correction after its September rally. The price has fallen from about $1.80 to nearly $5.90 in October. NEAR trades around $4.10, below its short-term moving averages. XRP's technical structure keeps weakening after its October recovery attempt, trading near $1.25, below every major moving average. Zcash (ZEC) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) are also mentioned in the analysis, with their respective price movements and technical indicators provided.
All Time High
Lisk Chain, a blockchain platform, burns 5.2M LSK on November 2 as it transitions to an enterprise platform, reaching an all-time high.
Event
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao will open the first Gulf edition of Proof of Talk, a digital assets and AI summit, at Louvre Abu Dhabi from December 3 to 4, 2026. The summit will feature executives from global banks, asset managers, and digital asset companies examining tokenization, stablecoins, and AI in financial markets. Attendance is capped at 2,000 participants and applications close on November 22.
Hacking News
Binance experienced a security breach on October 29, coinciding with a net outflow of 226 million XRP. CryptoQuant analyst Amr Taha reported 283 million XRP in large transfers leaving Binance that day. Investigators traced 233.46 million XRP from five Binance wallets being moved to one attacker address. The October outflow reached 2.72 times the level of the September 2022 net whale outflow of 83 million XRP. During the withdrawal suspension, large XRP outflows dropped to 14.7 million tokens on October 30. Binance reported full reserve backing for XRP customer balances and recovered roughly 95% of affected assets by November 1.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff has expanded its crypto asset FAQ with three new answers regarding governance and network control. The guidance clarifies who qualifies as a central party and distinguishes a functional network from a decentralized system. The Division of Corporation Finance added questions 1.4 through 1.6 to explain the SEC's March 17 interpretation, which carries no legal force and creates no new obligations. The FAQ defines central oversight as absent when all material operations run automatically without discretion, and when material discretion is exercised solely through broad-based governance.
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Strategy spent $208 million on STRC buybacks and $66 million on Bitcoin purchases, totaling 811 BTC. Its deployable cash fell to $133 million, down 45.3% from $242 million, as Bitcoin purchases were outpaced by buybacks. The company also maintains a $4.79 billion USD Reserve for dividends and debt interest payments.
Event
Tezos Commons is hosting a new event called Tezday, featuring a question-and-answer session with Yoeshi. The event will be hosted by Crypt0nio and MrBlangs on November 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM UTC. Participants can join the session at the provided link.
News
The U.S. third-quarter 2026 earnings season continues with 70% of companies exceeding revenue expectations and 82% surpassing EPS forecasts, matching and surpassing the five-year and 10-year averages, according to FactSet. The peak of earnings reports is expected on Thursday.
All Time Low
CryptoRank reports that October 2026 marked the second-worst October for ETH in recorded history with a decline of 16.1%.