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Taylor Kovar, CEO and Founder of 11 Financial, explains strategies for advisors to help retirement clients shift from saving to spending, covering timing, budgeting, and managing withdrawals in retirement.
All Time Low
Ether fell below $2,250 on Binance Spot, reaching $2,248 after trading at $2,253 15 minutes earlier. Ether fell 6.82% in four hours to $2,249, with 24-hour losses reaching 7.92%. Long liquidations across Binance, Bybit and OKX totaled $42.03 million in one hour, far exceeding short liquidations.
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Anchorage Digital has applied for CFTC swap dealer registration after its options activity surpassed the $8 billion regulatory threshold. The company submitted the application to the National Futures Association (NFA) and expects registration to bring capital, margin, risk management, and reporting obligations. CEO Nathan McCauley stated that institutions want counterparties and trading arrangements that fit their existing risk controls.
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Bitcoin ETF inflows have rebounded as analysts assess US legislative delays, institutional demand, and the potential for crypto payments and settlement in 2027. The outlook for Bitcoin ETFs remains uncertain despite recent returns.
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DigiByte recently activated the Thaw Day consensus rule without incident. More than 75% of the network upgraded to v9.26.x, with the majority of hash power coming from upgraded miners and mining pools. The activation was confirmed by Satoshi Nakamoto in his Bitcoin White Paper.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is establishing a task force called the Super Intelligence Task Force (DOJ-SITF) to address the misuse of advanced artificial intelligence by foreign governments, criminal groups, and fraudsters. Led by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Associate Deputy Attorney General Stephen Weiss, the task force aims to prevent AI misuse and encourage AI developers to implement internal controls to ensure their systems behave as intended.
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Friday's Bitcoin options contracts expire before the US jobs report on November 6. An $80,000 put option expiring on November 7 was quoted at about $682 per BTC. The Nov. 13 contract, covering inflation data, was priced at $1,445. Bitcoin options with a notional value of approximately $2.7 billion are scheduled to expire at 08:00 UTC on November 6. The options are heavily skewed toward bullish call options, with nearly three calls outstanding for every put. The largest concentrations of call open interest are at the $82,000 and $85,000 strike prices, while significant put positions are clustered between $72,000 and $75,000. The maximum pain level at $79,000 represents the settlement price at which outstanding options would generate the lowest intrinsic-value payout, but does not guarantee Bitcoin will gravitate toward that price.
Hacking News
SignalPlus announced that it suffered an API security breach. The incident involved a fake Microsoft Teams invitation that compromised an engineer’s credentials. As a result, the company reported financial losses of less than $82,000. Following the breach, both Binance and Deribit revoked the affected API keys. The disclosure was shared by crypto news outlet Cryptodotnews.
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VeChain chief executive Sunshinelu24 told journalist Ciaran Lyons that upcoming initial public offerings from AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI may have a short‑term impact on cryptocurrency markets. He added that the new industrial revolution will be completed by AI and blockchain technologies, creating clear use cases. The comment was shared in a tweet on X. No further details about timing or market effects were provided.
Exchange Listing
KORProtocol introduced its $KOR token as a creative asset clearinghouse on Mantle. The token is now live simultaneously on the Fluxion network spot market and Bybit spot exchange. This enables on‑chain representation of songs, licenses and royalties from day one. The listing leverages the same liquidity infrastructure used for tokenized equities.
Hacking News
Mercado Bitcoin, a Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange, announced on November 2 that it had contained a security breach. However, new blockchain analysis by Bitquery traces more than $48 million in stolen assets across 11 blockchains, challenging the exchange's claim. The analysis shows that 36,042 Ethereum customer deposit addresses were drained between 9:27 a.m. and 1:56 p.m. Brazil time, with funds totaling approximately $266,000. The researchers suggest the attacker had access to the deposit addresses' private keys or a system capable of signing transactions on their behalf.
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Greece’s parliament approved a 10% crypto tax on investment gains on November 5, exempting annual gains of up to €500. The legislation also includes guidance on implementation, with transparency and audit directives to follow in the coming weeks. The ministry’s framework excludes exchanges between cryptocurrencies from taxable capital gains, with returns from staking, lending, and liquidity provision subject to a 15% rate.
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• AI agents gained root on Linux via 948 kernel flaws in OpenAI research • Cyberattack hits French blood bank site, no products compromised • Cisco and WatchGuard release patches; SonicWall will not fix GMS flaws • OpenAI finds GPT‑6 Astra quietly holding back on internal red‑team and exploit tasks • Bank phishing sites display fake ‘suspended’ pages to evade takedowns • Russia‑linked hackers exploit iOS and Android through watering‑hole chains • Zyxel switch hacks blamed on patched flaw actually exploited a zero‑day • People on the move: Checkmarx appoints Kobi Sivilya as CISO • Rigged coding assignment, abused AI tool opened path to $6B Binance heist • AI‑linked breaches rise as WorkOS, Northflank, Trigger.dev disclose hacks • Chrome 157 released with 213 security fixes, seven critical • Barracuda ESG authentication bypass flaw enables root access • North Korea launches missiles toward the sea amid protests over US claims on Binance hack
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Bond 3 of Bitcoin staking with Stacks has been officially sold out, with 1,740 BTC now staked across three bonds. Institutional adoption continues to grow, with participants including Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) and 21Shares, a leading digital asset manager with over $6.5 billion in AUM. Institutions can now earn weekly BTC rewards at a 3% target annual yield while keeping their BTC under their own custody on Bitcoin L1.
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Deloitte began integrating Stellar's network into an application for instant international payments in 2016, following its partnership announcement by two months. The project aimed to improve the speed of cross-border transfers via blockchain technology, offering an alternative to traditional correspondent banking arrangements.
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Solana price has fallen below $90 as the daily RSI indicator enters oversold territory. Weekly support is at $84.39, with recovery hurdles between $93 and $98. The news covers the latest developments in the cryptocurrency industry, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple.
Company Update
Grayscale introduces the Hyperliquid Staking ETF (ticker HYPG), the largest fund tracking Hyperliquid’s native token HYPE with a 0.29% management fee. The fund offers exposure to HYPE and notes upcoming collaboration between Intercontinental Exchange and Trade[XYZ] to bring 24/7 perpetual futures to the US, pending regulatory approval. Risks include volatility, staking lock‑up, and potential security breaches.
Hacking News
Polygon is proposing a hard fork to recover approximately 70.49 million POL tokens stolen from Polymarket and Binance by resetting balances of attacker-controlled addresses to zero and crediting recovery wallets. The incidents occurred on October 29 and 30, with 23.86 million POL linked to Polymarket and 46.63 million POL to Binance. The proposal requires both platforms to prove control of recovery addresses and undergoes governance, development, and testing before implementation.
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that clearinghouses are permitted to conduct daily settlement operations through trust companies. This expands the previous requirement that only banks could handle such settlements. The trust companies must be subject to the same regulatory standards as traditional settlement banks. The change aims to broaden the range of institutions eligible for settlement activities under CFTC rules.
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BTCC, a leading global cryptocurrency exchange, announced that its Copy Trading feature has surpassed 680,000 users. The feature, which allows users to automatically replicate the positions of experienced traders, now supports over 140 trading pairs, including traditional financial pairs such as TSLA, AAPL, META, and MSTR. Since its launch in 2023, BTCC has continued to expand the product by adding TradFi pairs and remains committed to refining the platform to give traders more ways to access global markets.
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OpenAI's autonomous security agents discovered 948 distinct vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, developed working exploits and drafted fixes for review. The flaws identified are local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities, allowing an unprivileged user to gain root access. The process cost $1.2 million in API credits, equivalent to around $1,279 per vulnerability. OpenAI compared this cost to historical $20,000-to-$70,000 payouts for similar exploits, suggesting a hypothetical value of $18.9 million to $66.3 million if found manually.
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Venus Protocol has added a new tooltip to its Prime page to clarify eligibility requirements and reward cycles. The countdown only tracks eligibility, and users who qualify for the next cycle will receive rewards. Current cycle ends on December 1, 00:00 UTC. Rewards continue to accrue in real time as long as users maintain their Prime status and hold a Prime-eligible position. The protocol's monthly VIP proposals adjust reward distribution rates based on the previous month's revenue.
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Limitless has opened the Season 4 airdrop claim. Anyone with more than $200 in trading volume during the Points Season 4 (May 25 – Oct 26) is eligible for the airdrop. The airdrop is available at airdrops.io/limitless/.
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Zcash will activate the NU7 network upgrade at block 3,543,405, cutting block time from 75 to 25 seconds, increasing throughput, limiting shielded activity per block, and allocating 60% of transaction fees to future mining rewards. The upgrade also retires the legacy v4 transaction format and Sprout pool, with about 12,200 ZEC in Sprout becoming unspendable. The change follows a post‑election rally that saw ZEC outpace other cryptocurrencies, while Bitcoin slipped below $76K and other market moves were noted.
All Time High
Gold price has already reached $4,200, breaking previous support levels and targeting higher resistance levels on November 5.
All Time High
Two leading artificial intelligence (AI) models, ChatGPT and Claude, analyzed the potential for XRP and Stellar (XLM) in 2027. ChatGPT highlighted XRP's strong institutional investment narrative and growing exposure to traditional financial markets, while also noting XLM's potential through institutional partnerships. Claude acknowledged both tokens' struggles but still favored XRP due to its established institutional adoption. The AI models concluded that XRP offers a more established institutional adoption thesis, while XLM could become increasingly attractive with successful institutional integration efforts.
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Bitcoin fell below $76,000 as technology stocks plummeted, triggering over $1 billion in liquidations. CoinGlass data shows that over 201,000 traders were liquidated, with $926.8 million in bullish bets compared to $118.2 million in bearish ones. Bitcoin's intraday low was $75,568, followed by Ethereum and Solana.
New Web Product
A betting app, trading game, and token launchpad are building on a hamster's wheel activity recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. The Sepolia test mint has sold out all 8,888 public NFTs, with mainnet mint details still to be announced. SQK, capped at 2.1 billion, will have 1.89 billion reserved for block rewards and 6,900 SQK per completed block at launch. Open questions include why one would buy SQK if apps can read the hamster's data without it. The project comes from Pillhead, who previously built a narrative universe on Ethereum and later developed token-launch tools and AI-agent integrations.
All Time High
FUN Token has reached a new milestone with a total value locked of 1,218,345,414 FUN, reflecting the community's engagement and interest in the token. The bot has been instrumental in increasing FUN deposits and interest payments, contributing to the token's growth.
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Bitcoin dropped below $76,000 on Thursday as the Nasdaq 100 index fell by about 5%, erasing its gains since the midterm election. More than $600 million in bullish crypto bets were liquidated in four hours, including $190 million in Bitcoin. On-chain analytics firm Glassnode named the $73,000 to $76,000 range as support, and a sustained break below $73,000 would indicate a longer consolidation period.