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Monthly perpetual decentralized exchange (DEX) volume climbed 6% to $659 billion in October. Spot and centralized-exchange (CEX) futures saw declines, with Variational DEX reaching $78 billion for the first time, ranking second in volume, surpassing all other competitors.
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India's Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-In, has issued a critical warning about escalating AI-assisted attacks on financial institutions, including cryptocurrency exchanges and virtual digital asset service providers. The advisory describes an ongoing campaign that abuses financial institutions' own cloud services and payment interfaces to move funds, resulting in stolen wallet keys and funds siphoned from cryptocurrency wallets. CERT-In specifically identifies re-targeting after incomplete remediation, with attacks timed for holidays, weekends, and other periods of reduced monitoring.
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Hollywood studios and production companies have begun issuing internal guidelines that prohibit employees from placing bets on prediction markets. The Hollywood Reporter said the rules bar staff from wagering on studio earnings, casting decisions, release dates, and from sharing insider information with friends or family. At least one studio has set up an anonymous hotline for reporting suspected betting, and Penske Media updated its handbook to include bans on bets related to award nominations and production timelines. The bans extend traditional insider‑trading prohibitions to platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, though enforcement may be difficult.
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Chainlink social engagement reached 2.50 million users in one day, accounting for 52% of AI crypto discussions. NEAR and TAO followed in the ranking. Chainlink's engagement is approximately three times that of NEAR's, which is the second highest. The report measures social engagement rather than trading or investment flows.
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Binance's tracked assets increased by $3.423 billion in two days after resuming withdrawals following a hack that resulted in over $6.14 billion in outflows. Competitors OKX and Bybit experienced inflows of $450.1 million and $121.8 million, respectively, while Binance's assets remained significantly higher than these exchanges. The increase in Binance's assets may be attributed to users returning funds to the exchange after temporarily moving them to personal wallets during the withdrawal suspension.
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StealthEX, a new cryptocurrency exchange, is launching instant swaps for 2000+ coins and tokens. The platform is free from registration and does not store user funds, prioritizing user privacy and security with non-custodial swaps.
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MARA Holdings transferred roughly 1,650 BTC ($132.8 M) to Galaxy Digital and other platforms amid Bitcoin hovering just above $80,000.
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Silver traded at $53.18, near a potential low around $48‑$56, with a falling wedge pattern suggesting limited further decline; price still far below its January record $121.74.
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Dow added about 1,500 points as Democrats control Congress, Brent crude fell over 8%, and analysts note historical S&P gains under similar conditions, though debt‑ceiling risks remain.
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Bitcoin neared $85,000 before slipping to $80,000; trader Bitbull advises starting with small real‑money trades to avoid psychological losses and warns against paper trading.
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Official Trump token fell 18% to $1.25, Melania Meme down 13% to $0.065, and Trump Media stock dropped 24.5% to $4.49, their lowest levels, while Bitcoin and Ethereum rose; Democrats gaining oversight may spur investigations.
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The CLARITY Act, aimed at strengthening US crypto policy, could remain stalled until 2028 as Democrats prepare to take a stronger role in shaping crypto regulations. Senator Elizabeth Warren and returning lawmaker Sherrod Brown are expected to push for tougher oversight of the industry. Meanwhile, investigations into President Donald Trump's crypto dealings could take priority over market structure legislation. TD Cowen analyst Jaret Seiberg expects little progress on the CLARITY Act over the next two years due to the election results and the crypto industry's influence in Washington being weakened.
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Virtual cards used by agents are fragile, prompting platforms to shift toward stablecoin balances for higher margins, while banks risk losing ad revenue and must consider owning agent liability. …
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Sequoia announced a restructuring that includes closing its London office, ending the Arc accelerator and Scouts program, merging early‑stage and growth teams, and raising about $10 billion of new capital to concentrate on fewer bets.
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Stripe introduced Stripe Treasury in the UK, allowing founders to manage money directly from the payments dashboard without using separate providers.
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Revolut completed a secondary share sale valuing the company at $115 billion, a 53% increase from the previous year, and aims to launch a US national bank in the first half of 2027, serving over 80 million retail customers and generating $1.28 billion annualized revenue from its business arm.
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• Reserve verification, the Llama way – DefiLlama launches Verified service with Frax Finance, checking on‑chain and off‑chain reserves. • Democrats take control of the House and Senate; here’s what a Democratic Congress can change for crypto. • Binance Security Update #8. • Aave Labs publishes public summary of on‑chain lending legal framework submitted to the SEC. • THORchain resumes swaps for 11 blockchains following update. • L2BEAT rebrands as ETHBEAT. • Aave Pro launches collateral swaps for Ethereum, Base, and Avalanche. • Extended publishes tokenomics ahead of November TGE. • Anthropic pre‑IPO pers launch on Polymarket Perps. • Ethereum Foundation: Designing for sovereignty. • Why crypto thefts are harder to stop than bank thefts. • Kalshi raises $1B Series G, now valued at $40B. • StableStock raises strategic round, valued now at $75M. • Chainalysis links Binance hack to DPRK’s TradeTraitor. • Premia exploited for $400K. • Coinbase launches perps trading for AI agents. • GrokBot limits throttled due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs.
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Democrats are preparing a Senate investigation on JPMorgan over potential links to Jeffrey Epstein. The investigation is expected to start when Democrats take control of Congress in early 2027, according to a source cited by CNBC. JPMorgan's stock has dropped about 4% today.
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Realberry, a real‑estate platform for accredited investors, reports $3.6 billion in assets under management and $481 million in cumulative distributions as of Q4 2025. The firm manages 13 million sq ft across seven U.S. states, with $1.3 billion in project starts from 2021‑2024, and offers direct access to its sponsor team, focusing on markets like the Mountain West and sectors such as master‑planned communities, hospitality, for‑rent housing, and mixed‑use properties.
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Minfin has announced the second annual Investment Tournament. Participants will choose one of eight investment options: cryptocurrency, deposit, gold, real estate, OVDP (Over-the-Counter Debt), corporate bonds, and US stock market. The tournament will be held in a round-robin format, with winners advancing to the semi-finals and final.
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Mozilla AI released Otari, an open‑source operating system and gateway for AI governance, allowing tool restrictions, budget management, session tracing, and seamless switching between model providers via a single API. …
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Snowflake revealed a public preview of Business Ontology, a governance layer for AI agents within Snowflake Horizon Context, enabling definition of concepts, metrics, and relationships linked to semantic views.
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CrowdStrike launched a kill switch that lets security teams block agents' access to AI models via connected gateways, with broader controls like terminating endpoint processes and revoking permissions under development.
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Broadcom introduced vSphere Express for deployments up to 128 processor cores, offering smaller customers an alternative to larger VMware bundles, including live VM migration, automated recovery, and distributed switching, but without central management.
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Arthur Hayes warns Bitcoin may drop alongside AI stocks due to credit tightening from AI financing pressures, but expects a future large‑scale bailout to boost Bitcoin, timing uncertain. The report also notes Nasdaq’s record close, a market correction, and mentions Ripple’s co‑CEO dismissing midterm political impact on crypto, Trump Media moving $342 million in Bitcoin, and Strategy’s mixed Bitcoin‑related performance.
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Solana Labs, the parent company of Dialect, has launched a beta version of the Leap mobile trading app for iOS. The app allows users to trade tokenized stocks, ETFs, metals, currencies, and crypto on the Solana network. It is available through Apple’s TestFlight program and will soon be available for Android devices. The app aims to provide a platform for long-term traders looking beyond the fast-paced meme coin market.
New Coin Listing
Groma has launched GRO, a permissioned asset on Uniswap v4, with an initial NAV of $1.07. The asset is listed on Uniswap v4 and uses $UNI, $USDC, and $MORPHO as its liquidity tokens.
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Researchers tracked Greeter exploiting Flowise’s overrideConfig code‑injection (CVE‑2024‑58351) across 7 honeypots, harvesting env files, SSH keys, cloud metadata, and Docker sockets; 703 of 3,277 Flowise instances lacked authentication.
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AI‑assisted audit uncovered 42 advisories, three critical issues (local file disclosure, two SQL injections) affecting over 100 million patients; fixes released in version 8.5.0 on 27 Oct 2026.
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Unknown actor exfiltrated 27 SQL Server backups containing migrant‑worker, contract, and financial data in 24 minutes; tools used include GodPotato and Impacket; breach reported to CERT‑PH.