Bitcoin Reclaims $78K After Democratic Midterm Sweep
Bitcoin rebounded above $78,000 after briefly falling near $75,600, its lowest level in almost seven weeks, following the Democratic sweep of both chambers of Congress.
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Bitcoin rebounded above $78,000 after briefly falling near $75,600, its lowest level in almost seven weeks, following the Democratic sweep of both chambers of Congress.
reUSD is now live on Monad, expanding access to Re’s reinsurance-linked yield product beyond Ethereum. Users can bridge reUSD from Ethereum mainnet to Monad through Chainlink CCIP, while markets are also active on Morpho and Pendle.
Laundering progress: Binance Hackers moved about 81% of stolen Solana through THORChain, while Arkham says wallets tied to them still hold 182,443 SOL worth $16.9 million.
Outflow total: Bitcoin ETFs saw $1.16 billion in net outflows over three trading days, with Tuesday’s $116 million marking a slowdown from prior sessions.
Bullish announced this Tuesday the addition of Aptos alongside Solana and Ethereum as its initial blockchain networks to issue issuer-backed tokenized shares.
The ETH/BTC technical pair traded near 0.02955 after breaking above a descending downtrend line, according to records shared by technical analysts on November 3.
LIT traded at $3.35 on November 3 at 16:54 UTC, posting an 8.8% 24-hour gain and a daily volume of $116.73 million. Chainlink added Lighter to the rollout of its equity data streams for the Asia-Pacific region, a stock market valued at over $40 trillion.…
Zebra version 7.0.0 incorporates patches for seven vulnerabilities: five classified as high severity and two as medium severity. The NU7 network upgrade is scheduled to activate at mainnet block 3,543,405, expected around November 5, 2026.
Jim Cramer posted the phrase “Crypto put us on” on social media platform X on November 3, 2026, without providing contextual explanations. The price of Bitcoin saw an intraday pullback to a low of $76,300 during the same session. U.S.
BitGo is introducing Bitcoin staking through Stacks, allowing eligible institutional clients to earn rewards paid directly in BTC. Bitcoin remains on its native blockchain under BitGo Bank & Trust custody, without requiring wrapping, bridging or transfers to another provider.
Binance’s bStocks products reached nearly $1.4 billion in tokenized value, representing approximately 38% of the global market tracked by RWA.xyz as of November 3, 2026. A technical analysis by Bitquery revealed that 88% of circulating bStocks are held across five Binance proof-of-reserves wallets.
Corporate giants Tesla, Amazon, and Netflix have rejected cryptocurrency exchange OKX’s proposal to issue tokenized versions of their shares. 49 out of the 62 initially selected companies have rejected the listing of their securities on the OKXICE platform, with seven additional objections from firms outside…
Cross River Bank and Offchain Labs have teamed up to integrate loan tokenization directly from origination on the Layer 2 network Arbitrum One. Following the successful completion of a proof-of-concept alongside ZeroDev, the U.S.-regulated financial institution confirmed it will record the entire lifecycle of its…
Regulatory approval: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) authorized the trading of single-stock perpetual futures contracts on registered U.S. markets. Stock price reaction: Coinbase gained 6.42% ($146.68), BitMine rose 5.19% ($20.55), and Strategy rallied 4.36% ($136.46) during trading on November 3, 2026.
The TRON network activated Governance Proposal 108 after receiving formal approval from its Super Representatives. The native token TRX recorded an approximate 2% recovery over the last 24 hours, stabilizing around the $0.32 range.
Aave Labs, Kamino, and Veda submitted a confidential legal document to the SEC on October 26, 2026, and released their technical summary on November 2, 2026.
South Korea is considering increasing the minimum cold wallet storage requirement for crypto exchanges from 80% to approximately 99%. The Financial Services Commission is reviewing stricter custody standards following a reported $6.3 billion Binance-related security incident.
Two Binance engineers suffered independent security breaches between June and September via malicious software and a fraudulent hiring process. Attackers drained approximately $6.3 billion on October 29, of which the company claims to have frozen nearly $2.85 billion.
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko identifies phishing and social engineering as the biggest security threats facing cryptocurrency users. Yakovenko recommends combining a dedicated iPhone with Apple’s Lockdown Mode and a multisignature wallet to strengthen personal protection.
Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer at Coinbase, stated that the electorate favoring digital assets will maintain a decisive influence in the U.S. midterm elections.
Justin Sun is seeking sanctions against World Liberty Financial (WLFI) over allegedly incomplete disclosures concerning its ownership structure and UAE connections. The dispute involves approximately 4 billion frozen WLFI tokens tied to Sun’s $45 million investment.
CFTC Approval: The CFTC cleared equity perpetual futures for crypto trading on regulated U.S. exchanges, placing the products under joint oversight from the CFTC and SEC.
Aztec Security Upgrade: Tierra Alpha V6 fixes vulnerabilities from earlier releases, including a critical issue found in V5, and adds AI-powered security testing plus formal verification for core cryptographic components.
SEC staff says broad token-holder voting generally does not create a controlling group when participants are unaffiliated and lack arrangements to coordinate outside governance.
Ethereum reserves across tracked exchanges fell to approximately 14.5 million ETH on November 2, returning to levels last seen in 2016 after a 58.6% decline from the 2020 peak.
Liquid Network restored 1:1 Bitcoin backing for all LBTC two months after an exploit drained about 4,000 BTC, worth roughly $320 million, from the Federation wallet.
Binance’s expected November Luna Classic (LUNC) burn has not yet appeared in StatsBin’s tracked records, interrupting a run of monthly transactions recorded from March 2023 through October 2026. The latest entry remains an October 1 burn of 334.88 million LUNC.
Binance recorded $5.28 billion in cumulative net outflows after withdrawals resumed, with customers moving $10.97 billion from the exchange over roughly 46 hours.
Moscow Exchange plans to launch trading in digital currencies on December 1, 2026, creating what it describes as Russia’s first organized digital currency market under Federal Law No. 282-FZ.
Denial Issued: North Korea rejected FBI allegations linking the country to the $6.3 billion Binance hack, with Kim Yo Jong calling the claims politically motivated. Investigations Continue: The FBI, blockchain investigators, and analytics firms linked the attack to TraderTraitor and Lazarus-associated activity, despite the public…