🚨 UPDATE: NEAR Protocol says its proposal to cut NEAR’s max annual issuance from 2.5% to 1.6% has passed, with the change to be phased in over 24 months.

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🇦🇺 TODAY: Australia raises interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.85%, an 18-year high, as AI investment and higher energy costs fuel inflation.

https://ct.com/markets/australia-lifts-rates-as-ai-boom-energy-costs-fuel-inflation

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🇨🇳 🇴🇲 JUST IN: China and Oman sign an agreement to strengthen cooperation on digital payments and central bank digital currencies.

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🇪🇺 JUST IN: Kraken says it has restricted accounts while investigating reports that assets from a suspected $133M EU crypto theft passed through its platform.

It told Cointelegraph that its systems and customer accounts were not compromised.

https://ct.com/news/zachxbt-eu-crypto-theft-133m-alleged-cover-up

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🇺🇸 TODAY: Voting officially begins in the 2026 US midterm elections.

Voters will decide races for 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 36 governorships.

What could the results mean for crypto?

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🔥 INSIGHT: What happens when a token’s economics fail after launch?

KenomicAI aims to identify weaknesses before deployment through simulation, connecting four modules: Design, Validate, Launch and Manage.

The platform is live on testnet, including Arbitrum.

https://ct.com/commissioned/4-essential-modules-to-secure-a-digital-assets-economic-lifecycle

[Brought to you Kenomic]

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: Democrats have a 77% chance of winning the U.S. Senate in the 2026 midterm elections, according to Coinbase Predictions.

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🇪🇺 ALERT: The European Commission is urging EU citizens to prepare emergency kits with enough essential supplies to survive at least 72 hours during a crisis.

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🇺🇸 INSIGHT: Bitcoin has gained an average median return of 63% in the 12 months following every US midterm election since 2010, according to CryptoQuant.

BTC rose 36.8% after the 2014 midterms, 45.8% after 2018, and 80.8% after 2022.

However, CryptoQuant warns the pattern may reflect Bitcoin’s four-year halving cycle rather than election results, with 2026 showing a different trend.

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