📢 Coinbase Predictions gives Democrats a 77% chance of winning control of the U.S. Senate in the 2026 midterm elections.

📢 Grayscale’s Head of Research Zach Pandl says the $6 billion Binance hack could drive stronger exchange security and underscores the benefits of institutional custody through U.S. crypto ETPs.

📢 U.S. national debt has climbed 75% since the start of 2020, rising from $23.2 trillion to $40.5 trillion, according to Treasury data.

📢 The U.S. dollar recorded its steepest daily decline in a month after Democrats secured control of both the House and Senate in the midterm elections.

📢 A whale has opened roughly $30.1 million in leveraged short positions on Anthropic pre-IPO perpetuals on Hyperliquid, using 6x leverage across two markets.

📢 Apple has prohibited employees from using confidential information to place prediction-market bets involving the company, its suppliers, or carriers, regardless of whether the activity qualifies as insider trading.

📢 President Trump says the U.S. stock market has reached a record high for the 91st time in under two years, adding that Americans’ 401(k) retirement accounts are seeing substantial gains.

📢 Nasdaq has approved Canary Capital’s Injective ETF, which includes staking rewards.

📢 Kalshi reports that its favored candidates won 479 of 487 U.S. midterm races so far, giving its pre-election predictions a 98% accuracy rate.

📢 Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen says the post-midterm Senate now includes 51 pro-crypto senators across 31 states, with 19 states represented by two pro-crypto senators.

📢 OpenAI says an unreleased cyber model autonomously identified, verified, and patched 948 Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities in a single run, at an API cost of $1.2 million.

📢 Trump Media transferred 4,259 BTC, valued at approximately $343.7 million, to Crypto.com.

📢 Platforms bringing tokenized stocks and established businesses onchain are becoming major catalysts for growth in DeFi and the wider crypto ecosystem.

📢 Kalshi traders now see less than a 60% chance of Anthropic going public this year, down from nearly 90% just before the midterm elections.

📢 The US stock market lost $3 trillion in a single day, marking its worst trading session since the April 2025 tariff-driven crash.

📢 Despite a sharp 5.8% decline and significant market volatility, Bitcoin finished Thursday above its 50-week moving average, according to Galaxy’s Alex Thorn.

📢 Felix Fan warns that DarkSword exploits iOS vulnerabilities to target crypto wallets, advising users to update their devices to the latest software version.

📢 A Bitcoin whale has withdrawn $98 million worth of BTC from Binance after depositing 5,699 BTC at an average price of $89,291 more than a year ago.

📢 Despite a 6% drop in Bitcoin's price, El Salvador is continuing its aggressive purchasing strategy. The nation's total crypto reserves have grown to 7,827 BTC, a stash currently valued at roughly $588.7 million.

📢 Tokenized stocks on X Layer added $79.6 million in market cap over the past week, outperforming Arbitrum’s $14.3 million and Robinhood Chain’s $7.1 million gains.