🚨 UPDATE: NEAR Protocol says its proposal to reduce the maximum annual issuance of NEAR from 2.5% to 1.6% has passed. The change will be rolled out over 24 months.

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🇦🇺 TODAY: Australia has raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.85%, the highest level in 18 years, as AI investment and rising energy costs add to inflation.

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

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

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🇪🇺 JUST IN: Kraken says it has restricted some accounts as it looks into claims that funds linked to a suspected $133 million crypto theft in the EU moved through its platform.

The exchange told Cointelegraph that neither its systems nor customer accounts were compromised.

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

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🇺🇸 The 2026 US midterm elections are underway.

Voters are electing all 435 members of the House, 35 senators and 36 governors.

What could the results mean for crypto policy?

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: The CFTC has approved the first perpetual futures contracts tied to equities for trading on U.S. exchanges.

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🚨 BREAKING: Binance says attackers compromised an employee’s work computer through a fake job interview before carrying out a $6.34B hack.

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🔥 INSIGHT: What if a token’s economic model breaks down after launch?

KenomicAI is designed to catch weaknesses before deployment, using simulations across four connected 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 by Kenomic]

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

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⚡️ JUST IN: Meta plans to raise up to $25 billion through a bond sale to support its expanding AI investments.

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🇪🇺 ALERT: The European Commission is advising EU residents to keep an emergency kit stocked with essential supplies to last at least 72 hours in a crisis.

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🇺🇸 INSIGHT: Bitcoin has posted a median return of 63% in the 12 months after every US midterm election since 2010, according to CryptoQuant.

BTC climbed 36.8% after the 2014 election, 45.8% after 2018, and 80.8% after 2022.

CryptoQuant cautions that the pattern may be tied to Bitcoin’s four-year halving cycle—not election outcomes—and that 2026 could break from the trend.

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🚨 JUST IN: A group backed by Cboe and Citadel Securities has sued the CFTC to stop perpetual futures on US stocks, filing the case the same day approval was announced.

The group argues that the contracts are security-based swaps and therefore fall under SEC oversight, according to the court filing.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 JUST IN: Trump says the US has no plans to strike Iran for now and seems satisfied with the current standoff, according to the Financial Times.

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🚨 MARKETS: Stock futures edge lower as investors await the US midterm results. S&P 500 futures are down 0.5%, while Nasdaq futures have fallen 0.9%.

Bitcoin has slipped more than 1% to around $76,800 as traders bet Democrats will regain control of the Senate. Ether and other major cryptocurrencies are also lower.

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🇺🇸 BREAKING: Crypto-friendly Republican Andy Barr wins Kentucky’s US Senate race, boosting a supporter of the CLARITY and GENIUS Acts.

Fairshake-affiliated PACs spent more than $7 million backing him in the primary.

Barr has introduced legislation to protect lawful businesses—including crypto firms—from being cut off from banking services.

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🇺🇸 TRUMP: “I wasn’t on the ballot. If I had been, we would’ve won by a landslide!”

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🇺🇸 NOW: President Trump says the Iran war was partly responsible for Republican losses in the midterms, but he still doesn’t regret starting it, according to the WSJ.

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🇺🇸 BREAKING: Democrats have won the US House, giving them control of Congress, according to AP.

Could this shift the direction of crypto policy in the US?

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🇺🇸 Follow Cointelegraph’s live coverage of the 2026 US midterm elections for the latest results, updates on crypto-backed candidates, and expert insight into what the outcome could mean for the industry.

Stay up to date:

https://ct.com/news/us-midterms-2026-live-results-and-what-they-mean-for-crypto

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