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Former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown defeated incumbent Republican Senator Jon Husted in the Ohio Senate seat race, reclaiming the Senate seat, which poses a setback for the cryptocurrency political action committee Fairshake. Earlier this year, Fairshake invested $30 million in the Ohio campaign, explicitly targeting Brown. The crypto PAC and the broader cryptocurrency industry played a significant role in the 2024 elections, spending millions to influence political outcomes.This is not the first time Fairshake has funded efforts against Brown. Brown previously served as the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, leading the cryptocurrency-related agenda and calling for action against the use of cryptocurrencies to fund terrorism and evade sanctions. In 2024, Fairshake invested $12 million to support pro-crypto Republican Bernie Moreno in challenging Brown, successfully defeating him. With the Democrats regaining control of the Senate, Brown may become the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which has jurisdiction over digital assets and prediction markets. Sources previously told The Block that if Brown takes the position, he is unlikely to push for any cryptocurrency legislation.Husted received support from the cryptocurrency advocacy group Stand With Crypto, having voted in favor of several cryptocurrency bills, including the broad cryptocurrency legislation "Clarity Act," and received an A rating from the organization, while Brown was rated F. Other candidates supported by Stand With Crypto include New Hampshire Democrat Chris Pappas, who won his campaign. Additionally, Democratic Senators Cory Booker and Mark Warner both successfully secured re-election, both of whom were involved in cryptocurrency legislative negotiations. Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico received an A rating for his previous pro-crypto statements and voting to support the establishment of a strategic Bitcoin reserve in the state, defeating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday.

OKX will launch the USDC trading pairs for tokenized stocks xIREN and xASML on November 4. The xIREN/USDC spot trading will open at 17:30, and the xASML/USDC spot trading will open at 18:00.

Changxin Technology announced that the company recently received a proposal from Chairman Zhu Yiming, proposing to increase the repurchase amount from no less than 1 billion yuan (inclusive) and no more than 2 billion yuan (inclusive) to no less than 2.5 billion yuan (inclusive) and no more than 5 billion yuan (inclusive). According to market data, Changxin Technology's stock price is currently reported at 38.80 yuan.

Solana ecosystem wallet and exchange Backpack issued a security alert, warning users to be cautious of fraudulent airdrop activities disguised as tokenized stocks.Backpack stated that scammers may reference real token addresses to make related activities appear legitimate, thereby enticing users to participate. The company advises users to refer to its official Solana minting directory and verify the token addresses before proceeding.

The spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning, hosted a regular press conference. A reporter asked, according to the Financial Times, Nvidia requires some data center partners to provide at least 51% of their services to non-Chinese companies, which may restrict Chinese companies from accessing key artificial intelligence technologies. What is China's response to this?In response, Mao Ning stated that she is not familiar with the specific situation. We have always believed that all parties should cooperate based on the principles of fairness, transparency, and non-discrimination.

According to official news, Gate Social has officially launched the "2026 Year-End Community Gala," which will open for annual selection registration from November 3, 10:00 to November 10, 23:59 (UTC+8). This gala features two main categories: "2026 Broadcaster of the Year" and "2026 Creator of the Year," with both categories having Chinese and global divisions. Participants can choose to register for one of the categories, and after preliminary selection, they will enter the official evaluation phase, which will take place from November 16, 08:00 to November 28, 23:59 (UTC+8).Each category and division will select a TOP 20. The champion of the Chinese division will receive a DJI Osmo Pocket 4, the 2nd and 3rd places will receive AirPods Pro 3, the 4th to 6th places will receive the Honor Selected Firefly AI Projector Air, and other listed participants will also receive corresponding physical rewards. All TOP 20 will enjoy an annual honor trophy and a VIP 5 exclusive badge.In addition, users can earn support points by watching live broadcasts, posting comments, and sharing interactions to vote for their favorite broadcasters and creators. The TOP 100 on the fan support leaderboard will receive exclusive rewards, and for every 100 support points successfully sent, there will be a chance to enter a lucky draw for prizes such as MacBook Neo prize fragments, GT, popular tokens, and position experience vouchers, among other gifts.

According to the official announcement, Gate will launch KOR Protocol (KOR) spot trading on November 4 at 22:00 (UTC+8), and flash exchange trading will open at 23:00 (UTC+8) on the same day. KOR Protocol is dedicated to building a verification, routing, and settlement system for creative trading in the AI era.At the same time, Gate will start the 385th Launchpool, where users can stake USDT, GT, or KOR from November 4 at 22:00 to December 4 at 22:00 (UTC+8) to share a free airdrop of 36 million KOR. Rewards will be distributed to spot accounts hourly based on the user's staking proportion and early staking will be supported.

Democratic senators in the U.S. Senate have accused Elon Musk's social media platform X of giving preferential treatment to the prediction market Polymarket. Nevada Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, Nevada Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen, and Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal wrote in a joint letter first disclosed by Semafor that typically, X allows users to report ads for various reasons. However, when users attempt to report Polymarket's ads through X's standard interface, they are unable to select the report option. Other types of ads, including those from Kalshi, do not have this issue.This letter, which includes screenshots, claims that this seemingly unfair special treatment raises questions about whether X is trying to provide Polymarket with an improper competitive advantage, thereby benefiting the U.S. President and his family. Donald Trump Jr. has invested in Polymarket and serves as an advisor to the platform.

StandX posted on the X platform that the DUSD airdrop, originally scheduled to be available for claiming at 8 AM Beijing time on November 1, has been postponed due to the withdrawal function on Binance not being open.StandX stated that the airdrop claiming will be available once Binance resumes withdrawals.

On the 31st, SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won had lunch with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Industry insiders revealed that the two sides discussed cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence business.Although the specific content of the talks has not been made public, it is speculated that they explored avenues for collaboration in areas such as high bandwidth memory (HBM) supply and the development of next-generation artificial intelligence infrastructure. SK Group has maintained a close cooperative relationship with OpenAI, including being a key partner in its large-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure project "Stargate."

According to the official announcement, Bitget will implement dynamic leverage management for 21 foreign exchange currency pairs including EURUSD (Euro/US Dollar) and USDJPY (US Dollar/Japanese Yen) starting from November 1, with the maximum leverage upgraded to 2,000 times. The platform will also adopt a tiered margin calculation mechanism, applying corresponding margin rates to positions within different exposure ranges.This adjustment further enriches the CFD leverage configuration options, enhancing capital efficiency and strategy flexibility.

According to a Reuters report citing an interview with CNBC, Michael Selig, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated that the CFTC hopes to provide a federal-level option for exchanges like Binance to register with the CFTC in light of the recent hacking incident.Selig previously mentioned that federal registration is a voluntary path for exchanges rather than a mandatory requirement, and that requiring all cryptocurrency exchanges to register can only be achieved through congressional legislation; however, retail cryptocurrency trading involving margin, leverage, or financing must fall under federal regulation.The CFTC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding relevant retail cryptocurrency trading rules on October 5, with the comment period ending on December 14.

Consensys published on platform X that its cryptographer Youssef El Housni, along with collaborators from Wuhan University of Technology, KU Leuven, and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, proposed a new subgroup member detection method called Divide-and-Pair.Not all points on non-prime order curves like Curve25519 belong to the target subgroup; skipping this check may lead to small subgroup attacks. The NIST P series curves are of prime order and do not require this check. This method treats two known schemes as the two ends of the same parameter range, selecting optimal settings for each curve, with speeds not lower than the original methods. According to Consensys, the speedup factors for each curve are: approximately 1.6 times for Curve25519, approximately 1.3 times for Curve448, approximately 1.4 times for GC256A, approximately 10.8 times for FourQ, and approximately 7 times for Jubjub.This method has been integrated into the open-source library gnark-crypto. This library currently runs on Besu, Linea, go-ethereum, as well as systems based on gnark such as Succinct and Lighter. The related paper has been accepted by IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES) and will be published at CHES 2027.

The latest economic data from the United States is challenging Federal Reserve Chairman Waller's assessment that the economy is not yet overheating, as the market continues to bet on a rate hike in December, putting the Fed in a more complex position. Strong consumer spending and business investment have driven economic growth beyond expectations, while persistent inflation complicates the Fed's choices between sustaining growth and controlling prices.Data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce shows that the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at an annualized quarterly rate of 3.4% in the third quarter, exceeding market expectations. During the same period, consumer spending increased by 3.8%, and business equipment investment surged by 20.9%.Just a day before the data was released, Waller stated that he does not believe the U.S. economy is running hot and does not want to hinder economic expansion through excessive tightening of monetary policy. However, the latest data indicates that even as the market expects the Fed to continue raising rates, there has not been a noticeable slowdown in U.S. economic activity.

UPBIT will stop trading support for Blur (BLUR) on November 30, 2026, at 15:00. The affected trading pairs are BLUR/KRW and BLUR/BTC. Users must complete the withdrawal of BLUR before December 30, 2026.

According to Cointelegraph, the private market platform Hill estimates that if the artificial intelligence company Anthropic goes public, it could make 4,257 people millionaires. Among them, about 50 employees could have a fortune exceeding 100 million dollars, 1,200 people's wealth could reach between 10 million and 99 million dollars, and about 3,000 people could have wealth ranging from 1 million to 9 million dollars.The 7 co-founders of Anthropic are currently billionaires, and after the IPO, their personal fortunes could reach approximately 28 billion dollars each. Hill's data shows that only SpaceX has created more potential millionaires in a similar manner, with around 4,400 people.

Lazaro Campos, the former CEO of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), has joined the London-based stablecoin yield platform OpenTrade as Chairman.OpenTrade stated that the platform processed over $1 billion in transactions in the past year, with a current total value locked of $300 million, up from over $200 million in May. OpenTrade was established in 2023, aiming to help businesses provide yields denominated in USD and EUR, backed by real-world assets, and has raised a total of $32 million to date.

Michael Selig, the Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, stated at the CFTC's inaugural Frontier Forum in Washington that imagining a refrigerator autonomously purchasing groceries with funds from staked ETH, or even issuing its own Memecoin, "is no longer science fiction." He believes that when AI agents can hold assets and execute trades autonomously, regulators must make adjustments.Selig pointed out that the CFTC's regulatory framework is built around executing specific financial functions concerning "identifiable market participants," but autonomous software is raising questions about how these rules apply. He proposed that if AI agents identify trading opportunities and execute trades for users, their developers may need to register, who is responsible when the agent goes out of control, how regulators know for whom the agent is trading, and whether a new type of "Know Your Agent" rule, referred to as KYA, is necessary.Selig also mentioned that AI could provide smaller traders and businesses with risk management capabilities that were previously only available to large institutions, but greater autonomy also brings new risks: agents may react unexpectedly to market conditions, agents using similar models may exhibit correlated trading behaviors, and the speed of autonomous trading could complicate market regulation and risk management. Animoca Brands Chairman Yat Siu recently expressed similar concerns to Cointelegraph; Coinbase launched Agentic Wallets in February, and Binance introduced AI Agent Skills in March, allowing agents to trade within user-defined parameters or provide spot order tools.

Bitget PoolX is about to launch the BGBTC locking activity, where users can lock BGBTC to share airdrops of 7,100 UNI. The individual locking limit is 30 BGBTC. The locking period is from October 29, 18:00 to November 3, 18:00 (UTC+8).

On October 29, WEEX Exchange announced that the GRAM trading airdrop is ongoing, with a total prize pool of 50,000 USDT. During the event, new users who net deposit ≥ 100 U and complete their first GRAM spot trading (no limit on trading volume) will receive a reward of 10 USDT; if the first GRAM spot trading results in a loss, a platform compensation of up to 50 USDT can be obtained; if the cumulative spot trading volume of GRAM reaches ≥ 500 USDT, users can unlock a lucky blind box worth 5-50 USDT; inviting friends to participate in the event can earn up to 1,000 USDT in rewards.