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On November 9, Beijing time, according to a report by Reuters, U.S. President Trump stated in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" that the risks posed by artificial intelligence are manageable, and he does not mind setting regulatory guardrails. When asked whether the U.S. should accept the risks brought by artificial intelligence to maintain its leading edge over China, Trump said these dangers are controllable and expressed a willingness to work with Democrats to formulate relevant safeguards. Trump added that he does not want regulatory measures to cause the U.S. to fall behind China in the field of artificial intelligence, becoming a distant second.

According to Bloomberg, over the past two years, the cryptocurrency industry has enjoyed a rare political advantage in Washington: the U.S. President has prioritized digital assets as a national priority, regulators have paved the way for it, and the Republican-controlled Congress has been sympathetic to its agenda. With the Democratic Party's significant victory in the midterm elections and control of Congress, the cryptocurrency industry is facing stricter rules and closer scrutiny of Trump's cryptocurrency business, and its political advantage is waning.The Democratic Party has indicated plans to impose stricter ethical constraints, stronger consumer protections, and to give the SEC a greater role in regulating digital assets. Cryptocurrency critics Maxine Waters and Elizabeth Warren are expected to wield greater influence in the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee, respectively. However, many of the cryptocurrency industry's achievements are difficult to reverse, such as the stablecoin bill which requires new legislation to be repealed.

Some observers of the Federal Reserve believe that Trump's strong opposition from voters in the midterm elections may alleviate the political pressure faced by Federal Reserve Chair Waller, allowing him to reduce political interference and focus on controlling inflation. Voters have listed the cost of living as one of their top concerns, fundamentally changing the political landscape surrounding the Federal Reserve.Since Trump's re-election in 2024, he has been exerting pressure on the Federal Reserve and its interest rate decisions, repeatedly calling for rate cuts, supporting an unprecedented criminal investigation into the renovation of the Federal Reserve's office building, and attempting to remove a sitting Federal Reserve governor. Against this backdrop, Trump chose Waller to lead the Federal Reserve in May of this year, after Waller had unusually shifted to support rate cuts. This has raised concerns among Democrats, who fear that the new chair may have agreed to adjust monetary policy according to the president's wishes.Claudia Sahm, Chief Economist at New Century Advisors, stated that in fact, if the election results prompt Trump to end the conflict with Iran and abandon further tariff increases, the Federal Reserve may not need to raise interest rates again at all.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the United States has issued a regulatory framework for banks using artificial intelligence.

The prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi are optimistic about the Democratic Party controlling both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. Polymarket gives a 78% probability, with related market trading volume exceeding $58 million; Kalshi gives a 74% probability, with related contract trading volume exceeding $100 million.The individual Senate district markets on both platforms also favor Democratic candidates: James Talarico has a winning probability of 74% to 76% in Texas, Troy Jackson has 73% in Maine, and Abdul El-Sayed has 78% in Michigan. Traditional polls also indicate that the Democratic Party may experience a "blue wave."Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour stated that this election is the first prediction market election, with related betting transactions exceeding $1.4 billion. However, the platform previously failed to predict Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's victory in the runoff, and its impact on voter behavior and electoral credibility is also under scrutiny.

According to TheEnergyMag, Galaxy Digital (GLXY) has submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank in New York, providing fiduciary investment consulting and digital asset services.This move aims to integrate the company's business under the federal regulatory framework.

Analyst Jukan from Citrini stated on social media that Samsung's current stock performance is lagging behind SK Hynix, seemingly because Samsung's shareholder return plan is either not as generous as initially expected or still carries uncertainty. Against this backdrop, there is a saying circulating in South Korea that Samsung's management is deliberately avoiding bullish statements, involving tax considerations for the company's controlling family member, Chairman Lee Jae-Yong.More specifically, Lee Jae-Yong's mother, Hong Ra-hee, gifted Samsung shares to her son. It has been reported that the gift tax he needs to pay is calculated based on the average closing price during the four-month period around the gift date of November 12, specifically from September 12, 2026, to January 12, 2027. Therefore, the Samsung controlling family has no motivation to drive up the stock price before January of next year.

According to The Block, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is encouraging community banks in the United States to consider applying to become authorized stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act to expand their role in digital payments.

The hardware wallet OneKey co-founder Yishi stated that in light of recent data breaches and supply chain attacks in the hardware wallet industry, OneKey will further strengthen user privacy protection.OneKey has confirmed through the Shopify API that relevant historical order records and personal information such as names, emails, and shipping addresses have been deleted, and is further investigating other systems and third-party integration services. In the future, it will ensure that personal information related to orders within its control is permanently deleted within 30 days, and plans to gradually migrate its e-commerce business to self-controlled infrastructure to reduce reliance on third-party platforms like Shopify.Yishi also stated that the data retention policies of logistics service providers such as FedEx and UPS are not controlled by OneKey, and it cannot guarantee that all third parties adhere to the same 30-day timeframe.

According to Caixin, Hong Kong-listed company Jingwei TianDi (02477.HK) announced on the evening of October 21 that its major shareholder, Hengfeng International, sold 716 million shares in the open market at an average price of HKD 0.1494 per share, cashing out approximately HKD 107 million.The announcement showed that Hengfeng International's shareholding ratio decreased from 24.94% to 10.01%. Hengfeng International is controlled by Qian Fenglei, who holds a 78.56% stake. Jingwei TianDi was included in the Hong Kong Stock Connect in March this year.A senior financial observer in Hong Kong told Caixin that this low-price reduction and cashing out raises suspicions of ulterior motives, and it cannot be ruled out that it is related to the recent monitoring of market manipulation by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

According to Bloomberg, New York City Comptroller Mark Levine sent a letter on Wednesday to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, urging the company to postpone its IPO until it fully addresses the risks related to artificial intelligence safety, governance, and the pace of development, prioritizing the risks posed by the technology.Levine oversees public pension funds with assets exceeding $325 billion. He believes that the ethical safety agreements reached between the Trump administration and AI companies, including Anthropic, are still insufficient. He urged Anthropic to establish appropriate governance mechanisms, specifically disclosing how it will implement adequate auditing and control measures, the scope of these measures, and the expected timeline, as well as explaining whether and how these measures can respond to Amodei's previous call to slow the development pace of AI model capabilities.Anthropic plans to go public as early as next month, with fundraising potentially reaching or exceeding SpaceX's previous record IPO. The company met with some investors at its headquarters on Wednesday and disclosed that its revenue for the third quarter of this year was $16.8 billion. Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Elon Musk stated that the Starlink system is owned and controlled by the U.S. government, and any speed or usage restrictions are determined by the U.S. military, with the final decision resting with President Donald Trump.

European Union technology chief Henna Virkkunen stated that the EU's current artificial intelligence regulatory rules are sufficient to address the risks posed by uncontrolled AI entities. In an interview with Reuters on Friday, she mentioned that the safety and security of powerful models is a hot topic internationally, and Europe is well-prepared in this regard.The EU's Artificial Intelligence Act regulates based on risk levels and is one of the strictest AI regulatory frameworks in the world, having been passed two years ago. Virkkunen dismissed critics who believe the EU's AI rules are outdated, stating that the legislation covers the entire lifecycle of these models, and regulators are providing model evaluation guidelines for companies based on the recommendations of 60 AI experts.Previously, incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic raised global concerns about the potential for uncontrolled AI entities to escape human control. The European Commission had requested detailed information about safety and security measures from over 30 unnamed AI companies at the end of August, and Virkkunen indicated that they are currently assessing these responses. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei previously stated in a blog post that the rapid pace of AI development could, if left unchecked, "exceed our understanding and control systems capabilities."

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X stating: Any pursuit of superintelligence must be based on core principles, namely that if the AI we build cannot help humanity and is not under human control, it is not worth pursuing.He also mentioned the need to accelerate and widely disseminate the benefits of AI, allowing it to spread broadly across nations, communities, and companies, which requires a thriving frontier ecosystem for both closed-source and open-source models. For enterprises, it is essential to retain complete control over their unique and tacit knowledge, and each organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop without relying on any single model provider, embedding its own knowledge into the models and weights it controls.Nadella welcomed the necessary research, attention, and careful pacing for proper alignment, as well as ideas like "embedded evaluators." This cannot be controlled by a few entities; it must have broad representation across ecosystems, nations, and fields including academia. Microsoft's approach is broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack, enterprise control over learning loops and models, and the release of its proprietary MAI model "Code of Conduct" for public consultation tomorrow.

Blockchain security company Hacken released an assessment report indicating that approximately half of the circulating USDT (about $91.3 billion on the Tron network) is controlled by a 2-of-3 multi-signature contract, which lacks built-in delays, cancellation processes, or reliable revocation mechanisms. Attackers only need to compromise two signature keys to change contract ownership, mint tokens, freeze addresses, clear frozen balances, or set transfer fees without accessing any user wallets. Hacken also discovered that Tether reuses the same set of six signature keys across three chains: Ethereum, Avalanche, and Celo, posing a risk of cross-chain spread.Meanwhile, stablecoin rating agency Bluechip upgraded Tether's company rating from D to C, citing that KPMG's audit showed Tether's reserves exceeded liabilities by $6.8 billion as of December 31, 2025. This is the first time Bluechip has adopted the expanded SMIDGE methodology, which incorporates Hacken's technical risk analysis. However, Hacken only gave USDT a cybersecurity score of 3.3 out of 10 and pointed out that the USDT smart contract does not have automatic reserve proof checks or a token minting cap. Once signers authorize a transaction, the contract can mint an unlimited number of tokens without a bank reserve proof.Hacken stated that it has not yet completed an equivalent assessment of Circle's USDC, and Bluechip's previous B+ rating for USDC was based on an old methodology, which cannot be directly used for technical comparison.

According to Bubblemaps, approximately 80% of the tokens for the Solana ecosystem's Trump parody meme coin CHUMP are concentrated in bundled addresses, with the project being promoted by several crypto Twitter KOLs.On-chain data shows that before the token surged, over 75 new wallets were injected with a similar amount of SOL in a short period, and then bought about 80% of CHUMP. These wallets had no prior on-chain activity, and the funds were transferred through multiple new addresses, Uniswap trades, and Relay.Bubblemaps stated that it is currently unclear who the actual controlling party of the tokens is, but the source of funds and trading patterns are highly similar, suggesting that a single entity may be in control, and advising investors to participate with caution.

Vaults.fyi released the report "2026 DeFi Custody Market Status," covering 856 vaults, 131 custodians, and 18 protocols, with a total locked value of approximately $11.29 billion. Over the past year, the TVL on the supply side of DeFi decreased by 41.8%, while the TVL of custody vaults grew by 39%, increasing market share from 5.24% to 12.51%. The top 5 custodians manage 69% of the funds, and the top 10 account for 79.1%. The leading landscape has changed dramatically, with Sentora and Concrete not making the list a year ago, now ranking second and fourth, respectively, while Usual dropped from fourth to thirty-fourth.Morpho ranks first among protocols with a custody TVL of 46.2%, with the remaining 53.8% distributed across the other 17 protocols. Bitcoin collateral accounts for 54.1% of Morpho's top 25 stablecoin vaults (approximately $3.71 billion). In terms of address concentration, weighted by TVL, a single address holds an average of 47% of vault shares, with the top ten addresses collectively controlling 74%. About 33% of the custody funds require a multi-step redemption process, with a 7-day annualized yield median of 4.82%, which is 98 basis points higher than instant redemption vaults.The report also points out that traditional financial institutions such as Société Générale, Apollo, and JPMorgan have begun to deploy custody vault strategies.

According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Treasury announced that from September 9 to November 4, the limit for single long-term U.S. Treasury bond repurchases will be raised from $2 billion to at least $4 billion, using short-term debt financing instead of "printing money," which the market views as a liquidity management operation similar to "Operation Twist 2."Although officials emphasize that this measure is not quantitative easing (QE) or yield curve control (YCC), it is interpreted as a signal of policy concerns regarding rising financing costs against the backdrop of long-term yields reaching nearly a twenty-year high and high fiscal deficits. This has strengthened expectations for a more aggressive YCC in the future, driving Bitcoin to surge short-term, breaking through $78,000, with a weekly increase of 23%. Gold has also strengthened, while the dollar weakened, intensifying market volatility due to short covering.

According to Ember Monitoring, addresses related to the significant drop of SIREN in June have transferred 1.324 billion XPIN, worth approximately $1.71 million, to Binance Alpha in the past two hours.Subsequently, the price of XPIN fell from $0.0017 to $0.0012, a decrease of about 29%.

The on-chain data visualization analysis platform Bubblemaps has issued a warning that the Meme coin XST, which is being heavily promoted on TikTok, has a high risk of supply concentration—74% of its total supply is controlled by a small group, exhibiting typical Rug token characteristics. The current market value of this token is approximately 70 million USD.Bubblemaps urges investors to stay away from such projects and to ignore similar content if seen on TikTok's recommendation page.In recent years, TikTok has become an important distribution channel for low-quality Meme coins, creating an illusion of credibility through AI-generated celebrity videos and false associations, combined with the token's concentrated holding structure, resulting in typical high-risk Rug tokens after the hype fades.