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Goldman Sachs Group and Apollo Global Management are in talks with Wall Street investors to begin selling a portion of a roughly $40 billion SpaceX (SPCX.O) chip financing deal.

According to the improvement proposal (PIP) disclosed by the Polygon community forum, a member proposed to zero out approximately 70.49 million native POL (approximately 6.5 million USD at about 0.0924 USD on October 29) from the addresses on the blacklist through a hard fork of the Polygon PoS mainnet and transfer it to a designated recovery address. Among these, approximately 23.86 million are related to Polymarket, and approximately 46.63 million are related to Binance, with the total supply remaining unchanged.The proposal is scheduled to be introduced at the protocol governance meeting on November 5 at 22:30 Beijing time, with the activation block and client version to be determined.

Polkadot's treasury lost approximately 1.38 million dollars due to a failure to synchronize an XCM patch to the production environment. The defect in the patch caused a pricing deviation in the DOT/dotUSD trading pool, resulting in a loss of treasury funds.Subsequently, Polkadot fixed the accounting issue of the dotUSD stablecoin supply through a network upgrade, which did not change the holders' balances.

According to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, in this round of the U.S. midterm elections, the AI industry has become an important political funding spender, with related political action committee (PAC) expenditures of about $72 million, still lower than the crypto industry's three major PACs, which spent about $170 million.Both industries had some political investments that did not achieve the expected results, with AI-supported Darline Graham, Mike Rogers, and Carlos For Texas all losing in the elections.

The multi-chain NFT data platform NFTScan stated on platform X that due to business adjustments, it will no longer provide NFT data services for Polygon and Solana.

According to CBS News, preliminary exit polls for the 2026 U.S. midterm elections show that Trump's approval rating is at 38%, potentially setting a record low for a president in midterm elections. This figure is lower than during his first term and lower than the level of George W. Bush in 2006 when the Republicans simultaneously lost both houses of Congress. About 60% of voters indicated that Trump was a factor in their decision to vote for House representatives. This is primarily driven by Democratic voters, most of whom are voting out of opposition to Trump. Among Republican voters, only a majority of the MAGA camp indicated they were voting to support Trump, while non-MAGA Republicans mostly believe he is not a factor.In terms of the Senate elections, CBS News has predicted that Democrat Roy Cooper will win the North Carolina seat, marking the first time since Kay Hagan in 2008 that the state has elected a Democratic senator. Cooper performed better among independent voters and white women compared to Harris in 2024, with most voters believing his opponent, Republican Michael Whitley, is too supportive of Trump. Democrat Jon Ossoff was predicted to win within 40 minutes after voting ended in Georgia, defeating Republican Congressman Mike Collins. Ossoff performed strongly among Black voters, with a vote share roughly comparable to his 2021 runoff, and made breakthroughs among white voters as well. The competition between South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democrat Annie Andrews is still considered too close to call.

According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency cited by the Korean News Agency, Kim Yo-jong, the Minister of the General Affairs of the Workers' Party of Korea, made a statement on the Binance hacking incident on the 4th, marking her second comment on the matter within three days.Kim Yo-jong stated that North Korea does not view the Binance hacking incident as an accidental or isolated event, but rather as an extension of Washington's hostile policy towards North Korea, with the United States attempting to gain political benefits from this incident. She expressed that "dialogue is clearly included" among the options for maintaining peace, but for North Korea, dialogue does not necessarily equate to national interests; there is no need for North Korea to sit down with "untrustworthy and hostile individuals," and she hinted at the possibility of taking strong countermeasures.Previously, on November 2, Kim Yo-jong had made a statement saying that the allegations were "a political provocation by the United States" and "absurd rumors." U.S. President Trump had previously stated that if North Korea was behind the hacking incident, he would communicate with North Korea about it.

The NFA has approved PM Derivatives LLC, a subsidiary of Polymarket, to operate as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM). An NFA spokesperson stated that the subsidiary has met all requirements for FCM registration, but actual futures brokerage operations still require approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).If approved, PM Derivatives will be able to act as an intermediary to receive customer orders and funds; Polymarket stated that the subsidiary plans to adopt a full collateral model, requiring customers to provide sufficient funds for the entire position at the time of the transaction. The CFTC is currently still investigating Polymarket.

The Deputy Inspector General of the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau of Thailand, Siriwat Deepho, stated that the police have received fund flow data related to Shuffle.com from three digital asset exchanges and have formed 80 task forces. They plan to first file cases against players within Thailand and then investigate the overseas operators.During a congressional hearing, lawmakers mentioned that Gulf Binance, which operates Binance TH, discovered two wallets associated with 44 individuals, with related funds moving in and out of Shuffle through over 400 transactions, totaling approximately $113,000. Former Democrat lawmaker Sirichok Sopha indicated that four out of nine Thai digital asset operators have on-chain connections to Shuffle, but this does not imply any wrongdoing by the exchanges.The Special Cases Investigation Bureau of Thailand is assessing whether to classify Shuffle as a special case and plans to invite the Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand to participate in the investigation. The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society of Thailand stated that Shuffle.com has been blocked nationwide.

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.

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.

Anthropic recently updated the usage policy for Claude, with the new regulations taking effect on November 12, 2026. The section "No Abuse of the Platform" has added restrictions, explicitly prohibiting unauthorized resale, agency, or otherwise providing third-party access to Claude.The new regulations specifically name two types of behavior: first, packaging the usage quotas of consumer subscriptions like Claude Pro and Max into third-party API services and charging for them; second, disguising the actual products or clients in use, such as making requests from third-party tools impersonate the official client to bypass access restrictions. Businesses relying on consumer subscription quotas to provide API relay services will face clearer policy restrictions.

According to CoinDesk, as the U.S. midterm elections on November 3 approach, the three major political action committees (PACs) in the cryptocurrency industry have collectively invested about $170 million to support congressional candidates, with the overall funding flow clearly favoring the Republican Party, despite recent polls and prediction markets indicating that the Democratic Party is more likely to expand its influence in Congress.Among them, Fairshake, supported by Coinbase, a16z, and Ripple Labs, has invested about $154 million and retained approximately $56 million for the next round of elections. The Digital Freedom Fund, backed by the Winklevoss brothers, has invested over $8 million this month, focusing on preventing Democratic candidates in Ohio, Texas, and Iowa from winning Senate seats. The Fellowship Fund, closely related to Cantor Fitzgerald and Tether, primarily supports Republican candidates while providing a total of $600,000 to three incumbent Democratic lawmakers.Reports indicate that Fairshake has invested nearly $56 million to prevent former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown from returning to the Senate and has invested nearly $11 million to support Nebraska Republican Senator Pete Ricketts.Currently, the prediction market Kalshi gives the Democratic Party about a 70% chance of controlling both the House and Senate simultaneously. Even if the Republican candidates supported by the cryptocurrency industry win, significant legislation regarding the future structure of the cryptocurrency market and taxation will still need to seek Democratic support to overcome the procedural threshold of 60 votes typically required in the Senate.

According to official news from Binance, the platform has resumed withdrawals of POL, USDT, and USDC on the Polygon network, as well as AVAX, USDT, and USDC withdrawals on the Avalanche C chain.Binance stated that more assets and networks will be gradually restored for withdrawals after completing security checks.

According to Bloomberg, as the U.S. midterm elections on November 3 approach, the commercial collaborations between prediction market platforms Kalshi, Polymarket, and media groups such as CNN, CBS News, CNBC, Dow Jones, and Fox are attracting attention. Bloomberg estimates, based on Dune data, that the cumulative trading volume of midterm election-related prediction markets on the two platforms is approximately $1.5 billion.The report states that CNBC's collaboration with Kalshi involves customer acquisition and minority equity investment, CBS News lists Kalshi as a sponsor of the prediction market, and the Wall Street Journal under Dow Jones showcases Polymarket data. CNN indicated that it would not reference prediction odds during live broadcasts on election night, while Fox News explicitly excluded political reporting from its collaboration with Kalshi. The financial terms of the related agreements are mostly undisclosed, and some media commentators are concerned that commercial interests may affect the independence of news reporting.

Security company GoPlus released a vulnerability analysis on social media, stating that the prediction market platform Polymarket's international site experienced a user asset theft incident. The RUM script from third-party performance monitoring service DebugBear was compromised by supply chain attacks, delivering malicious code to user pages and abusing their trading and signing permissions.On-chain analysis shows that the main path involved 710 DepositWallets and 731 addresses, with losses of approximately 2.71 million dollars; the number of addresses does not represent the actual number of users. Polymarket's official statement later indicated that the issue has been resolved and services have been restored, while also promising full compensation to affected traders, with the actual compensation progress to be based on subsequent official announcements.