The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved MARA's acquisition of the Long Ridge power plant.

In an interview with the Oxford Union, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao stated that the recent hacking incident was preventable, as some internal employees failed to adhere to basic operational security procedures. The attackers spent five to six months piecing together the attack chain, utilizing social engineering, phishing interviews, and AI techniques to find system vulnerabilities. Zhao Changpeng believes that while AI has exposed more security issues in the short term, in the long run, these issues will make the system more secure. The industry needs to collaborate with AI labs, law enforcement agencies, and security experts to promote a multi-layered defense system to cope with escalating attacks.

From October 24 to 26, an XCM executor vulnerability was exploited on Polkadot Asset Hub, causing pricing distortions in the DOT/dotUSD pool and creating arbitrage opportunities, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.381 million in DOT value. Polkadot Treasury, the sole liquidity provider for the pool, suffered no user fund losses. The fix for this vulnerability was completed through a bug bounty program in June, but it was not deployed to the mainnet version in a timely manner. On October 20, the reporter publicly mentioned the fix on a forum, which may have provided clues to attackers.

Between 09:09 and 10:07, address 0xbf73…5d58 increased its long position in ZEC by 3875 tokens, bringing its total holdings from 11125.19 tokens to 15000.19 tokens. The address opened positions worth approximately $5.08 million between 09:40 and 09:55, with an average transaction price of approximately $1,308.47. Currently, the ZEC long position is worth approximately $19.65 million, and the contract account has accumulated profits of approximately $21.35 million.

The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) announced that it will open cryptocurrency trading services to financial market participants starting December 1, 2026. Trading will be conducted using existing stock market infrastructure and integrated into the unified clearing system of the National Clearing Centre, with trading hours from 06:50 to 23:50 Moscow time daily. The initial supported assets include Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Tether (USDT), offering addressless and address-based trading, and supporting same-day settlement (TOD), next-day settlement (TOM), and swap tools. The exchange will gradually include more international and Russian domestic digital assets in the future, initially in a pilot phase.

Address 0xf517…c032, with a win rate of approximately 98%, completed 42 rounds of trading between September 18 and October 30, 2026. This address net sold approximately $6.66 million worth of BTC long positions between November 4 and 5, initially closing out approximately $2.2 million, then opening positions for approximately $1.8 million, and subsequently closing out approximately $6.2 million. This address currently holds approximately $18.1 million worth of BTC long positions. The weighted average price for closing BTC long positions within the window was approximately $80,253, while the weighted average price for opening positions was approximately $80,104.