US Senator Blumenthal's committee sent a letter to Brandon Lutnik questioning Cantor Fitzgerald's association with Tether, stating that USDT is the lifeline of Iran's shadow banking.

Coinbase Markets announced in a post on X platform that it will temporarily suspend trading of Balance (BAL) and Tensor (TNSR) on November 10th at around 03:00 (UTC+8), involving Coinbase.com, Coinbase Exchange, and Coinbase Prime. At present, the BAL and TNSR order books have switched to limit only mode, and user assets can still be withdrawn normally.

Richard Blumenthal, the chief Democratic member of the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote to Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Brandon Lutnick on October 8th, requesting clarification on Cantor's relationship with Tether and the sanctions compliance measures. (Source: Bloomberg)

[Trump: The U.S. Will Not Take Military Action Against Iran Before the Election] Three U.S. aircraft carriers are expected to converge in the Middle East waters in the coming weeks. The Pentagon has drafted a military plan to strike Iran's missile facilities, drone bases, and key energy nodes within three days. U.S. President Trump stated that, given the progress in U.S.-Iran diplomatic negotiations, the U.S. government will not take military action before the midterm elections in November. (Source: Jin10 Data)

According to a16z data, the usage of AI proxy tokens on OpenRouter has surged 14 times, reaching 7.3 trillion, surpassing human usage.