Summary: A federal judge denied a bid to stop stock perpetual futures trading but indicated the CFTC likely exceeded its authority over these products, which may fall under SEC jurisdiction.
Summary: Voters in at least 29 US jurisdictions approved bans or restrictions on AI data centers, with strong support in Ohio and Illinois amid rising political opposition.
Summary: The OCC issued its first nonbinding AI supervisory framework, directing examiners to prioritize risk consequences and address external agent threats.
Summary: Riot Platforms shares rose over 13% after announcing a $28 billion AI data center lease, while Hut 8 stock fell more than 22% following a revenue miss.
Summary: Official Trump and World Liberty Financial tokens fell sharply after Democrats took control of Congress, while Bitcoin and Ether rose amid broader market gains.
Summary: Block agreed in principle to pay $764 million to resolve a Justice Department probe into anti-money-laundering controls, exceeding its third-quarter net profit.
Summary: Strategy's STRC preferred stock hit $100 par for the first time since May after over $2 billion in buybacks and a shift to daily dividend payments.
Summary: Lightning Labs released emergency LND updates disabling MPTCP listeners to mitigate CVE-2026-98432, a severe Linux kernel vulnerability that allows remote root exploits on exposed systems.
Summary: The SEC adopted amendments updating small entity definitions for investment companies, advisers and business development companies under the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
Summary: Microsoft and Alphabet rose while Nvidia and Tesla fell after Democratic midterm victories. The Nasdaq-100 gained 1.14% as investors weighed potential regulatory shifts.
Summary: Riot sold bitcoin to fund a $28 billion AI lease. Hut 8 used crypto sales for buybacks, raising its authorization to $1 billion as both firms adjust capital strategies.
Summary: House Democrats plan to investigate President Trump’s family crypto businesses, including World Liberty Financial, upon taking control of Congress in January.
Summary: TD Cowen analysts state a Democratic Congress and Sherrod Brown’s return likely kill the CLARITY Act for two years, making industry-backed crypto legislation impossible amid political investigations.
Summary: Bitcoin rose 1.6% to $78,277 after Democrats won both chambers, as analysts said the result was priced in but raises uncertainty for the stalled Clarity Act.
Summary: Trader 0xA2 earned $917K after Democrats swept midterms, but most gains remain unrealized due to a 14% chance of an Alaska upset.
Summary: US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $1.16B in outflows after the Binance hack, but Bitwise argues this reflects short-term retail risk-off moves, not institutional exit.
Summary: OpenAI unveiled the Grid Protectors Program to cut AI facility power use during emergencies, while planning to rename data centers as "AI compute campuses" to address public opposition.
Summary: CFTC clears perpetual futures on individual stocks for US exchanges, extending crypto-style leverage to equities under joint CFTC-SEC oversight.
Summary: GitBook disclosed an AI-agent-assisted breach exposing API tokens and secrets, prompting PancakeSwap to migrate its documentation off the platform.
Summary: Justin Sun seeks sanctions against World Liberty Financial, alleging it hid UAE ties to escape federal court jurisdiction over his $45M token dispute.