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Trezor raised its wallet passphrase limit from 50 to 128 characters in its October Trezor Suite update, announced on 1 November by senior content marketer Henry Windle. The change responds to Coldcard device thefts that exceeded $130 million, stemming from a firmware vulnerability that produced

NEAR Protocol traded around $4.12 on November 2, declining approximately 6% over 24 hours as futures traders reduced leveraged exposure across derivatives platforms. The drop pushed the token below the $4.30 support level that buyers had defended over the weekend, with open interest approaching $1 b

Russia's Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) admitted its servers were hit by coordinated cyberattacks between October 29 and 31. Hacker groups Belarusian CyberPartisans and Silent Crow claim to have stolen 23TB of data including Russian wartime casualty figures marked "for official use

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) closed at $184.11 on Friday 30 October 2026, down $12.31 or 6.27 percent from Thursday's $196.42, according to the Nasdaq historical file. The decline occurred one trading session before the company's scheduled third-quarter 2026 earnings release after the U.S. market cl

Anthropic confirmed it added restrictions to Claude Code on the Opus 5.5 model to prevent video game cloning. Anthropic employee Addy Osmani stated the company added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt to steer it away from recreating specific games because using Claude to infringe intellectual pr

Marvell Technology announced on the 2nd (local time) its acquisition of optical component manufacturer Lumentum Holdings for $115 billion (approximately 154.4 trillion won). The deal aims to respond to expanding artificial intelligence investment and strengthen competitiveness against rival

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) experienced a sharp stock decline in October 2026, with shares falling approximately 16.4% from a monthly closing high of $485.80 on Oct. 5 to $406.13 on Oct. 30, despite reporting record third-quarter earnings and raising its revenue forecast. The d

Elon Musk mocked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on X on November 1, 2026, after Altman claimed it is "quite terrible" for home computer users to have DRAM in their machines. Altman made the statement during an appearance on YouTube channel Cheeky Pint, arguing that limited DRAM supply would be better

The XRP Ledger AI Hub has recorded 14,868,038 cumulative payments worth approximately $49,134, averaging $0.0033 per transaction. The platform tracks 183 registered merchants and 5,319 live services. The low average transaction value reflects the x402 integration's design for automated

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged U.S. President Donald Trump to resume attacks on Iran, according to a November 2 report by Walter Bloomberg, an account that tracks breaking international economic news. The report stated Netanyahu is pressing Trump on the need for additional

Gold—a traditional safe-haven asset—fell sharply by 6% in October 2026, marking its worst month since 2008, as investors sold off holdings to meet margin calls. The cause was not a collapse in confidence in gold, but an urgent need for cash as technology and AI stocks plunged. This is a familiar phenomenon in asset management: when markets panic, even assets considered among the “safest” must be converted into cash to cover losses. Gold Falls to Its Lowest Level in a Year On Friday, October 30,

A whale investor bought 27,553 ETH worth approximately $63 million at an average price of $2,286, on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain reported. The whale accumulated the tokens over five hours during a period when ETH traded below $2,300, following an earlier purchase of 16,658 ETH using

Polymarket expanded its partnership with Chainlink, naming the oracle provider as its official data source for high-speed up-or-down markets and launching 15-minute gold and silver contracts. The expansion builds on more than $11 billion in trading volume across Polymarket's existing five- and 15-mi

Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin experienced a $284 million supply contraction on the XRP Ledger at the end of October, according to data from DefiLlama and blockchain analysis by Coindaro. The 28.7% decline to approximately 707 million tokens occurred on October 30 when large payments returned RLUSD

Ethereum has become a pivotal platform for tokenized stocks, with the market reaching approximately $827 million, representing a 170% growth year-over-year. This surge is attributed to Ethereum's robust infrastructure and compliance standards, which have made it a preferred choice for tokenized

Bitfinex executed a transfer of 649 BTC to an unidentified wallet, a transaction valued at approximately $50.7 million according to Whale Alert. The movement highlights ongoing institutional investor activity in the Bitcoin market, where such entities reportedly dominate about 60% of trading

Uniswap leads the tokenized stock DeFi sector with a total value locked of $82.8 million, according to @RWAFoundation_. The sector's total value across all venues now stands at $304.7 million, reflecting a 2,290% increase over the past year. This growth positions Uniswap at the forefront of DeFi

The SEC has charged BG Wealth Sharing Ltd and DSJ Exchange Pty Ltd over an alleged fraud scheme that raised more than $130 million from retail investors across more than 40 U.S. states and several territories. The complaint covers conduct from at least October 2025 through June 2026 and alleges

Capital.com's Beyond Access study found that 66% of surveyed UK prospective investors recognize keeping most savings in low-risk cash accounts may mean missing long-term returns, yet 55% said they feel anxious when making investment decisions. The study, which surveyed 3,613 prospective investors ac

Aries has launched prediction markets in its mobile app, giving eligible U.S. customers access to event contracts listed and cleared by ForecastEx, an Interactive Brokers affiliate. The contracts cover the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, economic data, and financial markets. Customers apply for a