Bitcoin climbed back above $77.5K as futures liquidations flipped from longs to shorts, after forced selling drove it near $76,300 overnight on midterm day.

Stablecoin supply fell about $5.7 billion in a week to a 13-month low, as US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $1 billion in two sessions before the midterm vote.

Consensys introduced Sovereign Network Interoperability, a stack for securities settlement, cross-currency payments, and collateral mobility across ledgers.

ARK Invest bought $9 million of Coinbase and $8 million of Circle stock over two sessions while selling $8 million of Bullish shares as crypto equities fell.

Standard Chartered-backed Anchorpoint, a licensed Hong Kong stablecoin issuer, plans to mint and redeem HKDAP natively on Solana with the Solana Foundation.

ZachXBT said an unnamed EU entity is suspected of losing over $106 million from several centralized exchange accounts on Nov. 1, with some funds sent to Monero.

Horizen is shutting its L3 and told users to bridge to Base by Nov. 4, 13:00 UTC, because Base's Denim upgrade to 200ms blocks on Nov. 5 will halt the L3.

SEC staff said unaffiliated voters in broad-based crypto governance generally won't count as a group forming a "central party" under SEC crypto guidance.

tZERO agreed to merge with SPAC FG Imperii at a $350 million pre-money valuation, with the combined company expected to trade on NYSE American as TZRO.

Strategy bought 811 BTC for $65.5 million in the week to Nov. 1, lifting its Bitcoin stockpile to 849,327 coins worth $64.08 billion in total cost.

The HKMA moved its EnsembleTX pilot to 24/7 interbank settlement of tokenized deposits and will soon add regulated stablecoins to its tokenized bill trials.

BMNR-listed Bitmine said its total crypto holdings hit $14.5 billion on Nov. 1, with ETH reserves at 6,060,506 tokens, equal to 4.9% of supply, per the company.

Nvidia, Nike, Costco and nine others objected to tokenized versions of their stock on OKXICE TSV, taking the total to 50 in the venue's Oct. 30 notice.

Strive (Nasdaq: ASST) bought 124 BTC at $80,526 each from Oct. 24–30, lifting holdings to 43,124 BTC as cash fell to $490.4M, per its Nov. 2 SEC filing.

Japan's SBI Holdings will invest $100 million in Erebor, a US national bank that supports stablecoin deposits and had over $7 billion in deposits in September.

Standard Chartered launched tokenized deposits for corporate clients in Hong Kong via HKMA's EnsembleTX, its first rollout of the blockchain solution.

Broadridge (NYSE: BR) will bring on-chain governance and digital transfer agency services to NYSE's pending tokenized stock platform, the companies said.

Brazilian exchange Mercado Bitcoin suspended deposits and withdrawals after a security incident, and Tether said it had frozen more than 4.5 million USDT.