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Sam Altman’s ChatGPT AI predicts ‘Will crypto recover?’. When prompted, the OpenAI bot gave an in-depth answer on whether and when crypto will see brighter days. It believes that although the market has pulled back from its previous cycle highs and remains in a consolidation phase, there is a chance of a full-blown bull market …
Follow live coverage of the 2026 US midterm elections, including key congressional races, crypto-backed candidates and what the results could mean for digital asset regulation. Within the next few hours, we will begin to learn whether President Donald Trump’s Republican Party has managed to retain control of the US Congress, determining his ability to advance his legislative agenda during the final two years of his term. Americans headed to the polls Tuesday for the 2026 midterm elections, with all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and 35 Senate seats up for grabs. Republicans currently control both chambers of Congress, holding 53 Senate seats to 45 Democrats and two independents who caucus with them, along with a narrow advantage in the House. Democrats need a net gain of four…
The $6.3 billion Binance hack showed how quickly cryptocurrencies can disappear on blockchain rails. Tokenized securities may offer better recourse than crypto after a theft, but the markets around them can still break down when stress hits.
Paolo Ardoino told the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano the company owns “give or take 150,000 Bitcoin,” but its Q3 reserve report implies just 100,060.
The exchange says services will resume only when full security conditions are met.
Hackers exploited Binance's internal artificial intelligence tools to compromise engineers before stealing $6.34 billion in cryptocurrency, the exchange disclosed. In its Nov. 3 security report, Binance said attackers used a compromised employee computer and an internal AI tool on Oct. 20 to take control of two engineers responsible for its wallet infrastructure. The attackers subsequently… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
A group backed by Citadel Securities and other firms sued the U.S. derivatives regulator for opening a path for perps that it argued belong in the SEC's hands.
Bitcoin (BTC) might not need another halving, another wave of institutional adoption, or even another round of monetary easing to deliver one of its most explosive rallies yet. Anthropic’s Claude AI predicts that it might need something considerably bigger: a fundamental shift in how the world’s largest economies treat Bitcoin.Imagine the United States announcing a …
Claude's prices are falling, but Anthropic's computing expenses grew faster than sales in the latest quarter—a tricky equation ahead of its IPO.
Something potentially game-changing could be approaching for XRP by January 1, 2027. According to Elon Musk’s AI bot, Grok AI predicts that in an intentionally extreme scenario built around a hypothetical landmark catalyst, Ripple could surge to unprecedented heights.The concept revolves around a large global consortium of banks and payment networks officially choosing the XRP …
SpaceX joined several other issuers objecting to OKXICE tokenized trading, months after crypto platforms offered tokens tied to its shares. Just months after tokenized versions of SpaceX shares became one of the biggest drivers of onchain stock trading, the aerospace company is pushing back against plans to bring similar trading to US investors. According to a Nov. 2 public notice from OKXICE, SpaceX has objected to the proposed listing of tokenized versions of its shares on the trading venue, a joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). The company now joins Tesla and Amazon among 56 companies objecting to the proposed listings. Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s five-year Innovation Exemption introduced in Sep…
The Fed's November 2 survey shows tougher approvals alongside stronger nonbank demand, with no evidence of forced Bitcoin sales. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
CrowdStrike's new kill switch lets security teams cut off unauthorized AI agents through a gateway, while its planned Fiddler acquisition aims to make autonomous software easier to monitor and audit.
A major change in NEAR tokenomics could shrink projected supply by 4.36% over six years, while reducing staking returns.
Tron founder Justin Sun said he has asked a federal court to sanction World Liberty Financial, alleging the Trump family-backed venture delayed disclosing UAE ties that could defeat federal jurisdiction over his lawsuit.
US regulators are opening the door to stock-based perpetual futures, extending a popular crypto trading product into traditional markets amid ongoing legal disputes. Perpetual futures contracts tied to individual stocks can begin trading on regulated US exchanges for the first time, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), extending a derivatives product popularized in cryptocurrency markets into traditional equities. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said in a Tuesday statement that the contracts were deemed approved under CFTC Regulation 40.3 and could be offered on exchanges registered with both the CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to trade security futures products. Selig said bringing the products into regulated US markets would allow American traders t…
GitBook says attackers accessed infrastructure credentials in an AI-assisted breach, prompting a shutdown and emergency token resets.
Kalshi and Polymarket price a 75% chance of a Democratic sweep, days after markets misjudged Brazil’s runoff. Update (Nov. 3 at 10:32 p.m. UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from Talos. As Americans across the country head to the polls for the US midterm elections Tuesday, prediction market traders have spent months wagering on the outcome. According to an analysis by The Washington Post, nearly $1.9 billion in election-related contracts had traded on Kalshi and Polymarket as of Monday, marking record trading activity for a midterm election cycle. Markets on both platforms favor Democrats winning control of Congress, with a Democratic sweep priced at 75% on Kalshi and 75.5% on Polymarket as of 4:30 pm UTC. Kalshi traders gave Democrats a 93% chance of taking the House…
Perplexity and Gemini did not agree with ChatGPT.
Chairman Michael Selig said “equity perpetual futures” can now trade on CFTC-registered exchanges, extending a crypto-native instrument to traditional stocks.
