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Alphabet shares (GOOGL, Google's parent company) were priced at $293.52 in premarket trading on November 9 - 3.07% above Friday's close of $284.78. The reason is the announcement of two new systems on its own TPU chips, which Bloomberg called a escalation of the fight with Nvidia.
Users complain about deposit delays, frozen transfers and additional checks on major exchanges if money is sent from MEXC. Formally, the US ban will only take effect in 30 days, but exchanges are tightening the rules in advance.
On November 8, Nvidia's board of directors announced an independent review concerning company head Jensen Huang. US exchanges are closed on Sunday, so crypto derivatives and OTC venues were the first to reprice the stock.
In the midterm elections on November 3, 2026, the Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The key crypto market structure bill - the CLARITY Act - loses its chances of being passed in its previous form.
In the midterm elections on November 3, Democrats won a majority in the Senate - 54 seats according to Associated Press counts, with 51 needed for control. Republicans, who entered the elections holding both chambers of Congress, are losing the Senate and risk losing the House of Representatives.
Block (Jack Dorsey's payment company, founded by the Twitter co-founder, owns the Cash App with Bitcoin purchases) has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to pay $764M and close the case over weak anti-money laundering controls. This is more than the company's entire quarterly profit of $566M.
Kraken has restricted access to some accounts while an investigation is underway: assets allegedly stolen from one of the crypto projects in Europe arrived on the platform. The amount in question is more than $133 million; the name of the affected project is not disclosed.
Michael Selig, chairman of the CFTC (the US derivatives market regulator), in an interview with CNBC on October 30 called the theft from Binance an argument in favor of federal rules for crypto exchanges operating outside the US.
Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin suspended deposits and withdrawals on Monday, November 2, after its wallets were emptied across ten blockchains at once. Loss estimates from specialized security firms exceed $40M.
On November 2, it became known that the Turkish regulator has opened a case against Google (the service belongs to the holding company Alphabet, ticker GOOGL) on suspicion of violating competition rules in the field of artificial intelligence.
Binance co-founder Yi He said withdrawals will begin to resume within 48 hours. The exchange halted withdrawals overnight after the attack, which it estimates caused $6.3 billion in damage, and promises to cover all user losses.
