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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.
At night, while votes were being counted in the US congressional elections, BTC dropped below $76,000 with a low of $75,700. By 09:16 Moscow time on November 4, it was trading around $77,918 (+1.6% over the day) — the entire dip was bought back within a few hours.
On the morning of November 4, gold traded around $3,930 per ounce, recovering from a drop to lows last seen in September 2025. The reason is the collapse of the dollar after the first results of the midterm congressional elections held on November 3.
The OKXICE joint venture (the OKX exchange and Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the NYSE) was going to launch round-the-clock trading of tokenized US stocks. 56 companies opposed it, including 49 of the 62 initially selected - about 79% of the original list.
The US Department of Labor published the JOLTS report for September - the number of job openings in the labor market. The actual figure came in almost 400 thousand above the forecast, and the previous value was revised upward.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Tuesday approved the listing of perpetual futures on individual US stocks. Until now, Americans could trade such contracts only on foreign venues.
On November 3, Arab TV channels reported progress on the Iranian dossier: Washington approved a draft memorandum of understanding with Tehran, and the parties are discussing how to announce a temporary agreement. For oil, this is the most sensitive geopolitical topic of the year.
On the afternoon of November 3, oil quotes moved down by 3%. By 16:34 Moscow time the decline had reached this level, and by 16:49 Moscow time the decline continued - the market did not buy back the intraday move.
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.
The world's largest crypto exchange has lost assets worth roughly $6.3 billion, and it will have to reimburse them out of its own pocket: according to Bloomberg Law, Binance has no cyber insurance policy for that amount.
After resuming withdrawals, Binance showed a daily net inflow of $1.82 billion. The weekly total, however, remained deeply negative: $11.832 billion in net outflow.
On November 3, 2026, broker AvaTrade announced the launch of an in-house built trading platform. In the English-language headline it was called a prop trading platform, but the announcement provides neither account sizes, nor profit share, nor drawdown limits.
On October 29, about $6.3 billion was withdrawn from Binance wallets across several blockchains. Tether, the issuer of the largest stablecoin (a coin whose exchange rate is pegged to the dollar), said it managed to immobilize more than $1.5 billion of the stolen USDT.
The aggregator website prop firm Match confirmed that since October 2025, clicking the purchase and promo code copy buttons redirected the original tab through the affiliate link of the selected prop firm. The function was disabled on October 29, 2026, and the audit is still ongoing.
The state Bureau of Securities withdrew the June 2023 order along with the $5 million fine. State residents will again be able to stake (lock coins in the network for a reward) through Coinbase; the company did not name an exact date.
On Monday, Brent (the benchmark crude oil grade used to price oil in Europe and Asia) plunged 7.63% to $104.77 per barrel on signals of US-Iran talks. On Tuesday, quotes recovered about 1.1% after a report of a US strike on an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz.
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.
From 07:00 Moscow time on November 3, Binance is again letting money out according to a new list of assets. This is the second stage of unblocking after the largest hack in the exchange's history, which caused withdrawals to be stopped completely.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, traded on the NYSE, bought another 8,573 ETH worth about $19 million last week and is closing in on its goal of holding 5% of all Ethereum coins.
Of the 62 American companies whose shares the OKXICE platform planned to trade as tokens around the clock, 43 have officially banned it. In total, there are 50 refusals; the response deadline for the first batch of notifications expires on Tuesday, November 3.
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.
Oracle (an American software giant, one of the heavyweight stocks in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100) filed documents to offer new shares and bonds worth $20 billion - the money will go toward building AI infrastructure. The stock responded with a drop of about 5%.
Gold closed October with a 6.87% decline, and on Friday it hit a new yearly low of $3,870. On Monday the metal is being bought back: XAU/USD around $3,900, up 0.64% for the day, with an intraday high of $3,919. The metal is still about 30% below the all-time peak of $5,600 set in January.
On October 29, about $6.36 billion was withdrawn from Binance across ten blockchains. $2.85 billion (44%) was frozen or seized, the remaining $3.24 billion sits in more than 950 attacker wallets, and part of it has already passed through mixers (services that mix coins to break the trail).
