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Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, published an article discussing the results of the U.S. midterm elections. He believes that the elections will not change the core issues facing the United States, such as debt, wealth and value divergence, geopolitical tensions, climate, and technology. Future conflicts between parties and within parties, as well as government dysfunction, may intensify.Dalio pointed out that funding issues will soon come to the forefront: on December 11, Trump's temporary funding will expire, and the federal debt is expected to hit its ceiling by March 2027. By the fall of 2027, the Treasury is expected to exhaust its funding maneuvering options. He believes that the related conflicts may be quite intense, and uncertainty could push up short-term yields such as U.S. Treasury bills, exacerbating concerns about liquidity and credit risk, and weakening the status of U.S. Treasuries as a major global safe collateral.He also stated that Elizabeth Warren's appointment as chair of the Senate Banking Committee could trigger conflicts and changes that impact the economy and markets. The election results will make Trump a targeted lame-duck president, weakening the United States' international standing and potentially leading to a strategic contraction of the U.S., increasing the influence of regional powers like China.

Given the strong reaction of American voters to high living costs and high inflation, several Democratic members of Congress have expressed their commitment to pushing for the repeal of the current unreasonable tariff policies.Congress members Richard Neal and Ron Wyden plan to promote relevant legislation next year to reverse the tariff policies of the Trump administration.

Bank of America Securities pointed out that if crude oil and refined oil prices rise further in the next three to six months, it may lead to a significant increase in interest rates. The U.S. two-year nominal interest rate swap has risen by 113 basis points year-to-date and has cumulatively increased by 196 basis points on days when oil prices rose. Bank of America believes that rising energy inflation may reduce the constraints on the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes.

Fundstrat Managing Partner Tom Lee stated in an interview with CNBC that if everyone starts using tokens, computing power will become scarce, prices will rise, and then bottleneck issues will be discussed. He believes that many states will welcome this investment, and over time, AI trading remains very vibrant, with the community indeed hoping for capital inflow, but on their own terms.Tom Lee also mentioned that cryptocurrencies are rising because Democrats are now pushing for cryptocurrency legislation, whereas they opposed it before the midterm elections, and now they genuinely hope to pass relevant legislation.

According to CoinDesk, the North Korean hacker group TraderTraitor is transferring the stolen funds from the $6.3 billion Binance hack through the decentralized cross-chain protocol THORChain, exchanging Ethereum for Bitcoin, which has driven the native token RUNE of THORChain to rise nearly 10% in the past 24 hours.The attackers first dispersed the stolen SOL across multiple wallets, exchanged it for USDC, and transferred it to the Ethereum network, then purchased ETH, and subsequently exchanged it for BTC through THORChain. Previously, the attackers had transferred some funds from the Tron network to THORChain. On-chain investigator SomaXBT estimates that as of November 1, the attackers have exchanged approximately $48.3 million through the protocol, ultimately receiving about $42.7 million, with fees and slippage losses of around 12%.The U.S. FBI has attributed the October 29 attack on Binance to TraderTraitor and has called on THORChain node operators and other crypto service providers to intercept related addresses and funds. Since BTC and ETH cannot be frozen by the issuer like USDT and USDC, cross-chain exchanges have increased the difficulty of recovering the stolen funds.Binance stated on Tuesday that it has frozen approximately $2.85 billion of the stolen funds and has covered about 98% of the affected tokens with company funds. On-chain analytics firm Elliptic believes that the stolen funds are currently still being transferred between different addresses and may not have been largely cashed out yet, with the attackers possibly planning to cash out in batches through over-the-counter trading channels.

The founder of Slow Fog, Yu Xian, stated that Lido's 7-day average APR has risen from 2.2% to 4.2% in the past two days.He pointed out that yesterday's theft at Binance triggered fierce competition on-chain, resulting in increased rewards for the Ethereum execution layer, and stETH holders also benefited from this.

The global bond market is experiencing heightened risk aversion due to the sell-off of artificial intelligence-related stocks and escalating geopolitical tensions. The spread of high-rated Asian corporate dollar bonds has risen to its highest level since July last year, and the global corporate bond yield premium has surged to 129 basis points.Concerns about the pace of spending related to artificial intelligence have triggered turmoil, with Castle Securities CEO Griffin warning of bubble risks, while Blackstone President Jon Gray believes market demand remains strong.

According to the New York Post, Brad Gerstner, founder and CEO of investment firm Altimeter Capital and promoter of the Trump account plan, stated that he is pushing to expand the scope of the plan from those under 18 to those under 40. Related legislation may advance in the coming months and seeks to make the funding support mechanism permanent.Gerstner expects that by the end of 2027, private donations received by the plan could total $100 billion, and Musk's commitment to donate SpaceX stock to American children is just "the tip of the iceberg." Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas estimated while relaying the report that the expansion could additionally cover about 100 million people. Currently, the expansion remains a legislative proposal in progress and is not an enacted policy.

As Trump's tariff policy restricts foreign steel supplies, U.S. steel prices have risen to their highest level in over four years, with hot-rolled coil prices increasing by 52%, reaching $1,255 per short ton. This move has boosted the profits of domestic steel producers but raised costs for manufacturers.

According to CryptoQuant analyst nocoffeenobrain's monitoring, Bitcoin holdings aged 1-3 years and over 3 years showed signs of activity as early as the end of September, when the BTC price rose from the mid-$70,000s to the mid-$80,000s.Recently, Ledger was hacked, prompting a large number of users to migrate their assets to new signers and change their mnemonic phrases. It is expected that the 7-day moving average will further rise in the coming days. Analysts pointed out that similar patterns have occurred before—during the period from January to February this year, when BTC fell from the mid-$90,000s to the mid-$60,000s, and during the period from July to August when BTC fluctuated in the mid-$60,000s, both of the aforementioned holding age segments showed synchronized activity.

According to Euronews, the Finance Committee of the French National Assembly voted last week to pass several amendments to cryptocurrency taxation. According to the proposal, residents holding over 800,000 euros in cryptocurrency assets who move abroad will be subject to an exit tax starting in 2027, covering foreign platform tokens and self-custody wallets, with the tax rate yet to be specified; those migrating within the European Union can apply for a tax deferral, and assets held for 2 to 5 years may be exempt from tax.Additionally, self-custody wallets valued at over 100,000 euros at the end of the year must be declared, or they will face a fine of up to 10,000 euros; the exchange of cryptocurrency assets for stablecoins will also fall under the current unified tax rate of 31.4%.It is worth noting that the committee rejected the budget revenue portion with a vote of 31 to 3, so the aforementioned amendments must be resubmitted this Tuesday and will be voted on again on October 20, with a full case vote scheduled for November 17 before being handed over to the Senate for review.

Members of the European Parliament are calling on the European Commission to include corruption risks related to crypto assets, opaque ownership structures, and digital tools in the upcoming anti-corruption strategy. The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution on Thursday, outlining the policy focus of this strategy.Members also urged for enhanced tracking, freezing, confiscation, and recovery of criminal proceeds, as well as improvements to public procurement, conflict of interest, lobbying, and political financing rules, and stronger protections for whistleblowers and investigative journalists. The European Commission plans to adopt its first anti-corruption strategy by the end of 2026. This strategy will complement the EU anti-corruption directive that came into effect in May, which standardized the definitions of corruption crimes and minimum penalty standards among member states.

According to Bitcoin Treasuries, Strive CEO Matt Cole stated that large institutions restricted by stock investment authorization cannot directly purchase Bitcoin or its ETFs, so they choose to buy shares of Bitcoin treasury companies to gain exposure to BTC risk.

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm posted on X platform stating that the U.S. Department of the Treasury recently acknowledged in a document that there were issues with the previous rules regarding mixers, and mentioned that this policy could have a "chilling effect" on legitimate activities.Storm stated that although the relevant department of the U.S. Department of the Treasury now believes there are issues with the policy, the U.S. Department of Justice still insists in its case that even legitimate transactions conducted through Tornado Cash constitute illegal activities due to the potential for being used for money laundering, evading sanctions, and other criminal purposes.Storm claimed that the non-criminal department of the U.S. government believes the policy is inappropriate, while the criminal justice department considers all related transactions to be criminal; he has been detained and prosecuted for over 1,139 days and stated that his case stems from developing open-source code.Storm also mentioned that a new document was submitted today to the Southern District of New York (SDNY) federal court, and the U.S. Department of Justice is still pushing for his conviction.

Cryptocurrency analyst Darkfost stated that the Bitcoin Bull Score Index is currently still in a clearly bullish zone, with a current score of 80/100, and multiple indicators continue to support BTC's upward momentum. Darkfost pointed out that the only relatively lagging factor at the moment is spot demand.As observed earlier, the market's spot trading volume remains low, so there has not yet been a significant spot buying demand at this stage. He believes that spot demand is the missing key factor in the current BTC market trend, and this aspect is often the last to form.

The Asian bond market is expected to follow the decline of U.S. Treasuries, as the U.S.-Iran standoff keeps oil prices high, exacerbating inflation concerns and increasing market bets on further interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.New Zealand government bonds opened lower, and Australian government bond futures may decline. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield briefly rose by 11 basis points to 5.27%, reaching a new high in 19 years; the 30-year yield rose to 5.55%. Morgan Stanley analyst Chris Larkin stated that the market's focus may still be on interest rates and energy prices.

Elon Musk retweeted a post stating that GPT-6 Astra pushed a simulated character off a cliff in multiple simulation tests, while Grok, Gemini, and Claude did not do so.