France’s gambling regulator is considering banning the cryptocurrency prediction platform Polymarket, which has made headlines on user demand around the 2024 presidential election in the United States.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/france-ban-crypto-betting-platform-polymarket

Ethereum’s network revenues are poised to rebound as surging activity on layer-2 (L2) scaling networks drives demand for data storage, according to cryptocurrency researchers and onchain data.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-revenues-rebound-amid-l2-blob-uptick

Galaxy Digital, a cryptocurrency trading firm, clocked the biggest trading day of the year on Nov. 5 as Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential race sparked a surge of interest in crypto, Bloomberg reported on Nov. 7.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/galaxy-digital-clocks-biggest-trading-day-year-us-election-day-report

Republicans will win the US Senate majority, CNN projects, shifting the balance of power in Washington and putting the chamber in position to boost Donald Trump’s presidency.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/senate-flip-republicans/index.html

Blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence has launched a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, according to a Nov. 6 announcement.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/arkham-launches-crypto-perpetuals-exchange

Paul Grewal, chief legal officer at Coinbase, urged the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to change its approach toward crypto following Donald Trump’s election as president for a second term.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-sec-shakeup-coinbase-pro-crypto-reforms

Nischal Shetty, the founder of the popular Indian crypto exchange WazirX, announced the company is expanding operations and exploring building a separate decentralized exchange (DEX) that will operate alongside the company's current centralized service.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/wazir-x-launching-decentralized-exchange

In one of her first post-election messages, Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis reiterated plans for United States lawmakers to “build a strategic Bitcoin reserve,” presumably when Republicans take a majority control of the Senate in 2025.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/cynthia-lummis-donald-trump-bitcoin-reserve

American voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose the country’s next leaders in a mass democratic experiment where tens of millions of votes will be cast without incident.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/politics/voting-security-election-day/index.html

United States-based Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded their second-biggest day of outflows in history, just a day before the country heads into a tightly contested election.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-bitcoin-etf-outflows-second-highest-amid-election

Bitcoin volatility, a measurement of expected price fluctuation, has seemingly stalled as traders await the outcome of the United States election. Analysts from Bitfinex say this could just be the “calm before the storm.”

https://cointelegraph.com/news/calm-before-the-storm-bitcoin-volatility-stalls-as-markets-await-election-results-bitfinex

Binance continues its battle against the United States securities regulator amid allegations of violations related to certain cryptocurrencies.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-cz-motion-dismiss-sec-amended-complaint

Once a leading tap-to-earn game on Telegram, Hamster Kombat has seen a steep decline in its user base and engagement due to political backlash, bans and new competition.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/hamster-kombat-decline-telegram-game-competition-rise-of-paws

Donald Trump, who said in Pennsylvania on Sunday that he regrets leaving the White House in 2021, is ending the 2024 campaign the way he began it – dishing out a stew of violent, disparaging rhetoric and repeated warnings that he will not accept defeat if it comes.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/03/politics/trump-dark-closing-message/index.html

Governments in more eco-friendly nations contemplating a ban on Bitcoin mining may be inflicting more significant harm on the global economy, according to researchers.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-mining-bans-consequences-worldwide-emissions-carbon-footprint

Security incidents like exit scams, flash loan attacks and exploits pushed crypto losses to $129.6 million in October.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-hacks-exploits-losses-october-2024

Memecoins, riding the sudden rise in popularity of “Peanut the Squirrel,” has hit the Solana decentralized finance (DeFi) markets, with some tokens even reaching a market capitalization above $120 million.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/viral-squirrel-peanut-triggers-solana-memecoin-frenzy

Following claims from the CEO of Moonrock Capital — a crypto-native advisory and investment firm — that Binance demanded 15% of an unnamed prospective project's total token supply to secure a listing on the centralized exchange, Binance co-founder Yi He responded by denying the claims and clarifying Binance's listing policies.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-co-founder-clarifies-binance-listing-policies

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The federal agency tasked with protecting the nation’s elections systems has retreated from some of the key work it did to counter false and viral information about voting in the 2020 election, including dismissing or ignoring multiple internal and external policy proposals to combat disinformation, numerous sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/02/politics/federal-agency-combat-election-lies/index.html