On Nov 2, SEC staff defined what a "central party" over a crypto network is. One marker: unilateral power to "modify the crypto system's rules-based code, reverse transactions, or revoke access."
Days before, Arbitrum's Security Council moved a hacker's funds without the key.
Why it matters: staff say discretion doesn't make a central party if exercised "solely through the crypto system's broad-based governance system."
The council is elected via ARB governance, but 9 people acted without a token vote. The FAQ leaves that to facts and circumstances.
No hurricane, no name, and still near-Ian rain: 24.1" fell on Malabar, FL in 36 hours, per NWS. West Palm Beach 22.2", Palm Bay 20.6". Melbourne's 11.03" broke its all-time daily record. NWS calls parts of it a 1-in-1,000-year event. #FloridaFlooding
Election Day angle: DeSantis' EO 26-227 and local officials moved 20+ polling places across several counties. What to watch: the St. Johns River flows north and drains slowly, so near Cocoa it may crest within a foot of its record around Nov 5, after the rain ends. #Election2026
America's first midterm results are in, from Guam, and they point in opposite directions.
Same ~31,400 ballots:
Governor: R flip, Ada-Calvo 51.45% vs 48.15% (+1,020 votes)
US House delegate: D flip, Limtiaco 51.0% vs Moylan 48.84% (+662)
#Midterms2026 #Guam
Crypto PACs are the biggest single-issue spenders of the 2026 US midterms, and polls close tonight.
Fairshake + affiliates: $154M devoted this cycle, $56M in reserve (spokesman, via CoinDesk).
Nearly $56M of it, over a third, went to one race: beating Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
Totals depend on who's counting:
- Reuters: ~$176M, 100+ races, through Oct 20 (Fairshake $150.8M)
- Public Citizen via CNBC: $200M+
- 2024 cycle: Fairshake $196M, industry ~$250M
Fairshake backs 33 House candidates (19 R, 14 D) but only Republicans for Senate.
Korea's regulator wants exchanges to go beyond the 80% cold-storage floor after the $6.3B Binance hot-wallet hack (FSC emergency meeting, Nov 2).
End-Sept cold-wallet share (FSS data):
Upbit 99.17%
Bithumb 94.76%
Coinone 85.00%
Digital X 82.79%
GOPAX 80.54%
Loss backstops vary even more. Insurance + reserves, end-Sept:
Upbit ₩80B
Bithumb ₩53.4B
Coinone ₩30B
Digital X ₩19B
GOPAX ₩3B
A 26.7x spread. For scale: Upbit lost ~₩44.5B in a Nov 2025 abnormal outflow while running a 98%+ cold ratio.
15 years after Skyrim, Bethesda finally named the sequel: The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel, set in Hammerfell.
Every prior gap between mainline Elder Scrolls games was 2-6 years. This one is 15 and counting, with no date, platforms or gameplay shown yet. #ElderScrollsVI
Zcash is walking into its NU7 upgrade with a fight over its dev money.
ZEC is ~$1,146 after an ~8% drop Monday (CoinDesk). At the center: Zcash Community Grants (ZCG), a 5-person committee holding ~91,500 ZEC that gets 8% of every block reward.
What NU7 actually does: activates at block 3,543,405, est. ~02:30 UTC Nov 6. Block time 75s to 25s with the same daily issuance; v4 transactions switched off.
Watch: coins left in the old Sprout pool become unspendable. Move them before activation.
Sources: Cointelegraph, Unchained, Bitcoin.com News, Coindaro (NU7 timing estimate), CoinDesk. Not investment advice.
