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Overview For large Ethereum (ETH) perpetual futures orders of $500,000 and $1,000,000, MEXC delivers the lowest all-in execution cost among major exchanges, recording a sample-best 0.003% median slippage ($15.00 cost) and 0.007% P90 tail slippage ($35.00 cost) on simulated $500,000 ETH futures sells, 0.008% median slippage ($80.00 cost) and 0.013% P90 slippage ($130.00 cost) on $1,000,000 ETH futures sells, and the deepest 0.03% near-touch combined BTC and ETH futures order book at $21.03 millio

Overview Services growth and price pressure do currently coexist, and this report's headline figure is structurally incapable of showing the second one. The ISM Services PMI headline is an equal-weighted arithmetic average of four subindexes, Business Activity, New Orders, Employment and Supplier Deliveries, and the Prices index is not among them. September's headline of 54.9 is exactly the average of 56.5, 59.8, 50.1 and 53.2, while the Prices index reading of 74.0 in the same month contributed

I. Macro & Market Sentiment· Market Data: BTC $76,889.00 (-0.12%) | ETH $2,261.36 (+0.35%) | SOL $91.83 (-0.32%)· Market Sentiment: Funding Rate +0.0100% | Fear & Greed Index 34 (Fear)· Elections: S&P 500 futures were broadly flat, while Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.3% as voting got underway in the U.S. midterm elections. Further Reading· Geopolitics: The U.S. and Iran continued indirect contacts, with Tehran saying its conditions must be met before the Strait of Hormuz can reopen. Further

Overview The October ADP National Employment Report lands at 21:15 Singapore time on November 4, with consensus looking for 69,000 private-sector jobs against September's actual 90,000. What makes this release matter more than usual is not employment itself but the direction of Federal Reserve policy, which is tightening rather than easing: a 25 basis point hike on September 16 passed 12 to 0, and the October 28 hold passed 10 to 2 with both dissents favouring a further hike, with December hike

Key TakeawaysZcash's NU7 network upgrade is set to activate at block 3,543,405, targeted for around November 5, 2026.NU7 cuts the target block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, making payments confirm about three times faster.It also introduces the Network Sustainability Mechanism, which removes 60% of transaction fees from circulation, and disables version 4 transactions.About 22,309 ZEC still held in the old Sprout shielded pool will become unspendable after activation unless holders move th

Key TakeawaysBinance lost about $6.3 billion across 10 blockchains on October 29, 2026, in the largest crypto theft on record. The FBI attributed it to North Korea's TraderTraitor group.About $3 billion in stolen stablecoins was frozen by Tether, Circle and partners, but blockchain data firm Bitquery found about $3.1 billion still sitting in attacker wallets as of October 31.Binance says it has replaced about 95% of the stolen assets with its own funds and completed a new proof of reserves showi

Key TakeawaysAmericans vote on November 3, 2026 for all 435 House seats and about one-third of the Senate, with control of both chambers at stake.The crypto industry spent about $170 million to $176 million on the midterms, led by the Fairshake super PAC, making it one of the largest corporate spenders of the cycle.The CLARITY Act, the main crypto market structure bill, stalled in 2026. Its future depends heavily on who controls Congress in 2027.Prediction market Kalshi gave Democrats about a 70

Prediction MarketPrediction markets have emerged as one of crypto's hottest narratives in 2025–2026. After Polymarket and Kalshi brought event-based trading into the mainstream, BNB Chain quickly developed its own contender. At the center of that push is Predict.fun, a YZi Labs-backed platform repeatedly mentioned by CZ that has become the primary prediction market provider integrated into Binance Wallet.This article takes a closer look at Predict.fun, covering its product, team, tokenomics, and

In reports published as of this morning,no November re-lock (EscrowCreate) transactions had been confirmed, so this month's net release is not final. Ripple re-locked 700 million XRP in each of the last two months,within hours, and after the Sunday unlocks in February and March it re-locked on Monday. PrefaceRipple has once again unlocked 1 billion XRP from escrow. On November 1, 2026,Whale Alert flagged two transfers of 500 million XRP each, together worth roughly $1.25 billion. XRP traded near

PrefaceBitcoin ETF outflows hit $643.3 million on Friday, October 30, 2026, the biggest one-day exit from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs in four months. The money left on the first trading day after the Binance hack, which began after U.S. markets closed on Thursday. For the crypto industry, the number matters less as a one-day scare than as a test of a bigger idea: that spot ETFs have become Bitcoin’s steadiest source of demand.This article takes an industry view. It covers what the outflow shows about