Midterms Blue Wave Makes $917K for One Polymarket Trader, If Alaska Doesn’t Flip
A Polymarket trader topped the prediction market’s leaderboard after Democrats swept the US midterms, but Alaska could still flip it.
ZachXBT Names French Bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as Alleged Victim of $133M Crypto Theft
The onchain investigator says the theft is being “covered up,” and that a lack of disclosure let more than $30 million be laundered.
Binance hack may be ‘temporary setback’ for crypto, Grayscale’s Pandl says
Zach Pandl highlighted institutional custody safeguards as crypto markets recovered some losses following the record $6.3 billion Binance hack.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time never gets old
Breath of the Wild changed everything. Two decades after The Legend of Zelda made the transformational shift to 3D, Breath of the Wild reinvigorated the franchise with an open-ended adventure that was built around player freedom and expression. Instead of following a set path, players could go wherever they wanted and tackle challenges in a … Read more
Bitcoin rebounds from midterm dip as DeFi leads gains
Bitcoin recovered from a dip to around $75,600 as Democrats won Congress, while DeFi tokens led gains and Trump-linked coins fell.
Judge Orders Bitcoin Wallet Returned to Family of Convicted Canadian Killer
A Nova Scotia judge found prosecutors failed to link William Sandeson’s Bitcoin to the 2015 murder of fellow student Taylor Samson.
Justin Sun seeks $264K sanctions over World Liberty’s UAE disclosure
Sun plans to refile his token-freeze lawsuit in California state court after the sanctions motion is resolved. A hearing is set for Dec. 10.
ZachXBT names French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as suspected victim of $133 million crypto theft
Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT says the French bank may have lost more than $133 million from crypto exchange accounts. Crypto.com confirms it has blocked funds linked to the theft.
Elon Musk floats space data centers as Democratic sweep puts pressure on AI trade
Texas election result raises fears of data centre restrictions, while Musk and Palihapitiya draw attention to the space economy.
Your GitHub Actions Cron Job Can Disappear Without Failing
Every morning, a bot posts a short report to Slack: what moved volume and revenue yesterday, driver by driver. It runs on a GitHub Actions schedule and checks its own numbers before it posts. For a small team, it’s a good setup. There’s no server to babysit, the logs and secrets live in one place, … Read more
Bitcoin ETFs lose $1.16B as Bitwise calls selling ‘short-term’
Bitwise’s André Dragosch attributed Bitcoin ETF outflows to weaker market sentiment, saying institutions have largely maintained their exposure.
Morgan Stanley says it is among the first banks to tokenize real world assets
The bank’s announcement follows the launch of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s Tokenization Service, or DTS, on Oct. 28.
Binance hackers move 81% of stolen Solana, route funds via THORChain
The Binance attackers moved most of the stolen SOL and continued laundering funds through THORChain after the protocol resumed swaps.
A One-Line JavaScript Bug Broke My GA4 Tracking for Five Months
For five months, Google Analytics told me nobody on my site ever signed up, converted a file, or bought anything. Page views looked fine. Sessions looked fine. The key events report said zero, every day, and I read that as “the funnel is bad” instead of “the funnel is not being recorded”. The bug was … Read more
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Audio8-TTS-Realistic-Air: Edge0’s 0.6B Multilingual Text-to-Speech Model Explained
Overview Audio8-TTS-Realistic-Air is Edge0’s 0.6B multilingual text-to-speech model for speech generation with or without a reference voice. It supports zero-shot voice cloning from reference audio and its exact transcript, and lists 23 supported languages. Maintained by Edge0. Best use cases Generate speech from text in the 23 listed languages, or clone a voice using a … Read more
How I Built an AI-Powered Hacker News Book Recommendation Site in 2.5 Hours
On 1 Nov, Andrej Karpathy shared HackerTube (https://hackertube.org/). He had Claude filter 43M Hacker News comments from 20 years down to 6,454 recommended videos, and he said the site took about 2 hours with Opus 5.5 in Claude Code. He also published the data as a public zip. As a Lead SWE, my first question … Read more
Agent Graph Engineering, Part 5: How to Build Safer AI Agents With Structured Errors and Guardrails
TL;DR Two edges, one idea: constrain the model declaratively rather than by inspecting what it produced. A tool is a function plus metadata, and it signals failure by raising a structured error, never by returning a string the model has to interpret. An action that cannot be undone needs at-most-once execution, because a crash inside … Read more
Zcash grants committee drops plan to redirect 98,000 ZEC to future mining rewards
The committee withdrew its proposal after community backlash, leaving competing plans to cut off its funding or preserve the existing grants system.
Democrats win US House to secure control of Congress in midterms
Democrats will take control of House committees in January 2027, giving them power to investigate President Donald Trump’s administration.
Bitcoin bounces from 7-week low under $76K as Democrats sweep Congress
Bitcoin price downside reached a seven-week-low of $75,618 as 24-hour crypto long liquidations neared $300 million.
Bitcoin knocks on $78,000 in V-shaped comeback as midterm election uncertainty fades
BTC is steaming higher as U.S. midterm election uncertainty fades.
Jack Dorsey’s Block faces $764 million DOJ settlement as bitcoin profit plunges 50%
The proposed agreement would resolve a federal anti-money-laundering investigation, while lower Cash App trading fees halved Block’s quarterly bitcoin gross profit.
Ethereum dev targets 2028 for quantum resistance, a year early
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake said it is their “hope” that Ethereum will achieve its post-quantum and post-AI transition by December 2028.
U.S.-sanctioned Moscow Exchange to list bitcoin and Tether’s USDT in December
Russia’s main bourse wants back the crypto trading Russians do abroad, and one of the coins it’s listing is issued by a company that freezes wallets on the U.S. sanctions list.
South Korea’s ruling party wants to delay its crypto tax again
South Korea’s ruling party wants to delay crypto tax by about two years, as it waits for global tax-sharing rules and new digital assets law.