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10x Research, a cryptocurrency market research organization, stated that the average return of Bitcoin after the U.S. midterm elections is a decline of 13.6% in 1 month, a decline of 21.6% in 2 months, a decline of 13.3% in 4 months, an increase of 3.5% in 6 months, and an increase of 53.9% in 1 year.10x Research noted that this phase first experiences a pullback, followed by outperforming the S&P 500 index, the Nasdaq index, and gold within 12 months, with average returns during the same period being an increase of 14.3%, an increase of 23.1%, and an increase of 18.5%, respectively.10x Research indicated that from an 80-year historical perspective, the surge in volatility after elections typically corresponds to the exhaustion of cycles rather than structural institutional breaks. The organization stated that after the Democrats gained control of Congress, higher baseline deficit spending and welfare expansion would accelerate the trend of currency devaluation.10x Research also reviewed historical precedents of cycles after past midterm elections and explained why patient capital should view this pullback as an entry point, with discussions centered around the clearing events proposed after the midterm elections.

Binance Research's latest report indicates that while institutional funds have significantly entered the cryptocurrency market, they are primarily flowing into passive Beta products (such as ETFs), and the actively managed sector has not kept pace.The core reason is not a lack of talent or returns, but rather the absence of a middle layer that connects funds with managers for discovery and verification. Currently, the funding sources for active cryptocurrency strategies still heavily rely on personal networks and conferences, lacking a standardized performance verification and benchmarking system.Research shows that 80% of asset allocators prioritize asset safety over historical returns, and verified trading platform data can significantly enhance due diligence. Managers believe that unverifiable performance and lengthy compliance reviews are the biggest obstacles to fundraising.Capital Connect data shows that directional strategies account for 44.3% of the total number of funds but hold only 6.7% of the capital; market-neutral, statistical arbitrage, and traditional multi-strategy funds make up less than half but attract 92.1% of the capital. The average single investment size from institutions in neutral strategies is about 11 times that of directional strategies.In October, BTC fell by 7.2%, with directional funds averaging a positive return of 1.9%, while neutral strategies recorded 1.0%. Binance Research concludes that institutional preferences and the introduction of traditional structures are driving the market towards maturity, but allocators remain highly selective. Only a comprehensive verification system and operational infrastructure can truly unlock the inflow of actively managed funds.

According to CoinPost, the Financial Services Agency of Japan announced the key points of the first meeting of the "Research Meeting on Responses to Digital and Decentralized Finance" held on October 20. Regarding DEX (Decentralized Exchange) and DeFi (Decentralized Finance), committee members suggested that Japan should respond promptly to avoid becoming a "regulatory void or a place for regulatory arbitrage."

Tencent officially launched an independent search website "Yuanbao Search" (so.qq.com), competing with Baidu and Google. The website defaults to AI search, allowing users to receive complete answers and reference sources after inputting questions, and supports follow-up inquiries. It also retains traditional web search and provides search entry points for public accounts, video accounts, images, and academic content.Currently, there have been instances where inputting keywords in Sogou Search directly redirects to the Yuanbao Search results page, and the latest version of QQ Browser also supports setting Yuanbao Search as the search engine. Tencent is gradually integrating existing search entry points into Yuanbao.The last self-developed search by Tencent dates back to "Soso," launched in 2006, when it brought in technical executives like Wu Jun from Google. In 2013, Tencent merged Soso's search business into Sogou, investing $448 million to acquire a 36.5% stake in Sogou; in 2021, it completed a full acquisition of Sogou. Starting in 2024, Tencent will promote Yuanbao AI Search, integrating WeChat Search and Sogou Search, and will open search capabilities to enterprises and developers in 2025. In October of this year, the service was renamed "Yuanbao Search," supporting API, MCP, and Skill integration. Official data shows that Yuanbao Search has an index of over 100 billion, with an average daily call volume of hundreds of millions, supporting more than 50 internal businesses such as Tencent Video, ima, and WorkBuddy.

The prediction market platform Kalshi has launched a research grant program with a total amount of $1 million, intending to fund up to 50 independent studies that analyze the 2026 U.S. midterm elections using prediction market data. According to the official rules, eligible users can submit applications before 12:59 PM Beijing time on November 19.

According to exclusive reports from Big Factory Daily, Trip.com held an all-hands meeting last week to announce the promotion of the "Integration of Production and Research" system across the company. This system is centered around DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) and merges personnel from product, operations, front-end, back-end, algorithms, testing, and other areas into project-based teams, breaking down traditional functional team boundaries with the goal of achieving "everyone is a full-stack developer, everyone is a product manager."In terms of specific execution, DRI leaders are not limited by function and can be original product, operations, or technical leaders. Team members within the project group collaborate across functions, which may lead to situations where products evaluate technical performance, and technology reports to operations. Front-end and back-end teams can also propose requirements and implement them independently. Ideas from product and operations that can be realized by AI can also be delivered independently, ultimately decided by the DRI.Currently, departments such as Trip.com Travel, Flights, and Content Center have begun to respond, with different teams progressing at varying paces, and the company has not imposed a one-size-fits-all requirement. The report indicates that this move is partly influenced by Silicon Valley concepts and aligns with the trend of blurred job boundaries in the AI era. This model can effectively reduce buck-passing and disputes, shorten delivery chains, and accelerate decision-making, but the challenge lies in the high comprehensive ability requirements for DRI leaders, who need to possess both technical understanding and business insight, and such qualified leaders are currently relatively scarce.

Binance Research believes that if the trend of global interest rate hikes continues to slow down, Bitcoin may find support before major central banks cut interest rates.

According to the Binance Research November 2026 market monthly report summary, the total market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market fell by 9.1% in October to $2.70 trillion. The report links the market correction to inflationary pressures, expectations of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, and declines in technology stocks. During the same period, the net outflow from the US spot BTC ETF was approximately $516 million, while the net outflow from the ETH ETF was about $1.6 billion.The report also mentions that the five major AI investment companies had a total capital expenditure of $230 billion in the third quarter, which is 2.2 times their operating cash flow, with a total free cash flow turning negative to about -$32 billion. Demand for AI inference continues to grow, but the revenue scale of related cryptocurrency inference service providers remains small. In addition, the tokenized stock product bStocks reached $1 billion in assets under management within 125 days of its launch, with an on-chain utilization rate of 18.54%, higher than the industry average of 13.91%.

XWIN Japan pointed out that the whale ratio of Bitcoin exchanges has repeatedly broken 0.4, and it is estimated that the leverage ratio, although it has fallen, is still higher than the mid-October level.

Binance's Chief Security Officer Jimmy Su stated during a fireside chat on Binance X Space that Binance is hiring external security experts to conduct a comprehensive independent review of the security incident that occurred on October 29, in order to verify the conclusions of the internal investigation and provide improvement suggestions.At the same time, Binance is collaborating with leading AI companies and security firms to establish a security research fund, focusing on researching security threats related to blockchain and AI. In the future, internal AI tools and development environments will be managed according to critical infrastructure standards.Regarding the previous security incident, Jimmy Su explained that the transaction authorization used by the attackers exists on-chain and does not go through the Binance withdrawal system. Therefore, suspending withdrawals cannot prevent the related funds from being transferred; it must be revoked through a new on-chain transaction.Due to Binance's hot wallet using multi-party computation (MPC) technology, there is no single private key that can be directly used to revoke authorization. The team needed to temporarily formulate a revocation process, which took several hours to control the situation.

According to the South Korean semiconductor media THE ELEC, the etching process formula used by Samsung Electronics for semiconductor manufacturing has been reported to flow to the equipment supplier Lam Semiconductor's Korean company. An internal investigation by Samsung found that data transmission beyond authorized limits had occurred multiple times and regarded this matter as a serious technology leak incident. Lam Semiconductor is the equipment supplier for Samsung's semiconductor production line, primarily providing etching and deposition equipment.Data generated during equipment operation is stored in systems such as internal monitoring servers within the factory. According to the agreement between both parties, Lam Semiconductor can obtain some equipment data within a limited scope for performance optimization and maintenance, and its Korean company submits data requests to Samsung. Samsung's investigation revealed that some unauthorized process formulas were transmitted to Lam's Korean company in the form of independent documents, with the related transmissions originating from non-compliant requests, not being a one-time occurrence. Samsung discovered this issue in the second half of this year.The semiconductor process formula records key parameters such as equipment temperature, chamber pressure, gas flow, and processing duration, which directly affect chip yield, performance, and production stability, and are considered core technical data of wafer manufacturing enterprises. Lam Semiconductor's Korean company announced on November 6 that Kim Tae-won would replace Park Jun-hong as CEO. Some industry insiders have linked this leadership change to the data leak incident, but there is currently no public information proving a direct relationship between the two. Neither Samsung Electronics nor Lam Semiconductor's Korean company has responded to inquiries from THE ELEC.

Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn stated that after Bitcoin closed above the 50-week moving average for seven consecutive weeks, it closed below that average this week. Historically, in two similar instances, it did not create new weekly closing lows in a bear market.

According to Bitcoin News citing research from Crypto Briefing, since 2016, whenever the Federal Reserve paused interest rate hikes and then resumed them, Bitcoin has recorded a decline within 30 days after the rate hike, with a median drop of 2.4%. We are currently in this situation: the Federal Reserve paused after raising rates in September and is expected to raise rates again soon.The research points out that the most similar historical case was in 2018, when Bitcoin fell by 42% during the period from the midterm elections to the rate hike in December. Although the sample size is only 7 instances, the current record stands at 0 wins and 7 losses.

According to a research report released by the University of Oregon Blockchain Group (Dorm DAO), the student fund recommends a full investment in the AI mining project Pearl ($PEARL), with a target price of $2.50 to $3.00. Currently, Pearl has a market capitalization of approximately $531 million.The research report points out that Pearl is a Layer 1 public chain that replaces proof of work (PoW) with matrix multiplication, using "proof of useful work (PoUW)," allowing GPUs serving AI to simultaneously ensure network security and earn tokens. The fund views the potential listing expectations on Coinbase and Kraken, the FP8 kernel upgrade (which aims to reduce mining costs to nearly 0%), and the AI computing narrative as three major catalysts.The report also reveals several risks: currently, less than 1% of blocks are running real AI tasks, most of which are meaningless random matrix calculations; the token supply is expected to expand by approximately 86% next year; and the internal holding situation of the approximately 122 million tokens (accounting for 5.8% of the total supply) produced in the early days of the mainnet launch (within 6 days) has not been disclosed, and the project currently lacks a third-party code audit.

On November 6, the crypto research firm Blockworks had several members of its research team announce their departure on Twitter, including Senior Research Analyst Jake Koch-Gallup, Research Analyst Nick Carpineto, Research Analyst Kunal Doshi, Senior Protocol Strategist Silvio Busonero, and founding research team member Westie Revacc.The tweets did not mention the specific reasons for their departure, but Jake Koch-Gallup indicated that it was related to Blockworks' strategic adjustments. "It's sad to see a leading crypto research company shift its focus from research to other directions. I understand the decision to prioritize product development, but I believe independent research is more important than ever, especially as AI makes original human thought and analysis increasingly valuable."On November 3, Blockworks announced the launch of its MCP product, allowing any user to connect Blockworks to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client to start building agents. In June, Blockworks announced the acquisition of the crypto research platform Messari.

Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn stated that after the Democratic Party won both houses of the U.S. Congress, significant progress in key digital asset legislation is still expected to be difficult, and the leadership of congressional committees will also change. He mentioned that Elizabeth Warren may become the chair of the Senate Banking Committee, while Maxine Waters is expected to regain control of the House Financial Services Committee.Several Republican lawmakers who support the crypto industry were defeated, but the pro-crypto camp did not suffer a complete loss. According to Stand With Crypto, 19 pro-crypto senators and 226 pro-crypto representatives have been elected. Tracking by Molly White shows that in 12 highly competitive elections, the side supported by crypto and AI political action committees lost 9, but won all in the safer 40 elections.Reports indicate that House Democrats are discussing expanding Waters' previously proposed "Crypto Investor Consumer Rights Act" into a broader crypto market structure bill. Thorn reiterated that no substantial progress is expected in Congress on key digital asset legislation. In the absence of legislation, the SEC, CFTC, and banking regulators have clarified crypto rules within their existing statutory authority, and the Trump administration still has two years to continue advancing related work.