🌊 Democrats sweep midterms in blue wave

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• Democrats seize control of both the House and Senate in the midterms — Crypto’s $64M+ campaign spend fails to stop Sherrod Brown’s Senate return while pro-crypto House Republicans including Steil, Nunn and Wagner lose seats

• Gold and silver prices surge after the Democratic sweep, adding a combined $1T in market cap

• Circle posts Q3 revenue of $865M and EPS of $0.84, beating estimates

• Oracle cancels $7B AI chip leasing deal with Tencent after US pressure

• AI startup Fal raises $1.3B led by Bessemer, doubling its valuation to $16B

• CFTC approves first equity perpetual futures contracts for trading on US exchanges

• ZachXBT says the $130M hack target was French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa

• Morgan Stanley becomes one of first banks to tokenize assets via DTCC's new service

• Apple updates its insider trading policy to bar employees from using confidential information to trade on prediction markets

• Jack Dorsey’s Block beats estimates as it posts Q3 revenue of $6.72B — Reaches deferred prosecution deal with DOJ, settling money laundering case for $764M

• Palantir posts Q3 revenue of $2.31B, beats estimates, and raises full-year guidance