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Spot BTC ETFs are down about $870M on the week as traders debate whether the equity-driven dip resolves with a bounce.

Stifel sees the Clarity Act path as basically shut, while the FT reports Democrats eyeing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve expansion to court crypto voters.

Binance says it has replenished about 98% of assets from its Oct 29 breach. A reported cyberattack hit France's blood service freezers, and Privacy Cash paused deposits in response to the Binance hack.

Crypto commentators call the Democratic sweep neutral-to-bullish and say BTC held after the last major uncertainty passed. ETF flows are still negative and traders watch $74K support and $79K resistance.

Justin Sun moved to sanction World Liberty Financial over late disclosure of UAE citizenship, tied to a UAE $2B Binance investment settled in USD1.

Ardoino says Tether holds about 150K BTC, roughly 50K more than its reserve report implied, while Justin Sun moved to sanction World Liberty Financial.

Tomorrow's midterms are drawing crypto industry money and organizing, with the Clarity Act's fate hanging on the new Congress.

THORChain halted swaps after an Ethereum reorg, the Pando Rings hacker is laundering ETH via Tornado Cash, and a Swedish grocer reports a cyberattack that set freezers to 50°C.

Binance is restoring withdrawals in phases after a hack described as roughly $5B. Bitcoin came first, then USDC, USDT, ETH and BNB on Ethereum and BSC.