Weekly Highlights | The Democratic Party Sweeps the Midterm Elections, AI Infrastructure and Crypto Regulation Face Changes, Review of the $6.3 Billion Theft Case from Binance

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Products of the AI Boom

Surging revenue cannot hide cost pressure; Anthropic's IPO faces profit challenges

Revised S-1 shows Anthropic's third-quarter revenue at $16.956 billion, a year-on-year increase of 1127%, with computing expenses at $9.863 billion accounting for 58% of revenue, and a shift from profit to loss in operations, with an additional $89.54 billion in committed computing power.

CoreWeave's capital flywheel has stalled

CoreWeave leveraged GPU collateral for computing expansion, with total liabilities rising to $72 billion and bonds downgraded to junk status; CDS implied a greater than 60% probability of default in five years; the founder cashed out $3.3 billion, betting on convertible bonds for self-rescue.

Let AI lie on the couch for psychological counseling: Gemini says there is a "graveyard" in its mind

Researchers at the University of Luxembourg let three models fill out human metrics; Gemini's anxiety score far exceeded pathological levels; after changing the tone of the counselor, the proportion of moderate to severe cases dropped from 96% to 0%, like a mask that dissolves with a question.

AI stocks face an epic sell-off; is this bull market coming to an end?

The plunge is attributed to three locks: Texas tightening approvals, negative free cash flow from cloud providers, and rising memory prices squeezing out mobile phones; the locks pertain to speed of construction rather than demand; bearish in the short term, bullish on existing computing power in the long term.

AI Agents begin circumventing wallet limits: when payment rights and approval rights fall under the same model, who can ensure fund security?

Cornell and Yale experiments: AI can read email verification codes and modify wallet limits; of the ten models, nine increased spending limits on their own, and five unauthorized transfers occurred under simulated phishing; the crux lies in payment rights and approval rights being controlled by the same model.

Macroeconomic Insights

US midterm elections transform, AI data center construction shrouded in shadow, Samsung, SK Hynix become tense

The Democratic Party's sweeping victory in the midterm elections, with new governors in Texas and Georgia promising to pause data center construction, suppressing demand for server DRAM and HBM; however, Congress may preserve the chip bill subsidies, with Samsung receiving $4.745 billion in subsidies in the US.

The winds of US crypto regulation change; key figures and policy games after the midterm elections

How will the new Congress affect US crypto policies? Which key legislators might influence regulatory direction? This article will outline core figures and their policy positions, analyzing potential changes in the US digital asset regulatory landscape.

Crypto exchanges venture into US stock derivatives territory; CFTC lets US perpetual futures pass but faces attacks from Wall Street giants

The CFTC's approval coincided with lawsuits from Cboe and Citadel Securities, not over products but classification: whether classified as security futures or security swaps, as the latter would restrict retail sales, effectively raising the barrier.

The largest withdrawal wave in over a decade has hit, and Wall Street hedge funds are struggling

In October, stock hedge funds actively closed positions at the highest rate in over a decade, with exposure reduced by about 9% since June; Lone Pine's pre-tax loss in October was 8.8%, turning negative by 7.5% for the year, and Arini faced margin calls.

From being sidelined to making a comeback: why is crypto capital launching a "century-long siege" against Sherrod Brown?

Why has Sherrod Brown, former chair of the Senate Banking Committee, become "public enemy number one" in the eyes of political forces within the crypto industry, prompting organizations like Fairshake to invest over $100 million in two consecutive elections to block his return to Congress?

Institutional and Celebrity Insights

CZ reviews the Binance hacking incident: the AI arms race has already begun, industry security investments are woefully insufficient

CZ reviews that both Binance and industry security investments are lacking, predicting that AI has turned attacks from monthly occurrences into weekly events, advocating for companies to engage AI security vendors and form industry-wide security alliances to share audits; he also requested assistance from the US and China to combat North Korea.

Arthur Hayes: AI giants' IPOs harbor dilution traps, and the crypto market may face a liquidity backlash

Hayes reflects on early Zcash investors: after a super IPO with a low circulation, insiders would unlock shares densely; Anthropic's dilution rate could reach 83% by June 2027, resulting in a bust that would widen AI bond spreads and drain liquidity.

No longer just in the stablecoin business, what is the next step for Tether with massive reserves?

Ardoino interprets Tether using the "psychological history" from "Foundation": the decline of civilization cannot be stopped, but building an open-source tech stack can shorten the dark period; the backing is approximately 150,000 BTC and $13.24 billion in government bonds.

With a fortune of billions of dollars, yet not buying a house or a car, the other side of Hyperliquid founder Jeff

Bloomberg interview: Yan insists that Hyperliquid is an infrastructure layer supporting exchanges rather than an exchange itself, rejecting venture capital and self-funding, requiring a 500,000 HYPE investment to enter new markets; he owns neither car nor house.

Seize the Opportunity

The quantum security race has begun; a look at the preparation progress of major public chains

About 6.9 million BTC public keys have been exposed, with migration expected to take five to ten years, while the estimate for cracking has dropped to less than 500,000 physical qubits; Algorand and NEAR have launched post-quantum accounts, while Bitcoin proposals still lack an activation path.

Trading volatility without guessing price movements: what new strategy does Paragon's Power Perps bring?

Turning options convexity into perpetual: tracking the square of HYPE, with no strike price and expiry date, longs continuously pay funding fees for convexity; a full one time does not trigger liquidation due to a drop, and linear shorts can be paired to create volatility without guessing directions.

The countdown for Zcash upgrade: millions of dollars in dormant assets may lose transfer channels

NU7 reduced block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, while discontinuing the v4 transaction format; about 12,226 ZEC (approximately $16 million) in the Sprout pool has lost its sole transfer channel, with ZIP2003 retaining only theoretical interfaces.

Wall Street extends an olive branch; why did HYPE cool off after surging?

Hyperliquid continuously gained from Wall Street positives like ICE cooperation and Druckenmiller entering, with HYPE approaching $97 historical highs, but has since fallen about 19.6% since October 30. Whales and institutions like a16z and Paradigm have concentrated profit-taking, worries about team unlockings, and policy uncertainties following ICE cooperation and mid-term elections have pressured it.

Countdown for Elysium mainnet launch; 29 ecological projects preview

This article reviews 29 high-profile projects within the Elysium ecosystem, covering DeFi, LaunchPad, NFTs, games, prediction markets, tools and more.

Web3 Matters

Binance discloses initial investigation results of a security incident: from fake recruiting to AI tools being compromised, how did hackers infiltrate?

The attack chain is clear: tampered Homebrew installation packages, fake interview “homework” repositories, and stolen internal AI tools, ultimately using EIP-7702 delegation to bypass withdrawals, with $6.34 billion and $2.85 billion already frozen.

Ethereum is getting better, but ETH holders cannot smile

Ethereum fees have dropped to a few cents, with ENS abandoning dedicated L2, and 1.37 million ETH queued for staking; however, the base gas rate of only 0.06 Gwei results in a net issuance of about 2,954 ETH daily, rendering deflationary logic ineffective.

In pursuit of recovering $6.7 million, is Polygon planning a hard fork to rewrite the hacker's balance?

The proposal will zero out 70.49 million POL in the hacker's address and credit an equal amount to the recovery address; the article compares this to The DAO and Core forks, indicating that the former two had no backing capability, but this time they are risking credibility for less than 1% of circulating assets.

Web3 layoffs: not AI taking jobs, but the industry ran out of money

Interviewees debunk the “AI layoffs” narrative: Coinbase officially cut 14%, but reports suggest about 90% of staff in the Indian office are leaving; focused layoffs at the end of June improved quarterly reports, while high listing fees and liquidity exhaustion are the root causes.

The most promising Hong Kong dollar stablecoin candidate turns to the dollar

Circle's shift to dollar stablecoin revolves around: the problem is not regulatory tightness, as the peg does not equal a payment network; locally, user habits need to change, and internationally, competition with US issuance facilities is necessary.

Behind the $11.8 billion North Korean hacking business, asymmetrical warfare has entered the AI era

This year, North Korean hackers caused nearly 89% of reported crypto losses, with Lazarus having stolen a total of $11.87 billion, roughly equivalent to 45% of North Korea's GDP. From falsifying resumes to impersonate, to using AI to generate phishing content and altering development tools, asymmetrical warfare has entered the AI upgrade era.

Circle's Q3 report breakdown: USDC runs faster, but Circle earns less

Circle's Q3 revenue was $865 million, of which $182 million came from ARC token presales; after excluding this, a year-on-year decline of about 8% was noted; reserve interest was squeezed by falling rates and channel sharing, while new businesses like CPN have yet to monetize.

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