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Polymarket has laid off employees and terminated several contractor agreements as part of a company-wide restructuring this month.

The firm confirmed the cuts follow investor pressure on founder Shayne Coplan to tighten operations after losing its lead to rival Kalshi Inc.

The restructuring coincides with a leadership overhaul, including hiring former Amazon executive Warren Jenson as CFO alongside additions from Goldman Sachs, DoorDash, and Robinhood.

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CORPORATE BITCOIN SELLING HITS RARE SIGNAL SEEN ONLY THREE TIMES

Corporate balance sheets are offloading reserves at an aggressive pace, with 14 publicly traded companies selling or transferring 108,247 bitcoin:native ($8.08B) year-to-date.

“Bitcoin treasury companies in capitulation. Yes this is a good thing historically,” said @caprioleio, founder of @Capriole_fund and BeInCrypto Expert Council member, pointing to the buy-sell ratio dropping below 90% for only the fourth time ever.

Although prior signals in 2019, 2022, and 2024 eventually paved the way for massive 2.1x to 9.6x cycle rallies, historical data shows prices dropped between -11% and -46% before the true floor was confirmed.

[BeInCrypto @beincrypto]

AI that runs entire companies. Chips that connect computers to your brain. Quantum machines that could break today's encryption.

The next 10 years won't be an evolution. They'll be a revolution.

8 technologies that could reshape the world by 2036 👇
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US DOLLAR REACHES 19-MONTH HIGH AS INFLATION RESURFACES

October CPI rising +0.4% pushed CME FedWatch odds for a Dec. 9 rate hike to 87%.

The hawkish repricing sent the DXY to 102.9 and yields above 5%, while gold fell -1% to $3,992.43/oz.

Fed Governor Christopher Waller warned that hiking only 25 bps risks central bank credibility.

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TECH SELLOFF SENDS BERKSHIRE TO 15-YEAR BENCHMARK HIGH

Capital fleeing AI tech plays has triggered an aggressive rotation into defensive balance sheets:

Berkshire Class B: +13.2% to all-time highs
S&P 500: -3.7% (19.2-point spread)
Operating profit: -5.8% to $12.7B

With tech leaders shedding $1.4T, CEO Greg Abel deployed $9.6B into buybacks while anchoring the firm with $377.4B in cash.

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$150B ISRAEL DISCOUNT BANK BRINGS BITCOIN TRADING TO MILLIONS

Retail account holders across Israel will gain direct access to spot $BTC and $ETH markets through their primary mobile banking app starting November 26.

The bank commands $150B in assets as the country's fourth-largest lender, will anchor the integration natively using Fireblocks custody rather than third-party intermediaries.

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TRUMP CLAIMS US TAKING BILLIONS IN VENEZUELAN OIL

Trump claimed that the U.S. is pulling millions of barrels of crude weekly from Venezuela, projecting total value will soon scale into the hundreds of billions.

Addressing foreign involvement, Trump stated that China and Russia ceased local operations immediately after he demanded their departure.

The statements follow ongoing White House claims regarding control over Venezuelan oil production agreements and export flows following the removal of Nicolás Maduro.

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TRUMP CABINET CLASHES IN SITUATION ROOM OVER NVIDIA CHIP PROBE

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Nov. 5 for stalling Megaspeed's blacklisting.

The U.S. Entity List remains frozen for a 13th month under a China trade truce, while Nvidia has shed $700B in market value, per Axios.

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The Bank of Russia will permit approved domestic exchanges to list cryptocurrencies for trading starting November 22.

Retail buyers who pass an exam will be restricted to an annual cap of 300,000 rubles ($3,630), with listings confined to $BTC, $ETH, and $USDT under a $60B historical valuation threshold.

While VTB, Sberbank, and the Moscow Exchange intend to launch trading desks by December 1, clearing operations will run through a clearing house under active U.S. sanctions.

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NYSE PARENT ICE AND OKX TO LAUNCH 24/7 TOKENIZED STOCKS

Eligible U.S. investors will gain round-the-clock access to more than 70 tokenized equities and 59 Direxion ETFs through the OKX app starting November 23.

Assets including Coinbase, Circle, Robinhood, and Strategy will be backed 1:1 by underlying shares with full shareholder rights, executing on permissioned Uniswap v4 pools on X Layer into self-custodial wallets.

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Every trader gets it wrong sometimes. What matters is what comes next. 🎙️

In Bitunix Ultra Talk, @AlvaroSmartM opens up about trading mistakes, tough decisions, and lessons learned along the way.

Hosted by @BeInCrypto.

🎬 Watch the full interview now!

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EVEN AFTER A DEMOCRATIC SWEEP, CRYPTO MAY BE STRONGER IN WASHINGTON.

Former House Financial Services chair Patrick McHenry says the incoming Congress is more pro-crypto than six years ago, in both parties!

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LATEST: The IMF wants Kenya to tighten crypto transaction tracking.

Under the proposed FATF Travel Rule, crypto platforms would have to share sender and recipient identity details when processing transfers.

Kenya recorded $5.7B in crypto transfers in the year to June.

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Bitcoin accounts for just 2% of Kenya's reported crypto transactions, while it makes up 92% of Nigeria's small domestic wallet transfers.

Kenyans moved $5.7B in crypto in the year to June, largely driven by stablecoin use.

What's driving such different crypto habits in the two countries? 🤔

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🚨 The UK Government wants you to prepare for 72 HOURS without essential services.

Food. Water. Cash. Batteries. A radio.

Sounds a bit like the opening scene of a Netflix apocalypse series, doesn't it? 👀

But this isn't fiction.

On October 22nd, the UK launched its "Be Ready" campaign, encouraging households to prepare for three days of potential disruption.

And the question I'm asking is...

What exactly are we supposed to be getting ready FOR?

In my latest BeInFinance video, Mo and I dig into why governments are increasingly talking about emergency preparedness.

And things get interesting when you look at how dependent we've become on technology.

💳 1. WHAT IF YOUR MONEY STOPS WORKING?

Imagine walking into Tesco, filling your trolley and discovering your bank card doesn't work.

No Apple Pay. No Google Pay. No access to your banking app.

Digital banking is incredibly convenient.

Until the infrastructure behind it fails.

✈️ 2. WHAT IF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE GOES DOWN?

Airports, payment networks, hospitals and energy suppliers all depend on interconnected digital systems.

A major technical failure can cause disruption well beyond the system where it started.

🤖 3. AI IS CHANGING CYBERSECURITY.

Artificial intelligence can help researchers discover vulnerabilities that have remained undetected for years.

Unfortunately, attackers can potentially exploit those same capabilities.

What happens when cybercriminals can find weaknesses faster than organisations can fix them?

🌍 4. GEOPOLITICS MAKES EVERYTHING MORE COMPLICATED.

With international tensions, cyber threats and growing dependence on digital infrastructure, governments have plenty of reasons to take resilience seriously.

But does that mean they're expecting something specific?

Not necessarily.

🎒 5. SO WHY 72 HOURS?

The official advice is about having enough essentials to manage during temporary disruption.

Water, food, medication, a torch, a power bank and some cash.

It's guidance, not a mandatory evacuation order.

And there's no evidence the campaign means the government knows a catastrophic event is imminent.

Here's what I find fascinating.

We've built a society where almost everything depends on electricity, internet connectivity and digital payments.

Yet most of us probably couldn't comfortably function for 24 hours if those systems stopped working.

Maybe preparing for 72 hours isn't paranoia.

Maybe it's just common sense.

Although I suspect my emergency supplies would consist of tea bags, loo roll and an unreasonable amount of biscuits. ☕😂

🎥 @beincrypto deep dive, we explore the government's warnings, the growing cyber threat and what happens when our digital infrastructure fails.

👉 https://t.co/aRjlW1KHbL

💬 Do you think the government is being sensible, or is all this emergency preparedness messaging unnecessarily alarmist?

And more importantly... could YOU survive 72 hours without access to your bank account or the internet?

#BeInFinance #CyberSecurity #UKNews #ArtificialIntelligence

[BeInCrypto @beincrypto]

🚨 The UK Government wants you prepared for 72 HOURS without essential services.

No internet. No banking. No card payments. 👀

Is this common sense, or do they know something we don't?

I'm off to stockpile tea bags and loo roll. ☕😂

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