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According to a report from the Beijing Daily client, the Market Supervision Administration of Haidian District, Beijing, investigated and handled the city's first illegal case of assisting pyramid schemes using blockchain and virtual currency technology, resulting in a technology company being fined and confiscated a total of over 930,000 yuan.The technology company involved is an outsourcing service provider for a certain public blockchain, offering support such as operations, market services, publicity and promotion, exchange docking, and maintenance. This public blockchain launched the "Atomic Plan" and "Hathaway Plan," which are centered around recruiting people for rebates, using the number of recruited individuals as the basis for rebates, and requiring participants to invest funds to obtain membership qualifications. Despite being aware of the pyramid scheme applications associated with this public blockchain, the involved company continued to provide technical operations, external publicity, and maintenance of virtual currency trading channels, facilitating the flow of funds and the spread of activities related to the pyramid scheme.Ultimately, the pyramid scheme activities of this public blockchain were investigated by public security authorities, the organizers were criminally detained, and the involved technology company was administratively punished with a total fine and confiscation of over 930,000 yuan for providing facilitative conditions.

According to Decrypt, James Comer, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee (Republican from Kentucky), has launched an investigation into a proposed company entity in Delaware that would be operated daily by AI entities.In a letter to Delaware Governor Matt Meyer, Comer stated that the proposed "Artificial Intelligence Company" (AIC) could exempt AI companies and their investors from liability for damages caused by AI entities, and he requested the governor to submit relevant documents and communications, including "internal AI chat logs," by November 9.The proposal was announced in July in a joint article in Fortune by Delaware Secretary of State Charuni Patibanda-Sanchez and Norm Ai CEO John Nay, positioning it as a public-private partnership led by Norm Ai.By design, the AIC could sue and be sued, hold property, and assume obligations under the direction of AI entities; its sole member must maintain sufficient capital and is not liable for the company's debts except in cases of incomplete capitalization, fraud, or willful misconduct. The AIC can only operate within a regulatory sandbox for 30 months, must disclose its identity to counterparties, and is prohibited from conducting banking activities.Comer also questioned the role of private sector participants in the proposal, stating that the Delaware AI Commission's report due in December 2025 did not mention a security risk assessment or consult independent experts, and the Secretary of State's office refused to clarify its relationship with an AI company involved in the project.He stated that this information could inform federal legislation, including proposals to limit state-level AI regulatory initiatives. The Secretary of State's office denied that the plan is a liability waiver arrangement, and Governor Meyer defended it, with state legislators expected to review the legislative proposal in January.

Phoenix Technology cites a report from Business Insider, stating that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates mentioned in the latest episode of the "Decoder" podcast that artificial intelligence will create "true abundance," but the next 20 years will be as turbulent as any period in human history, with unprecedented job losses and chaos, resulting in winners and losers.Gates indicated that jobs such as telemarketing, customer service, and accounting will disappear, as AI can perform these tasks more cheaply, quickly, and even more accurately; blue-collar jobs will be taken over by humanoid robots. If not significantly slowed down or stopped, robots capable of building houses, growing food, and performing surgeries will emerge, making human labor unnecessary for most goods and services. He believes that work provides a sense of purpose, income, a reason to attend, relationships with colleagues, and pathways for creativity and problem-solving, while activities such as art, sports, cooking, and parenting can be left to humans in the future.The report also mentions that Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon have proposed shortening the workweek; Elon Musk has predicted that the transition will be "bumpy" and advocates for the government to issue checks to everyone; Dalio Amodi stated that AI is expected to improve quality of life, but the scale of short-term impacts will be unprecedented; Sam Altman mentioned in May of this year that the number of white-collar jobs eliminated by AI is not as high as he expected. Despite concerns that AI will replace jobs and high-profile layoffs at companies like Amazon and Meta, the unemployment rate in the U.S. has not significantly risen during the AI boom.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal has launched an investigation into the payment of approximately $6.3 million by the stablecoin issuer Tether to the consulting firm Nxum. Nxum was co-founded by former White House cryptocurrency advisor Bo Hines, who holds one-third of the company's shares. On October 22, Blumenthal sent a letter to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, requesting the contracts between the two parties, cryptocurrency payment records, wallet addresses, and communication content.Tether is accused of paying Nxum $415,000 per month since May 2025 for strategic communications, lobbying, and public relations services. Blumenthal pointed out that Bo Hines, while serving as the executive director of the White House Digital Assets Advisory Committee, still held shares in Nxum and coordinated affairs with the company through encrypted communication applications. He also questioned whether Tether transferred cryptocurrency through the marketing company Notorious and then allocated funds to Nxum shareholders. Tether began directly contracting with Nxum after August 2025 and hired Bo Hines to oversee the newly established U.S. operations. Blumenthal has requested that Tether, Nxum, and related parties respond by November 6, noting that the relevant allegations have not yet formed a legal determination, and Tether has not publicly responded.

The chief Democratic member of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Richard Blumenthal, sent a letter on Thursday to Tether and its U.S. subsidiary CEO Bo Hines regarding the consulting firm Nxum Group, which Hines co-founded, requesting clarification on the arrangements related to Tether's payments to Nxum. According to The Wall Street Journal, Nxum received substantial payments for providing consulting services to Tether while Bo Hines was still serving as a White House crypto advisor and involved in shaping crypto policies, including those concerning stablecoin issuers.In his letter to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, Blumenthal stated that the unusual terms and nature of the business relationship between Tether, Nxum, and Bo Hines raised serious ethical and legal concerns, implying that Tether likely knew that making payments to a current White House official directly involved in shaping critical legislation for its business was illegal and improper. A Tether spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CoinDesk previously reported that Nxum, as a major campaign advertising supplier for a political action committee associated with Tether, received millions of dollars in revenue, despite having little prior political experience, and recently hired another White House crypto advisor, Harry Jung.Blumenthal has recently focused on the crypto space, including Trump's meme coin, World Liberty Financial, and activities involving Binance, particularly Tether. He has released reports on Tether's financial connections with Iran and questioned its relationship with U.S. financial partner Cantor Fitzgerald. Ardoino criticized Blumenthal this week for ignoring important information and sharing the report with the media before giving the company a chance to respond. The prediction market Kalshi shows a 69% probability that Democrats will regain control of the Senate, and if Blumenthal leads the subcommittee, he will gain greater subpoena and agenda control.

On the 11th, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stated in a television interview that AI is the most dangerous technology ever invented by humanity, with risks exceeding those of cars, airplanes, and pharmaceuticals. He mentioned that the real threat at present is not AI going out of control, as that scenario is still years away from becoming a reality; rather, the more immediate threat is criminals using AI to carry out extortion, manipulate the stock market, and other crimes.Gates indicated that as criminals crack and bypass the security protections of the latest AI models, there will be a significant number of negative events in the cybersecurity field over the next year. He also mentioned concerns about biosecurity, stating that AI has significant implications for fields such as healthcare, but the potential risks still outweigh those of traditional industries that are already under strict regulation. Currently, there is no effective regulatory framework established globally, and within the next year, industry governance will have to move beyond mere self-regulation, while existing resource investments are far from sufficient.According to reports cited by the Financial Associated Press, Ken McCallum, the director of the UK's MI5, stated in the annual threat assessment that AI is exacerbating the cyber offense and defense game and may change the risk landscape of biological weapons. MI5 has announced the establishment of an AI threat assessment center. Additionally, reports indicate that executives from laboratories such as OpenAI and Anthropic have recently privately simulated disaster response plans, believing that a likely scenario involves cyberattacks impacting financial services, internet connectivity, or water and electricity supply.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the prediction market platform Kalshi is investigating betting activity related to "Trump's press secretary candidate" on its platform. Three bets, amounting to approximately $19, $74, and $80, appeared before the reports of Katie Zacharia being selected were published.The report states that the contract ultimately settled at "yes," but it remains unclear whether the related accounts are subject to withdrawal restrictions.

Senior Democratic member of the U.S. Senate investigators, Senator Richard Blumenthal, is continuing to investigate the financial relationship of the stablecoin issuer Tether and has written to Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Brandon Lutnick, requesting information regarding the relationship between the two companies.Brandon Lutnick is the son of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. After Howard Lutnick joined President Donald Trump's administration, Brandon Lutnick took over his leadership role at Cantor Fitzgerald. Cantor Fitzgerald holds and manages Tether's reserve assets in the U.S., and there are several other business interests between the two parties.

According to Politico, citing three informed sources, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating former Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, related to his trading on the prediction market platform Kalshi. The relevant trades occurred between December 2024 and January 2025, completed through a Kalshi account associated with Kinzinger. He confirmed to the media that he had placed bets on contracts regarding whether he would receive a presidential pardon, while also betting on another contract about whether Biden would issue preemptive pardons before leaving office.In the final moments before Biden left office in January 2025, he issued preemptive pardons to Kinzinger and other members of the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot. Screenshots provided by Kinzinger show that he made a profit of $823 from approximately 25 trades, most of which were losses. He denied any wrongdoing, stating that he had been out of office for two years at the time of the bets, was neither a congressman nor a candidate, and had "no insider information." He also stated that he had read Kalshi's rules in advance and understood that they prohibit users from trading contracts directly related to their own interests. Kalshi prohibits users from betting on contracts in which they are direct participants, and the CFTC also prohibits the use of significant non-public information in its regulated markets.Kalshi had previously handled similar cases, suspending three congressional candidates in April for betting on their own campaigns, and freezing former Congressman George Santos's account, which was referred to the CFTC and the Department of Justice, leading to a lifetime ban at the end of August.

According to Bitcoin News, attackers accessed a small number of Blink hosted accounts and withdrew funds.Blink stated that the vast majority of funds remain secure, and non-custodial wallets were unaffected; the Bitcoin payment protocol Spark it uses supports multiple Lightning Network wallets, but it has not yet been confirmed that Spark is the source of this security incident.

The decentralized lending protocol Moonwell is investigating issues affecting the MAMO Core Market on Base. Security firms CertiK and PeckShield have flagged a multi-million dollar exploit incident, estimating losses of approximately $8.7 million.Moonwell stated on X that as a precaution, the borrowing limit for all Core Markets on Base has been set to 1 wei, and the supply limits for MAMO and WELL have also been set to 1 wei. PeckShield noted that the attacker aggregated stolen funds to an address for the DAI stablecoin; CertiK indicated that the attacker manipulated the collateral price of the low liquidity MAMO token and then borrowed real cbBTC from the mCBTC market to carry out the attack, with Blockaid also identifying the same attack mechanism.As a result, the WELL token dropped about 13% in 24 hours, while MAMO fell about 9%. This exploit incident is part of a period of frequent DeFi vulnerabilities since April, during which multiple protocols have been hacked for over $600 million, with the largest being a $292 million exploit of Kelp DAO.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stated in an interview with The New York Times that artificial intelligence poses a serious threat to employment and human life, and addressing the associated risks should become "the world's top priority." He pointed out that the tech industry deliberately downplays these threats due to huge profits, and those who privately understand AI advancements are very concerned, but few executives are willing to admit this in public.Recently, Gates published a nearly 6,000-word article on his personal website, expressing his concerns about AI and proposing solutions such as taxation and bans. He stated that recent advancements in AI have far exceeded expectations, and the industry has ignored milestones that it had previously promised to treat with caution, such as AI going out of control or generating biological weapon formulas, and is currently pushing forward at full speed, hoping that the benefits will outweigh the harms.

According to Bitcoin.com, blockchain analysis company Chainalysis announced the results of "Operation Lighthouse": this multinational operation focused on networks related to Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) crimes, investigating 29,120 cryptocurrency addresses and digital identifiers, covering over 100 surface web and dark web platforms, forums, and distribution networks, generating 14,300 investigative leads, and identifying over 7,700 suspicious accounts and associated suspects across 125 countries.The operation was organized by the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance in New York, involving at least 9 law enforcement agencies, more than 13 private entities and non-profit organizations, including Europol, the Australian Federal Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the National Crime Agency of the UK. Chainalysis stated that the related leads may subsequently result in account restrictions, arrests, and prosecutions, with law enforcement outcomes expected to continue until 2027, and plans to expand this collaborative model to other cryptocurrency crime activities.

According to Jinshi, the Bank of England is investigating the rapid growth of investment banks operating in London with exposure to Asian stocks, as officials hope to avoid highly concentrated bets on a few companies related to artificial intelligence.Hedge funds and other institutional investors are rushing to invest in companies providing key infrastructure for the artificial intelligence semiconductor industry in Asia, such as SK Hynix and TSMC. The Bank of England is concerned that these stocks are gradually becoming an increasingly important part of the positions held by major brokers, with holdings highly concentrated in a few companies.

According to BFM News, the Johor state government of Malaysia has requested the federal government to investigate the Network School, founded by former Coinbase Chief Technology Officer Balaji Srinivasan, due to allegations that some Israeli citizens participated in the project using third-country passports. The Johor state government has asked the Ministry of Home Affairs and relevant law enforcement and security agencies to verify the identities, nationalities, and entry purposes of the individuals involved, and to investigate whether the operation of Network School requires registration or approval under Malaysian law.At the same time, authorities will also review whether the project complies with relevant regulations regarding site permits, building usage, land use, accommodation operations, and commercial activities. If any violations are found, actions will be taken in accordance with the law. It is understood that Network School is located in Forest City, Malaysia, founded by Balaji Srinivasan, and is a private residential community built based on his "Network State" concept, with membership fees starting at $1,500 per month, offering services such as accommodation, dining, fitness, and shared office space.

On-chain security officer Specter stated that after a preliminary investigation into the BONK DAO governance attack incident, there are noteworthy on-chain associations: the founder of Realms and Crypto Notte were both found to have on-chain fund exposure linked to suspected attacker addresses.Specter pointed out that the attacker created a malicious governance proposal through a certain address on June 30, 2026, which required support equivalent to 1% of the circulating supply of BONK in voting rights to pass. Subsequently, between July 4 and 5, the attacker acquired the necessary voting rights through purchases on exchanges and by obtaining loans via marginfi, with the loan amounting to approximately 4 million dollars.

According to CoinDesk, the UK's parliamentary standards watchdog is conducting a formal investigation into Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage for failing to declare a £5 million donation from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. Harborne holds a 12% stake in stablecoin issuer Tether. Farage argues that the donation was used to pay for personal security costs and falls within the exemption for disclosure.If found in violation of the code of conduct, Farage could face suspension. A YouGov poll shows Reform UK leading with a 28% support rate, and Farage is expected to become the next Prime Minister. The UK government suspended political crypto donations in March, and this ban will be written into the Representation of the People Act.

According to The Block, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan pointed out that Circle's Arc, Canton Network, and Stripe's Tempo have recently completed over one billion dollars in financing collectively, with all three financings occurring after the signing of the GENIUS Act in July 2025. Hougan believes that this act has broken the regulatory deadlock that previously suppressed institutional capital entry.Hougan summarized three major signals: first, all three chains have made native privacy transactions a core design to meet institutions' needs for transaction confidentiality; second, the implementation of the GENIUS Act has significantly reduced regulatory uncertainty, with the next key variable being the ongoing Clarity Act, which is expected to benefit stablecoins and tokenized infrastructure; third, the backing of top institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Citadel, BlackRock, Stripe, and Visa behind these three chains stands in stark contrast to the grassroots paths of Ethereum and Solana.Hougan stated that his funds are still primarily betting on native crypto projects and believes that emerging enterprise chains will raise overall competitive standards and attract more capital inflow.