Crypto Pulse

1. Today's Market: The Nasdaq Rose 0.83% and the Dow Fell 0.38%, a Second Straight SplitUnit: %, single-day change on November 3; the readings span positive and negative, so a zero line is drawn and all three share one scale. The Nasdaq reads +0.83%, the S&P 500 +0.36% and the Dow −0.38%. The Nasdaq closed at 25,372.01, 1.21 percentage points ahead of the Dow; the day before, the Dow rose and the Nasdaq fell, and this session flipped it, so the three indexes went two ways for a second st

The AI supply chain filled all six layers on November 3, yet only one of seven items carried a price. Inference provider fal disclosed a Series E and a Series F at once, with the F round at $1.3B on a $16B post-money valuation, and the money went into inference capacity. The same day AMD (Ticker: AMD) posted a record $8.5B data center quarter, while Drax's £20B campus and the New York NAND plant of Solidigm, a unit of SK hynix (Ticker: SKHY), each wait on a permit. AI Supply Chain in Six Layers

Initia halted its layer-1 network and connected rollups on October 23, 2026, at 15:41:30 UTC after detecting a security incident. The project later attributed the event to a vulnerability in its MoveVM implementation that allowed an attacker to create asset balances without valid backing.Bitquery’s transaction analysis estimates that the attacker created balances with a nominal value of approximately US$7.48 million. About US$2.73 million in real assets reportedly left bridge reserves. The two f

The Indonesia Stock Exchange, or IDX, scheduled an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders for October 28, 2026, with an agenda that may open the way for demutualization. The meeting was expected to consider amendments to IDX's Articles of Association, the use of retained earnings through June 30, 2026, and the company's 2027 annual work plan and budget.Demutualization would change the relationship between ownership of IDX and membership of the exchange. Under the existing structure, excha

Bitcoin traded near $81,000 after the Federal Reserve maintained its target rate at 3.75% to 4.00%. MEXC's BTC/USD page showed a 24-hour range between $80,509.18 and $81,906.69 on October 29, 2026. The difference between the low and high was approximately $1,397.51, or 1.74%.The response was limited compared with the volatility that sometimes follows an FOMC decision. Bitcoin briefly approached $81,700, slipped below $80,500, and returned to the $81,000 area after the statement. The move suggest

Indonesia's CFX crypto exchange will change one constituent in the CFX10 Index at 12:00 a.m. WIB on November 1, 2026. Stellar, or XLM, will be removed, while Chainlink, or LINK, will enter in ninth place. The new composition will remain effective through January 31, 2027.The decision uses reference data from July 1 through September 30, 2026. CFX assessed monthly transaction volume, availability across licensed Digital Financial Asset Traders, and global market-cap rankings. Nine constituents re

Mt. Gox has extended its creditor repayment deadline once again. Rehabilitation Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi, with court approval, moved the deadline from October 31, 2026 to October 31, 2027, Japan Standard Time.The change covers the Base Repayment, Early Lump-Sum Repayment, and Intermediate Repayment. The trustee said these repayments had largely been completed for creditors who finished the required procedures and encountered no processing issues. The extension was needed because many creditors

The Federal Open Market Committee kept the federal funds target range at 3.75% to 4.00% at its October 28, 2026 meeting. The decision passed by a 10 to 2 vote. Lisa D. Cook and Beth M. Hammack preferred a 25-basis-point increase.The rupiah strengthened modestly after the announcement. Indonesia's spot exchange rate opened at Rp18,141 per US dollar on October 29, compared with the previous close of Rp18,184, according to ANTARA. The 43-point, or roughly 0.24%, improvement provided limited relief,

The Indonesia Stock Exchange raised the minimum free-float requirement for listed companies from 7.5% to 15%. The amended IDX Regulation No. I-A took effect on March 31, 2026, with transition periods ending between 2027 and 2029.Free float represents the portion of a company's listed shares that may be held and traded by the public while meeting specific eligibility criteria. Shares held by controllers, controller affiliates, directors, commissioners, holders owning at least 5%, the company itse

Indonesia's House of Representatives and the government approved the Employment Protection Bill as a law at a plenary meeting on October 6, 2026. According to the House, the legislation contains 23 chapters and 313 articles covering employment relationships, wages, termination, informal workers, digital-platform workers, and a severance reserve fund.The approval implements Constitutional Court Decision No. 168/PUU-XXI/2023. The Court instructed lawmakers to separate the employment cluster from t