Cointime reports: A Hyperliquid trader closed a crude oil long position worth about $56.6 million on November 5, taking a $5.82 million loss. The same address still holds a leveraged Brent crude long of roughly $95.7 million, with an unrealized loss of about $7.06 million and a liquidation price of $82.33. The account’s cumulative profit and loss stands at a loss of $13.79 million.
Cointime update: Binance Wallet has adjusted the distribution rules for the PREDICT airdrop, keeping the original five distribution dates and corresponding questionnaire deadlines unchanged: the token listing day, November 6, 2026, November 13, November 20 and November 27. If PREDICT launches after any scheduled distribution date, that date and all previously undistributed airdrop batches will be consolidated and issued in the first batch after listing. Users do not need to resubmit questionnaires, and eligibility for each batch remains determined by the original questionnaire deadlines.
Cointime update: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said crypto exchanges’ top priority over the next two years should be survival rather than competing for market advantage, warning that frequent industry hacks could prompt regulators to intervene and impose stricter operational and security obligations. He also acknowledged the continued growth of India’s developer ecosystem.
Cointime update: France’s National Assembly rejected the revenue section of the 2027 budget in a first reading on November 5 by 458 votes to 0, with 2 abstentions. Crypto-related amendments previously passed were therefore left out of the government’s original budget text sent to the Senate. The affected proposals include taxing gains from converting crypto assets into stablecoins and requiring taxpayers to declare self-custodied crypto assets worth at least €100,000. The measures could still be reintroduced in the Senate and must clear further legislative steps to become law.
Cointime reports: Trader James Wynn holds a roughly 0.24 BTC short position at 40x leverage worth about $19,300, Arkham data shows, with an entry price of $80,429 and a liquidation price of $81,373. The position showed about $26 in unrealized profit at the time of the screenshot, and Arkham said his account holds about $500. Wynn’s earlier short of about 1.256 BTC was already liquidated.
Cointime update: Bitcoin treasury company DDC Enterprise (DDC) has launched an initial public offering of preferred stock under the ticker SAVOR, priced at $20 per share with an annualized dividend of 13.5% paid daily. The offering is expected to raise $24 million, with proceeds earmarked for repaying convertible notes, funding a dividend reserve account and adding to its BTC holdings.
Cointime reports: US cloud computing stocks declined in pre-market trading, with CoreWeave down 1.6%, Nebius down 2.8% and IREN down 1%. The moves came ahead of the market open as investors weighed the sector’s recent run.
Cointime update: Vitalik Buterin said on Nov. 5 that Ethereum will use frontier technologies, including GPUs, in the coming years to process multiple tasks in parallel while preserving decentralization. The Ethereum Foundation will focus on its strengths, supporting developers on technical capability, security, privacy and openness, while areas beyond its expertise will be left to users and the community to explore.
Cointime reports: Robinhood Chain’s total value locked surpassed $1.07 billion as of November 3, 2026, with cumulative DEX volume reaching $120.46 billion. The chain crossed $100 billion in Uniswap volume in just 125 days of mainnet operation. Top TVL protocols are Morpho at $582 million, Uniswap at $280 million and Lighter at $112 million. Robinhood and Arbitrum also opened a $1.8 million developer grant pool, with applications due December 6, 2026.
Cointime update: South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lee Hyung-il said on November 5 that the government will postpone the levy of virtual asset income tax by two years to 2029 and expand infrastructure to effectively tax overseas transactions. Lee said that after 2029, if virtual asset transaction information is obtained from the United States, authorities will have sufficient data to tax investors using US exchanges. The government will form and operate a public-private joint task force on digital asset taxation and accelerate digital asset legislation.
Cointime update: GitBook disclosed that an attacker exploited a vulnerability in its SSO login flow on November 2 to forge an employee session, accessing production keys and gaining full infrastructure privileges via a misconfigured GitHub App. The company contained the breach by November 3, with service restored after about 16 hours of downtime. GitBook said billing information, passwords and IP addresses were not exposed, and is treating all customer data as compromised.
Cointime reports: Jupiter ranked first among cross-chain DEX aggregators by trading volume in the third quarter of 2026, holding the top spot for an eighth consecutive quarter despite operating only on Solana. DefiLlama rankings placed DFlow second, followed by 0x Protocol, KyberSwap, OKX DEX, LiquidMesh, Uniswap, CoWSwap, 1inch and Binance Wallet.
Cointime update: Digital asset insurance specialist Soter Insure has added Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures and Japan’s SBI Group as strategic investors in its Galaxy-led Series B, with Token Bay Capital also increasing its investment. The second closing follows a first close in July that included Coinbase Ventures, Franklin Templeton and Brevan Howard Digital. No funding amount was disclosed.
Cointime reports: A newly created wallet received a total of about 6,277 ETH, worth roughly $14.76 million, from a Binance hot wallet in two transfers on November 5. The transfers comprised 3,000 ETH (about $6.8 million) and 3,277 ETH (about $7.96 million).
Cointime update: South Korea’s finance minister Lee Hyoung-il said on Nov. 5 that the government plans to postpone its crypto gains tax by two years to 2029 from 2027 and will negotiate with the National Assembly to advance legislation. The government aims to refine domestic and cross-border crypto taxation before starting tax information exchanges with the U.S. in 2029. Under the current plan, gains above 2.5 million won ($1,869) a year are taxed at 22%, and the government will study allowing losses to be carried forward for three years.
Cointime update: South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb will list the MAGMA token on its Korean won market, the exchange said in an official announcement. The exact timing for the start of trading will be confirmed in a separate announcement. Bithumb did not disclose further details on the listing.
Cointime update: Binance will adjust the dividend on its SAMSUNGUSDT USD-margined perpetual contract at 14:00 Beijing time on Nov. 6, 2026, at 1,001 Korean won per share, equivalent to -0.037336%, the exchange said. The adjustment, expected to take about 30 minutes, applies only to users holding net positions on the ex-dividend date of 07:00 Beijing time on Sept. 29, 2026. Eligible users can view the amount under “Special Funding Fee” in their funding records.
Cointime update: HTX will run a ‘Top 10 Trading Opportunities’ learning and trading campaign from Nov. 5 to Nov. 19 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 10 billion $HTX. Users who register at no cost can join a BTC up-or-down prediction contest that rewards participation regardless of outcome, and a hot-coin trading competition with a $15,000-equivalent $HTX pool, where the champion takes $3,000. HTX’s daily research column has published 51 issues with a 59.6% directional hit rate.
Cointime reports: Short-term Bitcoin holders transferred 28,690 BTC in profit to exchanges over the past 24 hours, analyst Darkfost said on November 5, as BTC broke above $80,000. Despite the profit-taking, Bitcoin closed the day above $80,000 and held above its 21-day and 50-day exponential moving averages, a positive short-term technical signal.
Cointime update: Huobi HTX listed the FTNT/USDT perpetual contract on November 5, offering up to 20x leverage for both long and short positions. The exchange announced the listing in an official notice, with the contract supporting 1x to 20x leverage. FTNT is now available for trading on the platform’s derivatives market.