Two clusters dominated the hour. The first is the aftermath of the $6.3 billion Binance heist, with the exchange back online and seeing outflows stabilise ¹. It ran a phased restoration of withdrawals: BTC after a security review ², SOL ³, ZEC ⁴, and the Arbitrum and TRX networks ⁵. A 200 million USDT transfer to an unknown wallet drew attention ⁶. A separate infrastructure failure fed into the theft story. A one-block Ethereum reorg made THORChain pay out 10 ETH that a vault never received, and its solvency checker then halted trading on 10 chains ⁷. Chainalysis says that halt may have slowed funds stolen from Binance ⁸. Separately, BtcpayServer urged operators to shut down their instances over reports of hot wallets being drained ⁹. The second cluster is the U.S. midterms, now days away. Rep. Haley Stevens, who lost the August Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed ¹⁰, revoked her endorsement of him just before Election Day and backed Republican Mike Rogers ¹¹. Reps. Lateefah Simon and Marc Veasey are among House Democrats pushing to strip her of caucus membership ¹⁰. Gavin Newsom called the move 'sub-optimal' ¹², and some Michigan Jewish Democrats have disavowed her ¹³. Trump is campaigning in Dubuque, Iowa, where polls show a toss-up in a reliably red state ¹⁴. European allies fear that a Republican loss could lead Trump to escalate attacks on NATO, including a deeper troop pullback. U.S. law currently sets a minimum of 76,000 troops in Europe, and a force review is expected by December ¹⁵. Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy was hospitalized after a stroke and is reported awake and responding well to treatment . In Asia, China's manufacturing readings diverged. One private survey showed expansion slowing for the first time since July on weaker export orders ¹⁶, while another described steady October expansion with exporters reporting higher sales ¹⁷. The PBOC made daily overnight reverse repos its main policy anchor ¹⁸. Chinese stocks rebounded from their worst sell-off in 10 years on speculation of state support ¹⁹. Australian capital-city home prices fell 1.4% in October and sit 8.1% below their March peak, with the RBA expected to lift its cash rate to 4.85% on Tuesday ²⁰. On security, Ukraine says its air alert app was likely compromised after false radiation warnings in Kyiv, while Russia says its own emergency app was hit ²¹. Washington is backing resumed Russian gas flows to Europe via Ukraine as a path to an energy truce ²². The Quad announced measures to secure critical minerals and advanced chips ²³. Western Australia's police said a facial recognition trial scanned 1,380,882 faces and led to 122 arrests ²⁴.