Daily Summary, 4 November

Results of the day, November 4

📈 Crypto market and trading
* Tournament of AI-traders: The tournament on trading among AI-models has ended. Into the minus zone went all models, except for DeepSeek and QWEN3 MAX. The worst result was shown by ChatGPT.
* Fear and Greed Index: The indicator fell to the mark of 21, which testifies to the state of “extreme fear” on the market.
* Large liquidation: On the HTX exchange by one order was liquidated a long position for almost $48 million in the BTC/USDT pair.

🏦 Companies and projects
* FTX: The exchange withdrew its lawsuit, in which it tried to limit payments to users from China, Russia, and other “prohibited” jurisdictions.
* Ripple: The company continues aggressive expansion, having spent for the year 2025 over $4 billion on acquisitions. The last one became the purchase of Palisade.
* Strategy: The company again plans to place preferred shares for $3.5 billion for the subsequent purchase of Bitcoin.

⚠️ Incidents and security
* Hack of a DeFi-protocol: The protocol Stream Finance suspended the withdrawal of funds and acceptance of deposits after an “incomprehensible” loss of $93 million.
* Fraud rating: Russia entered the number of worst jurisdictions for victims of crypto-frauds according to the version of researcher ZachXBT. In the anti-rating are also Nigeria, India, and Great Britain.

🌍 Regulation and banks
* Banks of Russia: Russian banks more often block transfers even between accounts inside one bank.
* Crypto-crimes in Kazakhstan: Over two years in the country were initiated over 1000 criminal cases, connected with cryptocurrencies. The damage was estimated at 8 billion tenge (~$15 million).