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According to ChainCatcher, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela was arrested by Secret Service agents near the White House on Thursday night. Secret Service agents approached to investigate after spotting him acting suspiciously in a vehicle on Constitution Avenue in Washington. The suspect said voices in his head had instructed him to travel to Washington to assassinate President Trump, and admitted that weapons were hidden in the vehicle.
The Department of Homeland Security said the vehicle had previously been reported stolen. A search uncovered three firearms and dozens of rounds of ammunition, including an AR-15-style rifle and two handguns. The suspect, identified as Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos, entered the United States through Texas in March 2024. He had previously been arrested by U.S. Border Patrol and was later released into the country during the Biden administration.

According to ChainCatcher, a research report published by the University of Oregon blockchain group Dorm DAO recommends that its student fund go all in on AI mining project Pearl ($PEARL), with a target price of $2.50 to $3.00. Pearl currently has a market cap of approximately $531 million.
The report notes that Pearl is a Layer 1 public blockchain that replaces proof of work (PoW) with matrix multiplication. It uses “proof of useful work” (PoUW), enabling GPUs serving AI to secure the network while earning tokens. The fund views potential Coinbase and Kraken listings, an FP8 kernel upgrade (intended to reduce mining costs to nearly 0%), and the AI computing power narrative as its three main catalysts.

According to ChainCatcher, citing Jin10, Trump announced over the past 24 hours that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller will take over as chief of staff on November 9, replacing Susie Wiles; Wiles will join his political action team. Trump also said he plans to continue raising political funds to regain influence after Republican losses in the midterm elections.
On Iran, Trump said he is communicating with Iran and that the U.S. has carried out a “small strike” against the country, destroying a small air-defense system. Two U.S. officials said advisers had told him that the window for another large-scale military operation against Iran was narrowing, and recommended acting before the new Congress, controlled by Democrats, takes office next January.

ChainCatcher news: The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed financial sanctions on eight Canadian money services businesses, saying they had conducted business with sanctioned Iranian entities. The Treasury said the companies facilitated exchanges between Iranian rials and other currencies and digital assets, enabling international transactions. The sanctions will cut these companies off from the U.S. dollar financial system.
The U.S. Treasury Department said these businesses processed transactions for sanctioned Iranian digital asset exchanges and digital asset addresses linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Canada must not become a safe haven for illicit financial operators providing sanctions-evasion services to the Iranian regime and its proxies, and that the Treasury would pursue and cut off the Iranian regime’s financial channels worldwide. The action was coordinated with Canada’s financial intelligence agency, FINTRAC. Some of the sanctioned entities had tried to evade detection by changing their names and addresses.

ChainCatcher reports that CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost noted that the altcoin market capitalization has shrunk by about $200 billion, and around 70% of altcoins on Binance have fallen below the 200-day moving average. From mid-August to the end of September, the market cap of altcoins excluding Bitcoin and stablecoins increased by $320 billion, before a subsequent correction erased most of those gains.
Darkfost said that in mid-August, 82% of altcoins on Binance were below the 200-day moving average. By early October, that share had fallen to 10%, with nearly 90% above the average. Since then, the macroeconomic and political environment has worsened: the U.S., eurozone, and U.K. central banks raised interest rates, midterm election results added uncertainty, and stocks—especially tech stocks—fell sharply, with the Nasdaq down 14% from its recent high.

ChainCatcher News, November 7: Tencent-owned Q&A community Sogou Wenwen and the Wenwen Mall have officially ceased operations. According to the shutdown notice published by the platform in October, both services would cease operations at 23:59 on November 7, 2026. At that time, the relevant pages would no longer be accessible, and the Wemdou redemption function would also be disabled. After the shutdown, user accounts would be automatically canceled, with no action required.
The platform had previously advised users to log in to their personal centers and take screenshots or copy and save their questions, answers, and other personal content accumulated on Sogou Wenwen before the shutdown. After the shutdown, all platform content would be deleted or anonymized in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, including the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China. Sogou Wenwen is a knowledge-based product and interactive Q&A platform under Sogou. Formerly known as SOSO Wenwen, an interactive Q&A community owned by Tencent, it covered dozens of categories, including computers and digital products and gaming, and had over 100 million users.

ChainCatcher reports, citing Crypto Briefing, that Utkarsh Ahuja, founder and managing partner of Moon Pursuit Capital, said Bitcoin’s rebound after the U.S. midterm elections remains a fragile relief rally rather than a confirmed recovery. He noted that Wednesday’s rise reflected relief buying and short covering after the election removed some political uncertainty, but selling pressure returned on Thursday and quickly reversed the recovery. Bitcoin briefly reclaimed $80,000 on Wednesday before falling to around $75,000 on Thursday.
Ahuja believes the market may have already priced in some of the probability of a Democratic victory, so continued weakness in November would not be surprising. He remains constructive on the long-term outlook, saying that if liquidity improves and institutional demand continues to return, Bitcoin could reach the $120,000–$150,000 range by the end of 2027. He said that confirming a sustained recovery would require watching for spot buying, inflows into Bitcoin ETFs, and whether Bitcoin can reclaim lost ground and hold it during pullbacks. He also noted that Democratic control of Congress could delay or reshape legislation such as the Clarity Act, but global liquidity, interest rates, and institutional demand matter more to Bitcoin’s long-term trajectory.

ChainCatcher reports that on November 6, several members of crypto research firm Blockworks’ research team announced their departures in a flurry of posts, including senior research analyst Jake Koch-Gallup, research analyst Nick Carpineto, research analyst Kunal Doshi, senior protocol strategist Silvio Busonero, and founding research team member Westie Revacc, among others.
None of the posts mentioned the specific reasons for their departures, but Jake Koch-Gallup said they were related to Blockworks’ strategic shift. “It’s sad to see a leading crypto research firm shift its focus away from research and toward other areas. I understand the decision to prioritize product development, but I think independent research is more important than ever, especially as AI makes original human thought and analysis increasingly valuable.”

Author: Protos Staff
Translated by: DeepChao TechFlow
DeepChao’s take: Nasdaq tech stocks plunged in a single day this week, while overseas markets even triggered circuit breakers. Yet regulatory filings disclosed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show that months before the sell-off began, executives at Silicon Valley’s hardware and cloud-computing giants had already launched a massive wave of insider selling. Drawing on 282 genuine SEC Form 4 filings, this article unpacks how billions of dollars in capital made a precisely timed exit near the market peak.
A Precisely Timed Mass Exit on the Eve of the Crash
Over the six months from May to October this year, insiders at nine leading publicly traded U.S. AI companies cashed out a combined $7.4 billion in personal holdings as their stock prices neared record highs.

ChainCatcher reports, citing CNBC, that OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said in an interview on the 6th local time that the company’s IPO plans have not been affected, despite the 2026 U.S. midterm elections changing the political landscape in Congress. Friar said the team’s job is to prepare for all kinds of scenarios, and she doesn’t think anything has had a significant impact on the company.
Friar reiterated OpenAI’s goal of going public next year. She said OpenAI will not stop investing in large data centers and is trying to rebrand these facilities as “compute campuses” to meet customer demand and continue raising funds. Friar also said OpenAI’s business is currently in good shape, with revenue up 70% in the third quarter and enterprise sales doubling. She looks forward to OpenAI going public, believing that doing so aligns with its mission to make AI accessible to everyone. “Why should only institutions enjoy these benefits?”

According to ChainCatcher, citing Bloomingbit, Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream said in its third-quarter business update that Bitcoin can prepare for attacks by future quantum computers by adopting new digital signature technologies. The Blockstream team previously published a report comparing three lattice-based signature schemes: Dilithium, Falcon, and Hawk.
Researchers concluded that Falcon-1024 offers the best balance between data size, verification speed, and the maturity of its security foundations, saying, “If we had to choose a lattice-based signature scheme for Bitcoin today, we would choose Falcon-1024.” However, they also pointed out that finalizing the Falcon standard, obtaining verified implementations, and the memory burden on hardware wallets remain key challenges. The team said hash-based signatures are the more conservative choice in the short term. Once Falcon is standardized and implementation technology matures, the two approaches could be combined to improve security and processing efficiency.