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An analysis of federal filings shows wealthy cryptocurrency executives have collectively spent more than $56 million so far during the current US election cycle. The spending forms part of the crypto industry's $175 million election effort, but substantial amounts support priorities beyond digital assets. Gemini co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have contributed nearly $13 million each, mainly to the principal super PAC supporting President Donald Trump. Ripple Labs co-founder Chris Larsen has spent at least $14.6 million, primarily supporting Democratic-aligned groups and groups focused on specific policy issues. The totals exclude donations to political nonprofits that do not disclose donors.

Binance announced on October 27 that its security team had blocked multiple North Korea-linked cyberattack threats over the past week without system damage or asset losses. Binance warned that an ongoing social engineering campaign called "Contagious Interview" may exploit job interviews, coding tests and software installations. Binance advised users not to install unauthorized software or execute code from unknown sources.

Marinade said Agave 4.3.2 nodes running Alpenglow skip about half the slots in each epoch's first block-production window. The code correcting the issue has been merged but remains unreleased. Until the corrected version becomes available, Protected Staking Rewards (PSR) will exempt affected slots from validator margin deductions. Staking Auction Market (SAM) will also exclude those slots from uptime failures during that period.