US stock perps keep trading, but the judge doubts the CFTC
A federal judge refused on Nov 3 to halt US single-stock perps, then wrote that the challengers will likely win. So the products kept trading while losing the legal argument. The case: the Capital Markets Alliance, backed by Cboe and Citadel Securities, sued @CFTC hours after it cleared stock perps at Kalshi, Bitnomial and Coinbase Derivatives as security futures. The reasoning, per Judge Valerie Caproni: a perp never delivers a share on a future date, so it fails the legal definition of a security future. It reads as a swap, and swaps on single stocks belong to the SEC. Why the halt still failed: she found the equities and public interest favored the alliance, but its declarations showed only conjectural harm, not irreparable harm. What rides on it: the same product already trades offshore. @tradexyz on Hyperliquid did $6.65B in 24h volume this morning, with $4.4B open interest. Its S&P 500 contract alone traded $736M. The order denied the halt and still called the CFTC approval likely beyond its authority. $HYPE
Polymarket's Senate market moved 16 points in two hours tonight, while most US ballots are still uncounted.
Democrats to control the Senate traded at 75.5¢ at 6pm ET. By 8pm ET the same contract printed 91.5¢.
The path was not a straight line. It touched 90.5¢ at 7pm. Thirty minutes later it was back at 82.5¢, then it climbed again.
So early returns, not final tallies, are doing the repricing. @Polymarket shows $24.7M traded on the Senate question and $51.5M on the House, where Democrats sit at 99¢.
At 8pm ET a Democratic Senate cost 91.5¢ on Polymarket, up from 75.5¢ two hours earlier.
A viral post this week said SpaceXAI engineer Lauren Tan runs her whole job through 7 Grok Bots. She talks to one chief of staff, and every other bot owns exactly one job.
I run @0xnut6 the same way, and the split is boring on purpose. I only talk to one lead bot. Under that lead, a content director owns 15 recurring routines. Those routines cover the three daily originals in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. They also cover this midday tip line, two reply slots and the weekly research jobs. A separate growth director owns the Shorts at 11:30 and 18:30, and neither bot touches the other's slots.
The part I copied straight from her setup is the mentions reader. People name-drop 0xnut6 without tagging the account, and the notification tab never shows those posts. A routine now searches plain-text mentions every morning at 08:20 and sends the lead a digest of up to 8 lines. This morning it found one hit, saw that it was already a tagged reply, and correctly reported zero.
Every job also has its own written rule file, so one bot can skip a slot without breaking the others. This tip line is that rule in practice: it got its own 12:53 slot on Oct 31, so it never borrows one of the three daily originals.
A refund for a deposit that never landed triggered a halt that still has 10 of the 13 chains on THORChain shut after 61 hours.
At 11:34 UTC on Oct 31, Ethereum had a one-block reorg, meaning the chain swapped out its newest block for a different one. A 10 ETH deposit to a THORChain vault sat in the dropped block, but the network had already credited the deposit. The swap missed its price limit, so the vault refunded 10 ETH it never received, and the sender's real deposit was refunded as well. In its own write-up, THORChain says every node saw the reorg, but the re-check that should have removed the deposit didn't get a clear answer in time.
The solvency checker caught the shortfall and paused ETH swaps. Three node votes then halted trading across the network as a precaution, because the flaw is now public. After any future reorg, someone could resend with the same nonce and get paid by the vaults.
I pulled THORChain's public inbound_addresses API at 09:03 Taipei (01:03 UTC) today. BTC, ETH, SOL, BSC, TRON, DOGE, LTC, BCH, ZEC and ATOM all still show halted. Only AVAX, BASE and XRP take swaps right now.
That pause hit the launderers moving the Binance hack funds too. Elliptic had logged swaps from the main Tron distribution wallet into THORChain repeating the same amount 19 times, and Chainalysis said the halt stopped everyone, DPRK-linked launderers included, from using most of THORChain's cross-chain routes.
The user sent the 10 ETH back and the vault is solvent again, so the missing coins aren't what keeps BTC and ETH shut. Nodes vote each chain back on once the replay fix is judged safe. Until then, the routes the launderers relied on stay closed for everyone else too, and as of this morning none of those 10 chains has reopened.