Foresight News posted on X (formerly Twitter), reporting that financial institutions are exploring Web3-related products and services despite a limited presence of dedicated Web3 companies at 2026 Hong Kong FinTech Week. The report counted seven companies focused solely on Web3 and said its author spoke with industry participants from Mirae Asset, Elephant Bank, China Asset Management, Futu, Waffo, Deloitte and Standard Chartered. Mirae Asset Securities plans to introduce a new real-world asset (RWA) product, according to one of its employees. The firm recently issued tokenized financing notes on Solana. Cross-border payments company Waffo has seen demand for stablecoin payment collection services from the short-drama industry. A company employee said this demand has emerged over the past year as the AI short-drama sector has grown, alongside payment needs in areas such as foreign trade, gaming and livestreaming. Hong Kong-licensed digital bank Elephant Bank supports buying and selling Bitcoin and Ether, bringing virtual-asset trading into its banking services. An interviewee from New Huo Group said its RWA arbitrage product has been operating with real funds for more than two months. According to figures disclosed by the company, it has an annualized return of 14.5% and a maximum drawdown of 0.29%. The report said some digital-asset financial firms are exploring strategies that combine traditional financial assets with on-chain trading mechanisms.

Jim Cramer said Friday’s October nonfarm payrolls report could erase much of the stock and crypto rally after Democrats won control of Congress. The data could shift Fed rate-hike expectations, according to BeInCrypto, with CME FedWatch pricing an 82% chance of a December hike, up from 77.4% a day earlier. U.S. stocks added about $1.2 trillion in value; the Dow rose 3.03%, the S&P 500 1.58% and the Nasdaq 1.44%, while the total crypto market gained nearly 2%. Economists polled by Reuters expect 65,000 new jobs in October, versus 29,000 in September, and unemployment at 4.2%.

The actual differences between the Democratic and Republican parties in the US regarding the crypto industry may not be as significant as the market perceives.

Even before Anthropic has gone public, discussions about arbitrage surrounding ANT have already heated up.

The Democratic sweep of both houses of Congress has put considerable political pressure on Trump and has also brought new uncertainty to cryptocurrencies, which had previously benefited from Republican policy support.

The Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the US midterm elections, sweeping both houses of Congress and unleashing a long-awaited blue wave. However, the fate of A-shares and US stocks is not the same.

Arthur Hayes: Every major central bank, monetary and fiscal authority will print money to avert a crisis. That would be incredibly lucrative for Bitcoin and crypto hodler. But be patient.

Anthropic, OpenAI, IPO, computing power, financing. Anthropic's IPO has not been withdrawn, but the shrinking trillion-dollar AI bubble has scared Wall Street. Golden Finance: The largest IPO in tech history, is the bubble about to burst?

Bitcoin recovered above $80,000 following the Democrats' victory in the US midterm elections, but the political shift could complicate the cryptocurrency industry's efforts to secure clearer federal regulations.

OpenAI has added GIF creation to ChatGPT with its new Images 2.6 release, letting users turn a prompt or photo into an animation they can speed up, edit frame by frame and share. The update, launched on 4 November 2026, also brings faster image generation and two new developer models, though some accounts have yet to receive the GIF feature.

Regardless of who is in power, the US government will not stop printing money, which foreshadows a significant rise in the prices of various assets. Gold and Bitcoin are the most obvious examples, while money printing also benefits stocks and other major asset classes.

Analysis of the Democratic Party's sweep of both houses of Congress in the 2026 US midterm elections and its global strategic impact.