Bain Capital Chair John Connaughton expects $30 billion of exits this year, according to Bloomberg. He said he is optimistic about the firm’s Asia business and hopes to build momentum with exits in China. Connaughton spoke with David Ingles and Yvonne Man on the sidelines of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit.

Palm oil futures fell for a third straight session to their lowest level since mid-June as concerns mounted over swelling stockpiles in Malaysia, the world’s second-biggest grower, Bloomberg reported.

According to Nikkei Asia, RTHK and NOWNEWS, Asian stocks came under pressure on Wednesday morning as U.S. midterm vote counting suggested the Democratic Party was poised to take control of the House of Representatives while also leading in the Senate. Japan's Nikkei 225 stood at 60,323.49 as of 04:32 UTC, down 2,758.37 points, or 4.37%, after touching a more-than-three-month low earlier in the morning. Advantest fell 9.09% and Tokyo Electron dropped 7.33%. South Korea's KOSPI fell in tandem, standing at 5,468.05 as of 04:32 UTC, down 180.74 points, or 3.20%. SK Hynix dropped 5.72% and Samsung Electronics declined 3.87%. Hong Kong stocks traded in a narrow range. The Hang Seng Index opened lower and fell as much as 140 points to a low of 23,385 before recovering toward noon, ending the morning session at 23,529, up 3 points, with main-board turnover above HK$87.7 billion. The Hang Seng Tech Index was at 3,828, down 1%, with JD.com and Alibaba each down nearly 2%. Automakers and AI large-model stocks weakened, as XPeng, NIO, Li Auto, MiniMax and Zhipu fell between more than 3% and about 4%. Chip and pharmaceutical stocks rose, with BeiGene, WuXi Biologics and WuXi AppTec up nearly 5% or more and SMIC up more than 2%. Taiwan's TAIEX opened higher at 43,449.45, up 141.91 points, before turning lower; it stood at 41,950.86 at 03:40 UTC, down 1,356.68 points, or 3.13%, breaking below 42,000. As of 04:32 UTC, the index was at 42,386.33, down 921.21 points, or 2.13%. TSMC fell 1.96% and MediaTek declined 3.40%. In mainland China, as of 04:32 UTC, the Shanghai Composite ended the morning session at 3,604.37, down 0.10%, while the Shenzhen Component rose 0.14% to 10,891.91 and the CSI 300 edged up 0.04% to 4,010.35.

Thailand's Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas said there are no plans to raise the public debt ceiling and that the current limit of 70% of GDP is reasonable. According to Sina Finance, Ekniti said at an economic forum on Wednesday that his task is to reduce public debt as a share of GDP and maintain fiscal discipline. As of the end of September, public debt stood at 68.6% of GDP. The government plans to use some remaining funds from a 200 billion baht borrowing program to encourage the transportation sector to switch to cleaner fuels. The government had previously approved allocating 73 billion baht from the program, mainly to fund a household rooftop solar subsidy program. Citing rising travel costs and the need to support tourism and attract more foreign visitors, the Finance Ministry has suspended plans to impose an exit tax of about 1,000 baht.

French crypto market intelligence firm OAK Research published a report on October 30 titled “Stablecoins Generate Huge Revenue, but It Is Not Flowing to Public Blockchains,” authored by Lilian Aliaga. According to ChainCatcher, the report found that stablecoin issuers earned far more than the public blockchains hosting their tokens. Stablecoin market capitalization has grown from $4 billion in January 2020 to about $298 billion currently, after reaching $310 billion at the end of April this year. The market is now more than three times the total value locked in DeFi. In the third quarter of 2026, Tether and Circle generated about $2.1 billion in combined revenue, while fees across the 13 blockchains tracked by OAK totaled $285 million. The report said issuers primarily earn interest on reserve assets, while blockchains collect transaction fees and do not generate revenue from stablecoin balances held on their networks. Circle reported $701.3 million in total revenue in the second quarter of 2026, of which reserve income accounted for 95%, or $667.7 million, up just 5% year over year. Over the same period, USDC on-chain transaction volume rose 151% to $14.8 trillion, and its average supply increased 25%. Circle’s reserve yield fell 66 basis points to 3.49%. Tether’s average supply grew 10.6% year over year, while DefiLlama estimates its quarterly revenue at about $1.5 billion. In the third quarter of 2026, Ethereum hosted an average of $146 billion in stablecoins but collected only $34.6 million in fees. Solana hosted less than $16 billion and collected $62.9 million in fees, of which just $6.7 million remained with protocols. In the first quarter of 2024, Ethereum fees reached $1.17 billion, exceeding the approximately $730 million in issuer revenue associated with its stablecoin holdings. By the third quarter of 2026, issuer revenue was about $986 million, while Ethereum fees were $34.6 million. Stablecoins currently account for about 28% of deposits on Aave, 37% on Morpho, and 84% on Hyperliquid.

Indian companies cut dollar purchases to hedge against rupee weakness to an eight-month low, a sign the Reserve Bank of India’s crackdown on what it called speculative bets against the currency is yielding results, according to Bloomberg.

The Polymarket probability that Republicans will hold fewer than 170 House seats after the midterm elections rose to 28%, up 27% over 24 hours. According to Odaily, the probability of Republicans winning 170 to 174 seats also reached 28%, rising 25% over the same period.

米中間選挙当日、予測市場では民主党が上下両院を制する確率を82％と予測し、賭け金総額は14億8000万ドルを超え、過去最高を記録した。これらの予測が的中するかどうかは、この新興産業の信頼性を左右するだろう。

Kenya could boost gross domestic product by more than a fifth within a decade and significantly reduce debt as a share of GDP if it tackles corruption, the World Bank said, according to Bloomberg.

UbuntuおよびRed Hatシステムにおいて、ほぼ完璧なLinuxカーネルの脆弱性が未修正のまま残っている。Anthropicが開発した未公開の大規模モデルは、この脆弱性を巧妙に悪用し、リモートからroot権限を取得できる高リスクのエクスプロイトチェーンへと変換することに成功した。

モバイルインターネットが急成長していた頃、配車サービスやフードデリバリーサービスは、利用習慣を定着させるために補助金に頼っていた。金利引き上げを伴うステーブルコイン投資も同様の戦略をとっている。まず資金を集め、その後収益向上を目指すのだ。

バイナンスは10月29日、ハッカーが偽の求人面接、悪意のあるソフトウェア、および社内AIツールを使用してシステムに侵入し、11のブロックチェーンにわたって約64億3000万ドル相当の仮想通貨を盗んだことを明らかにした。

将来的には、モデルサービスプロバイダーは、回答やトークンだけでなく、「これは確かにあなたが指定したモデルによって生成されたものである」ことを証明する暗号化された認証情報もユーザーに提供するようになるかもしれない。

持続不可能なAI債務 ― 設備投資の狂乱、収益の遅れ、そして債権者リスク。

米国商品先物取引委員会（CFTC）のマイケル・S・セリグ委員長は、個別株の永久先物契約が、米国証券取引委員会（SEC）への二重登録も完了した指定契約市場で初めて上場・取引可能になったと発表した。

Aaveは、DeFi業界全体を変革する可能性を秘めたものを推し進めている。

バイナンスは10月29日、セキュリティインシデントに関する予備調査結果と対応策についての最新レポートを公開し、約63億ドル相当の資産が盗まれた攻撃の手口を明らかにした。

従来の金融がブロックチェーン上に市場を構築し、規制当局がブロックチェーンの透明性を認め始め、CEX（中央集権型取引所）も検証可能なオンチェーン方式を用いて自らの正当性を証明するようになると、CEXかDEX（分散型取引所）かによって勝者を区別することが難しくなるかもしれない。