The Bank of Japan will raise annual ETF disposals from 330 billion yen to about 860 billion yen at book value from January 2027, a 161 percent increase approved on Oct 30. The bank estimates the faster pace would take 43 years to sell its end September holdings instead of 112 years. Officials said disposals since January caused no major market impact. The overnight rate target stayed near 1.25 percent.

The Chinese Communist Party has called for tougher measures to combat corruption involving cryptocurrencies and cross-border fund flows.

China's Communist Party has ordered corruption probes into virtual currency, blockchain and cross-border transfers. Adopted October 29, the resolution adds no new law as crypto trading is already banned. Public ledgers aid tracing, as seen in former official Yao Qian's alleged 2,000 Ethereum bribe. The directive also widens scrutiny of officials' family wealth and plans a big-data platform.

China’s Communist Party has directed anti-corruption investigators to pursue graft involving virtual currency, blockchain, cross-border money transfers and the internet, under a resolution published on Sunday. The directive was adopted on Oct. 29 at the party’s closed-door Fifth Plenum. Xinhua’s English translation, about 14,000 words long, mentions virtual currency in a single sentence. It does not change existing law because mainland China already bans cryptocurrency trading. Officials, relatives and intermediaries who hide wealth in digital coins or offshore accounts now face greater scrutiny. The resolution targets white-glove intermediaries who act on behalf of officials and seeks to close revolving-door arrangements in which retired officials move into business. Officials whose family wealth clearly exceeds their income will be investigated, and businesses run by officials’ spouses and children will face routine checks. Public blockchains could prove useful to investigators. Because ledger records are permanent, transfers remain traceable years after execution. Yao Qian, a former senior financial regulator, has been under investigation since April 2024. Yao once headed the People’s Bank of China’s digital currency institute, which developed the digital yuan. CCTV reported in January that a businessman gave him 2,000 Ether in 2018. Chinese media valued the crypto bribes at about 68.3 million yuan ($9.8 million) when Ether peaked. Investigators followed the coins across wallets and later found bank accounts Yao controlled under other names. The resolution also proposes a big-data platform to track how officials exercise power and pledges more work to pursue fugitives and recover stolen assets overseas. It calls for a stronger party presence inside platform companies and high-tech firms, a change investors in China’s tech sector will need to watch. Higher party bodies will supervise party branches within internet companies more closely, and party committees at state-owned enterprises and financial firms will review major business decisions before they are made. The crypto measure adds little new policy. It sets no deadline, names no penalties and identifies no cases. A notice issued in February by eight agencies had already extended China’s cryptocurrency ban to stablecoins and asset tokenization. Despite the crackdown, Beijing is continuing to build blockchain infrastructure. The economic blueprint released in October includes plans for a national blockchain network.

The FBI Cyber Branch confirmed that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was behind last week's major hack on Binance. Changpeng Zhao expressed gratitude to the FBI, the US Secret Service and the IRS for their support in the investigation. The attribution follows an examination of the breach by federal agencies.

50 major U.S. companies have now voiced opposition to the tokenization of their stocks on OKX and the exchange planned by ICE. The companies are: IBM, Dell, Nike, Intel, IonQ, AMD, IREN, Intuit, Nvidia, Oracle, Adobe, Reddit, Eli Lilly, Costco, Verizon, Corning, SanDisk, Carnival, Walmart, Moderna, Alphabet, AppLovin, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Broadcom, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, Qualcomm, Rocket Lab, Wells Fargo, CoreWeave, McDonald's, CrowdStrike, Cigna Group, Arm Holdings, Bloom Energy, Applied Digital, Arcos Dorados, Cisco Systems, Western Digital, USA Rare Earth, Goldman Sachs, Applied Materials, Cerebras Systems, Micron Technology, Palo Alto Networks, Marvell Technology, UnitedHealth Group, Applied Optoelectronics, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Kalshi trader Douglas Campbell has earned over $800,000 and ranks sixth among election traders. Polymarket trader David Bensoussan has profits above $1.5 million and staked over $280,000 on Democrats winning the House, a market at about 94%. Voter canvassing has raised information asymmetry and insider trading concerns, and Polymarket is probing suspicious Israeli election trades this week.

Fairshake has spent nearly $56 million to block Sherrod Brown from returning to the Senate in Ohio, with a Winklevoss backed PAC adding about $7.2 million. Crypto political spending against Brown over two years now exceeds $100 million. Kalshi traders give Brown a 68 percent chance of winning and the same odds Democrats retake the Senate, which could decide crypto market structure bills.