Apple restricts employees from participating in prediction markets and prohibits betting using the company's insider information.

Franklin Templeton’s Head of Fixed Income for Australia, Andrew Canobi, said the initial reaction of financial markets to the U.S. midterm elections can be summed up as a slight shift of funds from stocks to bonds, showing a certain risk-averse tendency. He added that if the Democrats take control of Congress, markets may view this as a constraint on U.S. President Donald Trump’s growth agenda, especially in the fields of artificial intelligence and resources. Additionally, as traders believe the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) may be nearing the end of its interest rate hikes, Australia’s three-year government bond yield has fallen by 15 basis points since the start of this week. (Jin10)

Beating AI News Flash: OpenRouter has launched a new anonymous model, Crouton Alpha, which is currently free to use and features a 1 million-token context window. It supports text, image, audio, and video processing, as well as inference and tool calling, and is primarily designed for high-frequency AI Agent tasks. OpenCode has also integrated the model, offering one week of limited free access. The community speculates that Crouton Alpha is a new model from Meta’s Muse series. Developers have noted that Crouton Alpha’s regional restrictions closely match those of Meta’s model APIs, and its inference parameters are also highly similar. Some testers used a rare Japanese term to evaluate the model, and found it made the same error as the Muse series, while 93 other models did not. However, Crouton Alpha’s token counting does not align with existing Muse models, so its true identity remains unconfirmed.

Progress in U.S.-Iran talks continues to sway the crude oil market. After a sharp earlier decline, international oil prices remain under pressure. On November 3, WTI crude oil and Brent crude oil futures closed at $96.09 and $103.60 respectively, hitting their lowest closing levels in nearly four weeks. According to TradingBeats monitoring, the Hyperliquid whale (0x0cc1) — which added to its Brent crude positions against the trend ahead of the U.S. midterm elections — has not reduced its long positions in WTI and Brent crude to date. As of press time, the account’s combined long positions in both crudes are worth approximately $144.5 million, with unrealized losses expanding to $3.8417 million. The whale currently holds: - WTI crude oil: valued at approximately $55.2517 million, average entry price of $98.2, unrealized loss of roughly $1.8168 million, liquidation price of $73.06. - Brent crude oil: valued at approximately $89.2298 million, average entry price of $105.03, unrealized loss of roughly $2.0249 million, liquidation price of $87.96. Both positions are set to 10x full leverage. Calculated based on the account’s unified USDC collateral equity, the current effective leverage is approximately 8.98x. Due to shared margin, if both crudes fall in tandem, the account’s equity and actual liquidation level will also change accordingly. On the news front, U.S. midterm election vote counting is intertwined with progress in U.S.-Iran talks. A November 3 Reuters report states that Qatar is stepping up mediation to avoid a renewed post-election escalation of tensions, but there remain significant gaps between the U.S. and Iran toward reaching an agreement. The earlier limited military strike on Iran’s Qeshm Island has also kept energy supply prospects uncertain. (Reuters)

Aave officially announced that Aave Pro now supports collateral swaps for Aave V4’s Ethereum, Base, and Avalanche markets. Powered by CoWSwap, the feature allows users to swap their collateral assets for other assets without closing their positions.

According to TradingBeats' monitoring, a whale with the address starting with 0x9e2c has been continuously opening long positions in WTI crude oil from last night to the past half hour, accumulating purchases worth around $22.0817 million at an average price of $98.14. The position is currently valued at approximately $21.4027 million, with an unrealized loss of about $679,000. The position uses 20x full leverage; calculated based on the unified account's USDC collateral equity, the effective leverage is around 10.46x, and the current estimated liquidation price stands at $88.23. This position was opened during the U.S. midterm elections' voting and vote-counting window, coinciding with ongoing U.S.-Iran negotiations. Earlier expectations of diplomatic easing had driven oil prices down sharply, but no deal has been finalized yet. According to Reuters, Qatar is mediating between the two sides to review a new proposal. Iran has demanded the lifting of port blockades, relaxation of oil sanctions, and the release of frozen funds, noting that the two sides are still far from reaching an agreement; mediators are working to avoid renewed conflict escalation after the midterms.

According to Bitget market data, South Korea's KOSPI index has fallen below 5500 points, down 2.70% intraday. SK Hynix's decline widened to 4.5%, while Samsung Electronics dropped 3%.