Morning digest: November 10, 2026
Bitcoin sits just under $75,000 ahead of this morning’s inflation report, and miner MARA has sold 40% of its bitcoin in six weeks. The New York Stock Exchange picked Avalanche technology to settle its planned tokenized-stock market. In health, a 40-week trial found that lifting weights while taking tirzepatide cut lean-tissue loss and raised strength instead of losing it. Locally, the Center Street rezoning cleared its first reading 3–1 without needing the mayor’s vote. And a Michigan deer finally got a plastic Halloween pumpkin off its snout.
Blockchain: a CPI test, a miner selling and a forged-receipt bridge drain
Bitcoin waits on CPI below $75,000. BTC traded around $74,750 early Tuesday after briefly topping $75,000 overnight, still in a downtrend since peaking above $87,000 in early October. Analysts at BRN and Bitget Wallet flag $73,000 as key support; BRN says a daily close below it could open a move toward $70,000. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost another $201 million Monday, according to Farside data cited by Cointelegraph, and BlackRock’s IBIT has now had seven straight days of withdrawals totaling $1.66 billion. Spot ether ETFs shed about $185 million, their largest daily outflow since Oct. 6. Bitcoin ETFs are now about $1.1 billion net negative for the year, versus roughly $25 billion of inflows by early November in both 2024 and 2025. (CoinDesk · Cointelegraph)
MARA sells 40% of its bitcoin. The miner sold 13,597 BTC at an average of about $81,039, roughly $1.1 billion, after September. That is 40% of the 34,012 coins it held at quarter-end and six times what it mined in the whole third quarter. It used $750 million to repay bitcoin-backed loans, cutting the share of its remaining coins that are lent out or pledged from 57% to under 5%. In July 2024 MARA pledged to keep every bitcoin it mined; now it says it will keep selling to raise cash for AI infrastructure, and its board has authorized up to $500 million of buybacks. Third-quarter revenue fell 35% to $164 million. One of the largest corporate holders has become a steady seller. (CoinDesk)
Ankr bridge drained with forged receipts. An attacker took about $292,000 to $304,500 from Ankr’s Ethereum cross-chain bridge on Sunday using five forged withdrawal receipts. All five pointed back to one tiny Optimism deposit of 0.0044 ankrETH that had already been redeemed on Nov. 3, with the recipient, token and amount changed. Each carried valid signatures from the bridge’s trusted signers, and the withdraw function never checked the receipt against what actually happened on Optimism. Hours earlier the attacker had emptied five Ankr operator wallets on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Linea. SlowMist says the source of the signatures is still under investigation, and Ankr had not published a statement at the time of the report. It is Ankr’s second incident in about ten weeks. (The Crypto Times)
NYSE picks Avalanche for tokenized-stock settlement. The exchange’s planned tokenized-securities trading venue will use a custom chain built on Avalanche technology, not Avalanche’s public network, as the ledger its clearing firm uses to settle trades. The venue aims for round-the-clock trading and settlement pending regulatory approval, and stocks issued on other blockchains would connect to it. Ava Labs said the selection took more than a year. AVAX rose about 8% on the news. It is a technology choice for a planned venue, not a live market. (CoinDesk)
Mastercard’s BVNK opens Open USD to businesses. BVNK customers outside the European Economic Area can now mint and redeem OUSD 1:1 against their platform dollar balances at no cost, and send it on Ethereum, Solana, Base or Tempo, directly or embedded in their own apps. OUSD is backed by a consortium of more than 200 companies, including Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock and Coinbase, and shares reserve income among members instead of leaving it with one issuer. (The Paypers)
Briefly:
- Warren sets her Banking agenda. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, due to chair the Senate Banking Committee in January, plans rules for prediction markets and says Trump-family crypto businesses, among others, should be ready to answer the committee’s questions and preserve documents. (CNBC)
- EU tokenization standards group. The ECB, European Commission and ESMA are seeking industry members for a European Tokenisation Standards Group, chaired by industry with the authorities as observers. Applications close Nov. 27. (ESMA)
- Ripio’s six local stablecoins. CEO Sebastian Serrano said in an interview that Ripio has begun issuing stablecoins for the currencies of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Peru, plugged into local instant-payment systems such as Brazil’s Pix. Chains and reserve details were not given. (TokenPost)
Health: caffeine under fatigue, lifting on tirzepatide, hobbies and dementia
Caffeine gum for late-session power. Clinical trial (elite female volleyball players): 15 players chewed caffeine gum at nominal doses of 3 or 6 mg per kg of body weight, or placebo, then did a repeated-blocking fatigue protocol. Block-jump peak power fell 6.9% with 6 mg/kg versus 13.9% with placebo, and the full reactive-blocking sequence slowed 3.0% with 6 mg/kg, 6.4% with 3 mg/kg and 18.4% with placebo. The higher dose was not shown to beat the lower one and caused more side effects. Blinding was incomplete: players sensed caffeine on 53% of low-dose and 80% of high-dose visits, so expectation may explain part of the effect. (Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition)
Plain creatine is still the benchmark. General evidence (healthy young adults): in a double-blind crossover, 17 recreationally active adults (8 men, 9 women, average age 22) took a single 5 g dose of standard creatine monohydrate or a branded formulation, OptiCreatine, after an overnight fast. Serum creatine did not differ at any point over five hours (p = 0.707), and neither did peak level, time to peak or total exposure. Stomach symptoms were low with both. This was one dose and blood levels only, not muscle stores or performance, so it gives no reason to pay more for a reformulated product. (Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition)
Lift while on tirzepatide. Clinical trial (adults 50–70 with overweight or obesity, no diabetes or heart disease): 120 people on tirzepatide were randomized to three supervised one-hour resistance sessions a week for 40 weeks, or usual activities. Weight loss was the same, 22.6 kg versus 22.3 kg, and so was fat loss. But the lifting group lost 1.09 kg less lean soft tissue (3.57 versus 4.67 kg). Strength fell 4.1–4.4 kg on bench press, lat pulldown and knee extension with the drug alone, and rose 4.7–8.6 kg with training. Adherence was 91%. Lean soft tissue on a DXA scan is not the same as muscle, the trial was single-center, and Eli Lilly supplied the drug. (Nature Medicine)
Mentally demanding hobbies and dementia in diabetes. Observational (779 Japanese adults 65 and older with diabetes): over five years, 112 developed dementia. Those with higher cognitive-leisure scores had about a 38% lower risk (HR 0.615, 95% CI 0.414–0.913), and the link held after adjusting for physical activity (HR 0.624). This is an association: early decline can itself reduce hobbies, and the study doesn’t say how often or which activities matter. (Diabetes & Metabolism)
Poor sleep plus a big waist. Observational (UK Biobank, 362,474 adults followed 12.3 years, plus a Chinese cohort of 34,703): people with at least three of five unhealthy sleep traits (late chronotype, under 7 or over 8 hours, frequent insomnia, snoring, frequent daytime sleepiness) who also had central obesity (waist at least 94 cm in European men, 90 cm in Asian men, 80 cm in women) had 2.55 times the risk of developing two or more of type 2 diabetes, coronary disease and stroke. Insomnia and waist size interacted in both cohorts. Sleep was self-reported and measured once, so this does not prove that fixing sleep lowers risk. (Sleep Health)
Briefly:
- Carb-to-fat ratio and gut bacteria. Controlled feeding trial (adults with overweight or obesity): after calorie-restricted weight loss, 20 weeks of low-carb (20% carb, 60% fat), moderate or high-carb (60% carb, 20% fat) maintenance diets produced no detectable differences in gut-microbiome composition. The weight loss itself shifted the microbiome. (Cell Reports Medicine)
- Positive emotions for activity after bariatric surgery. Clinical pilot trial: in 58 patients 6–12 months after surgery, 10 weekly 30-minute phone sessions pairing positive-psychology tools with activity goals added about 30 minutes a week of accelerometer-measured moderate-to-vigorous activity at 24 weeks versus education plus a Fitbit (d = 0.5). It was designed to test feasibility, not efficacy. (Health Psychology)
General and local: Center Street advances, a Monday rally and plate readers
Center Street clears first reading, 3–1. Manassas City Council approved the first reading of the rezoning for 162 apartments and a public parking garage at 9007 Center Street on Monday night. Ashley Hutson, who opposed it on Oct. 26, moved to reconsider and then voted yes with Tom Osina and Mark Wolfe; Theresa Coates Ellis voted no, and Mayor Ralph J. Smith did not need to break a tie. Coates Ellis’s motion to split the garage from the rezoning got no second. The garage would have about 530 spaces, roughly 250 of them for City Hall and the public, and the city has identified about $12 million in its capital budget for the public portion. This is not final adoption, and the development agreement and financing are expected back in 2027. (Manassas Journal)
Stocks rally; CPI at 8:30. The Dow jumped 1,104.02 points (2.15%) Monday to 52,389.75, the S&P 500 rose 2.35% to 7,549.94, its best day since April 8, and the Nasdaq gained 2.74% to 25,253.14. Oil fell sharply: WTI dropped 4.38% to $86.85 and Brent 5.85% to $92.57. Nvidia closed down about 4% after its board opened an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang. The October consumer price index is due at 8:30 a.m. ET, with the Dow Jones consensus at 0.3% for headline and 0.2% for core, down from September’s 0.6% and 0.3%. There will be no year-over-year rate because last year’s shutdown blocked October 2025 data collection. It is the last inflation report before the Fed’s Dec. 8–9 meeting, and futures markets price more than an 80% chance of a quarter-point rate hike. (CNBC · CNBC)
Virginia localities rethink plate readers. A new Virginia Crime Commission report says 17 localities are reconsidering or scaling back automatic license-plate readers. Of 351 agencies that responded, 191 use them. Fairfax County paused new Flock installations on Sept. 15, but its 84 existing stationary Flock cameras and more than 700 Axon cruiser cameras remain in use. The commission meets today, its last meeting before the January General Assembly session. (Reston Review)
Hegseth impeachment vote this week. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced updated articles of impeachment Monday against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which forces House leaders to hold a vote within two legislative days. Three of the 34-page resolution’s eight articles accuse him of waging war against Iran without congressional authorization; others cite Caribbean boat strikes. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is a “hard yes”; Speaker Mike Johnson called it “a terrible, terrible look” during hostilities. Hegseth planned a news conference this morning. (CBS News)
Briefly:
- Bhatt trial nears closings. Naresh Bhatt testified for a third day Monday in Prince William County Circuit Court, again denying he killed his wife. A defense psychologist said Bhatt has PTSD but agreed he was not in a dissociative state while disposing of her remains. Testimony is nearly complete. (WTOP)
Lighter note: the pumpkin is off. For 10 days, a young buck wandered Michigan’s Hines Park with a plastic jack-o’-lantern bucket stuck over its nose and mouth, unable to eat or drink. On Sunday, rescuers from the Detroit Animal Welfare Group waded a 20-foot-wide river four times, darted the deer and pulled the bucket off. It got fluids for moderate dehydration and a legally required “do not eat until” ear tag, then went back into the woods. “We will finally get some sleep tonight even though we are cold, wet and smell like swamp,” the group wrote. (New York Post)
Image: Detroit Animal Welfare Group, via New York Post.
Russia: Voronezh
Long drone alert over Voronezh. The Voronezh region was under a drone-danger alert for about eight and a half hours, from 9:55 p.m. Monday to 6:23 a.m. Tuesday local time, when Governor Alexander Gusev lifted it. (MK Voronezh)
Bottom line
Crypto heads into the 8:30 inflation report with ETF money still leaving and a major miner selling, while Wall Street keeps building tokenized-stock plumbing. If you lift, keep lifting, especially on a weight-loss drug, and plain creatine is all you need. Center Street moves on to its next votes, and one Michigan deer can eat again.