On the Chain: Bitcoin holds above US$77,000 as Binance flows improve and ETF pressure eases

Russia’s main bourse wants back the crypto trading Russians do abroad, and one of the coins it's listing is issued by a company that freezes wallets on the U.S. sanctions list.

South Korea's ruling party wants to delay crypto tax by about two years, as it waits for global tax-sharing rules and new digital assets law.

The near-term warning is that a failure to reclaim $1.30 could leave XRP exposed to a decline toward $1.16 to $1.04.

The dominance of Republicans in all three government branches has been broken by the midterms, and the industry will feel the result as Congress changes hands.