[Bitpush Daily News Selection] Strategy increased its holdings by 397 BTC last week at an average price of $114,771; Balancer: This attack incident is limited to V2 composable stable pools and does not affect Balancer V3 or other types of pools; Tom Lee maintains his year-end prediction of BTC at $150,000-$200,000 and ETH at $7,000.

Bitpush editors’ daily selection of Web3 news:

[Strategy increased its holdings by 397 BTC last week, with an average price of $114,771]

According to Bitpush, Strategy purchased 397 bitcoins at an average price of approximately $114,771 each, with a total value of about $45.6 million. Its bitcoin return rate for 2025 to date has reached 26.1%. As of November 2, 2025, the company holds a total of 641,205 bitcoins ($BTC), with a cumulative purchase cost of about $47.49 billion and an average holding cost of about $74,057 per bitcoin.

[Strategy plans to launch euro-denominated perpetual preferred stock, funds to be used for buying more bitcoin]

According to Bitpush and Bitcoin Magazine, Michael Saylor’s Strategy plans to issue its first euro-denominated perpetual preferred stock, with the funds to be used for purchasing more bitcoin.

[Balancer: This attack incident is limited to V2 Composable Stable Pools and does not affect Balancer V3 or other types of pools]

According to Bitpush, Balancer posted on X platform: “Today at around 7:48 UTC, Balancer V2 Composable Stable Pools experienced an attack. Our team is working with top security researchers to investigate the root cause and will share more findings and a full post-mortem as soon as possible.

As these pools have been running on-chain for years, many are beyond the pausable window. All pools that can still be paused have been paused and are now in recovery mode.

Other Balancer pools are unaffected. This issue is limited to V2 Composable Stable Pools and does not affect Balancer V3 or other types of pools.

Security reminder: There are currently some scam messages online impersonating the Balancer security team, which are not from us. Please do not interact with such unknown sources or click on any suspicious links.”

[Tom Lee maintains year-end BTC forecast of $150,000-$200,000 and ETH at $7,000]

According to Bitpush, BitMine Chairman Tom Lee said in an interview with CNBC that Ethereum’s current fundamentals are strong, with stablecoin trading volume and application layer revenue both hitting all-time highs, and a price breakout is expected to follow.

Tom Lee reiterated his previous year-end price forecast, expecting bitcoin to rise to the $150,000-$200,000 range and ethereum to reach $7,000.

[Probability of a 25 basis point Fed rate cut in December is 67.3%]

According to Bitpush and CME “FedWatch”: The probability of the Federal Reserve cutting rates by 25 basis points in December is 67.3%, while the probability of keeping rates unchanged is 32.7%. The probability of a cumulative 25 basis point rate cut by January next year is 55.8%, the probability of keeping rates unchanged is 21.8%, and the probability of a cumulative 50 basis point rate cut is 22.3%.

[Goldman Sachs: US government shutdown could deal the most severe blow ever to the US economy]

According to Bitpush, Goldman Sachs economist Alec Phillips warned that a US government shutdown could have the largest economic impact ever, potentially lasting longer than the 35-day shutdown in 2018-19 and affecting more agencies. A six-week shutdown could reduce fourth-quarter economic growth by 1.15 percentage points, with a rebound not expected until early 2026.