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Some NVIDIA employees are calling for former CEO Jensen Huang to return. A long-serving engineer submitted feedback through the company's internal suggestion channel before Jensen Huang's resignation, requesting the board to consider employee sentiments before taking action and to publish the survey results, formally soliciting employee opinions on Jensen Huang continuing as CEO. This matter has accumulated over 1,600 comments, the majority of which support Jensen Huang's reinstatement. Another employee sent an email to the entire company, requesting increased transparency regarding Jensen Huang's departure.Jensen Huang has led the company since NVIDIA's founding in 1993. In an email sent to employees on Sunday, he admitted to infidelity and stated that there were "no excuses." The board announced his resignation on Thursday morning, following media reports alleging that he had an extramarital affair with a direct subordinate; Reuters subsequently reported that he was also alleged to have had an affair with another NVIDIA employee. Jensen Huang has not responded to related reports since the Sunday email. The board has appointed Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as interim CEO and appointed former Synopsys CEO Harvey Jones as chairman.

According to Politico, Tim Scott, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, has requested that former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo testify next month before the committee regarding Jensen Huang's extramarital affair.Scott sent letters to both Jensen Huang and Gina Raimondo on Thursday evening, requesting their attendance at the Senate Banking Committee hearing. This move indicates that two oversight hearings will be held next month.

According to CoinDesk, U.S. President Trump has nominated four individuals to serve as commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), marking his first nominations in this regard since 2025.Former CFTC commissioner Kristin Johnson and attorney Steven Levine have been nominated to serve as SEC commissioners, while Nathan Anonick and Matthew Rowland have been nominated to serve as CFTC commissioners. All four nominations require Senate approval.The report states that both agencies play significant roles in regulating the cryptocurrency market. Currently, the SEC is led by Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioner Mark Uyeda, while the CFTC has only Chairman Mike Selig as a commissioner.

According to Jinshi Data, foreign media cited two informed sources reporting that senior officials in the White House are discussing whether to ask Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to resign. Raimondo has recently faced increasing criticism, and her performance in office and related regulatory controversies have raised questions among congressional members.The report stated that the relevant criticism had emerged before NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced his resignation. A White House official stated that Trump still fully trusts Raimondo and her capabilities in office. The White House has not yet made a formal response regarding Raimondo's future.

According to CNN, despite the increasing scrutiny surrounding Nvidia (NVDA.O), Trump continues to support U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.

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According to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, it co-hosted a seminar with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority on November 11, attended by over 200 industry professionals. The seminar topics included the opportunities brought by tokenization for secondary market trading and corporate treasury management, financial infrastructure optimization measures supporting payment and liquidity management, the role of virtual asset trading platforms in facilitating tokenized fund trading and providing liquidity, as well as cases promoting the broader application of tokenized currencies and tokenized investment products.The Executive Director of the Investment Products Division of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, Wu Jiali, stated that the development of tokenization in Hong Kong is moving from the experimental stage to commercial application, with the next phase focusing on integrating tokenized investment products, digital currencies, and financial infrastructure to drive practical applications. The Assistant Chief Executive (Financial Infrastructure) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Zhou Wenzheng, stated that the Monetary Authority will continue to work closely with the Securities and Futures Commission to promote responsible innovation in the field of tokenization.

The spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, He Yadong, stated that China and the United States are maintaining close communication on the "30 billion for 30 billion" framework arrangement for reciprocal tariff reductions, which is beneficial for stabilizing and expanding bilateral trade. Communication between the two sides in areas such as trade and investment will create more favorable conditions for agricultural product trade between the two countries, and relevant progress will be announced in a timely manner.

According to The Information, the U.S. Department of Commerce plans to introduce new regulations to prevent Chinese artificial intelligence companies from renting NVIDIA Blackwell and next-generation chips through data centers in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Norway, and South Africa. Importing related chips from these countries will require an export license. Buyers must disclose the chip recipients and the content that the chips will run, and they will be subject to ongoing monitoring. These requirements also apply to remote access and smuggling.The Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce intends to extend existing semiconductor export controls to the aforementioned seven countries, with the new regulations possibly being announced as early as this month. U.S. companies operating data centers in these countries may be exempt from licensing requirements if they restrict remote access from weapon embargo countries such as China and Russia, but they still need to report local customers and computing power scale.

Zcash holders and community representatives will vote from November 16 to 30 on a proposal to remove 50,000 ZEC from the community grant fund (ZCG). This proposal was co-drafted by Zcash co-founders Sean Bowe, Zooko Wilcox, and Jason McGee, and was merged into the specification repository on Wednesday. According to the October treasury snapshot referenced in the proposal, ZCG holds 91,453 ZEC, and the amount proposed for removal accounts for approximately 55% of its holdings.If the proposal passes and is activated in the network upgrade, ZCG must remove the 50,000 ZEC from circulation within 30 days, and its corresponding value will be included in the Network Sustainability Mechanism, gradually returned through future block rewards. Additionally, the proposal plans to stop allocating 8% of newly issued ZEC to ZCG, transferring this portion of funds into a new Future Dev and Legal Defense Fund, which will continue to accumulate until the next Zcash halving. Funds in this new fund will temporarily be unavailable for expenditure until separate withdrawal rules are approved.ZCG can still use the remaining treasury funds to continue issuing development grants, and the independent 12% holder-controlled fund will not be affected. The proposal states that based on the October treasury snapshot, a ZEC price of $1,300, and expenditure estimates for the first half of 2026, the current funds of ZCG can cover approximately 13 years of expenditures; after the removal of 50,000 ZEC, the remaining funds are expected to cover about 6 years. Previously, ZCG proposed to redirect approximately 98,000 ZEC from existing assets and future income to miner rewards, but abandoned this plan on November 3 after facing community criticism. This new proposal still requires community support and must be implemented through a network upgrade. The activation block height has not yet been determined, nor has a reference implementation been provided.

Ethereum developer Marchhill submitted the draft EIP-8437, proposing to propagate proof wrapper data through the eth/73 protocol and introducing an optional mode that allows transactions to submit raw signatures to the aggregator without pre-generating STARK proofs.This proposal supports the direct propagation of certified packages with transactions and performs independent checks of specified programs in resource-constrained sandboxes to verify witness data. The new program does not require the development of native adapters for each signature scheme separately. Additionally, the proposal plans to limit the batch queue size, clean up expired transactions, and recheck records before formally generating proofs to support failure retries.Currently, the proposal is still in the Draft stage and has not yet been merged. The developer pointed out that VM and key binding consistency verification, cryptographic verification, and performance testing are still incomplete, and benchmarking has not yet been conducted.

Zach Pandl, the head of research at Grayscale, pointed out that the number of monthly active developers for Zcash has roughly doubled over the past two years, while the broader cryptocurrency developer community has declined from its peak during the same period.About 70% of Zcash's active developers have over a year of experience in cryptocurrency development, which is higher than the overall industry average of 58%. These developers possess expertise in zero-knowledge proofs and post-quantum cryptography research. The article suggests that the continued engagement of developers indicates the network's capability for ongoing improvement. The growing developer community of Zcash combines a strong privacy ethos with the goal of making private digital currencies more accessible. This momentum is expected to continue supporting protocol innovation and may ultimately translate into an increase in ZEC valuation.

The U.S. Central Command stated that the U.S. military continues round-the-clock operations to ensure the Strait of Hormuz remains open to commercial shipping and strictly enforces the maritime blockade against Iran.The U.S. collaborates with interagency partners to prevent the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from using land routes and the Caspian Sea to transport advanced weapon systems, dual-use technologies, and illicit financial flows.

The Solana Foundation is hiring a Vice President of International Communications. This is a full-time position within the marketing team, supporting remote work in the United States, with other locations including San Francisco and New York. The hire will be responsible for Solana's global narrative and network reputation management, developing and maintaining the global narrative, establishing and personally maintaining relationships with media in the U.S. business, finance, technology, and cryptocurrency sectors, while providing executive positioning and communication consulting to the foundation's management.This position will also be responsible for reputation and issue management related to network incidents, client vulnerabilities, application layer attacks, and validator disputes, establishing severity classifications, identifying decision-makers, rehearsing processes, and preparing response language in advance; providing communication support for project launches, founder media training, etc., to the ecosystem team, and collaborating with policy and legal teams to handle regulatory and legislative matters. The ideal candidate should have approximately 10 to 15 years of communication experience, possess direct contacts with business, finance, and technology media reporters, and be able to use AI tools in monitoring, research, drafting, information testing, and adversarial review tasks.

According to Bloomberg, informed sources revealed that financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Santander Bank, and Deutsche Bank have committed approximately $270 million in funding for a joint stablecoin project.

NVIDIA announces an expansion of its open-source commitment, donating OpenShell and launching new AI infrastructure.

According to The Block, the foundation behind the Ethereum Layer 2 network MegaETH has been renamed MEGA and has committed to allocating $30 million from its existing treasury to develop new products, with the first AI inference marketplace scheduled to launch in December.MEGA stated that all new products will run on MegaETH, and planned network upgrades such as rapid finality will also support AI inference products. Co-founder Shuyao Kong mentioned that the inference marketplace targets developers as its customer base, with specific suppliers and models to be announced at launch.MEGA's responsibilities also include expanding the use cases of the MEGA token, and Kong stated that the team will utilize the token in possible scenarios.

In 2025, NVIDIA learned that Huang Le had been detained by the Singapore police and proactively inquired about the situation with senior officials at the U.S. Department of Commerce. A few weeks later, U.S. officials investigating its affiliated company Megaspeed for suspected chip smuggling began to face strict limitations, and by the end of the year, the Department of Commerce was instructed to cease its investigation.In late summer 2025, NVIDIA's General Counsel Tim Teter directly called U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Jeffrey Kessler to ask whether the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) under his supervision was involved in the Singapore police's detention of Huang Le. At that time, Huang Le had already been questioned by the Singapore police and was restricted from leaving the country, while the U.S. Department of Commerce was also investigating whether Megaspeed had illegally transshipped NVIDIA AI chips. A few weeks after this call, BIS investigators received new instructions that any contact with NVIDIA must first go through Kessler or obtain his approval, and they were even prohibited from mentioning Megaspeed or its Malaysian subsidiary during external investigations.Teter later requested to meet directly with the investigators but was denied, subsequently stating that he had obtained Kessler's permission and did not understand why he was still being refused. Investigators were concerned that NVIDIA might influence the investigation through high-level connections, so they forwarded the emails to Kessler, who did not ask his subordinates to cooperate and only replied that they should strictly follow the regulations in handling the case. By the end of 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice requested the Department of Commerce to stop its investigation and take over the criminal investigation. Individuals involved in the investigation revealed that BIS had sufficient evidence to continue but was forced to halt its work, with some officials believing that the sudden transfer of the case was unusual. NVIDIA responded that contacting the Department of Commerce was to provide information, understand regulatory requirements, and assist in preventing illegal chip transshipment, and Teter was unaware of the extramarital affair between Jensen Huang and Huang Le when he intervened.

Zcash community member ValarDragon posted on the official community forum, proposing a series of plans to be included in the NU8 network upgrade, and suggested setting the upgrade target for the end of January 2027. The main content includes the launch of the Tachyon shielded pool, expanding transaction formats, increasing the maximum block size from 2MB to 8MB, and adding support for post-quantum cryptography transparent transaction opcodes.Other proposals also include: adjusting the NSM redistribution date to be closer to the time of Zcash's seventh halving; determining a date at the protocol level for Sapling to stop accepting new deposits while continuing to support transactions and withdrawals; and eliminating the need to update the Consensus Branch ID with each network upgrade to reduce wallet compatibility issues. ValarDragon stated that with the combination of Tachyon and larger block capacity, a shielded transaction processing capability of approximately 200 TPS is expected. In addition, the post-quantum transparent transaction feature will introduce schemes based on SPHINCS with 128-bit and 192-bit security levels. The above content currently belongs to the upgrade ideas proposed by community members, and specific implementation still depends on development progress and subsequent NU8 discussions and voting.