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The U.S. Treasury Department stated that the U.S. budget deficit and spending in October reached historical records for the month.

The advisor BA Labs of the DeFi lending protocol Sky has proposed a plan to suspend new borrowings from the Core Vault. Data disclosed by BA Labs shows that there are currently 771 open vaults with a total debt of 376.33 million USDS.According to the proposal, borrowers can still make normal repayments and manage their collateral during the suspension period, but they will not be able to borrow new USDS. This adjustment targets new borrowing exposure, and existing positions will not be affected.

Coinbase's EU policy head Roeland Van der Stappen stated that the EU's efforts to tighten regulation on DeFi may push crypto users towards platforms with less investor protection. He told Cointelegraph that regulated crypto platforms might limit or even eliminate access to DeFi services as a result. He mentioned that rules aimed at protecting investors will ultimately push activities towards the least protected areas.In September, the European Securities and Markets Authority, in response to the EU Commission's MiCA consultation, suggested establishing a new category of regulated crypto services for companies providing access to DeFi protocols for customers. The European Banking Authority urged the Commission to explore new regulations for crypto lending that include suitability testing as one of the options. Van der Stappen noted that extending such tests to other DeFi services could treat simple stablecoin exchanges and leveraged lending equally, despite the different risks involved; lending, liquidity provision, and on-chain exchanges would be the most affected activities.He warned that restricting access through regulated platforms could fragment DeFi liquidity into smaller pools, resulting in worse trading prices for EU users and fostering isolated "walled garden" services that direct users towards providers outside the EU with less protection. An Adan-Ipsos survey in 2026 showed that 49% of French crypto buyers preferred accessing DeFi through exchanges, while 14% preferred personal wallets. Chainalysis reported that the slight decline in crypto activity in Germany was mainly due to reduced activity on decentralized exchanges; overall crypto activity in the EU grew by 2.2% in the 12 months leading up to June 2026.

HYPE Financial Company Hyperion DeFi released its financial report for the third quarter of 2026. As of September 30, the company held approximately 1.85 million HYPE, with a total market value of HYPE holdings reaching 167.9 million USD. The net asset value (NAV) rose to 182.4 million USD, with cash, cash equivalents, and stablecoins totaling 14.54 million USD.The net profit for the quarter was 39.59 million USD, and the adjusted EBITDA was 48.66 million USD; third-quarter revenue and gross profit increased by 127% quarter-over-quarter to 810,000 USD.

DeFi Development Corp preferred stock CHAD raised enough funds to purchase over 1170 Solana, setting a new daily record.

According to Crypto Briefing, Aave founder Stani Kulechov stated at the DAS London conference that DeFi lending protocols need to introduce a "circuit breaker" mechanism, as the consequences of oracle failures could take years to resolve.He pointed out that the over-reliance on immutable code systems lacks contingency plans. When oracle data deviates, the protocol may trigger liquidations based on incorrect prices, and the immutable nature can lead to irreparable failures. The circuit breaker mechanism draws from traditional markets' practice of halting trading during extreme conditions, allowing protocols to pause operations until the issue is identified.

The founder and CEO of DogeOS, which builds EVM-compatible application layers for Dogecoin, Jordan Jefferson, told The Block that the DogeOS mainnet is "very, very close" to launch, at which point developers will be able to build applications and DeFi functionalities on Dogecoin. He stated that the first version of development has been completed and the audit has also been finished. The current main goal of the team is to push for the launch of the DogeOS mainnet, but no specific launch date has been provided.Jefferson mentioned that prior to this, DOGE holders had limited options beyond buying, holding, transferring, and tipping. DogeOS aims to provide more use cases, potentially including games and other ways to earn Doge. He emphasized that to make Dogecoin "a currency for more people," DeFi infrastructure is essential. Currently, over 100 developers are involved in related projects, and the team is providing support and advancing integration with wallets, exchanges, and other protocols.This progress follows the launch of Dogecoin Labs last month, which brings together developers and products from DogeOS, the Dogecoin Foundation, and House of Doge. Jefferson stated that Dogecoin is too large to rely solely on donations forever, and Dogecoin Labs aims to provide financial support for core developers.

The decentralized lending protocol Moonwell, through governance proposal MIP-X75, has reduced the collateral requirements for existing loans and removed VELO and wrsETH from the list of collateralizable assets. This adjustment involves the lending markets deployed on Base and Optimism.After the proposal takes effect, the reduction in collateral limits will compress the borrowing capacity of existing borrowers. Users close to the borrowing limit who do not reduce their debt or supplement with eligible collateral will face liquidation.

According to The Defiant, Buildix data shows that the exposure of Hyperliquid's perpetual contracts related to Anthropic across multiple markets has surpassed 300 million dollars.Among them, the exposure of the Trade.xyz contract reached 109.4 million dollars, which is about 30% higher than the snapshot data recorded by The Defiant on November 10.

According to GlobeNewswire, Solana Treasury Company DeFi Development (Nasdaq: DFDV) Chief Financial Officer John Han has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer while continuing to serve as Chief Financial Officer, responsible for the company's daily business operations and cross-departmental coordination, and will continue to lead financial strategy, capital market activities, and financial reporting.

According to CoinPost, the Financial Services Agency of Japan announced the key points of the first meeting of the "Research Meeting on Responses to Digital and Decentralized Finance" held on October 20. Regarding DEX (Decentralized Exchange) and DeFi (Decentralized Finance), committee members suggested that Japan should respond promptly to avoid becoming a "regulatory void or a place for regulatory arbitrage."

The cryptocurrency venture capital firm Multicoin Capital's co-head of venture capital, Spencer Applebaum, pointed out that AI has greatly lowered the threshold for protocol development, leading to rapid homogenization of pure software, while the core barriers of financial services remain outside of code.Applebaum believes that the relevant barriers mainly include three aspects: first, distribution channels centered around sticky customer relationships and order flow; second, balance sheets and capital scales that AI cannot create out of thin air, such as cross-currency prime brokers with risk resistance capabilities, and reserves backed by the protocol; third, proprietary data underwriting involving offline proprietary data and non-public risk control, such as OnRe reinsurance or GPU collateralized loans.He also stated that underlying general L1 and L2 are losing their native distribution and capital monopoly advantages. The key for startup teams to break through lies in entering high-risk tolerance markets that traditional giants are unwilling to touch due to compliance or reputation concerns, and gradually building the aforementioned barriers.

The Solana ecosystem meme coin issuance platform Pump.fun announced that its perpetual contract product built on Hyperliquid has added a cross margin feature, along with the launch of TWAP execution and manual margin adjustments.Previously, Pump.fun launched its perpetual contract service on October 28 using an isolated margin model, and this update adds a cross margin option based on the original isolated model.

According to Decrypt, Jupiter, the largest trading platform on Solana, launched four new products this week, expanding from token trading to a one-stop on-chain asset platform, and announced a new mission to make global assets universally accessible and usable.Jupiter aggregates liquidity across the entire Solana network to provide optimal prices for each transaction, with a cumulative aggregated trading volume exceeding $1.3 trillion; according to data from DeFiLlama in early November, its total locked value in the ecosystem is approximately $1.7 billion, and the active loan size in the lending market has surpassed $1 billion. Chief Operating Officer Kash Dhanda stated that aggregation applies not only to trading but to all aspects.Among the four products, Baskets allows users to deposit a single SOL or USDC to purchase a basket of tokens without the need to exchange them one by one, which can be allocated and automatically rebalanced based on market capitalization weight or fixed targets. Jupiter Vaults serve as a yield strategy center, covering stablecoin lending and strategies supported by real-world assets, managed by independent curators rather than Jupiter itself. Users can view the risk status, fund allocation, and historical returns of each strategy before depositing. Vaults went live on November 11 as a private beta for over 19,000 waitlisted users and eligible stakers of JUP.The launched Portfolio V3 upgrades the portfolio page to an actionable interface, providing quick access to trading, opening perpetual contracts, forecasting, and lending, and sends alerts when positions approach liquidation, while also adding cross-chain transfer functionality that integrates multiple cross-chain bridges. Pulse and the revamped token page provide market data for tokenized stocks and ETFs, token economic models for DeFi projects, and a token comparison sidebar.The aforementioned products will be gradually launched before the Solana Breakpoint conference opens on November 15. Jupiter stated that all Vaults strategies carry risks, and some strategies may not be available in regions including the United States.

According to The Defiant, the decentralized yield trading protocol Pendle has launched four fixed-term markets for USDe on Ethereum, with an initial quoted annual yield range of 5.24% to 6%.Data shows that the liquidity of each of the aforementioned pools is approximately $10,000. USDe is a synthetic dollar stablecoin issued by Ethena Labs, while Pendle focuses on yield tokenization and fixed-rate trading.

According to The Defiant, Compound V2 users must claim their COMP rewards by November 10. After the deadline, unclaimed tokens will be returned to the Compound treasury.This reward program is part of the legacy rewards plan left by Compound on Ethereum, with a total of 40,419 COMP distributed at launch.

According to DeFi Development Corp (Nasdaq: DFDV) 8-K filing on November 9, the company increased its holdings of 8,881 SOL from 2,600,948 on October 30 to 2,609,829 on November 6 during the period from November 2 to 6.The company stated that these positions are planned to be deployed through staking, validators, and on-chain treasury infrastructure, depending on market conditions and risk control.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury released data showing that as of September 30, the federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2026 totaled $2 trillion, an increase of $217 billion from the previous fiscal year, representing a 12% increase. The deficit for fiscal year 2026 accounts for 6.2% of GDP, and the total federal debt held by the public reached 100% of GDP.