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Injective announced on the X platform that the Injective Veyra mainnet upgrade is now open for voting. This is the last major upgrade for Injective in 2026, which will introduce institutional-grade RWA infrastructure, expand enterprise gateways, and lay the foundation for native privacy through CypherOS.

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.

Decrypt announces a partnership with the Solana infrastructure company Helius to introduce confidential transfer features for the Decrypt Money Account. This feature is based on Helius's Solana Privacy Rings privacy system, allowing users to send funds without disclosing the transfer amount, and transactions will not appear on the Solana public ledger. This move is part of Decrypt's evolution towards The Information Exchange, which integrates news reading, trading, and prediction markets into a single account.Decrypt co-founder and COO Ilan Hazan stated that he hopes the Decrypt Money Account will be at the forefront of on-chain finance, providing a user experience that goes beyond traditional financial platforms, with privacy as a core component.Helius's product head Tilo Palfner pointed out that public wallets expose users' holdings, transfer methods, and transaction behaviors. Once a wallet is linked to a personal identity, its financial history becomes visible to the entire network. He noted that the user experience of Solana Privacy Rings is similar to regular Solana transfers, completing almost instantly, with the difference being that outsiders cannot see the transfer details.The Decrypt Money Account does not require a mnemonic phrase, gas fees, or cross-chain bridges, and the underlying technology uses simple zero-knowledge proofs to allow users to prove ownership and control without disclosing their balance. Currently, the privacy feature only covers fund transfers and does not yet involve exchanges, earn, and prediction market positions supported by Jupiter on The Information Exchange.The core program is already running on the Solana mainnet and has been audited by Certora, OtterSec, and ZK Security; Helius plans to launch Custom Rings in the fourth quarter of 2026, allowing institutions to set their own compliance controls and audit access permissions.

According to official news, Circle announced a multi-year partnership with the nonprofit organization Global Citizen, which will begin in 2027 by providing USDC payment options for suppliers participating in the Move Afrika music tour project starting in Rwanda. Circle will also provide financial education and technical training to local entrepreneurs and production staff to help them safely use digital payment tools.In addition, both parties will explore putting Global Citizen's community engagement and rewards program on-chain. Circle will also provide USDC funding to eligible charitable organizations through a new award established by both parties.

According to a report by crypto.news, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggested in a technical assistance report released on November 6 that Kenya should require cryptocurrency platforms to collect, verify, and transmit the identity information of senders and recipients in regulated transfers, including names, account information, addresses, identification numbers, and wallet information, thereby introducing the "Travel Rule."The IMF stated that Kenya has a "significant gap" in international information sharing requirements for cryptocurrency transactions and recommended that relevant obligations be incorporated into its Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) regulations or other appropriate legal documents as soon as possible. The Kenya Virtual Asset Service Provider Act came into effect in November 2025 and is regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya and the Capital Markets Authority in their respective sectors.

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.

The Financial Services Commission of South Korea is coordinating inter-departmental differences on the government draft of the "Basic Law on Digital Assets," aiming to present it in November and is expected to advance it in the form of legislative action by lawmakers. Regulatory authorities are discussing setting a single shareholder ownership limit for cryptocurrency trading platforms at 15% to 20%, and providing existing platforms with a transition period of 1 to 2 years; considering property rights disputes, it may also change to only restrict voting rights.The bill proposes to change the access to trading platforms from a declaration system to a licensing system, with stablecoin issuers expected to adopt a bank-centered consortium model. Discussions are also underway regarding implementing strict liability for hacking attacks and system incidents, as well as listing violations of actual holding obligations for crypto assets as grounds for suspension of operations. On November 5, South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance, Lee Hyeong-ik, stated that he would consult with the National Assembly to postpone the implementation of the cryptocurrency asset income tax originally scheduled for next year by two years. The ruling party advocates prioritizing the formulation of this law, establishing an overall regulatory framework, and allowing a transition period for businesses and investors.

BNB Chain announced that BEP-706 has been incorporated into the Jenner hard fork upgrade, which will provide millisecond-level block timestamps to smart contracts through the deployment of a new precompiled contract at address 0x70. Previously, contracts could only read time accurate to the second via block.timestamp, and even if multiple blocks were generated within the same second, their time differences could not be distinguished.After the upgrade, developers can read timestamps in milliseconds through the new interface, while the return value of the existing block.timestamp and the second-level timing logic remain unchanged. This feature can be used in scenarios that require sub-second precision, such as quote settlements with a validity period of only a few hundred milliseconds, auction deadlines, and price oracle data update timeliness checks. The computation cost of the new precompiled contract is 20 Gas, and the call will also incur corresponding call and memory costs. BNB Chain reminds developers to pay attention to the consistency of units between seconds and milliseconds, and to check whether the call is successful and whether it returns the expected 32-byte data during integration.

As Bitcoin mining companies accelerate their shift to AI data center businesses, construction cost overruns and risk allocation have become the focus of market attention. In the latest earnings season, Cipher disclosed that, according to the revised leasing arrangements, the company will bear the first cost overrun of $359.3 million beyond the original budget for the Barber Lake project.Riot expects that about 70% of its Rockdale project budget will be included in a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) contract to control cost risks. Core Scientific stated that tariffs have increased the costs of some equipment and materials. In addition, Riot pointed out that lenders are more strictly reviewing tenant credit status, power supply facility energization, and project delivery records.

Uniswap posted on platform X that the Permissioned Pools Hook is a new standard that introduces permitted assets into automated market makers (AMM) and performs compliance checks at the protocol level.

According to Bloomberg, the Binance hacking incident is prompting the cryptocurrency industry to re-examine its long-held decentralized philosophy, as well as the transaction review, settlement delays, and fund intervention mechanisms in the traditional financial system.As the cryptocurrency industry seeks to enter the mainstream financial market in the United States, some institutional investors are beginning to reconsider Wall Street's financial risk control mechanisms. In traditional finance, banks, payment networks, and clearing institutions can review suspicious transactions during the fund transfer process and can suspend fund flows under certain circumstances.Third Eye CEO Tian Zeng stated that he hopes the settlement time can be shortened from the traditional financial T+1 day to T+1 hour, by appropriately extending the settlement time and increasing review steps, thereby reducing hackers' ability to quickly transfer funds.FalconX Co-Head of Markets Joshua Lim pointed out that as more institutions enter the cryptocurrency market, the client structure is changing, and some institutions are no longer willing to fully accept the risks associated with irreversible transactions. As the cryptocurrency industry further integrates with traditional finance, how to balance transaction efficiency, decentralization, and fund security will become a problem that the industry must face.

According to sources, the Japanese government is studying the inclusion of an exception clause for the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" in the National Security Strategy, allowing for the introduction of nuclear weapons in emergency situations.

According to a case published by the People's Court of Fusui County, Guangxi, in 2020, a couple in their seventies, referred by an acquaintance, participated in an overseas virtual currency mining machine financial management project, initially investing 4,200 yuan and successfully recovering the principal, followed by additional investments of over 60,000 yuan.In December 2020, the involved platform was shut down, and the funds could not be withdrawn. In early 2026, the couple sued the investment introducer and the actual operator, demanding the return of all investment funds and interest.The court found that the virtual currency investment behavior involved violated relevant financial regulatory provisions and contravened public order and good morals, rendering the entrusted financial management contract invalid. The investment losses primarily stemmed from the illegality of virtual currency trading itself and platform risks, rather than being directly caused by the actions of the trustee. Based on this, the court dismissed the plaintiff's lawsuit, and the second instance upheld the original judgment, which has now taken effect.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the United States has issued a regulatory framework for banks using artificial intelligence.

According to Bloomberg, Wang Ruomeng, an official from China's National Development and Reform Commission, stated on Tuesday that China is accelerating the legislation of artificial intelligence, implementing full lifecycle supervision on the development and application of AI, covering aspects such as data and computing power.This set of standards aims to prevent the risks of increasingly powerful AI losing control and is considered one of the more comprehensive AI safety guidelines currently available. Regulation will involve major developers such as DeepSeek, Dark Side of the Moon, and Alibaba, which are pushing to create products that can compete with the top models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

BNB Chain announced that the BEP-706 proposal has been incorporated into the Jenner hard fork, adding a precompiled contract located at address 0x70, which allows smart contracts to read the millisecond-level timestamp of the current block.Previously, contracts could only read the second-level time through block.timestamp, making it impossible to distinguish the specific time difference when multiple blocks were produced within the same second. BEP-706 allows developers to obtain the milliseconds since the Unix epoch, which can be used to improve the accuracy of time-sensitive signed quotes, auction deadlines, and price oracle update timeliness checks.This feature is an incremental upgrade and does not affect the existing second-level return mechanism of block.timestamp.

According to NexBlock, Gyeonggi Province in South Korea has suspended the research project for the introduction of stablecoins.The reason given is the need to consider the progress of related policies such as the "Basic Law on Digital Assets." It is reported that the project was initiated in early July this year, with the first phase of proof of concept (PoC) originally planned for August, and the second phase of expansion and testnet scheduled to proceed from October to December. However, no substantial progress has been made so far.However, an official from Gyeonggi Province explained that the project has not been canceled; the suspension is mainly due to considerations of the policy environment and not a comprehensive budget cut. The originally planned completion date in February 2027 may be affected, and the final completion time may be delayed.

OKX founder and CEO Star stated on social media that they will promote perpetual contracts into the regulated U.S. market. This project is jointly advanced by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange), the on-chain perpetual contract platform Trade.xyz, and OKX.According to public information, ICE has signed a final agreement with Trade.xyz to plan the establishment of an independent trading and clearing system in the U.S., supporting 24/7 perpetual contract trading for stocks, indices, commodities, foreign exchange, and crypto assets. Among them, ICE serves as the exclusive operator for the U.S. market, Trade.xyz is the exclusive partner for ICE to launch this business in the U.S., and distribution to retail users will be conducted through a joint venture between ICE and OKX.Star stated that this collaboration will combine ICE's institutional-grade market infrastructure, Trade.xyz's on-chain innovation capabilities, and OKX's distribution and trading technology, aiming to create a new generation of global, round-the-clock financial markets.

EIP-8450 proposal update, intended to introduce a quantum-resistant public key registration mechanism for Ethereum validators, using a hash-based cryptographic scheme, including leanXMSS keys and VRF tree roots.The update clarifies that the registration and replacement of quantum-resistant keys are authorized by BLS signature keys, and sets a replacement delay of at least one Epoch and a replay protection mechanism; this proposal is currently still in the Draft stage and has not yet been deployed.

At the Decoding China 2026 event, Huawei announced the introduction of the time compression concept of the "Tao (τ) Law" into base station product design for the first time, summarizing the challenges faced by traditional basebands within a single TTI as "endless calculations and incomplete transmissions."At the same time, Huawei released the OSCAR intelligent channel processing solution and the new generation UBBPi baseband series, providing a collaborative solution direction for the constraints of computation and transmission within a single TTI.