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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.

Ethlabs published an article on the Ethereum developer community forum, proposing to set 2027 as the target year for Ethereum to achieve post-quantum and post-AI capabilities, referring to this plan as "pqai27." The proposal argues that with the rapid enhancement of AI capabilities, the accelerated development of quantum computing, and the increased ability of AI models to discover software vulnerabilities on a large scale, Ethereum should prioritize strengthening the security of its underlying protocol to prepare for potential future cryptographic risks and cyberattacks.Ethlabs pointed out that the U.S. government has advanced its target date for addressing quantum risks from 2035 to 2030, while Google plans to achieve post-quantum capabilities by 2029. At the same time, AI is solving a large number of long-standing mathematical problems and can also discover software vulnerabilities on a large scale. Ethlabs believes that although there is currently no evidence that existing cryptographic primitives will definitely be broken by AI, the associated risks are difficult to predict accurately, making it necessary to advance security upgrades proactively.In terms of the technical roadmap, Ethlabs divides the goals into two phases: the first is "pqai-ready," which means the Ethereum consensus layer will achieve a post-quantum upgrade, allowing all users to have a path to migrate to post-quantum accounts; if existing cryptography fails prematurely, the network can still operate with reduced processing capacity. The second is "pqai-scaled," which means supporting post-quantum transactions and data availability under full network capacity, aiming for post-quantum transactions to reach the processing scale of ordinary transactions, including post-quantum signature aggregation and post-quantum data availability solutions.To achieve this goal, Ethlabs suggests reassessing the scope of the upcoming hard fork Hegotá, reconsidering upgrades that do not belong to the critical path of pqai27. Among them, Frames and related post-quantum account proposals are still regarded as key components; FOCIL needs to be reassessed for its impact on upgrade progress and post-quantum compatibility. Additionally, Ethereum needs to choose between the post-quantum transformation of the existing Gasper consensus protocol and transitioning to a decoupled consensus. Ethlabs stated that to concentrate resources on advancing pqai27, it will withdraw the Quick Slots feature previously sought for Hegotá and plans to continue promoting this feature in 2028. The Glamsterdam upgrade and its scaling plan will proceed as originally scheduled. This roadmap remains a suggestion proposed by Ethlabs and will require further discussion and determination by Ethereum core developers.

According to CoinDesk, Kimber Labs, operating under the Plume brand, announced that its affiliate Kimber Digital Securities (KDS) has completed registration with the U.S. SEC and received approval for membership from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), becoming a broker-dealer.The company stated that this registration allows KDS clients to access the U.S. securities depository DTC. Once KDS is launched, investors will be able to hold digital rights to eligible stocks, ETFs, and bonds in self-custody wallets while retaining book-entry evidence recorded by DTC. KDS will also support stablecoin applications to provide users with SEC-regulated interest-bearing products, including tokenized shares of funds managed by leading U.S. asset management firms.

Aave Labs released a technical assessment on the governance forum, stating that the wrapped Bitcoin cirBTC issued by Circle meets the technical conditions for launching on the Aave Ethereum market. cirBTC is issued by Circle with a target of a 1:1 Bitcoin reserve, and at the time of assessment, its supply on the Ethereum mainnet was approximately 910.15 coins, valued at about 70.12 million USD.Aave Labs pointed out that the contract upgrades, transfer pauses, and address freezes for cirBTC are controlled by a single key, and no on-chain time lock has been set. The audit report for the cross-chain token service (CCTS) framework that allows the minting of cirBTC on Ethereum has not yet been provided. Additionally, the reserve proof data source has reported multiple times that the reserves are below the supply, and the specific reasons cannot be determined from on-chain data.

The non-profit research organization Ethlabs stated that the EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 in the Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade involve adjustments to Gas costs and billing mechanisms, which may affect some already deployed smart contracts. Ethlabs recommends postponing modifications to the upgrade specifications or determining the fork date for the Hoodi testnet until the results of external audits are published and the relevant impacts are clarified. The final decision will be made by the Ethereum Core Developers Meeting (ACD).The two external audits commissioned by the Ethereum Foundation from ChainSecurity and Dedaub are expected to be published before November 16. On the same day, a public Q&A will be held during the ACD testing meeting. The ACD executive meeting on November 19 is expected to discuss the audit results and may decide whether to modify the upgrade specifications.Glamsterdam aims to increase the Ethereum Gas limit per block from 60 million to 200 million. Ethlabs pointed out that adjustments to Gas costs may affect contracts and tools with hardcoded operational costs, and changes in the billing mechanism may also cause some deployed contracts to exhibit unexpected behavior. For example, after an internal call rollback, the remaining Gas returned by gasleft() may actually increase, affecting the contract's judgment on whether the call failed due to Gas exhaustion.

According to The Block, DECA Labs, a software commercialization network led by AI agents in the Base ecosystem, announced that it has completed a total of $12 million in financing, with investors including Polychain Capital, Pantera Capital, Accel, and dao5. The new funds will be used to accelerate its agent infrastructure, expand the network, and enhance distribution partnerships.DECA Labs aims to address the oversupply of products resulting from the significant reduction in software development costs due to AI. Its agents do not blindly generate software in bulk but instead identify opportunities from real-time market signals, testing demand thresholds with real buyers before allocating budget, and only assigning development and distribution resources to projects that meet the criteria. DECA stated that its platform waitlist has exceeded 100,000, agents have analyzed over 50,000 market signals, the first batch of products has over 80,000 monthly active users, and products have been developed for brands such as Balmain and Crocs, generating approximately $1.5 million in total revenue to date.

According to Ember Monitoring, the Hyperliquid development team HyperLabs redeemed 179,706 HYPE (approximately 14.49 million USD) from staking a few days ago, which was allocated to the wallets of 6 team members 11 hours ago.

Aave Labs has acquired the team and technology of Avon to advance fixed-rate lending business. The acquisition includes Avon's fixed-rate and floating-rate lending protocols, on-chain order book, domain name, and related assets, with the financial terms of the transaction undisclosed.According to the agreement, Prince Sinha and Ayush Kaul will join the Aave Labs engineering team, while Omar el-Ashaal will join the business development team. The Avon team will initially focus on fixed-rate lending to help Aave expand the types of loans available to users. Avon's previous research and development also involved interest rate pricing, risk isolation, and lending market design.Aave Labs CEO Stani Kulechov stated that fixed rates are one of the products users have already used in traditional finance, and the Avon team will help Aave serve global institutions, fintech companies, and ordinary users. Aave claims that its network currently has a deposit size of over $30 billion and outstanding loans of over $12 billion.

The mobile trading application beta of Leap, a subsidiary of Solana Labs, has been launched and is currently undergoing public testing via iOS TestFlight, with the Android version set to be released soon. The application is based on the Solana network and supports trading tokenized stocks, ETFs, precious metals, foreign exchange, and crypto assets, with spot trading priced in USD, one-click confirmation, and executed as an on-chain swap.Leap was developed by the Dialect team, which was acquired by Solana Labs earlier this year. This team previously developed Solana Actions, the Blinks protocol, and the cashtags feature for the X platform. The application integrates with Jupiter for trading routing, Helius for infrastructure, and Birdeye for market data; there are no fees charged during the initial launch phase, with plans to use fee revenue to buy and burn SOL in the future.

ZetaChain announced on platform X that on December 9, the ZETA token will migrate to Solana, becoming a native token. The privacy AI application ZetaLabs will also launch simultaneously, with ZETA serving as its core token. The second governance proposal is now open for voting on ZetaHub and will end on November 7, clarifying the migration mechanism, specific timeline, and holder protection measures.If the proposal passes, ZetaChain L1 will cease operations around December 9, with ZETA migrating to Solana's native token at a 1:1 ratio, and minting rights will be permanently revoked. Holders do not need to take any action before this. In 2027, the supply of ZETA will decrease rather than increase. Approximately 55 million unallocated validator rewards will be destroyed monthly according to the original release schedule, with no inflation generated after the migration. Tokens for investors and core contributors will be fully unlocked by January 1, 2027. The foundation also promises not to sell the newly unlocked ZETA it holds in 2027.

According to a report by Bloomberg citing informed sources, Alphabet's AI drug development company Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise approximately $5 billion in new funding, which would bring its valuation to around $50 billion. The sources stated that the financing has not yet been completed and details may change.Isomorphic Labs was spun off from Google's DeepMind in 2021 and conducts drug development based on the AlphaFold protein structure prediction model. In May of this year, it completed a $2.1 billion funding round led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Alphabet and others.

Omen AI acquires water monitoring startup Aquatic Labs through a combination of cash and stock, with plans to integrate data center cooling water sensor technology.

Security company Blockaid has detected that Premia Labs' protocol on Arbitrum is undergoing a sustained attack. The attackers are locking the vault's collateral in the relevant pools by creating empty options pools, using flash loans, and purchasing options, and then extracting assets in the form of liquidity.As of the time Blockaid released the news, the attackers had transferred approximately $400,500 in assets from the vault through about 2 transactions, and the attack is still ongoing.

According to a publicly disclosed lawyer's letter, the entity behind Pump.fun, Bracket Company Inc., sent a cease-and-desist letter to Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters (X account @shawmakesmagic) on October 29, 2026, through the law firm Brown Rudnick. Pump.fun accuses Walters of unauthorized copying, reverse engineering, and planning to publicly release its source code, violating U.S. copyright law and platform service terms.The lawyer's letter states that Walters posted a series of messages on the X platform between October 27 and 28, claiming to have reverse-engineered 97.6% of the source code of the Pump.fun contract set, with 80% matching the original contract byte for byte, and plans to add the front-end and back-end code to the code repository, offering project tokens $PMUP as a reward to contributors. Pump.fun demands that Walters immediately cease such activities, refrain from publicly releasing the source code, and clearly states that such reverse engineering constitutes illegal behavior.

The non-profit Ethereum development lab Ethlabs announced that Ethereum co-founder Mihai Alisie has joined Ethlabs as an anchor funder, and Payward and Gattaca have joined as contributors.Its initial anchor funders include BitMine, Sharplink, and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin.

The Hyperliquid project team members announced on Discord that Hyperliquid Labs will unlock 180,000 HYPE on October 28, to be distributed to team members on November 6.

According to Cointelegraph, Jordi Visser, founder of Visser Labs, former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, and Chief Investment Officer at Weiss, stated in the Cointelegraph podcast "Trade Secrets" that crypto assets may yield better returns from the AI boom than AI stocks. He believes that AI entities are creating demand for crypto payments and tokenized assets, stating, "Without AI, the crypto market will not emerge from this bull market."Visser compared AI entities to the App Store or smartphones in the crypto industry, where users can instruct the entities to execute financial operations such as trades on their behalf. He also cautioned about risks: if AI experiences a severe downturn and drags down the stock market, it could cause the crypto market to retest previous lows, but it would not end the bull market. He mentioned that the "fireworks show" of AI has ended, not the end of AI itself, and investors should lower their expectations for returns from AI stocks.In terms of holdings, as of August, Visser only held Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, and then began buying a broader range of tokens, with Bitcoin still being his largest position. He is watching Dogecoin as a signal of retail enthusiasm returning and maintains an equally weighted index composed of 42 tokens and 4 publicly traded stocks, which has outperformed Bitcoin since June. He has also positioned himself in privacy themes, believing that Zcash and Monero align with his investment logic.

Zcash Labs announced the launch of the JavaScript SDK Zcash JS, which developers can use to build web, server, and mobile applications based on Zcash. The official statement mentions that applications that can be developed include wallets, light clients, and data dashboards.Zcash Labs stated that it will continue to maintain Zcash JS and build supporting tools and code library ecosystems around it. Project documentation and the GitHub code repository have been made publicly available.

Arthur Hayes posted that Flop Labs will open the development network (Devnet) in the coming days, allowing anyone to participate in the network as a miner or validator, and supporting AI entities' access. However, participation in the Devnet testing will not count towards any token distribution.This opening aims to conduct public testing in preparation for the project's subsequent entry into the test network (Testnet) phase and airdrop.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Lightning Labs has opened Wavelength to all users. The AI agent can autonomously send and receive payments on the Bitcoin mainnet via the Lightning Network and L402 without requiring manual approval for each transaction.The AI agent can use its payment API to call fees, purchase data, and trade with other agents, with single transaction fees as low as less than 1 cent; developers can integrate payment functionality into their applications without running a Lightning Network node, managing channels, or raising liquidity. This self-hosted toolkit supports independent on-chain exits, with an initial limit of 300,000 satoshis per wallet, and the Lightning Network payments incur a service fee of 0.25%. Wavelength is currently still in the Alpha stage and plans to support stablecoins.