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At Tencent's internal all-staff meeting celebrating its 28th anniversary, Ma Huateng proposed to accelerate organizational change. He believes that Tencent's transformation is somewhat late and cannot leisurely feel secure anymore. Ma Huateng compared it to the army and navy, stating that traditional core businesses like gaming and social networking must be safeguarded, but efficiency should be improved using AI. For example, tasks that originally required everyone can now be completed by half the staff, freeing up the other half to explore AI-native businesses and seek new growth points.Ma Huateng's previous statements regarding AI have been traceable. In January of this year, he emphasized that Tencent's AI layout should be steady and solid; in May, he used a ship analogy, stating that they initially thought they had secured a ticket for the AI ship, only to later find it was leaking and had to switch to another one. He specifically mentioned Google, believing that initially, everyone was worried about AI impacting search, but later felt that Google seemed to withstand it. Looking at this year, he noted that "the wave has really come," and traditional businesses like content cannot feel secure either. Google's search advertising revenue still grew by 12% in the third quarter of this year, but the growth rate has continuously declined from 19% in the first quarter to 17% in the second quarter, with management admitting that the commercial monetization capability of AI Mode is weak. On the day of its 28th anniversary, Tencent launched "Yuanbao Search," redoing the search process with a large model and integrating content from public accounts and video accounts.Ma Huateng also told the internal management that organizational transformation can no longer be about coddling employees, repeatedly persuading them, and negotiating terms. Some people even want to negotiate management positions before participating in new businesses. He demanded a flatter organization, with employees needing to quickly switch skills and adapt to new positions, stating that this reform is different from the "cost reduction and efficiency increase" from a few years ago, which mainly focused on cutting costs. Now, it is about changing the way the organization and personnel work, running faster with the existing manpower, and enabling small teams to accomplish big tasks. Related speeches subsequently sparked discussions in employee communities, with rumors of "Tencent laying off 50%" and "laying off 8,000 people" appearing on platforms like Maimai and Xiaohongshu. Tencent's PR director Zhang Jun clarified that the so-called 50% was merely a metaphor used by Ma Huateng for organizational transformation and not the layoff ratio, nor has it been announced that half of the employees would be laid off.

U.S. Secretary of State Rubio stated that if there is a negotiable agreement, the United States is ready to negotiate with Iran at any time.

On November 9, 2026, Google released an emergency stable channel update for the desktop Chrome browser, fixing nine security vulnerabilities, including a zero-day vulnerability that was already being exploited in the wild. This update raises the Chrome version on Windows and Mac platforms to 157.8103.5/.51, and to 157.8103.5 on the Linux platform, and will be gradually rolled out over the next few days to weeks. The core focus of this update is the high-risk vulnerability numbered CVE-2026-125350, which is a use-after-free issue in an XML component. Google explicitly stated in the announcement that "CVE-2026-125350 is known to be exploited in the wild," but did not disclose specific attack methods, the scale of victims, or attribution of the attack activities.The vulnerability was reported by an anonymous researcher on November 6, 2026, just three days before Google released the fix. Among the nine fixes, seven are classified as "high risk" and two as "medium risk." In addition to CVE-2026-125350, another high-risk vulnerability, CVE-2026-125346, also pertains to a use-after-free issue in an XML component, reported by Arni Hardarson of Neonix Security on October 12, 2026, but Google only marked CVE-2026-125350 as an actively exploited vulnerability. The other high-risk vulnerabilities include uninitialized resources in WebGL, improper FileSystem authorization, synthesizer buffer overflow, GPU out-of-bounds write, and V8 type confusion, most of which were discovered by Google's internal security team.Google also confirmed that the Android version of Chrome (157.8103.5) released on the same day includes the same security fixes as the desktop version, with no exceptions noted. Users on the Extended Stable channel should install the update released separately on November 9, with Windows and Mac versions being 156.8078.96, which also lists CVE-2026-125350 as a high-risk fix. The Hong Kong Government Computer Security Incident Coordination Centre (GovCERT.HK) issued a security alert on the same day, defining affected systems as versions prior to Chrome 157.8103.5, and pointed out that successful exploitation of the related vulnerabilities could lead to remote code execution, denial of service, tampering, or bypassing security restrictions. The Hong Kong Computer Security Incident Coordination Centre (HKCERT) rated the risk level of this update as "extremely high risk." Google explained in the announcement that access to vulnerability details and links may remain restricted until most users complete the update. The company recommends that users manually check and trigger the update via "Settings → About Chrome," and restart the browser after completing the update for the patch to take effect. For users still running versions prior to Chrome 157.8103.5, the current priority action is to confirm the version number and restart immediately to complete the upgrade.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated that he has clearly indicated a readiness to take action, and information in the coming period will help determine the policy position.

The co-founder of the cryptocurrency trading app Fomo, Se Yong Park, posted on platform X stating that the current number of tokens in the market has become excessive. The team has no intention of launching new tokens but hopes to help build a future that allows the strongest communities to continue to grow and thrive.Se Yong Park had previously denied that Fomo plans to launch a Solana ecosystem token issuance platform and stated that the team has no intention of competing with Pump.fun through related products.

According to Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley strategist Michael Wilson stated that as the three-month stock market correction enters its final stage, investors should be prepared to buy on dips.Historically, in similar situations, high-quality stocks typically outperform by 7.5% in the following year.

Ukrainian President Zelensky stated that Ukraine is ready to sign a ceasefire guarantee agreement.

According to monitoring by Sandeep Nailwal, the Polygon protocol destroyed 100 million POL two weeks ago, accounting for about 1% of the total token supply, with funds sourced from network-generated transaction fees. Currently, another 22 million POL are prepared to enter the next phase of destruction, accounting for about 0.2% of the total supply.Polygon has not fully disclosed the impact of OMS on POL, and relevant information will be announced soon. Last week, the annualized transaction volume processed by OMS exceeded 1 billion dollars for the second consecutive week.

Since the beginning of 2026, Bitcoin has experienced 10 "3 standard deviation" trading days, exceeding the 8 times seen throughout the bear market of 2018. Although Bitcoin's annualized volatility has decreased from 84% in 2018 to about 46%, extreme market conditions still occur frequently relative to recent price volatility levels. "3 standard deviation" is used to measure the extent to which prices deviate from the recent normal volatility range. Data shows that the average price fluctuation for Bitcoin during such extreme conditions this year is about 7%, lower than the approximately 10% seen in 2018.Since 2024, Bitcoin's volatility has been around 47%, similar to Nvidia, but during the same period, Bitcoin has had 26 "3 standard deviation" trading days, far exceeding Nvidia's 8 times, the S&P 500's 16 times, and gold's 12 times. Market participants point out that macro shocks and the leverage and concentrated positions in the derivatives market are important factors contributing to the continued occurrence of extreme volatility. When investors sell options in large quantities, betting on market calmness, sudden news can force related concentrated positions to close, further amplifying price fluctuations.Deribit CEO Luuk Strijers stated that traditional Value at Risk (VaR) models struggle to adequately measure tail risks during extreme market conditions, and investors should pay more attention to risk indicators such as Expected Shortfall. Meanwhile, increased institutional participation, deeper liquidity, and improved risk management are also enhancing the market's ability to withstand shocks, but this does not mean that extreme volatility will disappear.

Blockworks analyst Jake Koch-Gallup published a rebuttal to the viewpoint that Ethereum is losing its liquidity moat, arguing that despite the challenges to ETH's value capture ability and stablecoin market share, its reserve asset characteristics, Layer 2 ecosystem, and institutional adoption still constitute a long-term competitive advantage.In response to the issue of low on-chain revenue for Ethereum, Jake pointed out that ETH's valuation depends not only on actual economic value (REV) but also includes reserve asset and collateral premiums, with ETH's market capitalization currently about 1,100 times the REV of the past 12 months. Additionally, the development of Layer 2 networks such as Robinhood Chain and Base can still strengthen the Ethereum ecosystem, rather than indicating that funds and applications are completely leaving Ethereum. Jake also noted that Ethereum currently accounts for about 65% of the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi, with approximately 45% of the on-chain managed scale in real-world assets (RWA), while spot ETFs and corporate treasuries collectively hold about 13% of the total ETH supply, and about 36% of the ETH supply is currently staked.Although Ethereum's stablecoin market share has gradually faced dilution pressure from around 51%, Jake believes that as the overall stablecoin market expands, its absolute scale may continue to grow. However, Jake also acknowledged that relying solely on ETH's reserve asset premium, without sufficient revenue and value return mechanisms, raises questions about its valuation sustainability.

The core development team of Solana, Anza developer Jacob Creech, stated that unlike some blockchains, Solana users do not need to urgently transfer assets due to AI-accelerated password cracking or quantum computing threats. He explained that Solana uses the Ed25519 signature algorithm, where the signing key is derived from a secret seed through hashing. Even if elliptic curve cryptography is cracked in the future, attackers cannot directly recover the original seed from it.Creech mentioned that theoretically, Solana could introduce a hash-based seed ownership proof through a network upgrade, allowing original holders to verify their identity and migrate to a more secure signing scheme. Anza has developed a related proof-of-concept prototype. He also emphasized that Solana is currently still secure and has a technical roadmap to address future cryptographic threats.

Chairman of BitMine, Tom Lee, stated during his speech at the TOKEN2049 summit in Singapore that the cryptocurrency market has entered a "full bull market." If a starting point for this bull market were to be determined, he believes it would be in August of this year. Tom Lee mentioned that, from a four-year cycle perspective, the market bottom has already appeared, and this cycle could become "the largest cryptocurrency bull market in history."Tom Lee indicated that there are four new driving forces behind this bull market compared to previous cycles, including institution-driven asset tokenization, intergenerational wealth transfer over the next decade, the continuous absorption of cryptocurrency supply by Digital Asset Treasury companies (DAT), and the development of AI and Crypto integration scenarios such as AI Agent payments. He believes that the migration of traditional financial assets to the blockchain will become an important source of incremental funds, and that AI Agents are more likely to use cryptocurrency wallets for payments and settlements in the future.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Product and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), Star stated that AI is no longer a pilot project for OKX, but a core infrastructure. Currently, about 95% of OKX's engineering code merge requests are primarily completed through AI workflows, with engineers still responsible for review and approval.He revealed that OKX paid up to 10 million dollars to large model companies for AI last month.

The privacy coin project Zcash officially stated that Zcash now has two independent full node implementations, both executing the same rules, namely Zebra and Zakura.Zcash also raised the question: Does the second client truly change the decentralization of the network, or is computing power still the only key factor? Zebra is the Rust full node implementation supported by the Zcash Foundation, while Zakura is another independent full node client.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko stated that the industry is "not ready" for the next major upgrade of the chain, Alpenglow.Previously, Anza engineers had migrated the Solana developer network to the Alpenglow consensus protocol, which will change the way blocks are processed, aiming to reduce the transaction finality time from about 12.8 seconds to 100 to 150 milliseconds.

Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou stated that the Bybit team is ready to assist in various ways regarding the recent hacking incident involving Bitget. Previously, when Bybit faced a hacking attack, Bitget provided support.Ben Zhou mentioned that Bybit is currently updating the LazarusBounty platform to assist Bitget in tracking the relevant flow of funds.On February 21, 2025, Bybit experienced the largest hacking attack in cryptocurrency history at that time (approximately $1.46 billion to $1.5 billion worth of Ethereum was stolen, later attributed to the North Korean Lazarus group). After the attack, Bitget quickly transferred 40,000 ETH (approximately $10.5 million to $10.6 million at that time) to Bybit, with the funds coming from Bitget's own reserves, not user assets. This support was an interest-free, unsecured loan with no fixed repayment deadline, aimed at helping Bybit cope with withdrawal runs and replenish liquidity.