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According to The Block, banking giant BNY will adopt the validator infrastructure of staking service provider Figment to support its staking business. Eligible institutional clients can stake assets within the platform through BNY's existing digital asset custody services.Figment stated that BNY's staking clients include asset management companies, ETF issuers, corporations, and wealth management institutions. Qualified clients can earn staking rewards on supported assets on the platform. A Figment spokesperson told The Block that ETH will be supported initially, followed by an expansion to SOL, although no specific launch date has been announced.Ralf Roth, head of BNY's digital asset custody, stated that as institutional participation in staking increases, the focus is shifting from whether staking can be accessed to how staking is delivered. Providing staking services in a trusted custody framework with Figment allows institutions to have more confidence in their participation methods and meets their standards for security, oversight, and accountability.Josh Deems, head of revenue at Figment, stated that Figment is bringing its validator infrastructure and staking experience to BNY's digital asset custody platform, providing institutional clients with another way to participate in staking within existing platforms and service processes.BNY launched its digital asset custody services in October 2022, initially accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum from a limited number of clients. Last month, BNY expanded its custody agreement with Ripple to cover XRP and RLUSD, and plans to allow BNY clients to mint and redeem RLUSD through the bank.Coinbase Prime integrated Figment's Ethereum staking services in early 2024, and when the two announced an expansion to networks such as Solana, Cardano, and Sui in October 2025, they stated that the partnership had facilitated over $2 billion in asset staking. Figment claims it has provided staking services to over 1,500 institutions, including asset management companies, custodians, exchanges, and wallets.

Sygnum launched a market-neutral ETH Alpha Fund, combining strategies such as staking, options, and arbitrage, with a target annual return of 8% to 10% after fees.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale withdrew 2,000 ETH from Binance 29 minutes ago, worth approximately 4.08 million dollars; subsequently, it deposited 32 ETH into the Ethereum Beacon Chain staking contract, worth approximately 65,300 dollars.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, after HYPE corrected about 26% from $96 to $71 this month, a whale or institution has accumulated 396,811 HYPE through multiple centralized exchanges (CEX) in the past 3 days, worth approximately $29.29 million, and transferred all tokens to staking 6 hours ago.

According to The Block, Nasdaq-listed Solana Company (stock ticker: HSDT) reported third-quarter revenue of 3.4 million USD, an increase from 700,000 USD in the same period last year. The quarterly revenue was primarily driven by its staking income from the SOL it holds.As of September 30, the company held approximately 2.4 million SOL, with a fair value of about 288.2 million USD.

The Solana block space market Gravity Block Exchange (GBX) has announced its launch on the Solana mainnet. GBX positions itself as an open and neutral block space market, where block builders compete for the ordering of each block through auctions, rather than having a single scheduler complete the ordering. Its goal is to create a unified ordering market that increases the value of validator block space through competition among builders, while providing users with a clear set of rules.The mainnet operation status announced by GBX includes: approximately 5% of the total staked validators have been connected, with rewards 20% to 30% higher than the cluster average. Currently, there are two independent block builders participating in each round of auctions, namely Bifrost from Astralane and Titan Builder from Gattaca. Public documents show that validators can connect through the Gravity Connector sidecar without the need for a custom validator fork, currently supporting Agave and Jito-Solana, while support for Firedancer is still in development; when external ordering paths are unavailable, validators can fall back to the native scheduler.

Ethereum project Golem Foundation executive Julian Zawistowski published an article reviewing the 10th anniversary of the project's launch. He stated that on November 11, 2016, the Golem project launched its token sale, raising approximately 820,000 ETH in less than 30 minutes and minting 1 billion tokens, initially named GNT, now renamed GLM.Zawistowski revealed that since 2023, the Golem Foundation has staked 100,000 ETH and distributed the staking rewards to GLM holders participating through Octant, while also supporting the construction of public goods on Ethereum. Its long-term goal is to secure this fund reserve, benefiting GLM holders and the broader Ethereum ecosystem.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun proposed 3,996 ETH, worth 8.23 million USD, 4 hours ago, which was then staked into Lido and wstETH was deposited into the Spark protocol.

TON Strategy Company (TONX), listed on NASDAQ, announced its Q3 2026 financial report, with revenue of $13.1 million, primarily from staking rewards of its GRAM treasury, down from $15 million in Q2. As of the end of the quarter, the company held approximately 235.1 million GRAM (formerly Toncoin), valued at $348.5 million, of which 232.9 million were staked, with an annualized gross yield of about 16%. During the same period, the company repurchased $5.7 million in stock and supported the TON network upgrade while launching the native Gram Wallet on Telegram.The financial report showed that TON Strategy had a net loss of $24 million for the quarter, which included an unrealized loss of $27.2 million on its GRAM holdings, compared to an unrealized gain of $82.8 million in the previous quarter. The company stated that it has made progress in cost structure efficiency after ending the business inherited from VERB. CEO Kevin Wilson mentioned that GRAM has been integrated into several existing services of Telegram, including advertising payments and creator monetization, with TON supporting on-chain ownership and transfer of Telegram usernames and gifts; the expansion of access to the native wallet is expected to make GRAM more convenient for payments and transfers, bringing more opportunities for consumer-grade applications based on TON.TON Strategy was formerly Verb Technology Company, which raised approximately $560 million in a deal led by Kingsway Capital in August 2025, transforming into a treasury company for The Open Network's native token, which was renamed Gram earlier this year. Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram, stated on X on Monday that over 700,000 self-custody wallets were created on Telegram in the past 48 hours. TONX's stock price rose 2.4% on Tuesday, with an annual increase of nearly 25%.

According to a report by unfolded, the cryptocurrency custody institution BitGo has updated its support for Aptos and has purchased APT as a strategic holding. BitGo had previously provided custody (launching in 2025) and staking services (with an annual yield of about 7%) for Aptos, and this time added on-chain market access functionality. The page did not disclose the specific scale and amount of the holdings.

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 Vice President of Technology at the Solana Foundation, Jacob Creech, responded to the controversy arising from the recent adjustments to the Solana Foundation Delegated Program (SFDP). The adjustments include: setting the participation period for validators in the SFDP to 12 months, automatic graduation after staking 300,000 SOL, capping the number of validators at 100, and requiring participants to run their own validator nodes.Jacob Creech stated that the SFDP originally had three main tasks: to help new validators get started, to establish a healthy testnet, and to allow some validators to test network updates early. As the Solana ecosystem expands and the validator community matures, the original mechanisms have struggled to adequately meet the ever-changing demands of the network. The foundation hopes to shift towards a more proactive and flexible delegation mechanism, focusing on supporting network health and ecosystem contributors. The SFDP will continue to support new validators, and the foundation will also reward validators who make significant contributions to network health through delegation outside of the program. Previously, the foundation had delegated staking to ecosystem contributors like Blueshift and supported validators who were the first to test Frankendancer.In response to community concerns that the adjustments might lead to a decrease in the number of validators, Jacob Creech stated that reducing the number of validators is not the goal of this adjustment. However, if enough high-quality contributors cannot be found, a decline in the number of validators may become a side effect. He also revealed that over 100 validators have submitted materials to apply for continued support.

CryptoQuant analyst PelinayPA pointed out that the price trend of Ethereum is diverging from staking activity. The staking rate for Ethereum 2 has increased by about 4.32% since May, with approximately 36.32% of the total ETH supply currently staked.Although the price of ETH on Binance has dropped from around $2,800 in October to $2,132, the staking rate continues to rise, indicating that investors have not significantly reduced their staking commitments due to the weak price. Analysts believe that a higher staking participation rate reduces the supply of ETH available for trading, which may provide price support when demand is strong, but staked ETH is not permanently locked, as validators can initiate withdrawals.At the same time, total staking inflows have decreased by 40.11%, highlighting the importance of distinguishing between long-term staking growth and daily inflow activity. Overall, Ethereum maintains a potentially supportive supply-side dynamic in the medium to long term; if the market can absorb selling pressure and attract sufficient demand, ETH may lay the groundwork for a stronger upward trend.

The first U.S. staking INJ ETF has landed on Nasdaq, Injective reviews its progress on the fifth anniversary of its launch.

According to PR Newswire, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) announced its latest asset situation. As of 2 PM Eastern Time on November 8, the company holds 6,070,092 ETH (valued at $2,234 each), 216 BTC, approximately $180 million in Beast Industries equity, $75 million in Eightco (NASDAQ: ORBS) equity, and $475 million in cash and securities.The total of crypto assets, cash, securities, and "moon landing" investments is approximately $14.3 billion. The company stated that it increased its holdings by 9,587 ETH in the past week; the ETH holdings account for about 4.97% of the current supply of 122.2 million, achieving approximately 99% of its goal to hold 5% of the ETH supply. In terms of staking, a total of 5,227,037 ETH has been staked, which is approximately $11.7 billion at the aforementioned valuation.Chairman Tom Lee stated that based on an annualized staking yield of 2.65% over the past 7 days, the expected annualized staking income under the current staking scale is approximately $309 million, and if fully staked, it would be about $359 million.

DePINSim, in collaboration with ULTILAND, has officially launched the ARTX x ESIM dual staking, aimed at helping users maximize their capital returns through innovative mechanisms, with a maximum achievable APR of 180%.According to reports, $ESIM opens up a new significant practical scenario. Users can now directly use $ESIM to purchase eSIM data packages on the DePINSim official website, covering over 190 countries and regions globally with a 20% discount. By deeply integrating blockchain technology with the digital communication ecosystem, DePINSim is committed to building a decentralized global digital communication network. By participating in ecological construction through mining and holding, users can also utilize $ESIM to pay for actual communication traffic and earn substantial ecological incentives through staking.

According to Ember Monitoring, a giant whale/institution transferred 512,000 HYPE (worth $39.3 million) from staking redemption to the institutional trading platform FalconX 6 hours ago.These HYPE were accumulated a year ago at a price of about $44.8, and selling them would realize a profit of $16.36 million.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a major staker (0x924...a2BB0) has redeemed 7,500 ETH in the past three days, suspected of selling.Since November 5, this address has redeemed ETH worth over 17.11 million dollars from Etherfi, which was then deposited into Binance; it is currently still staking 1,483.94 ETH in Kelp DAO.

b14g released a security incident review report on October 31, 2026, which pointed out that attackers exploited a compatibility flaw between its staking contract and the native staking contract of the Core network. Through a single transaction, they initiated 99 zero-amount (0 CORE) withdrawal requests to 91 staking orders, resulting in approximately 97.05 million CORE being stolen. This attack did not involve private key leakage, nor did the attackers modify or deploy new b14g contract code.BTC staked through b14g was unaffected and remains locked on the Bitcoin chain. In terms of fund recovery, approximately 68.15 million CORE (about 70.2% of the total stolen amount) was recovered on November 2 through a hard fork of Core, and another approximately 12 million CORE has reportedly been frozen by trading platforms. Regarding user compensation, b14g plans to return the recovered CORE to affected orders in proportion to their original balances within the next 5 to 7 days, while the remaining losses will be repaid through 50% of future Core staking business income, with affected users able to receive payments weekly.

According to The Defiant, the Algorand Foundation announced the closure of its community forum and advisory committee.The foundation will suspend xGov grants on December 6 and put the Project King Safety project on hold, while maintaining staking rewards support until January 2028.