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Zcash holders and community representatives will vote from November 16 to 30 on a proposal to remove 50,000 ZEC from the community grant fund (ZCG). This proposal was co-drafted by Zcash co-founders Sean Bowe, Zooko Wilcox, and Jason McGee, and was merged into the specification repository on Wednesday. According to the October treasury snapshot referenced in the proposal, ZCG holds 91,453 ZEC, and the amount proposed for removal accounts for approximately 55% of its holdings.If the proposal passes and is activated in the network upgrade, ZCG must remove the 50,000 ZEC from circulation within 30 days, and its corresponding value will be included in the Network Sustainability Mechanism, gradually returned through future block rewards. Additionally, the proposal plans to stop allocating 8% of newly issued ZEC to ZCG, transferring this portion of funds into a new Future Dev and Legal Defense Fund, which will continue to accumulate until the next Zcash halving. Funds in this new fund will temporarily be unavailable for expenditure until separate withdrawal rules are approved.ZCG can still use the remaining treasury funds to continue issuing development grants, and the independent 12% holder-controlled fund will not be affected. The proposal states that based on the October treasury snapshot, a ZEC price of $1,300, and expenditure estimates for the first half of 2026, the current funds of ZCG can cover approximately 13 years of expenditures; after the removal of 50,000 ZEC, the remaining funds are expected to cover about 6 years. Previously, ZCG proposed to redirect approximately 98,000 ZEC from existing assets and future income to miner rewards, but abandoned this plan on November 3 after facing community criticism. This new proposal still requires community support and must be implemented through a network upgrade. The activation block height has not yet been determined, nor has a reference implementation been provided.

Ethereum developer Marchhill submitted the draft EIP-8437, proposing to propagate proof wrapper data through the eth/73 protocol and introducing an optional mode that allows transactions to submit raw signatures to the aggregator without pre-generating STARK proofs.This proposal supports the direct propagation of certified packages with transactions and performs independent checks of specified programs in resource-constrained sandboxes to verify witness data. The new program does not require the development of native adapters for each signature scheme separately. Additionally, the proposal plans to limit the batch queue size, clean up expired transactions, and recheck records before formally generating proofs to support failure retries.Currently, the proposal is still in the Draft stage and has not yet been merged. The developer pointed out that VM and key binding consistency verification, cryptographic verification, and performance testing are still incomplete, and benchmarking has not yet been conducted.

Zach Pandl, the head of research at Grayscale, pointed out that the number of monthly active developers for Zcash has roughly doubled over the past two years, while the broader cryptocurrency developer community has declined from its peak during the same period.About 70% of Zcash's active developers have over a year of experience in cryptocurrency development, which is higher than the overall industry average of 58%. These developers possess expertise in zero-knowledge proofs and post-quantum cryptography research. The article suggests that the continued engagement of developers indicates the network's capability for ongoing improvement. The growing developer community of Zcash combines a strong privacy ethos with the goal of making private digital currencies more accessible. This momentum is expected to continue supporting protocol innovation and may ultimately translate into an increase in ZEC valuation.

According to Sifted, game engine company Unity and NVIDIA's investment arm NVentures have joined the approximately $700 million funding round for UK AI startup Emulate.Emulate was founded in August this year by several former researchers from Google DeepMind and is registered in the UK. The founders include Jack Parker-Holder, Matthew McGill, and others. The company's focus is on "world models," which learn the laws of the physical world from video and interactive data to train agents that can act in real environments.Previously, the Financial Times reported in September that Emulate planned to raise up to $700 million at a valuation of about $3.7 billion; Bloomberg and PYMNTS later stated that its valuation was approaching $4 billion just one month after its establishment. Sifted noted that Unity and NVentures are the latest investors to join, but did not disclose the specific investment amounts from each.

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.

Zhao Changpeng responded to the Genius App community invitation on platform X, stating that the team had invited him to create a public account, but he declined the proposal due to concerns about receiving a large number of meaningless token donations again.Zhao Changpeng mentioned that he has downloaded the Genius App for understanding but has not yet used the app for trading. He emphasized, "I am not a trader; I just accumulate and hold, and I only hold mainstream coins."Previously, members of the Genius App community extended a public invitation to Zhao Changpeng, stating that over 10,000 BNB community users have joined the app and hope that Zhao Changpeng can also register an account and participate in community interactions.

Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett posted on the X platform that former House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry stated that the cryptocurrency industry missed the best opportunity to promote market structure legislation and establish a regulatory framework; he also admitted that he bears some responsibility for this.

OpenAI released the "National Community Compact" and the "Compute Campus Policy Blueprint," referring to AI data centers as "Compute Campus," and made commitments regarding community communication, energy costs, and information transparency.The compact applies to the campuses that OpenAI will own and operate in the future. It clearly states that public officials will not be required to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) as a condition for discussion or negotiation, retaining only limited protection for security information, trade secrets, or proprietary sensitive information; it will bear the full costs of electricity and supporting infrastructure, protecting other users' electricity rates; publicly disclose construction plans, as well as impacts such as noise, water usage, electricity usage, and sustainability.The policy blueprint calls for federal, state, and local governments to legislate to limit mandatory NDAs for public officials, require disclosure of environmental impacts and employment data, and protect residents from subsidizing the electricity costs of data centers.

The Cosmos ecosystem decentralized exchange Osmosis has burned 55.5 million OSMO from the community pool. After the burn, the community pool still retains approximately 63.78 million OSMO.At the same time, the new token issuance of Osmosis will no longer replenish reserves to the community pool, and the size of the community pool will no longer grow with the issuance.

In the U.S. midterm elections, the Democratic Party won control of both houses of Congress, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to face fierce criticism from domestic political opponents. The opposition accused him of long publicly supporting the Republican Party, undermining Israel's traditional bipartisan support in the U.S., and using the election results to push for the formation of a new government without Netanyahu.Yair Golan, leader of Israel's center-left opposition party, stated that the election results reflect Netanyahu's negative impact within both the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S. Centrist leader Yair Lapid warned that Netanyahu's continued rule would jeopardize Israel's security and international standing.U.S.-Israel relations may also face new pressures. With the Democratic Party controlling Congress, there may be pressure on Israel through hearings, oversight investigations, and budget measures. Previously, there had been a shift within the Democratic Party regarding support for Israel's military actions and U.S. aid, a trend exacerbated by the military actions jointly launched by Trump and Netanyahu against Iran. Meanwhile, Israeli President Isaac Herzog plans to meet with representatives from various parties on Wednesday and Thursday to initiate the process of forming a new government. Netanyahu currently remains in office as caretaker Prime Minister.

The Zcash Community Grant Committee (ZCG) has announced that it has decided not to proceed with the proposal put forward on October 29, which aimed to allocate approximately 98,000 ZEC as future mining rewards. The committee stated that subsequent funding arrangements should be determined through Zcash's existing governance processes. ZCG currently automatically receives 8% of newly issued ZEC, amounting to about 144 coins per day, and the treasury size is sufficient to support expenditures for many years, although its funding model and accountability have recently sparked controversy within the community.According to the original proposal, the committee intended to allocate 36,200 ZEC from its treasury of approximately 91,500 ZEC to inject into a sustainable network mechanism to supplement miner block rewards, thereby reducing the expected income until the halving in 2028. Co-founder Sean Bowe, founder Zooko Wilcox, and developer Daira-Emma Hopwood have proposed various alternatives, such as terminating automatic grants, restructuring the use of funds, or focusing on promoting the use of ZEC, but none have been approved yet. Until the network upgrade changes the rules, ZCG will continue to receive approximately 144 ZEC daily.

On November 4, the head of the Binance Chinese community, Sisi, responded to the security incident at the end of October, stating that approximately $6.3 billion was transferred out of the Binance system, and the responsibility lies with Binance, not with any individual engineer or technical standard. She stated that the related losses would be compensated by the platform, and users could verify themselves on the reserve proof page; the frozen and intercepted portions would be recovered one by one in cooperation with law enforcement and on-chain institutions.Sisi mentioned that after the withdrawal was reopened, the platform focused on ensuring that every withdrawal was processed. She stated that the scale of withdrawals in the past two days was on the same level as the stolen amount, and every transaction had been fulfilled, with user assets remaining intact; the platform did not misappropriate user assets. She also stated that the company's decision-making body requested that the investigation report be unembellished and truthfully disclosed, with timelines, attack paths, malicious script operations, and internal shortcomings all included in the report.Sisi cited an FBI report stating that the adversary was a nation-state actor, and since the beginning of this year, Binance had intercepted 57 suspected attacks from the same source. She indicated that all intrusion points mentioned in the report had been blocked; as of November 3, the affected wallet system had been rebuilt in a new environment, internal AI tools had been rebuilt and permissions tightened, affected devices had been replaced, relevant credentials and tokens had been invalidated, and a comprehensive device security scan and wallet risk control upgrade had been completed. She also mentioned that some defensive lines would not be made public and that an independent third-party security agency had been hired for review, with the conclusions to be announced externally. Binance's preliminary investigation previously indicated that the incident involved assets of approximately $6.34 billion, with about $2.85 billion frozen or intercepted, and the losses would be borne by the platform.

According to official news, Gate Social has officially launched the "2026 Year-End Community Gala," which will open for annual selection registration from November 3, 10:00 to November 10, 23:59 (UTC+8). This gala features two main categories: "2026 Broadcaster of the Year" and "2026 Creator of the Year," with both categories having Chinese and global divisions. Participants can choose to register for one of the categories, and after preliminary selection, they will enter the official evaluation phase, which will take place from November 16, 08:00 to November 28, 23:59 (UTC+8).Each category and division will select a TOP 20. The champion of the Chinese division will receive a DJI Osmo Pocket 4, the 2nd and 3rd places will receive AirPods Pro 3, the 4th to 6th places will receive the Honor Selected Firefly AI Projector Air, and other listed participants will also receive corresponding physical rewards. All TOP 20 will enjoy an annual honor trophy and a VIP 5 exclusive badge.In addition, users can earn support points by watching live broadcasts, posting comments, and sharing interactions to vote for their favorite broadcasters and creators. The TOP 100 on the fan support leaderboard will receive exclusive rewards, and for every 100 support points successfully sent, there will be a chance to enter a lucky draw for prizes such as MacBook Neo prize fragments, GT, popular tokens, and position experience vouchers, among other gifts.

The Akash community approved the migration of the Akash protocol from the Cosmos independent chain akashnet-2 to the Solana mainnet through governance proposal 346. On-chain data shows that the proposal passed with approximately 97% in favor and a voter turnout of about 68.8%. Akash is an open computing platform aimed at the AI and inference era, gathering distributed computing power supply through a decentralized computing market.The proposal authorizes AKT to be issued as SPL tokens on Solana after the audit is completed at the token and migration portal, and opens a two-year one-way migration portal, allowing AKT holders to migrate to SPL AKT at a 1:1 ratio. Two independent code audits must be completed before the launch, expected to take place within 2 to 3 weeks after the proposal passes. After the migration is completed, the computing power trading market Akash Marketplace, the AI inference platform AkashML, and Akash Homenode will be natively deployed on Solana.The Akash team stated that the reasons for choosing Solana include lower transaction costs, a mature DePIN ecosystem, liquidity, and a large on-chain user base. The proposal did not set a date for the switch of the computing power market; the market migration will still need to be decided by a separate governance vote after the audits and migration rehearsals are passed, and subsequent on-chain decisions will involve market switch proposals, upgrade toggles, and downtime upgrades.

Kimi, a subsidiary of the artificial intelligence company Dark Side of the Moon, has released a game development and creative work solution that allows AI Agents to move from assisting in programming to participating in the entire workflow of game production, from gameplay design, 3D modeling, engineering development to publishing and operations. The solution is based on K3.1 Pro, Kimi Code, and Kimi Work, and can operate professional tools such as Unity, Unreal Engine, and Blender through plugins.Kimi can modify existing projects, run games independently, view test recordings, and continue to make modifications after identifying issues. In the official demonstration, after the planner provided reference images, videos, and gameplay requirements, Kimi was able to create a 2.5D action game prototype with mechanics such as sword swinging, dodging, and blocking using Godot. The official claim states that even without programming experience, there is a chance to create a playable version within 1 to 2 days.In another demonstration in collaboration with Unity China, Kimi worked continuously for 20 hours without human intervention, reproducing the original work and delivering a native project that can be further developed. Dark Side of the Moon also uses the solution for game publishing and long-term operations, including mass production of advertising materials, analyzing player feedback, handling community content and localization, as well as integrating AI dialogue capabilities for game NPCs through APIs.

He Yi posted on platform X, stating that the Binance community reward activity requires regulatory approval and will go live tomorrow after being reviewed and approved by the regulatory agency.Currently, there are no cash voucher activities. Please be cautious of various phishing and scam links.

The current development fund model of Zcash (ZIP-1016) was proposed by joshs on the Zcash community forum, suggesting to terminate the Zcash development fund early before its scheduled expiration in November 2028.Currently, the development fund accounts for 20% of each block reward, with 12% going to the Coinholder Fund, which is distributed through retrospective funding voted on by coin holders every quarter; 8% goes to the Zcash Community Grant Committee (ZCG), composed of 5 elected community members. The total value of these two funds exceeds 300 million dollars.According to current rules, after the development fund expires, the entire block reward will belong to the miners. This proposal is a response to another proposal to "cancel the ZCG and retain the Coinholder Fund," which the poster believes is merely a compromise. The proposal is currently in the community discussion phase and has not yet entered the voting process.