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On November 12, Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han was invited to speak at the Oxford Union, delivering a keynote speech titled "Start Alone," reflecting on his 13 years of entrepreneurial journey since founding Gate alone in 2013. He shared experiences and thoughts on entrepreneurial resilience, rapid innovation, team building, and opportunities for entrepreneurship in the AI era.Dr. Han stated that the founding of Gate stemmed from his early experiences of losses incurred through trading on online forums. To create a more trustworthy digital asset trading platform, he started his business alone without external venture capital support. Since then, Gate has experienced multiple industry fluctuations and significant business challenges, gradually growing through continuous innovation and adjustments. He emphasized that maintaining a strong long-term belief, quickly seizing new opportunities, and continuously improving innovation and execution efficiency are crucial factors for companies to face challenges and achieve long-term development.Regarding the AI era, Dr. Han proposed the "Boss + AI" model, pointing out that AI can significantly enhance information acquisition, knowledge learning, and daily work efficiency, empowering individual entrepreneurs with stronger execution capabilities. At the same time, he emphasized that "Start Alone" does not mean always going it alone; entrepreneurs must have the courage to take the first step independently while also seeking suitable partners and team members during the development process. Through this keynote speech at the Oxford Union, Dr. Han brought Gate's 13 years of entrepreneurial journey into a broader industry discussion and, drawing from years of personal practice, provided insights and inspiration for a new generation of entrepreneurs.

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo stated that Jensen Huang's departure could create market opportunities for Google's self-developed AI chip TPU. Kuo mentioned that Tim Cook excels in cost management, but Jensen Huang performs better in new technology planning and development.

DeFi Development Corp preferred stock CHAD raised enough funds to purchase over 1170 Solana, setting a new daily record.

According to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, it co-hosted a seminar with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority on November 11, attended by over 200 industry professionals. The seminar topics included the opportunities brought by tokenization for secondary market trading and corporate treasury management, financial infrastructure optimization measures supporting payment and liquidity management, the role of virtual asset trading platforms in facilitating tokenized fund trading and providing liquidity, as well as cases promoting the broader application of tokenized currencies and tokenized investment products.The Executive Director of the Investment Products Division of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, Wu Jiali, stated that the development of tokenization in Hong Kong is moving from the experimental stage to commercial application, with the next phase focusing on integrating tokenized investment products, digital currencies, and financial infrastructure to drive practical applications. The Assistant Chief Executive (Financial Infrastructure) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Zhou Wenzheng, stated that the Monetary Authority will continue to work closely with the Securities and Futures Commission to promote responsible innovation in the field of tokenization.

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.

The decentralized lending protocol Moonwell, through governance proposal MIP-X75, has reduced the collateral requirements for existing loans and removed VELO and wrsETH from the list of collateralizable assets. This adjustment involves the lending markets deployed on Base and Optimism.After the proposal takes effect, the reduction in collateral limits will compress the borrowing capacity of existing borrowers. Users close to the borrowing limit who do not reduce their debt or supplement with eligible collateral will face liquidation.

According to GlobeNewswire, Solana Treasury Company DeFi Development (Nasdaq: DFDV) Chief Financial Officer John Han has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer while continuing to serve as Chief Financial Officer, responsible for the company's daily business operations and cross-departmental coordination, and will continue to lead financial strategy, capital market activities, and financial reporting.

The locally developed AI Agent Alma, led by independent developer Yetone, ranked third in the latest round of cross-evaluation initiated by the AI Agent infrastructure company Runta, both in task success rate and cost of success, outperforming tools like Claude Code and OpenCode. The current leaderboard snapshot shows that Alma has a task success rate of 72.7%, just behind Codex CLI at 77.9% and Pi at 72.8%, while Claude Code stands at 70.0%.Alma costs approximately $0.80 on average for each successfully completed task, compared to Claude Code's $0.94, making it about 16% cheaper. This FrontierHarness v1.1 comparison evaluates the performance of the same large model under different Agent execution frameworks, covering 21 sets of Harness configurations, 5 large models, and 62 tasks, with each task repeated 4 times, planning to run a total of 26,040 times, which is 72 times the scale of the previous version. All tools operate in a unified cloud environment, comparing task success rates, token costs, and execution speeds.Alma emphasizes local operation and long-term memory, capable of reading and modifying code, executing terminal commands, searching the web, and supporting Skills and MCP, while also allowing for switching underlying models. Recently, Alma integrated with Herdr, allowing programming Agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Pi to continue operating within Herdr, and enabling users to view execution processes, respond to questions, and approve operations in a centralized chat interface. Users can also remotely manage multiple Agents on their computers via iPhone. The evaluation is still ongoing, and rankings may change; the models being tested are limited to open-source models like GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi, and Muse, and do not cover closed-source models from the GPT and Claude series.

According to Gelonghui, sources have revealed that Apple is developing a Mac application named Harbor, which can turn computers equipped with Apple chips into private AI inference servers, supporting direct downloading, management, and running of open weight models without the need to upload data to the cloud.The application can also connect two or more compatible Macs via Thunderbolt 5, automatically forming a cluster and integrating unified memory to run large models that exceed the capacity of a single machine or handle more concurrent requests without manual configuration or using the command line. The application is currently in a non-public preview by Claris, a software company under Apple, and the official launch date has not yet been announced.

The Solana Foundation developer relations personnel stated that Direct Mapping is about to go live on the mainnet and recommended developers enable the relevant features for program testing.

According to The Block, the foundation behind the Ethereum Layer 2 network MegaETH has been renamed MEGA and has committed to allocating $30 million from its existing treasury to develop new products, with the first AI inference marketplace scheduled to launch in December.MEGA stated that all new products will run on MegaETH, and planned network upgrades such as rapid finality will also support AI inference products. Co-founder Shuyao Kong mentioned that the inference marketplace targets developers as its customer base, with specific suppliers and models to be announced at launch.MEGA's responsibilities also include expanding the use cases of the MEGA token, and Kong stated that the team will utilize the token in possible scenarios.

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 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.

According to reports from Major Factory Daily, on November 10th at 20:30, Luo Yonghao will debut the AI development product TRAE from ByteDance in the "Let's Make Friends" live streaming room. This live stream will not be a conventional product parameter explanation; Luo Yonghao will demonstrate the use of TRAE on-site, converting ideas directly into runnable applications through natural language.During the Double Eleven period, this live streaming room will launch exclusive promotional activities, with a limited-time price of 9.9 yuan for new users of TRAE Lite monthly subscription, while also listing the full range of annual subscription products: Lite, Pro, and Ultra. Reports indicate that AI programming tools are lowering the barriers to software development, allowing ordinary users without a technical background to develop personal management systems or product prototypes. This live stream marks the extension of the Double Eleven AI marketing battle from selling computing power (Tokens) to monetizing personal development and creativity.

Renowned developer and T3 Code founder Theo discovered that although Anthropic's newly released Fable 5.2 is more powerful, the API equivalent usage available to subscription users is significantly lower. Theo has been tracking the actual request data of Claude Code for a long time. According to his estimates, for the same monthly subscription fee of $200 for Claude Ultra, using Opus 5.5 would yield an API usage equivalent to about $15,000 per month; switching to Fable 5.2 would only provide about $3,000, a difference of nearly 5 times.Anthropic stipulates that Ultra users can use a maximum of 50% of their total quota for Fable each week. Even if the entire quota is not used, as long as Fable reaches its limit, users must switch to other models or pay extra to continue using it. Theo estimates that if Opus 5.5 is used fully in a week, approximately 1,200 interaction rounds and 230 task sessions can be completed. If the Fable quota is exhausted first and then switched to Opus, the total number of interaction rounds would drop to about 900, although the number of completed task sessions might be slightly higher since Fable can sometimes complete tasks in one go without repeated communication.The API unit price of Fable 5.2 has decreased by 20% compared to the previous generation, with input and output tokens costing $8 and $40 per million, respectively, but it is still twice that of Opus 5.5. Anthropic reminds users that Fable will consume subscription quotas faster than other Claude models. Currently, Anthropic is offering eligible subscription users 1 to 3 opportunities to reset their Fable quota, with the number of resets depending on the subscription duration. Each reset can return the Fable quota consumed in the current week, allowing users to continue using it without waiting until the next week.

Samsung Electronics plans to complete the development of advanced packaging technology 3D Cube-H by early 2027 and finish the first design kit, followed by evaluations with potential customers. This technology achieves vertical stacking of chips based on hybrid bonding, primarily targeting high-performance AI semiconductors, which can be used to stack logic chips such as GPUs or integrate logic chips on memory chips like HBM.Samsung Electronics has previously developed 3D Cube-T using thermocompression bonding technology and is currently advancing 3D Cube-H with a terminal pitch of about 6 micrometers, while the minimum terminal pitch for thermocompression bonded chips is about 25 micrometers. Hybrid bonding connects copper materials directly between chips, allowing for reduced terminal pitch, increased connection density, and lower energy consumption per bit, with thermal characteristics that differ from thermocompression bonding solutions.

According to CoinDesk, Solana developers have proposed to abolish the persistent nonce transaction feature, which was used in the April attack on the trading protocol Drift, resulting in a loss of at least $270 million. The proposal still requires technical approval and is expected to take effect on the mainnet as early as May 5, 2027.Persistent nonce allows signed transactions to remain valid for a long time, enabling custodians and exchanges to perform offline signing. Relevant institutions will need to migrate to alternative solutions, and the migration requirements from the Solana Foundation may delay the final deadline.

Zcash developers proposed to shorten the blockchain target block interval from 25 seconds to 20 seconds to accelerate transaction confirmation speed. On Sunday, developers ValarDragon and Evan Forbes submitted a draft of a Zcash Improvement Proposal (ZIP) to the Zcash community forum, hoping that this change will be included in the next community vote and considered in the upcoming NU7.1 network upgrade.According to the proposal, shortening the block interval will reduce the expected waiting time for the first transaction confirmation, thereby improving the user experience for offline payments, exchange deposits, and cross-chain swaps. The developers stated that this change will not increase the overall processing capacity for daily privacy transactions on the network; at the same time, despite more frequent block generation, the proposal will maintain Zcash's existing issuance schedule.The proposal was made a few days after the NU7 upgrade went live. On Friday, the NU7 upgrade activated on the mainnet, shortening the network target block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. This upgrade also introduced a network sustainability mechanism, using part of the transaction fees collected for future mining rewards while maintaining Zcash's supply cap of 21 million ZEC.

The Ethereum Foundation published a blog, reminding contract developers and auditors to check whether their projects rely on 8 Gas billing assumptions, which will no longer hold due to the adjustments in Gas charging methods in Glamsterdam with EIP-8037 and EIP-8038. The Ethereum Foundation has established a code repository that provides explanations, examples, and keywords for self-checking related to each assumption. Affected projects can contact the team via email.The team is collaborating with several auditing companies and conducting internal audits, but it cannot cover all projects on Ethereum and their on-chain and off-chain code. The Ethereum Foundation announced on October 23 that it has postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade originally scheduled to be activated on the Hoodi testnet, with a new activation time yet to be determined. Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter stated on October 26 that the reason for the delay was a report from ChainSecurity that revealed issues with EIP-8037 when interacting with certain contracts, and its impact is now largely understood.