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The Kremlin announced that Putin and Trump plan to meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Backpack announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with the Japanese digital bank Minna Bank. Minna Bank is part of one of Japan's major regional bank groups, FFG. Both parties will utilize Backpack's on-chain infrastructure to explore the provision of digital banking services related to cryptocurrency assets in Japan. Backpack is positioned as a cryptocurrency trading platform and multi-chain wallet. According to RootData, the project completed a strategic financing of 20 million dollars in 2022 and will complete a Series A financing of 17 million dollars in 2024.

According to Bloomberg, the prediction market platform Polymarket has recently laid off some employees and terminated contracts with several contractors.Previously, CEO Shayne Coplan, responding to investor demands for stronger company management, brought in several senior executives, including hiring former Amazon finance chief Warren Jenson as Chief Financial Officer and recruiting executives from Goldman Sachs, DoorDash, and Robinhood. Polymarket stated that as the business expands and new management joins, the company is adjusting its organizational structure, involving personnel recruitment, position adjustments, and layoffs, but did not disclose specific numbers.

According to official news, Animoca Brands' digital identity project Moca Network announced a strategic cooperation with OKX Ventures, and both parties will jointly screen and support Moca Network ecosystem projects. OKX Ventures has committed to allocating part of its MOCA token reserves for joint investments in projects that develop consumer applications based on digital identity infrastructure such as AIR Kit and Moca Chain.OKX Ventures will also provide support for selected projects, including OKX payment, fiat deposit, and OKX Wallet integration. As the projects gradually mature, Animoca Brands and OKX Ventures may also increase their investments.

Anthropic has reached agreements with partners such as AMD, Broadcom, Google, Micron, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and TSMC.

According to official news from Gold House, the parent company of the social platform Gold House has reached a strategic cooperation with the Canadian MSB licensed company LUMINOUS FINANCE LIMITED. The two parties will collaborate on digital currency exchange, fiat currency exchange channels, cross-border fund transfers, and merchant payment settlement, exploring the application of digital assets in global payment and commercial settlement scenarios.This cooperation will combine the resources of both parties in the digital asset ecosystem, financial services, and related compliance businesses, improving Gold House's business layout in the field of digital asset payment and settlement, and providing users and merchants with more digital asset settlement service solutions.

According to official news from Bitget, the Bitget ecosystem tokenized U.S. stock protocol Reality has reached a strategic cooperation with the DeFi reward infrastructure Merkl. Both parties will use Merkl's reward forwarding function to identify the actual holders of rToken deployed in supported DeFi protocols. Users can still receive dividends in stablecoin form according to the rules, even if they use rToken for lending, liquidity pools, or staking in DeFi scenarios.Pablo Veyrat, CEO and co-founder of Merkl, stated that one major challenge facing DeFi assets is how to identify the actual holders behind each position. Merkl's reward forwarding technology can penetrate multiple layers of nested smart contracts to identify the underlying asset holding relationships, ensuring that dividends are accurately distributed to eligible holders.Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, stated that the value of tokenized stocks should not be limited to trading. Even if users invest rToken into DeFi applications, they should still be able to continue receiving eligible dividends. This cooperation with Merkl will jointly solve this problem, allowing tokenized stocks to play a greater role in everyday financial applications.According to a report from DeFiLlama, the cumulative trading volume of rToken reached $1.16 billion from June to July 2026; in July 2026, the number of users trading both crypto assets and rToken increased by 23.54% month-over-month. This cooperation will further promote the extension of rToken from trading scenarios to the DeFi ecosystem, enriching the on-chain application scenarios of tokenized stocks.

According to the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People's Bank of China and the Central Bank of Oman signed a memorandum of cooperation on central bank digital currencies, and both parties will exchange expertise and experience on related technologies.The two central banks also signed a currency swap agreement. The Governor of the Central Bank of Oman stated that the agreement aims to support economic development, strengthen financial stability, and enhance international partnerships. The relevant documents were signed on November 2 in the presence of the leaders of both countries.

According to the official website of the People's Bank of China, the Governor of the People's Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, recently signed the "Renminbi/Omani Rial Bilateral Currency Swap Agreement" and the "Memorandum of Understanding on Strengthening Cooperation in Digital Payments and Central Bank Digital Currencies" with the Governor of the Central Bank of Oman, Ahmed Al-Mousaami, under the witness of the leaders of both countries.The scale of the swap agreement is 30 billion Renminbi/1.5 billion Omani Rials, with a validity period of 5 years. On the same day, both parties met to exchange views on topics such as bilateral economic and financial cooperation. The central bank stated that the agreement aims to deepen monetary and financial cooperation between the two countries, enhance the facilitation level of cross-border digital payments, and maintain financial market stability.

Global stablecoin payment infrastructure service provider WasabiCard announced the formal signing of a strategic cooperation agreement with Japan Innovation Group (SOUSHIN Ltd). Both parties will integrate WasabiCard's technological advantages in global payment infrastructure, cross-border settlement, and stablecoin payments, along with Japan Innovation Group's resources in the local retail and trading ecosystem, to jointly promote the digital transformation of traditional retail enterprises in Japan and explore the application of stablecoin payments in physical business scenarios.As of now, WasabiCard has served over 700 corporate clients, with a cumulative card issuance exceeding 700,000 cards and a transaction volume exceeding 1 billion USD. The company's business covers more than 200 countries and regions worldwide and supports over 70 card BINs. This cooperation marks WasabiCard's further deepening of its market layout in Japan and accelerates the integration of stablecoin payments with the traditional retail business ecosystem.

According to reports from the Abu Dhabi Media Office and CNBC, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Chairman of the Executive Council Sheikh Khaled and witnessed the signing of multiple cooperation agreements with Abu Dhabi, covering areas such as energy, investment, and government.In the energy sector, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ADNOC, G42's Inception42, and OpenAI reached an agreement to deploy OpenAI's cutting-edge models in ADNOC's operations, making it the first company in the energy industry to implement this technology; the related capabilities are based on the GPT model and utilize inference infrastructure within the UAE. In terms of investment, the sovereign investment fund Mubadala, Inception42, and OpenAI agreed to use advanced AI for investment analysis, opportunity identification, and risk assessment.On the government side, the Abu Dhabi government and OpenAI launched the "Machine-Readable Government" initiative, converting some policies and regulations into machine-readable formats to assist with routine assessments such as licensing and compliance, while final decision-making remains the responsibility of government officials.Additionally, according to a press release, Inception42 and OpenAI also signed a five-year agreement to promote cutting-edge AI in the UAE's government, business, and education sectors. CNBC reported that OpenAI is seeking to raise up to approximately $20 billion in a new round of financing, led jointly by UAE investors.

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with about 50 executives from Samsung Group in South Korea on October 31 to discuss deepening cooperation in the fields of storage chips and AI infrastructure. Attendees came from Samsung's electronics, finance, and biotechnology business units, and the agenda covered the impact of AI on industries, corporate decision-making, and business opportunities over the next decade.This meeting comes at a time when there is a global shortage of storage chips and prices continue to rise. The demand from data center operators has surged, further intensifying competition for chip supplies. The world's five major AI infrastructure players plan to invest over $3 trillion in the coming years, with storage chips accounting for about one-third of data center spending.This meeting also continued the cooperation previously announced by both parties, including supplying storage chips for OpenAI's "Stargate" infrastructure project and collaborating on the construction of AI data centers, including offshore floating data center solutions.

Market news reports that Google (GOOG.O) is in talks with the Pentagon regarding the "Iron Dome" project.

According to official news, Backpack has reached a strategic cooperation with South Korea's SK Securities, planning to provide eligible global investors with access to Korean stock trading channels through the Backpack app. This collaboration will combine SK Securities' expertise in the Korean capital market with Backpack's global user coverage, and further explore cooperation in the fields of tokenized securities and real-world assets (RWA) based on the existing US stock securities platform.

Anchorage Digital announced the expansion of its custody and listing arrangements with the Latin American cryptocurrency platform Bitso, extending its custody layer to cover both ends of the stablecoin corridor between the United States and Mexico. According to the agreement announced on Tuesday, the Mexican peso stablecoin MXNB issued by Bitso is now being custodied by this federally chartered crypto bank across six blockchains: Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and Arc.Meanwhile, Bitso has launched the USD stablecoins USDPT and USAT, which are issued and custodied by Anchorage, with the former coming from Western Union and the latter from Tether. The financial terms were not disclosed by either party. This collaboration targets one of the largest cross-border payment flows in the world, the U.S.-Mexico remittance corridor, which transfers billions of dollars annually, with approximately 15% currently operating through Bitso's infrastructure.Nathan McCauley, CEO and co-founder of Anchorage, stated that the U.S.-Mexico corridor is where stablecoins transition from theory to large-scale real money flows, and the company has now become the institutional custody layer at both ends of that flow. Ben Reid, head of stablecoins at Bitso, mentioned that customers can now access the complete dollar-peso corridor through a fully on-chain method supported by a federally chartered bank. This move also continues the trend of Circle's recent expansion of Latin American stablecoins with the launch of a USDC settlement pilot in Colombia.

AMD (AMD.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) are advancing strategic cooperation to provide computing power support for Meta's superintelligent infrastructure.

The tokenized asset data platform RootData has reached a deep data cooperation with Payward, the parent company of Kraken, to provide financing and token economics-related data support, assisting in data decision-making in scenarios such as information disclosure, tokenized stocks, institutional services, and business expansion.Payward is the underlying financial infrastructure for Kraken and its ever-growing family of businesses. Its operations cover four main pillars: trading, banking, asset management, and B2B services, with its brands showing growth in areas such as tokenized stocks, derivatives, stablecoin payments, and institutional settlement.Against the backdrop of the accelerating wave of RWA and tokenization, the data synergy between the two parties is expected to help Payward achieve more efficient business expansion while also strengthening RootData's position as a core data infrastructure in the industry. Currently, RootData's API has over 260 cumulative clients, covering well-known platforms such as Ethereum Foundation, Binance Wallet, OKX Wallet, CertiK, Coinglass, and Coinone.

Market news reports that Siemens has signed a cooperation agreement with Nvidia (NVDA.O) for an industrial artificial intelligence operating system.