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According to the American financial media Semafor, some NVIDIA directors prefer to appoint Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as interim Chief Executive Officer.

Plume, a network of real-world assets, has announced that its brokerage firm Kimber Digital Securities has obtained membership from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and completed its registration as a broker-dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Plume stated that the firm plans to support investors in holding tokenized securities with full shareholder rights in self-custody wallets.The relevant tokenized securities include eligible stocks, ETFs, and bonds, while retaining securities rights corresponding to the book records of the Depository Trust Company (DTC). The related services will comply with regulatory requirements, including best execution, independent oversight of operational and network risks, and clear, ongoing information disclosure.

On November 6, the crypto research firm Blockworks had several members of its research team announce their departure on Twitter, including Senior Research Analyst Jake Koch-Gallup, Research Analyst Nick Carpineto, Research Analyst Kunal Doshi, Senior Protocol Strategist Silvio Busonero, and founding research team member Westie Revacc.The tweets did not mention the specific reasons for their departure, but Jake Koch-Gallup indicated that it was related to Blockworks' strategic adjustments. "It's sad to see a leading crypto research company shift its focus from research to other directions. I understand the decision to prioritize product development, but I believe independent research is more important than ever, especially as AI makes original human thought and analysis increasingly valuable."On November 3, Blockworks announced the launch of its MCP product, allowing any user to connect Blockworks to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client to start building agents. In June, Blockworks announced the acquisition of the crypto research platform Messari.

Given the strong reaction of American voters to high living costs and high inflation, several Democratic members of Congress have expressed their commitment to pushing for the repeal of the current unreasonable tariff policies.Congress members Richard Neal and Ron Wyden plan to promote relevant legislation next year to reverse the tariff policies of the Trump administration.

According to Ember Monitoring, the Hyperliquid development team HyperLabs redeemed 179,706 HYPE (approximately 14.49 million USD) from staking a few days ago, which was allocated to the wallets of 6 team members 11 hours ago.

The AI programming product Claude Code team under Anthropic has recently seen a series of departures. On November 4, Cat Wu, the product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, announced her departure from Anthropic. Previously, engineer Thariq Shihipar and Claude Code desktop developer Anthony Morris publicly said goodbye on October 24.When Thariq Shihipar left, he recommended following Cat Wu, stating that she could provide updates on Claude Code's future developments. Eleven days later, Cat Wu also announced her departure. Cat Wu had previously joined AI programming tool Cursor with Claude Code creator Boris Cherny in July 2025, and both returned two weeks later. In July of this year, Jenny Wen, the design lead for Claude and Cowork, also moved to Cursor to serve as the design director.Anthropic as a whole is still expanding. Its IPO documents show that the employee count increased from about 940 at the end of 2024 to about 5,300 by the end of September this year. Over the past 12 months, the company reported a regrettable turnover rate of about 1%, which refers to the percentage of employees the company wished to retain but voluntarily left.

The official account of the AI assistant Grok Bot stated that its team has developed a Team Bot called "Data Bot," allowing everyone in the company to receive data scientist-level support on demand.According to the introduction, product managers use it to investigate product usage, marketing personnel use it to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, and various teams within the company use it to build data dashboards and track key metrics.

The official account of the token launch platform Ignition on Robinhood Chain stated that the team provided an explanation after being silent for about a week. On October 23, a team member with access to the developer wallet (0x7d17...69B9) transferred 15 million IGNITION from that wallet to a new wallet without the consent of the other members and sold it seconds later. The proceeds were sent to their personal wallet, which had previously been receiving their share of creator fees. The official statement indicated that this person no longer agrees with the project's direction and is no longer part of the project.The official statement mentioned that the creator fee permissions have been transferred to a new wallet that is solely controlled by the existing team. The launch platform is still operational, the Hook Layer testnet continues to run, and the Hook Pad for developers remains open. Future plans include transferring creator fees to a multi-signature wallet controlled by the team to prevent a single person from transferring again; publicly disclosing the fee, treasury, and team wallet lists; advancing the Hook Layer mainnet; and resuming weekly updates. The official also stated that related operations had previously been visible on-chain and will be explained by the team in advance.According to the project's official website, Ignition is a token launch platform deployed on Robinhood Chain, with issued tokens being ERC20 with a fixed supply, trading in the Uniswap v4 pool since the initial block. Hook Layer is its proprietary chain built on Robinhood Chain, with gas fees paid in IGNITION, and developers can configure hook modules for tokens through Hook Pad.

According to community reports, a VergeX user reported receiving withdrawal verification code emails continuously around 21:56 (Beijing time) tonight, followed by the transfer of funds from their account.VergeX team member Tintin (@Tintinx2021) later responded in the community, stating that the amount involved is not large, and only a few users were affected, with a single user losing a maximum of about 850 USDT. He mentioned that compensation is underway, and the funds of affected users will be fully refunded to their accounts within 72 hours, while other users are not affected.As of the time of publication, the official VergeX X account has not released any related announcements.

Consensys published on platform X that its cryptographer Youssef El Housni, along with collaborators from Wuhan University of Technology, KU Leuven, and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, proposed a new subgroup member detection method called Divide-and-Pair.Not all points on non-prime order curves like Curve25519 belong to the target subgroup; skipping this check may lead to small subgroup attacks. The NIST P series curves are of prime order and do not require this check. This method treats two known schemes as the two ends of the same parameter range, selecting optimal settings for each curve, with speeds not lower than the original methods. According to Consensys, the speedup factors for each curve are: approximately 1.6 times for Curve25519, approximately 1.3 times for Curve448, approximately 1.4 times for GC256A, approximately 10.8 times for FourQ, and approximately 7 times for Jubjub.This method has been integrated into the open-source library gnark-crypto. This library currently runs on Besu, Linea, go-ethereum, as well as systems based on gnark such as Succinct and Lighter. The related paper has been accepted by IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES) and will be published at CHES 2027.

In the early hours of Thursday, the Federal Reserve decided to maintain the federal funds rate target range at 3.75% to 4.00% with 10 votes in favor and 2 votes against. Lisa D. Cook and Beth M. Hammack cast the dissenting votes, both advocating for a 25 basis point increase at this meeting.The Federal Open Market Committee approved the following statement with 10 votes in favor and 2 votes against:The Committee decided to maintain the federal funds rate target range at 3.75% to 4.00% to support the Federal Reserve's dual mandate. The Committee continues to implement a policy of maintaining ample reserves in the banking system.Economic activity is expanding at a strong pace. Despite factors such as geopolitical tensions keeping uncertainty high, domestic spending remains resilient. Productivity growth is strong, and capital investment is robust. Employment growth is in line with the growth of the labor force, and the unemployment rate has not changed significantly.Inflation remains elevated. Gathering more information will help the Committee determine the appropriate policy stance to ensure inflation returns to the Committee's 2% target in a timely manner. The Committee will achieve price stability.The members voting against this monetary policy action were Lisa D. Cook and Beth M. Hammack, both advocating for a 25 basis point increase in the federal funds rate target range at this meeting.

The Federal Reserve decided to maintain the federal funds rate target range at 3.75% to 4.00% with 10 votes in favor and 2 votes against. Cook and Harmack cast the dissenting votes, both advocating for a 25 basis point increase at this meeting.The statement noted that economic activity is expanding strongly, and inflation remains high. More information will help the committee assess the appropriate policy stance to ensure inflation returns to the 2% target in a timely manner.

According to The Washington Post, AI cybersecurity startup Cathedral, founded by former members of the U.S. "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), claims that its AI agent breached Anthropic's internal systems in less than 12 hours, obtaining content such as meeting notes, salary and hiring information, and Slack messages. Anthropic confirmed that the intruder accessed parts of its sales, human resources, and IT systems, involving business contact information of clients and partners, as well as some basic user account records, but did not involve Claude user conversations, source code, or model weights.This test was conducted under Anthropic's vulnerability bounty program, with the intrusion achieved through vulnerabilities in third-party commercial software; Anthropic accused Cathedral of not fully disclosing its actions, violating program rules. Cathedral is valued at $1.4 billion and has secured $160 million in funding from a16z, Sequoia Capital, and others.

According to Axios, the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has laid off most members of a 34-person team responsible for helping portfolio companies recruit talent. Axios reports that the information comes from multiple sources, and the company spokesperson declined to comment.The report states that this service is one of the main supporting services a16z promotes to tech founders. Remaining members of the company's full stack talent team will be reassigned to specialized investment groups, such as growth investment or crypto investment, with plans for each group to build teams to meet their needs, no longer relying on a centralized team. Currently, all team members are still listed on the company website.

Members of the European Parliament are calling on the European Commission to include corruption risks related to crypto assets, opaque ownership structures, and digital tools in the upcoming anti-corruption strategy. The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution on Thursday, outlining the policy focus of this strategy.Members also urged for enhanced tracking, freezing, confiscation, and recovery of criminal proceeds, as well as improvements to public procurement, conflict of interest, lobbying, and political financing rules, and stronger protections for whistleblowers and investigative journalists. The European Commission plans to adopt its first anti-corruption strategy by the end of 2026. This strategy will complement the EU anti-corruption directive that came into effect in May, which standardized the definitions of corruption crimes and minimum penalty standards among member states.

Billionaires closely related to the artificial intelligence industry became the main force in the insider selling list for the third quarter. Nvidia director Mark Stevens topped the list, with Nvidia's stock valuation nearing its lowest in over a decade.Other AI-related billionaires in the top ten include Arista Networks CEO Jayshree Ullal and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The combined net worth of the three is approximately $302 billion.

A 28-year-old core member of the globally renowned ransomware group Qilin has been arrested in Japan and was extradited to Germany on October 2. Reports indicate that the man is suspected of illegally infiltrating the systems of a logistics company in Germany in September 2024, encrypting data, and demanding a ransom of approximately $165,000 (about 26 million yen) in Bitcoin.Investigations show that he was responsible for building the attack systems within the Qilin criminal network and took a cut from the ransoms collected by various branch execution teams. Japanese police apprehended him while he was traveling to Osaka in late May this year, and he was subsequently handed over to German authorities after being deemed eligible by the Tokyo High Court. Qilin operates under a "ransomware as a service" (RaaS) model and previously claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on Japan's Asahi Group in 2025.

The cryptocurrency industry's main political action committee Fairshake has announced a new list of endorsements, supporting 32 current members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the November elections, including 13 Democrats and 19 Republicans. According to Fairshake spokesperson Geoff Vetter, six of them will each receive $1 million in support from Fairshake and its affiliated organizations. Vetter stated that Fairshake supports pro-crypto candidates from both parties who advocate for American innovation.The three Republicans receiving significant support are House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill, senior committee member Bill Huizenga, and Bryan Steil, who also serves as chairman of the Digital Assets Subcommittee. On the Democratic side, Nevada Representative Steven Horsford and California Representative Derek Tran received higher support, both earning an A rating in the digital asset issue assessment from Stand With Crypto, along with Oregon Representative Janelle Bynum. Bynum defeated Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer two years ago to win her seat, the latter having previously served as Labor Secretary under the Trump administration.These members largely come from the House fundraising committee and the key Financial Services Committee, which will handle cryptocurrency tax issues. Vetter noted that Fairshake has supported 53 winners in 57 primary campaigns, aiming to create the largest pro-crypto caucus in American history.