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Galaxy Digital, a cryptocurrency financial services company, CEO Mike Novogratz stated that there is a significant disconnect between GLXY's current stock price and the company's assessed value. Therefore, starting today, he will buy more shares and claims to make a substantial bet on the company.He acknowledged that the blue wave brought by the Democratic victory in the United States has put pressure on companies like Galaxy, but politics should not be confused with long-term fundamentals. He believes that the migration of finance to on-chain and the explosion of AI demand represent a generational shift that transcends government changes and market cycles.Novogratz also mentioned that Galaxy has delivered the first phase of the Helios project in Texas as planned, with an 800-megawatt capacity leased through long-term contracts. The company will continue to collaborate with local legislators, communities, and the new government.

According to the proposal from the Sky Ecosystem Forum, the Sky protocol plans to implement several adjustments in the Osero Spell on November 19, connecting the Ethereum mainnet with the Osero liquidity layer on Base, and enabling cross-chain transfer of USDC through the Circle Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP).It is reported that this upgrade plan will integrate the Osero x Gauntlet USDC Prime Vault (Morpho Vault V2) managed by Gauntlet on Base, with the initial configuration of USDC funds. The proposal involves a total of 7 adjustments on the Ethereum mainnet and Base, including enabling CCTP functionality on both chains, configuring cross-chain USDC transfer limits, setting up a permission management mechanism on the Base side, and integrating the USDC vault.

The spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning, hosted a regular press conference. A reporter from Yonhap News asked about the FBI's statement on October 31, which indicated that North Korea was behind the cyber attack on the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, with stolen assets amounting to approximately $6.3 billion.The reporter also mentioned that Trump stated he would discuss this issue with North Korea if the situation is true, and inquired about China's perspective on this incident and Trump's related remarks. Mao Ning responded that she was not aware of the situation.

The founder of Flap posted on platform X to explain the impact of the official website domain anomaly event.He stated that the risk only involves users who accessed the abnormal website and connected their wallets or signed authorizations within a few minutes before the announcement was made. Users who had previously connected to the FLAP official website normally are not affected by this event and do not need to change their wallet addresses.The founder of Flap also emphasized that FLAP does not store users' private keys, mnemonic phrases, or wallet data; this information will not be saved in the FLAP backend. Until the issue is resolved, users should temporarily avoid accessing the official website, and once the site is restored, the team will issue a notification through the official account.For users who have just connected their wallets on the abnormal website, the founder of Flap stated that they can contact him for assistance via private message.

World Liberty consultant Ogle posted on platform X that it received a warning from the security company Blockaid, advising users to temporarily avoid visiting related websites or connecting wallets.According to the publicly available warning information, Blockaid stated that it has detected an active front-end attack related to the StepDrainer toolkit, involving Kintsu, Flap, and StonkBrokers. The affected sites have been injected with malicious scripts, and users clicking "connect wallet" may be redirected to a malicious asset theft page.Currently, Blockaid is investigating and gathering more information, and further updates will be announced later.

Flap posted on platform X that its official website is currently experiencing DNS hijacking and is being redirected to an unauthorized website.The team reminds users not to visit the official website, connect wallets, or sign any transactions, and stated that they are addressing the issue. An update will be released once the website's safety is confirmed.

According to the Kraken status page, the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken began investigating connection and order placement issues on October 30 at 02:42 (UTC), affecting spot and derivatives users using the website, mobile app, and REST, WebSocket, FIX interfaces.Kraken announced that the issue was resolved on the same day at 03:42 (UTC).

Polygon Labs announced that it has integrated Solana into its Open Money Stack payment platform, allowing the network's enterprise clients to connect their dollar bank accounts directly to the global payment network through a single API framework. The platform supports enterprises in depositing funds from bank accounts, transferring funds across chains, and making payments to recipients, while also providing functionalities such as customer accounts and wallets, currency exchange, and routing payments to supported bank accounts, debit cards, cash services, and cryptocurrency wallets.Kira is one of the first clients to use the Solana integration, helping clients convert between dollars and stablecoins, send payments through banking channels, and pay overseas suppliers. Kira's CEO Edrizio De La Cruz stated that the company has been using Solana to transfer stablecoins, and collaborating with Polygon allows these transfers to be converted into dollars in their bank accounts when clients need to pay suppliers. Open Money Stack simultaneously connects Polygon, Ethereum, and TRON, which was integrated earlier this month.This integration occurred after Solana activated the Alpenglow consensus upgrade a week ago, which reduced the final confirmation time for transactions from approximately 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. According to data from The Block, the total supply of dollar stablecoins has approached $290 billion, with USDT exceeding $182 billion and USDC nearing $76 billion. Vibhu Norby, Chief Product Officer of the Solana Foundation, stated that the volume of stablecoin transactions processed by Solana in 2026 has exceeded $5.5 trillion. Earlier this month, Polygon also completed the acquisition of Coinme, obtaining money transmission licenses and exemptions covering 48 states in the United States.

Tencent officially launched Buddy One, integrating WorkBuddy, Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Cloud Drive, and ima into a unified AI office system. After linking accounts, users can directly let WorkBuddy search for information and consolidate data across applications without needing to repeatedly authorize or copy and paste. For example, it can generate new plans by combining meeting minutes from Tencent Meeting, old proposals from Tencent Docs, and the ima knowledge base, along with sources of information.The points system has been unified, and WorkBuddy points can be used interchangeably in Tencent Docs, ima, and Tencent Cloud Drive. Points purchased separately in each application will not be merged. The Buddy One VIP official website currently lists a price of 700 yuan/month, which includes 50,000 universal points per month, 1TB of shared space across products, as well as benefits such as the flagship version of WorkBuddy, the professional version of Tencent Meeting, and the super member Plus of Tencent Docs.At the same time, Tencent Cloud Drive is responsible for providing unified storage. Currently, it mainly implements account linking, cross-application retrieval, and point sharing, while cross-application memory sharing has not yet been launched. WorkBuddy PC version must be upgraded to 5.9.0 or above to use it; account linking is free, but unbinding is not currently supported.

According to the latest data from Polymarket Builders, the Gate event market has a cumulative trading volume of approximately $909 million, ranking second among all access channels on Polymarket and consistently remaining at the forefront of major trading entrances.The Gate event market has launched a quarterly earnings prediction challenge, setting a total reward of 90,000 USDT around the earnings events of popular companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon. Activities include new trader transactions, inviting friends, and profit rankings, with the top of the leaderboard eligible for a reward of up to 5,000 USDT.Gate is the first to layout the event market, creating a one-stop trading experience for global hot events. Users can participate in trading directly through the Gate App, placing orders using USDT from their spot accounts without the need for on-chain operations. The platform has launched the Combo prediction feature and introduced a macro market topic page related to the U.S. midterm elections, focusing on displaying market probabilities and trading data for key macro topics such as Federal Reserve interest rate decisions, inflation, employment, and economic growth. At the same time, it continues to improve features such as intelligent monitoring, AI analysis, profit and loss analysis, and quick trading, enriching the trading scenarios and information service capabilities of the event market.

Ant Group released Lingguang 2.0, which connects data and services within the Alipay ecosystem and supports the use of tools such as MCP and CLI in an open environment, expanding cross-platform collaboration capabilities.Currently, Lingguang has integrated capabilities for Alipay bills, memberships, travel, as well as services like DingTalk, Feishu, email, and Mijia. The management scope is extending from personal information and online affairs to cross-platform workflows and smart home device control. The Lingguang App is a fully modal general AI assistant launched by Ant Group, officially going live on November 18, 2025.

According to Bitcoin.com, Yuridia Trujillo, a tax preparer from Meriden, Connecticut, is accused of fabricating stock and cryptocurrency trading losses in tax returns prepared for clients through her company, Yuri's LLC, for the tax years 2017 to 2024, for assets that the clients never actually held. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stated that she is also suspected of using Form 8888 to divert part of the clients' tax refunds into bank accounts belonging to herself and an associated individual.A federal grand jury indicted her on October 7, and she was arrested on October 9. She is currently out on bail of $50,000 and faces 19 counts of aiding in the preparation of false income tax returns, with each conviction carrying a maximum sentence of three years in prison. The case remains an accusation, and she is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Previously, Texas Bitcoin investor Frank Richard Ahlgren III was sentenced to two years in prison in December 2024 for inflating the cost of Bitcoin purchases and was ordered to pay approximately $1.095 million in restitution.

The cryptocurrency wallet Phantom is opening the Kalshi prediction market to users in the United States, allowing users to trade event contracts directly within the Phantom app. This feature will begin rolling out on October 23 and will gradually expand coverage over the coming weeks. Users must first complete Kalshi's KYC.Transactions will be conducted using the CASH stablecoin in the Phantom Cash account, and funds will be converted to fiat currency for settlement after being transferred to Kalshi. Withdrawals and profits will return to Phantom Cash. Phantom currently shows a fee of $0.02 per contract, with a small additional fee for network transfer.Due to local regulatory controversies, Phantom will restrict market categories in certain states: Michigan temporarily blocks sports markets; Nevada restricts sports, elections, politics, and entertainment markets; Washington state has broader restrictions, including categories such as culture, technology, and geopolitics. Phantom's General Counsel Kevin Jacobs stated that the company believes the CFTC's jurisdiction over relevant products is clear and will continue to comply with existing restrictions in various states.

According to MTS, nearly all official websites of North Korea have been offline for more than 24 hours, including official media and government portal sites.

The decentralized trading and lending platform Dolomite announced that it has integrated $100 million worth of Bitcoin-backed collateral into its on-chain lending market through Concrete's BTCcx infrastructure, and has activated borrowing functionality based on this collateral.BTCcx is an on-chain token issued and managed by Concrete, representing the underlying Bitcoin held in qualified custody by BitGo, deployed on the Ethereum network. Concrete is responsible for the issuance and full lifecycle management of the token, and provides BTCcx as collateral for Dolomite's actively managed borrowing positions, allowing borrowing to be completed without the need to sell or move the underlying Bitcoin out of custody in advance.This deployment marks the expansion of the collaboration between Concrete and Dolomite from WLFI to Bitcoin, introducing another mainstream institutional asset into Dolomite's lending market through its AssetCX framework.

According to Sifted, the Dutch startup Photon Bridge announced the completion of a €10 million seed round financing. The company is developing laser technology that can be used for internal connections of AI chips in data centers, aiming to enhance inter-chip connectivity performance.The company claims that its laser technology can be manufactured at scale to meet the rapidly growing demand for AI infrastructure.

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase stated on X that stablecoins can complete cross-border transfers in seconds, but the funds still need to enter channels that the recipient can actually use.Coinbase mentioned that it is collaborating with the cross-border payment company Thunes to connect its stablecoin infrastructure to local bank accounts and mobile wallets worldwide.

According to monitoring by the blockchain security agency Salus, the Aztec Connect attacker made 30 transactions on October 19, depositing 1,255.8 ETH (approximately 3.01 million USD) into Tornado Cash. The batches consisted of 12 transactions of 100 ETH, 5 transactions of 10 ETH, 5 transactions of 1 ETH, and 8 transactions of 0.1 ETH.On June 14, the attacker exploited a settlement verification vulnerability in the deprecated Aztec Connect contract to steal approximately 2.19 million USD in assets, including 908.987 ETH as well as DAI, wstETH, and Yearn vault tokens. After holding the funds for about four months, the attacker redeemed the vault tokens on October 19, converting the token assets into an additional 346.767 ETH. The balances of the 6 stolen ERC-20 tokens have all been reduced to zero.

Polygon announced the launch of Polygon CDK Besu, supporting banks and financial institutions to deploy private blockchains based on Hyperledger Besu, and connect to other blockchains and their liquidity through Agglayer from the outset. It currently supports deployment on the Ethereum mainnet.

On October 16, according to Yicai, Xiaohongshu released a company-wide letter, connecting its internal AI Level 1 department Dots with the company's core infra team, and clarifying that another internal technical organization, hi lab, will focus on long-term technological exploration and layout of cutting-edge technology directions. The reporter for the article is Ning Jiayan, and the editor is DingTalk.The company-wide letter clearly defines Xiaohongshu's positioning as a technology application company, stating that its logic in investing in model research and development differs fundamentally from that of cloud vendors. The letter states: "We have a clearer direction for the next stage: the greatest value of technology lies not only in pursuing model capabilities or computing power scale itself, but more importantly, in the deep integration of models and applications, where technology and products enhance each other to jointly create valuable user experiences in this era."