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The OpenTensor Foundation of the Bittensor ecosystem has announced the native payment mechanism Gamma Tokens. Users and AI agents will be able to use the same Bittensor wallet to access subnets that adopt this standard and pay service fees without needing to register separate accounts or apply for API keys for each subnet.Users can obtain Gamma payment credits using TAO or the corresponding subnet's Alpha tokens. If using TAO, the protocol will buy and destroy the subnet's Alpha tokens in the same transaction to generate Gamma credits; if already holding the corresponding Alpha tokens, they can be directly destroyed to generate credits.

The Solana Foundation is hiring a Vice President of International Communications. This is a full-time position within the marketing team, supporting remote work in the United States, with other locations including San Francisco and New York. The hire will be responsible for Solana's global narrative and network reputation management, developing and maintaining the global narrative, establishing and personally maintaining relationships with media in the U.S. business, finance, technology, and cryptocurrency sectors, while providing executive positioning and communication consulting to the foundation's management.This position will also be responsible for reputation and issue management related to network incidents, client vulnerabilities, application layer attacks, and validator disputes, establishing severity classifications, identifying decision-makers, rehearsing processes, and preparing response language in advance; providing communication support for project launches, founder media training, etc., to the ecosystem team, and collaborating with policy and legal teams to handle regulatory and legislative matters. The ideal candidate should have approximately 10 to 15 years of communication experience, possess direct contacts with business, finance, and technology media reporters, and be able to use AI tools in monitoring, research, drafting, information testing, and adversarial review tasks.

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.

Developer Noah announced on November 9 that he has joined the Solana Foundation as the Head of Product Engineering, reporting directly to Vibhu. Noah has been working in development within the Solana ecosystem for over 5 years, previously participating in the migration of Helium to the Solana network and contributing to the development of tools such as StrataProtocol.Before joining the Solana Foundation, Noah worked for about 5 months at VelocityDEX, a decentralized trading platform in the Solana ecosystem, where he was involved in the relaunch of the platform after a security incident, which included protocol code restructuring, STRIDE implementation, and smart contract re-auditing. He also participated in the recovery efforts of Drift Protocol following a security incident.

According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily," Ant Lingbo Technology has recently open-sourced the tactile foundation model LingBot-Touch. This model is pre-trained on nearly 5000 hours of real tactile data, covering three mainstream sensing principles: magnetic tactile, visual tactile, and piezoresistive.LingBot-Touch aims to convert signals from different sensors into the same set of tactile representations, allowing for reuse by various dexterous hands and motion models. This open-source initiative helps address current issues in the robotics field, such as the lack of standardization in tactile data and difficulties in cross-hardware generalization.

The XRP Ledger Foundation's 2027 roadmap outlines the anti-quantum signature amendment, planning to first study migration solutions, and then advance development and auditing.

Former Chainlink Head of Product Marketing Michael Robinson tweeted that he has joined the Monad Foundation and will be responsible for marketing-related work in the future. Michael Robinson worked at Chainlink from 2021 to 2026.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the Ethereum Foundation associated address (0x5CB...2059) sold 1000 ETH again after 14 days, worth 2.13 million USD.On October 26, when this address sold 2785 ETH, the price was 2306 USD; this time the price is 2131.15 USD.This address currently still holds over 24,000 ETH on-chain, worth approximately 51.46 million USD.

According to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Kayleen Fulton, the former head of protocol support at the Ethereum Foundation, sued the foundation's affiliated entities, co-executive director Bastian Aue, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, among others, on November 4.The lawsuit claims that Fulton disclosed her cancer diagnosis in writing to the foundation's leadership on March 24, and the next day organized a petition signed by 53 employees opposing a request to endorse an internal document that included a suicide pledge; on April 6, she and another organizer were terminated. She has made claims of disability discrimination, retaliation, and interference with family medical leave rights. The above content is the plaintiff's assertion.

Cosmos Labs has donated the cross-chain communication protocol IBC to the decentralized trust project under the Linux Foundation (Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust).The initial technical committee established after the transfer of IBC consists of seven members, with Cosmos Labs occupying five seats, and the remaining maintainers coming from Datachain and OpenZeppelin.

Compound Foundation posted on platform X that the USDC market deployed on Scroll is about to close, as Scroll has previously requested users to manage their DeFi positions.Compound reminds users with outstanding loans to repay their loans as soon as possible; in the coming weeks, all unpaid loans will face liquidation.

According to The Defiant, the Algorand Foundation announced the closure of its community forum and advisory committee.The foundation will suspend xGov grants on December 6 and put the Project King Safety project on hold, while maintaining staking rewards support until January 2028.

The hardware wallet manufacturer Foundation stated that attackers exploited a vulnerability in its self-hosted Cal.com appointment software, and then used another vulnerability in Bank-Vaults to steal credentials, accessing customer records, email systems, and domain settings.The intrusion began on October 21; on October 25, the attackers attempted to send over 23,000 phishing emails from Foundation's real email address, targeting 21,463 email addresses. The leaked information included names, home addresses, phone numbers, order records, customer service communications, and some payment card information. The scammers subsequently used the stolen purchase and payment information to call customers, tricking them into providing Bitcoin wallet recovery phrases. Foundation stated that employee accounts and devices were not compromised, funds stored in Passport devices are safe, and it will reduce self-hosted infrastructure, shifting to managed services.

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.

The Ethereum Foundation stated on platform X that its "Strawmap" has set a goal to achieve Lean Ethereum by 2029, and a plan has now been established to gradually advance through forks. H* will be the last fork that does not include Lean features; I* will introduce leanVM and Lean transactions; J* will add Lean proofs, data availability sampling, and PCS; by the L stage, Lean Ethereum will be completed.It is reported that Lean Ethereum is a long-term protocol restructuring vision and roadmap proposed after Ethereum enters its second decade, with the core goal of streamlining the protocol without sacrificing decentralization and security, significantly enhancing performance, addressing quantum computing threats, and restructuring the underlying technology stack.

According to CryptoBriefing, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake announced on November 3 that leanVM has achieved end-to-end formal verification. leanVM is a minimalist zkVM designed for efficiently aggregating hash-based post-quantum signatures, packaging multi-signatures into compact proofs. In terms of performance, leanVM can handle over 1000 leanXMSS aggregations per second; leanXMSS is a hash-based signature scheme planned to replace BLS at the consensus layer.At Devcon 8, Drake adjusted the target date for Ethereum's full transition to post-quantum security to December 2028, in order to allow space for the network forks needed for the transition. This plan relies on three open-source projects: leanVM, leanXMSS, and leanSpec. The Ethereum Foundation is developing open-source implementations and advancing formal verification, while also encouraging innovation through incentives like the Poseidon Prize. The report noted that the formal verification of leanVM proves that the code meets specifications, but December 2028 remains a target rather than a commitment.

On November 3, the National Development and Reform Commission held a series of press conferences on advancing the "14th Five-Year Plan," introducing information on cultivating and strengthening new driving forces. Wang Ruomeng, Deputy Director of the Department of Innovation and High Technology Development of the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that there is a broad consensus in society on the coexistence of opportunities and risks in artificial intelligence. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, development and security will be coordinated, with security integrated throughout the research, application, and governance of artificial intelligence.Wang Ruomeng emphasized four key areas of work. First, improve the governance rule system, accelerate the promotion of foundational and comprehensive legislation for artificial intelligence, enhance legislation to protect common elements such as data, computing power, and algorithms, as well as to regulate key application scenarios, establish safety standards and ethical guidelines covering the entire lifecycle, and conduct periodic assessments of the implementation of these systems. Second, optimize the regulatory environment, reasonably set a transition period for regulatory policies, provide compliance guidance for applications across different industries, support the establishment of regulatory sandboxes for artificial intelligence in various fields, and improve the management mechanisms for application, testing, use, and exit.Third, clarify the collaborative governance responsibilities of government departments, industry organizations, enterprises, and the public, promote developers and operators to strengthen risk management awareness, timely disclose safety risks, and proactively report safety incidents and vulnerability information. Fourth, address the impact of artificial intelligence on society, pay attention to changes in employment structure, promote the inclusion of new professions such as model trainers and data annotators into the national occupational classification system, and strengthen monitoring and early warning of employment replacement risks; enhance traceability capabilities for issues such as algorithmic discrimination, deep forgery, and privacy breaches, while also strengthening guidance and intervention to prevent addiction and emotional dependence.

The Ethereum Foundation stated that its technical core team is collaborating with humanitarian organizations to develop a proof of concept for a humanitarian aid coordination network based on Ethereum, combining decentralized identity with privacy payment rails.The solution utilizes technologies such as ERC-4337, privacy addresses, and Semaphore to keep personal data off-chain and verify credentials through zero-knowledge proofs without exposing the issuer; the relevant solution has completed performance testing on low-end Android devices, and the code has been open-sourced on GitHub.