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The lower house of the Polish Parliament passed a bill to expand the scope of national sanctions, which intends to allow the Minister of the Interior to freeze cryptocurrency assets without a prior court order. The bill is still pending review by the Senate and approval by the President.

The European Commission decided to establish a dedicated sanctions office during the tenth high-level sanctions measures meeting of the European Union, and to form a cryptocurrency working group within the office, responsible for addressing Russia's use of digital assets to evade sanctions. The working group is expected to operate for 12 months, with support from Ukraine and the United Kingdom.The sanctions office will coordinate member states' implementation of sanctions measures, covering policy design, implementation, enforcement support, and anti-avoidance work. The working group will focus on relevant networks, including the A7A5 digital ruble stablecoin; this stablecoin previously had a trading volume exceeding 100 billion dollars.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed financial sanctions on eight Canadian currency service companies, stating that these companies have business dealings with sanctioned Iranian entities. The Treasury Department's statement indicated that the aforementioned companies facilitate the exchange of Iranian rials and other currencies and digital assets, enabling them to conduct international transactions. The related sanctions will isolate these companies from the U.S. dollar financial system.The U.S. Treasury stated that these businesses handle transactions for sanctioned Iranian digital asset exchanges and digital asset addresses associated with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that Canada cannot become a haven for illegal financial practitioners providing sanction evasion services to the Iranian regime and its proxies, and the Treasury will pursue and cut off financial channels for the Iranian regime globally. This action was coordinated with Canada's financial intelligence agency FINTRAC, as some sanctioned entities have attempted to evade scrutiny by changing their names and addresses.On the same day, the U.S. "Rewards for Justice" program offered a reward of up to $20 million and possible relocation arrangements for information regarding Iran's nuclear program, including its facilities, equipment, and personnel. The statement noted that Iran has not complied with the International Atomic Energy Agency's safeguards oversight, resulting in the agency losing "knowledge continuity" regarding Iran's production of enriched uranium and centrifuge components.

According to The Defiant, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in Northern California approved the preliminary injunction request from the California tribe on November 4, prohibiting the event contract platform Kalshi Inc. and KalshiEX from offering sports event contracts on the Indian land of the plaintiff tribe.The injunction covers sports contracts for baseball, tennis, soccer, basketball, golf, esports, racing, boxing, and UFC, but is limited to the land of the plaintiff tribe and does not apply to the entire state of California. Previously, Kalshi stated that it had proactively blocked trading in the relevant areas, but the tribe questioned its effectiveness. According to the injunction, the tribe must provide boundary maps by November 13, and Kalshi must report compliance steps within 21 days.

According to Loopscale monitoring, the platform has restored the priority loan function, and all loans can have additional collateral; except for loans funded by the USDC Genesis Vault, all other loans can be repaid, and borrowers can retrieve their collateral after full repayment. The collateral withdrawal function for loans related to the USDC Genesis Vault remains temporarily closed, and treasury withdrawals and other protocol functions continue to be restricted.The team is working with partners to advance the security recovery efforts. Loopscale stated that it has identified and controlled two paths exploited by the attackers during this incident. The attackers first exploited a misconfiguration of asset pricing parameters, leading to collateral deposited in the SOL Genesis Vault being incorrectly valued as another asset, resulting in approximately $412,000 in under-collateralized loans. Subsequently, the attackers sold a loan with abnormally high interest rates to the USDC Genesis Vault through atomic transaction combinations, artificially inflating its net asset value (NAV) and extracting approximately $521,000 in redemption funds; this operation was intercepted by the system within 30 seconds after the transaction was generated. Loopscale stated that user deposits will not suffer losses as a result.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it will implement a new round of sanctions against 4 individuals and 41 entities associated with the Prince Group's transnational criminal organization. The sanctioned individuals include Qiu Yong, Zhao Mengyao, He Yujing, and Pang Weizhi. Among them, Qiu Yong is accused of representing the Prince Group in controlling multiple companies in the British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong; Zhao Mengyao is Qiu Yong's personal assistant; He Yujing is the wife of Chen Bo, a senior executive of the Prince Group who was previously sanctioned, and Chen Bo had transferred his luxury residence in Tokyo to He Yujing; Pang Weizhi controls 11 companies in Cambodia.The U.S. Department of the Treasury stated that these sanctions aim to combat the Prince Group's actions of hiding assets and evading previous sanctions through offshore companies, nominee arrangements, and affiliated enterprises. In addition, the U.S. also sanctioned a Malaysian individual, Chui Kok Wa, who is suspected of organizing digital asset fraud in Madagascar, with his fraud network reportedly defrauding U.S. victims of over $400,000.

Slow Mist analyzed the cryptocurrency addresses in the U.S. sanctions list and found connections between the relevant individuals through transfers and shared exchange deposit addresses.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, an official from South Korea's Ministry of Unification stated that the government has not yet begun discussions on whether to impose sanctions due to North Korea's alleged theft of cryptocurrency from Binance. Currently, the South Korean government has not fully grasped the specifics of this hacking incident, and discussions on related responses have not yet been initiated.Previously, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified North Korea as responsible for the theft of over $6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange platform. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, denied the allegations earlier this week, calling them a "serious political provocation" against North Korea. An official from the Ministry of Unification stated that further information sharing and discussions are still needed within the government.

According to documents from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Sun Yuchen and two co-plaintiffs have applied for sanctions against World Liberty Financial and its attorneys, seeking approximately $264,000 in attorney fees and costs. The plaintiffs allege that World Liberty made false disclosures regarding its citizenship in the litigation.The plaintiffs claim that World Liberty initially only disclosed its citizenship in Florida, and nearly three months later supplemented its disclosure to include 22 members in its ownership chain, with citizenship also including places like the UAE. World Liberty's attorneys subsequently argued that, since both parties in the litigation have foreign entities, the federal court lacks jurisdiction.The amount requested involves attorney fees and costs related to the plaintiffs' opposition to mandatory arbitration. The plaintiffs stated in the documents that they would have to refile in California state court; a hearing on the sanctions application is scheduled for December 10.

Aave Pro has launched the collateral swap feature for Aave V4's Ethereum, Base, and Avalanche markets, allowing users to change collateral assets without having to close their positions.

Sun Yuchen posted on platform X that his lawyer has applied for sanctions against World Liberty Financial (WLFI) because the company disclosed the UAE citizenship of its shareholders months after he filed the lawsuit.Sun Yuchen stated that he signed a token purchase agreement to buy $30 million of WLFI in November 2024, later increasing the total investment to $45 million, and filed a lawsuit against WLFI in April this year, accusing it of fraudulently inducing investment and illegally freezing his tokens. According to his token purchase agreement, the case can be filed in federal or state court in California, and he chose federal court.Sun Yuchen claimed that the disclosure documents submitted by WLFI at the beginning of the case only listed one entity of WLFI, registered in Florida, and then filed a motion for mandatory arbitration; during the August hearing, the court hinted that it did not recognize the arbitration claim and ruled that some demands would remain for public trial. Less than a week later, WLFI suddenly "corrected" the disclosure documents, increasing the number of members in the ownership chain from 1 to 22, and claimed to have citizenship in Florida, Delaware, Puerto Rico, and the UAE, thereby arguing that the federal court has no jurisdiction because both parties have foreign entities.Sun Yuchen pointed out that WLFI claims it "is not an offshore organization," is "a company that pays taxes in the United States," and "when selling tokens, it poses as a U.S. company, only to discover its UAE identity when trying to escape the U.S. federal court." He stated that after the sanctions motion is ruled on in federal court, he will refile the lawsuit in California state court.

On the afternoon of November 3, a reporter from Yicai tested and found that the dialogue function of DeepSeek, a subsidiary of the artificial intelligence company Deep Pursuit, was unavailable, with the chat interface displaying "Server busy, please try again later."The official status page of DeepSeek shows that starting from 16:58 on the same day, there were partial interruptions to the DeepSeek website and API, and the official team is investigating the issue to identify the cause. Affected services include the dialogue service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API service, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API service.

According to an update released by Matt Palmer, the demonstration of Grok Bot's features includes shopping cards, product pages, order tracking, and payment.The demonstration also covers custom modes, team Bot login and setup, sharing and finding team Bots, as well as Slack connector requests and Vault contacts. Musk retweeted the introduction, calling it an improvement for Grok Bot.

a16z Chief Legal Counsel Miles Jennings posted on X that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released new FAQs that further clarify its token classification framework. He pointed out that Question 1.4 clearly states that systems can maintain decentralized governance and use legal entities such as DUNA; Question 1.5 distinguishes between licensed and unlicensed systems; and Question 1.6 clarifies the difference between "functional" and "decentralized."The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance updated the relevant Q&A on November 2. The response to Question 1.4 states that participants in a widely governed functional crypto system, if not interconnected and without formal or informal collaborative arrangements other than participating in that governance system, typically do not constitute a group of persons or entities defined as "centralized parties"; even if they do form such a group, they must still possess operational, economic, or voting control to meet the definition of "centralized parties." This conclusion also applies to cases where the governance system belongs to an organization, association, or foundation, and participation is based on holding native crypto assets.The response to Question 1.5 states that centralized party oversight of participants refers to the authority to control access to the system at the protocol, validator, or user level, such as unilaterally granting or restricting access, deciding on upgrade voting procedures, controlling who can participate in consensus, or modifying rule code, revoking transactions, and access. The response to Question 1.6 states that "functional" refers to native crypto assets being usable according to the system's programmed purposes, while "decentralized" refers to the system operating autonomously without any person, entity, or group having operational, economic, or voting control; the two are distinct concepts. The above responses represent the views of the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance and do not constitute SEC rules or statements.

Coinbase's legal personnel stated that New Jersey has withdrawn the staking lawsuit against the company and lifted the injunction. The company's CEO indicated that local users will soon be able to participate in staking again.

According to TRM data, from January 1 to September 7, 2026, the 34 physical casinos in Sihanoukville, Cambodia received approximately $1.07 billion in cryptocurrency. Of this, 64% of the funds flowed to casinos associated with networks sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and 99.9% of the funds were transferred in the form of USDT on the TRON chain.The monthly inflow of funds averaged $148 million per month from January to May, dropping to about $95 million in July and August, but it did not completely stop. These casinos converted USDT into cash and conducted almost no necessary due diligence on customers.In addition, pawn shops, supermarkets, and exchange counters throughout the city also offer "cryptocurrency to cash" services.

According to The Defiant, developer nicolashw submitted a draft Ethereum Improvement Proposal on October 30, which aims to allow external accounts (EOA) to permanently disable the delegation feature of EIP-7702 while retaining the original address, regular transfer, and contract call capabilities.This operation is irreversible and, unlike simply clearing the current delegation, can prevent the account from authorizing smart contract code to run on its behalf in the future. However, it cannot prevent the transfer of funds after a private key leak, nor will it revoke existing token authorizations, and it may also affect account recovery and asset access that rely on the delegation feature.Currently, the draft has not been merged and has not received an official EIP number; if adopted later, it will still need to be activated through an Ethereum network upgrade.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against 10 individuals and 1 entity. These targets are involved in North Korean IT workers defrauding U.S. companies, with the proceeds used for North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.The sanctioned Russian national Ilya Boykov has exchanged approximately 3.5 million dollars in cryptocurrency for the North Korean company Alis since 2024. The Russian national Vitold Obertas has completed nearly 2 million dollars in cryptocurrency exchanges for North Korean officials since January 2025.Also sanctioned is the entity FFTDC, controlled by North Korea and based in Russia, along with its 6 IT workers, who have generated over 750,000 dollars since 2025. Australia and the European Union have also taken similar sanction actions this month.

According to the official announcement from Genius, the Genius App has been launched and provides download links for the App Store and Google Play, integrating trading, social, and creation functions within the BNB Chain ecosystem into mobile.Users can trade via their phones, follow other traders, discover market-focused assets, and share trading insights. The app also includes a token issuance platform, allowing users to create tokens, choose trading pairs, and track new markets.