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The decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Extended has opened the XTEN token allocation query page. Users must complete the signing confirmation by December 31; any unaccepted allocation amounts after the deadline will be transferred to the Ecosystem Fund. The official also reminds that users using Starknet accounts need to specify a self-custodied EVM wallet address to receive related assets, while the specific launch time of the XTEN token has not yet been announced.Extended is built by the former Revolut team, based on Starknet, utilizing zk technology and secured by Ethereum. It offers over 300 markets including cryptocurrencies, stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, and indices, with a maximum leverage of 100 times, using USDC as the base collateral asset. Users can deposit USDC into the Community Vault to earn yields and receive XVS share tokens, which can also be used as trading collateral.

According to Bloomberg, informed sources revealed that the autonomous driving and automation technology company Applied Intuition is in talks for a new round of financing led by General Catalyst, aiming to raise at least $1.5 billion, with a pre-money valuation of about $30 billion, which is double its valuation in June 2025, with General Catalyst planning to invest $250 million.The sources also stated that the company expects revenue to exceed $560 million in fiscal year 2026 and total revenue to exceed $1 billion in 2027. Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition develops automation operating systems and autonomous driving technology for industries such as construction, transportation, and defense. The previous round of financing was led by a fund under BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins. Currently, neither Applied Intuition nor General Catalyst has commented on this.

Joe Flanagan, co-founder of the on-chain asset management platform Maple, announced his decision to leave Maple. He stated that Maple has been the center of his life for the past seven years, and leading and building this company has been his full commitment. His partnership with co-founder Sid Powell has lasted nearly a decade, during which they built a business that he has always been proud of. Over time, their views on strategy, leadership style, and life orientation have gradually diverged, and these differences are no longer beneficial to the team or the business. He believes it is more appropriate for one co-founder to continue leading Maple forward than to allow these differences to persist and widen.Joe Flanagan stated that as a co-founder, he needs to agree with the decisions he has participated in, the direction he asks others to follow, and the choices for which he still needs to be responsible. He mentioned that he can no longer continue to do so with conviction and loyalty to his own values, and therefore chose to leave rather than continue to support a direction he cannot agree with. He will assist with the transition for the remainder of this year and provide support as requested by Sid and the team, after which he will no longer participate in Maple. He also stated that he has not left the industry and is currently formulating his next steps, which he will share more about soon. Maple officially confirmed that Joe Flanagan will step down as chairman and leave the company, describing this as an orderly transition agreed upon by both parties, with the company's direction remaining unchanged; since 2019, he has helped Maple expand its managed assets to $4.8 billion and its loan issuance to $20 billion.

The decentralized lending protocol Moonwell, through governance proposal MIP-X75, has reduced the collateral requirements for existing loans and removed VELO and wrsETH from the list of collateralizable assets. This adjustment involves the lending markets deployed on Base and Optimism.After the proposal takes effect, the reduction in collateral limits will compress the borrowing capacity of existing borrowers. Users close to the borrowing limit who do not reduce their debt or supplement with eligible collateral will face liquidation.

Arbitrum's on-chain derivatives protocol Variational announced that the private testing of its trading platform Omni has concluded, and the public mainnet is now open, with registration no longer requiring an invitation code. The Omni private testing began in January 2025 and was initially open only to a small number of whitelisted addresses from the testnet and Discord waitlist. According to the official statement, after approximately 20 months of development, the protocol's open contracts have exceeded 1.5 billion dollars, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding 450 billion dollars.During the private testing period, Variational set zero fees as a long-term arrangement and launched a referral program and a points program, along with two interface updates. It introduced the first batch of TradFi markets outside the crypto market and recently brought TradFi liquidity on-chain through exchanges. Currently, it supports all users to trade over 550 traditional assets and crypto assets that are live on Omni.

The official announcement from Sui reminds that support for the Suiet wallet will end after November 14, and urges users to immediately back up the mnemonic phrases or private keys for each account, and never share them with anyone. The official statement indicates that user assets will still remain on the Sui chain, and users can continue to use their accounts by importing them into other Sui wallets.The Suiet team previously announced that they would stop the development and maintenance of this wallet, and the API service will be maintained until November 14, 2026, to allow users to complete the migration. Suiet is a self-custody wallet, and its shutdown will not transfer or delete on-chain assets, but after the API goes offline, the wallet may not reliably display balances, send transactions, or connect to applications.Suiet does not have a mobile application, and its Chrome Web Store extension will also be removed soon. The team reminds users to confirm that they have restored the same address in the new wallet and can access their assets before uninstalling or clearing Suiet data, while also verifying the corresponding staking positions and assets stored in the application.

The decentralized oracle network Pyth Network announced that it has integrated real-time market data from the New York Stock Exchange into its data marketplace.The newly launched Level 1 market data covers five exchanges under the NYSE Group. Customers must first obtain data authorization directly from the NYSE in order to access the relevant data through Pyth.

According to The Defiant, Buildix data shows that the exposure of Hyperliquid's perpetual contracts related to Anthropic across multiple markets has surpassed 300 million dollars.Among them, the exposure of the Trade.xyz contract reached 109.4 million dollars, which is about 30% higher than the snapshot data recorded by The Defiant on November 10.

Arbitrum posted on platform X: LoafMarkets will launch perpetual contracts for computing power on Arbitrum One, followed by the solar energy and data center markets.

Glassnode posted on platform X that Bitcoin has fallen below the short-term holder cost price of $75,600, underperforming compared to U.S. stocks, and the funds that could drive its rise are continuously flowing out. Currently, about 35% of short-term holders are in profit, with sellers averaging small losses.In terms of capital, the total supply of stablecoins has decreased by $14.2 billion over the past 30 days, marking the fastest contraction since June 2022; the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF has seen a net outflow of $1.6 billion over the past 20 trading days; excluding the impact of USDT falling below $1, the 30-day average premium on Coinbase has remained negative, with the discount being the deepest since February. On the macro front, the two-year U.S. Treasury yield is at 4.75%, which is 75 basis points higher than the current 4% rate of the Federal Reserve, indicating that the bond market expects further rate hikes, but it is far from the level of 244 basis points in June 2022.However, there are also positive signals, as the decline has cleared most of the long leverage near the price, with the largest concentration of liquidations located between $59,500 and $62,600; since the sell-off on November 5, buy orders within a 5% price range in the Binance and Coinbase spot order books have consistently outnumbered sell orders; wallets holding between 100 to 1,000 BTC and 1,000 to 10,000 BTC have started to accumulate over the past week.Glassnode stated that if it returns to $75,600, it will support the judgment of a trend reversal in August; if it continues to fall below $73,000, it may enter a longer period of consolidation; if it closes below the June low of $58,500, the trend reversal since August will be broken.

According to the Coinbase blog, its MCP service Coinbase for Agents has launched Agent Controls, allowing users to set limits, product permissions, and stop conditions for trades conducted through the AI Agent. The relevant control settings run on Coinbase's server side, and users must log into their accounts via the Coinbase App or web to manage them; the AI Agent cannot modify or bypass them on its own.The features launched include: Maximum trade size, which sets the maximum amount for each trade in USD; 24-hour volume limits, where trades exceeding the limit cannot be executed; Auto-stop, which will stop the AI Agent from placing orders when the portfolio loss exceeds a set percentage, until the user re-enables trading in the App.In addition, the product permissions feature will soon be available, allowing users to choose the categories of products that the AI Agent can trade, including cryptocurrencies, stocks, and derivatives.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "BNP Paribas Nordic Open: Lorenzo Sonego vs Alejandro Tabilo," the option "Lorenzo Sonego" in the sub-market "BNP Paribas Nordic Open: Lorenzo Sonego vs Alejandro Tabilo" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 33.5% an hour ago to the current 53.5% (a fluctuation of 20%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to the information on the Liepin page, Tencent is hiring a financial product manager for cross-border payment. The job responsibilities include conducting overseas market research based on distributed ledger technology, digital assets, and designing fee-free capabilities, key custody and recovery based on account abstraction, as well as designing the circulation and exchange logic of fiat currency.The position also requires transforming regulatory rules such as identity verification, anti-money laundering, and transaction information transmission into product processes. The job requirements include over 5 years of experience in wallets, exchanges, payment, or e-wallet products, and familiarity with mainstream public chains, smart contracts, and multi-chain asset management.

10x Research, a cryptocurrency market research organization, stated that the average return of Bitcoin after the U.S. midterm elections is a decline of 13.6% in 1 month, a decline of 21.6% in 2 months, a decline of 13.3% in 4 months, an increase of 3.5% in 6 months, and an increase of 53.9% in 1 year.10x Research noted that this phase first experiences a pullback, followed by outperforming the S&P 500 index, the Nasdaq index, and gold within 12 months, with average returns during the same period being an increase of 14.3%, an increase of 23.1%, and an increase of 18.5%, respectively.10x Research indicated that from an 80-year historical perspective, the surge in volatility after elections typically corresponds to the exhaustion of cycles rather than structural institutional breaks. The organization stated that after the Democrats gained control of Congress, higher baseline deficit spending and welfare expansion would accelerate the trend of currency devaluation.10x Research also reviewed historical precedents of cycles after past midterm elections and explained why patient capital should view this pullback as an entry point, with discussions centered around the clearing events proposed after the midterm elections.

According to Forbes, data infrastructure company Edelbyte has completed a $45 million Series A funding round, reaching a valuation of $500 million, led by Quiet Capital, with all existing investors participating. New investors include QP Ventures, Startpoint Capital, and Cerca Partners.The company had previously completed a $25 million seed round led by Sequoia, with Greenoaks and Swish Ventures participating, bringing total funding to $70 million. Edelbyte was founded in November 2025 by four former Microsoft engineers to provide a data platform for increasingly complex query workloads in the AI era.Co-founder and CEO Avner Aharoni, CTO Evgeney Ryzhyk, VP of Engineering Alexander Sloutsky, and VP of Platform Engineering Yoni Leibowitz all worked at Microsoft for about 20 years and have over a decade of experience working together.Among them, Ryzhyk and Sloutsky were part of the founding team of Microsoft's internal data platform Kusto, which later became the foundation for products like Azure Data Explorer. Edelbyte's platform integrates traditional analytics, text search, spatial queries, and AI workloads on the same infrastructure and can be deployed in public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments.

According to TASS, the Central Bank of Russia stated that the Russian exchange can start cryptocurrency trading from November 22, 2026, but must first reach an agreement with regulatory authorities on trading rules. The Russian Ministry of Justice has registered the Central Bank of Russia's directive regarding organized trading requirements for digital currencies and digital rights.According to the regulations, exchanges must register participants in cryptocurrency trading such as brokers, trust managers, and central counterparties, maintain records of orders and transactions, and monitor trading. They must also calculate current prices, weighted average prices, market prices, and closing prices, and report trading information to the Central Bank of Russia in the same manner as existing other assets.Previously, the Central Bank of Russia finalized the rules for retail cryptocurrency trading, which will be implemented starting November 17.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH falls below 1,956 USD, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach 801 million USD. Conversely, if ETH breaks above 2,159 USD, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach 686 million USD.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC falls below $70,162, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on major CEXs will reach $1.62 billion. Conversely, if BTC breaks above $77,400, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on major CEXs will reach $1.421 billion.