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NVIDIA, Rebellions, and SK Telecom announced a partnership to advance sovereign AI infrastructure construction based on NVIDIA NVLink Fusion.

According to Investor's Business Daily, in the market volatility following the U.S. midterm elections, 88% of the S&P 500 index constituents have reported earnings, with 84% of earnings per share exceeding consensus expectations. The report suggests that the market will focus on inflation data and a new round of corporate earnings next week.Cisco's upcoming earnings report will reflect its progress toward achieving its annual goal of $7.5 billion in AI infrastructure orders; cloud computing company CoreWeave will also release its earnings report, with investors paying attention to its AI data center construction and order backlog situation. The report notes that emerging cloud service providers like CoreWeave are facing rising financing costs and debt financing pressures recently.

Michael Saylor posted on the X platform, stating that digital credit combines financial infrastructures such as corporate equity, preferred stock, trading markets, tax laws, and securities regulation that have gradually formed over hundreds of years.Stretch, under Strategy, completed its initial issuance in July 2025, raising approximately $2.521 billion. Strategy stated that it has used the net proceeds after deducting expenses to purchase 21,021 bitcoins. Stretch is a perpetual preferred stock traded on NASDAQ, adopting a monthly dividend rate policy determined by the board of directors.

HSBC Holdings stated that attacks on tankers or infrastructure leading to a daily disruption of 2 to 3 million barrels of oil supply will return the market to a state of shortage and put upward pressure on oil prices.

On November 5, MetaMask released a security incident update stating that on September 28, part of its infrastructure was accessed without authorization. The attacker modified the reward receiving addresses of some Ethereum validators, transferring approximately 0.385 ETH in staking rewards.MetaMask stated that the related issues were fixed on the same day, and all affected Ethereum validators have now completed their exit. This incident caused temporary delays in withdrawals for some customers and may have resulted in losses of staking rewards. MetaMask emphasized that there is currently no evidence that user wallets, private keys, or customer staking principal have been leaked or withdrawn without authorization.

According to official news, the tokenized securities financing infrastructure Lombard Systems (formerly SemiLiquid) has completed a $4 million seed round financing, led by Ethereal Ventures, with participation from ALPS Capital, First Commit, Veris Ventures, and ATKA.Lombard Systems provides financing infrastructure for tokenized securities and maintains the "Delivery versus Lock" (DvL) standard. This standard allows banks, brokers, and transfer agents to accept tokenized and digital assets as collateral without moving the assets out of their original securities accounts, with the assets still locked in the owner's name. Lenders obtain enforceable secured interests evidenced by cryptographic signature credit certificates.

trade.xyz posted on platform X that GitBook has confirmed that the incident affecting its documentation originated from a security breach of its infrastructure.An internal investigation by trade.xyz found no evidence of a breach in its infrastructure, and security controls are functioning as expected, preventing the GitBook incident from affecting its infrastructure. trade.xyz will migrate away from the GitBook platform in the coming days.

According to Chainwire, on-chain transaction infrastructure provider Orbs announced a strategic investment in CRYMBO.CRYMBO is a financial infrastructure platform aimed at licensed institutions, helping banks, payment service providers, and brokers launch digital asset services under their own brands and regulatory frameworks. The announcement stated that institutions entering the on-chain market need to handle identity verification, compliance, custody, settlement, payments, and reconciliation in addition to liquidity and blockchain technology.CRYMBO connects over 75 service providers through a single integration, covering custody, liquidity, banking channels, payments, identity verification, and transaction monitoring, allowing institutions to coordinate these services in a customized process while retaining service provider choices. The platform does not hold customer funds or private keys, and institutions operate under their own brands and licenses.Officials stated that the platform has served licensed institutions, processing a cumulative transaction volume of over $2 billion. The infrastructure is ISO 27001 certified and built in accordance with EU MiCA and Financial Action Task Force Travel Rule requirements.Orbs CEO Ran Hammer stated: The adoption of on-chain finance by institutions depends on infrastructure that adapts to the realities of regulated financial services. Orbs focuses on trading and execution, while CRYMBO provides the compliance, identity, and operational layers that institutions need.Orbs offers dSPOT spot trading, dPERPS perpetual contracts, and on-chain execution services through its own Layer 3 network, with a cumulative execution transaction volume exceeding $14 billion. CRYMBO founder and CEO Eyal Daskal stated: The collaboration between the two parties will help expand business and reach more customers.

On November 3, Veda, an on-chain treasury infrastructure provider, announced that Veda, Aave Labs, and Kamino Foundation released a public summary of a legal framework discussing how U.S. federal securities laws apply to decentralized lending protocols and non-custodial treasuries. Veda stated that the framework addresses how securities laws should apply when financial activities traditionally performed by intermediaries are executed by smart contracts, and ownership, control, and decision-making are decentralized among different participants. The three parties submitted a more detailed version to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on October 26 and requested to communicate with the commission's staff. Aave Labs clarified that the detailed version was submitted to the SEC's crypto working group and corporate finance department, and requested a meeting with the staff, with the complete submitted documents remaining confidential.Veda stated: Securities regulation should follow the rights, obligations, and powers that are actually formed by arrangements, including who owns the assets, who bears the obligations, who exercises the authority, and whose economic outcomes are affected. Common infrastructure, receipt tokens, or discretionary service providers cannot unilaterally decide the above issues. The document analyzes against the Howey investment contract standard, Reves note standard, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and concludes that the analyzed agreements and treasury arrangements do not constitute investment contracts or notes, and the described treasury does not constitute an investment company, nor does the discretionary investment compensation necessarily constitute custody of client assets.Veda also stated that these conclusions depend on the specific structure, contractual arrangements, and distribution of rights and powers described in the document; if the ownership structure, repayment commitments, discretionary powers, or redemption restrictions differ, the legal analysis may also change. This submission did not request the SEC to establish exemptions, safe harbors, or specialized regulatory regimes for decentralized finance, but rather to apply existing securities laws and ask the commission to confirm that the law has distinguished between activities such as issuance, investment management, and custody. The blog post noted that the content is for informational reference only and does not constitute legal advice, and the SEC has not endorsed the conclusions of the document. According to publicly available information from RootData and Veda, Veda was established in 2024 and completed an $18 million financing round led by CoinFund in June 2025.

Beget indicates that its infrastructure has suffered a large-scale cyber attack, resulting in partial service interruptions. The full recovery time is currently undetermined.

According to CoinDesk, digital securities and tokenization infrastructure company tZERO plans to merge with special purpose acquisition company FG Imperii Acquisition Corp. (FGII) to go public, with a pre-money valuation of $350 million for tZERO. It is expected to raise up to $231 million in SPAC trust funds, with the actual amount depending on shareholder redemptions and transaction costs.The merged company plans to list on NYSE American in early 2027, with the stock ticker TZRO. The transaction is still subject to approval by shareholders and regulatory agencies.tZERO has been laying out its blockchain securities market since 2014, with its regulated subsidiaries providing services such as digital securities trading, brokerage, custody, and transfer agency. The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), is one of its investors and has selected tZERO to participate in the design of the New York Stock Exchange's blockchain securities trading platform.

According to CoinDesk, digital securities and tokenization infrastructure company tZERO plans to merge with special purpose acquisition company FG Imperii Acquisition Corp. (FGII) for a public listing, with a pre-money valuation of $350 million for tZERO. It is expected to secure up to $231 million in SPAC trust funds, with the actual amount depending on shareholder redemptions and transaction costs.The merged company plans to list on NYSE American in early 2027, with the stock ticker TZRO. The transaction still requires approval from shareholders and regulatory agencies.Since 2014, tZERO has been laying out its strategy in the blockchain securities market, with its regulated subsidiary providing services such as digital securities trading, brokerage, custody, and transfer agency. The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), is one of its investors and has selected tZERO to participate in the design work for the New York Stock Exchange blockchain securities trading platform.

According to Brazil's Valor Econômico, Brazil's stablecoin payment infrastructure Bloquo has completed approximately $3.72 million (20 million reais) in financing, led by Crescera Capital and Triaxis Capital. This round of funding will be used to strengthen regulatory compliance and technical architecture, as well as to expand platform operations.Bloquo was established in 2025 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a stablecoin-based infrastructure platform that covers cross-border payments, foreign exchange, and trade financing.

Stonk posted that the StonkFun official website has resumed access. Previously, the team took the website offline due to a domain attack and migrated it to new infrastructure.Stonk stated that the on-chain functions have returned to normal, and no user impact has been detected so far. However, since some network synchronization DNS changes may take up to an hour, the team recommends that users wait an hour before connecting their wallets through the official website.

Jameson Lopp, co-founder and Chief Security Officer of the Bitcoin self-custody service provider Casa, posted on X that a new type of Google phishing technique has emerged, where attackers abuse Google's own infrastructure to send emails. He stated that if users click on the goo.gl link in the email, they will be directed to a phishing login page, and he attached relevant email screenshots in the post.The post was published on October 29. Below the post, some users mentioned that they have reported similar situations to Google multiple times but have not received a response; other users stated that this technique is used in conjunction with calls that appear to be from Google and caller ID.

According to market news, voice AI company Deepgram has acquired the developer of the open-source voice AI infrastructure framework Pipecat, Daily. The parties did not disclose the transaction amount and promised to continue maintaining Pipecat as open-source and vendor-neutral.Pipecat can manage voice and video streams and integrates speech-to-text (STT), large language models (LLM), and text-to-speech (TTS) to reduce real-time interaction latency.

On October 29, KR1 plc, a company listed on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, announced the launch of its technical infrastructure operations on the decentralized artificial intelligence network Bittensor. The company stated that it has recently acquired 5,000 network-native assets TAO and has initiated staking as part of its technical infrastructure strategy. Based on the reward rate observed on October 28, the company estimates that the annualized infrastructure income is approximately equivalent to 6.6% of the current value of the deployed TAO holdings.The announcement stated that Bittensor is a layer blockchain that supports subnets, covering services such as AI inference, computing power, training, and prediction, where independent suppliers compete for network rewards based on performance. KR1 supports the assessment of service provider performance through staking and receives a portion of the network rewards. There is no mandatory unbonding period for TAO unstaking, allowing the company to retrieve its holdings immediately after unstaking. Rewards can be retained to expand the scale of productive assets or can be liquidated for subsequent investments and operational costs. The company will also disclose its TAO holdings and related infrastructure income in monthly unaudited updates.Keld van Schreven, Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1, stated: "As artificial intelligence enables more complex tasks to be performed by software, the demand for infrastructure related to supply-side intelligence is expected to grow significantly. Bittensor introduces open competition for the supply of AI services, and the company is focused on how its incentives are forming services that lead to continuous customer payments, as well as how to deploy TAO holdings to enhance the value and income potential of productive digital assets per share." KR1 claims to be the only publicly listed company on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, holding and operating productive digital assets on the relevant network.