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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 Lookonchain monitoring, Huang Licheng sold 31 Bored Ape NFTs at a loss over the past week, accumulating approximately 231 ETH, worth about $506,000, and subsequently incurred losses on all transactions.Lookonchain stated that Huang Licheng sold the Bored Apes to provide funding for leveraged long positions, and he currently still holds 75 Bored Apes. This data reflects the cumulative total for the past week, and he had previously sold multiple Bored Apes.

According to Cointelegraph, former Ripple Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz stated that he has sold the vast majority of his cryptocurrency holdings due to a lower personal risk tolerance.Schwartz revealed that his cryptocurrency asset holdings have decreased from approximately 26 million XRP, 1,500 BTC, and 40,000 ETH to about 3 million XRP, 1 BTC, and 6 ETH currently.

On November 10, German solar equipment manufacturer SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES announced that it has signed a contract with SpaceX to provide a complete production line for heterojunction (HJT) solar cells. The first production line order amounts to over 60 million euros and is scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2027. The strategic cooperation between the two parties also plans to expand to multiple production lines, gradually supporting a scale of over 100GW of solar cell production equipment. The related production facilities will be used for SpaceX's satellite manufacturing project located in Bastrop, Texas, USA, to provide high-performance solar cells for its Starmind space AI satellite.Musk subsequently retweeted the SpaceX announcement and added that SpaceX has ordered HJT solar manufacturing equipment with an annual capacity of 100GW from German SINGULUS, stating that this is to enable Starmind to create a "sentient sun," a phrase that echoes its long-term vision of building a space AI computing infrastructure using solar satellites. SINGULUS also disclosed that since establishing strategic cooperation with SpaceX in March 2026, it has provided financial support in March and October, which includes a secured subordinated loan.

Formation Securities plans to launch a Solana stock tokenization trading platform in early 2027.

According to The Block, Jupiter Exchange's Chief Operating Officer Kash Dhanda stated in an interview, "Solana is the universal chain."He believes that the future of finance will not be built on specialized systems, but rather on a universal chain that can aggregate liquidity, and currently, only Solana provides this.

Agave v4.5 is tentatively scheduled for widespread adoption on the mainnet on December 7, and the mainnet functionality activation is planned to begin on December 14.

Forward Industries (FWDI), a Nasdaq-listed company, disclosed that since the end of September, it has acquired approximately 226,000 SOL through purchases and staking rewards, increasing its holdings to about 8.7 million SOL, valued at approximately $726.5 million, which accounts for about 1.5% of the circulating supply of Solana. The company is currently the largest publicly traded holder of Solana, far exceeding the second-ranked DeFi Development Corp., which holds just over 2.6 million SOL.This disclosure comes as both SOL and Forward's stock prices have declined. SOL fell to $82 on Tuesday, marking its lowest level in nearly three months, before rebounding to around $83.5; Forward's stock also dipped to a near three-month low of $5.25, with a cumulative decline of over 28% this year.Forward also announced that it has secured a two-year, $50 million credit line from an unnamed national bank in the U.S., with the loan collateralized by SOL, and the related SOL will remain staked to allow the company to continue earning staking rewards. The company has also committed to investing up to $50 million in USHP, a product that tracks U.S. housing prices, which is also issued in collaboration with Galaxy-Sharplink Onchain Yield Fund. Forward plans to use the investment returns to purchase more SOL.

The Solana Foundation developer relations personnel stated that Direct Mapping is about to go live on the mainnet and recommended developers enable the relevant features for program testing.

Cryptocurrency trading platform Uphold announced that the previously encountered issue of cryptocurrency withdrawal interruptions has been resolved. The interruption was caused by a failure in its trading monitoring service provider, and the platform implemented measures during the outage.Uphold stated that during the process of addressing the issue, fiat currency deposits, fiat currency withdrawals, and trading functions continued to operate normally and were not affected by the interruption.

Coinfuty data shows that as of 01:18 Beijing time, approximately 580 million dollars were liquidated in the futures market tracked over a 4-hour period, covering contracts linked to cryptocurrencies, stocks, and commodities.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Morgan Stanley (9TtddX...9V8) transferred 48,828 SOL (approximately 4.01 million USD) from its MSOL Solana ETF wallet to Coinbase Prime 10 minutes ago.

According to Decrypt, Jupiter, the largest trading platform on Solana, launched four new products this week, expanding from token trading to a one-stop on-chain asset platform, and announced a new mission to make global assets universally accessible and usable.Jupiter aggregates liquidity across the entire Solana network to provide optimal prices for each transaction, with a cumulative aggregated trading volume exceeding $1.3 trillion; according to data from DeFiLlama in early November, its total locked value in the ecosystem is approximately $1.7 billion, and the active loan size in the lending market has surpassed $1 billion. Chief Operating Officer Kash Dhanda stated that aggregation applies not only to trading but to all aspects.Among the four products, Baskets allows users to deposit a single SOL or USDC to purchase a basket of tokens without the need to exchange them one by one, which can be allocated and automatically rebalanced based on market capitalization weight or fixed targets. Jupiter Vaults serve as a yield strategy center, covering stablecoin lending and strategies supported by real-world assets, managed by independent curators rather than Jupiter itself. Users can view the risk status, fund allocation, and historical returns of each strategy before depositing. Vaults went live on November 11 as a private beta for over 19,000 waitlisted users and eligible stakers of JUP.The launched Portfolio V3 upgrades the portfolio page to an actionable interface, providing quick access to trading, opening perpetual contracts, forecasting, and lending, and sends alerts when positions approach liquidation, while also adding cross-chain transfer functionality that integrates multiple cross-chain bridges. Pulse and the revamped token page provide market data for tokenized stocks and ETFs, token economic models for DeFi projects, and a token comparison sidebar.The aforementioned products will be gradually launched before the Solana Breakpoint conference opens on November 15. Jupiter stated that all Vaults strategies carry risks, and some strategies may not be available in regions including the United States.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 22:42 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana chain, worth approximately 250 million US dollars.

According to official news from Solana, the Solana infrastructure company Helius today launched the permissionless privacy protocol Solana Privacy Rings on the Solana mainnet. Developers can add privacy features to new and existing Solana applications through the API, laying the foundation for private payments, privacy DeFi, and enterprise compliance privacy.Privacy Rings are programmable shielded pools, with assets and amounts encrypted and stored on-chain, while wallet addresses remain visible. Users can decrypt balances by viewing the viewing key, supporting SOL, SPL tokens, and Token-2022 tokens, with ZK proof verification taking only a few hundred milliseconds. Its core program and ZK circuits have been audited by Certora, OtterSec, and ZK Security. The institution-oriented permissioned Custom Rings are currently under audit and are expected to go live on the mainnet in the coming weeks, supporting compliance features such as KYC whitelisting, sanctions screening, and fund freezing and recovery.Currently, Decrypt, Ore, and others have integrated, while teams such as Backpack, DFlow, Jupiter, and Squads are in the process of integration, with Chainalysis, Elliptic, and others providing compliance support for wallet screening.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the trader starting with 0xb64 had a long position of 41,658 SOL that was completely liquidated, resulting in a loss of approximately 3.42 million dollars.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Huang Licheng sold 2 BAYC, with a total loss of approximately $87,000.Among them, BAYC 9593 was bought for $62,990 and sold for $15,720, resulting in a loss of $47,270; BAYC 65 was bought for $54,390 and sold for $14,680, resulting in a loss of $39,720.

A Reuters survey shows that about 55% of the economists surveyed, or 56 out of 101, expect that the interest rate hike in December will mark the end of the current tightening cycle, a figure that is basically unchanged from last month.However, 45 economists still expect that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at least two more times, including more than half of the surveyed primary dealers, which is consistent with the expectations reflected in market pricing, and believe that the risks to the inflation outlook have not changed since the U.S. midterm elections. Changes in the political landscape are unlikely to quickly alleviate inflationary pressures.Despite market hopes that the nearly 9-month-long Middle East conflict could be resolved, leading to a drop of over 22% in crude oil futures prices from the late October peak, inflationary pressures still persist. A strong labor market, resilient economic growth, and inflation remaining above the Federal Reserve's 2% target for nearly six years all indicate that further tightening of monetary policy is still necessary.Wells Fargo Chief Economist Tom Porcelli stated, "The Federal Reserve's decision-making depends on the upcoming inflation data, which will prompt it to raise rates again. In fact, the Federal Reserve has every reason to raise rates at the October meeting."

According to on-chain monitoring platform Lookonchain, 14 listed companies have sold 108,247 BTC in 2025, worth approximately 8.08 billion USD. Among them, MARA sold 40,581 BTC at an average price of 74,446 USD, worth about 3.03 billion USD; Riot Platforms sold 20,264 BTC at an average price of 73,231 USD, worth about 1.51 billion USD.

According to DeFi Development Corp (Nasdaq: DFDV) 8-K filing on November 9, the company increased its holdings of 8,881 SOL from 2,600,948 on October 30 to 2,609,829 on November 6 during the period from November 2 to 6.The company stated that these positions are planned to be deployed through staking, validators, and on-chain treasury infrastructure, depending on market conditions and risk control.