Vitalik Buterin wrote on the X platform, "As the original creator of the modexp precompiled contract, I feel deeply ashamed. But modexp has indeed greatly hindered Ethereum. On the one hand, it is inefficient, and on the other hand, its complexity poses a significant risk of consensus failure to our ecosystem....

 Momentum will open the Wave1 airdrop application at 19:00 today Beijing time. Participants in the Binance MMT Pre-TGE priority sale can receive rewards through the Binance Wallet reward distribution system, participants in the BuidlPad MMT community sale can apply for allocation through the BuidlPad platform, participants in the OKX Wallet event and users of the WAGMI Season 1 event can apply through the official portal....

 according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet deposited 7.9 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a 5x leveraged ZEC long position. The wallet still has TWAP orders set up, ready to further increase its position....

 according to Trader T monitoring, the net outflow of $135.54 million from the US spot Ethereum ETF yesterday....

 Bitcoin's computing power has reached a new all-time high, but the continuously rising block difficulty continues to compress miners' profits....

 the multi-chain DeFi protocol Folks Finance has launched an airdrop check portal. Users can paste their address to check. The first season qualifying groups include: users with over 1 million Folks points, Founders Pass NFT holders, partner activity winners (OKX Wallet, HaHa Wallet, Gate Wallet, Zerion, AIRAA HQ, Orbiter Finance, Galxe). Points below 1 million are still valid and will be carried over to future seasons....

Monad stated in a post, "Reply with your EVM wallet address under the tweet to receive some MON tokens from the Monad mainnet. These MON tokens will be used to cover the initial gas fees and help users start using the chain. You need to follow Monad's official account to receive them."...

the Reserve Bank of Australia will keep the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 3.6%, in line with market expectations....

crypto analyst Quinten stated that in the past 30 days, long-term holders of Bitcoin have collectively sold about 400,000 BTC, accounting for nearly 2% of the total Bitcoin supply. Despite facing a large amount of selling pressure, Bitcoin still remains above $100,000. He pointed out that once real market demand kicks in, the price of Bitcoin may see even greater upside potential....

Jay A, the founder of nof1.ai, posted on the X platform, stating that the first season of Alpha Arena has officially ended, and Qwen 3 MAX came from behind in the final moments to win the championship. nof1.ai observed that there are still persistent biases in the current model, which continue to exist over time and multiple iterations of feedback, somewhat resembling an investment "personality". Season 1.5 is set to be released soon and will be improved. According to Julian Togelius, the head of artificial intelligence at nofi.ai, the next season will optimize the artificial intelligence benchmark, while also having some "unannounced" new projects....

according to The Wall Street Journal, Katie Stockton, founder and managing partner of Fairlead Strategies, stated in a report on Monday that Bitcoin has fallen below the 200-day moving average of $109,800. The 200-day moving average is one of the most widely watched indicators for defining long-term trends and also serves as support for Bitcoin. This may signal that the cryptocurrency will further decline, with the next target potentially at $94,200....

On November 4th, Coinbase Inc. has decided to withdraw the lawsuit against DynaPass Inc. DynaPass had claimed that this software company baselessly accused this cryptocurrency exchange platform of infringing on a patent related to dual-factor authentication. According to the notice of dismissal submitted to the United States District Court for the Central District of California on October 31st, the two parties reached an agreement, which includes a commitment clause: DynaPass will not sue Coinbase, its customers, suppliers, partners, or other members of the non-profit advocacy organization CryptoOpenPatentAlliance. In the lawsuit filed as early as September, Coinbase sought a declaratory judgment from the court to confirm that the company did not infringe on DynaPass's U.S. Patent No. ...

 Sonic officially stated in an X post that due to the Balancer hacker attack incident involving Sonic's ecological project Beets, as a preventive measure, the team has deployed a security mechanism that is planned to be implemented in the upcoming network upgrade. In addition, two wallets related to the hacker (0xf19f, 0x0453) have been frozen and are awaiting further investigation. Sonic will work with the Beets team to advance the follow-up work....

the cryptocurrency market plummeted yesterday, with BTC falling below $106,000 and ETH falling below $3,600. However, the privacy coin sector stood out, with several privacy coins rising against the trend, including: Dash breaking through $123, with a 23% increase in 24 hours; ZEC breaking through $449, with a 7% increase in 24 hours; DCR breaking through $34, with a 79% increase in 24 hours; PIVX breaking through $0.3, with a 20% increase in 24 hours; ZEN breaking through $21, with an 18% increase in 24 hours....

Jay A, the founder of nof1.ai, posted on X platform that the first season of Alpha Arena has officially ended, with Qwen 3 MAX winning the championship. As of the time of writing, the account balance is $12,252.72 USD, while the DeepSeek balance is $10,634.21 USD, maintaining positive returns. However, GPT-5 has a balance of $3534.53 USD, Gemini 2.5 Pro has a balance of $3980.75 USD, Grok-4 has a balance of $5758.49 USD, and Claude Sonnet 4.5 has a balance of $7294.59 USD, all showing negative returns....

 Enoch Yiu, CEO of HSBC Group, said at the 2025 International Financial Leaders Investment Summit that missing the use of disruptive technology will be a big risk. For example, blockchain technology is a very big opportunity point, and HSBC has already launched tokenized deposits for its customers in Hong Kong. At the same time, HSBC is also involved in virtual currency projects. (Securities Times)...

 according to PeckShield monitoring, the collateralized stablecoin Staked Stream USD (token symbol $XUSD) has come unpegged, with a drop of about 23%....

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest purchased a total of 238,346 shares of Bullish stock through its three ETF funds on November 3, with an investment amount of approximately $11.98 million. This purchase was distributed among the ARK Innovation ETF, ARK Next Generation Internet ETF, and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF....

according to Bitcoin News, Swan has become the first Bitcoin-focused company to be allowed to provide a full range of services to users in New York, including buying Bitcoin and unlimited withdrawals to self-hosted wallets....

 the latest court documents show that shortly after Altman briefly stepped down as CEO of OpenAI two years ago, the company discussed the possibility of merging with AI competitor Anthropic. OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever detailed the negotiations in a recent testimony, stating that the company had discussed Anthropic's merger proposal in November 2023. Sutskever said that the proposal would have given Anthropic control over OpenAI's leadership, and he was almost the only one on the board to oppose the deal. However, due to some "practical obstacles," the discussions about the merger ultimately fell through. ...