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The number of companies opposing stock-tokenization listings on OKXICE, a joint platform run by crypto exchange OKX and ICE, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, has risen to 56. According to a list released by OKXICE on Nov. 2, six more companies were added: Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Netflix, SoFi Technologies and Lam Research. OKXICE had originally identified 62 companies as tokenization targets.

According to Coinbase’s prediction market, Democrats have a 77% chance of winning a Senate majority in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections.

Crypto custody firm BitGo has officially added Stacks-based Bitcoin staking for eligible institutional clients. Through the integration, institutional investors can earn staking rewards on native BTC without wrapping Bitcoin or moving it to an external bridge, while keeping assets in BitGo’s Qualified Custody. Participating institutions must pair and lock up STX equal to about 5% of their Bitcoin deposit position, and the structure carries a bond term of about six months. The staking rewards are paid from a BTC pool submitted by miners through the Proof of Transfer, or PoX, consensus mechanism during the Stacks block production process.

OpenUSD, a consortium stablecoin led by Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase and Shopify, has finalized a low-cost fee structure for payment transaction volume, with management fees capped at $0.01 per transaction, CoinDesk reported, citing internal documents it obtained. The operating entity, Open Standard, plans to charge a 0.1-basis-point fee on payment amounts, while applying a $0.01 cap to transactions of $1,000 or more. Under that structure, even a $1 million transfer would incur a fee of just one cent, bringing foreign-exchange and remittance costs close to zero. The documents also show OUSD aims to differentiate its revenue model from USDT and USDC. Rather than monopolizing reserve interest, OUSD plans to deduct only minimal operating fees and distribute reserve-interest income directly to ecosystem partners. It has also created an equity accrual pool, with a minimum participation threshold of $50 million and a 5% cap per company, allocating project equity based on partners’ asset holdings and payment distribution volume.

Cryptocurrency analyst Michaël van de Poppe said upward momentum is now appearing more clearly in the altcoin market than in Bitcoin. In a post on X, van de Poppe said he is maintaining existing positions and expects market outperformance, adding that Ethereum needs to lead that outperformance. He said a full-fledged rally could begin if Ethereum breaks through resistance, while Ethereum’s chart structure looks solid but still needs to clear a key resistance zone.

Whale Alert reported that 3,857 BTC has been transferred from Coinbase Institutional to an unknown new wallet. The transaction is valued at about $299 million.

Binance co-founder He Yi said Binance detected and blocked 57 suspected North Korea-linked cyber threats in 2026. He said Binance’s security team preempted 57 cases over the course of the year and described them as evidence of a persistent threat from state-backed hacking groups targeting the crypto industry. The attack methods included fake job interviews, malware disguised as popular developer tools, tampered software packages and browser extensions, fake video conferencing applications, and social engineering campaigns designed to steal credentials or distribute remote-control malware. He added that Binance stopped many of the attacks in advance, but said the cost of a single defensive failure was too severe and that the incident should never have happened.

Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin said about $36.3 million in assets were affected by the hack, of which $12.9 million has been frozen. The investigation is ongoing, and the platform and app remain temporarily suspended.

Crypto market maker LO:TECH said it raised $12 million in a Series A funding round. CoinDesk reported the round was led by MMC, with participation from Faction and 13 Books Capital. The company plans to use the proceeds to expand operations in New York and Singapore and broaden institutional trading services across cryptocurrencies, traditional assets and prediction markets.

Kamino, a leading decentralized lending protocol in the Solana ecosystem, plans to invest at least $20 million over the next two years to expand tokenized assets and build mainstream infrastructure, The Block reported. In a letter to KMNO token holders released today, Kamino CEO Michael Weiss outlined a roadmap under which the Kamino Foundation plans to deploy more than $20 million over the next 24 months to strengthen its lineup of tokenized financial products, including real-world assets, and significantly expand DeFi credit and liquidity infrastructure into consumer-facing platforms.

Decentralized exchange Jupiter (JUP) said it is using Chainlink’s APAC Equities Streams on its perpetual futures trading platform.

Lorenzo Valente, head of digital asset research at ARK Invest, said a string of major cryptocurrency thefts amounts to a “Hidden Tax” that erodes the sector’s competitiveness and raises the cost of storing value. Valente said that just as retailers pass theft-related losses on through product prices, the blockchain industry ultimately shifts hacking losses to end users through higher fees and security premiums. According to the data cited, the virtual asset industry’s average annual market-cap loss rate from hacks since 2018 reached 24 basis points, or 0.24%. By comparison, the loss ratio from fraud and financial incidents in the U.S. traditional banking system was 1.7 basis points, or 0.017%, meaning the crypto industry’s loss burden was estimated at about 14 times that of traditional finance.

Ondo Finance said USDY prices have begun updating in real time on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Mantle and Tempo. The company said holders can earn yield based on the actual time they hold the asset, even over just a few hours. It added that users can continue earning yield while borrowing against USDY as collateral, and can move the token across 11 networks.

The record $6.3 billion hot wallet hack at Binance on Oct. 29 was carried out through internal infiltration via a fake job interview by a North Korean hacking group, according to Reuters and industry analysis. The attackers used “Contagious Interview,” a tactic widely associated with North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau. They offered a DevOps engineer an attractive fake job opportunity and sent malware disguised as a coding test program, gaining access to Binance’s internal network through the compromised laptop. The attackers then exploited a hot wallet auto-signing module across 10 mainnets and stole a large amount of funds in just 20 minutes.

Aave Labs and its co-authors have submitted a legal framework on decentralized lending protocols and non-custodial vaults to the U.S. SEC’s crypto task force and Division of Corporation Finance, according to AAVE. A summary of the paper was released on Nov. 3.

Former Messari analyst Ryan Watkins said on X that the U.S. CFTC’s move to allow stock perpetual futures is a huge positive for Hyperliquid, given that equities are the fastest-growing sector in the perpetual futures space. Watkins said the development came just days after TradeXYZ and ICE announced a partnership to bring Hyperliquid to the U.S. market, and added that signs are continuing to emerge that the regulated HIP-3 market could see major growth ahead.

Coinbase announced on its official X account the addition of perpetual futures trading for BMNR, WDC, RKLB and AAOI. Trading in the contracts began at 10:00 a.m. UTC on Nov. 9.

Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Solana infrastructure firm Helius, said Anthropic and Claude were the first to apply cryptographic technology similar to that used in Zcash on a global scale. Mumtaz also pointed to FlashProve, a research prototype Anthropic open-sourced on Nov. 2. FlashProve uses zkSNARKs to enable "provable reasoning," a technique that allows model providers to prove a specific response was generated by a given model without disclosing the model’s weights.

A California federal court is reviewing allegations that World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a venture led by President Donald Trump’s family, manipulated and concealed its nationality after the fact to evade federal jurisdiction, Tron founder Justin Sun said. Sun said he had previously filed a motion seeking strong judicial sanctions against World Liberty and defense counsel in the California federal court. According to Sun, WLFI initially told the court at the start of the case that it was a Florida-only entity, satisfying the requirements for federal jurisdiction, but after its attempt to send the dispute to private mandatory arbitration was effectively blocked, it abruptly added 22 ownership entities and began arguing the case should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction by claiming United Arab Emirates nationality. Sun argued that WLFI had marketed and sold tokens as a thoroughly U.S.-based taxpaying company in its white paper, then invoked an offshore nationality to avoid litigation.

Scroll said a network upgrade proposal has been posted on its DAO forum to shift the project from a general-purpose chain to a permissioned network for private AI. The proposal also includes moving SCR to the Ethereum mainnet.

Tokenized reinsurance protocol re said it has launched reUSD on Monad and integrated it with Morpho and Pendle. The protocol said reUSD gives the Monad ecosystem access to the $800 billion reinsurance market and real yield opportunities.

Chainlink said it has expanded the scope of its APAC Equities Streams to cover stock markets worth more than $40 trillion across China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Covered stocks include TSMC, Tencent, Samsung, SK Hynix and BYD. The streams are available on Lighter, Jupiter and Predictdotfun.

Strategy (MSTR) has paid the first daily dividend on its STRC preferred stock, according to BitcoinTreasuries.

zk-SNARK-based Ethereum privacy layer-2 network Aztec launched Tierra, also known as Alpha V6, on Nov. 3, introducing performance and security upgrades that cut cross-chain message delivery from the Ethereum mainnet to Aztec to as little as 12 seconds from two minutes. The upgrade addresses key vulnerabilities in the previous V5 version and introduces mathematical formal verification and an AI-based security testing harness to strengthen contract defenses. Aztec also said it roughly halved client-side zero-knowledge proof generation time to around one second on standard devices.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has formally approved the first equity perpetual futures contracts to trade on a U.S. regulated exchange.