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The three major U.S. stock indices closed mixed today. - S&P 500: -0.51% - Nasdaq: -1.07% - Dow Jones: +0.42%

Kamino said it plans to invest at least $20 million over the next two years to expand the range of available assets and provide credit and liquidity infrastructure through platforms consumers already use. In a letter to the KMNO community, Kamino’s CEO said the Kamino Foundation owns the intellectual property and receives all revenue, including from institutional partnerships. The CEO added KMNO is the only token, and the founders, investors, team, and CEO share the same economic interests through the token without separate equity allocations. The CEO also said most of the KMNO allocated to the CEO will vest only if a series of valuation targets is reached and maintained.

Ethereum-based layer-two scaling network Sophon (SOPH) said the Sophon chain will cease operations on Nov. 30 and advised users to withdraw assets by Nov. 25. It said Sophon itself is not shutting down and the SOPH token will remain in place.

Decentralized lending protocol Dolomite said it is keeping its halt on new borrowing on the Ethereum mainnet as a precaution following the Binance hack. Markets remain open, and users can still deposit, withdraw, repay, use zap, add collateral, and manage existing positions. Dolomite said it temporarily suspended seven markets on Oct. 29 — ETH, USDC, USDT, WBTC, USD1, LINK and rUSD — then blocked all new borrowing across Ethereum later that evening before reopening those markets. After an additional review on Oct. 30, Dolomite said it decided to keep the restriction on new borrowing in place. The protocol said it had not observed any malicious activity on Dolomite and that no assets were at risk from the attack. It added that it will continue monitoring the incident and its potential impact on lending markets, and plans to resume borrowing once protective measures are no longer needed.

Crypto research and brokerage firm K33 said estimated losses tied to Binance’s fines and hacking incidents totaled about $10.7 billion, equal to roughly 56% of its pretax profit from 2021 to 2025, according to NewsBitcoin. NewsBitcoin estimated Binance’s pretax profit for 2021-2025 at $19.2 billion. Binance has never published consolidated financial statements covering the entire group in its nine-year history. K33 senior analyst Vetle Lunde said the amount Binance had to pay in fines was about $4.34 billion, including a 2023 U.S. criminal settlement, a $6.9 million fine imposed in Australia this year and a $750,000 fine imposed in Turkey in 2021.

Layer-1 blockchain Sui said Samsung Wallet plans to add support for Sui-based USDC in November for eligible Galaxy users in the U.S.

The U.S. SEC has released a new FAQ on cryptocurrency token classification, Crypto in America podcast host Eleanor Terrett said. Terrett said it appears aimed at clarifying decentralization-related issues that the Clarity Act seeks to address through legislation.

Investor sentiment toward major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP has weakened steadily for about two months, according to blockchain analytics platform Santiment. The firm said fear in the market expanded after the Binance hack, with prices falling and bullish expectations also declining. Santiment said Bitcoin recorded 0.69 bullish views for every bearish view, while XRP stood at 0.61. Ethereum was relatively higher at 1.14, but bullish sentiment has fallen sharply from September levels. The firm added that past market cycles have at times produced contrarian investment opportunities after extreme sentiment deterioration, although fear alone makes it difficult to identify a market bottom. With sentiment ratios for Bitcoin and XRP below 1.0, Santiment said a medium-term rebound would be worth watching if prices do not set additional lows.

Funds worth about $5.55 million tied to the hack of Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin have been frozen, according to Onchain Lens. The frozen assets were spread across three addresses and included USDT, USDC and gold-backed tokens.

NEAR Protocol said House of Stake, NEAR’s decentralized on-chain governance body, has approved a proposal to lower the network’s maximum annual issuance rate to 1.6% from 2.5%. House of Stake’s security council will review the vote ahead of ratification, after which a roughly 90-day grace period will follow. The change will become binding once validators adopt it through a protocol upgrade. Under the published schedule, the issuance rate is then set to decline gradually each epoch, reaching 1.6% in 24 months.

New Jersey has withdrawn its staking-related lawsuit against Coinbase, lifting an order that had barred the service, Coinbase’s legal team said. As a result, staking for Coinbase users in New Jersey, which had been suspended since June 2023, is expected to resume soon. Similar cases were previously dismissed in Illinois, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont and Alabama, while restrictions remain in effect in California, Maryland, Washington and Wisconsin.

Whale Alert reported that 270,000,000 USDT has been transferred from an unknown wallet to Bitfinex. The transaction is valued at about $270 million.

Super League (SLE), Metaplanet’s U.S. Bitcoin asset management subsidiary, bought an additional eight BTC, bringing its total holdings to 15 BTC, according to BitcoinTreasuries.

Ondo Finance said it has opened subscriptions for OpenAI Private Market Notes, or OPAIPon, for eligible Private Client customers outside the U.S. The notes are a tokenized product offering exposure to OpenAI’s pre-IPO economic performance. Subscriptions will close on Nov. 17, and participation requires enrollment in Ondo Finance’s Private Client program.

Liquid staking protocol Rocket Pool (RPL) has urged all node operators to update to the latest Smart Node version, v1.25.1. Rocket Pool said nodes using Lighthouse or Lodestar on mainnet, as well as all nodes on the Hoodi testnet, should be prioritized for the update.

A Solana-based arbitrage bot known as King was stripped of about $786,000 in assets, Onchain Lens reported. King, which had posted cumulative profit and loss of $7.2 million, is said to have lost 4,260 WSOL, 191 SOL and about $366,000 worth of stablecoins in the hack.

Bitcoin has not yet priced in the possibility of a Democratic victory in the U.S. midterm elections, Russell Thompson, chief investment officer at digital asset investment firm Hilbert Group, said, according to Crypto Briefing. Thompson said political uncertainty could add further pressure to an already weakened market, while also citing the fallout from the Binance hack and the U.S. military buildup in the Middle East as key uncertainties beyond the election.

Bitcoin has shown relative resilience despite a major Binance hack and a sell-off in technology stocks, Seamus Rocca, CEO of Gibraltar-based fintech firm Xapo Bank, said, according to Crypto Briefing. Rocca said Bitcoin has historically shown a high correlation with the Nasdaq, but recently held key support levels despite a $6.3 billion hack and weakness in tech stocks, suggesting it may be starting to trade differently from traditional risk assets. Rocca added that the move does not prove Bitcoin’s role as an inflation hedge.

Major exchanges have seen $103 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $314 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

Elastos (ELA), a layer-1 blockchain focused on the decentralized internet, has unveiled ElastOS V2, rebuilt from the ground up for the Elastos World Computer. The new Rust runtime integrates identity, local AI, storage, communication and blockchain access into a single system, with users designed to control permissions directly.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $77,000. BTC is trading at $76,986.82 on the Binance USDT market.

Gravity said it completed settlement of the fast withdrawal bridge for G tokens operated on the Alpha mainnet and shut down the service. The bridge supported rapid transfers of G tokens to other networks. During its operation, around 897.31 million G tokens were deposited and the same amount was withdrawn, while token issuance and burn volumes were also confirmed to be identical. Gravity said there were no unsettled withdrawal requests or unpaid principal remaining.

The supply of stock tokens issued on blockchains has reached a record $3.8 billion, up 590% this year, according to Solid Intel. Separately, decentralized exchange Jupiter said 70% of tokenized asset trading is taking place outside regular stock market hours.

Tether said it froze more than $1.5 billion in funds tied to the Binance hack. The USDT issuer said the move was intended to prevent North Korean actors identified as being behind the hack from accessing or moving the funds.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, said Binance covered losses from a recent hack worth more than $6 billion using only funds on its own balance sheet. Zhao said Binance did not borrow funds, sell holdings, or raise capital externally, adding that while some people keep comparing the incident with other cases, there is a clear difference.