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Decentralized lending protocol Aave said on its official X account that, following approval from the Aave DAO, Aave V3.8 has been deployed across 15 V3 markets. Version 3.8, developed by Aave Labs, adds security-related safeguards to Aave V3 in line with the Aave DAO’s security standards.

Decentralized lending protocol Moonwell said proposal MIP-X75 has been applied, lowering collateral factors for multiple assets on the Base and Optimism mainnets. VELO and wrsETH can no longer be used as collateral.

Stacks Labs said it completed the first sBTC transfer on the Stacks mainnet using quantum-resistant cryptography. The transaction used the hash-based Lamport One-Time Signature, and the company said it demonstrated that quantum-resistant signatures can be verified through the Clarity smart contract language without changing the existing protocol. Stacks Labs plans to review the applicability of other quantum-resistant signature algorithms and expand its research to Bitcoin layer one. It added that Stacks uses BTC as its final settlement base, while sBTC is backed by BTC on Bitcoin L1. The company said the research is intended to strengthen Stacks’ ability to respond to quantum attacks and contribute to a future transition to a quantum-resistant security framework for Bitcoin.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov said at the Digital Asset Summit London that DeFi lending protocols need emergency braking mechanisms similar to circuit breakers. Kulechov said institutional investors participating in DeFi face constant risk, adding that immutability, or the difficulty of arbitrarily changing the rules or code of deployed smart contracts and protocols, is a terrible feature of DeFi. He warned that without emergency shutdown tools such as circuit breakers, it could take years to unwind a lending pool after an oracle error.

James Lavish, co-founder of Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, said in a recent interview with Bitcoin Magazine that Bitcoin could reach $400,000 to $500,000 by mid-2029. Lavish also presented a more conservative target range of $200,000 to $300,000 and added that Bitcoin has already found a bottom, while broader institutional adoption could serve as a future upside driver. BTC was trading at $73,883.92, up 0.97%, at the time of writing.

CoinGlass said on its official X account that Bitcoin’s next major support is likely around $68,000. The market data analytics firm said large buy orders were concentrated in the $67,000-$68,500 range on Binance BTC perpetual futures, while dense buy walls had also formed around the current price zone of $72,000-$73,500. By contrast, sell orders were waiting in the $74,000-$75,000 range, including as much as about $12.93 million, and the order book’s buy-sell imbalance stood at around -9.2%, indicating selling pressure held the upper hand, CoinGlass said. It added that limit orders can be canceled or moved, so the buy wall cannot be definitively seen as actual support. According to CoinMarketCap, BTC was trading at $73,835, up 0.98%.

Layer-1 blockchain Flare (FLR) said its hard fork has been successfully activated and the network is processing transactions normally. Flare added that transaction confirmations may take slightly longer than usual while the remaining validators complete their upgrades.

ZEC has risen by 3.29% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, ZEC is trading at $1,005.5.

Variational, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange, said on its official X account that the private beta for Omni has ended and the platform has transitioned to a public mainnet.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said on his recent YouTube channel that he cannot run Cardano like a CEO, as treasury operations and the consensus mechanism are not controlled by a single entity and the structure does not allow anyone to negotiate on behalf of all ADA holders. Hoskinson added that responsibility for ecosystem growth initiatives is distributed under Cardano’s governance structure. Delegated Representatives, or DReps, approve treasury funding, the Constitutional Committee reviews whether proposals comply with the constitution, and funding recipients and designated administrators are responsible for carrying out projects and overseeing how funds are used. Cardano-related organizations are also disclosing project progress reports and code change records, allowing ADA holders to check whether treasury-backed initiatives are being implemented. According to CoinMarketCap, ADA was trading at $0.1771, down 0.06%, at the time of writing.

Crypto investment firm Strobe Fund transferred the final 50 million ENA remaining in its wallet, worth about $7.54 million, to Coinbase about an hour ago, on-chain analyst EmberCN said. Exchange deposits are typically interpreted as being intended for selling. EmberCN said Strobe Fund deposited 101.95 million ENA, worth about $15.6 million, to Coinbase over the past 24 hours. The firm had received about 142.9 million tokens through its investment in Ethena (ENA), and this latest sale appears to have completed the liquidation of that entire allocation. Total sales are estimated at $32.95 million, with an average selling price of about $0.23. According to CoinMarketCap, ENA was trading at $0.153, down 1.75%, at the time of writing.

Decentralized lending protocol Maple Finance (SYRUP) said co-founder Joe Flanagan will step down as chairman and leave the company to focus on his next personal chapter. The personnel change will be carried out in an orderly manner by mutual agreement, while the company’s business direction will remain unchanged. Maple Finance said Flanagan helped grow the company since 2019 to $4.8 billion in assets under management and $20 billion in loan originations.

Layer-1 blockchain Hedera (HBAR) said global financial services firm Apex has joined the Hedera Council. Apex, which provides services for more than $3.5 trillion in assets, plans to consider using the Hedera network for its tokenization business.

DePIN project Livepeer said it has released go-livepeer v0.10.0 and formally deprecated the existing go-livepeer client as it prepares to replace it with a new node stack being developed by Network Engineering SPE. Livepeer advised users to update to the latest version and said remote transcoders require an orchestrator secret. For setups where the primary wallet is kept offline, Livepeer said users should use a reward delegate under LIP-118. Security patches will be provided through Nov. 30, after which go-livepeer will be archived.

Oracle solution Pyth said in an official blog post that it added NYSE BQT, the New York Stock Exchange’s real-time market data product, to its data marketplace on Nov. 11. NYSE BQT provides top-of-book bid and ask quotes and sizes, trade data, closing prices, volume, and market status information including trading halts and resumptions across five exchanges under NYSE Group. Pyth added that, after previously being approved as an external distributor of Nasdaq Basic, Nasdaq’s real-time data product, the company can now offer both Nasdaq and NYSE real-time stock data through its data marketplace.

Sui said on its official X account that support for the Suiet wallet will end after Nov. 14, local time. Users were advised to back up each account’s recovery phrase or private key now and not share either with anyone. Assets will remain on the Sui network, and users can switch their accounts to other Sui wallets, including Slush, at any time.

K33 Research said in a recent report that excessive leverage in the Bitcoin perpetual futures market has left the underlying asset vulnerable to sharp price swings. The report said BTC had posted five straight weekly losses and is now testing support around its 200-day moving average of $73,137 and the roughly $73,800 peak recorded in March 2024. Amid continued net outflows from ETFs and weak participation by institutional investors, open interest in the perpetual futures market has climbed to elevated levels, increasing the risk of sharp moves driven by either a short squeeze or a long squeeze. According to CoinMarketCap, BTC was trading at $73,512, down 0.98%, at the time of writing.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened higher today. - S&P 500: +0.9% - Nasdaq: +1.56% - Dow Jones: +0.2%

10x Research said in a report that Bitcoin has posted an average one-year return of 53.9% after U.S. midterm elections. According to the report, Bitcoin’s average returns after midterms were -13.6% after one month, -21.6% after two months, -13.3% after four months, +3.5% after six months, and +53.9% after one year. The report said Bitcoin tended to decline initially but showed a longer-term upward trajectory, with its one-year return exceeding the average returns of the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and gold. 10x Research added that increased volatility after midterm elections could indicate cyclical selling pressure being exhausted rather than a structural trend breakdown, and assessed that the current pullback could offer an attractive entry opportunity for long-term investors.

Nick Tomaino, founder of crypto-focused venture capital firm 1confirmation, said claims that the possibility of a Polymarket token launch has disappeared are foolish. Tomaino added that 1confirmation participated in every Polymarket funding round and, while the token-related messaging in a recently released public statement was disappointing from a promotional standpoint, the firm still believes a token launch remains possible.

Glassnode said in a weekly report that stablecoin supply shrank by $14.2 billion over the past 30 days, marking the fastest contraction since June 2022 and indicating that the fuel for a broader crypto market rally is drying up. The report said Bitcoin is undergoing a correction with little fresh capital entering the market, leaving few near-term factors to support a bullish outlook. It added that a large share of the excessive leveraged positions clustered around current price levels has already been liquidated, while some whale wallet groups have shown signs of accumulation. For a rebound, Glassnode said it is important for Bitcoin to reclaim $75,600, the realized price for short-term holders, or the average on-chain acquisition cost. On the downside, the report said a sustained move below $73,000 could lead to a prolonged consolidation phase, while a weekly close under $58,500 would invalidate the rebound scenario.

Russia’s central bank announced on its official website that it will allow regulated, qualified cryptocurrency exchanges to operate from Nov. 22. Before launch, however, exchanges must establish trading operation rules and obtain approval from financial authorities. The Russian central bank said exchanges will be required to register trading participants including brokers, asset managers and central clearing institutions, while also managing order and transaction records and carrying out trade monitoring. It added that exchanges must calculate price indicators such as current prices, volume-weighted average prices, market prices and closing prices, and report trading conditions and results to the central bank. CoinNess previously reported that the Russian central bank had allowed individual investors, or non-qualified investors, to invest in BTC, ETH and USDT.

Ethereum layer-2 network Scroll (SCR) said through its official community that it fixed a vulnerability found in a bundle proof verifier deployed on mainnet and carried out an emergency upgrade on Nov. 11. If exploited, the flaw could have allowed a previously valid proof to be reused with new public inputs to finalize an arbitrary state root and withdrawal root. Scroll said no cases of exploitation were found during the period when the vulnerability existed, and its forced inclusion mode, an emergency mechanism, was not activated.

Wang Chun, co-founder of F2Pool, the world’s fourth-largest Bitcoin mining pool, withdrew 3,996 ETH worth about $8.23 million around four hours ago and staked it through Lido, according to ai_9684xtpa. The wstETH received from the staking was then deposited into the DeFi lending protocol Spark (SPK).

Robinhood’s crypto trading volume in October was about $17 billion, down 21% from the previous month and 48% from a year earlier, Crypto Briefing reported. Over the same period, stock trading volume rose to about $325 billion, up 1% from the previous month and 2% from a year earlier. Options volume was 289 million contracts, little changed from the previous month and up 8% from a year earlier.