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The USDC Treasury burned 100 million USDC tokens today, reducing the stablecoin's circulating supply, according to Whale Alert. The burn action aims to adjust supply levels in the stablecoin market. USDC Treasury manages the supply of USD Coin, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, making periodic a

SK Hynix shares rose 2.4% after OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman visited South Korea on Nov. 2, with discussions on high-bandwidth memory supply and artificial intelligence infrastructure drawing market attention. The stock movement followed Walter Bloomberg's report that Altman met with SK

Solana completed 1,000 days of uninterrupted network operation, marking over 15 months of continuous uptime. The milestone was enabled by the implementation of QUIC and Stake-Weighted Quality of Service (SWQoS) upgrades, which improved the blockchain's transaction handling capabilities. This

MercadoBitcoin, Brazil's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has suffered a $40 million exploit that prompted an immediate halt of all deposits, withdrawals, and trading activities. The exchange suspended operations to protect user funds and investigate the security breach. MercadoBitcoin is

Prophecy Gov released a database analyzing 10,202 public comments from 417 local government meetings across 48 US states, revealing that 90.5% of comments on data center projects were negative. The database, published on the American Sentiment website, tracks public sentiment as data center

Anthropic disclosed third-quarter revenue of approximately $17 billion in a securities filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The generative AI developer's July-September revenue represents a twelvefold increase from $1.4 billion in the same period one year earlier. The

NVDA stock closed at $208.63 on Monday afternoon, up $3.99 or 1.95%, recovering part of Friday's 4.22% decline to $204.64. The rebound followed a sector-wide selloff triggered by Intel's PC demand warning, which sent the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down more than 7% on Friday. Nvidia's market c

US construction spending fell 1.9% in September from the previous month, according to data released November 2 by Walter Bloomberg, missing market expectations of a 0.3% increase by 2.2 percentage points. The decline was driven by contractions in both private and public sectors. Total construction s

The 21 MW SMX01 data center in Jakarta officially began operations on Monday (2/11) to support AI technology and high-performance computing. The facility was developed through a partnership between SM+ Data Centers, Korea Investment Real Asset Management (KIRA), and LG Sinar Mas (LGSM) to meet Indonesia’s growing need for digital computing infrastructure. This infrastructure development aligns with rapid technological growth in Southeast Asia, where data center capacity is projected to increase

Traders directed over $12 billion into leveraged long ETFs in recent weeks, according to crypto commentator Eric Balchunas. The surge reflects a strategy where investors buy during market dips and take profits during rebounds. This trend underscores broader retail investor sentiment toward risk and

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse stated that XRP could become a leading technology for institutional cryptocurrency payments within five years, speaking at Ripple Swell 2026 in New York. The prediction comes as Ripple expands its operations beyond cross-border payments into custody services, corporate t

US Stock Market News showed Wall Street's main indexes opening higher on Monday as technology and AI-related stocks steadied after a dismal October, while crude oil prices dropped sharply amid growing hopes of a US-Iran peace deal. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 403.09 points, or 0.78%, at

South Korean blockchain infrastructure company DSRV partnered with Ethiopia's state-owned Paidabus to integrate the country's national digital identification system with blockchain-based financial and public services. The two organizations signed a business agreement at Paidabus headquarters in

Blockchain project GenLayer is operating an Internet Court system that uses multiple artificial intelligence models to adjudicate disputes between AI agents, according to a Cointelegraph report on November 2. The system employs judgments from multiple AI models functioning like a jury, rather than r

Omen AI acquired competitor Aquatic Labs in a $16 million cash-and-stock deal, combining complementary water monitoring technologies for data center cooling systems. The acquisition follows Omen's $31 million Series A funding round in June and addresses the challenge of US data centers using 17 to 1

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced on November 2 the introduction of round-the-clock settlement for tokenized bank deposits under Project Ensemble. The initiative enables participating financial institutions to settle transactions using tokenized central bank money beyond

Atoma, Kurtosis Labs, OkContract, and WageFlow won top prizes at a recent Arbitrum Hackathon, securing a combined $120,000 for their blockchain innovations. Atoma claimed first place with $60,000 for developing a market-neutral real-world asset (RWA) yield layer for tokenized stock perpetual

SBI Digital Markets has formed a memorandum of understanding with Arbitrum to enhance access to digital assets for institutional clients. The partnership leverages Arbitrum's Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solutions to improve transaction efficiency for public and private clients. SBI Digital Markets, par

The Blockchain Association filed comments with the Illinois Department of Revenue opposing the Digital Asset Tax Act, arguing the proposed tax is unconstitutional and violates federal laws. The organization, alongside the Crypto Council for Innovation, is challenging draft rules that would

U.S. manufacturing activity in October registered a Purchasing Managers' Index of 54.9, below the market forecast of 56.0 and the previous reading of 56.0, according to data released on November 2. The index remained above the 50 threshold separating expansion from contraction, indicating