A $3.5 trillion fund servicer takes a seat on the Hedera Council Apex Group (@ApexGlobalGroup) has joined the Hedera Council, the group of organizations that governs the @hedera (hedera-hashgraph:native) network. The Bermuda-founded firm services more than $3.5 trillion in assets and employs over 13,000 people in more than 50 countries. Apex will explore using Hedera for its tokenization work, which already covers stablecoins, fund services and investor identity checks. Council chair @ManceHarmon said the addition comes as institutional tokenization moves “from experimentation to real-world adoption.”

USDC answers to a new EU regulator from tomorrow The European Banking Authority will start directly supervising @circle’s $USDC in the EU on Thursday, November 12. It takes over checks on the stablecoin’s reserves, capital, liquidity, and redemption plans from France’s regulator ACPR, which keeps oversight of governance and conflicts of interest. The switch follows the EBA’s October 14 decision to label USDC a “significant” e-money token under MiCA, the first of 45 notified tokens to get that tag. It covers only USDC issued by Circle’s French entity, and the EBA will review the label every year.

Nick Fuentes just summed up Thomas Massie's entire year: • Lost his primary to Trump's pick, with AIPAC and pro-Israel groups spending over $9 MILLION against him • Then tried to impeach Trump's Defense Secretary and LOST AGAIN, 211-204 "These libertarians are scum. They can do nothing. They are totally inept and weak" America First is a nationalist movement.

Aero’s Momentum Fund scoops up 294K AERO @aeroxyz's Momentum Fund bought and staked 294K $AERO this week, worth about $164K at today’s price. The fund is the Aero Foundation’s flagship program, built to grow key pools, steady AERO through buybacks, and share staking benefits with builders. Today AERO trades at $0.5563, up 4.16% over the past 24 hours, and has a market cap near $393M. The gain comes on a green day for the wider market, with Bitcoin up about 2%.

BREAKING: SpaceX is donating 750 Starlink kits to help children’s homes across 16 countries, including 9 in Africa. Working with Both Ends Believing (BEB), Starlink will help digitize children’s records, trace relatives & support efforts to reunite children with their families.

Plume’s vaults tripled in three months @plumenetwork (plume:native) closed Q3 with more than $1B in total assets minted and over $220M locked in its real-world asset vaults, up from $73M at the start of the quarter. Its nOPAL vault, backed by Brazilian credit card payments, grew from $25M to past $100M. The quarter also saw Plume team up with South Korea’s Shinhan Asset Management to explore a won-based tokenized fund, and join a @The_DTCC digital assets working group alongside Charles Schwab, Nasdaq, and @Ondo. For Q4, Plume plans to push deeper into niche assets that are hard to reach in traditional markets.

Centrifuge unveils a ready-made vault toolkit for onchain funds, with LayerZero inside @centrifuge ($CFG) unveiled the Vault Development Kit today, a set of building blocks for onchain funds. Developers will choose the rules a product needs, like instant redemptions for a treasury fund or lockups for private credit, while the kit covers accounting, settlement, and cross-chain links. @LayerZero_Core ($ZRO) said its cross-chain tech is available in the kit, building on an earlier deal that takes Centrifuge’s tokenized funds to other chains. The kit is still in security audits, and developers can already study the docs and code ahead of launch. Notes: