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.

Tokenized gold is only as good as the metal in the vault. 🥇 @chainlink checks it on-chain with Proof of Reserve, a big part of the $LINK story. Here's how the verification works. See why ⬇️

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%.

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:

JUST IN: Donald Trump is still looking to buy $BTC for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, his former crypto adviser says 🚨 Patrick Witt, who held the White House crypto job, says something is still standing between that plan and an actual purchase. What it means ⬇️ Details here:

Chainflip launches native swaps on BNB Chain. @Chainflip now lets users swap $BNB and $USDT on @BNBChain directly for $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, $DOT on @Polkadot, $ARB on @Arbitrum, $TRX on @Trondao and other assets. Users send native assets directly from their own wallets and receive native assets on the destination chain, with no bridges or wrapped tokens involved.

TON (@TON_blockchain) is a hot topic right now. The protocol has been busy with a surge in wallet adoption, new Telegram developer tools, and a network upgrade. Here are some of the key developments: [October 19] TON v2026.10 was released. The release removed validators and collators from public overlays, improved external message handling, and optimized QUIC. [October 27] TON launched on the @Pumpfun app, allowing people to buy GRAM coins using a $USDC balance. [November 9] Telegram launched Bot API 10.4, featuring interactive HTML widgets and native $GRAM Wallet payments. [November 9] Pavel Durov (@Durov) revealed that more than 700,000 Gram self-custodial wallets had been created via Telegram over the last 48 hours. Subsequent posts by Durov increased the number to more than 1 million wallet activations over the last 48 hours, and GRAM proved strong against the market.

Hedera's fourth ever day of ETF outflows in history... Yesterday, Canary's spot @Hedera ETF bled -$178.97K in net outflows. Though only small by institutional standards, this marks the fourth day of net outflows the product has seen in over a year. However, 3 out of those 4 days have fallen in the past month alone... More on Hedera:

The Clock Is Ticking for Suiet Wallet Users on Sui Popular wallet solution for the @SuiNetwork ecosystem, Suiet (@suiet_wallet), discontinues its activities. Core API services will stop working permanently after November 14. The developers plan to delete their browser extension from the Chrome Web Store. Once this is done, users will no longer be able to work with dApps using the application. Suiet encourages all users to secure their recovery seed phrases immediately and migrate their private keys to other $SUI wallets.

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Pyth Just Got the Keys to NYSE Market Data Oracle blockchain platform Pyth Network (@PythNetwork) has become an authorized distributor of NYSE (@NYSE) equities market data. The data will be used in decentralized applications, fintech companies, and trading algorithms. This deal will enable the transmission of top-of-book data for all equities listed on five NYSE Group stock exchanges: NYSE, NYSE American, NYSE Arca, NYSE National, and NYSE Texas. The data will be provided through the Pyth Data Marketplace via the NYSE BQT product feed.

Russia is going all in on Crypto... Crypto trading operations could begin on Russian exchanges as early as November 22, 2026, according to a Bank of Russia press release quoted by state news agency TASS. The timing depends on whether the platforms have received the central bank's approval of their internal market regulations. The governing document has already been registered with the country's Ministry of Justice and states that the platforms should meet the same regulatory requirements as other financial institutions. Assets like $XRP, $BTC, and $ETH could become tradable on Russian exchanges shortly.

Two Nihao Cat Memecoins Are Fighting for Solana’s Attention Two memecoins based on the Nihao Cat theme are soaring on @Solana, each with plenty of clones. $MIHAO (@iAmNihaoCat) launched on @Pumpfun on October 25 and saw its breakout on November 10 and 11, when Ansem changed his profile image to the cat and called it his pure meme for the cycle. Another rival memecoin is $NIHAO (@nihaocatx). This one was created around November 10, using a "grandpa sensei" cat image, with a market cap around $18M, per Coingecko. NIHAO has surged over 200% in the past 24 hours, while MIHAO is up 62% within the same period. This post is Not Financial Advice...

Cronos Is Waking Up, and VVS Finance Is Behind It Approximately $70 million of @CronosNetwork's total $93 million TVL belongs to VVS Finance (@VVS_finance), accounting for three-quarters of the chain’s TVL, according to DefiLlama. Additionally, VVS Finance manages the lion’s share of the chain's DEX trading volume. The chain’s trading volume increased by 28%, aligning with a 26% weekly increase in the chain’s DEX volume. VVS Finance helps drive the trend by gradually whitelisting new tokens. Tokens listed on Cronos Launch become whitelisted on VVS, adding their trading volume directly to the protocol's pool. VVS Finance is the main driver of activity on Cronos at the moment.