Bitcoin is struggling to hold above $100,000 as bearish momentum builds, with order book data showing defensive bid walls at $100,384 and $100,663. Technical indicators confirm a short-term downtrend, with both the 9-day and 20-day exponential moving averages turning downward. Analysts warn that a break below the current level could trigger a cascade of stop-loss orders, potentially driving prices toward support zones at $96,593 and $95,778.

Ripple has publicly supported the U.S. Federal Reserve's proposed "skinny" master account framework for non-bank financial institutions. Chief Legal Officer Stu Alderoty characterized the limited-access model as a pragmatic compromise that could advance payment innovation while respecting traditional banking sector concerns, according to Reuters.

Google has integrated live prediction market odds from Polymarket and Kalshi into Google Search and its redesigned Google Finance platform. Users can now access real-time, crowd-sourced probability forecasts on major global events through natural language queries. The move marks a significant step toward mainstream adoption of decentralized forecasting tools.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the cryptocurrency initiative associated with U.S. President Donald Trump, has partnered with Bonk and Raydium to expand its USD1 stablecoin onto the Solana blockchain. The collaboration will establish USD1-based trading pairs and liquidity pools on Raydium, while Bonk.fun will integrate the stablecoin into its memecoin launchpad. USD1 aims to compete with Circle's USDC, which accounts for over $9 billion of Solana's $14.12 billion stablecoin market.

Citi's tokenized cash platform is live in the U.S., U.K., Hong Kong, and Singapore, processing billions in client transactions for supply chain payments and capital markets settlements. Executives from Citi, DTCC, and Taurus speaking at Chainlink's SmartCon 2025 conference said blockchain infrastructure is operationally ready, but fragmented regulatory frameworks and lack of interoperability standards remain the primary barriers to scaled adoption.

Robinhood Markets reported cryptocurrency trading revenue of $268 million in the third quarter, a 339% increase from $61 million in the same period last year. The platform handled $80 billion in crypto transactions during the quarter. The revenue growth followed the company's acquisition of Bitstamp, which expanded its reach to institutional clients and more than 50 countries.

Berachain has finalized an emergency hard fork following a $12 million exploit on its BEX decentralized exchange traced to a Balancer V2 vulnerability. The network remains halted as infrastructure partners update their systems. The Foundation is negotiating with a self-identified white hat MEV bot operator holding the majority of drained funds who has indicated willingness to return the assets.

UBS has completed the first live on-chain redemption of a tokenized money market fund using Chainlink's Digital Transfer Agent standard on Ethereum. The transaction involved UBS's uMINT fund and was settled with DigiFT as the on-chain distributor, demonstrating blockchain integration with traditional fund operations.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has recommended eliminating the modular exponentiation precompile (modexp), a feature he originally helped develop. On November 3, 2025, Buterin said this component creates verification bottlenecks up to 50 times worse than standard blocks when generating zero-knowledge proofs. He suggests replacing it with computationally equivalent EVM code despite higher gas costs.