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.

A consortium led by SBI Holdings and major trust banks will launch round-the-clock trading of blockchain-based shares in 2026. The platform will allow investors to purchase tokenized versions of publicly listed companies starting at 1 Japanese yen, removing the current 100-share lot requirement. The system represents the first global venue enabling continuous on-chain equity trading.

BitMine Immersion Technologies purchased 82,300 ETH over the past week, bringing total holdings to approximately 3.4 million ETH valued at $13.25 billion, according to a company announcement. The acquisition solidifies the firm's position as the world's largest corporate Ethereum holder, controlling 2.8% of the asset's circulating supply. The company's total crypto and cash reserves now stand at $13.7 billion.

The Aster token surged more than 30% on November 2, 2025, after Binance founder Changpeng Zhao disclosed he had purchased over $2 million worth of the decentralized perpetuals exchange's token using personal funds. The token climbed from approximately $0.91 to above $1.20 within an hour of Zhao's announcement on X, with trading volume rising sharply as market participants reacted to the news.