According to Swell's official announcement, $SWELL tokens will be launched soon, and users can claim them through the designated link on November 7.

Hamster Kombat, a Telegram “point-to-earn” game that had 300 million users in August, has now seen its monthly active users drop to about 41 million, with more than 260 million players lost. The game’s token HMSTR has plummeted 76% from its high of $0.009993 on September 26 to a current price of only $0.002392.

The Michigan Retirement System disclosed that it holds about $10 million worth of Grayscale's spot Ethereum ETF (ETHE), becoming the first state pension to invest in the product since the ETF went live in July this year. In addition, it also holds about $1.1 million worth of Grayscale's Ethereum Mini ETF. The system had previously disclosed holdings of about $7 million in spot Bitcoin ETFs.

Investors include a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX), Credo Ventures and BlockTower Capital. Vlayer plans to introduce four new features in the Solidity language: time travel (executing contracts based on historical on-chain data), teleportation (running contracts across EVM-compatible networks), web proofs and email proofs (verifying and integrating web pages and email content).

For the crypto industry, most indicators finally began to rebound in October. This article will use 11 charts to review the crypto market conditions over the past month.

It is the first pension fund in the country to invest directly in cryptocurrency. The investment was guided by pension expert Cartwright, with total fund assets of 50 million pounds (about 65 million U.S. dollars), and the asset security is guaranteed by distributing private keys to five independent institutions. Cartwright also launched a Bitcoin employee benefit plan, allowing companies to pay Bitcoin directly to employees' digital wallets.

According to Arkham data, the Mt. Gox cold wallet address (starting with 12Gws) transferred 32,371 bitcoins (worth nearly $2.2 billion) to an unmarked wallet address (1FG2CvCnJAsb48Y1r3R43WwHwFJhXRveoy) at 7:38 today.

The difficulty of Bitcoin mining has increased by 6.24% to 101.65 T, and the mining difficulty adjustment will be made at block height 868,896 (2024-11-05 06:28:08). The current average computing power of the entire network is 831.56 EH/s.

NFT trading market OpenSea announced that a new version will be launched in December and registration for the waiting list is now open.

NYSE Arca, Inc.’s Form 19b-4 proposing to list and trade the Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund (GDLC) as an ETP has been published in the U.S. Federal Register, formally initiating a review process that could take up to 240 days. As part of the Form 19b-4 filing, NYSE Arca’s proposed rule change seeks to revise the exchange’s definition of ETPs that hold commodities and digital assets other than Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Chris Dixon, partner at a16z, said in a post on the X platform: “Today we donated more than $23 million in additional funds to Fairshake and its affiliated political action committees (PACs) for the 2026 midterm election cycle. No matter what happens on Election Day, we take a long-term approach to policy efforts. Contributions to Fairshake are just an important part of achieving our ultimate goal, which is to establish clear laws to regulate the crypto industry while protecting consumers and allowing entrepreneurs to innovate and build with confidence. Many industries come to Washington to ask for regulations to be cut, and we come here to ask for regulations to be established.”

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform: “This is very worrying. Open source is the common wealth of mankind and should be a space for free international cooperation. If such behavior becomes normalized, the consequences look very bad.