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.

Most crypto market indicators increased in October, with adjusted total on-chain transaction volume up 28.1% to $420 billion (BTC: +32.1%, ETH: +20.9%). Adjusted stablecoin on-chain transaction volume increased 8% to $899 billion, and issued supply decreased 0.7% to $149.3 billion, of which USDT accounted for 79.5% and USDC accounted for 16.9%:

In order to implement the general requirements of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on "steadily promoting the development and application of digital RMB", Shanghai has formulated a new round of action plans for the pilot application of digital RMB in accordance with the People's Bank of China's deployment on the pilot work of digital RMB, and held a work deployment meeting on November 4. The action plan clearly states that it is necessary to further steadily promote the application and service innovation of digital RMB, and strive to basically form a digital RMB ecosystem with wide coverage of scenarios, good payment service experience, rich innovative applications, and active participation of all parties by the end of 2025.

Deutsche Telekom subsidiary MMS has partnered with Bankhaus Metzler to launch a pilot project to operate a Bitcoin mining infrastructure using surplus energy. Mining will be powered by electricity from renewable sources that would otherwise not be available due to insufficient grid input capacity and/or lack of storage options. The pilot project aims to provide effective field data and insights for the planning of subsequent projects.

CATIZEN has officially launched the second Launchpool event, RoOL (GODL). RoOLZ Studios is a Telegram Mini App that focuses on the development of animation and short video functions. As of today, RoOlZ Studios has produced online series with more than 3 billion social media views; their NFT collections and animation series have achieved significant growth and success in the TON ecosystem, not only ranking steadily in the top ten on the TON ecosystem NFT exchange GetGems, but also the number of animation series views has exceeded 20 million times, and the TON native application currently has more than 10 million active users.

Victory Securities, a virtual asset broker, announced that it plans to start promoting virtual asset structured products to qualified professional investors by the end of this year, and provide designated products and services to customers who hold stablecoins through the company's platform to help customers earn additional income. Victory Securities announced that it has been approved by the Securities and Futures Commission to sell cash-settled virtual asset structured products to qualified professional investors, making it the first licensed brokerage firm in Hong Kong to be approved. Such products use virtual assets as reference assets to help customers obtain higher potential returns, manage market volatility risks, achieve arbitrage and other investment goals in specific market conditions.