Crypto VC Strobe Ventures transferred 51.95 million ENA to Coinbase.

Richmond Federal Reserve President Tom Barkin signaled in a speech in South Carolina that interest rates still need to be raised, while emphasizing the need for a cautious pace of rate hikes. He delivered the remarks to the Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce that day, and will become a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) in 2027. Barkin stated that inflation has been above the Fed’s 2% target for nearly six years, with risks to the central bank’s current dual mandate concentrated on the inflation side. Corporate profits are robust, consumers continue to spend, and unemployment has held at 4.5% or lower for a record period. He expects consumer spending will remain resilient through the end of the year; markets broadly anticipate a strong holiday shopping season, but how long this robust consumption momentum can persist remains an open question. Barkin also focused on potential demand shifts driven by the AI boom, noting that if technology underperforms expectations, corporate investment could contract, stock prices would decline, and consumption supported by asset appreciation might also cool.

According to an open letter from Layer 33, an independent validator group on Solana, the organization is urging the Solana Foundation to suspend its weekly phased removal of members from the delegation program until community consultations are finalized. Layer 33 noted that the new rules announced by the foundation on November 6 set a 12-month participation term, require validators to exit the program after securing 300,000 SOL in external staking, and cap participant numbers at 100. The group argues these provisions could squeeze out experienced independent operators and worsen staking concentration. The open letter also recommends granting existing members who participated in the Alpenglow community test at least six months of mainnet delegation support, and disclosing the analytical rationale behind the participant cap and participation term.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued directives to end the current "neither war nor peace" status with the United States. Citing Pezeshkian’s remarks that day, Iran said it will conduct dialogue while upholding its own dignity and resolve disputes through equal negotiations. He noted that if Iran’s rights can be guaranteed through dialogue, military force should not be resorted to, but Iran will never submit to power and bullying. Separately on the 9th, Iranian military spokesman Mohammad Akrami-Nia announced that Iran’s armed forces are implementing the Supreme Leader’s recent directives, with future military operations focusing more on rapid response and strike effectiveness, and no longer limited by geographic scope. Iran’s previous military doctrine was based on defense and deterrence, but it is now shifting toward an offensive direction. He added that Iran will not slow down the development of its military capabilities due to changes in U.S. domestic politics, and will continue advancing plans to enhance its deterrence capabilities. (CCTV News)

Beating AI Flash News: Meta has launched its lightest AI model, Muse Ember, designed to handle repetitive agent tasks including tool calls, code edits, and document analysis. Ember supports text, image, audio, and video inputs, with a 1 million-token context window. On Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index, Muse Ember scored 36 points, matching Claude Haiku 5.5, yet its per-task cost is just $0.14, roughly one-third of the latter’s. Compared to Meta’s own Muse Spark 1.3, Ember trails by only 1 point, but its cost plummets to around one-seventeenth. The model’s affordability stems from token utilization efficiency: while Ember and Haiku 5.5 have identical standard input and output per-token prices, Ember’s cache read cost is 60% lower, and it generates only about one-third of the output tokens Haiku produces for evaluation tasks. Meta plans to assign complex task planning to its large model Muse Wonder, while offloading repetitive work to Ember. For example, Wonder would draft a code migration plan, and multiple Ember agents would modify files and run tests in parallel. However, Ember has clear drawbacks: in Artificial Analysis’s knowledge test, it answered just 21.1% of questions correctly and refused to respond to 64% of questions outright. In the more advanced engineering programming test FrontierCode 2.0, its score is 27.2%, lagging behind Haiku 5.5’s 34.9%. Ember is now live on Muse Code and the Meta Model API. Its standard pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; per-unit prices triple for requests with over 200,000 input tokens.

The Ethereum Foundation distributed its organizational mission and direction document "EF Mandate" to employees in February this year. Page 11 of the document features the "Source Seppuku License", a section presented as an anime-style illustration with a winking character, yellow cat, and other elements. The text in this section implies that authors, maintainers, editors, or distributors who fail to uphold open source commitments or modify the license must "take their own life with a sword". The content drew strong opposition from some staff, with around 79 employees voting to remove the relevant text. Foundation management clarified that the line was not literal, and updated a commitment document to note it was "unrelated to literal seppuku". Even so, the version released on March 13 still retained the content, which was subsequently written to the Ethereum blockchain. Employee Fulton and colleagues organized a joint letter signed by 53 members of the Protocol cluster, stating they supported the foundation’s direction but rejected the mandatory commitment terms. Later, on March 24, Fulton notified management in writing of her ovarian cancer diagnosis, and was fired roughly 13 days later (another joint letter organizer, Trent Van Epps, was also dismissed the same day). Fulton has since filed a lawsuit in Colorado, accusing the Ethereum Foundation, Vitalik, and other executives of retaliatory termination, disability discrimination, and interference with medical leave.

Robinhood has confirmed it does not object to its shares being traded on OKXICE, the tokenized stock trading platform jointly launched by OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. The U.S. brokerage becomes the third firm to explicitly state no objection, following Securitize and BitGo. Per OKXICE’s November 5 disclosure, 56 of the 62 companies initially set to list on the platform have raised objections, accounting for roughly 90%. The six firms that have not publicly objected are all closely tied to the crypto sector, including Robinhood, Securitize, BitGo, Circle, Coinbase, and Strategy. The platform plans to trade tokenized stocks via an Automated Market Maker (AMM) under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) five-year Innovation Exemption framework. Token holders will enjoy the same dividend and voting rights as holders of the underlying stocks, while issuing companies can raise objections within 30 days of receiving notice. (CoinDesk)