Former Ripple Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz liquidates all his crypto holdings, citing "low risk tolerance".

Police in Dezhou, Shandong Province, China have cracked a cross-provincial online extortion case. The criminal gang posed as environmental inspection officials and journalists, using drones to film livestock farms and releasing negative videos to induce farmers to pay for removing the posts. The gang collected funds via payment QR codes and third-party payment platforms, which then settled accounts with money laundering groups using virtual currency. Police reported that the gang committed 268 crimes across 22 cities in five provinces—Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Jiangsu, and Anhui—over two months, with the case involving more than 800,000 yuan. To date, 23 suspects have been arrested, and assets worth over 2 million yuan linked to the case have been seized, impounded and frozen. (Source: Dazhong Daily)

Crypto-friendly securities platform UMX has announced the launch of a long-term user benefits program: UMI "Youmi" Points. The first 7-day "Trade to Earn Points" campaign kicked off at 00:00 (UTC+8) on November 11. From November 11 to 18, users trading spot, perpetual, delivery, and options on UMX will earn triple points for eligible transactions. The total points pool for this campaign is 5 million UMI, with no cap on individual account earnings, designed to reward users and the community. Full campaign details are available on UMX’s official event page. UMI "Youmi" Points is UMX’s long-term incentive mechanism for users, aimed at continuously tracking users’ participation and contributions on the platform, and will gradually unlock more ecosystem benefits and exclusive perks. After the first 7-day triple-point period ends, UMX will launch its initial pool on November 18, with the points system entering regular operation phase simultaneously. UMX targets professional-grade users and is dedicated to connecting traditional securities and digital asset markets. Users can trade US stocks and Hong Kong stocks via a unified account using USDT, and also use held securities as margin for digital asset positions, reducing cross-platform transfers and capital turnover steps.

Morgan Stanley’s Prime Brokerage team stated in its latest monitoring report released Tuesday that global equity hedge funds carried out the most dramatic de-risking action in over a decade during the first week of November. A broad-based liquidation wave is spreading across global markets. In Asian markets, hedge funds are cutting risk exposure via two-way operations: reducing long positions and adding put shorts. This phenomenon is particularly prominent in the tech-heavy South Korean market. Selling pressure is mainly driven by fundamental stock-picking funds, while multi-strategy, macro and quantitative funds took the chance to cover their existing short positions, showing a clear divergence in institutional strategies. On the other hand, data from Goldman Sachs indicates that deleveraging has not been fully unwound. The gross leverage of its US fundamental long-short funds plunged 8.7 percentage points in a single week, the largest drop since the March 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. However, for full-scope prime brokerage clients, overall gross leverage remains as high as 314.2%, sitting at the 85th percentile of the past year, a high level. JPMorgan Chase’s assessment is more positive. The bank’s Global Head of Market Strategy Dubravko Lakos-Bujas argues that this round of adjustment is essentially concentrated deleveraging by momentum traders. Currently, "capitulation selling has gone quite deep," and technical signals show short-term oversold and bottoming signs are accumulating.

Wellington-Altus strategy analyst James E. Thorne pointed out in his latest report that the Federal Reserve’s scrapping of forward guidance and dot plot, along with its original goal of allowing officials to freely express policy preferences, has not resulted in disciplined policymaking. Instead, it has handed the microphone to hawkish officials, whose irresponsible remarks are now dominating market expectations and leading to inconsistent policy. The central bank must clearly distinguish between fading supply-side shocks and persistent demand pressures, rather than letting the loudest voices drive its decisions. Taking October CPI data as an example: overall month-on-month inflation rose 0.4% (down from 0.6% the prior month), while core CPI came in at 0.3% (flat with the previous reading). Trends matter far more than one-month fluctuations; merely because the data exceeded expectations by 0.1 percentage point, Fed Governor Christopher Waller floated a trial balloon for a 50-basis-point rate hike in December—this is clearly overly reckless. More critically, examine inflation’s internal structure: services make up nearly 90% of core inflation, with housing accounting for half of that. Owner Equivalent Rent (OER) is essentially an estimate, not an actual outlay by homeowners. The current housing shortage is not a "wage-price spiral" at all, and aggressive rate hikes will instead push up construction costs and lock homeowners into their existing low-interest mortgages—this so-called "cure" will only exacerbate the problem. Meanwhile, energy shocks are receding substantially. With softening energy prices and falling labor costs, the Fed needs sharp judgment, not reflexive tightening. Forcing rate hikes amid strong productivity could easily turn a temporary inflation shock into an unnecessary recession.

According to an announcement from U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office, House Republicans elected Tom Emmer as Minority Whip of the 120th U.S. Congress on November 10. Emmer currently serves as Majority Whip. With the Republican Party shifting to the minority in the new House, he will become the second-ranking figure in the House Republican leadership, behind Minority Leader Jim Jordan, and will be primarily responsible for coordinating intra-party votes and securing support for key legislation. On crypto policy, Emmer has previously reintroduced the Securities Clarity Act alongside Democratic Representative Darren Soto, a bill designed to clarify the regulatory boundaries for digital assets by defining whether they fall under securities or commodity oversight.

German solar equipment manufacturer SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES announced on November 10 that it has signed a contract with SpaceX to supply a complete heterojunction (HJT) solar cell production line. The first order is valued at over €60 million, with delivery scheduled for the first half of 2027. The two sides’ strategic cooperation also plans to expand to multiple production lines, gradually enabling a solar cell production equipment capacity of over 100GW. The facilities will be used for SpaceX’s satellite manufacturing project in Bastrop, Texas, U.S., to supply high-performance solar cells for its Starmind space AI satellites. Musk subsequently reposted SpaceX’s announcement, noting that SpaceX has ordered 100GW annual capacity HJT solar manufacturing equipment from SINGULUS, stating this is to let Starmind create a "sentient sun" — a phrase echoing his long-term vision of building space AI computing infrastructure via solar satellites. SINGULUS also disclosed that since SpaceX launched its strategic partnership in March 2026, it has provided financial support to the firm in March and October, with the October support including a secured subordinated loan.