Scroll completes emergency mainnet upgrade, confirms no vulnerabilities were exploited.

Rezaei, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, stated: "We are developing nuclear-powered ships and submarines, so we need to possess enriched materials. If the United States attacks Iran, we will not only strike nearby U.S. military bases, but also hit distant U.S. military bases that we have not targeted before."

According to GMGN data, meme coin "mihao" briefly hit a $24 million market cap, surging over 30 times in 24 hours, with its current market cap standing at $22 million and trading volume reaching $53 million in the same period. This evening, prominent trader Ansem posted a bullish call on the meme coin "mihao", triggering a short-term rally. Ansem said "mihao" is expected to reignite positive on-chain sentiment, noting the token’s avatar-based community attributes that facilitate social dissemination and community expansion, plus its Chinese elements, which could attract both Eastern and Western crypto whales to buy in. Ansem also claimed the on-chain market has bottomed out. Earlier today, Ansem changed his X profile picture, which references the meme coin "mihao" — modeled after a cat that speaks the Chinese pinyin "nihao". BlockBeats reminds users that related tokens are highly volatile, so investors should exercise caution.

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has announced that crypto trading platforms will be permitted to conduct cryptocurrency transactions starting November 22, provided they first secure the central bank’s approval for relevant trading rules. The CBR’s regulations on trading digital currencies and digital rights have been registered with Russia’s Ministry of Justice. Additionally, the central bank clarified that trading platforms must register crypto transaction participants—including brokers, trust managers, and central counterparties—maintain order and trade records, and monitor transactions. Transaction organizers are also required to calculate price metrics such as spot prices, weighted average prices, market prices, and closing prices, and submit transaction progress and outcome data to the CBR using the same reporting format as for other existing assets.

Data infrastructure firm Edelbyte has secured a $45 million Series A funding round, valuing the company at $500 million. The round was led by Quiet Capital, with full participation from all existing investors; new backers include QP Ventures, Startpoint Capital, and Cerca Partners. Prior to this, Edelbyte raised a $25 million seed round led by Sequoia, with follow-on investments from Greenoaks and Swish Ventures, bringing its total capital raised to $70 million. Founded in November 2025 by four former Microsoft engineers, Edelbyte builds a data platform designed to handle the increasingly complex query workloads of the AI era. Co-founders and key executives Avner Aharoni (CEO), Evgeney Ryzhyk (CTO), Alexander Sloutsky (VP of Engineering), and Yoni Leibowitz (VP of Platform Engineering) each have roughly 20 years of tenure at Microsoft, with over a decade of collaborative experience. Notably, Ryzhyk and Sloutsky were part of the founding team of Microsoft’s internal data platform Kusto, a technology that later served as the foundation for products including Azure Data Explorer. Edelbyte’s platform unifies traditional analytics, text search, spatial queries, and AI workloads on a single infrastructure, and can be deployed across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments.

Nov 11 Update: #Bitcoin ETFs: 1D NetFlow: -1,649 $BTC(-$121.78M)?? 7D NetFlow: -15,624 $BTC(-$1.15B)?? #Ethereum ETFs: 1D NetFlow: -11,512 $ETH(-$23.65M)?? 7D NetFlow: -127,828 $ETH(-$262.66M)??

Global central banks purchased more than 321 tons of gold in the third quarter of 2026, marking their largest quarterly gold purchase since the fourth quarter of 2024 and the fifth-largest such quarterly procurement on record. The volume of gold bought by central banks rose 8% from the over 296 tons purchased in the second quarter of 2026, and surged 453% compared to the first quarter of 2026. China and Poland led demand in the third quarter, adding over 63 tons and 40 tons respectively. Year-to-date, global central banks have acquired more than 675 tons of gold, a 6% increase over the same period in 2025.