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According to the Iranian Fars News Agency, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched an attack on the U.S. military base in Bahrain in response to America's "hostile" actions.

The American aerospace company SpaceX's "Starship" spacecraft returned to Earth on November 14 and was "captured" for recovery by the launch tower's mechanical arm for the first time, completing its 15th test flight. The test flight mission lasted approximately 22.5 hours, with the booster making a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bank of America Global Research has included a forecast of a 25 basis point interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve in January 2027, now expecting the Federal Reserve to raise rates by 25 basis points in December 2026, January 2027, and March 2027, respectively.

Bank of America strategists stated that global equity funds attracted a record $1.4 trillion in inflows this year, with U.S. equity funds attracting $656 billion, technology stocks attracting $222 billion, and South Korean stocks attracting $78 billion.Despite bearish investor sentiment, few are shorting. Strategists maintain a defensive stance until interest rate hikes end and the financial environment loosens.

According to Jinshi Data, Bank of America Global Research has lowered the target price for Nvidia from $350 to $280. Investment bank Evercore ISI has downgraded Nvidia's rating from "Outperform" to "In Line" and has reduced the target price from $465 to $186.

According to official news, the American robotics company Nidus announced the completion of a $30 million financing round, led by Kleiner Perkins and Costanoa, with participation from Ludlow Ventures, SF1, Absolute Partners, Tau, and angel investors, including Chris Power, founder of Hadrian, Adrian Aoun, co-founder of Dulo, and Nikhil Goel, Chief Business Officer of Archer.Nidus develops and deploys foundational robotic models that enable traditional industrial robots to perform precision assembly tasks, utilizing a sovereign AI training approach that allows clients to retain their own knowledge. The company currently delivers customized models for harness processing automation on its proprietary platform, which is built according to the security requirements of the U.S. Department of Defense. Nidus claims that its revenue has surpassed seven figures within the first four months of its establishment. This round of funding will be used to expand the engineering team, extend automation from harness processing to more factory processes, and scale deployments with U.S. defense manufacturers.

PhotonPay today announced that its Canadian operating entity, Photon Dance CA Inc., is now registered with the Bank of Canada as a payment service provider (PSP) under Canada's Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA). The registration brings its in-scope retail payment activities within Canada's federal supervisory framework, which establishes requirements for operational risk management, incident response, regulatory reporting and the safeguarding of end-user funds. The registration adds to PhotonPay's growing regulatory presence in North America, alongside its Canadian FINTRAC MSB registration, U.S. FinCEN MSB registration and money transmitter licenses across multiple U.S. states. With 35 payment licenses, regulatory authorizations and registrations across the Americas, Europe and Asia, PhotonPay continues to build the local foundations for its next-generation Financial OS. By bringing together multi-asset wallets, global collections and payouts, foreign exchange, card issuing and embedded finance, the platform connects traditional fiat payment infrastructure with stablecoin capabilities to support businesses managing financial operations across markets.

Bank of America Securities pointed out that if crude oil and refined oil prices rise further in the next three to six months, it may lead to a significant increase in interest rates. The U.S. two-year nominal interest rate swap has risen by 113 basis points year-to-date and has cumulatively increased by 196 basis points on days when oil prices rose. Bank of America believes that rising energy inflation may reduce the constraints on the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes.

According to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that a Canadian man has been extradited to the United States, facing charges of assisting in the intrusion of university computers, stealing login credentials, and secretly mining cryptocurrency.A federal grand jury in the Western District of New York indicted 35-year-old Ryan James Roach, a resident of Saskatchewan, and 41-year-old Mathiew James Stubbings, a resident of Ontario, on charges including conspiracy to obtain and damage protected computer information, obtaining protected computer information, and intentionally damaging protected computers, which could result in a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.The indictment shows that between June 2016 and December 2019, the two targeted U.S. educational institutions with supercomputers, first researching their cybersecurity weaknesses before executing the intrusions. Once inside the systems, they allegedly deployed malware, stole login credentials, and forced the victims' computers to mine for them.Victims included institutions in New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. The two reportedly used virtual private servers registered under false names in multiple countries to send malware and mining programs and store stolen credentials, while also forwarding attacks through other victims' compromised computers to hide their identities.Roach was extradited from Canada on October 28 and was arraigned in Rochester, New York, where he is currently detained awaiting a detention hearing. Extradition proceedings for Stubbings are still ongoing in Canada. This case falls under cryptocurrency hijacking, where attackers use others' computers to mine, leaving the victims to bear the electricity costs and suffer performance degradation. The Department of Justice did not specify the particular cryptocurrencies mined by the two.Google's Threat Intelligence team released a report on Monday stating that attackers are expected to increasingly prioritize LLMjacking over traditional resource thefts like cryptocurrency hijacking, which involves hijacking corporate access to AI models and shifting the billing.

Bitcoin Treasuries posted on platform X that the Bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin Corp., supported by the Trump family, increased its holdings by 127 BTC, bringing the total holdings to 8427 BTC.

According to market news, the American artificial intelligence company Nooks has secured a $500 million commitment from General Catalyst. Nooks also officially launched its Revenue Agent Platform on November 4, designed to handle tasks from initial customer contact to contract renewal.

According to the official announcement, the Bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin (ABTC), co-founded by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., released its financial report for the third quarter of 2026, showing a net profit of $126 million, compared to a loss of $57.2 million in the second quarter. The profit mainly came from approximately $197 million in digital asset gains; revenue was $63.4 million, down from $67 million in the second quarter.As of September 30, the company held approximately 8,427 BTC, an increase of about 425 coins since the end of June, of which about 3,090 coins were staked with Bitmain; approximately 891 BTC were mined in the third quarter, with the cost per mined coin rising to about $42,100. According to Bloomberg, ABTC's stock price fell 5.6% on Wednesday, closing at $6.24.

Japan's financial group SBI plans to invest 100 million dollars in the American digital bank Erebor. SBI stated that Erebor's deposit scale exceeded 7 billion dollars in September.Erebor is an American digital bank that supports blockchain settlements outside of banking hours, allowing for on-chain fund clearing during traditional bank non-business hours.

North America will switch to Standard Time at 2 AM local time on November 1 (2 PM Beijing time on November 1), setting the clocks back one hour.Starting November 2 (next Monday), U.S. stocks will enter Standard Time, and trading and data release times for U.S. stocks, U.S. bonds, and other U.S. markets will be one hour later relative to Beijing time. U.S. stocks will open at 10:30 PM Beijing time.

The founder and CEO of trading company DRW, Don Wilson, published an article raising several questions about the New York Stock Exchange's parent company's push to introduce the decentralized perpetual contract platform Hyperliquid to the U.S. market. He also expressed gratitude to CFTC Chairman Selig and the Trump administration for making such experiments possible and stated that only the market can determine whether an arrangement is useful.Don Wilson: What are the benefits of trading perpetual contracts on a regulated exchange in an on-chain manner? He believes the main advantage of on-chain trading is the reduction of friction in a trustless, identity-verification-free environment, or receiving the purchased assets in real-time through atomic transactions; however, perpetual contracts themselves are not assets, so the latter benefit does not apply.He also specifically mentioned Stan Druckenmiller, asking whether he is aware that positions and transactions on Hyperliquid can be tracked in real-time and whether he sees this as an advantage. Additionally, he noted that Hyperliquid's priority fee mechanism allows participants to pay to see information earlier or to move their orders ahead in the queue, and he inquired whether this aligns with CFTC core principles.Don Wilson further asked whether the liquidity of offshore order books can be merged with onshore order books; if not, whether listing perpetual contracts on regulated exchanges using traditional centralized order books is preferable to bearing the inefficiencies brought by on-chain matching.Previously, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and trade[XYZ] announced plans to deploy a perpetual contract market covering crypto assets, stocks, commodities, foreign exchange, and other physical assets for U.S. traders based on Hyperliquid infrastructure, pending regulatory approval, with ICE operating the regulated market and clearing framework.