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BOX announced a partnership with NVIDIA to provide a trusted content layer for enterprise AI.

According to the announcement from Factory, the enterprise-level AI software engineering company Factory has announced the acquisition of the coding intelligence collaboration platform HumanLayer, with co-founders Dex Horthy and Kyle Mistele joining.The HumanLayer platform will be open-sourced, supporting users to export data and migrate to Factory or self-host the open-source version during the transition period.

ApeChain will migrate cross-chain infrastructure within the Yuga Labs ecosystem, and assets such as APE and USDC will be upgraded to Chainlink cross-chain tokens.

Ethereum Layer 2 data platform L2BEAT announced its rebranding to ETHBEAT. The team stated that their work has clearly exceeded the scope of Layer 2, and the new name aligns with their new mission. The name change does not signify a abandonment of Layer 2 coverage; relevant monitoring will continue, but Layer 2 will no longer be the sole focus. The current emphasis is on confirming whether systems built on Ethereum truly deliver the assurances of Ethereum to users.L2BEAT was launched over five years ago, with the initial goal of organizing the rapidly developing Ethereum Layer 2 at that time. The team tracked adoption through dashboards, starting with total locked value, later adjusting to total assurance value, and expanding to data such as activity levels; they also reviewed the source code of deployed smart contracts to assess whether these systems inherit Ethereum's security guarantees.ETHBEAT will bring its existing transparency and review methods to a broader Ethereum ecosystem and collaborate with other Ethereum organizations. Layer 2 remains one of the core areas, alongside privacy and the upcoming liquid staking, while cross-chain interoperability, tokens, zero-knowledge proofs, native Rollups, and foundational layer changes will also continue to be tracked. The team also launched the CROPS guide, which includes projects that meet principles of anti-censorship, open-source, privacy, and security. Its mission is to help users understand and reduce reliance on intermediaries, clarifying whom users must trust, what these entities can do, and whether users can still exit after other participants withdraw.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Solayer (LAYER) will unlock approximately 30.77 million tokens at 12:00 PM Beijing time on November 11, valued at around 1.77 million USD.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "LoL: Top Esports vs. Invictus Gaming World Championship Playoffs" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 49% an hour ago to the current 20% (a fluctuation of 29%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "LoL: Hanwha Life Esports vs. Bilibili Gaming - World Championship Group Stage," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Any Player Quadra Kill" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "LoL: Team Liquid vs LOS - World Championship Group Stage" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" experienced a sharp fluctuation in win rate, dropping from 47.5% an hour ago to the current 30.5% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "LoL: Karmine Corp vs. CTBC Flying Oyster World Championship Group Stage," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 10% an hour ago to the current 45.5% (a fluctuation of 35.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The BNB Chain execution-oriented Rollup project Matrix announced that it has received additional Series B funding from Shima Capital and Delphi Ventures, bringing the total amount of this round of financing to 8.5 million USD. Previously participating institutions in this round include ParaFi Capital, Tribe Capital, Point72 Ventures, CMT Digital, Lightspeed Faction, BITKRAFT Ventures, and Makers Fund.The funds from this round will continue to be used to advance the mainnet launch, the construction of the ZK validity proof system, and the Stage 2 decentralization process. Matrix is built on the Facet technology stack and is adapted to the BNB Chain PoSA consensus, with no centralized sequencer and no administrative privileges; the transaction order is directly determined by the BNB Chain. The official claim is that it can effectively increase the throughput of the BNB ecosystem by 3 to 5 times. Currently, Matrix testnet Phase 1 has been launched.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "LoL: Karmine Corp vs. Bilibili Gaming - World Championship Group Stage," the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation, soaring from 0.5% an hour ago to the current 47.45% (a fluctuation of 46.95%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Polygon, the Miden partner mainnet is now live and connected to Polygon's cross-chain aggregation layer Agglayer, which can access the liquidity of the entire blockchain ecosystem.Miden officials also announced that the network is operational on the partner mainnet.

The blockchain infrastructure layer Espresso announced the completion of its mainnet upgrade. Benchmark tests show that its data throughput reaches 181 MB/s, which translates to approximately 1 million stablecoin transfers per second, based on an average of 180 bytes per transaction.The average final confirmation time for transactions is 337 milliseconds, and under peak load of 1 million transactions per second, it is 778 milliseconds.

According to The Block, holders of Starknet (STRK) supported a research proposal with over 93.5% of the voting power, which aims to explore the transformation of Starknet from an Ethereum Layer 2 network to an independent Layer 1 network with quantum resistance.StarkWare plans to release a draft white paper in November to further investigate the relevant technological pathways. It is important to note that this vote only supports the initiation of transformation research and does not mean that the transformation plan has been officially approved. Further governance approval will still be required to advance the related transformation.

According to the "X Layer Q3 2026 Fundamental Report" released by Principia Labs, the Ethereum Layer 2 network X Layer saw growth in on-chain activity and the scale of the DeFi ecosystem in the third quarter. Among them, TradeZone processed approximately 287 million transactions, which is 2.6 times the EVM transaction volume during the same period; the daily average number of EVM transactions increased by 262% month-over-month to 1.22 million.The report also shows that the total locked value in DeFi increased by 100% month-over-month to 173.4 million USD, and the revenue from ecological application transaction fees increased by 490% month-over-month to 1.86 million USD. The market capitalization of OKB increased by 53.8% month-over-month to 2.54 billion USD. Principia Labs believes that with the development of Exchange OS, X Layer is gradually forming a full-stack trading system covering on-chain transactions and DeFi applications.

LayerZero posted on platform X that its Layer1 blockchain Zero mainnet and trading engine lzATLAS will launch on November 30. lzATLAS is the first application to be launched on Zero, starting with Open ATLAS, and will support more than ten trading venues at launch, with more to be integrated within the year.LayerZero stated that the initial focus of the mainnet is on open markets, and institutions are already testing lzATLAS in large market scenarios such as the U.S. stock market. Various trading venues are integrating trading infrastructure and testing order execution and settlement.

A network startup company called Optimum, led by Professor Muriel Médard from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced that its block propagation software mump2p has officially launched on the Ethereum mainnet. The Ethereum liquid staking protocol ether.fi has made mump2p a mandatory requirement for all 12 of its node operators, whereas previously the software was optional for its operators.Optimum stated that there are currently 16 node operators running mump2p in production environments, collectively managing approximately 22,000 validator keys and over 1.4 million staked ETH, accounting for more than 3% of the total staked amount on Ethereum. Partners include Blockdaemon, Everstake, P2P.org, Stakefish, and Bitcoin Suisse. The software operates in a sidecar gateway manner, not replacing Ethereum's default GossipSub, but rather overlaying it on top of libp2p and utilizing random linear network coding technology. Optimum claims that the block arrival speed is 2.42 times faster than GossipSub, with an approximately 7.88 times reduction in arrival time variance.Rok Kopp, co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of ether.fi, stated that they will not require the entire validator set to adopt a new infrastructure unless they are confident that it can enhance the overall level of stakers and the network. Médard mentioned that traditional financial institutions invest billions of dollars to shorten execution times to the millisecond level because speed is money. Optimum launched its private testnet in June 2025, having previously completed a $11 million seed round financing led by 1kx, and plans to expand the protocol to other high-throughput blockchains after Ethereum.

Polygon announced the launch of Polygon CDK Besu, supporting banks and financial institutions to deploy private blockchains based on Hyperledger Besu, and connect to other blockchains and their liquidity through Agglayer from the outset. It currently supports deployment on the Ethereum mainnet.