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According to the Economic Times, Prabhjeet Singh, Managing Director of OpenAI India, stated that India has become the largest market for ChatGPT globally in terms of weekly active users, with the number of local users doubling since January this year. Singh joined OpenAI in August this year, marking his first media interview since joining.Singh mentioned that OpenAI expects to release announcements related to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and payments in the coming weeks, as enterprise clients transition from pilot and demonstration phases to large-scale production deployment. Addressing concerns about the potential misuse of autonomous AI entities, Singh stated that OpenAI is collaborating with government agencies and businesses to protect critical infrastructure.

According to Bitcoin.com News, Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin disclosed on November 2 that it experienced a security incident, with approximately 38 million dollars in digital assets stolen. Additionally, Arkham Intelligence analyst Emmett Gallic estimated that the suspicious transfer amount exceeded 46 million dollars, and these two figures have yet to be verified.The exchange stated that users would not suffer asset losses due to this incident. The platform has suspended deposits, withdrawals, and platform services, and has notified the relevant authorities. Preliminary analysis indicates that the attackers may have controlled the transaction authorization signature credentials. According to Bitquery analysis, the suspicious transfers involved multiple chains including Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Stellar, Arbitrum, Tron, and Polygon, with the specific method of intrusion yet to be determined.Mercado Bitcoin stated that it has collaborated with Tether, Circle, Paxos, BRL1, and Chainalysis to freeze 11 million dollars in assets and has identified other funds that can be frozen. The platform has not yet announced a specific time for restoring services.

According to an official announcement from GitBook, the documentation platform commonly used by crypto projects, attackers launched a highly targeted attack using AI agents, obtaining some of its infrastructure credentials at 2 AM Beijing time on November 3. Integrated tokens, Git Sync keys, API tokens, and questions posed by website visitors to GitBook Assistant may have been leaked.GitBook stated that no customer content has been found to be tampered with, all personal API tokens have been revoked, and all credentials have been replaced. Related services were restored at 11:21 PM Beijing time on November 3. GitBook recommends that users rotate their GitBook and third-party API tokens and keys, and re-authenticate the GitBook MCP server. Previously, PancakeSwap temporarily took down its documentation hosted on GitBook due to this incident.

ARK Invest's Head of Digital Assets Research, Lorenzo Valente, stated that cryptocurrency hacks effectively constitute a hidden transaction tax and cost of value storage, similar to product theft in the retail industry, with related losses ultimately passed on to users through cost pricing. Each hack undermines the competitiveness of the crypto network.Data shows that since 2018, the average market value lost annually in the crypto industry due to hacks accounts for 24 basis points (0.24%) of the total market value, while the losses from fraud in the U.S. banking system amount to only 1.7 basis points (0.017%), a difference of about 14 times.

On November 3, QuestMobile released the "China Mobile Internet Autumn Report." As of September 2026, the scale of monthly active users in China's mobile internet reached 1.281 billion, a slight increase of 0.9% year-on-year; the average usage time per user in September was 189.8 hours, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%. Short drama videos and short videos have become the core sources of growth in usage time, contributing a growth rate of 111.5% as of September 2026. In that month, the total net increase in usage time for short drama video and short video apps was 13.329 billion hours and 5.717 billion hours, ranking first and second in the duration growth track, while the net increase for AIGC was 978 million hours, with the total usage time for online videos declining by 1.38 billion hours during the same period.In terms of user numbers, the top three applications within the Douyin Group in September 2026 were Douyin, Hongguo Free Short Drama, and Doubao, with deduplicated total user counts of 1.029 billion, 430 million, and 419 million respectively, with Hongguo surpassing Doubao. The top three applications in the same period last year were Douyin, Jinri Toutiao, and Douyin Lite. The user scale of the short drama video industry increased from 10 million to 400 million in less than three years, with a compound annual growth rate of 443.1%. Douyin, Kuaishou, and their lite versions occupy the top four positions in the short video industry and continue to show growth.Specifically, in September 2026, Hongguo Short Drama had 430 million monthly active users, while Hongguo Comic Drama had 7.883 million, with a year-on-year growth rate of 268.7 times. The newly launched Green Bubble Short Drama at the end of September reached 156 million monthly active users. The Hippo Theater app had 30.8 million active users in September, a year-on-year decline of 40.3%; the user volume of the top ten short drama mini-programs has exceeded that of the Hippo Theater app, with Lianqu Short Drama and Ceylon Theater having 75.17 million and 45.67 million respectively. According to iiMedia Consulting, the market size of China's micro short drama is projected to be 50.44 billion yuan in 2024, reaching 67.79 billion yuan in 2025, and expected to be 79.33 billion yuan in 2026.

According to the latest rankings from QuestMobile, in September 2026, Alibaba's AI application Qianwen App reached 158 million monthly active users, a year-on-year increase of 5077%, ranking first in growth among apps with over 100 million monthly active users. In the domestic AI native app rankings, Qianwen ranks second, surpassing DeepSeek's 123 million, but still below the first place, Doubao, which has 419 million.This growth is related to Alibaba's large-scale promotion. In November last year, the Tongyi App was renamed to Qianwen. This Spring Festival, Alibaba announced an investment of 3 billion yuan to launch a free order campaign, allowing users to order milk tea and takeout through AI. The campaign link was widely shared in WeChat groups, and the system experienced delays due to increased traffic. QuestMobile data shows that on the first day of the campaign, Qianwen's daily active users rose from about 7.06 million to 58.48 million.The year-on-year growth of 5077% was also influenced by last year's low base. Based on year-on-year data, Qianwen's monthly active users were about 3.05 million in September last year. By March this year, Qianwen's monthly active users had reached 166 million, rising to 167 million in June, and then falling back to 158 million in September, a decrease of about 9 million compared to June, with a decline rate of approximately 5.4%.

According to a report by ZeroHedge, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed during a speech at the Lugano Plan ₿ Forum that Tether owns approximately 150,000 Bitcoins, has over 730 million global users, and adds about 30 million new wallets each quarter.According to Tether's third-quarter reserve attestation report, it directly holds approximately $122.8 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds, which amounts to about $132.4 billion when including repurchase agreements, with excess reserves reaching $7.95 billion. Ardoino also introduced Tether's Independence Stack strategy, which aims to build an infrastructure system covering energy, Bitcoin mining, peer-to-peer communication, self-custody wallets, and local AI through open-source technology, stating that even if Tether no longer exists in the future, its open-source technology should still be able to continue operating.

Uniswap posted on platform X that users can now provide liquidity through the Uniswap Web App.

According to Binance's announcement, the complete zero-knowledge proof for the reserve proof (PoR) snapshot on October 31 has been completed. Users holding BTC, ETH, USDT, BNB, SOL, USDC, XRP, USD1, RLUSD, and ZEC can use their verification tools to independently verify whether their account balances have at least 1:1 reserve support.Binance stated that it plans to take another snapshot on November 4, covering more tokens, and then generate a complete zero-knowledge proof, which is expected to take about 40 to 50 hours. The company previously mentioned that it has replenished approximately 95% of the affected assets, with the remaining approximately 5% of tokens having low liquidity and still being procured.Binance also plans to gradually resume withdrawals for more networks and assets tomorrow, with specific details to be announced once ready.

Bitcoin dual-staking protocol b14g announced recovery progress, stating that the Core network executed a hard fork today, transferring and recovering 68,146,177.22 CORE from three addresses controlled by attackers through a one-time on-chain state adjustment, which accounts for 70.2% of the 97,045,563 affected CORE from the incident on October 31.This operation did not roll back transactions, mint new tokens, or change the total supply of CORE. The recovered tokens have not yet been allocated to affected users, and the related funds held or frozen by exchanges have not been returned. b14g stated that they are still verifying balances and formulating a distribution plan, and there is currently no official claims process.

According to the South China Morning Post, HSBC Group CEO Georges Elhedery stated at the Hong Kong FinTech Week that since the official launch of its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin RedCoin over a week ago, it has attracted 50,000 users, with a long-term goal of millions of users. RedCoin was launched in October to over 3.3 million users of the PayMe app and will gradually be opened to HSBC and Hang Seng Bank customers in the future.Currently, RedCoin supports merchant payments and wallet top-ups. HSBC also plans to provide related services through HSBC HK Mobile Banking and support customers in purchasing tokenized money market funds and other asset products. In addition, HSBC announced that it will establish a global AI and emerging technology research institute in the northern metropolitan area of Hong Kong, expected to be operational by early 2027.

Binance Co-CEO and co-founder He Yi posted on X, stating that the current top priority is to ensure the safety of the environment, after which users can withdraw funds, and Binance can resume operations. She mentioned that every action has motives and pointed out that some exchanges, P2P platforms, and commercial banks have opaque ledgers, disappearing with funds after shutting down their websites, with companies going into liquidation or bankruptcy, providing any excuse, leaving no way to know how much actual funds are in the accounts and where the funds have gone.He Yi also stated that such closures often come without any warning, with the relevant parties disappearing directly, no real operations taking place, and no one coming forward to explain what happened, making it impossible to open withdrawals. She thanked users for their support at the end of her message. Binance had previously suspended withdrawals due to a security incident, and the official announcement on November 1 stated that withdrawals would be gradually restored starting from 06:00 (UTC) that day, and by 12:36 (UTC), withdrawals for the first batch of 15 networks and corresponding assets had been restored.Binance stated that from 06:00 to 15:30 (UTC) that day, the platform processed $4.649 billion in withdrawals and $1.01 billion in deposits, with a net outflow of approximately $3.64 billion, accounting for about 2.1% of the $171 billion asset management scale indicated by the reserve proof as of October 28. The official also noted that the withdrawal volume had peaked initially but has since declined and stabilized, while the deposit volume remains substantial, and the other networks and assets are still undergoing continuous testing, with further details to be announced in subsequent phases.

BTCPay Server reported receiving reports of funds from hot wallets being transferred by unauthorized attackers and recommends that instance operators shut down their servers until the investigation is complete.

Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited disclosed the discovery of a fraudulent website that imitates its official website, luring users to recharge and withdraw through virtual wallets, and claiming to provide Fast Payment System (FPS) online transaction security support, including refunds, reporting unauthorized online transactions, and transaction support.Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited emphasizes that, under normal circumstances, it will not directly provide Fast Payment System services to individual members of the public, nor will it proactively contact individual members of the public. Do not provide personal or banking information to the related website.

Kintsu officially announced that its website is experiencing DNS hijacking due to issues with its domain registrar, and currently accessing the official website may lead to malicious sites.Kintsu reminds users not to visit the official website, connect wallets, or sign any transactions. If users have connected wallets or signed transactions since October 31 at 00:00 (UTC), they should immediately revoke the relevant authorizations through the Revoke platform and transfer their assets.The official statement indicates that a further notice will be issued once the website's security is confirmed to be restored.

The founder of Flap posted on platform X to explain the impact of the official website domain anomaly event.He stated that the risk only involves users who accessed the abnormal website and connected their wallets or signed authorizations within a few minutes before the announcement was made. Users who had previously connected to the FLAP official website normally are not affected by this event and do not need to change their wallet addresses.The founder of Flap also emphasized that FLAP does not store users' private keys, mnemonic phrases, or wallet data; this information will not be saved in the FLAP backend. Until the issue is resolved, users should temporarily avoid accessing the official website, and once the site is restored, the team will issue a notification through the official account.For users who have just connected their wallets on the abnormal website, the founder of Flap stated that they can contact him for assistance via private message.

Flap posted on platform X that its official website is currently experiencing DNS hijacking and is being redirected to an unauthorized website.The team reminds users not to visit the official website, connect wallets, or sign any transactions, and stated that they are addressing the issue. An update will be released once the website's safety is confirmed.

Hifi Finance disclosed that Hifi DAO has encountered a governance takeover attack, and HIFI token holders are effectively unable to control the protocol, governance smart contracts, and HIFI token supply. The team urges all users with collateral in the Hifi Protocol to withdraw immediately and specifically requests the controllers of the two relevant addresses to withdraw WETH from the protocol.Hifi Finance stated that the core team failed to detect and prevent this governance attack in a timely manner and takes full responsibility for it. The team has now taken measures to significantly limit the impact of the attack, and the final losses are yet to be determined, with preliminary estimates around $20,000. The DAO has sufficient funds to compensate all affected parties; the DAO's own liquidity has been permanently withdrawn from decentralized trading platforms.Additionally, all outstanding debts collateralized by RWA will be directly managed by the core team and will no longer be processed through the compromised smart contracts. The relevant debts still have ample capital support and are expected to be fully repaid by the original due date of March 26, 2027, with no new debts being issued by the protocol. The team stated that a complete investigation report will be released subsequently.