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Real estate tokenization startup Index Industries has raised $50 million in a recent seed round led by Lightspeed, with participation from Polychain, Galaxy Ventures and Wintermute Ventures, The Block reported. Index Industries is developing the underlying technology for USHP, a tokenized product designed to track U.S. home prices. Ahead of its launch, USHP has secured investment commitments of up to $100 million from institutional investors and is scheduled to launch on Ethereum in the fourth quarter of this year.

Cross-chain protocol Across Protocol (ACX) said its frontend and API were taken offline after a domain hijacking attack and will remain unavailable until security is restored. The protocol said the attacker gained control of the Across domain at around 6:45 p.m. UTC on Nov. 10 through a social engineering attack targeting domain registrar Namecheap. Across said the domain and phishing site have now been fully blocked, though some users who visited before the block may have been affected. It added external integrated services and API users were not impacted. The protocol said it sent direct messages containing transaction histories to users suspected of being affected and advised them to revoke permissions granted to the attacker.

Alan Konevsky, CEO of U.S. blockchain-based securities trading platform tZERO, said in an interview with CoinDesk that tokenization is likely to gain a foothold in mainstream markets within five years. Konevsky said the electronification of the securities industry and the traditional retail sector’s shift to e-commerce typically took five to 10 years to spread in earnest. He added that tokenization has already been underway for three to five years, suggesting the time left before broader mainstream adoption is not long. Konevsky also stressed that traditional finance and digital asset firms could fall behind in market competition if building their own related infrastructure takes two to three years.

Decentralized AI model network Bittensor (TAO) has introduced Gamma Tokens, a native payment system for the AI economy. The network said users and AI agents will be able to access subnet services and pay for their use through a Bittensor wallet without creating separate accounts or API keys for each subnet.

Lending protocol Aave said it has begun supporting cirBTC as a collateral asset on Ethereum-based Aave V3 and V4. Users can deposit cirBTC as collateral in the Aave V3 Core market and the Aave V4 Core hub to borrow assets including USDC.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $74,000. BTC is trading at $74,010.73 on the Binance USDT market.

Aave DAO has approved a proposal to introduce native Bitcoin (BTC) as a collateral asset in Aave V4 for the first time through Babylon TBV, with 100% support, according to Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon (BABY).

Jupiter COO Kash Dhanda said in an interview that tokenization is somewhat overrated. According to The Block, Dhanda said that of roughly $390 billion in tokenized assets, only about $4 billion to $5 billion is actually traded or used in DeFi.

Privacy-focused Ethereum layer-2 network Aztec said Nyx has launched on Aztec Tierra with support for private ETH and receiving addresses. Aztec said payments sent to a standard Ethereum address are deposited into a private account, while the link between that address and the private account is not visible externally.

Texas state Rep. Ron Reynolds has filed HB 815, a bill that would allow individual cities and counties to invest up to $10 million in public funds in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to Bitcoin Magazine. The bill would add cryptocurrency investment provisions to the state’s public funds investment law. The $10 million cap would apply to each local government separately rather than statewide, and school districts would be excluded. If passed, the measure would take effect on Sept. 1, 2027, Bitcoin Magazine reported. The proposed investment scope is not limited to Bitcoin, and the bill does not include detailed rules on asset custody or audits. It is set to be discussed during the regular session of the Texas Legislature, which opens on Jan. 12, 2027, and has not yet been referred to a standing committee.

Blockchain cybersecurity platform FORT said BNB Chain keeper wallets have sequentially held 32 counterfeit USDT tokens priced at around $1 since February. FORT counted at least 151 copycat tokens and 3.1 million transfers, adding that about 266,000 addresses received payments that appeared to be purchase funds.

Across Protocol said on X, "도메인에 문제가 발생해 이를 조사 중이다. 해당 앱 접속, 월렛 연결, 거래 또는 승인 서명을 자제할 것을 권고한다."

Decentralized derivatives protocol Cryptex Finance said it filed a seventh pre-effective amendment with the U.S. SEC for the S-1 registration statement of the Cryptex Digital Market Cap ETF, BAGZ.

Retail investor sentiment toward Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP has weakened, according to social media data cited by on-chain analytics firm Santiment. The firm said data from major platforms including X, Reddit and Telegram put the ratio of bullish to bearish views at 0.82 for Bitcoin, 0.88 for Ethereum and 0.49 for XRP. Santiment said pessimism among retail investors could instead raise the likelihood of a rebound in the crypto market. The firm added that rallies in major cryptocurrencies have often started not when investor optimism was spreading, but when fear was intensifying, loss-taking selling was emerging and concerns about further declines were growing. If bearish expectations continue to outweigh bullish ones across major cryptocurrencies, a strong market rebound may lie ahead, according to Santiment.

Layer-1 blockchain Flare (FLR) said it is rolling out the network upgrade go-flare v1.15.1 to patch a vulnerability in upstream code used by nodes, adding the fix has already been tested. The patch had originally been scheduled for later this month, but Flare moved it forward after detecting attempts to exploit the vulnerability during monitoring. The hard fork is set to activate at 2:00 p.m. UTC on Nov. 11, and Flare urged validators and node operators to upgrade as soon as possible. General users do not need to take any action, and the network will continue operating normally after validators upgrade, Flare said, adding the vulnerability does not affect user funds or keys.

Lending protocol Aave said its Aave V4 Global Dollar Hub will support Paxos Labs' PAXGy as a collateral asset. Users will be able to borrow USDG and PAXG against PAXGy.

Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid said the future of the U.S. payment system hinges on FedNow, the Federal Reserve’s real-time gross settlement system, and real-time bank transfer networks rather than stablecoins, according to Crypto Briefing. Schmid said U.S. instant-payment systems led by the FedNow service are likely to outperform emerging digital-asset payment technologies such as stablecoins and blockchain platforms. He added FedNow is not a replacement for the existing banking system but a stable and scalable evolution of it.

Former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Chris Giancarlo said in an interview with Cointelegraph he believes President Donald Trump’s memecoin contributed to the failure of the CLARITY Act.

Mercado Bitcoin, a Brazilian exchange hit by a hack, announced it will resume Brazilian real deposits and withdrawals through Pix, the country’s instant payment system. According to Cointelegraph, Mercado customers can withdraw only to accounts under their own names, while cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals remain suspended with no timeline for resumption.

Chicago-based investment adviser HighTower Advisors increased its spot Bitcoin ETF holdings by 50% from the previous quarter, according to Crypto Briefing. In its third-quarter 13F filing with the U.S. SEC, HighTower said it held $155 million worth of spot BTC ETFs. It also increased its holdings in Strategy (MSTR) to $9 million. HighTower is known to manage about $100 billion in assets.

Fidelity roughly tripled the value of its Strategy holdings in the third quarter, according to the firm’s third-quarter 13F filing with the U.S. SEC. The filing shows Fidelity’s Strategy stake was valued at $156 million as of the end of the third quarter, up from $38.2 million at the end of the second quarter. Meanwhile, Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, also increased its Strategy holdings by 43.7% in the third quarter.

U.S. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna urged a ban on sports prediction markets, saying in an X post that they amount to sports betting disguised as financial trading and violate state and tribal gambling laws. Khanna said the markets divert state tax revenue, fuel addiction, expose young people to public health risks, and bypass consumer protections put in place by state governments. Khanna added Congress must ban them.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will temporarily suspend Tether (USDT) withdrawals on the Tron network at 5:40 p.m. UTC on Nov. 10 for wallet system maintenance.

An anonymous whale address beginning with 17H5TZ withdrew 1,770 BTC worth $128.8 million from Coinbase Prime, according to Onchain Lens. Exchange outflows are typically interpreted as a sign of holding intent.

Decentralized perpetual futures exchange Deepsigma has launched a $10 million token offering on on-chain investment platform Republic, according to U.Today. Deepsigma currently supports simulated trading across 77 perpetual markets tied to traditional financial assets such as stocks, commodities and indices. The proceeds will be used to move its real-world asset-linked perpetual futures exchange into the production stage. Deepsigma aims to launch its mainnet three months after the token sale.