Alex Brazier, BlackRock’s head of global investments and portfolio solutions, said the Bank of England may deliver three or four additional rate hikes, in line with current market pricing. According to Sina Finance, after the central bank raised its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 4% last week, Brazier said another increase as soon as December was possible. He said resilient economic growth and an energy shock pushing inflation higher made the market’s pricing of three or four further hikes seem reasonable. That view contrasts with many investors’ expectation that the Bank of England’s eventual tightening will be less than currently reflected in interest-rate swap markets. Brazier added that central banks face a broader challenge: economies appear to need much higher interest rates than in the past to maintain basic balance, let alone address inflation.

Investors should remain exposed to the AI boom despite financing risks and Nvidia Corp.’s leadership turmoil, Julien Lafargue, chief market strategist at Barclays Private Bank, said, according to Bloomberg.

According to ChainCatcher citing Polymarket data, the “no change” outcome in the market for Nvidia’s next CEO rose to 29% from 19% earlier today, ranking first. Nvidia Vice President of High-Performance Computing Ian Buck followed at 25%, while Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress ranked third at 23.3%. Under the market rules, “no change” means Nvidia has not announced a permanent successor by 11:59 PM on December 31, 2028 (U.S. Eastern Time); an interim CEO does not count. The 29% reflects the implied probability that no permanent successor will be announced by the deadline, not the probability that Jensen Huang will remain CEO in the short term.

According to ChainCatcher, Sygnum has launched a market-neutral ETH Alpha Fund that combines staking, options and arbitrage strategies. The fund targets annual returns of 8% to 10% after fees.

Binance Wallet announced on X that its on-chain smart money signals can now trigger automated trades through Agentic Wallet’s On-Chain Copy Trading Skill. The skill buys when a signal appears, with stop-loss and take-profit rules attached. Users can select the signals as a trigger source, set the chain, budget and position size, and configure those rules. Binance Wallet said users can run a cost-free dry run, refine the strategy and then switch to live trading. The copy trading runs automatically 24/7 once set up.

Ethereum research group Ethlabs said Wednesday it will withdraw its proposal to accelerate block production from the planned Hegotá upgrade, shifting its focus to preparing the network for quantum-related threats by 2027. According to Cointelegraph, Ethlabs presented “pqai27,” a proposed roadmap intended to protect Ethereum from risks posed by quantum computing and increasingly capable artificial intelligence, and argued that unrelated upgrades should be reconsidered. The group had previously supported Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)-8198, known as Quick Slots, which would initially reduce Ethereum’s slot time from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. Ethlabs said it would redirect resources toward pqai27 while continuing to pursue faster slots in 2028. The proposal changes the group’s near-term priorities for Hegotá, but it has not abandoned its effort to speed up slots. Ethlabs said work on the quantum-readiness roadmap should take precedence over unrelated changes to the network. For Hegotá, Ethlabs said the planned FOCIL censorship-resistance feature should move forward only if it does not put quantum readiness at risk. The group described Frame Transactions, which would allow more flexible account authentication, as central to the proposed transition. Ethlabs also said the Glamsterdam upgrade, which is scheduled before Hegotá, should proceed as planned. Ethereum core developers have not approved the proposal, and the Ethereum Foundation’s published roadmap continues to target December 2029 for quantum resistance. At Devcon, researcher Justin Drake said he hopes to complete the transition in 2028. The timeline proposed by Ethlabs would therefore bring quantum readiness into focus earlier than the target currently published by the Foundation, though the group’s roadmap remains a proposal. Its withdrawal of the Quick Slots proposal from Hegotá is part of the shift toward that priority, while faster slots remain an objective for 2028.

Chainstack suffered an AI-powered attack that exposed customer names, emails and password hashes. The company has contained the breach and urged customers to update their passwords and credentials.

MegaETH, which has rebranded as MEGA, allocated $30 million from its treasury to develop in-house products, with a decentralized AI inference marketplace set to be its first offering and expected to launch in December. According to PANews, Bankless reported that the network's TVL fell from a peak of $245 million in May to less than $10 million. A co-founder said the project set out to build the fastest public blockchain but had not found product-market fit. The white paper focuses on privacy de-identification and long-term computing-power contracts.

According to CNBC, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine was investigating fresh disruptions to SpaceX’s Starshield service, with military units reporting problems along the front line and in temporarily occupied territories for several days. He said the restrictions imposed an effective speed limit of 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour) on terminals, making it harder for Ukraine to intercept Russian jet-powered drones. The reports follow similar speed limitations imposed last month. U.S. special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow for further talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin after U.S.-brokered peace talks concluded in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

黄仁勋承认婚外情后英伟达两日蒸发逾4000亿美元，董事会启动独立调查，关键人物风险被推到台前。

港元稳定币HKDAP接入Solana，香港若只有发行权而缺少底层基础设施，数字金融竞争力或被稀释。

UK bank Griffin has raised $20 million in a Series B round to expand its card issuance and stablecoin-related services. According to PANews, Octagon Partners led the round, which valued the company at more than $100 million. Existing investors Notion Capital, A+ Ventures, NordicNinja, and Breega also participated. Griffin previously raised $24 million in March 2024 in a round led by MassMutual Ventures, NordicNinja, and Breega. The company received a full banking license at that time.

Nima Momeni, the man convicted of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee, is preparing to challenge the legal outcome of the case after receiving a sentence of 16 years to life in prison.

South Korea will allow crypto exchanges to freeze deposits and withdrawals when a hack is suspected, without waiting for confirmation, while introducing stricter security requirements. The FSC also wants all 28 registered crypto businesses to receive cybersecurity support from the Financial Security Institute, which is investigating a breach of its own systems.

A Singapore-based company that became Nvidia's largest AI chip buyer in Southeast Asia within three years is now at the center of questions over how Chinese companies continued accessing the US chipmaker's advanced computing hardware despite Washington's export restrictions.

MegaETH将3000万美元投入AI推理，试图让不同服务商提供的AI变得可验证，再把AI用量做成可交易合约。

PSB Bank has asked a Russian court to declare BitRiver founder Igor Runets bankrupt over unpaid debts of more than 770 million rubles (about $9.3 million), linked to a loan he guaranteed for a group subsidiary that defaulted. Runets is already in custody on tax evasion and fraud charges, and several BitRiver companies are facing bankruptcy proceedings of their own.

从MEXC到币安和OKX，美国正通过执法、投资与美元稳定币，把全球加密货币交易所更深地纳入其金融规则体系。

黄仁勋再曝与直接下属的婚外关系，Polymarket 上其离任概率一度冲到 88%，分析师测算他若离开，英伟达估值可能缩水 1 万亿至 1.2 万亿美元。