Odaily reports: a16z, DeFi Education Fund, Paradigm, Uniswap, and several other crypto industry organizations have jointly submitted an amicus curiae brief in support of the legal challenge against Illinois' Digital Asset Tax Act, arguing that the law's scope is overly broad and unfairly targets the digital asset industry. Previously, the Blockchain Association, the Crypto Council for Innovation, and The Digital Chamber had already filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois over the law. The law imposes a 0.2% tax on digital asset transactions, and its effective date has been postponed from the originally planned January 2027 to July 2027.

Odaily: On November 10, the first stop of the TRON ECO × BBW 2026 Thanksgiving Tour officially kicked off, with five major projects—JUST, SUN, BitTorrent, WINkLink, and AINFT—jointly giving away 30 Binance Blockchain Week tickets and 5 eco-merchandise prizes. From November 10 to 15, users can participate by following @DeFi_JUST, @OfficialSUNio, @BitTorrent, @WinkLink_Oracle, and @AINFTcom, retweeting the campaign post, and commenting with the designated text, tagging 3 friends, and including #TRONEcoBBW. Participants must confirm they are able to travel to Bangkok to attend BBW on November 28–29; winners must confirm within 48 hours after the list is announced, purchase tickets themselves, and submit proof before November 19. After TRON ECO review and approval, eligible ticket costs will be fully reimbursed according to the campaign rules. The first stop of the tour has set sail. Eligible users are welcome to participate and join us on-site at BBW in Bangkok.

Odaily reports: New York-based startup Uranium Digital has announced the completion of a $16.5 million Series A funding round, led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from existing investors Portal Ventures and Apeiron Investment Group. The round closed last month, and the funds will be used to expand its electronic trading platform.Founded in 2024, Uranium Digital aims to track ownership of physical uranium in storage facilities via blockchain and provide institutions with a platform for buying and selling uranium. The company hopes to shift uranium trading from the traditional model of broker price inquiries, email-based contracting, and offline warehouse delivery to electronic trading. The company previously completed a $6.1 million seed round in 2025. As AI data centers drive growing energy demand, the nuclear power and uranium fuel markets are attracting increased attention. (Fortune)

Odaily Report: PhotonPay has announced the completion of a $40 million Series C funding round, led by Blockchain Capital, with new investor SBI Group participating, and IDG Capital, GL Ventures, and Lightspeed Faction also joining. The project is a Hong Kong-based fintech company dedicated to developing a stablecoin-centric financial operating system, offering multi-asset wallets, global card issuance, and local clearing services, while advancing a financial execution layer for AI agents. As of August 2026, PhotonPay's annualized transaction volume reached $65 billion, and it has obtained 34 payment and financial licenses or authorizations across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, serving more than 200,000 enterprise clients with operations covering over 200 countries and regions.

Odaily reports that on-chain compliance platform Predicate has completed an $8 million Series A funding round, led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Paxos, 1kx, and Tribe Capital. Predicate primarily provides pre-transaction compliance review and risk control for stablecoins, tokenized assets, and other on-chain financial products, supporting the restriction of high-risk addresses and sanctioned transactions.

Odaily Report: The Blockchain Association has submitted a comment letter to the SEC regarding its "crypto asset regulation" proposal, recommending raising the startup exemption cap to $10 million, the fundraising exemption to $150 million (supporting on-chain transparency as an alternative to audits, with airdrops excluded from the count), and establishing a third-party filing safe harbor for existing tokens.The Blockchain Association calls for clear, objective decentralization standards for tokens to shed their "investment contract" status (such as open-source code and the absence of unilateral review rights), while strengthening federal regulatory preemption over state-level legislation, and supporting 24/7 exchange trading and self-custody.

Odaily: Blockchain.com has announced the launch of options trading functionality within its trading accounts. In the initial rollout, eligible users can buy call or put options on BTC, ETH, SOL, HYPE, AVAX, XRP, and TRX.

Odaily reports: The Blockchain Association has submitted comments on the U.S. Treasury Department's proposed implementation rules for Section 3 of the GENIUS Act. This provision primarily governs the eligibility of entities issuing and selling payment stablecoins within the United States.The Blockchain Association stated that it supports the core regulatory framework proposed by the Treasury Department in principle, but calls for further clarification of the definition of digital asset service providers, the criteria for determining "knowing participation" conduct, and the compliance requirements for foreign stablecoin issuers, in order to reduce uncertainty during the rule implementation process. (The Block)

Odaily: London Stock Exchange-listed blockchain infrastructure company KR1 plc has launched its own Ethereum validators, operated by P2P.org within Lido V3's stVaults. KR1 recently plans to stake up to 6,000 ETH, with the first batch of 10 validators going live, and the specific rollout pace depends on the Ethereum validator entry queue. KR1 retains control over deposits and withdrawals, validator fee arrangements, and vault role permissions, and has the option to mint stETH for liquidity. Lido stated that stVaults resolve the trade-off between native staking and liquid staking, allowing stakers to both select validators and retain ownership while maintaining liquidity through stETH. Lido disclosed that the stVaults smart contracts have been audited by firms including Certora, MixBytes, Consensys Diligence, Ackee Blockchain, and Sigma Prime, and offer a bug bounty of up to $2 million.

Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X that OneKey has terminated its partnership with reseller CryptoBilis and is offering free replacements after Ledger confirmed that devices sold through this reseller contained unauthorized hardware implants. Blockchain investigator Specter estimates related losses exceed $86 million. Ledger has not yet confirmed the total losses and stated that confirmed cases involve only CryptoBilis inventory, not its own channels. OneKey CEO Yishi Wang said no users have reported losses so far, but user asset security cannot rely on luck.