The XRP Ledger community is evaluating native staking functionality while Canary Capital's spot XRP ETF logged approximately $57 million in trading volume at launch. RippleX's Head of Engineering Ayo Akinyele opened discussions on introducing staking mechanisms to XRPL. The developments mark XRP's expansion beyond payment infrastructure into decentralized finance and traditional investment vehicles.

World Liberty Financial is moving user assets to secure wallets after third-party vulnerabilities compromised a subset of accounts. The Trump-linked platform froze affected wallets in September and is conducting KYC verification before transferring funds. The platform has not disclosed the number of impacted accounts or total asset value.

New Hampshire's Business Finance Authority approved a $100 million municipal bond secured by Bitcoin on Monday, the first such instrument in U.S. municipal finance. The structure allows companies to borrow against over-collateralized BTC held by a private custodian without triggering taxable events. Transaction fees and earnings will support the state's Bitcoin Economic Development Fund.

Grayscale's application for a spot Dogecoin exchange-traded fund is set to receive automatic approval on November 24 unless the SEC intervenes during the 20-day review period. Bloomberg Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas noted that Dogecoin qualifies under the SEC's Generic Listing Standards for crypto exchange-traded products. DOGE currently trades at $0.15, with technical analysis identifying support at $0.1550 aligned with a year-long descending triangle pattern.

Large investors removed approximately 170,000 SOL tokens from major exchanges as Solana traded near $130. Two newly created wallets withdrew 70,000 SOL from Binance, while another address pulled over 100,000 SOL from four platforms. Derivatives data showed long positions at 77.71% with a long-to-short ratio of 3.49.

Block announced a $5 billion stock buyback authorization and financial projections through 2028, driving shares up approximately 8% to $62 on Wednesday. The company projects gross profit to reach around $15.8 billion by 2028 with mid-teens annual growth. Adjusted operating income is expected to exceed $4.6 billion with roughly 30% yearly increases.

Bitcoin fell to approximately $88,600 on Wednesday, its lowest level since April and more than 5% below its opening price for 2025. The decline followed the release of Federal Reserve minutes from its October meeting, which showed significant disagreement among officials on the pace of policy adjustments amid ongoing inflation concerns.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that quantum computers may crack the cryptographic protections securing Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets by 2028. He told developers that elliptic curve cryptography faces an existential threat from advancing quantum hardware. Industry experts and researchers called for urgent preemptive protocol upgrades to prevent future vulnerabilities.