Berachain has finalized an emergency hard fork following a $12 million exploit on its BEX decentralized exchange traced to a Balancer V2 vulnerability. The network remains halted as infrastructure partners update their systems. The Foundation is negotiating with a self-identified white hat MEV bot operator holding the majority of drained funds who has indicated willingness to return the assets.

UBS has completed the first live on-chain redemption of a tokenized money market fund using Chainlink's Digital Transfer Agent standard on Ethereum. The transaction involved UBS's uMINT fund and was settled with DigiFT as the on-chain distributor, demonstrating blockchain integration with traditional fund operations.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has recommended eliminating the modular exponentiation precompile (modexp), a feature he originally helped develop. On November 3, 2025, Buterin said this component creates verification bottlenecks up to 50 times worse than standard blocks when generating zero-knowledge proofs. He suggests replacing it with computationally equivalent EVM code despite higher gas costs.

FTSE Russell has partnered with Chainlink to publish equity and digital asset indices across more than 40 blockchains using Chainlink's DataLink platform. The collaboration delivers institutional-grade benchmark data, including the Russell 1000, Russell 2000, and FTSE 100, directly into decentralized ecosystems. The indices represent over $18 trillion in assets under management globally.

A consortium led by SBI Holdings and major trust banks will launch round-the-clock trading of blockchain-based shares in 2026. The platform will allow investors to purchase tokenized versions of publicly listed companies starting at 1 Japanese yen, removing the current 100-share lot requirement. The system represents the first global venue enabling continuous on-chain equity trading.

Bitcoin traded around $103,900 on November 4, 2025, down 3.7% in 24 hours. Total cryptocurrency market capitalization fell 4.3% to approximately $3.46 trillion. Over $1.34 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated during the period, with long positions representing roughly $1.18 billion of the total.

Bitcoin fell to $103,668 on Tuesday, breaking below its $109,000 cost basis where 85% of supply was profitable. The next support level sits at approximately $99,000, according to Glassnode data. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index dropped to 21 points, signaling extreme fear in the market.

Balancer DeFi protocol suffered an exploit on November 3, 2025, with estimated losses ranging from $100 million to $120 million. The attack targeted V2 Composable Stable Pools, while V3 remained unaffected. Early analysis suggests the vulnerability traces back to a similar rounding error first identified in August 2023.