Former White House Advisor: Trump Still Intends to Boost Bitcoin Holdings for the U.S. Strategic Reserve, But Faces Legal Barriers

According to official announcements, Binance Futures will launch the NUUSDT perpetual contract at 17:30 Beijing time on November 12, and the FRHCUSDT perpetual contract at 17:45 the same day. Both contracts are settled in USDT, support 24-hour trading, and offer a maximum leverage of 20x. The underlying asset of the NU contract is Class A common stock of Nu Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: NU), while the FRHC contract tracks common stock of Freedom Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: FRHC). The funding rate for both contracts settles every 8 hours, with upper and lower limits of ±2%, and supports multi-asset mode.

Privacy payment application AnomaPay announced in a post that an external security vulnerability has been discovered in the RISC Zero proof system it uses, which may put user funds at risk. To protect user assets, Anoma has suspended the relevant RISC Zero verifier, and the upgrade will be handled by the RISC Zero team. AnomaPay stated that users’ deposited funds remain secure but will be temporarily inaccessible until the Anoma protocol is upgraded to V2. The upgrade is expected to take approximately two weeks, during which RISC Zero’s security updates will be integrated. Users do not need to take any action; funds will automatically be migrated to V2 and access restored once the upgrade is complete.

Beating AI Newsflash: Payment giant Stripe announced that AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter has officially become its subsidiary. The two parties had already announced the acquisition agreement as early as August 19, and this marks the official closing of the deal. OpenRouter acts as a unified entry point for AI models. Developers only need to integrate one API to access hundreds of models from over 80 service providers, and can select providers based on price, speed and stability, with automatic switching available when needed. This business is expanding rapidly. Official data from OpenRouter shows the platform processed 790 trillion tokens in October, a 37% increase from September, and roughly 25 times the volume recorded in January this year. Of this total, 76% of token consumption came from API keys categorized by the platform for agent use cases. The platform currently serves over 10 million developers and enterprises. Stripe, which originally focused on helping enterprises with payment collection, payment management and risk control, launched Token Billing in recent years to help AI companies bill customers based on model usage. Following the acquisition, it plans to further manage enterprises' AI spending: for instance, it will route simple tasks to cheaper models and complex tasks to more expensive ones, while tracking spending on different models. Enterprises can both collect payments from users via Stripe and control model call costs through OpenRouter. OpenRouter has pledged to retain its original brand, products and APIs, and maintain neutrality in model selection.

Fidelity disclosed that it has increased its holdings in Bitcoin treasury firm Strive (ASST) by 2.35 million shares, worth approximately $51 million. The asset manager now holds a total of 12.24 million Strive shares, valued at around $265.3 million, marking a 23% rise in its stake.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean government will convene a meeting at the Korea Exchange on the 13th. The meeting is expected to discuss key capital market issues, including measures to enhance corporate value and revitalize South Korea's KOSDAQ market.

According to data from the BIT Stock Platform, US stocks rose broadly in pre-market trading, with Neocloud, optical communication, semiconductor, and storage stocks all surging. The three major stock index futures were all up: S&P 500 futures gained 0.67%, Nasdaq 100 futures rose 1.54%, and Dow Jones futures increased 0.17%. SpaceX (SPCX) climbed 2.53% in pre-market trading. Optical communication-related stocks all advanced: Coherent (COHR) up 9.01%, Lumentum (LITE) up 8.61%, Credo (CRDO) up 8.32%, Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) up 7.88%, Ciena (CIEN) up 6.58%. The Neocloud sector saw broad gains: CoreWeave (CRWV) up 16.13%, Nebius (NBIS) up 11.94%, IREN up 7.96%, Cipher Digital (CIFR) up 7.81%, Astera Labs (ALAB) up 7.31%, AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) up 3.80%. Semiconductor stocks all rose: Marvell Technology (MRVL) up 6.55%, Arm (ARM) up 6.14%, AMD up 5.28%, Micron Technology (MU) up 5.14%, Intel (INTC) up 4.82%, TSMC (TSM) up 4.34%, ASML up 3.80%, Broadcom (AVGO) up 3.62%, NVIDIA (NVDA) up 3.32%. Storage stocks all climbed: SanDisk (SNDK) up 6.78%, Seagate Technology (STX) up 6.00%, Western Digital (WDC) up 5.12%. Crypto-related stocks were higher: MARA Holdings (MARA) up 3.41%, Robinhood (HOOD) up 1.86%, Coinbase (COIN) up 1.45%, Strategy (MSTR) up 1.34%, Circle (CRCL) up 1.22%, Bitmine (BMNR) up 1.16%, BNB Standard (BNC) up 0.66%.