| The creation time of Ethereum 2.0 was finalized, and ETH rose above $400; the Associated Press recorded the results of the general election on the chain

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2020-11-05 08:14 (UTC+8)

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The creation time of Ethereum 2.0 is set for December 1st, and the deposit contract is now online

The Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract is now live. According to Ethereum multi-client testnet developer Afri Schoedon, the deposit contract was released at 23:00 Beijing time, which is the first physical realization of Eth 2.0 for ordinary users. The genesis of Eth 2.0 was originally set for Jan. 3, the 12th anniversary of the launch of the Bitcoin network. The GitHub file shows that this date has been moved to December 1st.

AP Publishes Nov. 3 Election Results on the Ethereum Blockchain
In previous news, the Associated Press (AP) announced a partnership with the blockchain encyclopedia project Everipedia to record the 2020 election results in the Everipedia blockchain database. Specifically, more than 7,000 state and national election calls will be recorded on the blockchain and the results displayed through a publicly accessible user interface. (Trustnodes)

digital currency

ETH short-term rise breaks through 400 USDT

At 1:00 a.m. today, Huobi Global Markets showed that ETH rose rapidly in a short period of time, breaking through 400 USDT, with an intraday increase of 4.15%, and is currently at 401 USDT. (Data source: BitUniverse)

OKLink: WBTC circulation exceeds 120,000 pieces

According to data from OKLink, as of 17:00 today, the circulation of WBTC on Ethereum reached 122,200 pieces, or about 1.66 billion US dollars. According to the official website of WBTC, Grapefruit Trading mortgaged and minted 4,000 WBTC in the early morning of this morning. At present, the total circulation of various Bitcoin-anchored coins on Ethereum has exceeded 150,000.

Data: More than 75% of nodes support the BCHN team

According to Coin Dance data, in the past week, more than 75% of BCH nodes expressed support for BCHN, while only 1% of nodes expressed support for ABC. There are still more than 10 days before the next upgrade of BCH. Meanwhile, BCHN nodes mined 84.7% of all BCH blocks generated in the past 24 hours, compared to just 1.4% for ABC. Note: BCH will undergo network upgrade on November 15th. (Cointelegraph)

Data: The number of Bitcoin Hodler positions has decreased by more than 20,000 BTC in the past month

According to Glassnode data, in the last month, the indicator "Bitcoin Hodler net position change value" that tracks the monthly position changes of long-term Bitcoin investors has turned from positive to negative, which is the first negative value since March this year. The number of bitcoin positions decreased by more than 20,000 bitcoins, the largest drop since August 2019.

Zenlink will integrate Chainlink oracles to provide data feed price for Polkadot's cross-chain DEX

According to official news, Zenlink, a cross-chain DEX network based on Polkadot, will integrate the data feed system of the decentralized oracle machine Chainlink. The Chainlink price oracle system will be used for financial product services built on top of Zenlink, such as lending, automated trading, and various other DeFi products. Chainlink will also play a role in the native protocol functionality of the ZLK token.

Binance has recovered more than $344,000 of WineSwap's runaway funds and will return them to users

On November 4, 2020, according to Binance official news, the Binance security team successfully helped users recover 99.9% of the lost funds of WineSwap users of the runaway DeFi project, totaling more than 344,000 US dollars. The Binance security team froze nearly all of the funds by tracking the flow of Wine Swap funds. Since the running project party has converted the funds into other currencies, the Binance OTC team is currently converting them into the original currency, and will return all the funds to the user's original address in the next few days.

Data: The 24-hour contract market liquidation exceeds 115 million U.S. dollars, and the BTC contract liquidation is 103 million U.S. dollars

As of 8:00 last night, according to the contract market statistics report: in the past 24 hours, the contract market has a total of 115 million US dollars in liquidation, and 9057 people have liquidated their positions. The top three currencies in liquidation amount are BTC with USD 103 million, ETH with USD 7.15 million, and BCH with USD 1.32 million.

The crypto community is watching Brock Pierce closely as U.S. President Donald Trump and his primary challenger, Democrat Joe Biden, battle it out in the general election. He was the chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of Tether. The current AP election forecast shows independent "other candidates" including Pierce receiving 0.3% of the total vote (348,609 votes). In what the Associated Press calls the District of Columbia, Pierce won 461 votes, or 0.2 percent, and finished sixth. (Cryptonews)

Blockchain industry

Standard Chartered Partners with Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Bank of Thailand to Pilot Central Bank Digital Currency Electronic Transfers and Foreign Exchange Transactions

On November 4th, at the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Innovation Economy Summit Forum, Xie Wen, vice president of Standard Chartered Bank (China) Co., Ltd., said that Standard Chartered Bank has participated in testing some digital currency pilot projects, such as the recent Standard Chartered Bank and Hong Kong Financial Management Co., Ltd. The bureau and the Bank of Thailand have worked together to complete real-time point-to-point electronic transfers and foreign exchange transactions between Hong Kong and the Bank of Thailand using the central bank’s digital currency. (Securities Times)

Investment and Financing

NGC Ventures invests in Tidal Finance, a customizable insurance marketplace

NIFTEX, a platform for creating and trading NFT fragments, raised $500,000 in financing led by 1kx

NFT fragment creation and trading platform NIFTEX received $500,000 in financing, led by 1kx, with participation from CoinFund, MetaCartel Ventures, Sparq, and Digital Currency Group. NIFTEX hopes to use the funds to give anyone who owns an NFT access to the platform and leave something tradable without sacrificing ownership of the original work.
NIFTEX co-founder and CEO Joel Hubert said that the company launched the Alpha version five months ago, with a total transaction volume of more than $2 million. The platform will move toward decentralization in early 2021, possibly with the release of governance tokens. (CoinDesk)

global policy

Hong Kong Monetary Authority: HKMA digital currency is mainly used for commercial cross-border payments

Liu Yingbin, Senior Assistant President of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, said that the Monetary Authority has paid attention to the digital currency development of the People's Bank of China. The digital currency in the Mainland is mainly used at the retail payment level, but the situation in Hong Kong is different. There are already abundant electronic payment tools at the retail level. Therefore, the The central bank digital currency researched by the bureau is mainly used for commercial cross-border payment purposes. (Sina Finance)

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said preparations need to be made in case demand for central bank digital currencies increases rapidly. At the same time, he said there are no plans to issue a digital currency right now. (Golden Ten)