ETHGlobal held its latest hackathon event in Bangkok, Thailand last weekend, following Devcon. According to the conference report, a total of 713 projects were submitted to the judges, including many cryptocurrency experts such as Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Aave founder Stani Kulechov, and Base creator and leader Jesse Pollak.

The ten shortlisted projects selected by the judges all aimed at the growing areas of cryptocurrency, from AI agents to DAO tools, and even to encrypted games designed for Telegram. These projects compete for a prize of $750,000, the largest prize in ETHGlobal's history.

To celebrate its 6th anniversary, Bybit, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, is promoting a GameFi revival in its latest industry report titled "GameFi: Reviving the New Era of Gaming." Bybit Web3 has launched an exclusive Crypto Ark-ade to showcase emerging GameFi protocols and games, with 360,000 USDT in prizes. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the gaming and on-chain finance industry, which is valued at around $20.3 billion. Bybit Web3's Crypto Ark-ade offers a diverse range of Web3 games and a gameplay experience for all kinds of players. Bybit has also launched the world's largest GameFi playground at Crypto Ark-ade, with traders benefiting from an ultra-fast matching engine, 24/7 customer service, and multilingual community support. Bybit is proud to be a partner of Formula One's reigning Constructors' and Drivers' champions, the Oracle Red Bull Racing team. For more information, visit Bybit's website or follow their social media channels. Media inquiries can be directed to [email protected].

On November 14th, Open Ant Global Launch Ceremony successfully concluded in Bangkok on November 13th. It brought together global industry elites, technology developers, and others to witness the innovation of open source. Open Ant showcased cutting-edge technology achievements such as the Star Chain Plan, DePIN, and Brain-Computer Interface, and officially launched a dual-token structure to promote decentralized governance and wealth sharing. Through this grand event, Open Ant not only appeared brilliantly on the global stage, demonstrating its latest breakthroughs and achievements in the field of cutting-edge technology, but also inspired a deep understanding and enthusiastic discussion of decentralized governance, shared economic models, and the infinite potential of open source technology through a series of in-depth exchanges and collisions of ideas.

On November 13th, Bitlayer hosted the Bitcoin Next Summit in Bangkok, which focused on the next upgrade of Bitcoin and BTCFi. Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and CEO of StarkWare, stated at the summit that StarkWare is a leader in many areas including Cairo, Stwo (STARK Two), and Bitcoin research. Currently, StarkWare's open-source proof verifier, Stwo (which supports OP_CAT), has been launched on the Bitcoin testnet, and the team has set up $1 million in funding for OP_CAT research. In addition, Eli Ben-Sasson revealed that the Stwo mainnet is expected to launch in Q1 2025. At today's Bitcoin Next Summit, many top Bitcoin ecosystem builders and industry leaders will share their profound insights on the forefront of Bitcoin technology and the next upgrade, and explore the current BTCFi landscape and trends.

On November 13th, Yield Guild Games announced the launch of Studio Chain in X, with partners including game infrastructure layer Karrat, interactive chain game My Pet Hooligan, and AMGI Studios. Studio Chain will have high throughput and low latency, focusing on scalability for high-demand products and enterprise applications. It also supports custom gas tokens, cross-chain interoperability, and other features.

Varun Srinivasan, the co-founder of Farcaster, has announced the priorities for Farcaster in 2025: to launch a new standard for building applications within the Farcaster framework in December 2024; to launch Snapchain in the first quarter of 2025.

Snapchain is a new network design that can eliminate errors and increase throughput by 10 times or about 5000 TPS; provide smart wallet support for Farcaster accounts; provide better standards for developers; and Warpcast will run another retrospective reward program in the fourth quarter.

On November 13th, the 2024 Hong Kong Listed Companies Development Summit and the 11th "Hong Kong Top 100 Stocks" Award Ceremony were successfully held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. Xinhuo Technology (1611.HK) was awarded the "Web3 Industry Leader Award" at the 11th Hong Kong Top 100 Stocks.

Since its establishment, Xinhuo Technology has adhered to the principles of safety, compliance, professionalism, and diversity, providing simple and easy-to-use centralized and decentralized mixed services, aiming to help every enterprise safely and conveniently use digital assets. The company's three core products and services are: MPC self-hosting platform SINOHOPE, full-stack public chain ecological solutions, and Xinhuo asset management business.

The 11th "Hong Kong Top 100 Stocks" event was hosted by the Hong Kong Top 100 Stocks Research Center, jointly organized by Caixin Media and Futu Anyi, and supported by many media organizations such as Hong Kong Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group.

On November 13th, the Bitcoin Next Summit, organized by the Bitcoin Layer2 leader Bitlayer, will officially open this afternoon at the IMPACT HALL 7-8 conference center in Bangkok. The core theme of this summit will focus on the next upgrade of Bitcoin and BTCFi, including Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and CEO of StarkWare, Bman, co-founder of ABCDE Capital, Ken Liao, founder and CEO of Xverse, Jeffrey Hu, investment research director of HashKey Capital, Orlando Wang, DeFi director of Antpool, and nearly a hundred front-line Bitcoin ecosystem builders and industry leaders, including Bitlayer co-founders Kevin He and Charlie Hu, will attend the summit together to share their profound insights on the forefront of Bitcoin technology development and the next upgrade, and explore the pattern and future trend of BTCFi.

On November 12th, according to official sources, from November 12th to 14th, WorldBrain will airdrop 100,000 WBC tokens, with a maximum of 100 WBC per person, at the W2140 World AI+WEB3 Expo. It is reported that there are two ways to receive the airdrop: filling in the wallet address on the W2140 official website to receive 10 WBC, and completing tasks such as registration, pledge financing, and social media promotion at the WorldBrain booth (B09-B10-B19-B20) at the expo to receive 20-30 WBC per day, with a maximum of 100 WBC. WorldBrain is the title sponsor of the W1240 World AI+Web3 Expo and its series of events, bringing together global industry elites to jointly explore the innovative integration and development of AI and Web3 technology, and provide rich airdrop benefits.

On November 12th, it was announced that the W2140 World WEB3 Expo, sponsored and participated in by WorldBrain, will be held at the Bangkok International Convention and Exhibition Center in Thailand from November 12th to 14th. At the same time, a venture capital conference and a global artificial intelligence and Web3 summit will also be held, which is expected to attract more than 200,000 industry insiders, international politicians, over 600 global media outlets, more than 20 universities, and over 100 technical experts to attend the event. As a pioneer in promoting the integration of WEB3 technology and artificial intelligence, WorldBrain will play an important role in the event.

This year's WEB3 Expo will become a hub for global industry elites to exchange ideas. Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, will attend and deliver a keynote speech, and NVIDIA, a leader in the field of artificial intelligence computing, will also participate. WorldBrain, adhering to the mission of empowering AI with WEB3, will actively expand broader and deeper international cooperation, and inspire and attract more people to participate in the development of decentralized artificial intelligence.