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Analysis: on November 4, 2021, Polkadot cost $55; today it costs $0.96. What has changed on the network since then, why staking now locks your coins for only two days, and why losses from 2021 no longer count for tax in Germany.

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Cipher Digital's shift from Bitcoin mining to HPC leasing highlights a strategic pivot towards sustainable revenue, impacting the tech infrastructure landscape. Cipher Digital books first HPC lease revenue as Bitcoin mining fades.

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Among the active on-chain votes listed in Arbitrum's November 2, 2026 governance roundup is a proposal to transfer roughly 1,800 ETH out of the DAO's treasury, split between two distinct purposes. The larger portion, approximately 1,714 ETH, is drawn from revenue generated by Arbitrum's sequencer and is earmarked to help restart a covered-call options strategy that the treasury management committee had previously run but which had lapsed.

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A constitutional proposal from Offchain Labs, the primary development team behind Arbitrum, appears among the network's active on-chain votes in a November 2, 2026 governance roundup, aimed at keeping Arbitrum's fee accounting accurate as Ethereum's own infrastructure changes beneath it. Arbitrum, like other optimistic rollups, periodically posts batches of its transaction data back to the Ethereum base layer, and the cost of doing so is passed through to users as part of their overall transaction fee.