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Vitalik posted on the X platform to congratulate the @zksync Airbender team for achieving this milestone. He believes that the speed competition of zkEVMs has achieved a decisive victory, and the primary focus should shift entirely to security.Vitalik stated that this means there is a need to formally verify the equivalence of arithmetic and Ethereum specifications, the hard upper limit of the ratio of prover costs to total block Gas, and the security of the proof system itself.

According to Hyperbot data, Brother Ma Ji was completely liquidated 25 minutes ago, and then opened a 25x leveraged long position on Ethereum again, currently holding 290 ETH, with a position value of approximately $688,000, and the current liquidation price is $2,324.

According to Crypto Briefing, Marc Vanlerberghe, the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of the public blockchain Algorand Foundation, resigned on October 14. He joined the foundation as Chief Marketing Officer in March 2024 and held the title of Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at the time of his departure, serving for about two and a half years.Previously, the foundation's Chief Technology Officer Bruno Martins left around October 9. Former CEO Staci Warden stepped down in August this year, and William Herkelrath took over on August 31, with the foundation officially announcing this on September 9.Reports indicate that the new CEO is re-evaluating the foundation's projects and partnerships, aiming to promote institutional adoption and financial sustainability. The foundation previously disclosed that it had reduced its team size by about 25% in the first quarter of 2026.

AI financial software Fragment announced on Wednesday the completion of a $12 million Series A funding round. This round is set to close in mid-2025, led by FirstMark and BoxGroup. The company's CEO Thomas Neckel did not disclose the post-round valuation.Fragment was founded by Thomas Neckel, with co-founder and CTO being former Robinhood engineer Varun Mohan. Developers can integrate Fragment into their own software, which uses double-entry bookkeeping to verify the sources and uses of funds, confirming account balances before funds move. Neckel stated that the product is a financial building block for automating business activities for agents.The company previously completed a $11 million seed round led by Stripe, with participants including BoxGroup, as well as Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Plaid CEO Zach Perret. Fragment claims to currently have about 50 to 60 paying customers, including Ramp, BILL, and Whop, for sharing transaction records and reducing manual reconciliation. FirstMark managing partner Adam Nelson stated that the goal is to become the standard toolkit for providing financial capabilities to agents.

According to Bloomberg, data shows that the total open interest of perpetual contracts on mainstream trading platforms has decreased from $81 billion to about $67 billion over the past year, while the open interest of contracts linked to real-world assets (RWA) has increased from nearly zero to $9 billion, accounting for 14% of the total. This indicates that the enthusiasm for leveraged trading in the crypto market has not yet returned to previous levels, and the related trading infrastructure is gradually expanding to traditional assets such as stocks and commodities.During the same period, the open interest of Bitcoin perpetual contracts decreased by about $8 billion, Ethereum by about $5 billion, and other tokens collectively decreased by about $10 billion, with the growth of traditional asset contracts only partially offsetting the aforementioned declines.

Early-stage venture capital firm Pear VC co-founder Pejman Nozad announced the fifth fund, Pear Fund V, with Mar on October 14, 2026, with a scale of $333 million, bringing Pear's managed assets to over $1.1 billion. Arash Afrakhteh, Ajay Kamat, and Shravan Reddy were appointed as general partners at the same time. The two discussed founding a venture capital firm about 13 years ago at Coupa Café in Palo Alto, believing in meeting founders before they are recognized as exceptional by the outside world.Pear has supported DoorDash, Gusto, Guardant Health, Vanta, and Listen Labs, seeing thousands of opportunities each year through pre-seed and seed-stage businesses, and has built PearX, university programs, hackathons, a founder community, two studios, an engineering team, and a founder services team. Arash Afrakhteh joined in 2020, investing in enterprise and B2B, covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud, and data infrastructure, and co-founded Cariden Technologies, which was acquired by Cisco in 2012.Ajay Kamat joined in 2015, investing in consumer, fintech, and healthcare, and co-founded Wedding Party, serving as CEO. The company was supported by Pear and later acquired by Instacart.

Brandon Thomas, the developer who previously used AI to reconstruct Adobe Creative Cloud for free, has now turned his attention to Microsoft Office. He has released open-source clone applications WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft on GitHub, corresponding to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, respectively. The three applications are written in Rust, with a single codebase that can run natively on Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD, and can also run in a browser. Thomas refers to this as a clean room reconstruction, meaning it is based on publicly available file format specifications and observations of the original software's behavior, without ever copying Microsoft's code, similar to the legal path taken by Compaq in the 1980s to clone the IBM PC BIOS.WordCraft can read and write .docx format, covering 88% of the features in the Word ribbon. It currently supports revision tracking, footnotes, citations, and mail merge; however, taking into account document fidelity and stability, the team estimates its completeness as a Word alternative for actual work is only about 60%, and it is still labeled as an alpha early testing version. GridCraft has supported 513 out of 523 Excel worksheet functions and 89% of ribbon commands, with the developer self-assessing about 50% as usable for actual work. The next step is to improve compatibility with real .xlsx files.

U.S. short-term interest rate futures fell as the market increased bets on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates after the inflation data was released. The U.S. Dollar Index DXY rose nearly 40 points in the short term, currently reported at 102.52.In addition, the market has increased bets on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates three more times before the end of 2027.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, an Ethereum OG address that bought ETH for $14 nine years ago (0x8AC...aA93) deposited 6,369 ETH, worth $15.95 million, to Kraken about 40 minutes ago.

According to on-chain analyst AI Yi's monitoring, the TRUMP team allocated an address that transferred 11.78 million dollars worth of tokens to a new address after 12 days, which may be deposited into an exchange.Twelve days ago, he transferred 8.87 million dollars worth of Solana to the address 52RDq...rkaD1: 6p6xgHyF7AeE6TZkSmFsko444wqoP15icUSqi2jfGiPN. This portion of tokens was subsequently deposited into OKX through two addresses.

According to Hongxing News, Hong Kong actor and singer Anthony Wong recently revealed his investment losses. He stated that he lost a lot of money from buying NFTs. "I dare not tell my family about the money I've lost. My wife asks me every day how much I've lost, how many digits. I haven't said anything; I've lost more than I did when I was trading stocks." He also warned everyone not to follow his example in stock trading, as he was always thinking about getting rich overnight, which led to such significant losses.Anthony Wong was born on February 26, 1980, in Hong Kong, China. He was originally a swimmer and entered the entertainment industry in 2001.

Recently, the Aster team provided feedback to RootData regarding some adjustments needed in the previously released token unlock data. After receiving the feedback, RootData verified the information against Aster's official documentation and several similar token unlock data platforms, finding no significant discrepancies between the previously recorded information and the publicly available documents at that time.Subsequently, RootData communicated further with the Aster official team and updated the on-site Aster token unlock data based on the latest confirmed information from the project team. Currently, some third-party token unlock data platforms have not yet synchronized this official document adjustment, making RootData one of the earlier platforms to complete the relevant data updates.This adjustment mainly involves two categories: Airdrop and Ecosystem & Community, with the specific changes as follows:1. Airdrop Category Adjustment: Split into "Founder's Airdrop" and "Governance Airdrop"Based on the latest confirmed information from Aster, RootData has re-split the original airdrop category into "Founder's Airdrop" and "Governance Airdrop."The previous official document indicated that after the Aster TGE, eligible participants would immediately receive 8.8% of the total allocation, with the remaining tokens in this category gradually released over the next 80 months, with specific release times potentially adjusted based on protocol governance.The latest official document adjustment states that the remaining ASTER tokens in this category will be reserved for airdrops, but the protocol governance body may adjust the relevant arrangements in the future.Therefore, RootData will no longer track the unlock data for the governance airdrop portion according to a fixed release cycle, and will instead dynamically update based on Aster's official announcements and governance decisions.2. Ecosystem & Community Category Adjustment: Split into Ecosystem & Community 1 and Ecosystem & Community 2Previously, the Aster Ecosystem & Community category (excluding the APX to ASTER conversion part) adopted a linear release model, planning to gradually unlock over 20 months. This model has been executed for 4 months (from October 2025 to January 2026), after which it will be adjusted to a reward distribution model based on staking mechanisms.According to Aster's current staking mechanism, the longer the user locks their tokens, the higher the loyalty reward APY they can receive. Since this allocation mechanism has shifted from a fixed linear release to a staking incentive model, RootData will no longer track the fixed unlock cycle for Ecosystem & Community 2 as originally planned, and will adjust based on the latest official announcements.It is reported that Aster completed its token TGE on September 17, 2025. Since its launch, Aster has made multiple adjustments to its token economic model, including extending the team token lock-up period by 12 months, adjusting the release method for ecosystem and community tokens, and redefining the governance arrangements for the remaining airdrop tokens.RootData stated that adjustments to the token economic model as the project develops and governance needs arise are common in the industry; the key is whether the project team can disclose relevant changes in a timely and transparent manner. RootData also encourages project teams to proactively submit token unlock plans and change information to help the community and users better understand token supply and release situations.

According to official data from Bitget, the fifth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed, with a total of 5,130,896 USDT awarded to 3,770,321 participants.In addition, users who enter the event page to claim their rewards will also receive an extra chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary Surprise Blind Box Lottery. The event will last until October 26, and more details can be found on the official Bitget platform.

Recently, the police in Binhai City, Shandong, China received a report from a citizen named Xie, stating that 1,300 USDC stablecoins and NFTs worth tens of thousands of yuan had mysteriously disappeared from his digital wallet. There were no obvious transfer alerts or signs of phishing links in the wallet. The police began an on-chain investigation into the virtual currency transfer records and actively sought cooperation with enterprises to analyze the suspect's account.After extensive work, a major suspect named Chen (30 years old, from Fengyang County, Chuzhou, Anhui) was identified. On October 9, technical police officers went to Fengyang County to arrest him. Upon arrival, Chen initially denied the allegations. However, the police utilized the immutable and traceable characteristics of blockchain evidence to gradually break down his psychological defenses. Chen ultimately confessed to the theft. Chen has now been criminally detained in accordance with the law, and his family has actively compensated the victim for the losses. This case marks the first instance of virtual currency theft in Binhai City.

According to SolanaFloor, a TOKEN2049 attendee has filed a report with the Singapore police regarding a crypto security side event called Don't Get Played that took place during TOKEN2049.The event was promoted by self-proclaimed organizers Apex Accelerator and Stone Venture. It is alleged that the organizers pressured and induced attendees on-site to install malware that would allow the organizers to remotely take full control of their computers.

According to PR Newswire, NFT Limited (stock code MI, formerly known as Takung Art), a company listed on the NYSE American, announced the proposed technical agreement RWAIX in Hong Kong on October 13 and released an open-source reference implementation on GitHub under the MIT license. The company operates an online trading platform for international artworks and collectibles, stating that the agreement is intended to allow buyers, sellers, AI agents, and robots to verify identities, confirm agreements, and ensure that deliveries actually occur, with the existing digital art platform intended to serve as the first real-world scenario.The company claims that internally managed test records show 50 tests passed with no failures, and it plans to launch a limited live pilot within 90 days after completing an independent security review and other conditions, targeting the first quarter of 2027. The reference implementation includes core protocol logic in Node.js, 50 automated test cases with expected outputs, schema and API documentation, as well as a browser demonstration using synthetic data. The company also stated that RWAIX has not yet been integrated into the production environment, and the related timeline may still be adjusted.The existing digital art trading platform is operated by its wholly-owned Hong Kong subsidiary, Metaverse Digital Payment Co., Limited. The pilot aims to first upgrade the consent purchase, delivery, independent verification, payment, and dispute resolution processes for an existing NFT order, using existing banking channels. CEO Yanying Wang stated that the company already has customers, orders, and payments, and plans to verify within the next 90 days whether the agreement can be used for real customer orders.

The total value of tokenized stocks has approached $3.3 billion, growing 15% over the past 30 days. Tokenized stock trading on major blockchains such as Solana and BNB Chain mostly occurs outside of regular trading hours in the U.S. Over 70% of tokenized stock trading volume on BNB Chain takes place outside of 9:30 AM to 4 PM Eastern Time, while this ratio for Solana and Base is 63% and nearly 60%, respectively.The trading volume of tokenized assets on the Solana trading platform Jupiter has increased by 50% month-over-month. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched an "innovation exemption" last month, allowing eligible trading venues to trade tokenized U.S. stocks on public chains. SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda stated that relevant platforms must disclose trading prices, volumes, timestamps, and daily trading volumes in U.S. dollars, as well as publicly disclose liquidity pool addresses and balances.

Cryptocurrency exchange Blockchain.com is applying for a license from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to seek both exchange registration and futures broker registration in order to offer derivatives and prediction market services in the United States.The aforementioned services will be aimed at retail and institutional clients, and the business planned to be launched in the United States still requires regulatory approval.

Microsoft's stock price has rebounded over 50% since the low point in June, with a market value increase of approximately $1.5 trillion, poised to set a new closing historical high. Previously, the stock had plummeted 17% in June due to investor concerns over the return on investment in artificial intelligence spending.The turning point occurred on July 29, when the financial report showed that the revenue growth of the cloud computing business reached the fastest rate in four years, leading to a 16% surge in stock price the following day.

According to The Block, Chicago Mercantile Exchange CEO Terrence Duffy stated that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is facing an issue of "overreach" in its attempt to expand regulatory authority over prediction markets, and the related regulatory disputes may ultimately reach the U.S. Supreme Court.Duffy mentioned during the DC Fintech Week event on Tuesday that the struggle for regulatory authority over prediction markets could evolve into a legal battle between state governments, tribal governments, and the federal government, stating, "This will go to the Supreme Court, and I believe state governments and tribal governments will have the advantage."