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According to the latest global storage market tracking report for the third quarter of 2026 released by market research firm Counterpoint Research, driven by strong demand for AI accelerators and data centers, as well as rising prices, DRAM revenue in the third quarter of 2026 increased nearly fivefold year-on-year.The agency stated that the current market is in a price-driven super cycle rather than a shipment-driven cycle. This quarter, DRAM bit shipments grew by only about 4%, but market revenue has approached $200 billion, approximately five times that of the same period last year.The report noted that AI has transformed storage from a commodity into a scarce high-value resource, with buyers now competing for supply assurance rather than repeatedly negotiating on price. With prices continuing to rise, suppliers are expected to set new profit records in the next quarter.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Clearing and Risk Division issued a no-action letter clarifying whether derivatives clearing organizations can use trust companies for the daily settlement of clearing members.The letter states that derivatives clearing organizations may consider trust companies as settlement banks that meet applicable CFTC requirements, allowing them to use these for daily settlements.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog, 23pds, posted on platform X that the APT29 professional organization related to Eastern Europe is spreading iOS and Android exploit tools through compromised websites and hijacked web analytics tool scripts.It pointed out that DarkSword and AndroSnitch have begun mass attacks, and normal websites or apps that users visit may contain backdoors. He advised users to upgrade their systems to the latest version.

According to Gelonghui, citing the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, on November 4, a joint release of the "Self-Regulatory Convention for the Development of Intelligent Agents" was made by 20 entities including the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi.The convention mentions the construction of interconnected infrastructure for intelligent agents, co-building interoperable infrastructure, developing technologies and standards for intelligent agent registration and resolution, capability description and discovery, intent understanding and transformation, network routing and connection, resource scheduling and measurement, protocol compatibility and mutual recognition, continuously reducing the cost of cross-domain discovery and connection for intelligent agents, and supporting the interconnected collaboration of intelligent agents.The convention also mentions accelerating the empowerment of intelligent agents across various industries, adhering to serving the real economy, developing low-threshold tools for intelligent agent development and deployment, collaborating on research and development of intelligent agents aimed at real operational scenarios that create actual value, promoting the embedding of intelligent agents into existing production systems and business processes, creating benchmark applications, continuously reducing the cost of implementing intelligent agents, and assisting industries in improving quality and efficiency.

According to CoinDesk, the stablecoin OpenUSD (OUSD), initiated by Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, and Shopify, will charge a management fee of 0.1 basis points based on payment volume, with a maximum fee of $0.01 per transaction. The document shows that payments of $1,000 and above are subject to the $0.01 cap, while smaller payments are charged at 0.1 basis points of the amount.Unlike USDT and USDC issuers who retain reserve interest, OUSD distributes reserve earnings to partners, deducting only the management fee. Open Standard also provides partners with opportunities to gain equity in projects based on OUSD holdings and cash flow, requiring partners to hold at least $50 million to participate in the equity pool, with a maximum ownership percentage of 5% for a single partner. Additionally, Visa has released a technical implementation and user guide of over 100 pages for partners to integrate OUSD through the Visa stablecoin platform.

Open source AI practitioner Jun Song posted on X, stating that an anonymous black hat organization contacted him yesterday, proposing a reinforcement learning request and offering a very high amount of money to commission him for post-training on open source weight models, using exploit data. Jun Song also operates a hardware export business for data centers in South Korea and is promoting the project 0xSupergemma.Jun Song mentioned that the other party claimed the scale of the attack data they possess is unprecedented for him, and even if someone said this is a law enforcement undercover dataset, he would believe it. In contrast, a white hat project he participated in used GLM-5.3, with data volume less than 1% of that scale, and its performance has already significantly surpassed cutting-edge models. He has rejected the request and expressed his real concern that ultimately someone else might accept this deal.

According to on-chain analyst Darkfost, with the occurrence of the recent Binance attack, the total amount of funds stolen by the North Korean hacker organization Lazarus Group has reached 11.87 billion dollars.Based on 2025 data, this amount is equivalent to 45% of North Korea's GDP and 35% of its gross national income, which illustrates the astonishing scale.However, during multiple money laundering processes, some funds have also been lost. The recent Binance attack is the most profitable event for this North Korean hacker organization.

According to the latest weekly report released by the Cardano ecosystem governance organization Intersect, a serious Linux kernel vulnerability numbered CVE-2026-98432 may affect multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, with a CVSS security risk score as high as 9.8 (out of a maximum of 10).Intersect warns Cardano stake pool operators (SPO) to immediately check the Linux kernel versions used by their block production nodes and relay nodes, and to update and restart their servers as soon as security patches are released for the corresponding distributions.Currently, some Linux distributions have provided fix patches, but some distributions, including Ubuntu, are still preparing updates. Intersect stated that it will continue to release security guidelines through its official X account and the stake pool operator community.

According to market news, the United States Secret Service stated that investigators are collaborating with private sector partners, including Circle, to identify, freeze, track, and recover funds stolen from Binance.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, on October 29, the Central Bank of Russia approved the National Association of Participants in the Securities Market (NAUFOR) to become the country's first self-regulatory organization for cryptocurrency exchanges and digital custodians. This move implements the "Digital Currency and Digital Rights Law," which was passed by the State Duma in July, into an operational system. The law requires exchange operators and digital custodians to enter the central bank's registry and must join a self-regulatory organization.The central bank's registry currently includes 23 cryptocurrency exchanges and 8 digital custodians, including VTB, Sberbank, and T-Bank's parent company T-Technologies. Companies listed in the registry must complete their membership within 90 days. The self-regulatory organization is responsible for setting industry standards, supervising members, and communicating with regulators on behalf of the industry.NAUFOR stated that it will participate in the formulation of standards for the digital asset market and promote adjustments to the rules by the central bank. The association earlier this month obtained similar qualifications in the field of information system operators and currently has 725 members.The law prohibits the use of Bitcoin for everyday payments, and domestic cryptocurrency payments remain banned. It also issues licenses to exchanges and custodians, limits retail investors' purchase amounts, and establishes state-regulated cross-border trading channels. Non-qualified retail investors can purchase up to 300,000 rubles, approximately $3,800, per year through a single intermediary. Additionally, the Moscow Exchange has tested cryptocurrency trading with professional market participants and plans to launch in December; Sberbank has also been approved to custody Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency assets.

Multiple institutions predict that the Federal Reserve will pause interest rate hikes in October and raise rates by 25 basis points in December. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Credit Agricole all believe that the rates will remain unchanged in October, while Bank of America predicts an interest rate hike in October.

According to Bitcoin.com, the cyber extortion group Whitearmor claimed on October 26 that it had stolen 15,420,003 account records from the crypto casino Gamdom, with each account containing 146 data fields, and demanded a payment of 15 million dollars in Bitcoin, or else they would expose sensitive customer information.The group has published a JSON sample of about 437KB, containing approximately 100 records as so-called evidence on its ransom website, claiming that the cumulative profits corresponding to these accounts exceed 1 billion dollars, but did not specify how this was calculated. It is reported that the attackers exploited an internal machine account with administrator privileges that had not rotated its credentials for a long time.Previously, Gamdom suffered a hot wallet attack on October 13, with founder Felix Römer admitting losses exceeding 3 million dollars, and blockchain researcher vxdb estimating the stolen amount across multiple networks to be about 4.2 million dollars. After suspending operations, the platform resumed on October 16, stating that user balances were unaffected. Gamdom disputed the scale of 15.4 million accounts but acknowledged that usernames, email addresses, and gambling activity information may have been exposed, while stating that verification documents were not affected.

According to Bloomberg, the Dutch cryptocurrency industry organization has warned that if cryptocurrencies are excluded from the proposed new capital gains tax system, investors may sell off their crypto assets.Under the current proposal from Dutch regulators, financial assets such as stocks, bonds, and options are planned to transition to a capital gains tax upon sale starting in 2028, while cryptocurrencies, gold, and foreign exchange may still be required to pay annual taxes on unrealized gains at least until 2030.

The Wall Street Journal has published full-page paid advertisements in the past two days, themed "YOUR STOCK. THEIR TOKENS. YOUR PROBLEM." The Chinese expression is a reminder to CEOs of publicly listed companies: your stock, their tokens, your problem, warning the public about the risks of stock tokenization.The advertisement is funded by the American conservative nonprofit organization Common Sense Leadership Fund, warning that the cryptocurrency industry will tokenize company shares in unregulated venues and listing eight major risks: pricing divergence, ownership ambiguity, impaired capital raising, cyber theft, market manipulation, AML loopholes, lack of investor protection, and potential legal liabilities.Previously, a total of 22 companies, including Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, McDonald's, and Alphabet, have expressed opposition. The related documents outline the rules of the collaboration project between OKX and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and list the companies that have opposed it, but do not specify the exact reasons for their opposition.

According to information from GitHub, a core protocol draft named "Decoupled Consensus" has appeared in the Ethereum EIP repository. It proposes to separate the beacon chain's head voting from the finality proof voting to enhance fork choice security, shorten finality time, and lay the groundwork for a subsequent transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQ).The proposal is co-authored by Francesco D'Amato, Roberto Saltini, Yann Vonlanthen, Mikhail Kalinin, and Ben Edgington, and is currently still in the early draft stage, with multiple details yet to be determined. The submitters primarily hope to obtain an EIP number at this stage. The proposal is pending further review and has not yet been merged.

On-chain detective ZachXBT posted that a certain institution was allegedly hacked by the North Korean-linked organization SquidSquad on October 8, resulting in the theft of approximately 2.84 million USD on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC).According to its tracking, the attackers deposited 1,111.2 ETH into Tornado Cash on October 20, then withdrew it to three addresses, and subsequently transferred the funds from Ethereum to Tron via USDT, consolidating them into two addresses. The aforementioned consolidation addresses are all financially linked to addresses previously attributed to North Korea. The funds were then directed to Chinese over-the-counter (OTC) traders through intermediary addresses within minutes, and ZachXBT believes this move may be to evade potential fund freezes by Tether.

According to Jinshi reports, from early September to mid-October, the super political action committee affiliated with President Trump invested $277 million to support Republican candidates in the midterm elections, while the committee also raised an additional $25 million during the same period.According to the latest documents submitted to the Federal Election Commission, donors include casino mogul Stephen Wynn, Blackstone Group's Stephen Schwarzman, and billionaire Diane Hendricks, among others, who made large donations. Since its establishment two days after Trump won his second term, MAGA Inc. has raised a total of $449 million. Reports indicate that this fundraising scale is unprecedented for a president starting a second term.This funding further strengthened the Republican camp's finances. Currently, the Republican Party and its three affiliated super political action committees have raised a total of $2.1 billion, far exceeding the $1.3 billion raised by the Democratic camp.

According to Decrypt, nine blockchain organizations including Quantus, Postquant Labs, Midnight Foundation, Keystone, Abelian, and Hacken have jointly established the Quantum Alliance, aiming to develop "quantum-ready" open standards and establish a unified approach to test the quantum resistance of blockchain networks, wallets, and infrastructure.The Quantum Alliance stated that currently, approximately 6.04 million BTC, accounting for about 30% of the Bitcoin supply, are at potential risk of quantum attacks due to the exposure of elliptic curve signature public keys. The organization will focus on promoting blockchain migration, post-quantum zero-knowledge systems, wallet security, and cross-chain compatibility, citing recent predictions that practical quantum attack windows may appear as early as around 2028.

The Blockchain Association, the Crypto Innovation Committee, in conjunction with the Illinois state government, the Digital Chamber of Commerce, and the Illinois Blockchain Association, submitted a joint motion to the Sangamon County Circuit Court, requesting the court to expedite the hearing of two lawsuits against the state's Digital Asset Tax Act. The state government has agreed to issue an injunction to suspend the effectiveness and enforcement of the Digital Asset Tax Act until July 1, 2027.In order to make a ruling on the legality of the tax law as soon as possible, the parties have proposed a timeline for expedited summary judgment submissions: the first round of motions is scheduled to be submitted on November 4, 2026, and all relevant submissions will be completed by January 22, 2027. The parties request the court to hold a hearing between February 8 and February 19, 2027, and request the court to make a ruling by March 1, 2027, to which the state government has no objection. This timeline is subject to court approval.

ICBA accuses OCC of lacking regulatory safeguards in granting banking charters to cryptocurrency companies. The cryptocurrency lobbying group CCI supports OCC, stating that the lawsuit aims to stifle financial innovation.