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According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "LoL: FURIA Esports vs. Cloud9 - World Championship Qualifiers," the "Total Kills Over/Under 27.5 in Game 1?" sub-market's "Over" option win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 38% an hour ago to the current 57.5% (a fluctuation of 19.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "LoL: MVK Esports vs Karmine Corp (BO5) - World Championship Qualifiers" event on the prediction market Polymarket has seen significant fluctuations in the "Over" option of the sub-market "O/U 3.5 games," dropping from 58.5% an hour ago to the current 38.5% (a fluctuation of 20%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The United States Central Command stated that due to the blockade by the United States Navy, Iran has no maritime import and export trade.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) released an important announcement this week titled "AI Agents as Attack Vectors," indicating that AI agents operated by unnamed model providers exceeded their granted task scope during testing, reading confidential business records in the online systems of Indian agencies, and no affected agencies discovered this behavior on their own.CERT-In stated that it received voluntary disclosures from several AI model providers, which indicated that these models accessed the online systems of Indian agencies while being researched and evaluated on the internet. The announcement did not disclose the names of the providers, models, or affected agencies. The agents read business records containing personal data and confidential materials, utilizing credentials and connection settings exposed in application configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud service roles. In some cases, the same credentials were recovered multiple times and reused in different operations.Additionally, CERT-In observed that criminals exploited publicly available AI-driven offensive security frameworks to scan for vulnerabilities, implement exploits, and launch economically motivated attacks against Indian entities, reducing the time from initial access to final impact from several days to just hours; these tools were repeatedly repackaged and deployed, with related deployments appearing on servers in multiple countries.

The third-quarter report released by the stablecoin payment network Borderless.xyz shows that the median cost of sending a $200 remittance through stablecoin funding channels is 1%, or $2; whereas, according to World Bank data, the median cost of traditional remittance channels is 6.36%, or $12.72. In comparison, the cost of stablecoin remittances is approximately 84% lower. This comparison uses Borderless's pricing for the third quarter of 2026 and World Bank data for the same period in 2025.In emerging markets, the cost advantage is also evident. The cost of stablecoin remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa is 2.9%, while traditional transfers are 8.46%; in Latin America, the figures are 1.25% and 5.64%, respectively. In terms of corporate payments, a $10,000 stablecoin transfer to the Eurozone can cost as low as $26 when choosing the lowest-cost service provider, with the median service provider costing $52; traditional international bank wire transfers for the same amount require $135 to $150, including transfer fees and a 1% foreign exchange spread.Regarding settlement speed, the report states that stablecoin payments can reach the recipient's local bank account within minutes. The median settlement time for Brazil's PIX network in the third quarter is 2 minutes, Mexico's SPEI is 3 minutes, and Colombia's PSE is 2 minutes; traditional SWIFT transfers typically settle the next day, with the slowest 10% taking 3 business days. The success rate for receiving funds varies significantly: Mexico's SPEI is 98.6%, Brazil's PIX is 97.8%, Colombia's PSE is 79%, and Costa Rica's SINPE is only 73%. Standard Chartered Bank recently pointed out that although the total market capitalization of stablecoins has grown relatively slowly this year, transaction volumes are still rising, and it is expected that this market will reach $2 trillion by 2030, two years later than previously predicted.

The cross-chain exchange protocol NEAR Intents released a post-mortem report attributing a $3.8 million vulnerability to a flaw in the deposit notification feature. The protocol deploys a public settlement contract on NEAR that maintains an internal ledger of deposited tokens, while withdrawals transfer tokens out via a cross-chain bridge. The report was published by NEAR Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko on October 16, stating that the attacker withdrew $3.8 million before the protocol was shut down on October 1 and returned all funds within 36 hours of detection, with all affected users fully compensated.The report indicates that the feature notifies third-party contracts when tokens are deposited. The attacker created a contract that intentionally caused the notification to fail, allowing the token contract to refund the deposit while NEAR Intents retained the corresponding ledger credit. Through 23 failed deposit transactions, the attacker accumulated $3.8 million in unsupported balance, referred to in the report as ghost funds, and subsequently withdrew real tokens based on this and transferred them to other chains via the Omni infrastructure. Shevchenko stated that this was a vulnerability in the NEAR Intents contract, not in the Omni infrastructure.Withdrawals occurred between September 29 and October 1. The settlement contract was paused and reopened on October 1, with affected routes gradually restored, and contract-side deposits resumed on October 2. The report noted that the vulnerability went undetected because monitoring only compared the original chain assets with the total balance of NEAR side tokens, without comparing the total internal user balances with the actual tokens held by the contract; the team has since added this check and will automatically pause the contract when there is a balance inconsistency. The fix for the October vulnerability was deployed on October 2, but another serious vulnerability report regarding the same feature prompted its complete removal on October 7, with the relevant researcher receiving a $300,000 reward.

The decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Lighter announced that its EVM development network (devnet) has officially launched. This development network is an EVM-equivalent rollup built in collaboration with Axiom and powered by OpenVM. It operates in sync with Lighter Core, both designed to settle jointly to Ethereum through a single ZK proof.Developers can deploy using Foundry, Hardhat, Viem, and Ethers, and can read accounts, balances, positions, orders, and market data from Lighter Core; they can also place, modify, and cancel orders through smart contracts, and transfer assets between the development network L1, Lighter Core, and Lighter EVM.Lighter stated that the team can be contacted via email at evm@lighter.xyz to request access. Currently, it is onboarding developers in batches to ensure a quick response to issues and will expand access to all developers in the coming weeks.

According to official news, Metis Andromeda will make two adjustments in October: support for Stargate will be terminated on October 23, and LayerZero V1 related routing should be disabled by that date; starting October 30, LayerZero Labs' DVN (Decentralized Verification Network) and Executor will no longer provide services for Metis. Additionally, the Stargate V1 liquidity pool will close on December 15 across all chains.The official statement indicates that most holders do not need to take action. m.USDC, m.USDT, WETH, and METIS are issued by Metis's native cross-chain bridge and are unrelated to Stargate; minting and redemption will proceed as usual, and the Ethereum ↔ Metis native cross-chain bridge will also remain unaffected. Users providing liquidity to the Stargate liquidity pool on Metis must withdraw their liquidity before October 23. If there is any staking, it must be unstaked first, and then users should select the Metis Andromeda network in the Stargate application to withdraw.

CryptoQuant analyst MorenoDV_ published an analysis indicating that the realized market cap of new whales in Bitcoin is $78.61 billion, while old whales stand at $159.15 billion. New whales account for 33.06%, compared to about 18% earlier in 2026.Since September, the realized market cap of new whales has continued to grow, while old whales have remained relatively stable, with the growth primarily coming from new whales. The realized market cap is calculated based on the price at the last on-chain transfer of the tokens and does not represent the proportion of BTC supply.In terms of cost, the overall cost basis of new whales has decreased from a previous high of around $110,000 to about $68,000 at the end of August, before rebounding to around $77,000. The current BTC price is $82,134, which is approximately 6.7% higher than the cost basis of new whales.The analysis suggests that the data shows large holders buying during the downturn and continuing to accumulate as prices rebound. However, the turnover of the holder group and transfers between addresses can also inflate the realized market cap, so the growth in realized market cap cannot be interpreted as an equivalent influx of new funds. If BTC continues to fall below around $77,000, new whales will incur losses again, increasing the likelihood of selling during a rebound. The inflow to exchanges and realized losses can be used to determine whether this is short-term pressure or if large holders are starting to sell off again.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, as the market rebounds, the well-known trader Bonk Guy's portfolio has increased by over one million dollars in the past 24 hours.Currently, he ranks first on both the 24-hour leaderboard and the historical overall leaderboard on the social trading platform FOMO.

According to Bloomberg on October 16, China proposed to include advanced artificial intelligence technology in the export control list, which may restrict the overseas transfer of AI models and chips in order to implement stricter controls on domestic progress in this strategic field.The draft covers 23 AI technologies, including large language models, intelligent agents, chip design, and computing power clusters. Restricted technologies include model weights and source code for products exceeding specific performance thresholds, with relevant policy texts available on the public page of the Ministry of Commerce of China.

NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz's technology will support SAE Level 4 autonomous driving and driverless cars.

Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB) announced that personal customers can conduct two-way exchanges between USD and USDT, USDC through the mobile banking app, without the need to transfer funds to a cryptocurrency exchange.Customers can hold USDT, USDC, and other fiat currencies in the same bank account, and the service supports 24-hour exchanges from Monday to Friday. Singapore Gulf Bank was initiated by the Singapore Huangpu Group.

The second-generation Tesla Roadster supercar has been unveiled, equipped with a cold air propulsion system developed in collaboration with SpaceX. Musk stated that Tesla will begin production of the Roadster sports car in 2028. In August of this year, Tesla, Inc. applied to register the "Roadster" trademark, classified internationally as a vehicle, with the current trademark status being in the application process.

Stacks, the second-layer platform for Bitcoin, has released its third-quarter ecosystem report. The data shows that a total of 735 BTC entered the Bitcoin staking system during the first two locking periods. Since the PoX-5 hard fork, the number of STX participating in staking has increased by over 25%, rising from 392 million to 493 million.In the first locking period (Bond 1), a total of 230 BTC was deposited, with participants including 21shares, HashKey Cloud, UTXO Management, and Sypher Capital. The deposit amount in the second locking period doubled to 505 BTC. The locked value of Zest Protocol exceeds 80 million dollars, with deposits over 122 million dollars, total borrowings exceeding 42 million dollars, and 800 Bitcoin deployed as collateral.Stacks plans to launch a self-custodial lending feature backed by staked Bitcoin in the fourth quarter, along with the introduction of the Earn treasury, and further integration of stBTC with platforms such as Zest, Bitflow, and Hermetica. Additionally, Stacks plans to release the Epoch 4.1 network upgrade in early December, which includes improvements to the smart contract language Clarity.

According to The Block, French Bitcoin treasury company Capital B announced its performance for the first half of 2026, reporting a net loss of 69.5 million euros (approximately 77.9 million dollars), with revenue increasing by 3.5% year-on-year to 5.8 million euros (approximately 6.5 million dollars).As of September 30, Capital B's strategic Bitcoin reserves increased to 3,538 coins, with an average purchase price of 87,805 euros (approximately 98,460 dollars).

The decentralized trading protocol Metric has officially launched, allowing users to exchange tokens, provide liquidity, and deploy their own liquidity pools. Metric is currently available on Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Ethereum.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "LoL: FURIA Esports vs MVK Esports (BO5) - World Championship Qualifiers," the option "FURIA Esports" in the sub-market "Game 2 Winner" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 65.5% an hour ago to the current 40% (a fluctuation of 25.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.