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Privacy infrastructure Hinkal announced on October 9, 2026, its participation in the Mastercard Crypto Partner Program. This program connects crypto and blockchain teams, Mastercard teams, and its global payment network, with members including stablecoin issuers, infrastructure providers, fiat exchange service providers, crypto card supporters, and blockchain and blockchain service providers. Mastercard positions it as a way to transform technological capabilities into compliant use cases for global commerce; some members can also access financial institutions within the card issuing and acquiring networks and receive regulatory and compliance support aligned with global standards.Related use cases include cross-border payments and remittances, B2B transactions, fund and settlement flows, stablecoin payments, and card projects that allow users to spend digital assets at regular merchants. Hinkal can provide embeddable privacy capabilities for wallets, payment platforms, and chains, allowing stablecoins to settle in private balances and transfer using zero-knowledge proofs, ensuring that the amount, sender, or receiver is not disclosed during on-chain transfer verification. This capability is already live on Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, TRON, and other major EVM chains, accessible via SDK and API.Existing integrations include Private Send in Polygon Wallet, Hinkal Private Send in the Tether wallet development kit, Turnkey wallets that can enhance privacy features through Hinkal SDK, and Avvio running Hinkal private payments on its own interface.

The CFTC released a temporary final rule defining prediction market event contracts as "swaps," attempting to solidify its legal standing amid jurisdictional disputes.

According to Axios, executives from AI companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI are privately rehearsing how to respond to public and political backlash following a catastrophic AI event. The scenario they are most concerned about is a large-scale cyberattack leading to disruptions in banking, the internet, and even electricity and water supply. Several industry insiders believe that a significant event will occur within the next 6 to 12 months. OpenAI stated that they are conducting preparatory drills and do not consider the related scenarios as inevitable; Anthropic declined to comment.The report states that the related plans include conducting red team tests for worst-case scenarios and educating congressional members as soon as possible. Executives are aware that current regulations are difficult to pass but hope to shape the laws and policies that U.S. leaders will adopt after the first disaster. In July of this year, OpenAI claimed that its GPT-5.6 Sol model and a more advanced unpublished model escaped the sandbox and infiltrated Hugging Face, aiming to obtain answers to the ExploitGym benchmark, which contains 898 real software vulnerabilities. More than a week later, Anthropic stated that a misconfiguration in testing allowed its environment, which was supposed to be offline, to connect to the internet, and the Claude model infiltrated three real organizations under what was considered a drill.Subsequently, OpenAI was accused of infiltrating and obtaining information from the Australian and U.S. governments. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike this week linked attacks on Korean banks to an unidentified actor, assessing that it may involve Chinese users utilizing Claude and Deepseek agents, allegedly stealing data from tens of thousands of bank customers.

The cryptocurrency asset platform Blockchain.com has submitted an application to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) seeking to obtain Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) licenses to provide event contracts (prediction markets) and cryptocurrency derivatives trading services to U.S. users.Blockchain.com CEO and co-founder Peter Smith stated that the company aims to allow users to manage digital assets, trade derivatives, and participate in real-world event predictions on the same platform. Currently, Blockchain.com has provided prediction market services to some international users through its partner Polymarket and supports perpetual contract trading through Hyperliquid.As the popularity of prediction markets rises, several cryptocurrency companies, including Crypto.com, Gemini, and Coinbase, are seeking to enter this field. If approved, Blockchain.com will join the ranks of companies that have applied for CFTC Designated Contract Market licenses this year.

Ondo's Ondo Private Markets announced that the OpenAI Private Markets Note is now available for trading on the Ondo Perps spot order book. Ondo Private Markets is dedicated to bringing the economic exposure of private companies on-chain, providing tokenized notes for qualified investors, designed to offer economic exposure linked to the performance of leading private companies. The value of the OpenAI Private Markets Note is calculated based on the realized value per share of the company's common stock, as specified in the note's issuance documents.This launch brings three core advantages. The first is the ability to buy and sell at any time: from the first day of launch, trading is available 24/7 on the Ondo Perps spot order book, without waiting for the company to go public. The second is self-custody and free transferability: users can store the tokens in their own wallets and transfer them freely among qualified holders. The third is mature infrastructure support: Ondo Private Markets is built on the same platform that created Ondo's tokenized stocks and tokenized U.S. Treasury products, with a total locked value (TVL) of $3.9 billion and over 1 million holders.The note does not represent shares or equity in OpenAI, and holders do not enjoy any shareholder rights in OpenAI. There is no affiliation, cooperation, or endorsement relationship between Ondo and OpenAI.

Programmable privacy infrastructure Soda Labs has completed a $3 million seed round financing, led by NextBlock. Over the past two and a half years, Soda Labs has developed a cryptographic privacy solution that combines garbled circuits with multi-party computation (GC-MPC), relying on proven standard cryptography such as AES and SHA256. Its privacy engine runs on standard cloud CPUs without the need for dedicated hardware, enabling applications to achieve privacy computing while maintaining a connection to existing public blockchain infrastructure.

According to Defimon Alerts monitoring, 79thVault on the BNB Chain may have lost approximately 12.5 million dollars due to a private key leak. The team usually operates hot wallets for small transfers to the reward pool, but recently this address transferred 2.01 million 79AU to external addresses in 7 transactions, with amounts of 10,000, 100,000, 100,000, 300,000, 500,000, 500,000, and 500,000 coins respectively.The attacker exchanged back to the same trading pair in about 95 transactions, causing the USDT reserves in the pool to drop from 15.2 million dollars to 3.9 million dollars, and cashed out 16,249 BNB, approximately 12.5 million dollars. Additionally, the operational key transferred 3.79 BNB to the same external address, and another 500,000 79AU was transferred to other addresses.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain address (t1hBootrMTnk9t2uYV3AWhMTswxphheEpEr) withdrew 1000 ZEC from Binance one hour ago, worth 1.33 million dollars.Shortly after, all 1000 ZEC were transferred into the Zcash privacy pool, making subsequent transfers private.

Mike Selig, the Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated in an interview with CNBC that there will be no "race to the bottom" on the leverage issue. The CFTC will apply the mature margin models and risk control measures that have long been used in the derivatives market to maintain market integrity in the cryptocurrency market.

The founder of the Bitcoin smart contract layer Stacks, Muneeb Ali, announced five key focuses for the first 30 days after returning as CEO of Stacks Labs, including expanding institutional business development, simplifying the management structure, releasing a roadmap for the next two years, strengthening public communication with large STX holders, and clarifying the value capture mechanism of STX.Muneeb Ali also stated that institutional demand for Bitcoin Bonds is increasing, and the future roadmap will also cover institutional-level Bitcoin privacy and quantum-resistant technology. Stacks plans to assign all intellectual property rights to a non-shareholder foundation.

According to PR Newswire, Ondo Finance announced the launch of Ondo Private Markets, providing on-chain access to top private companies for investors through tokenized notes. The first target will focus on a private company in the artificial intelligence sector, expected to begin trading on the secondary market this week.Subsequently, Ondo Private Markets plans to expand to private enterprises in fields such as robotics, cybersecurity, biotechnology, and infrastructure. Ondo stated that the related tokens do not correspond to the company's stocks or shares but provide holders with economic exposure to the performance of the reference company's common stock in qualified liquidity events through tokenized notes. The tokens can be freely transferred on-chain and can be used in conjunction with the DeFi ecosystem.This product is based on Ondo's existing on-chain asset infrastructure, which currently has a total value locked (TVL) of approximately $3.7 billion and over 1 million cumulative holders across the related tokenized stock and U.S. Treasury platforms. Ondo Finance indicated that the majority of large companies in the U.S. are still in private stages, with about 87% of companies generating over $100 million in annual revenue being private. Traditional investors often find it difficult to participate in these companies' early growth opportunities. Ondo Private Markets aims to provide a more flexible trading channel through the blockchain secondary market, allowing qualified investors to adjust their private market exposure around the clock.

According to a report by Semafor, the New York Federal Reserve has begun visiting JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Barclays, and Morgan Stanley to review their loan situations and risk exposures related to private credit companies.This review partly stems from JPMorgan Chase's move in March to write down a significant amount of loans in its private credit portfolio, particularly loans to software companies threatened by artificial intelligence.

According to Reuters, the private valuation of crypto-friendly bank Revolut has reached $115 billion, making it the highest-valued startup in Europe, surpassing Barclays Bank in the UK and Société Générale in France.The company currently has 80 million customers, close to JPMorgan's 84 million, and higher than HSBC's 41 million. Revolut is applying for more market licenses to expand its business from Mexico to regions such as Australia.Revolut's pre-tax profit for 2025 is projected to be £1.7 billion, lower than Barclays Bank's £9 billion, but still maintaining rapid growth. Its revenue comes from various products such as payments, foreign exchange, and card subscriptions, rather than primarily relying on loans. By the end of 2025, Revolut's loan scale is only £2.2 billion, with a loan-to-deposit ratio of 6%, significantly lower than HSBC's 55% and Société Générale's 86%.Revolut still faces issues such as low revenue per customer, limited loan business scale, and insufficient usage of main accounts. In the U.S. market, the company holds a temporary license but will face more intense competition. Additionally, Revolut was previously fined in Lithuania for anti-money laundering deficiencies and mistakenly sent some customer data to hackers impersonating government investigators in September.

The official website of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission shows that "E Fund" has been listed as an unlicensed company, and two related websites are also listed. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission stated that "E Fund" falsely claims on the related websites that the digital asset private fund has been approved by the Securities and Futures Commission.

Vitalik.eth posted on Farcaster revealing that he is conducting a personal experiment to generate personalized diet and exercise recommendations using personal health and travel data by combining local models with remote cutting-edge models while protecting privacy.The system employs a three-layer privacy protection architecture:Identity Layer: A local model (Qwen 3.8B) replaces the user to construct query requests, avoiding the exposure of writing style that could reveal identity.Payment Layer: Uses zkAPI to hide payment information.Network Layer: Hides IP addresses through Tor.The system is currently operational, but Vitalik pointed out three major shortcomings: Tor is inefficient and has high latency in unlinking requests; the local model runs at only 20-30 TPS, and a smooth experience requires over 100 TPS; the stricter the data protection, the more limited the assistance that the remote model can provide. The relevant code has been submitted to the Ethereum zkAPI repository.

Conway Research founder Sigil Wen announced the launch of Underdog, a private personal AI that can run on users' existing devices. Sigil Wen stated that Underdog has received support from a16z, Khosla Ventures, Hummingbird VC, Anthology (Anthropic and Menlo Ventures), as well as individuals and institutions in the AI field such as Patrick Collison, Naval, Guillermo Rauch, Noam Brown, Thomas Wolf, and Logan Kilpatrick.According to the announcement, Underdog's mission is to provide free, accessible, reliable, and private AI to billions of people. The team proposed Underdog's Law: that cutting-edge intelligence will reach users' devices within six months. The project will start with high-speed AI that can run on consumer-grade hardware, advancing capabilities, speed, power consumption, and data efficiency through collaborative design of models and reasoning engines.The announcement also stated that Underdog's research covers agent commerce, confidential reasoning, and how AI can reshape the internet economy, believing that privacy and capability no longer need to be mutually exclusive.

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, stated that recently the activity of developers within the ecosystem has increased and the development threshold has further lowered, focusing on what kind of applications to build and how to establish distribution channels.In this regard, he proposed a series of potential construction directions, covering AI electronic pets that combine NEAR AI on-chain verifiable reasoning with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a universal checkout component that supports full-chain intent payments, a decentralized encyclopedia that combines prediction markets with AI-generated content, a privacy off-chain trading (OTC) market based on NEAR Intents and management of anti-liquidation lending and perpetual contracts, a cross-chain activity registration custody tool in the form of a staking deposit, privacy code review agents, enterprise equity structure management tools, Delta neutral strategy management, privacy tracking single transactions based on view keys, end-to-end encrypted medical auxiliary diagnostic systems, privacy voice transcription desktop applications, and AI benchmarking based on private test sets.Regarding product distribution, he suggested combining NEARLegion with community channels like X, achieving multi-chain wallet compatibility through Aurora Intent Connect to lower cross-chain thresholds, and actively expanding across communities and platforms like Product Hunt.

Gate will hold the "RACING THE FUTURE Vol 3" special event at the Singapore F1 circuit on October 8, inviting Laurent Mekies, CEO and Team Principal of the F1 Red Bull Racing team, along with over a dozen VIPs and high-end clients for exclusive discussions. The event will take place in the core area of the Singapore circuit, where Laurent Mekies will engage in face-to-face conversations with guests about the core strategies, event operations, and behind-the-scenes stories of the Red Bull Racing team, sharing the practices and experiences of a top racing team both on and off the track.This event will adopt a small-scale, targeted invitation format, placing the communication scene in the unique setting of the F1 circuit to provide VIP users with a deeper and more exclusive communication experience. As the official sponsor of the F1 Red Bull Racing team, Gate not only reaches a global sports audience through event collaborations but also further integrates top racing resources into user services and brand communication scenarios, offering VIP users exclusive opportunities to access international top sports resources and understand team operations and competitive decision-making.In addition, Gate will also host an F1 Red Bull driver meet-and-greet during TOKEN2049, inviting F1 World Champion and Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen and teammate Isack Hadjar to appear at the Gate Lounge, where they will interact with fans through autographs, photos, and engagement. By covering diverse scenarios such as driver interactions, management discussions, and high-level dialogues, Gate will further deepen its cross-border collaboration with the F1 Red Bull Racing team and expand the connection between digital assets and global sports, technology, and mainstream culture.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the PUMP institutional private placement address (E3M...9Cs) participated in the PUMP private placement last July with 4 million USD, acquiring 1 billion PUMP at a private placement price of 0.004 USD.This address transferred all PUMP to Coinbase Prime 5 hours ago, valued at 5.36 million USD, with a price of 0.0054 USD; by selling the private placement PUMP, it made a profit of 1.36 million USD, with a return rate of 34%.

According to GMGN data, the privacy narrative token MASK on the Solana chain has a market capitalization exceeding 35 million USD, setting a historical high, with a 24-hour increase of over 70%. The current market capitalization is 34.91 million USD, with a trading volume of 2.7 million USD during the same period.MASK uses ZEC as the base pair and provides liquidity through the ZEC/MASK trading pair, aiming to offer ZK privacy services for any cryptocurrency activities. The prices of related tokens are highly volatile, and investment should be approached with caution.