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Grayscale's HYPG has been listed on Nasdaq, providing investors with exposure to HYPE tokens and supporting staking.The fund began trading on June 3, charging an annual sponsorship fee of 0.29%, and as of October 28, it has assets under management of $186.9 million.

According to market news monitoring, last month, out of 3.75 million HYPE traded over-the-counter, 3.125 million were staked to a single wallet, with validators being Hyperliquid Strategies and Unit; the remaining 625,000 were transferred to another wallet of HyperEVM and remained idle for nearly three weeks.Yesterday, that wallet sent 1 HYPE to a new wallet; this new wallet received funds from several transfers on the same day, with the funds coming from wallets associated with TradeXYZ related to the purchase of assets on Hyperliquid. Currently, 625,000 HYPE has been transferred to this new wallet and moved from HyperEVM to Hypercore. Market speculation suggests that ICE is the buyer of these 3.75 million HYPE, but this has not yet been confirmed; this 625,000 HYPE may have been transferred to TradeXYZ as part of ICE's investment, with on-chain associations indicating that this portion of HYPE may belong to TradeXYZ.

On October 29, KR1 plc, a company listed on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, announced the launch of its technical infrastructure operations on the decentralized artificial intelligence network Bittensor. The company stated that it has recently acquired 5,000 network-native assets TAO and has initiated staking as part of its technical infrastructure strategy. Based on the reward rate observed on October 28, the company estimates that the annualized infrastructure income is approximately equivalent to 6.6% of the current value of the deployed TAO holdings.The announcement stated that Bittensor is a layer blockchain that supports subnets, covering services such as AI inference, computing power, training, and prediction, where independent suppliers compete for network rewards based on performance. KR1 supports the assessment of service provider performance through staking and receives a portion of the network rewards. There is no mandatory unbonding period for TAO unstaking, allowing the company to retrieve its holdings immediately after unstaking. Rewards can be retained to expand the scale of productive assets or can be liquidated for subsequent investments and operational costs. The company will also disclose its TAO holdings and related infrastructure income in monthly unaudited updates.Keld van Schreven, Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1, stated: "As artificial intelligence enables more complex tasks to be performed by software, the demand for infrastructure related to supply-side intelligence is expected to grow significantly. Bittensor introduces open competition for the supply of AI services, and the company is focused on how its incentives are forming services that lead to continuous customer payments, as well as how to deploy TAO holdings to enhance the value and income potential of productive digital assets per share." KR1 claims to be the only publicly listed company on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, holding and operating productive digital assets on the relevant network.

Solflare announced that new validators are now online. Users can now manually unstake from Solflare (Legacy) and stake to the new validators, or wait for the application update to migrate.The official team will compensate for the rewards interrupted during the migration period, with specific duration and details to be announced later.

The decentralized liquidity staking protocol Diva Staking announced on social media that it will shut down the project and will not launch the mainnet. The official statement said that this decision was made after thorough discussion and apologized to the early stakers who had pre-deposited in the vault, stating that related deposits can be withdrawn through Enzyme without further waiting.The official statement mentioned that the team has been operating for about two and a half years without income or salary since the funds were exhausted in mid-2024, with three members pushing the project forward. Diva went live on the Hoodi testnet earlier this summer and has been running stably for about four months without any issues, but failed to gain support from large institutions for the mainnet launch. The three-member team also could not bear the costs of a new round of audits and mainnet operations, thus choosing to wind down rather than risk launching.The announcement also stated that the demand structure for LST has changed after the Shanghai upgrade. As of the end of June this year, BitMine, Coinbase, and Binance together accounted for about 30% of the total staked ETH, with approximately 11.5%, 10.9%, and 7.9% respectively, which is comparable to the concentration when the market was concerned about Lido's share being close to one-third. The official also congratulated Lido for advancing Simple DVT and opening up to independent stakers.

According to SolanaFloor, Solflare stated that its staking service provider experienced a security incident that affected the keys held for its validators, which are no longer generating staking rewards. Solflare claimed that user funds were not affected, and the delegated SOL remains in the users' own staking accounts, controlled by their keys.Solflare will guide users to migrate to new validators through an app update, and rewards will resume once staking is activated, with plans to compensate migrating users.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the address 0xbf8...808d5 deposited 3084 ETH to Binance 5 minutes ago, worth approximately 7.17 million USD, suspected of liquidation.This address gradually accumulated positions from November 2022 to February 2026, previously depositing ETH into Lido for staking interest. Based on currently disclosed data, this operation is expected to yield a profit of approximately 928,000 USD. The last sell-off from this address occurred between August and November 2025, when the ETH price ranged from 3847 to 4532 USD.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum developers have fixed a vulnerability in the Glamsterdam upgrade that could allow operators to withdraw ETH intended for new validators from the staking service. The fix changed the handling rules for validator deposits and was merged on Monday, after developers had rejected the modification a week earlier.Researcher avsetsin discovered that if an operator first registers as a builder with a specific public key, and the staking service subsequently deposits ETH using the same key to activate the validator, the draft rules would credit both deposits to the builder. Avsetsin stated that this is a conditional code discovery and not a confirmed real-time exploit; existing checks can prevent the attack, and there are currently no reports of losses. The new rules treat deposits as sorted by withdrawal receipts, ensuring that validator deposits still belong to the validators.Glamsterdam has been running on the Sepolia testnet, but the launch on the Hoodi testnet has been delayed, with a new date to be determined before the mainnet launch.

The French Ministry of Finance, the Financial Markets Authority (AMF), the French Central Bank, and the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) jointly suggested to the European Commission to allow third parties, such as crypto platforms, to offer rewards to stablecoin holders under specific conditions. The four institutions believe that such rewards should be regulated rather than outright prohibited.The four institutions proposed that platforms should disclose reward information to holders, must not promise guaranteed returns, and should not promote rewards as savings products; regulators should also monitor the impact of rewards on bank deposits. The French side still supports banning stablecoin issuers from paying interest but opposes extending the ban to staking and lending activities. The European Central Bank and the central banks of EU countries advocate maintaining the ban on interest for stablecoins and including indirect benefits such as rewards and fee waivers, as well as lending and staking activities within the scope of restrictions.The European Commission must submit a review report on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) to the EU legislative bodies by June 30, 2027, and may propose amendments.

The decentralized exchange Osmosis based on Cosmos has terminated the issuance of OSMO tokens and shifted the source of staking rewards from newly issued tokens to protocol revenue.This adjustment eliminates approximately two percentage points of the staking annual yield supported by the issuance, while freezing about 51.9 million previously minted developer tokens.

According to PR Newswire, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) announced that its ETH holdings have increased to 6.05 million, accounting for 4.95% of the total ETH supply; the total holdings of crypto assets, cash, and tradable securities have reached $15 billion.Among them, 5.23 million ETH have been staked, and based on the current staking scale, the expected annualized staking income is approximately $318 million. In the past week, Bitmine has increased its holdings by 10,452 ETH, continuing to implement its weekly accumulation strategy.In addition, the company has repurchased 22.9 million shares of common stock in 2026, with a total amount reaching $399.6 million. However, its assets are highly concentrated in ETH, and the overall holding value still faces the risk of cryptocurrency price fluctuations, while staking income also depends on the actual staking scale and yield.

On October 24, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (Toly) posted an idea on X, planning to utilize Solana validators to build an oracle that allocates voting power based on staking weight, providing price assessments for tokenized assets and using such assets as collateral.According to this concept, validators will participate in price judgments based on the amount of SOL they have staked. The profits generated by the related mechanism could increase revenue for the Solana network through taxation. However, this idea is still in the conceptual stage and is not a formal governance proposal, with no clear implementation timeline or governance voting arrangements at present. If realized in the future, this mechanism could introduce a native alternative to Solana's existing oracle network, but it also involves supply changes brought about by the increase in SOL issuance, as well as potential conflicts of interest and manipulation risks arising from validators participating in collateral pricing.

Lido has launched 0x02 CSM, allowing permissionless operation for validators with a maximum effective balance of 2048 ETH. Operators do not need to self-fund the staking deposit; they only need to provide a bond. The first key requires 32 ETH, and subsequent keys require 30 ETH, with staking allocated by the protocol.This module adopts an initial deposit queue and an additional staking queue with a limit of 32 seats; the initial share cap upon launch is 0.01% of Lido Core TVL, and the first batch of approximately 32 keys will receive seed deposits.

According to monitoring by Arkham, the address marked as the Polygon multi-signature wallet "0xFA5" has transferred a total of 52,928,000 POL to the staking contract address, valued at approximately 4.82 million USD.Market analysis suggests that the recent increase in Polygon staking activities is related to the rise in APY, which may also provide some support for POL and alleviate its downward price pressure.

Marinade, the Solana staking service protocol, released its Q3 2026 report. As of September 30, the amount of SOL staked was 7.94 million, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 21.2%, mainly driven by the non-custodial native staking product Native and the institutional-focused Select. The amount staked in Native increased by 47.3% quarter-over-quarter to approximately 3.77 million, while Select grew by 38.7% to about 1.68 million, and mSOL decreased by 6.8% to around 2.27 million.Revenue for the third quarter was approximately $1 million, corresponding to 10,918 SOL, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 25.9%, primarily from validator margin settlement income, which grew by 38.1% quarter-over-quarter. In the staking auction market, 48 out of 51 epochs in the quarter had yields higher than the Solana staking index, with an average yield before Marinade fees of 5.93%, compared to 5.67% for the index during the same period.In governance, since the implementation of MIP-22 in July, Marinade has used 10% of auction fees to repurchase MNDE on the open market. In the third quarter, a total of 4.2 million MNDE was repurchased with 906.6 SOL, and the first distribution opened on October 1. The report also disclosed that on September 25, attackers exploited a vulnerability in the DAO voting process to submit two malicious proposals, one of which involved transferring DAO treasury assets; the council vetoed both proposals within about 6 hours, and the fix was completed that night, with no funds being transferred.

In a live broadcast in the third quarter, Aave founder Stani stated that Aavenomics 3.0 will include AAVE buybacks, staking, and burning.The AAVE buyback was suspended the day after the rsETH vulnerability incident on April 19. Since then, the DAO has committed to providing 25,000 ETH to DeFi United to compensate for the losses and has arranged for Mantle to provide a credit line of up to 30,000 ETH. Before the buyback was suspended, there was a proposal in the forum suggesting to reduce the annual buyback budget from approximately 50 million dollars to 30 million dollars.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, three addresses have cumulatively withdrawn 24,454 ETH from Kraken and Binance, worth 60.68 million USD.Among them, a certain whale withdrew 10,954 ETH from Kraken and staked it after being inactive for 4 months; a certain whale withdrew 9,000 ETH from Binance and deposited it into Aave; a certain whale withdrew 4,500 ETH from Binance 10 hours ago.

The GMX governance forum has released the GMLabs-003 proposal, which plans to use all remaining protocol revenue after the GT buyback on the Solana side to repurchase GMX. The purchased tokens will be added to the staking rewards pool, and the GT buyback mechanism will remain unchanged.The proposal also intends to introduce a 180-day unbonding waiting period for existing and new GMX and esGMX staking positions on Arbitrum and Avalanche, calculated from the submission of the unbonding request, with the previously staked time not counted. Pending requests can be canceled, and existing positions do not need to be migrated. The above adjustments are scheduled to be implemented on October 28, depending on the readiness for implementation.

The Cardano Foundation calls on the European Union not to introduce new independent regulatory rules for DeFi and staking, advocating that existing financial laws should regulate based on the function and risk of activities rather than the technology used. The foundation outlined its 19-page opinion submitted to the European Commission on September 30 in a blog post released on Wednesday, urging a distinction between direct participation in decentralized networks and financial services provided by intermediaries, especially those involving the custody or control of user assets. The foundation stated that regulation should follow the substance of the activity, the functions performed, and the risks generated, rather than the technology relied upon to conduct the activity.The foundation pointed out that Cardano users can delegate native ADA tokens to help secure the network without relinquishing custody or locking up tokens, and this form of direct participation should be treated differently from staking services operated by intermediaries. The opinion also calls for a clearer distinction between the EU MiCA regulations and existing financial laws, warning that overlapping regulatory requirements and inconsistent interpretations among member states could create uncertainty for crypto businesses.This move comes as EU regulators consider expanding oversight of crypto services. In September, the European Securities and Markets Authority suggested adding additional safeguards for staking and lending activities and establishing a new category of regulated services for companies providing access to DeFi protocols. Additionally, the Cardano Foundation, along with five other blockchain organizations, sent a joint letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 20, urging it to formally recognize digital commodities as non-securities under the proposed crypto framework.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the Ethereum treasury company Bitmine deposited 159,728 ETH (390 million USD) into Ethereum staking 6 hours ago, and has currently staked over 5.227 million ETH (1.28 billion USD).In addition, there are 1.33 million ETH queued for Ethereum staking, with a waiting time of over 23 days. The amount of ETH exiting staking is only 149,000, with a waiting time of less than 4 days.