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On October 12, the Central Bank of Russia clarified in its updated guidelines that individuals are not allowed to withdraw cryptocurrency from regulated digital accounts to self-custodied wallets. The Central Bank stated that this restriction is based on Article 31(9) of the new Russian cryptocurrency market law (Federal Law No. 282-FZ), which will take effect on September 1, 2026. Digital accounts are statutory accounts used to record crypto assets, and digital custodians are registered institutions that register and transfer these assets and provide access to wallet addresses.This restriction applies to the withdrawal of funds under the regulated custodial system in Russia. For withdrawals from ordinary investment accounts, the rules cover resident individuals and do not provide exemptions for qualified investors. According to Article 31, individuals who pass the required tests and receive risk disclosures can transfer cryptocurrency to wallets managed by legally authorized foreign custodians, which is different from withdrawing to personal wallets outside of institutional custody. The law also sets exceptions for foreign trade settlements and mining.The Central Bank also stated that transfers between individuals using addresses managed by digital custodians are not allowed, including transfers generated from transactions between individuals. The aforementioned provisions belong to the general cryptocurrency market law and are not rules applicable only to participants in experimental projects. The Central Bank indicated that direct peer-to-peer transactions between individuals are only permitted until July 1, 2027, when Article 30(1) will take effect; thereafter, residents who are not authorized as intermediaries in the cryptocurrency market must complete transactions through or with the participation of authorized intermediaries, with optional channels including licensed brokers and operators of cryptocurrency exchanges listed in the Central Bank of Russia's registry.

According to a report by BBC, multiple X platform accounts under the Irish police (An Garda Síochána) were hacked, including @GardaTraffic with 600,000 followers and @GardaInfo with nearly 300,000 followers. The hackers removed the original brand information from the accounts and posted cryptocurrency promotional content, while also altering the account's geographical location to Amsterdam.Some posts have been flagged by the platform as being associated with banned accounts. The Irish police have been contacted for comments, and the investigation into the incident is still ongoing.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the cryptocurrency asset management firm Abraxas Capital has realized profits exceeding 331 million dollars from two hedge accounts on the decentralized derivatives trading platform Hyperliquid.Currently, the aforementioned accounts hold a total of over 1.45 billion dollars in short hedge positions.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Wintermute holds approximately 87.34 million USD in open positions on Hyperliquid, with short positions around 75.45 million USD, accounting for 86.4%; long positions around 11.89 million USD, accounting for 13.6%.Current floating profit is approximately 3.97 million USD, with a historical cumulative profit of about 209.79 million USD. Its largest short positions include approximately 18.33 million USD in ETH, approximately 12.07 million USD in SOL, and approximately 10.72 million USD in SP500.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, "Brother Magi" Huang Licheng has been completely liquidated. Over the past 4 months, he turned $56,000 into $12.25 million through trading, but has now fallen back to $21,800.

Unified Account Protocol Clovis announced that the private mainnet is now live. Clovis integrates revenue, cross-chain assets, and collateralized lending into a single unified account, allowing users to deposit assets on supported chains and transfer assets between chains.According to the official statement, users can use eligible positions to natively borrow assets in the market built on Morpho on Base.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, as the market declines, "Brother Ma Ji" Huang Licheng's address continues to close positions to avoid liquidation.Currently, his account balance has dropped to $129,000, down $12.08 million from the account's peak floating profit of $5.26 million on October 5.

OAK Research researcher Lilian Aliaga wrote that the on-chain options protocol Derive (formerly Lyra) has a nominal trading volume of $14.22 billion since January this year, approximately 2.6 times that of the entire year of 2025, accounting for nearly 75% of the on-chain options nominal trading volume and 88.1% of the paid premiums. The nominal trading volume in September was $3.43 billion, and it has exceeded $1 billion in the first week of October.The article states that Derive completed its V3 migration on October 6, 2026, abandoning its own chain and opting for zero-knowledge applications to settle directly on Ethereum, planning to become an options engine accessible to other applications. V3 introduces mutually isolated risk domains, including Prime covering BTC and ETH, an independent HYPE domain, an Alt domain covering SOL, XRP, ZEC, and DOGE, and an RWA domain covering tokenized gold.According to the article, Derive launched V2 in December 2023, replacing automated market makers with an order book as the main source of liquidity, and will launch portfolio margin in February 2024; Lyra will be renamed Derive in August 2024, and DRV will be launched in January 2025. In October 2025, FalconX became the publicly confirmed institutional market maker quoting on Derive, with collateral retained on its own side and positions represented on-chain in fxUSDC.

According to Token Terminal data, the total market capitalization of the tokenized ETF market has reached $686.5 million, with Ethereum ranking first with a market capitalization of $303 million, accounting for about 44%. BNB Chain ranks second with $192.1 million, and Solana ranks third with $91.5 million.The above three blockchains collectively account for about 85% of the market capitalization of the tokenized ETF market, indicating that related assets are mainly concentrated in the Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Solana ecosystems.

According to CoinDesk, based on the report "Inside North America's $3 trillion crypto economy: Agentic commerce accelerates" released by Chainalysis, AI agents have completed over 138 million transactions through the x402 payment protocol incubated on the Base blockchain via Coinbase, using cryptocurrency to purchase data, computing power, and access to AI models.The report indicates that in geographically identifiable AI model inference payments, wallets associated with the United States account for 88.1%, while wallets associated with China only account for 0.1%. Eric Jardine, the research director at Chainalysis, stated that one possible explanation is that Chinese developers are more inclined to use open-weight models like DeepSeek and Qwen, thereby reducing the demand for pay-per-use inference services.Chinese-associated wallets exhibit different activity patterns, accounting for about 90% of geographically identifiable payments for security and code analysis services, with most of the flow directed towards the AI smart contract auditing platform AgentLisa.Jardine also cautioned that this gap should not be interpreted as open-source AI weakening the on-chain inference market in Asia. Currently, payment giants such as Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe have supported the x402 protocol, and Coinbase has also begun allowing enterprise clients to accept AI agent payments.

The CEO of the stock and cryptocurrency trading platform Robinhood, Vlad Tenev, stated in a recent interview that a significant portion of retail trading is expected to be initiated by AI in the future. The Agent can monitor the market around the clock and handle trades in various assets such as stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies, but most funds may still be held long-term.In May of this year, Robinhood allowed users to trade through third-party AI Agents via MCP, and at the end of September, it announced the direct integration of Agents into the App, with over 150,000 customers having opened dedicated trading accounts at that time. Currently, funds are still restricted through independent accounts; the Agent can view users' other account information but can only place orders within the dedicated account, and funds must be actively transferred by the user. Tenev stated that technically, it is not difficult to directly access the main account, but the company has chosen to gradually loosen permissions.In terms of approval settings, the built-in Agent requires users to approve each transaction by default, but this setting can be manually turned off; external Agents accessed through MCP do not require per-transaction approval by default, and users must enable approval themselves. Tenev also envisions allowing retail investors to deploy trading strategies on servers close to exchanges to reduce order delays, and hopes that ordinary investors can use such infrastructure without needing to understand data centers and network engineering. Robinhood has not yet provided this service and has not announced a timeline for its launch.

Bitget CFD has now launched the demo account feature. Users can fully experience contract for difference trading without investing real funds. Upon account opening, users are given a default of 10,000 USDT in simulated funds, allowing them to experience all CFD varieties such as forex, precious metals, commodities, and stock indices based on real market conditions, to verify and optimize their trading strategies.The demo account also supports both ECN and zero-fee dual modes, and operates independently from the real account; risk control mechanisms such as forced liquidation risk rates are consistent with the real account. After registering and opening a CFD real trading account, users can use this feature by upgrading the app to version 2.94.0 or above. For more product details, please refer to the Bitget official page.

According to official news, Starknet announced the launch of shadow accounts, allowing users to participate in public DeFi activities through an independent address controlled by themselves, while keeping the association between this address and the main wallet confidential.Shadow accounts are independent pseudonymous addresses on Starknet, with funds sourced from the user's protected STRK20 balance. The first integration will go live tomorrow. The balance, transaction records, and holdings in various applications of the shadow account will still be publicly visible on-chain, but STRK20 can protect the association information between the shadow account and the user's main wallet. This means that users do not need to hide their DeFi activities themselves, while also reducing the likelihood of external observers tracing related activities back to their main wallet.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, Huang Licheng has accumulated a loss of 11.27 million dollars within 7 days. Today, he reduced his position twice, with actual losses of 1.01 million dollars and 12 thousand dollars respectively. He currently still holds a 25x long position of 7,150 ETH (approximately 17.86 million dollars), with a liquidation price of 2,472.78 dollars, and the current price is only 26.52 dollars away from the liquidation price.As of October 5, his profit was still as high as 5.46 million dollars, but his account now only has 562 thousand dollars left.

Hedera, a public blockchain, has launched Agent Accounts, described as programmable, non-custodial spending accounts that allow AI agents to autonomously transact within rules set by users and enforced on-chain. This includes payment APIs, data retrieval, invoice settlement, and purchasing on behalf of users, with private keys remaining in the user's wallet.Agent Accounts are funded from the user's existing Hedera wallet and are created separately for designated agents, rather than handing over the entire account to the agent. Users connect their wallets through a web application, designate agents, and configure total spending limits, daily caps, single transaction limits, and whitelists for merchants and payees. The rules are written into Hedera smart contracts and are not stored on company servers, making them unmodifiable by anyone other than the user. Funds do not leave the user's account before a purchase occurs; agents do not hold balances but send spending requests to the smart contract, which validates and executes them. Users can pause or revoke agent spending with a single click from their wallet.This feature is supported by Agentic Payment Services, including MCP server, REST API, and relayer. Hedera states that any agent capable of using MCP or REST can connect, with payments available in HBAR, USDC, or other Hedera tokens, and compatible with x402. Each strategy, transaction, and agent action is recorded on the Hedera Consensus Service. The timeline aims for a limited partner testnet launch in Q4 2026, a public testnet in Q1 2027, and a target mainnet launch in Q2 2027, depending on security audits and legal agreements.

The blockchain project Tempo released a report indicating that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) plans to adjust accounting rules for stablecoins, allowing eligible tokens to be classified as cash equivalents on company balance sheets, or reducing accounting barriers for enterprises adopting stablecoins.Under current accounting practices, stablecoins, even if fully backed by U.S. dollars, may not be counted as cash reserves reported by the company, thereby affecting liquidity ratios and loan covenants. The proposed rules allow companies to use stablecoins for payments and settlements but require them to have direct redemption rights with the issuer. Purchasing USDC through exchanges may not necessarily meet the criteria for classification as cash equivalents.In its 2025 annual report, Coinbase classified USDC and other payment-type stablecoins as cash equivalents, based on its redemption arrangement with Circle. The public comment period for the FASB proposed rules will continue until November 19, after which the board will review feedback and determine the final accounting changes and effective date. At the time of this proposal's release, the market size for U.S. dollar stablecoins had exceeded $300 billion.

Cryptocurrency market analyst Darkfost stated that despite Ethereum recently falling from $2775 to around $2500, a decline of nearly 10%, the nominal value of Binance's ETH futures open interest decreased by about $600 million during the same period. However, when measured by the number of ETH, the open interest size has still rebounded to the level at the end of September, approximately 2.46 million ETH.Between October 8 and 9, the market liquidated about $345 million in ETH long positions within 24 hours. However, Binance's share of open interest in ETH futures on major centralized trading platforms actually rose to nearly 49%, reaching a new high since 2023.Darkfost pointed out that this means that despite the pullback in ETH prices and some leveraged positions being liquidated, the amount of ETH that traders are putting into the Binance futures market has not significantly decreased, further increasing Binance's dominance in the ETH derivatives market.

On October 10, local time, Musk posted a screenshot on social media, showing that the official account of SpaceXAI has been renamed to "SpaceX Super Intelligence" (@SpaceXSI).

Hardware wallet manufacturer COLDCARD stated that its official X account had previously posted a fake security announcement, directing users to a phishing website disguised as a wallet migration guide. The post has been deleted, but no corresponding login, session, or access records have been found.COLDCARD indicated that its credentials and offline two-factor authentication remain secure, leading to suspicions that the attacker may have gained X platform-level or administrative access, and has requested an urgent investigation by the X security team. The company also mentioned unverified reports of X administrator accounts being sold on the dark web, but no connection to this incident has been found.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, in the past 3 days, two newly created wallets have withdrawn 280.75 million Lobster from exchanges, worth 12.21 million USD, accounting for 28.08% of the total supply.