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According to official news from IoTeX, the Zanzibar hard fork has been activated on the IoTeX mainnet (block height 53,533,081). According to IIP-59, voter rewards will be calculated and distributed on-chain during each reward cycle, eliminating off-chain services and intermediaries, allowing anyone to directly verify each payment on-chain. The first on-chain distribution will take place the following day.This upgrade also strengthens consensus by checking the proof of holding representative keys, preparing for subsequent BLS signature aggregation. Node operators need to upgrade to iotex-core v2.5.1 without the need to modify configurations or resynchronize.

The XRP Ledger vulnerability fix package named fixCleanup3_4_0 is expected to officially take effect around 09:34 UTC on October 23. This fix package has received votes from 29 validators, surpassing the threshold of over 80% approval among the network's default 35 validators, and must be maintained continuously for two weeks. The countdown has been ongoing for nine days. Since there is no margin in the vote count, if any validator withdraws support, the countdown will restart.This fix package partially addresses the unsecured lending system that Ripple has been promoting to banks and payment companies since June, but this system has not yet been activated. Currently, the lending amendment has only 19 votes, and the vault amendment for holding funds has 21 votes, neither of which has started the countdown. Therefore, even if both reach 29 votes today, the lending function will not be available until early November at the earliest.As designed, lenders will deposit XRP or other tokens into the vault, and loan brokers will then lend out the funds for a fixed term. The ledger is responsible for recording the loans and tracking repayments, while brokers assess the borrower's qualifications off-chain. Since borrowers do not need to provide collateral, the broker's judgment becomes the only guarantee for lenders against default losses. Ripple has promoted this scheme to payment companies that need liquidity during cross-border settlement. Additionally, the fix package also closes a vulnerability that allowed accounts authorized to destroy tokens to create new tokens under specific conditions and adjusts the rounding of vault amounts as well as the rules for determining loan overdue and default.

Cryptocurrency trader Ansem shared his recent investment views, stating that the crypto market is gradually shifting towards a phase that places greater emphasis on the fundamentals of individual projects, capital inflows, and actual business performance. Therefore, identifying mispriced assets and determining which teams are truly driving project development will become increasingly important, rather than relying entirely on the trends of mainstream assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum.Ansem believes that the investment approach for altcoins in this cycle is different from previous ones. Assets like HYPE and ZEC have shown independent trends from Bitcoin and Ethereum even during periods of overall market weakness.

According to Cointelegraph, Solana has not reported any mainnet outages for two consecutive years. The Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) report indicates that its network health has made progress in resilience, economic security, and performance metrics.The report points out that high staking participation and incentive mechanisms for rewarding validators support Solana's economic security, while low latency, improved scalability, and low-cost transactions also support its large-scale applications.The report also states that the concentration of staking among a few validator identities and operators, as well as the concentration of custodial and client software, still requires ongoing observation. Jacob Creech, Vice President of Technology at the Solana Foundation, stated that Solana reduced the slot time to 350 milliseconds on August 21; the foundation announced plans in June to further reduce it to 200 milliseconds, with three subsequent adjustments of 50 milliseconds each.

According to the news released by the Avon and Somerset Police, Terroll Paul (31 years old), Mohamed Samagassi (37 years old), and Pierre Madzou (30 years old) broke into a man's residence in Bristol in the early hours of May 15, assaulted the victim, and demanded a large amount of cryptocurrency, but were unsuccessful.On October 15, the three were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court for aggravated burglary, with Paul receiving a 6-year sentence, Madzou receiving 5 and a half years, and Samagassi receiving 5 years. The victim suffered severe head injuries and required hospitalization, while his underage sister successfully called the police. The three suspects were subsequently arrested at the scene and pleaded guilty during their court appearance in August.

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.

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.

Lido announced the integration of direct ETH staking functionality for Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Optimism Layer 2 networks into its official staking interface, which was announced on October 15. This process is supported by Chainlink's cross-chain interoperability protocol CCIP, allowing users to directly obtain wstETH on the originating network without manually transferring ETH across chains to Ethereum and back.Lido stated that users' ETH will be exchanged for wstETH through dedicated liquidity pools on the same L2, with the Chainlink price feed reflecting the exchange rate of the Lido protocol rather than the exchange market price. The underlying staking still occurs on the Ethereum mainnet: the ETH deposited by users on L2 will automatically be transferred to Ethereum and staked through Lido, after which wstETH will be sent back to replenish the local liquidity pool. Users receive the wrapped version of stETH, wstETH, which maintains a fixed balance while its value reflects staking rewards.This functionality integrates existing cross-chain infrastructure into Lido's own interface. Lido previously introduced relevant channels for Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism in October 2024, with third-party frontends including XSwap, OpenOcean, and Interport, while Linea followed up in October 2025. In terms of fees, users will still need to pay L2 transaction gas, and cross-chain costs come from the separately funded contract balance rather than staker deposits;

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "LoL: Team WE vs HANJIN BRION - Demacia Cup Global Invitation Playoffs", the "Is" option win rate for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 50% an hour ago to the current 20% (a fluctuation of 30%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

After the release of TSMC's third-quarter financial report, the stock price fell 2% in pre-market trading, and the company is cautious about 2027.

Brandon Thomas, the developer who previously used AI to reconstruct Adobe Creative Cloud for free, has now turned his attention to Microsoft Office. He has released open-source clone applications WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft on GitHub, corresponding to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, respectively. The three applications are written in Rust, with a single codebase that can run natively on Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD, and can also run in a browser. Thomas refers to this as a clean room reconstruction, meaning it is based on publicly available file format specifications and observations of the original software's behavior, without ever copying Microsoft's code, similar to the legal path taken by Compaq in the 1980s to clone the IBM PC BIOS.WordCraft can read and write .docx format, covering 88% of the features in the Word ribbon. It currently supports revision tracking, footnotes, citations, and mail merge; however, taking into account document fidelity and stability, the team estimates its completeness as a Word alternative for actual work is only about 60%, and it is still labeled as an alpha early testing version. GridCraft has supported 513 out of 523 Excel worksheet functions and 89% of ribbon commands, with the developer self-assessing about 50% as usable for actual work. The next step is to improve compatibility with real .xlsx files.

According to a report by Business Wire, Interactive Brokers has launched a cryptocurrency staking service for eligible clients, with the staking service provided by Zerohash.In the initial phase, eligible Interactive Brokers LLC clients can stake Ethereum through the staking panel in the client portal, submit staking or unstaking requests, and view pending statuses. Rewards will be distributed in the form of staking tokens and can accrue interest during the staking period.Interactive Brokers CEO Milan Galik stated that similar to its stock yield enhancement program, the staking service allows clients to earn additional income from their held crypto assets. Currently, Interactive Brokers supports trading of 20 digital assets and allows deposits using USDC, RLUSD, and PYUSD.

Sui liquidity staking protocol Volo announced that the additional incentives for Volo Dowsure stable vault S1 participants are now online. Eligible S1 participants can now claim additional incentives denominated in USD through the exclusive claim page of the Dow Protocol.Volo stated that all eligible Sui wallet addresses and the corresponding deposit amounts have been provided to the Dow Protocol. Participants need to connect and bind their EVM wallet, and after completing the S1 participation verification, they can claim the aforementioned incentives on the Dow Protocol website.

The decentralized wallet imToken has launched a new ETH staking brand, imToken Stake, focusing on the Ethereum staking scenario, providing users with three participation methods: non-custodial staking, liquid staking, and independent staking.According to the introduction, imToken Stake targets different types of ETH holders, covering long-term holders with 32 ETH or more, small flexible participants, and tech-savvy users who wish to run their own validators. Among these, non-custodial staking allows users to complete the staking process within the wallet while retaining control over withdrawals; validator deployment, operation, monitoring, and maintenance are provided by imToken in collaboration with professional node infrastructure service providers.Currently, imToken's non-custodial staking supports a "compound interest" model, allowing users to choose to create a compound validator, enabling staking rewards to continuously accumulate and automatically reinvest to enhance the efficiency of long-term staking funds. imToken states that imToken Stake will continue to focus on security, autonomy, and transparency, providing users with a clearer and more reliable ETH staking experience.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "LoL: KT Rolster vs Team Vitality - Demacia Cup Global Invitation Playoffs," the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation, rising from 7.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 42.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Crypto trader Ansem posted about one of the biggest lessons learned from years of trading cryptocurrencies.He stated that catching the right rotation in trading is just the first step; what truly determines whether you can keep the profits is whether you can take profits in a timely manner and compound them. In 2017, he made a lot of money trading altcoins, but much of it was through rotation trading, giving back profits and returning to square one.From 2020 to 2021, he showed significant improvement, being able to identify narratives earlier, rotating between SOL, LUNA, and AVAX, and compounding profits from different trades. Recognizing opportunities early and knowing when to take profits are equally important skills.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that one year ago today, Bitcoin had just reached a historic high of $126,000, and Standard Chartered at that time expected it to reach $200,000. However, October 10 became the largest day for liquidation in the history of the cryptocurrency industry, with a liquidation amount exceeding $19 billion.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the Binance contract real smart money account "Single Wife" holds 18.29 million Lobster long positions, with an opening price of $0.1277. When Lobster reached its historical high of $0.3143 on September 21, the account's peak floating profit once reached $2.19 million, with a position value of $5.75 million.The price of Lobster subsequently fell, and the account closed its positions on October 2 at an average price of $0.09374, ultimately incurring a loss of $907,000, with all previous floating profits completely wiped out.