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Analysts indicate that regulatory-led measures can encourage institutional participation in the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the short term, but only legislation can make the framework more robust in the long term. Currently, the cryptocurrency industry has to rely on a series of fragmented regulatory actions, which may be overturned in the next two years due to political changes. At the same time, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a five-year "innovation exemption" for tokenized stocks, requiring that tokens must possess the financial and voting rights of the original stocks.Additionally, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is exploring allowing leveraged cryptocurrency trading on regulated U.S. platforms, while the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted national trust charters to an increasing number of stablecoin issuers and digital asset companies, placing activities such as custody and reserve management under federal regulation. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is also considering allowing companies to classify certain stablecoins as cash equivalents to support their broader use in payments and liquidity management.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, it predicts significant capital movements in the Polymarket. A large whale invested $86,680.99 in the event "Power Balance: 2026 Midterm Elections," betting on "Democratic Victory." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this target is 67%.

The New York State Department of Financial Services in the United States has issued an alert regarding two critical PHP vulnerabilities, urging regulated entities to quickly identify and remediate known exploited vulnerabilities.

Blackstone Group President Jon Gray refuted billionaire Ken Griffin's claim a few days ago that there is a bubble in artificial intelligence (AI). Gray stated on Thursday, "When you think of a bubble, you think of building capacity first and then hoping for demand to appear.But in the AI field, you are building capacity while hoping to keep up with demand." He said this is a "completely different situation" compared to phenomena like the telecom bubble of the 1990s. He mentioned the AI consulting company Ode, which Blackstone co-founded with Anthropic. "We simply cannot keep up with customer demand," he said. "Demand is growing almost parabolically."

SpaceX launched the SpaceX Super Intelligence (SI) Partner Network, with partners including Nvidia, Apollo, Databricks, and Bain Capital.

Domain infrastructure company D3 announced the launch of the Frontier Hyperliquid Vault, a membership program that provides participants with priority access to a new round of top-level internet domains. Nasdaq-listed Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD) is listed as the launch partner for the vault. D3 is a core contributor to the Doma Protocol and one of the few ICANN-accredited Web3 registrars, with investors including Paradigm.At the launch of the program, ICANN opened the second round of new top-level domain applications in internet history in August 2026, receiving over 1,600 applications covering suffixes such as .agent, .crypto, .wallet, .sol, .robot, and .hype is also included in this round of applications. The last expansion occurred in 2012, resulting in approximately 1,200 new top-level domains, which are now used by tens of millions of websites.The participation process is as follows: users deposit qualified assets with supported custodians on Solana and Hyperliquid to earn Frontier Points, and then gain priority in registering domain names by committing points before formal registration. As part of the initial commitment, Hyperion DeFi will receive a distribution of DOMA tokens in future potential token generation events based on incentive arrangements with the Doma Foundation. The Doma Protocol is a DNS-compatible blockchain aimed at tokenizing the domain market, which is valued at approximately $36 billion.

The Blockchain Association stated that it has sent a letter to the leadership of both the House and Senate, urging Congress to advance prudent, bipartisan digital asset tax legislation, and launched TaxClarityforAmerica.com for the public to understand the principles, view congressional progress, and contact legislators.The association noted that approximately 67 million Americans hold and use digital assets, but the current tax system is outdated, leading to uncertainty for taxpayers, excessive compliance burdens, and forcing innovation to move overseas.Its "Digital Asset Tax Principles" include: a meaningful small exemption; taxation of mining and staking rewards as newly created property upon disposal; reporting arrangements that protect taxpayer privacy; tax compliance based on economic substance rather than technical form; and wash sale rules that do not penalize everyday activities while preventing abuse.The association also stated that the House Ways and Means Committee had previously advanced legislation related to digital asset taxation, and Senator Steve Daines has also introduced a Senate version. Congress is in recess until after the elections on November 3, and there remains a legislative window during the short session.

The BNB Chain development team announced that the BNB Smart Chain testnet will undergo the Jenner hard fork upgrade on October 28. Validators, node operators, block builders, and application developers need to start preparing for the upgrade.The Jenner upgrade includes the Payment Lane feature, which defaults to reserving 5% of block Gas for eligible payments.

According to Financewire, payment infrastructure provider X Pay, aimed at AI entities and APIs, announced the completion of a $1 million financing round, with investors including DCI, Credit Scend, Skyland Ventures, Zerra Ventures, and 5 other institutions.The funds from this round will be used to expand the supported blockchain networks, conduct independent security audits, launch an API marketplace, and prepare for EU compliance requirements, including MiCA.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) stated in the frequently asked questions document regarding retail payment regulation conclusions that the removal of surcharges for the designated card networks eftpos, Mastercard, and Visa starting from October 1, 2026, is in the public interest. The RBA will lift the ban on the "no surcharge" rule for the aforementioned networks from that date, with the changes based on Standard No. 3 of 2016 and the revisions to the merchant card payment costs and surcharge standards in 2026. eftpos, Mastercard, and Visa have all decided to implement the no surcharge rule from that date, generally applicable to their credit, debit, and prepaid cards, including cards issued overseas.American Express, UnionPay, and PayPal have also decided to eliminate surcharges, but are currently not formally regulated by the RBA. American Express and UnionPay will withdraw from their existing commitments with the RBA on October 1, 2026, while PayPal's no surcharge rule will take effect on October 5, 2026. This scope is limited to fees charged due to customer card payments and does not include surcharges for weekends, public holidays, booking fees, or service fees. Merchants must comply with the new card organization rules unless exceptions apply; businesses, non-profit organizations, and inter-business card payments do not receive a general exemption.The reforms will be implemented in phases. Starting from October 1, 2026, a lower interchange fee cap will apply to domestic card transactions; from October 30, designated card networks and large acquirers must publish the specified card payment fee information on their websites. From January 30, 2027, large acquirers must disclose how the decrease in interchange fees is passed on to merchant service fees; starting April 1, the interchange fee cap will apply to transactions involving overseas-issued cards acquired in Australia, and acquirers must also provide merchants with more detailed statements. The RBA stated that businesses can still factor the costs of accepting card payments into their overall pricing and may offer discounts for specific payment methods.

According to the "X Layer Q3 2026 Fundamental Report" released by Principia Labs, the Ethereum Layer 2 network X Layer saw growth in on-chain activity and the scale of the DeFi ecosystem in the third quarter. Among them, TradeZone processed approximately 287 million transactions, which is 2.6 times the EVM transaction volume during the same period; the daily average number of EVM transactions increased by 262% month-over-month to 1.22 million.The report also shows that the total locked value in DeFi increased by 100% month-over-month to 173.4 million USD, and the revenue from ecological application transaction fees increased by 490% month-over-month to 1.86 million USD. The market capitalization of OKB increased by 53.8% month-over-month to 2.54 billion USD. Principia Labs believes that with the development of Exchange OS, X Layer is gradually forming a full-stack trading system covering on-chain transactions and DeFi applications.

Polkadot has issued a security warning that the browser extension of the third-party wallet Fearless Wallet has been compromised, intermittently leaking user private keys to attackers since February 2025. Investigations revealed that malicious code sends private keys to servers controlled by attackers when users unlock their wallets.According to an announcement from the Polkadot Community Foundation, 8 users have reported suspected unauthorized transactions related to this issue, involving 17,286 DOT. Polkadot urges all users who have used this extension to immediately create a new key pair through other wallets and transfer their assets, as merely changing passwords or switching wallet software will not eliminate the risk. Fearless Wallet is developed by an independent team and is not the official wallet of Polkadot.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market and mainstream financial institutions disclosed the latest developments in the disposal of crypto asset treasury, corporate governance accountability, and Layer 2 security tokenization cooperation. The core information is as follows:Shareholder Bastion Trading, holding approximately 9.99% of SkyAI shares, issued a statement pressuring for accountability regarding the liquidation of SOL and demanding a board restructuring: Major shareholder Bastion Trading, which holds approximately 9.99% of the NASDAQ-listed company SkyAI (NASDAQ: $SKYA), officially released a statement requesting that SkyAI's Executive Chairman Paul K. Danner III and three directors Soren Bo Christiansen, Timothy J. Ruemler, and Jason L. Monroe publicly explain their specific roles in evaluating, approving the takeover offer, and overseeing the complete liquidation of SOL, including who authorized and supervised the liquidation, reviewed the timing of the transaction, execution methods, counterparties, and transaction costs.Meritz Securities of South Korea signs MOU with Optimism Foundation to explore tokenized financial asset clearing based on OP Stack: South Korea's mainstream financial institution Meritz Securities announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Optimism Foundation. The two parties will jointly study the issuance, clearing, and distribution framework of tokenized financial assets based on OP Mainnet and other OP Stack networks, deeply exploring the commercial viability of using Ethereum public Layer 2 as a financial-grade distribution and clearing infrastructure. Meritz Securities stated that it will focus on exploring tokenized financial products based on high-quality local assets within the legal and licensing compliance framework, and will promote implementation in conjunction with the progress of South Korea's security token offering (STO) regulations. Previously, KB Securities and DB Securities in South Korea have also successively accessed the OP Stack ecosystem to explore related tokenization businesses.

The London-listed technology company The Smarter Web Company announced that since October 14, it has sold a total of 1,076,000 ordinary shares and 25 preferred shares through its ordinary share ATM facility and preferred share ATM facility, raising a total of approximately £592,679.Among them, the average selling price of ordinary shares was £0.55 per share, with net proceeds of approximately £579,850; the average selling price of preferred shares was £100 per share, with net proceeds of approximately £2,475.

Elon Musk warned that he would retaliate if the Democrats control the U.S. Congress and investigate him and his companies. Musk stated that he would directly target the puppet masters, rather than the puppets. His companies include Tesla and SpaceX, which have business dealings with the federal government and may be scrutinized if the Democrats control Congress.

According to Bloomberg, AI startup Emulate, founded by alumni of Google DeepMind, has been established for only three months and currently has no official website or products. However, venture capital firms are eager to get involved, driving its valuation to several billion dollars.The report states that due to intense competition, investors are willing to buy in at continuously rising prices during the same round of financing, leading to different valuations for the same company within the same round of financing.

According to TechCrunch, the AI laboratory Flapping Airplanes, established for about a year, announced the completion of a $1 billion Series A funding round, co-led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital, GV, and others, increasing its valuation to $45 billion, three times higher than the $15 billion valuation nine months ago.The company is dedicated to improving the data efficiency of AI model training and developing a GPU framework that can simultaneously perform tasks such as training and inference to reduce the costs of AI development and operation.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated in an interview that he is not particularly focused on the short-term price performance of Bitcoin, but is more optimistic about the digital dollar used for payments and the AI agent economy. Allaire mentioned that the digital dollar can be used for payments, transactions, lending, and investment, and that AI agents will participate in more economic activities in the future, potentially further driving the demand for digital dollars and related blockchain infrastructure, although he did not provide specific data on the growth of this demand.On the regulatory front, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the United States is formulating rules related to the GENIUS Act. The proposal requires stablecoin issuers to hold reserve assets not less than the total amount of circulating stablecoins and to redeem at face value within two business days, while prohibiting issuers from paying interest to holders. Allaire believes that the bill has bipartisan support and can provide policy protection for the stablecoin industry, but broader legislative progress on the structure of the cryptocurrency market in the United States has not yet been made.

Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi stated that there is a wave of attacks in the cybersecurity field that is "similar to the COVID-19 pandemic." He believes that on-chain hacking incidents are the "canary in the coal mine" for cybersecurity, as on-chain is the easiest place for cyber attacks to be monetized.He cited data from DefiLlama Research indicating that the number of on-chain hacking incidents has surged, but the annualized scale of stolen amounts is roughly equivalent to that of 2025, with losses per incident decreasing. He noted that most small protocols have been compromised, while large protocols are strengthening their defenses with AI tools. He anticipates that similar situations will also arise in the broader internet space.

The Digital Currency Renminbi Operation Management Center interprets the recently released core results of the central bank's digital renminbi system DCEPS and the digital renminbi smart contract ecological service framework e-CNY SMART Contract. DCEPS is a comprehensive payment and settlement platform that integrates issuance management, retail, wholesale, blockchain payment, and smart contract services, providing a technical foundation to support digital currency.e-CNY SMART Contract is designed to meet the needs of digital economic development, constructing a smart contract service system that involves multiple participants and open collaboration, which has already been implemented in scenarios such as prepaid fund management, supply chain finance, fiscal subsidies, consumer red envelopes, and wage distribution for migrant workers. The digital renminbi has been upgraded from cash-type 1.0 to deposit currency-type 2.0 as of January 1, 2026, with DCEPS and the digital currency cross-border settlement comprehensive service platform being built and operated by the Digital Currency Renminbi Operation Management Center and the International Operation Center, respectively.