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Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez announced on Monday that his office has begun accepting Bitcoin for property tax payments, available both online and offline, but each transaction will be converted to U.S. dollars before the funds reach the county government. Fernandez made this announcement in a statement on the tax collector's website, calling it an additional option for property owners while not putting public funds into the asset. Taxpayers can choose the cryptocurrency option at checkout online or request it at the counter, then connect to a supported exchange account or digital wallet to authorize the payment.The office stated that a third-party system converts Bitcoin to U.S. dollars at the time of payment, so it never holds, invests, or manages any cryptocurrency. The office still receives the full amount due in U.S. dollars and records the transaction in standard payment reports, with county staff not needing to maintain a digital wallet. Fernandez stated that the government must keep up with the times and the needs of those it serves, and accepting Bitcoin as a payment option provides another way for property owners to pay taxes while continuing to offer traditional payment methods, without compromising the responsibility to protect taxpayer funds. The office did not disclose the name of the payment processor and did not specify whether there is a convenience fee for Bitcoin payments; online credit card and mobile wallet payments currently incur a non-refundable fee of 2.5%, with a minimum of $2.5.This move comes during Florida's property tax collection season. Miami-Dade County opened its 2026 tax bill on October 30 and urged property owners to pay by November 30 to lock in a 4% early payment discount, which drops to 3% in December, 2% in January, and 1% in February, with the full amount due by March. In 2021, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins proposed a resolution to explore allowing residents to pay county taxes and fees with Bitcoin; previously, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez advocated for allowing residents to pay municipal fees and taxes with Bitcoin. The office stated that Miami-Dade County is one of the first government agencies in the U.S. to accept such payments, with Colorado accepting cryptocurrency for state tax payments since 2022, and Utah subsequently offering a similar option for individual income tax.

On November 10, the TRON ECO × BBW 2026 Thanksgiving Parade officially kicked off at its first stop, with five major projects: JUST, SUN, BitTorrent, WINkLink, and AINFT jointly offering 30 Binance Blockchain Week tickets and 5 ecological peripherals. From November 10 to 15, users can follow @DeFi_JUST, @OfficialSUNio, @BitTorrent, @WinkLink_Oracle, @AINFTcom, retweet the event tweet, and send the specified text in the comments, tag 3 friends, and use #TRONEcoBBW to participate.Participants must confirm their ability to attend BBW in Bangkok on November 28-29; winners must confirm within 48 hours after the list is announced, purchase their own tickets, and submit proof by November 19. After TRON ECO reviews and approves, the ticket costs that meet the requirements will be fully reimbursed according to the event rules. The first stop of the parade has set sail, and eligible users are welcome to participate and join us at the BBW venue in Bangkok.

According to official news, Gate Social has officially launched the "2026 Year-End Community Gala," which will open for annual selection registration from November 3, 10:00 to November 10, 23:59 (UTC+8). This gala features two main categories: "2026 Broadcaster of the Year" and "2026 Creator of the Year," with both categories having Chinese and global divisions. Participants can choose to register for one of the categories, and after preliminary selection, they will enter the official evaluation phase, which will take place from November 16, 08:00 to November 28, 23:59 (UTC+8).Each category and division will select a TOP 20. The champion of the Chinese division will receive a DJI Osmo Pocket 4, the 2nd and 3rd places will receive AirPods Pro 3, the 4th to 6th places will receive the Honor Selected Firefly AI Projector Air, and other listed participants will also receive corresponding physical rewards. All TOP 20 will enjoy an annual honor trophy and a VIP 5 exclusive badge.In addition, users can earn support points by watching live broadcasts, posting comments, and sharing interactions to vote for their favorite broadcasters and creators. The TOP 100 on the fan support leaderboard will receive exclusive rewards, and for every 100 support points successfully sent, there will be a chance to enter a lucky draw for prizes such as MacBook Neo prize fragments, GT, popular tokens, and position experience vouchers, among other gifts.

Galaxy Research released a research report on October 15, categorizing decision markets and impact markets as conditional markets. These two types of conditional trading settle only when specific outcomes occur, and decision markets also settle on clear and binding results. Unlike prediction markets, conditional markets are not limited to binary, all-or-nothing structures; they trade real assets and their prices rather than synthetic probability contracts, with the byproduct being the impact of events on asset values rather than occurrence probabilities. The agency referred to prediction markets as the zero version of event-driven finance, with a large number of experiments emerging over the past 18 months, and new infrastructure pushing it beyond prediction markets.The ownership token-based issuance platform Umia, aimed at EVM-compatible chains, launched in September, expanding decision markets from being primarily limited to Solana, where MetaDAO was the first to scale binary pass or fail markets, to multi-outcome markets that can price proposal parameters. A deposit of stablecoins or DAO tokens can simultaneously convert into positions covering each outcome, with only winning market trades ultimately settling. Currently, 22 DAO treasuries fully governed by decision markets hold a total of $50.5 million, with MetaDAO accounting for 21 of them and 78% of the assets; the stablecoin portion is $35.8 million, with MetaDAO holding 82%. The fundraising for the market-governed DAO issuance platform by MetaDAO was approximately 11 months prior to this research report. Umia extends the issuable chains to Solana or EVM, which together account for about 92% of TVL by chain type.

As Token2049 is in full swing in Singapore, GasFree has specially launched an online speed challenge, allowing users who cannot attend in person to join in on this interactive celebration.Participants only need to capture the moment when any moving icon perfectly enters the central framing box in the animated poster, follow @DeFi_JUST, and like and retweet the post. Then, they can participate by sending a successful screenshot, their favorite GasFree advantage and reason, #GasFreeToken2049, and tagging 3 friends in the comments.The event runs from October 5 to October 11, with 5 awards for the Best Heartfelt Contribution (super gift package) and 20 awards for the Fastest Sharpshooter (lucky peripheral gifts); users attending Token2049 in Singapore can also visit the GasFree event site for more offline interactions and rewards.

The WEEX AI Trading Hackathon "AI Wars II: The Algorithm Era" Round 5 competition has officially begun, with the competition period from October 5 to 9. Participants can choose to join Team AI or Team Human, and both sides will compete in trading in a real market environment, vying for rankings and a prize pool of 30,000 USDT based on PnL%.The real-time battle status on the WEEX official website shows that in the first four rounds, humans and AI are tied 2:2, with both sides in a very close competition. After the conclusion of Round 5, WEEX will hold an awards ceremony on October 12.Additionally, during this week's TOKEN2049 Singapore, the WEEX Alpha Suite will showcase the real-time trading capabilities of WEEX AI, allowing users to experience AI trading tools and explore the WEEX Mini Trading House.

TRON DeFi Summer S3 officially begins, with a total prize pool of 2 million USD, including a TRX pool of 1 million USD, a USDD pool of 600,000 USD, a JST pool of 300,000 USD, and a SUN pool of 100,000 USD. The four major asset pools will simultaneously open a 60-day Boosted APR incentive.Users can enter JustLend DAO through Binance Wallet DeFi to participate. Users who participated in S2 do not need to reapply; they can maintain their current holdings to seamlessly continue their S3 reward eligibility. Although S2 has concluded, the 60-day Boost window for S3 has just opened------both new and existing users can join immediately to continue writing a new chapter of earnings in TRON DeFi at JustLend DAO.

The ongoing X-Agent AI MCP Hackathon has received nearly 40 projects, with some public works turning work decisions, capital management, and inter-machine trading into runnable products. X-Agent introduces three cases: BountyProof checks whether tasks are open, claimed, have relevant submissions, and the authenticity of rewards before the Agent accepts GitHub bounty tasks, with the core question being "Is this work worth doing?"Abstain empowers the Agent with the "do not trade" capability, returning execution, abandonment, or no trade based on preset rules before order execution. sumplus helps the Agent choose suitable model service solutions based on task context, output scale, model capability, and invocation costs, making the Agent an autonomous buyer of models, computing power, data, and API services.The three projects correspond to the foundational economic behaviors of the Agent: accepting work, utilizing funds, and purchasing services, pointing to work, capital, and trading primitives. X-Agent believes that a true Agent economy requires a complete cycle of "building, deploying, operating, discovering, invoking, paying, earning revenue, and distributing," positioning itself as the application layer of the Agent economy. This hackathon is still in the review stage, and the mentioned projects are only for public case reference, not representing shortlisted or award results.

The first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., began offering xU3O8 custody services for institutional clients on September 16, 2026. This token is backed by physical uranium concentrate yellowcake, with the related uranium materials stored at Cameco facilities and held in beneficial ownership by a UK trust structure.xU3O8 is issued by Uranium.io, with the UK regulator Archax acting as the trustee, and the underlying assets are mapped through the Etherlink network. Cameco is responsible for storing physical uranium in certified facilities and regularly publishes the results of reserve proof audits. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regulates Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., allowing its clients to include xU3O8 in isolation and bankruptcy-remote accounts similar to those for Bitcoin and cash equivalents. Currently, the unit price of xU3O8 is approximately $5.66, with a total market capitalization of about $9 million.

On September 16, the TokenPocket × USDD Gas Boost Season has officially begun, with the event running from September 15 to September 28. During the event, users can directly use USDD to pay Gas fees when transferring USDD on the TRON network through TokenPocket, and enjoy a 50% Gas subsidy.In addition, users who complete designated on-chain tasks can also participate in the event leaderboard to share a total reward of 5000 USDD and have a chance to win a KeyPal hardware wallet. This event is jointly launched by USDD, TokenPocket, and KeyPal, further expanding the application scenarios of USDD for Gas payments and stablecoin transfers on the TRON chain.

Elon Musk stated that the Starlink V3 constellation will begin deployment this month, and the bandwidth ultimately provided will exceed more than 100 times that of the current constellation of 11,000 satellites.

Apple announced that Siri artificial intelligence will begin testing in English today, with plans to expand to 5 languages in the future. Siri AI will initially be unavailable in the European Union on iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.

According to blockchain data analysis company Bitrace, another leading trading guarantee platform "Welfare Guarantee" began to withdraw all money laundering-related public group merchants last night. The withdrawal scope includes illegal entities commonly known as "Card Connection Back to U" and "Cash Car."Bitrace stated that the "Welfare Wallet" operated by Welfare Guarantee is currently experiencing rapid capital outflow. Since the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) officially announced sanctions against Xinbi Guarantee, the wallet has recorded an outflow of 9.3 million USDT. Bitrace previously mentioned that due to the sanctions against Xinbi Guarantee, abnormal capital outflows have occurred in its secretly deployed sub-guarantee platforms, and a large number of guarantee merchants are rapidly exiting the related market.

Well-known trader Bonk Guy posted that his stance on Solana and its related ecosystem is gradually shifting from pessimistic to bullish. Previously, he believed that Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain might outperform Solana in this cycle and had written a related analysis, but it has not been publicly released yet.The change in attitude mainly stems from Solana's recent renewed focus on the on-chain meme trading community, proactive communication from key individuals, and the official account and co-founder Toly beginning to publicly pay attention to ecosystem projects like STONK and USELESS. He believes this reflects that Solana is more actively supporting projects and communities that can drive ecosystem growth.He emphasized that his doubts have never been about Solana's technology and infrastructure, but rather about the ecosystem culture and the influence of certain profit-seekers on users. Given the recent changes, he has submitted his original bearish analysis to the Solana team and stated that if it is made public later, he will provide more insights and background on Solana's stance.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Bitget announced that the 2026 King’s Cup Global Invitation Tournament (KCGI) has officially started. This event integrates three major tracks: cryptocurrency contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot (rToken), using the same venue, prize pool, and ranking, with a total prize pool of 3 million USDT.Currently, over 1,300 teams are participating, with a total of 37,000 participants, and users can still register during the competition period. The UEX Arena offers a maximum reward of 2 million USDT, covering team earnings, trading volumes across all tracks, and individual earnings rankings; the UEX Treasure Map offers a maximum reward of 600,000 USDT, with an additional 100,000 USDT incentive for team captains. Registration ends on September 22.

DeepSeek has started internal testing of version 4.1 Flash intermediate version. The official WeChat group notification states that the new model has a new architecture, natively supports multimodal capabilities, is more powerful, faster, and cheaper. The current billing is the same as V4 Flash, with a maximum of 20 concurrent sessions per account.Users can now directly call it, and there is no need to change the base_url, just replace the original model ID with deepseek-v4.1-flash-expires-on-0910.