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Cryptocurrency analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that as of October 21, the proportion of new investors' funds in the Bitcoin network has risen from a year-to-date low of 6.6% on July 5 to 11.2%, indicating that new funds are gradually returning, but the inflow remains below the levels of over 20% seen in 2024 and 2025.Currently, the price of Bitcoin is approximately $82,300, with the average holding cost for short-term holders at $75,100, resulting in an overall unrealized profit of about 9.5%. This group has been in a profitable state for 63 consecutive days since August 20, with the unrealized profit ratio reaching 16% on October 5. If the proportion of new investors' funds exceeds 11.5%, it will indicate a further increase in buyer demand; if it falls back below 10%, it suggests that the inflow of new funds may stagnate. If Bitcoin drops below $75,100, the overall short-term holders will turn to a loss, and related selling pressure may increase accordingly.

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.

ARK Invest's Q3 2026 DeFi report shows that stock tokenization has become the main driving force behind the rebound in on-chain trading activity for the quarter. The trading volume of tokenized stock spot DEX reached approximately $50 billion, about 9 times that of the previous quarter, with its share of total spot DEX trading volume rising from about 1% to around 9%. Overall, DEX spot trading volume increased by approximately 13% quarter-over-quarter to $571 billion, marking the first growth in nearly four quarters.Robinhood Chain achieved approximately $65 billion in DEX trading volume and $51 million in network revenue in its first quarter, with network revenue nearing the level of BNB Chain during the same period. However, ARK expects that recent adjustments to the Gas mechanism will cause the chain's revenue to decline from current levels. The total supply of stablecoins decreased by about 3% quarter-over-quarter to $309 billion, but adjusted trading volume increased by approximately 16% quarter-over-quarter to $781 billion, with the number of monthly active addresses growing by about 39% to 73 million.In the perpetual contract DEX, there is a divergence between open positions and trading volume: the value of open contracts increased by about 76% quarter-over-quarter to $24 billion, while quarterly trading volume decreased by about 16% to $1.4 trillion. Among them, Hyperliquid's open contract value is about $13 billion, accounting for approximately 53%. ARK believes this indicates fewer but larger positions held for longer durations.

According to the New York Post, Brad Gerstner, founder and CEO of investment firm Altimeter Capital and promoter of the Trump account plan, stated that he is pushing to expand the scope of the plan from those under 18 to those under 40. Related legislation may advance in the coming months and seeks to make the funding support mechanism permanent.Gerstner expects that by the end of 2027, private donations received by the plan could total $100 billion, and Musk's commitment to donate SpaceX stock to American children is just "the tip of the iceberg." Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas estimated while relaying the report that the expansion could additionally cover about 100 million people. Currently, the expansion remains a legislative proposal in progress and is not an enacted policy.

According to the British Daily Mail, 48-year-old Hok Seng Ling has returned £5.6 million to the UK government. He was ordered by the court to hand over the aforementioned funds after admitting to involvement in the largest money laundering case in British history, which involved £5.5 billion.Ling previously served as the butler for Qian Zhimin. Qian Zhimin orchestrated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 128,000 Chinese investors between 2014 and 2017, subsequently converting the proceeds into Bitcoin and fleeing to the UK. Malaysian-born Ling resides in Matlock, Derbyshire, UK, assisting the Bitcoin queen in laundering illegal proceeds and helping her evade the UK police through methods such as booking Airbnb and arranging assistance.Last November, Ling was sentenced to 4 years and 11 months in prison after admitting to money laundering-related offenses at Southwark Crown Court in London. Following this, the judge issued a confiscation order requiring him to hand over £5,603,305, most of which came from cryptocurrencies seized at the time of his arrest. The aforementioned amount has been fully recovered, along with an additional £1,990 in interest.

According to Token Terminal data, on the Base chain, the total scale of tokenized stocks issued by Coinbase deposited in various DeFi platforms is approximately 18.9 million USD, of which Aave V4 accounts for about 10.1 million USD, representing about 53%, making it the largest DeFi platform for such assets by locked value.

The cryptocurrency exchange OKX has launched OKX Shield in the United States. OKX stated that this mechanism can provide up to $500,000 in protection if a customer's account is hacked.Andrew Cuomo, a member of the OKX board and former governor of New York, said: "This is the level of trust we have in our own system. It's like putting your money where your mouth is, right? What we are doing is exactly that."

According to Cointelegraph, the current amount of staked Ethereum has risen to a record 43.8 million ETH, accounting for 35.9% of the total ETH supply. Meanwhile, both the staking yield and the number of validators have decreased.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev follows the meme coin Giga Tenev's X account, which may have influenced this. According to GMGN market data, GIGATENEV briefly surged 17 times, with a current market value of 5.26 million dollars.It should be noted that this token was not issued through mainstream platforms. Previous analyses indicated that most tokens were purchased by newly created wallets, and there is also a possibility that Vlad Tenev's account may have been compromised. Therefore, the related tokens may carry significant risks, and users should invest cautiously.

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase stated on X that stablecoins can complete cross-border transfers in seconds, but the funds still need to enter channels that the recipient can actually use.Coinbase mentioned that it is collaborating with the cross-border payment company Thunes to connect its stablecoin infrastructure to local bank accounts and mobile wallets worldwide.

Coinglass data shows that in the past 7 days, the net inflow to CEX platforms was 8,237.43 BTC, with Binance platform inflowing 6,463.61 BTC, Coinbase Pro platform outflowing 1,399.39 BTC, and OKX platform inflowing 2,089.15 BTC.

Elon Musk stated that the Optimus humanoid robot and Cybercab autonomous taxi will account for the majority of Tesla's value. He believes that, in terms of economies of scale, superintelligence, robotics, solar energy, and large-scale space transportation are the areas for achieving astonishing scale expansion.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared that the cost of Bitcoin mining is roughly half derived from capital expenditures on computing power equipment and the other half from electricity consumption; in contrast, the cost of AI inference is almost entirely dominated by capital expenditures on computing power. This difference reflects the distinct cost structures of the two computing businesses. Bitcoin miners need to continuously pay for electricity and determine their profit margins based on mining machine efficiency, coin prices, and network difficulty changes; AI inference, on the other hand, relies more on investments in expensive hardware like GPUs, as well as equipment utilization and computing efficiency.The industrial boundaries of both are also changing. As the demand for AI computing power grows, some Bitcoin mining companies are beginning to shift their existing electricity resources and data center facilities towards AI and high-performance computing businesses, hoping to transition from pure mining to computing infrastructure services. Some mining companies are leveraging previously allocated electricity capacity for mining to enter the AI data center market. However, transformation does not mean that cost pressures disappear: mining operations are more directly exposed to fluctuations in electricity prices and Bitcoin prices, while AI computing businesses must bear risks related to GPU procurement, depreciation, and underutilization. Both types of businesses compete for electricity and computing resources, but ultimately, profitability depends on how these resources are converted into revenue.

NEAR Protocol announced support for users to earn SOL rewards through confidential accounts. After users deposit funds into the vault, the vault cannot know their address, and there are no lock-up requirements, allowing for redemption or withdrawal at any time. The related vaults are deployed by Gauntlet on Kamino.

The Hong Kong police announced that over the past two weeks, they have received more than 150 cases of WhatsApp account hijacking scams, with total losses exceeding 15 million Hong Kong dollars. Recently, an employee of a local company engaged in virtual currency exchange encountered account hijacking. The scammers blocked the original work group and blacklisted members, copied the group image, name, members, and profile pictures to create a fake group, impersonating a customer representative to request exchanges.The victim, as per usual practice, first transferred cryptocurrency to the designated wallet of the other party. It was only after discovering that the customer account balance was insufficient and calling to verify that they realized they had been scammed, resulting in a loss of over 4 million Hong Kong dollars for the company. The police remind that WhatsApp groups can be forged, but the member phone numbers cannot be exactly the same as those in the real group, and the timestamps of conversations cannot be replicated. They also suggest enabling two-factor authentication and verifying the other party by phone before making remittances, avoiding logging into accounts on public WiFi or public computers.

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.