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SpaceX stated that any potential merger with Tesla must be further approved by the company's special committee, board of directors, and controlling shareholders.

Patrick Witt, the Executive Director of the White House Presidential Digital Asset Advisory Committee, announced his departure from government service to return to the private sector. He made this decision public last week, and the White House has not yet announced a new head of cryptocurrency policy, with a successor still undetermined.Previously, Harry Jung and Bo Hines had also left the committee. White House officials stated that cryptocurrency policy and the Digital Asset Market Clear Act will remain a focus of the Trump administration, but the personnel vacancies have raised concerns about the momentum of policy advancement.As the midterm elections approach next month, the administration is still advancing rule-making in the digital asset space. After the new Congress is sworn in in 2027, cryptocurrency legislation will require coordination from a White House liaison, with tax legislation expected to proceed ahead of market structure reforms; if the Democrats flip the House of Representatives, the congressional landscape may also bring new variables. Meanwhile, the rule-making efforts of agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Department of the Treasury will continue.

According to Decrypt, the French National Assembly's Finance Committee passed two cryptocurrency tax amendments this week: starting from January 1, 2027, exchanges of stablecoins regulated by MiCA will be considered taxable sales; and a departure tax will be imposed on tax households relocating overseas with a total value of cryptocurrency assets exceeding 800,000 euros.The committee rejected the budget revenue portion with a vote of 31 to 3, and the full National Assembly will review the original text from the government. The aforementioned amendments will not be automatically included; supporters must reintroduce them during the debate starting on October 13, with a formal vote scheduled for October 20.The related measures have not yet become law. The stablecoin amendment was proposed by left-wing GDR party member Nicolas Sansu and 16 co-signers, applicable to electronic money tokens as defined by MiCA. The amendment does not set a new tax rate but aims to include the related revenue under France's existing unified tax system of 31.4%.The committee also passed an amendment proposed by Daniel Labaronne, allowing investors to carry forward cryptocurrency asset losses for 10 years to offset future gains. The proposed departure tax applies to taxpayers who have been French tax residents for at least 6 of the past 10 years and whose cryptocurrency assets, including custodial assets, have a total value exceeding 800,000 euros.

According to Xinhua News Agency, on October 10, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council recently issued opinions on developing new quality productivity. The opinions propose promoting the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy, building a national integrated computing power network and a national blockchain network, improving the system for determining data property rights, market transactions, rights distribution, and interest protection, implementing pilot demonstrations for data elements, and optimizing the layout and operation of national data infrastructure.The opinions also propose improving an open, shared, and secure data element market, exploring mechanisms for efficient cross-border data flow, enhancing the policy system for digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, creating internationally competitive digital industry clusters, and establishing mechanisms for future industry investment growth and risk sharing, thereby strengthening long-term capital investment in cutting-edge hard technology.

According to an announcement released on the White House website on Friday, U.S. President Trump announced the establishment of a special committee to investigate allegations against Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook. According to the announcement dated October 7, Trump stated, "To assist me in fulfilling this duty, the committee will investigate the allegations against Board member Cook and report to me whether there is 'just cause' for her removal." This investigation will focus on assessing whether Cook meets the criteria for removal under the law, and it does not currently imply that she has been removed.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces," proposing to promote the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy. The opinions emphasize improving the systems for determining data property rights, market transactions, rights distribution, and interest protection, implementing pilot demonstration projects related to data elements, optimizing the layout of national data infrastructure, promoting the digital transformation of manufacturing, and building a national integrated computing network and national blockchain network.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces," supporting high-quality technology enterprises to go public for financing, optimizing systems for mergers and acquisitions, equity incentives, and more for technology enterprises. The opinions also mentioned increasing the supply of financial innovation products, encouraging the development of angel investment, venture capital, and private equity investment, and improving long-term capital support policies.

Chairman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee French Hill stated that the actions taken by regulators to advance digital asset regulation lack the long-term stability provided by congressional legislation. He hopes that Congress will pass the CLARITY Act during the lame-duck session before the new Congress takes office in 2027.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have previously proposed relevant rule-making plans. French Hill indicated that the regulatory actions of the two agencies following the Senate's failure to pass the CLARITY Act last month are still insufficient to replace legislative proposals. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and CFTC Chairman Michael Selig have announced that they will advance cryptocurrency regulation as directed by U.S. President Donald Trump. As of Wednesday, there are a total of 7 vacancies in the leadership of the two agencies; among them, Hester Peirce announced her resignation as SEC Commissioner last week, and the CFTC is currently only chaired and staffed by Selig.

On October 2, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the establishment of the Prime Minister's National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council in Ottawa, which will provide independent and pragmatic advice on Canada's artificial intelligence transformation. The council will bring together stakeholders from the public and private sectors to provide input on the evolution of the AI for All national strategy, covering areas such as accelerating adoption, nurturing national leading enterprises, building sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure, enhancing AI safety, protecting democracy, and ensuring that all Canadians benefit.Council members include Ajay Agrawal, Yoshua Bengio, Sanja Fidler, John Graham, Gillian Hadfield, Jordan Jacobs, Eric Lamarre, Valérie Pisano, Senator Thomas Pitfield, Jody Thomas, Louis Vachon, Michelle Zatlyn, and of course, Patrick Pichette as a member. The council is supported by a small team from the Privy Council Office, while policy decisions and implementation remain the responsibility of the relevant ministers and departments.Carney stated that the prosperity and sovereignty of the artificial intelligence era belong to countries that can build, adopt, and govern artificial intelligence according to their own conditions, and the council will provide recommendations on how to manage risks, seize opportunities, and improve the lives of all Canadians.

On October 2, at 11:30 AM Eastern Time, the Arbitrum Security Committee executed an emergency upgrade on Arbitrum One and Nova, suspending the activation of all new Stylus contracts on both chains, while adding a protective mechanism against BoLD single-step proofs in the dispute system of Arbitrum One. The Arbitrum Foundation stated that this action is part of ongoing proactive security measures aimed at protecting the security and integrity of the network.Stylus allows developers to write smart contracts using languages such as Rust and C++, while maintaining compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, with its programs compiled into WebAssembly format. This suspension primarily targets manually written WASM programs that do not use the standard Stylus compiler toolchain and have not yet been patched by the current version of ArbOS. The Security Committee increased the gas required for activation to the theoretical maximum by calling ArbOwner.setWasmActivationGas(2^64 - 1), making new activations economically unfeasible. Activated Stylus contracts are unaffected and can continue to execute and renew, and the deployment and execution of Solidity contracts are also unrestricted.The newly added BoLD protection allows anyone to pause the settlement from Arbitrum One to Ethereum when two conflicting and accepted answers appear in the same dispute step, which may delay unconfirmed withdrawals to allow the Security Committee to deploy fixes. Officials pointed out that the currently discovered Stylus-related vulnerabilities mainly affect the activity of the chain, such as denial-of-service attacks, and do not jeopardize user funds.

According to The Defiant, the Solana ecosystem liquid staking protocol Marinade stated that its governance committee consecutively rejected two proposals within six hours, thereby preventing an attempt to take over the DAO.Marinade stated that this incident did not result in any funds being transferred, and its staking services were not affected.

The White House announced the establishment of an independent committee responsible for overseeing the implementation of the artificial intelligence agreement and receiving reports from the operational control team as well as internal and external auditors and evaluators.

According to CNBC, James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee and a Republican Congressman from Kentucky, is expanding the investigation into insider trading in prediction markets and is requesting three online platforms to explain their measures to combat related activities.In a letter sent on Tuesday, Comer requested documents and information from the CEOs of Hyperliquid Labs, Crypto.com, and Aristotle Exchange Inc., which owns the PredictIt platform, asking them to clarify their identity verification procedures and how they identify and prevent insider trading on their platforms.Comer stated, "As online prediction platforms continue to evolve and become more mainstream, some bad actors are betting using non-public information, making thousands of dollars. The House Oversight Committee is investigating whether these platforms are fulfilling their legal obligations and taking sufficient measures to identify and prevent insider trading before it occurs."

According to CoinDesk, French Hill, the chairman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, stated that tokenization has shifted from being viewed as a "futuristic" concept during the discussions of FIT21 and the CLARITY Act to a reality that is happening in real-time.He said, "We may really be tokenizing an asset like a real security— in fact, we are doing that right now."

According to Ledger Insights, the latest statistics on bank cryptocurrency activities for the second half of 2025 released by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) show that the overall prudent exposure of banks remains flat, but the composition of assets has changed significantly.In the Americas, the proportion of BTC in bank cryptocurrency exposure dropped sharply from 75.8% to 44.2%, while ETH rose to 38.5%, and SOL and XRP accounted for 7.8% and 5.6%, respectively. Other regions have shifted more towards stablecoins. Customer-related activities grew significantly, with a 93% increase in the Americas to 6.4 billion euros, while Europe saw a 25% decrease to 1.9 billion euros.

Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee sent a letter to the committee's chairman, Republican Senator Tim Scott, calling for a congressional hearing on prediction markets. The Democrats stated in the letter that the committee has a "critical oversight responsibility" in regulating prediction markets and emphasized that Congress should examine prediction markets through public hearings on a bipartisan basis, rather than in closed-door roundtable meetings limited to Republicans and industry-friendly discussions. Senators including Elizabeth Warren signed the letter.On the same day, Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee met with Tarek Mansour, CEO of the prediction market platform Kalshi. Scott stated in a statement to The Block that he convened Republican lawmakers to meet with Kalshi to better understand the opportunities and challenges presented by securities-linked products. The two sides discussed keeping innovation within the United States, how investors use these products, protecting retail investors, and regulatory issues that Congress should address. Kalshi did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Currently, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) advocates for a leading role in the regulation of prediction markets but faces opposition from various states, which claim jurisdiction over sports event contracts. The Senate Banking Committee, on the other hand, has jurisdiction over the SEC and is responsible for regulating "securities-linked products" related to prediction markets. Democrats pointed out that the bets offered by such products, which are linked to company performance metrics, may fall under the SEC's regulatory scope. It has been reported that Cboe Global Markets is seeking SEC approval for its listing of "all-or-nothing options" linked to company earnings results.

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee passed the amended H.R. 8957, the U.S. Reserve Modernization Act, with a vote of 28 to 21, aiming to incorporate the U.S. strategic Bitcoin reserve and digital asset reserve program into federal law. The bill proposes that Bitcoin legally held by the federal government and without other statutory purposes must be held for at least 20 years from the effective date of the bill, during which it cannot be sold, exchanged, auctioned, pledged, or disposed of in any other way.The bill still needs to be passed by the House, the Senate, and signed by Trump. The bill also requires the Treasury Department to establish relevant reserves within 180 days of its enactment and to publish an annual reserve certification report covering holdings, transactions, and private key control. The Treasury Department and the Department of Commerce will study legal and budget-neutral ways to increase Bitcoin holdings, but this provision does not authorize direct purchases.

On Wednesday, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee advanced the American Reserve Modernization Act (H.R. 8957) with a vote of 28 in favor and 21 against. All 28 votes in favor came from Republicans, while all 21 votes against came from Democrats. The bill requires the Treasury Department to establish a Bitcoin strategic reserve and digital asset reserve within 180 days and mandates federal agencies to report their held assets within 60 days.The Bitcoin included in the reserve cannot be sold, exchanged, auctioned, or mortgaged for 20 years. The revised text removes provisions for purchasing more Bitcoin using Federal Reserve funds, gold certificates revaluation, and tariff revenue, adjusting the frequency of reserve proof reporting from quarterly to annually. The bill does not authorize the purchase of Bitcoin but only requires the Treasury and Commerce Departments to study acquisition plans with no cost to taxpayers.