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According to Digital Asset, the Bank of Korea will require virtual asset transfer service providers to report monthly to the foreign exchange information system the end-of-month holdings of users who have conducted cross-border cryptocurrency asset transfers to overseas exchanges, personal wallets, etc., since July 19, 2024, starting from December 2. Even if there are no cross-border transactions in that month, reports must still be submitted.The report covers the number of coins held, the converted balance in Korean won, and the total amount of cross-border inflows and outflows for the month. Dormant accounts, delisted assets, and staked assets are also included in the scope and must be submitted by the 10th of the following month at 17:30. It has not yet been determined whether there will be a requirement to retrospectively submit records of cross-border transfer transactions conducted before the implementation of the reporting system.

The NFT project Ptah launched last night with a total of 100,000 pieces available for minting, and all were sold out by this morning. As of the time of writing, the floor price for this NFT is reported at $23, with a cumulative transaction volume reaching $928,000.Public information shows that the uniqueness of this project lies in the requirement for users to mint using a Binance Agent ID / Agentic Wallet (.ai Agent ID). Regular wallets cannot mint directly, but operations such as trading, synthesizing, and claiming are open to all wallets. Each Agent ID can mint a maximum of 4 Relics (with payments calculated in total using USDT and BNB). The total supply of 100,000 Relics includes 95,000 for public minting and 5,000 reserved by the team (for tutorials, demonstrations, rewards, gifts, etc.). Additionally, users can choose to burn 10 Relics to synthesize a Loom (mining machine).According to market news, the related project is still in its early stages, with high uncertainty and significant price fluctuations; users should invest with caution.

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

Cysic issued a settlement proposal to the attacker who unauthorizedly issued 10 million CYS, requesting that the other party return 275.872 ETH to an address designated by the Cysic Foundation within 72 hours of the on-chain announcement, which accounts for approximately 90% of the confirmed ETH earnings. In exchange, the attacker may retain the remaining approximately 30.652 ETH as a bounty for the vulnerability.Cysic stated that it has restored the key aspects of the attack and preserved relevant technical and on-chain evidence; if the other party fails to return the funds within the deadline, the project team will escalate the matter and seek intervention from law enforcement to promote a comprehensive criminal investigation.

Supermicro (SMCI.O) has launched the NVIDIA Vera CPU rack, which is a rack-level solution equipped with 256 CPUs and designed with 100% liquid cooling. It is compatible with the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform and supports large-scale intelligent agent artificial intelligence applications.

The software build and testing platform Blacksmith announced the completion of a $66 million Series C financing round, led by Sequoia Capital, with a valuation reaching $1 billion, officially entering the unicorn ranks.The company focuses on continuous integration (CI) and AI-generated code verification, with annual recurring revenue growing 17 times, and has executed over 90 million automated code checks cumulatively. Two months ago, the company completed a $45 million Series B financing round, with a valuation of $550 million, bringing the total financing amount to $125 million.

Famous trader Doctor Profit posted that he believes Bitcoin is in a bull market, expecting it to rise rapidly to $86,000 in the next few hours to days, followed by a further increase to $94,000. He stated that the market is not yet prepared for this trend.

The French Ministry of Finance, the Financial Markets Authority (AMF), the French Central Bank, and the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) jointly proposed amendments to the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), requiring cryptocurrency platforms to take responsibility for customer losses when they actively provide access to DeFi protocols without reviewing the protocols or ignoring known security risks.The French side proposed that platforms review relevant protocols before providing DeFi access and continuously monitor for vulnerabilities and suspicious activities, while also supporting the certification of protocols and smart contracts. These requirements will apply comprehensively to significant Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASP), with smaller platforms subject to proportionately adjusted obligations. France also proposed transferring the regulatory authority of significant CASPs from national regulators to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and lowering the current EU daily active user threshold of 15 million. Additionally, France suggested re-examining the category of Asset-Referenced Tokens (ART) and adjusting the Electronic Money Token (EMT) framework to cover multi-currency stablecoins.

The tokenized Pre-IPO platform OpenStocks has launched on the BNB Chain, offering tokenized economic exposure products for four private companies, including Anthropic (oANTHROPIC), Figure AI (oFIGUREAI), Neuralink (oNEURALINK), and Anduril (oANDURIL). These products are BEP-20 tokens on the BNB Chain mainnet, supporting 24/7 trading with no minimum amount restrictions. Transactions settle on-chain within seconds, using a self-custody model where users trade by connecting their own BNB Chain wallets, and OpenStocks does not act as a custodian.The platform clearly states that these tokens provide only economic exposure to the private stock prices of the companies and do not represent equity, granting holders no ownership, voting rights, dividend rights, or information rights, and OpenStocks has no affiliation with the aforementioned companies. The token prices are set by the on-chain DEX liquidity pools, with PancakeSwap Infinity as the primary trading venue. Tokens are traded against USDT, and the price users pay depends on the quotes in the pool at the time of transaction. The trading page simultaneously displays the latest on-chain token price and the reference price of the underlying company, as well as the implied company valuation based on that price.The platform is not open to individuals within the United States, U.S. citizens, and other ineligible persons, with Singapore being a prohibited jurisdiction. OpenStocks states that it is not a broker-dealer, investment advisor, exchange, transfer agent, or custodian, does not provide investment advice, and has no affiliation with the companies involved.

According to Engadget, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued a proposal requiring Apple to open access to NFC contactless payment on the iPhone and significantly reduce related fees. The CMA stated that Apple's fees and rules hinder the innovation and development of fintech companies in the UK. Currently, 39% of payments in the UK are made via contactless methods, with Apple Wallet being the most used.Unlike the European Union, no company in the UK has launched a competing wallet product against Apple so far. The CMA proposed that Apple open Wallet access to international mainstream contactless standards, with the CMA setting the fee principles without directly pricing them. Apple has expressed opposition, stating that it should not be required to adopt solutions with weaker privacy and security protections. The consultation will close on November 17.

According to the Ant Group's WeChat official account, the company Today AI has announced the completion of over 200 million dollars in financing. The investors in this round include Ant Group, IDG Capital, Tencent, Wuyuan Capital, Sequoia China, Transsion Holdings, Tongge Venture Capital, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Hanyuan Asset.Today AI is developing a personalized proactive AI system that provides each user with an AI assistant. Its functions include schedule management, life services, work assistance, travel planning, note-taking, data research, health management, information push, and learning practice. The product has completed internal testing and has been launched for the first time in the domestic market.

According to Bloomberg Law, Arkansas and its Oil and Gas Commission requested the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday to overturn a lower court order. The order prohibits the enforcement of the state's law that restricts foreign entities from holding digital asset mining operations. The lower court previously determined that the law may have been rendered ineffective by federal regulations taking precedence.Joseph Nelson from the Arkansas Attorney General's Office rebutted this determination. He stated that the law falls within the core area of state police power, and the restricted entities are consistent with countries that the federal government has identified as threats to national security. The law was passed in 2024 and prohibits citizens or businesses from countries subject to U.S. Department of State weapon export controls from holding interests in digital asset mining equipment in the state.

Elon Musk revealed that ASML and other semiconductor equipment suppliers are accelerating the delivery of equipment for Tesla and SpaceX's Terafab chip project. Musk stated during SpaceX's third-quarter earnings call that he appreciates the suppliers for speeding up equipment delivery to help achieve the goals.The Terafab project aims to meet the demand for AI processors and other chips from Tesla and SpaceX, with plans to achieve large-scale chip production by 2028.

Elon Musk stated that SpaceX expects to achieve one launch per week for Starship in the first half of next year, and at least two launches per week in the second half of next year.

The asset management company Bitwise Asset Management and the Hyperliquid Policy Center submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), requesting modifications to the proposed cryptocurrency rules to clarify token classification, airdrops, and secondary market trading rules. The SEC's proposed Regulation Crypto Assets would establish exemptions for eligible cryptocurrency financing and provide a conditional safe harbor for tokens related to investment contracts.Bitwise requested clarification on the standards for investment managers to determine whether tokens are subject to securities laws. The Hyperliquid Policy Center called for an expansion of the safe harbor scope and clarification of the rules for airdrops and token buybacks that reward network participants. The organization also requested that the SEC clarify whether unregistered intermediaries can facilitate token trading and whether tokens can be freely traded through on-chain protocols. Former SEC enforcement official John Reed Stark and Duke University finance scholar Lee Reiners called for the proposal to be withdrawn, arguing that it exceeds the SEC's statutory authority and undermines investor protection. The SEC will decide to amend, adopt, or withdraw the rules after the public comment period ends, and the final rules must be voted on by the commission before taking effect.

A network startup company called Optimum, led by Professor Muriel Médard from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced that its block propagation software mump2p has officially launched on the Ethereum mainnet. The Ethereum liquid staking protocol ether.fi has made mump2p a mandatory requirement for all 12 of its node operators, whereas previously the software was optional for its operators.Optimum stated that there are currently 16 node operators running mump2p in production environments, collectively managing approximately 22,000 validator keys and over 1.4 million staked ETH, accounting for more than 3% of the total staked amount on Ethereum. Partners include Blockdaemon, Everstake, P2P.org, Stakefish, and Bitcoin Suisse. The software operates in a sidecar gateway manner, not replacing Ethereum's default GossipSub, but rather overlaying it on top of libp2p and utilizing random linear network coding technology. Optimum claims that the block arrival speed is 2.42 times faster than GossipSub, with an approximately 7.88 times reduction in arrival time variance.Rok Kopp, co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of ether.fi, stated that they will not require the entire validator set to adopt a new infrastructure unless they are confident that it can enhance the overall level of stakers and the network. Médard mentioned that traditional financial institutions invest billions of dollars to shorten execution times to the millisecond level because speed is money. Optimum launched its private testnet in June 2025, having previously completed a $11 million seed round financing led by 1kx, and plans to expand the protocol to other high-throughput blockchains after Ethereum.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain address has sold 58.57 WBTC on-chain in the past 8 hours, worth 4.78 million dollars, with an average selling price of 81,620 dollars.

Google's advertising policy announcement indicates that starting from October 21, 2026, advertisers targeting cryptocurrency exchanges and software wallets in the UAE must obtain permission from one of the designated local regulatory authorities and be certified by Google.Acceptable licensing authorities include the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), and the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). Advertisers must also comply with other local legal requirements, and this policy applies to all accounts globally that target the aforementioned advertisements in the UAE.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) instructed U.S. civil agencies on Monday to remove products from the Chinese AI company DeepSeek from government IT systems, as well as any third-party services built on that model, and to prohibit new procurements. The notice stated that using DeepSeek could lead to the transfer of sensitive data to China and could generate intelligence targeting U.S. individuals and institutions. DHS indicated that these models constitute "multiple threat vectors."The ban targets not only DeepSeek's own applications but also covers third-party services based on its development. A DHS memorandum from July was made public on Monday, which had previously requested agencies to monitor the risks related to DeepSeek in the traffic in and out of government websites. The U.S. Department of Commerce, the Navy, and the states of New York, Tennessee, and Virginia had previously restricted DeepSeek. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on October 29 to decide whether to ban all Chinese laboratories from testing electronic products used in the U.S.DeepSeek is a startup based in Hangzhou, and its open-source model attracted widespread attention on January 27, 2025, with development costs of less than $5 million, leading to a 16% drop in Nvidia's stock price that day, evaporating about $600 billion in market value. In April 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives' Special Committee on China Issues stated that DeepSeek might secretly send U.S. user data to the Chinese government and may have used about 60,000 Nvidia chips, of which 20,000 were subject to U.S. export controls. The V4-Pro model preview released by DeepSeek in April this year was priced about 98% lower than OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Pro and was made available for free download and modification under the MIT license; this week it also released an updated version of the V4.1-Flash model focused on efficiency optimization.

NVIDIA has requested Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology to use TSMC's 3nm process for the production of NVHBM, while the core bare chips will utilize sixth-generation DRAM technology. Samsung Electronics has decided to accept NVIDIA's technical requirements but will not comment on matters involving customers.