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The on-chain data platform DefiLlama announced a collaboration with the prediction market platform Trueo to launch a new prediction market settled with DefiLlama data, covering protocol revenue and the probability of vulnerabilities occurring.Revenue markets include protocol revenues from Hyperliquid, Pump, Aero, Uniswap, Collector Crypt, and Papertrade. Vulnerability markets cover DeFi hacking incidents and the probability of specific protocols being exploited, including whether Aave and Morpho will experience vulnerabilities this month, as well as weekly and monthly markets for the scale of the largest hacking events.Other on-chain indicator markets include the RWA market capitalization and DEX trading volume of Robinhood Chain, as well as who will have a higher TVL this weekend between Solana and Base.

According to a report by Reuters, a U.S. judge dismissed a civil lawsuit for sexual abuse against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, which was filed by his sister.

According to Crypto.news, Beast Holdings, associated with YouTube creator MrBeast, has submitted two U.S. trademark applications for MRBEAST FINANCIAL and BEAST FINANCIAL, covering financial services such as cryptocurrency trading, payment processing, decentralized exchanges (DEX), online banking, consumer loans, credit and debit cards, and investment management.

According to Cointelegraph, the crypto advocacy organization Stand With Crypto stated that during a 90-day period from May to August 2026, a total of 9,803 individuals submitted 10,092 complaints to UK banks through the organization's online tools, reflecting the restrictions encountered when transferring to crypto platforms.The highest number of complaints came from Lloyds Banking Group, one of the largest banking groups in the UK, totaling 2,297, followed by Barclays with 1,569 and NatWest Group with 1,278. These complaints have raised concerns about the accessibility of crypto services in the UK ahead of the launch of a new regulatory framework for digital assets in 2027.The report shows that UK banks have varying practices regarding restrictions on crypto transfers. Barclays and HSBC UK are listed as limiting crypto transfers to £2,500 (approximately $3,300) per transaction and £10,000 (approximately $13,300) every 30 days. Six banks, including Starling Bank, TSB, and Chase UK, are listed as completely prohibiting transfers related to crypto.Meanwhile, Lloyds Banking Group and Revolut are classified as having not disclosed their restrictions on crypto transfers, despite also receiving customer complaints. Revolut's official support page states that transfers to "certain cryptocurrency exchanges" are not supported, and a spokesperson for Stand With Crypto indicated that this seems to be a technical issue rather than an established policy.Nick Jones, founder and CEO of Zumo, told Cointelegraph that banking restrictions are a common issue faced by crypto founders in the UK, which could undermine the country's ambition to become a global crypto hub. He stated that the issue of limited access to banking services needs urgent resolution so that UK crypto businesses can grow and expand in a fair environment.Jones also warned that the upcoming crypto regulatory framework in the UK may not address this issue. Although businesses are preparing for mandatory approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) by October 2027, obtaining business bank accounts is not included in that framework. He added that without coordinated action, businesses may obtain full authorization but still be unable to open UK business bank accounts.

According to Cointelegraph, Section 502 of the Digital Asset Tax Clarification Act (H.R. 10357) currently advancing in the U.S. Congress stipulates that the Secretary of the Treasury must establish a voluntary disclosure program for digital assets within 12 months after the act takes effect.Eligible taxpayers can correct past digital asset tax violations by submitting amended returns and paying back taxes, interest, and penalties under the program. The act was passed by the House Ways and Means Committee on September 16 with a vote of 38 to 5, but it has not yet officially become law and still needs to be passed by the House, the Senate, and signed by the President.Andrew Gordon, Executive Director of the Digital Asset Taxation Action Organization, stated that this is a significant change that will help many ordinary taxpayers, yet it has received little attention. He pointed out that U.S. investors are facing the first filing season under the new 1099-DA broker reporting rules, which give the IRS greater visibility into crypto transactions but do not address the years prior to the rules taking effect. Sharon Yip, founder of Crypto Tax Advisors, also noted that filing errors among ordinary crypto investors are very common, and the existing procedures lack standardized processes, making it impossible to provide predictable penalty treatment for unintentional violators.According to Section 502, taxpayers generally must submit amended returns within 24 months after the program is established, and the act sets two penalty standards. Taxpayers who provide proof that their violations are neither fraudulent nor intentional can apply a 0% penalty on the portion of back taxes up to $25,000 if they file within the first 12 months after the program starts, while amounts exceeding that will incur a 5% penalty.Those who do not provide such proof will face penalties of 25% and 40%, and the tax rates will increase if the initial window is missed. The act also provides specific civil penalty waivers, allowing unproven taxpayers to be exempt from criminal referral within the scope of the disclosed information. A report by CoinTracker in 2026 showed that only 49% of crypto users correctly understand that selling crypto assets is a taxable event.

The lending protocol Secured Finance announced that it has completed recovery and reopened on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Filecoin. The official statement indicated that users did not lose funds, assets have been replenished, and contracts, balances, positions, and order books have all been repaired and verified.The Secured Finance lending market was attacked on September 5, resulting in a loss of approximately $104,000.

According to documents submitted by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on October 15, the political action committee Fairshake, primarily funded by Coinbase and Ripple Labs, has invested $46.6 million through its affiliated organization Defend American Jobs in the Ohio Senate election for media advertising opposing former Congressman Sherrod Brown's return to the Senate and supporting Republican incumbent Jon Husted. This expenditure is over 50% more than Fairshake's initial plan of $30 million announced in September.In an interview aired on Pod Save America on October 16, Brown responded that he has spent his entire career battling Wall Street, big pharmaceutical companies, and oil giants, achieving success in many cases, while Husted is a spokesperson for these forces, which is why they have invested tens of millions of dollars. In addition to Fairshake, the super PAC Digital Freedom Fund, established by Gemini co-founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, reported approximately $3 million in advertising expenditures this week to oppose Brown and support Husted, bringing the total media spending in the Ohio campaign to over $5.9 million. With less than three weeks until the U.S. elections, early voting in Ohio has been underway for 10 days.Fairshake's spending this round has exceeded $41 million for 2024, when the PAC supported Republican Bernie Moreno and opposed the incumbent Brown. Brown, who previously served as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is one of the lawmakers in Congress openly questioning the laws and policies supported by the cryptocurrency industry. Defend American Jobs also reported spending over $6.7 million in the Nebraska Senate election opposing independent candidate Dan Osborn, whose opponent, Republican Pete Ricketts, voted in favor of the Digital Asset Market Structure Act and legislation related to stablecoins. Fairshake stated in January of this year that it held $193 million in cash before the election.

Filecoin announced that three advancements have been made this month: the new reward mechanism Solstice will allocate more block rewards to services that bring paying customers to the network, while the rewards solely for consensus mining will be correspondingly reduced, and the unearned portion will be destroyed; the release period for the genesis token is about to end, and the daily new FIL circulation is expected to decrease by approximately 75%.In addition, Filecoin has launched new products aimed at enterprises and AI Agents, including the Filecoin-based storage cloud Integral Spacetime, S3 compatible object storage Fil One, and tools that support AI Agents to directly store files, obtain public links, and make on-chain payments.

According to the official announcement, Binance is expected to suspend the token deposit and withdrawal services for Filecoin (FIL) on October 19, 2026, at 19:59 (UTC+8) to support its network upgrade and hard fork.The project team will carry out the network upgrade and hard fork at block height 6,470,279 (expected on October 19, 2026, at 20:59 UTC+8).

According to The Defiant, asset management company VanEck is seeking to withdraw its filing application for the Lido Staked Ethereum ETF. The proposed fund was originally planned to directly hold stETH and provide investors with exposure to Lido's liquid staking tokens through brokerage accounts.Reports indicate that the fund's registration never took effect, meaning this product failed to enter the formal issuance stage. Lido is the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, and stETH is the liquid staking token it issues, allowing users to stake ETH while maintaining asset liquidity and earning staking rewards.

According to a report by Reuters on October 12, the generative AI character dialogue platform Character.AI announced on Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States and agreed to sell some assets to Walt Disney for $20 million.The company has initiated a court-supervised asset sale process, which includes licensing some intellectual property, and is seeking court approval for auction rules, designating Disney as the lead bidder. Disney's bid will serve as the baseline offer, and other bidders may submit higher bids. The company expects the sale process to be completed in late November or early December 2026 and plans to continue operations during the process, including the Character.AI platform.Character.AI CEO Colin Adams stated that the board determined, after a comprehensive assessment of options, that this court-supervised sale process is the most beneficial for maximizing value for all stakeholders. According to court documents, the platform's owner, the American company Character Technologies, has estimated assets and liabilities between $50 million and $100 million.

At the 2026 Wonderful and Marvelous Night co-hosted by Douyin and Beijing Satellite TV, the founder of Film Hurricane, Pan Tianhong, demonstrated a world model. This model can generate an explorable virtual environment based on text descriptions, allowing users on-site to roam within the generated scenes and continue inputting commands to modify the visuals.Bloomberg reported in September this year that ByteDance is developing a real-time spatial video model based on the video generation model Seedance, supervised by founder Zhang Yiming, with a potential launch as early as October. Related directions include cloud generation, Pico headsets, and Douyin creator tools. ByteDance has not officially confirmed whether this demonstration is the same product as the project, nor has it disclosed the product name, launch time, or detailed performance data.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, 4 hours ago, 2 wallets associated with the Ethereum Foundation (0x4c4...2b94, 0x999...0229) transferred 4,393 ETH to Kraken, worth 11.13 million dollars.The wallet that transferred out ETH received 59,800 ETH from the Ethereum Foundation wallet 10 years ago, of which 49,800 ETH has been gradually transferred to Kraken over the past 10 years at an average price of about 658 dollars.

The six-year vesting period for Filecoin is about to end, at which point approximately 68 million FIL tokens will be removed from annual releases. Based on the current mining rate, the annualized increase from vesting and block rewards will drop from about 89 million FIL to 21 million.After the vesting period ends, rewards for storage providers will continue to be distributed. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network, and FIL is its native token used to incentivize storage and retrieval services within the network.

"On-Chain Detective" ZachXBT stated that he once disguised himself as a client to infiltrate a criminal gang suspected of laundering money for the North Korean-backed hacker organization Lazarus Group, and assisted in freezing funds related to the 2025 Bybit attack incident.ZachXBT indicated that after Bybit was attacked for $1.5 billion in February 2025, he discovered over 15 accounts seeking help with transactions related to the stolen funds in public Telegram and Discord groups. He then contacted a Telegram user using the alias "Jimmy Green" and built trust through multiple transactions.According to his disclosure, on March 6, 2025, he transferred $3.497 million USDC to an Ethereum address for exchanging USDC with TRON chain USDT. The Gas funds for that address trace back to the Bybit attack funds and have been publicly marked as a Bybit attack blacklist address.ZachXBT stated that in subsequent communications, the other party revealed that their team had participated in handling the stolen funds from Bybit and disclosed in advance that the funds would be transferred on chains such as Solana. By matching transaction times, amounts, and on-chain data, he discovered a wallet cluster involving over $12 million of Bybit attack funds, with funding paths including BTC→ETH→SOL→TRON and others, among which approximately 442,000 USDT had been frozen by Tether. The gang also attempted to launder money through Uniswap liquidity pools and low liquidity tokens.In addition, the other party revealed that they had helped other clients handle approximately $3 million in scam proceeds, and ZachXBT tracked the related funds flowing to sanctioned Huione Guarantee-related wallets.ZachXBT disclosed that during this investigation, he initially invested $3.497 million and bore about 5% loss risk for each transaction. The intelligence obtained was promptly provided to relevant investigative agencies and law enforcement. Since 2022, he has assisted in freezing over $75 million related to North Korea-related incidents.

Greenfield Capital has submitted a complaint to the Swiss Federal Foundation regulatory authority ESA regarding governance issues at the Safe Ecosystem Foundation, accusing a director of the Safe Foundation of demanding a large amount of SAFE tokens from relevant personnel after Bybit was attacked.At the same time, the director threatened to sell approximately 10% of the total supply of SAFE held in Gnosis and cut ties with Safe.

Market news reports that hackers have infiltrated the propulsion system of a tanker heading to the United States.

According to Cointelegraph, former commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Brian Quintenz stated at the Korea Blockchain Week 2026 that the Clarity Act is not the only way to achieve regulatory certainty for cryptocurrencies. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and CFTC can use their exemptions to fill this regulatory gap.

Iranian Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian stated that the opening of the Strait of Hormuz depends on whether the conditions proposed by Iran are met, and Iran will not make concessions to the United States on established conditions.Amir-Abdollahian mentioned that Iran has been informed of the preliminary response from the United States regarding the proposal to reopen, but has not yet received specific information from the mediators.

According to Caixin, poker master and seasoned cryptocurrency investor Hu Zheweng made significant bets during the three waves of cryptocurrency frenzy involving ICOs, algorithmic stablecoins, and AI tokens, but faced consecutive failures. Hu Zheweng claimed to have invested in the blockchain project Stratis, achieving a return of "over 1000 times."According to disclosed information, Hu Zheweng invested approximately 80 million USD in algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) and its sister token LUNA from May 2021 to May 2022, with the peak market value of his holdings exceeding 800 million USD, but the price of LUNA subsequently nearly dropped to zero.In addition, Hu Zheweng has filed a lawsuit in Chicago, USA against the globally renowned quantitative trading firm Jump Trading and its related companies and executives in the cryptocurrency business, seeking at least 500 million USD in damages. After experiencing Stox and Terra, Hu Zheweng has not left the cryptocurrency market; last January, he bet on a new project by a Chinese computer professor Zhang Yongfeng. Zhang Yongfeng entered the Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University in 2007 and is currently a tenured associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University in the USA. He has been sued by Hu Zheweng on multiple charges including "securities fraud." It is reported that the tokens issued by the organization founded by Zhang Yongfeng, in which Hu Zheweng invested millions of dollars, have fallen over 99.6% from their peak in 2025.