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According to information from GitHub, a core protocol draft named "Decoupled Consensus" has appeared in the Ethereum EIP repository. It proposes to separate the beacon chain's head voting from the finality proof voting to enhance fork choice security, shorten finality time, and lay the groundwork for a subsequent transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQ).The proposal is co-authored by Francesco D'Amato, Roberto Saltini, Yann Vonlanthen, Mikhail Kalinin, and Ben Edgington, and is currently still in the early draft stage, with multiple details yet to be determined. The submitters primarily hope to obtain an EIP number at this stage. The proposal is pending further review and has not yet been merged.

On-chain detective ZachXBT posted that a certain institution was allegedly hacked by the North Korean-linked organization SquidSquad on October 8, resulting in the theft of approximately 2.84 million USD on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC).According to its tracking, the attackers deposited 1,111.2 ETH into Tornado Cash on October 20, then withdrew it to three addresses, and subsequently transferred the funds from Ethereum to Tron via USDT, consolidating them into two addresses. The aforementioned consolidation addresses are all financially linked to addresses previously attributed to North Korea. The funds were then directed to Chinese over-the-counter (OTC) traders through intermediary addresses within minutes, and ZachXBT believes this move may be to evade potential fund freezes by Tether.

According to Jinshi reports, from early September to mid-October, the super political action committee affiliated with President Trump invested $277 million to support Republican candidates in the midterm elections, while the committee also raised an additional $25 million during the same period.According to the latest documents submitted to the Federal Election Commission, donors include casino mogul Stephen Wynn, Blackstone Group's Stephen Schwarzman, and billionaire Diane Hendricks, among others, who made large donations. Since its establishment two days after Trump won his second term, MAGA Inc. has raised a total of $449 million. Reports indicate that this fundraising scale is unprecedented for a president starting a second term.This funding further strengthened the Republican camp's finances. Currently, the Republican Party and its three affiliated super political action committees have raised a total of $2.1 billion, far exceeding the $1.3 billion raised by the Democratic camp.

According to Decrypt, nine blockchain organizations including Quantus, Postquant Labs, Midnight Foundation, Keystone, Abelian, and Hacken have jointly established the Quantum Alliance, aiming to develop "quantum-ready" open standards and establish a unified approach to test the quantum resistance of blockchain networks, wallets, and infrastructure.The Quantum Alliance stated that currently, approximately 6.04 million BTC, accounting for about 30% of the Bitcoin supply, are at potential risk of quantum attacks due to the exposure of elliptic curve signature public keys. The organization will focus on promoting blockchain migration, post-quantum zero-knowledge systems, wallet security, and cross-chain compatibility, citing recent predictions that practical quantum attack windows may appear as early as around 2028.

The Blockchain Association, the Crypto Innovation Committee, in conjunction with the Illinois state government, the Digital Chamber of Commerce, and the Illinois Blockchain Association, submitted a joint motion to the Sangamon County Circuit Court, requesting the court to expedite the hearing of two lawsuits against the state's Digital Asset Tax Act. The state government has agreed to issue an injunction to suspend the effectiveness and enforcement of the Digital Asset Tax Act until July 1, 2027.In order to make a ruling on the legality of the tax law as soon as possible, the parties have proposed a timeline for expedited summary judgment submissions: the first round of motions is scheduled to be submitted on November 4, 2026, and all relevant submissions will be completed by January 22, 2027. The parties request the court to hold a hearing between February 8 and February 19, 2027, and request the court to make a ruling by March 1, 2027, to which the state government has no objection. This timeline is subject to court approval.

ICBA accuses OCC of lacking regulatory safeguards in granting banking charters to cryptocurrency companies. The cryptocurrency lobbying group CCI supports OCC, stating that the lawsuit aims to stifle financial innovation.

According to Cointelegraph, the advocacy organization focused on Zcash, Pretty Good Policy for Zcash (PGPZ), has submitted a lobbying registration, with the registration effective date of October 1. Executive Director Divij Pandya is the sole registered lobbyist. This move indicates that this privacy-oriented cryptocurrency ecosystem is intensifying efforts to influence U.S. digital asset policy.The registration documents include the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act and two digital asset tax proposals as part of its current and anticipated lobbying agenda. PGPZ was established in June of this year, evolving from the Pretty Good Policy for Crypto initiative launched by Electric Coin Co. in 2022, which held a Washington policy roundtable and organized a congressional briefing on cryptocurrency technology in 2023.PGPZ founder and ZODL Chief Policy and Regulatory Officer Paul Brigner stated that the goal is "to ensure that Zcash has serious, organized, and credible policy participation in Washington." He noted that the decisions being made by policymakers will affect whether privacy-preserving digital cash can exist, be used legally, and serve the public interest. PGPZ's responsibility is to ensure that Zcash is understood, represented, and defended in these discussions. In August of this year, Zcash Community Grants approved a $750,000 grant to fund PGPZ's work for its first year.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the PUMP institutional private placement address (E3M...9Cs) participated in the PUMP private placement last July with 4 million USD, acquiring 1 billion PUMP at a private placement price of 0.004 USD.This address transferred all PUMP to Coinbase Prime 5 hours ago, valued at 5.36 million USD, with a price of 0.0054 USD; by selling the private placement PUMP, it made a profit of 1.36 million USD, with a return rate of 34%.

According to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated the Russian shadow banking network A7 Network as a significant transnational criminal organization, listing its relevant addresses in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has proposed a draft rule that aims to prohibit U.S. institutions from participating in any fund transfers involving the network's "sub-agent companies," covering convertible virtual currencies and not limited to fiat currencies, which is expected to affect approximately 348,000 institutions, including several cryptocurrency exchanges.The proposal is based on six special measures granted by Section 9714 of the Countering Russian Money Laundering Act, ultimately selecting the sixth measure, which is the fund transfer ban. The fifth measure, which restricts correspondent accounts, is considered to have loopholes: research by blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs shows that A7A5 transactions completely bypass the correspondent banking system, which the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network views as a core aspect of its business model. A7A5 is a ruble-backed token issued by Old Vector, registered in Kyrgyzstan, operating on Tron and Ethereum, with reserves held at the Russian state-owned defense bank Promsvyazbank.The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network stated that between February 2025 and June 2026, over 180 entities handled at least $17.91 billion in A7A5, which historically circulated almost entirely through the sanctioned exchanges Garantex and Grinex, often used as a non-frozen bridge to convert into USDT and then into fiat currency.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain institution liquidated 172,500 ETH in early September and made a profit of 124 million dollars, suspected of selling ETH to buy UNI.Its associated address withdrew 3.125 million UNI from CEX between September 15 and 22, valued at 24.21 million dollars, with an average price of 7.7 dollars. The aforementioned UNI was consolidated from multiple wallets into two new wallets one hour ago.

According to The Block, the crypto advocacy organization supported by Coinbase, Stand With Crypto, has announced its first round of Senate candidate endorsements.The organization stated that it will endorse Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted, whose opponent is the crypto-skeptical former Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown. Additionally, it will endorse Ashley Hinson from Iowa and Chris Pappas from New Hampshire.This endorsement comes after the Senate's procedural vote on September 15 failed to pass the Clarity Act, which aims to establish a federal regulatory framework for the industry.Senate Democrats stated that they could not vote for a bill that would allow President Trump to profit personally from the crypto industry. Stand With Crypto's Executive Director Mason Lynaugh mentioned that after the Senate's recent failure to advance the Clarity Act, the organization’s more than 3 million advocates are fully shifting their focus to ensuring the election of candidates who support crypto.In addition to the Senate endorsements, Stand With Crypto also stated that it will increase advertising spending in six House campaigns, including those of Democratic Congressman Don Davis and Republican Congressman Bryan Steil.These newly endorsed House candidates all voted in favor of the Clarity Act when it passed the House last year. The organization has also endorsed more House candidates, including Congressmen Shomari Figures and Mariannette Miller-Meeks.

According to The Block, Coinbase Clearing LLC has been approved by the U.S. CFTC to register as a Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), achieving a self-contained closed loop for brokerage, listing, and clearing.This approval only covers fully collateralized futures, options, and swap products, while leveraged derivatives still rely on third-party clearing. The company's legal director stated that the new clearing uses USDC as collateral and supports 24-hour settlement.

According to on-chain detective Specter, by tracking on-chain fund flows, the North Korean hacker organization Lazarus Group may be the behind-the-scenes attacker of the Bitget theft incident. This incident is linked to the AFX attack that occurred in July this year, which resulted in losses of approximately 24 million dollars and was attributed to TraderTraitor associated with Lazarus Group.The stolen XRP from Bitget, after cross-chain transfer, can be directly linked to the stolen funds in the AFX attack.

According to The Information, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are establishing a new artificial intelligence safety standards organization, tentatively named the "Frontier Artificial Intelligence Standards Organization." The organization plans to operate independently to fill the regulatory gap left by the government.

OpenAI announced that it will allow external organizations to evaluate its AI models in the early stages.

According to Forbes, a warning jointly issued by multiple agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Police Agency (NPA) of Japan indicates that the North Korea-linked hacker group WaterPlum (also known as Contagious Interview) will launch attacks on global IT developers from December 2025 to July 2026 by disguising itself as companies in the AI, cryptocurrency, or NFT sectors and offering fake job positions.Attackers contact job seekers on social media and recruitment platforms, luring them into downloading malicious files under the pretext of technical interviews or programming tests. They successfully infected over 30,000 devices, covering more than 100 countries and regions, and stole data from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets. Related funds of at least $10.71 million have flowed into wallets controlled by the attackers.

According to a joint alert issued by the Japanese National Police Agency, FBI, ASD/ACSC, BND, and BfV, the North Korean-backed cyber attack organization "WaterPlum" (also known as Contagious Interview) targets job seekers by disguising itself as an AI, cryptocurrency, and NFT company to post fake job listings. This lures job seekers into downloading NPM packages containing malware such as BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, and OtterCookie, which then steal cryptocurrency wallet information and confidential data.As of July 2026, the organization has infected over 30,000 devices in more than 100 countries and regions worldwide, stealing information from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, with the wallets under its control receiving at least approximately 1.7 billion yen (about 10.71 million USD) in cryptocurrency. The Japanese National Police Agency has discovered and dismantled a "notebook farm" established by local "supporters" for the first time in the country, where North Korean IT laborers remotely control PCs within the supporters' residences to conduct business, with the related amount involved reaching several hundred million yen.The police and FBI assess that WaterPlum and some North Korean IT laborers are under the unified command of the 313 Bureau of the Ministry of Military Industry of the Workers' Party of Korea, with the profits directly flowing into North Korea's national funding pool. The police remind IT technicians and corporate issuers to remain vigilant and avoid executing third-party code in unverified environments.

The World Trade Organization urges member countries to reform global trade rules to avoid the risk of trade fragmentation. The organization warns that without reform, global GDP could decline by 5.1% by 2050, with exports decreasing by 18.6%.Strengthening multilateral cooperation could lead to a 2.9% increase in global GDP and nearly an 18% increase in exports.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the hacker organization Lazarus Group sold 911 ETH (2.28 million USD) at an average price of 2499 USD in the past 2 hours.

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are discussing the establishment of an AI industry standards organization. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for AI companies to coordinate on technical testing and audits. OpenAI founder Sam Altman expressed support for the establishment of testing and auditing organizations but believes that large AI labs should establish industry standards organizations on their own rather than relying on the U.S. government.