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DFINITY founder Dom posted on X that after further investigation, it was found that the key components used by NEAR Intents involve DFINITY's proprietary technology, and he accused NEAR of unauthorized use of technology results that are only authorized for Internet Computer.Dom stated that the relevant technology involves a threshold ECDSA algorithm used for cross-chain asset custody and transaction signing, which can increase the signing speed to about 3 times that of other solutions; he also claimed that NEAR deployed the relevant technology on 8 servers, failing to achieve the decentralization and security it advertised. Dom further indicated that GitHub records show that NEAR is recently attempting to downgrade the relevant algorithm to a solution that is about 3 times slower, and he believes this move may be related to concerns about its use of the relevant technology.He stated that this matter involves potential legal liability, believing that DFINITY and the ICP community have been harmed as a result, and hopes that both parties can resolve the dispute. The above content currently represents a unilateral accusation from the DFINITY founder, and whether the use of the relevant technology constitutes infringement, as well as whether NEAR has the security and decentralization issues it claims, still needs further verification.

According to Business Insider, SpaceX is offering workers an additional 20% pay for building a data center in Memphis.

According to Cointelegraph, blockchain security company CertiK stated that although Google, Apple, and Microsoft have blocked 8 affected certificates issued by the Indian digital certificate authority eMudhra, cryptocurrency trading bots and exchange applications may still be exposed to related vulnerability risks, and browser fixes may not cover software that uses independent security systems.Peiyu Wang, Senior Director of Digital Asset Security at CertiK, pointed out that attackers could exploit the compromised certificates to impersonate exchanges, wallet interfaces, and APIs, replace deposit addresses, or induce users to approve malicious transactions. However, such attacks also require intercepting or redirecting network traffic, and the compromised certificate authority keys alone cannot expose wallet private keys. Cryptocurrency service operators should update software and certificate trust stores and ensure that applications reject affected certificates.

On October 20, 2026, Jason Pagoulatos, a macro and market author at the cryptocurrency research institution Delphi Digital, released a report titled "The House Always Wins: Why Speculation is the Theme of This Decade." Pagoulatos stated that speculation has two long-term engines: constructive and lottery-like. Technological changes open the former, while fiscal and political pressures open the latter; historically, many famous bubbles have been driven by one or the other. Today, both are operating at high speed simultaneously, and the same batch of technologies is feeding both. He thus considers speculation itself as an investable theme, advocating for holding places for liquidation bets rather than holding the bets themselves.The data cited in the report includes that the U.S. federal deficit for fiscal year 2025 is $1.8 trillion, about 5.8% of GDP, with net interest around $1 trillion per year, exceeding defense spending. The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies states that the national median price for single-family homes in 2024 is 5.0 times the median household income; the National Association of Realtors reports that first-time homebuyers account for 21% of transactions, with a median age of 40. According to the American Gaming Association, legal sports betting amounts have risen from $6.6 billion in 2018 to $166.9 billion in 2025. Capital expenditures for Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta are approximately $416 billion for 2025, with guidance for 2026 totaling about $720 billion to $745 billion, plus Oracle.In terms of venues, Robinhood's event contract revenue for Q2 2026 is $156 million, higher than stock revenue of $129 million and crypto revenue of $100 million during the same period. Hyperliquid's expenses for 2025 are about $972 million, with transactions around $3 trillion. Kalshi reportedly raised funds at a valuation of about $40 billion, and Polymarket is set to relaunch in the U.S. by the end of 2025. The author also mentions that the most likely mistake is to hold inventory of the crowd and call it a casino. The report states that it is for educational and general informational purposes only and is not investment advice; the author may hold Bitcoin, HYPE, HOOD, and LIT, and affiliated party Delphi Ventures may invest in the assets or agreements discussed in the report.

Digital hardware wallet manufacturer NGRAVE disclosed that attackers hijacked the third-party notification service used by its LIQUID companion app and sent false security alerts to users, resulting in approximately 70 wallet addresses being stolen across 4 blockchains, amounting to about 2.56 million dollars. Among these, the loss in Bitcoin was approximately 1.77 million dollars, XRP about 454,000 dollars, Ethereum assets about 316,000 dollars, and Stellar about 18,000 dollars.The attackers induced users to click on a counterfeit website and enter their 24-word recovery phrase or Perfect Key, subsequently using automated scripts to transfer assets within minutes. NGRAVE stated that the ZERO hardware wallet and private keys were not directly compromised; the victims voluntarily provided their recovery credentials during the phishing process. Unauthorized access may have begun on October 11. After obtaining an access key, the attackers acquired a broader access key and sent false notifications on October 17; NGRAVE detected anomalies about 1 minute after the notifications appeared, but the first wallet was emptied 6 minutes later, and the notification system was shut down that evening.NGRAVE's CEO stated that the company failed to fulfill the most basic security responsibilities of a cryptocurrency security firm and mentioned that affected keys have been replaced, with new dual approval, domain restrictions, and emergency shutdown mechanisms implemented. The company also reminded affected users to create new wallets and contact the support team, as some device information, wallet activity, IP addresses, and approximate locations may have been exposed.

According to CryptoSlate, Microsoft and the cybersecurity organization Health-ISAC have obtained a court order in the United States to seize and redirect the domains supporting three services: YAM Store, CoGUI, and Iron Man. These three services sell stolen accounts and phishing tools to fraudsters. Since January of this year, they have assisted in sending over 1 billion phishing messages, targeting more than 75,000 institutions across over 150 countries, generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue for the operators.Microsoft has disabled over 20,000 accounts associated with YAM Store and continues to block more than 100,000 counterfeit and fraudulent domains. According to Microsoft's investigation, these services accept payments in USDT (Tron network) and ETH, and Cloudflare stated that buyers can also use USDC for payments. Blockchain analytics company TRM Labs assisted investigators in locating and freezing related assets, but the amount frozen has not been disclosed.

Slow Mist stated that a fraudulent "Ledger firmware update" campaign is exploiting the recent Ledger supply chain incident to carry out attacks. The phishing page is highly realistic, including a fake "Genuine check" page, device selection interface, and "Update Now" button. Slow Mist reminds users not to update Ledger devices through website links and not to enter recovery phrases anywhere.

According to PeckShieldAlert monitoring, the phishing attacker who stole $2 million worth of DAI from an address of Bofur Capital has exchanged the stolen funds for 825.5 ETH.

According to Gate market data, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index is expected to evaporate more than 2 trillion USD in market value within seven trading days.

X user Irene Patrikios (@crypto_irene) announced that she has been appointed as the Chief Business Officer of the fully homomorphic encryption company Zama. She stated that she has been working in the cryptocurrency industry for nearly 12 years and believes that blockchain requires institutions, enterprises, and individuals to publicly operate financial activities, a gap that has long existed and is difficult to support large-scale funds on-chain. She joined the company in November 2025, before the launch of the Zama mainnet, and stated that confidentiality is the infrastructure that enables institutions holding global capital to truly go on-chain, and Zama is providing this capability.Irene Patrikios also mentioned that over the past year, Zama's business team has reached collaborations with several major participants to launch confidential DeFi and establish a business pipeline. Zama's CEO Rand Hindi and the board are increasing support for the next phase of the team's development. She expressed her gratitude to Rand Hindi, the board, and the Zama team.

According to two informed sources, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the Philippines, Coins.ph, is facing punitive actions from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). The alleged violations reportedly involve providing services to offshore betting companies, with a severity that could lead to the revocation of the operating license for this 12-year-old company. One source stated that this would trigger an "earthquake" in the Philippine crypto ecosystem.Coins.ph has over 18 million customers and a 24-hour spot trading volume of approximately $50 million, controlling about 75%-80% of the liquidity of pesos and stablecoins in the Philippines. Earlier this month, the BSP reportedly imposed restrictions on deposits made through Coins.ph's main wallet company, DCPay Philippines. Previously, several compliance executives from the exchange left, including Chief Compliance Officer Lexi Herrera, Head of Anti-Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring Chris Beaño, and Money Laundering Reporting Officer Irish Calagui.A year ago, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas restricted the use of e-wallet applications for gambling, requiring regulated entities to cut off access to gambling websites within the apps. Subsequently, several betting entities migrated to Coins.ph. This restriction is not a temporary measure and no reasons have been provided. Coins.ph is one of the earliest crypto wallets and exchanges in the Philippines, acquired by Indonesian tech company Gojek for $95 million in 2019, and later sold to former Binance CFO Wei Zhou. Neither Coins.ph nor the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas responded to requests for comment.

Hardware wallet manufacturer COLDCARD stated that its official X account had previously posted a fake security announcement, directing users to a phishing website disguised as a wallet migration guide. The post has been deleted, but no corresponding login, session, or access records have been found.COLDCARD indicated that its credentials and offline two-factor authentication remain secure, leading to suspicions that the attacker may have gained X platform-level or administrative access, and has requested an urgent investigation by the X security team. The company also mentioned unverified reports of X administrator accounts being sold on the dark web, but no connection to this incident has been found.

According to a report by Reuters on October 9, the Philadelphia police stated in a statement that a model from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic submitted a false murder case tip through the Philadelphia police website. Anthropic notified the police earlier this week and stated that the submission was caused by an automated testing process.The police said the tip was submitted through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18, 2026, involving an unsolved murder case, claiming to possibly have information about the case. The submission was marked as spam and was never forwarded to the Real-Time Crime Center for investigation or distribution. The police also stated that no unauthorized access to the system was found, nor was any departmental data leaked.Anthropic informed the police that after discovering the situation, it had stopped the related testing process and added verification mechanisms for future tests. The company plans to release a report on the matter on Friday. Reuters reported that Anthropic did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

On October 9, Binance founder CZ posted on X, responding to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's lengthy article about the potential impact of artificial intelligence accelerating mathematical research on cryptographic security. CZ rated Vitalik's mathematical level at 99.99 points, while he rated himself at 0.01 points, joking that together they might achieve something; he also mentioned that people might not fully understand Vitalik's articles like himself, but even so, such analytical discussions are worth reading.Previously, Vitalik warned in a post that the acceleration of mathematical research by artificial intelligence could significantly weaken the practical security of lattice-based cryptography in the next two years, involving technologies such as ML-DSA and fully homomorphic encryption, and could even expose ECDSA to cracking risks sooner than expected. He believes that artificial intelligence could drive mathematical research progress equivalent to the past 50 years within two years, which is why the Ethereum Lean roadmap has gradually shifted towards pure hash signature schemes over the past year, reducing reliance on lattice cryptography.

Alphabet's AI drug development company Isomorphic Labs, led by Demis Hassabis, is in early negotiations for a new round of financing, with a valuation of at least $40 billion, potentially reaching $50 billion.The company completed a $2.1 billion Series B financing in May this year. Reports also indicate that the application of AI in the biopharmaceutical field is still in its early stages, and more efforts are needed before clinical trials and product launches. This negotiation is still in the early stages, and specific terms and investor information have not been disclosed.

According to Slow Mist's Yu Xian monitoring, phishing attacks targeting FOMO's web bookmarks are emerging.Such phishing webpages lure users into completing fake human verification, dragging malicious JavaScript code into the browser's favorites and saving it as a bookmark. After the user clicks on this bookmark 2 to 3 times, the previously logged-in FOMO account will be hijacked by the attacker, and the encrypted assets within the account will be immediately stolen.

According to the official announcement, the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has announced that it will add support for Bedrock (BR) and Dolphin (POD) Korean won trading markets.Specifically, Bedrock (BR) will open for trading on October 6 at 19:00, supported by the BNB Smart Chain. Deposits and withdrawals are expected to open within 2 hours after the announcement, with a benchmark price of 590 Korean won and a required number of deposit confirmations of 15.Dolphin (POD) will open for trading on October 6 at 20:00, supported by Base. Deposits and withdrawals are expected to open within 2 hours after the announcement, with a benchmark price of 1086 Korean won and a required number of deposit confirmations of 200.Bithumb reminds users that only designated network deposits are supported, and transfers from other networks will not be supported.

Reactor announced that NVIDIA and Sapphire Ventures have joined the Series A financing, which is led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Dolphins vs. Vikings" on Polymarket, the "Dolphins" option in the sub-market "1H Spread -21.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 21.6% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 28.4%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.