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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino posted on the X platform that U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal's "analysis" of the Tether sanctions report overlooked one point: since 2023, Tether has, on average, frozen related addresses 4 weeks ahead of the formal sanctions identified by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Israeli National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF), and in 99% of cases, the freeze was completed before Chainalysis marked the related addresses.He stated that Tether's actions have led to a 94% decrease in stablecoin trading volume related to Iran. Previously, on September 28, Blumenthal released a report from the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, stating that among 846 sanctioned wallets related to Iran and its proxies, 84% almost exclusively used USDT for transactions, and he wrote to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Justice requesting an investigation into Tether.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated in an interview that he has issued orders to the Israeli military, Mossad, and military intelligence to "overthrow the Iranian regime." Netanyahu mentioned U.S. President Donald Trump's public support for him, stating that Trump believes the current core mission is to eliminate the threat to Israel's existence posed by Iran.

On October 19, WINkLink announced that the first round of the WIN buyback and burn plan, which will be launched in the third quarter of 2026, has been completed, with a total of 67,357,364,510 WIN (approximately 6.735736 billion) burned in this round.According to the plan, 100% of the revenue generated by WINkLink will be used for the WIN buyback, forming a continuous deflationary mechanism supported by protocol revenue. The details of this round of destruction and the on-chain transaction records can be publicly queried, and the execution process is transparent and verifiable. The implementation of the first round of buyback and burn marks a substantial step for WINkLink in optimizing token economics and building a long-term ecosystem, laying a foundation for the normalization of subsequent rounds.

On October 19, the B.AI platform announced that MiniMax's MiniMax M3.1 Flash (also known as Space Bunny) is officially online, with API and Web Chat both available for a synchronized experience. This model is designed for complex office automation, software engineering, visual reasoning, and professional analysis, supporting multi-step task execution, front-end implementation, and presentation creation, helping developers and professional users efficiently transform ideas into tangible results. The model supports a 1M Token context window and up to 512K output Tokens, with standard prices as low as $0.15 per million input Tokens and $0.60 per million output Tokens, balancing complex task processing with high cost-effectiveness.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale staked HYPE worth 10.95 million dollars, incurring a loss of 2.02 million dollars within 30 days.The whale staked 139,050 HYPE (worth 10.95 million dollars) and delegated it to Infinitefield(.)xyz. The wallet also holds a long position worth 202,250 dollars, involving CXMT, CXMT, SKHX, and LYTE, with an unrealized profit and loss of -36,540 dollars. Its perpetual contract history has a total profit of 7.22 million dollars, but it has overall lost 2.02 million dollars in the past 30 days.

According to The Block, payment company Mastercard has launched the Stablecoin Security tool to screen for fraud and sanction risks in stablecoin payments.This tool is aimed at stablecoin payment scenarios, helping relevant institutions identify fraudulent activities and sanction compliance risks during transaction processing. Mastercard did not disclose more product parameters and launch scope in the summary of the report.

According to Gate market data, on October 19, the German DAX30 index closed down 302.43 points, a decrease of 1.18%, at 25,320.18 points; the UK FTSE 100 index fell 118 points, a decrease of 1.08%, at 10,763.9 points; the French CAC40 index dropped 88.65 points, a decrease of 1.11%, at 7,868.05 points; the Euro Stoxx 50 index fell 57.38 points, a decrease of 0.92%, at 6,146.85 points; the Spanish IBEX35 index decreased by 290.38 points, a decrease of 1.5%, at 19,035.92 points; the Italian FTSE MIB index dropped 763.68 points, a decrease of 1.53%, at 49,093.5 points.

According to The Block, investment bank StoneX reiterated its "buy" rating on Galaxy Digital (GLXY) and maintained a target price of $57.The agency believes that Galaxy's current valuation underestimates its AI data center business and does not actually take its digital asset business into account in the valuation. Market concerns are primarily focused on the rising borrowing costs of CoreWeave and the outstanding debt of $35.6 billion as of the end of June.

Financial technology company Ramp announced that it submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on October 16 to establish Ramp National Trust Bank. If approved, the trust bank license will allow it to provide fiduciary investment management and digital asset custody services, bringing it under a unified federal regulatory framework.In addition, the proposed entity will not engage in accepting deposits or issuing commercial loans.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that Charles Schwab has opened Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to all eligible retail clients in the United States through its existing investment platform, charging a fee of 0.75% per transaction, with a minimum of $1 and a maximum transaction limit of $2 million.The company is gradually launching digital asset transfers between Schwab accounts and external wallets, requiring users to register their withdrawal addresses in advance and complete security checks. Paxos Trust Company provides custody, trade execution, and settlement infrastructure, and the related digital assets are not protected by SIPC or FDIC insurance.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on October 19, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $360 million, an increase of 1,500% compared to two weeks ago.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) purchased 267 Bitcoins last week at a price of $82,900, spending approximately $22.1 million, bringing its total holdings to 848,517 Bitcoins.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase any Bitcoin last week.In addition, three other companies announced their Bitcoin purchases or holdings last week. Asset management company Strive announced on October 19 that it spent approximately $330 million last week to purchase 4,045 Bitcoins at a price of $81,734, bringing its total holdings to about 36,818 Bitcoins; the UK Bitcoin treasury company The Smarter Web Company announced on October 19 that it invested $6.93 million to purchase 83 Bitcoins at a price of $83,542, bringing its total holdings to 2,830 Bitcoins; Ethereum asset company Bitmine announced on October 19 that it purchased 1 Bitcoin, without disclosing the specific purchase amount, bringing its total holdings to 215 Bitcoins.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,161,643 Bitcoins, with a current market value of approximately $95.41 billion, accounting for 5.8% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

WINkLink announced that the first round of the WIN buyback and burn plan, which will be launched in the third quarter of 2026, has been completed, with a total of 67,357,364,510 WIN (approximately 6.735736 billion) burned in this round.According to the plan, 100% of the revenue generated by WINkLink will be used for the WIN buyback, forming a continuous deflationary mechanism supported by protocol revenue.

According to Gate market data, BTC/USDT is currently priced at $81971.5, with a 24-hour increase of 0.51%.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH falls below $2,279, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEXs will reach $801 million. Conversely, if ETH breaks above $2,517, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEXs will reach $727 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC falls below $77,999, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.952 billion. Conversely, if BTC breaks above $86,090, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.336 billion.

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.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, wallets associated with BlackRock ETF have just transferred $143.04 million in assets to Coinbase Prime, including 883.001 BTC ($72.64 million) and 28,957 ETH ($70.4 million).

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, wallets associated with BlackRock ETF have just transferred $143.04 million in assets to Coinbase Prime, including 883.001 BTC ($72.64 million) and 28,957 ETH ($70.4 million).

According to Arkham monitoring, Bitwise has just purchased 127,241 LINK through its Chainlink ETF, worth approximately 1.54 million dollars. As of now, Bitwise holds a total of 5.018 million LINK tokens, with a total value of about 60.21 million dollars, and an average purchase price of approximately 10.6 dollars.In comparison, Grayscale's LINK holdings are valued at nearly 126 million dollars.

According to The Defiant, THORChain announced that its v3.21 upgrade will fix the FIN contract vulnerability on Rujira and allow the previously paused application layer to restart. The network has set the upgrade target at block height 28,366,100, with an expected time around October 23. After the restart, trading, lending, borrowing, and automated trading on Rujira will resume. Rujira's products run through smart contracts within THORChain, rather than on an independent blockchain, and the application layer can pause these contracts without affecting the underlying layer of THORChain.According to Rujira, the vulnerability was discovered on September 26, when an attacker transferred a custom concentrated liquidity position without holding a position. The team paused the application layer with the support of node operators, and only one position from the Rujira team itself was affected, with no loss of user funds. Rujira attributed the vulnerability to a flaw in the position transfer function, rather than the trading logic of the liquidity strategy. On September 27, Rujira stated that the fix is located at the underlying layer and has been scheduled for the v3.21 upgrade.Regarding the restart window, Rujira proposed a conditional grace period in its plan on October 15: if the application layer is ready to resume, any credit account position with a loan-to-value ratio above 100% and meeting liquidation conditions will request node operators to pause the credit account contract for an additional 24 hours, allowing borrowers to replenish collateral before liquidation resumes. Borrowers can replenish collateral through Rujira Borrow or by directly transferring assets to the credit account address. Rujira indicated on October 10 that positions still deemed unsafe after the grace period may be liquidated when the liquidator triggers the process.