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On October 28, TRON ECO announced the launch of the "Halloween Magic Matching" challenge. Five jack-o'-lanterns and five magic scrolls have been mixed up, and the exclusive magic of the five major ecological projects: SUN, JUST, WINkLink, BitTorrent, and AINFT corresponds to which scroll, waiting for users to find the correct pairs.Participants need to write five sets of corresponding answers in the comments section according to the scroll numbers, and @ the corresponding official accounts, while also @ 3 friends and using the hashtag #TRONEcoHalloween to participate. The event runs from October 28 to November 2. Users who complete 5 sets of correct pairs that comply with the rules will have the chance to participate in a random draw, with 20 winners selected, each receiving a TRON ECO exclusive peripheral.Due to logistics and delivery restrictions in different countries and regions, prizes and shipping arrangements may be adjusted, subject to official notifications and event rules.

The managing partner of the cryptocurrency venture capital firm Dragonfly, Haseeb Qureshi, stated that Rob Hadick and Tom Schmidt have been promoted to managing partners.In the future, the two will co-lead Dragonfly with Haseeb Qureshi and Bo, forming a four-person management structure.

Blink Wallet, a Bitcoin wallet, announced a monthly idle fee of $1 for custodial accounts that have not logged into the app for 12 consecutive months. This adjustment was initiated at the beginning of September through a change in the terms of service and push notifications were sent to inactive users, with the first deduction completed in mid-October. According to a blog post released by the company, users who log back in within 12 months will have the deducted fees refunded.This fee applies only to custodial accounts and aims to alleviate the burden that inactive accounts place on the startup. The announcement stated that these accounts incur ongoing costs related to ledger and infrastructure maintenance, record verification retention, compliance monitoring and reporting, as well as support for claims, which were previously shared by active users through regular in-app transaction fees. Sources told Bitcoin Magazine that approximately 100,000 accounts met the criteria for inactivity at the time of the first deduction, with a total balance exceeding $800,000. The first deduction collected about $45,000, primarily from accounts that had been idle for over a year with small Bitcoin balances. Blink Wallet originated from the Bitcoin adoption wave in El Salvador, initially named Bitcoin Beach Wallet, and was an early custodial Lightning Network wallet that introduced the Stable Sats feature to hedge value against the US dollar. The wallet was spun off from the founding company Galoy in October 2024, operated by Lukas Duczko and a new board, with Duczko holding a controlling stake, while Galoy continues as a service provider and minority shareholder, also establishing the Bitcoin Beach Fund.In recent years, custodial wallets have faced overall pressure, with Wallet of Satoshi, Alby, and Blue Wallet successively halting custodial wallet services and shifting to self-custody infrastructures like Spark. The EU MiCA regulations regarding licensing and KYC compliance requirements are an important backdrop. Blink launched a self-custody wallet supported by Spark in June 2026, and its user base is still adapting to this transition. On September 19, hackers withdrew 6.61 Bitcoins from custodial wallet users through compromised management tools, and the company's investors subsequently announced that they would fully compensate affected users.

Renowned trader Killa stated that the market is currently anticipating Bitcoin to reach the previous extreme low point of the downturn again, but at that time, the "liquidation shadow" appeared during a concentrated outbreak of multiple negative factors. Unless more negative news emerges subsequently, it should not be assumed that Bitcoin will inevitably drop to the previous low point again, and historical trends may not simply repeat.Killa further pointed out that buyers in the fourth quarter seem to still be waiting for a lower entry price and suggested that investors continue to dollar-cost average (DCA) into BTC over the next few weeks.Killa mentioned that Bitcoin has currently retraced about 9%, and in his view, this is a decent pullback within a bull market.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Paolo Banchero: Rebounds O/U 8.5" in the "Timberwolves vs. Magic" event on the Polymarket has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 46.5% an hour ago to the current 28% (a fluctuation of 18.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The messaging protocol XMTP founder Shane Mac stated that XMTP will evolve into a self-operating open-source messaging stack, providing private conversations between people and agents, with infrastructure controlled by users, without requiring tokens or wallets. The network hosted by XMTP Labs will shut down in early 2027.Shane Mac mentioned that he founded XMTP five years ago because he believed that private messaging should not be owned by a single company. He recalled that the team envisioned using wallets as cross-application identities, allowing messages to follow identities, and using tokens to pay infrastructure operators, but this path was not realized. XMTP has never issued tokens and will not issue them now. He admitted that it was a wrong decision to persist with a single shared network for a long time, as developers have consistently requested the ability to self-host XMTP. Therefore, it has shifted to self-hosting, allowing developers to use, inspect, modify, and maintain the entire software suite without relying on Labs. Former employees will assist in maintaining the protocol, and Shane Mac himself will continue to be involved.The article introduces that self-hosted XMTP offers quantum-resistant end-to-end encryption, private one-on-one and group chats, encrypted identities, and message authenticity, as well as SDKs for mobile, web, server, and agents. Chief Technology Officer Nick Molnar has simplified the backend to a single Rust binary and integrated attachments, push notifications, handles, and signed webhooks for new messages. Each self-hosted network does not automatically interconnect by default, and agents from different tools must connect to the same backend to share conversations.

NVIDIA stated that Amkor plans to increase its advanced packaging capacity by over 300% by the end of 2028.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Liquid vs magic (BO3) - 1win Private Club Playoffs," the option "Liquid" in the sub-market "Map 2 Winner" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 54.5% an hour ago to the current 76.5% (a fluctuation of 22%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to official news, BNB Standard Corporation (BNC) has announced the appointment of Alex Odagiu as the new CEO. Public information shows that Alex Odagiu joined YZi Labs in September 2021, starting as an investment manager and was promoted to investment partner in September 2025.During his time at YZi Labs, he was mainly responsible for Web3-related investments, covering DeFi, payments, stablecoins, RWA, and the intersection of AI and cryptocurrency, and served as a mentor and judge for the BNB Chain MVB Accelerator across 10 seasons. He also participated in the EASY Residency incubation program and has invested in projects such as Avalon, Aspecta, Canton, Hemi, Concrete, Mysten Labs, and Aptos.In June 2026, he was appointed as the interim president and director of BNB Standard Corporation. On October 19, 2026, he officially took on the role of CEO of the company and resigned from all positions at YZi Labs, including investment partner and related positions on the investment committee. In June of this year, YZi Labs reached an agreement with the then BNB Standard Corporation CEA Industries (now BNC) to resolve governance differences and jointly promote management adjustments.

According to a report by THE ELEC, Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced on October 19 that it has signed a supply contract for packaging substrates for memory semiconductors with a large global company, amounting to 360.5 billion Korean won. The contract period is from January 1, 2027, to December 31, which is equivalent to 3.2% of the company's consolidated revenue last year.This is the first time Samsung Electro-Mechanics has disclosed a long-term supply contract for packaging substrates. With this addition, the number of long-term supply contracts disclosed by the company this year has increased to seven, with a total amount of approximately 4.3 trillion Korean won. Previous contracts were mainly focused on components such as silicon capacitors, multilayer ceramic capacitors, and inductors, and this expansion includes the packaging solutions business, which produces products such as FC-BGA substrates and BGA substrates.Last month, Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced plans to invest 42.7 trillion Korean won in the Sejong FC-BGA production facility and 25.1 trillion Korean won in the Vietnam packaging substrate production equipment. The company also stated that as part of a large government project, it plans to invest 80 trillion Korean won in the Sejong business site and 150 trillion Korean won in the Busan business site by 2040, and will produce FC-BGA in Busan, Sejong, and Vietnam. A related person from Samsung Electro-Mechanics stated that the growth of the AI and high-performance computing market makes high-performance packaging substrates more important, and the company will strengthen customer supply cooperation and establish a stable supply system.

Web3 game developer Unagi announced on the X platform that the company has entered a court-ordered judicial liquidation process in France, and all assets will be publicly sold under the supervision of a court-appointed liquidator.Unagi's products include Persona Journey, Ultimate Champions, and Records. The assets for sale include: the intellectual property of Persona Journey, NFT contracts and creator royalty rights, 957 Persona NFTs in the treasury, community accounts, and related AI products; the token UNA and its contracts; the fantasy football and basketball game Ultimate Champions and its NFT card economy; a white-label fantasy sports platform; the completed but unreleased prediction game Fantasy Brainz; and the AI user-generated content platform Records launched in March this year.Each asset can be acquired separately, with the bid deadline set for November 2.

OKX Global Managing Partner and Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique announced that after nearly seven years at OKX, he will step down and take a temporary break to focus on family and personal matters.According to insiders, Haider plans to leave before the end of 2026. He joined OKX in March 2020, where he led the brand upgrade and was involved in facilitating the Intercontinental Exchange's strategic investment of $200 million in OKX this March.

According to Cointelegraph, the Central Bank of Russia stated in updated regulatory guidelines that arrangements for individuals to conduct peer-to-peer transactions in crypto assets will continue until July 1, 2027. After that, related transactions must be completed through authorized intermediaries. The Central Bank of Russia also clarified that individuals are not allowed to transfer crypto assets from digital accounts to self-custody wallets.Russia is expanding its regulated crypto market, with the country's largest bank, Sberbank, having been authorized to provide crypto asset trading services, having previously been approved to become a digital asset custodian. The new crypto asset regulatory rules in Russia took effect on September 1, bringing trading operators and custodians under the supervision of the Central Bank of Russia; the country still prohibits the use of cryptocurrencies for payment of goods and services. Jan3 CEO Samson Mow stated that P2P transactions are more resilient to regulatory crackdowns than centralized platforms.

According to CryptoQuant analyst nocoffeenobrain's monitoring, Bitcoin holdings aged 1-3 years and over 3 years showed signs of activity as early as the end of September, when the BTC price rose from the mid-$70,000s to the mid-$80,000s.Recently, Ledger was hacked, prompting a large number of users to migrate their assets to new signers and change their mnemonic phrases. It is expected that the 7-day moving average will further rise in the coming days. Analysts pointed out that similar patterns have occurred before—during the period from January to February this year, when BTC fell from the mid-$90,000s to the mid-$60,000s, and during the period from July to August when BTC fluctuated in the mid-$60,000s, both of the aforementioned holding age segments showed synchronized activity.

On November 12, from 15:30 to 16:30 (UTC), Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han will be invited to attend an event at The Oxford Union and take the stage to share. The event will be held at The Oxford Union located on St Michael's Street in Oxford, UK.The Oxford Union was founded in 1823 and is an independent student debating society with a history of over 200 years, regularly inviting political and business leaders, renowned actors, and Nobel Prize winners to engage in discussions. Historically, it has welcomed notable figures such as Albert Einstein.Gate was founded by Dr. Han in 2013 and has provided asset management, trading, payment, and other services to over 61 million users worldwide, connecting digital assets, fiat currencies, and payment services through Gate Money. This appearance will promote Gate's exchange with global thought leaders and the new generation of talent, expanding the connection between digital assets and traditional finance.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Sky Protocol has been granted a B3 long-term counterparty risk rating by the credit rating agency Moody's, with a stable outlook. This is the first time Moody's has rated a stablecoin protocol.As of September, Sky Protocol holds approximately $90 million in tangible common equity, corresponding to about $10 billion in tangible managed assets. Moody's describes its capital position as a "significant credit weakness." Sky Protocol, formerly known as MakerDAO, is responsible for managing the USDS and DAI, which are pegged to the US dollar. Moody's noted that approximately 45% to 50% of Sky Protocol's assets consist of stablecoins and tokenized money market funds, with another approximately 25% in cryptocurrency collateralized loans. Its rating is also constrained by low capital adequacy ratios, confidence-sensitive stablecoin liabilities, and risks associated with the DAO structure.