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According to on-chain researcher Spreek, the DeFi protocol Hifi Finance has encountered a DAO governance takeover. The attacker gained control through four last-minute votes funded by Tornado Cash, subsequently minting 25 million governance tokens and transferring users' staked assets, with a total value of approximately 1 million dollars, most of which were RWA tokens.

The Cosmos ecosystem decentralized exchange Osmosis has restored the reserve support for Alloyed BTC asset allBTC through a governance proposal. Previously, the Nomic cross-chain bridge minted 40.650602 nBTC on June 25 without Bitcoin reserve backing, of which 39.839746 was counted as collateral for allBTC, causing the support rate of allBTC to drop to 63.97%. After Nomic suspended operations on September 7, Osmosis validators froze 22.650608 allBTC held by the attacker through an emergency upgrade.According to the passed proposal, Osmosis will transfer the frozen attacker assets to the liquidity sub-DAO and utilize 12.4838 allBTC held in the community pool, as well as approximately 4.7 BTC released from the canceled USDC liquidity deployment, to fill a gap of about 39.84 BTC. The subsequent v32 software upgrade will mark the contaminated nBTC as invalid, withdraw it from the allBTC alloy, and destroy it, allowing allBTC holders to restore full support.The proposal indicates that approximately 18 BTC has been transferred out of Osmosis and laundered through Tornado Cash, making it impossible to recover directly. Osmosis stated that it will continue to track the remaining funds and restore the deposit and withdrawal functions of allBTC after the allBTC balance reaches zero and nBTC is removed from the alloy.

According to Scam Sniffer monitoring, a user suffered an address poisoning attack, resulting in a loss of approximately 50,000 USD in assets.

According to Cointelegraph, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated during the third quarter earnings call on Tuesday that there is uncertainty about whether U.S. tokenization rules can be sustained in the long term, which may hinder investors from allocating large assets into the tokenized market. He described the five-year innovation exemption granted by the SEC in September as "a very positive step," but emphasized that further rule-making or legislation is needed to bring long-term regulatory certainty.Tenev noted that the uncertainty regarding the direction of the rules after five years is likely to become an obstacle to allocating large assets to this technology when communicating with clients. Tokenized stocks have previously faced resistance from traditional issuers, with 16 companies including Microsoft, Alphabet, and Goldman Sachs opposing their stocks being listed on the proposed OKXICE platform. AMC CEO Adam Aron has also publicly criticized Robinhood's tokenized stock products.Robinhood currently offers about 200 stock tokens on the Robinhood Chain, supported by the underlying stocks, but constructed in the form of tokenized debt securities, providing only economic exposure without dividend and voting rights, thus falling outside the scope of the SEC innovation exemption that requires rights parity. Tenev stated that tokenized stocks of private companies will be launched overseas, while seeking a path that complies with accredited investor restrictions within the United States. Binance Research's baseline scenario predicts that the market size could reach $34.9 billion by 2030, with approximately $4.43 billion as of September 15.

The leverage for the security warehouse, unified account model, and unified account professional version will add 5 types of bStocks tokens on October 28, 2026, at 20:00---Bending Spoons (BSPB), GraniteShares 2x Short SK Hynix ETF (SKDDB), GraniteShares 2x Long SK Hynix ETF (SKUUB), GE Vernova (GEVB), and Applovin (APPB)---as qualified collateral assets. Eligible users can use these tokens as margin collateral.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale purchased the following tokens from BitGo in the past hour, with a total value of approximately 42.3 million USD:14,600 ETH, valued at approximately 34.24 million USD; 415,690 LINK, valued at approximately 4.81 million USD; 16,570 AAVE, valued at approximately 2.23 million USD; 144,840 UNI, valued at approximately 1.02 million USD.

According to CoinDesk, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated at the Ripple Swell conference that digital assets can help reinforce the global dominance of the U.S. dollar. Bessent noted that historically, the strength of the world's reserve currency came from military power, but it is increasingly shifting towards technological leadership. The U.S. will maintain its military umbrella, but the technological umbrella is becoming more important. He believes that the U.S. will win in the digital asset technology stack, which will continue to solidify the dollar's position.Bessent stated that over 90% of stablecoins are backed by the U.S. dollar, and issuers often hold U.S. Treasury bonds as reserves. As adoption grows, the demand for such assets may rise, becoming a new source of financing for the federal government. He believes that stablecoins will open up new global markets rather than merely replacing existing dollars. Regarding the failure of the Clarity Act, Bessent expressed disappointment, but noted that the Treasury can work with the SEC and CFTC to advance regulation through institutional action. He also mentioned that regulatory best practices and safeguards can prevent crypto companies from being de-banked.

According to Cointelegraph, Jordi Visser, founder of Visser Labs, former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, and Chief Investment Officer at Weiss, stated in the Cointelegraph podcast "Trade Secrets" that crypto assets may yield better returns from the AI boom than AI stocks. He believes that AI entities are creating demand for crypto payments and tokenized assets, stating, "Without AI, the crypto market will not emerge from this bull market."Visser compared AI entities to the App Store or smartphones in the crypto industry, where users can instruct the entities to execute financial operations such as trades on their behalf. He also cautioned about risks: if AI experiences a severe downturn and drags down the stock market, it could cause the crypto market to retest previous lows, but it would not end the bull market. He mentioned that the "fireworks show" of AI has ended, not the end of AI itself, and investors should lower their expectations for returns from AI stocks.In terms of holdings, as of August, Visser only held Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, and then began buying a broader range of tokens, with Bitcoin still being his largest position. He is watching Dogecoin as a signal of retail enthusiasm returning and maintains an equally weighted index composed of 42 tokens and 4 publicly traded stocks, which has outperformed Bitcoin since June. He has also positioned himself in privacy themes, believing that Zcash and Monero align with his investment logic.

Binance has submitted a cryptocurrency service provider license application to the Central Bank of Brazil through its local entity BBrasil, in order to maintain its operations in one of the largest cryptocurrency markets in Latin America before the regulatory deadline of October 30. The application was submitted on October 23, and the company stated that this will allow Brazilian users to continue accessing cryptocurrency assets, stablecoin trading, payment, and investment services.Meanwhile, Binance announced that changes for Brazilian users will take effect on Tuesday, including restrictions on crypto lending, margin trading, and other services, and will delist 22 cryptocurrency assets in the country. Thiago Sarandy, General Manager of Binance Brazil, stated that the company supports the consideration of regulated markets for virtual asset characteristics and hopes that ongoing dialogue with the Central Bank of Brazil will enable it to offer other products that were suspended to comply with current regulations in the near future.According to the regulations of the Central Bank of Brazil, existing cryptocurrency service providers must submit authorization applications by October 30 to continue operating under transitional arrangements. However, submitting an application does not equate to obtaining regulatory approval; Binance still needs to wait for the official review results from the Central Bank of Brazil to determine whether its local business can operate in full compliance.

Cryptocurrency investment firm Placeholder partner Chris Burniske tweeted that although the current market is volatile, while Bitcoin is declining, long-tail assets are showing potential upward momentum, and the market has not lost its risk appetite.He stated that long-term oriented investors are still accumulating positions in what they believe to be valuable. Currently, there is a strong "wall of worry," and if it can be successfully crossed, this situation is likely to occur after the midterm elections, and the results will be remarkable.

According to The Block, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng stated at a media briefing after the BNB Standard Nasdaq bell-ringing ceremony that crypto assets will become the native currency of AI. He mentioned that AI could use Bitcoin, existing stablecoins, or tokens issued by AI companies in the future, but hopes that BNB Chain will become one of the main networks, and noted that this still requires development.Zhao Changpeng also mentioned that earlier that day he discussed tokens linked to computing power resources and hopes to introduce them to BNB Chain, but did not disclose details. He also stated that crypto payments are still not convenient for ordinary users and suggested that startups should first focus on underserved markets and remittance routes, rather than directly competing with Apple Pay or Google Pay in the United States.

Balancer's official statement indicates that the team, while reviewing the DAO's own assets, also examined the historical asset positions of external users. They have currently identified over $500,000 in related assets and have notified the owners.Balancer pointed out that these assets mainly involve two types of situations that are easily overlooked by asset management dashboards: first, the buffered liquidity shares of Balancer v3 use an internal accounting mechanism within the Vault, which may not be displayed on blockchain explorers or platforms like DeBank; second, there may still be collectible partner rewards in the old v2 liquidity mining contracts, even if users have previously withdrawn their liquidity.

According to Chainlink's official blog, Chainlink has officially launched the CustodySync solution, allowing qualified custodians to enable their institutional clients to participate in the DeFi lending market under the premise of asset retention custody. Anchorage Digital, a federally chartered digital asset bank in the United States, is the official launch partner.This solution publishes custody balances on-chain through Chainlink Proof of Reserve and issues tokenized certificates representing custody assets with transfer restrictions as collateral in the lending market; the custodian and the lending protocol calculate the Loan-to-Value (LTV) based on the same price data from Chainlink Data Feeds and Data Streams, with the designated collateral agent executing sales when liquidation is triggered. Chainlink states that the current scale of digital asset custody is approximately $700 billion, with deposits in the DeFi lending market exceeding $80 billion and active loans over $30 billion.

According to the regional service restriction notice released by MEXC on October 21, the exchange is gradually exiting the Dutch market, requiring local users to transfer their assets by October 31, and plans to complete the exit by November 16.MEXC confirmed that it has not yet obtained EU MiCA authorization. Previously, due to providing cryptocurrency asset services in the Netherlands without permission, the exchange was listed on the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) temporary list of non-compliant entities.Earlier, on October 20, MEXC announced the cessation of services to users in Russia and Belarus. Its user agreement also lists 13 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, and mainland China, as prohibited service areas.

According to the data panel on the ChainCatcher official website, in terms of BTC wallet balances, over the past 7 days, most of the top 10 exchanges by balance have seen an increase, with Binance experiencing the largest growth at 5.8%.In terms of exchange asset transparency proof, the top three net outflows of reserve assets are OKX (-99.349 million USD), MEXC (-80.5573 million USD), and Bybit (-26.9348 million USD); in terms of net inflows, Binance had the highest inflow at 1.215 billion USD, followed by Bitget (+302 million USD) and Deribit (+296 million USD).

The National Information Security Vulnerability Sharing Platform (CNVD) released a security announcement titled "Analysis and Repair Suggestions for PHP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability," in which it supports affected users to closely monitor official information, download and update to the latest version through official channels. Users who are temporarily unable to update can take measures to reduce certain attack vectors, mitigate vulnerability threats, and continuously monitor for abnormal PHP process exits, abnormal system command calls, unfamiliar process creations, and abnormal file writes, while retaining logs for traceability analysis.In its protection recommendations, CNVD stated that information system operating units should further strengthen security protection, comprehensively sort out their network assets, and reduce the public exposure of information systems according to the principle of not connecting to the internet unless necessary. Operating units that are currently unable to repair should take temporary response measures such as network isolation, network access restrictions, and taking unnecessary business systems offline.

According to the "Q3 2026 Report" released by Gate, the platform's institutional business continues to grow, with cross-market trading, asset custody, and professional fund services further expanding.Among them, CrossEx has seen significant improvements in several core indicators, with quarterly trading volume increasing by 63% month-on-month, asset custody increasing by 902% month-on-month, the number of trading users growing by approximately 315% compared to Q2, and the number of fund users increasing by 95%.In terms of products and infrastructure, CrossEx has added mainstream exchanges, Lighter contracts, real stocks, and ETF trading scenarios, and launched features such as RPI Orders and arbitrage opportunity displays. CrossEx Colo services have officially launched, with order placement concurrency and multiple transaction reporting delays optimized by about 50%, and the highest fees for certain trading scenarios reduced by 50%. During the same period, Gate's institutional cumulative borrowing volume increased by 412.02% month-on-month.In addition, the Gate SuperLink ecosystem has added two banking partners, ABN AMRO and Pave Bank, and deepened cooperation with custodians such as Copper and BitGo. OES clients can now access CrossEx, participating in trading across multiple exchanges through a unified margin pool under an isolated custody model, further expanding institutional clients' cross-market asset allocation and trading options.

QuickSwap announced that its deployment interface on the Soneium network will cease operations on December 31, 2026, and advised liquidity providers and other users to withdraw assets and liquidity positions through the interface before this date.QuickSwap stated that after the interface stops service, users can still retrieve their assets through the official Soneium block explorer. The project team also released a list of usernames holding Soneium liquidity positions for relevant users to check.