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Huobi HTX announced that the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) had previously initiated legal proceedings against the exchange in the UK. After a period of constructive communication between both parties, the matter has now been properly resolved.Huobi HTX has always sincerely cooperated with the FCA, actively collaborating and responding to its concerns regarding the UK market. During this period, Huobi HTX, based on its commitment to continuously adhere to compliance standards, has gradually strengthened restrictions related to the UK market and exit arrangements, and implemented supporting operational measures.These measures were already in place before this settlement was reached. The settlement further consolidates the aforementioned measures and does not constitute an admission of any legal liability, misconduct, or violations by Huobi HTX.The settlement eliminates relevant legal uncertainties and is consistent with the exchange's commitment to continuously enhance compliance levels. This is beneficial for Huobi HTX to focus on the most important matter, which is to provide high-value services to users and achieve long-term sustainable growth.Huobi HTX thanks all parties for their professional cooperation in properly concluding this matter and will continue to focus on responsibly serving users. Looking ahead, Huobi HTX is willing to constructively cooperate with all parties in the industry, including working hand in hand with regulators where appropriate, to jointly safeguard user interests and promote the healthy development of the digital asset ecosystem.

Due to the detection of increased attempts of network attacks, the Indonesian cryptocurrency exchange Indodax has temporarily suspended user deposits and withdrawals to conduct security assessments and risk mitigation work.The platform stated that currently, user asset security is intact, and no unauthorized withdrawals or data breaches have been detected. The deposit and withdrawal services will resume once the system security is confirmed, and further updates will be released through official channels.

The aggregation Rollup infrastructure zkLink announced that it has confirmed ongoing attacks on its aggregation Layer 3 network zkLink Nova's Arbitrator contracts on Ethereum and Optimism. zkLink stated that the technical team is urgently controlling the situation to prevent further losses, and will update the community on progress later.zkLink calls on relevant parties to stop further exploitation of zkLink Nova's contracts across various chains and to return the affected funds. The project team stated that if the other party cooperates in returning the funds, they are prepared to offer a 20% white hat bounty, and no further action will be pursued after the funds are returned.The security agency Blockaid previously monitored that the attackers injected forged batch roots into Ethereum through public relays, and subsequently completed ETH and ERC-20 withdrawals from zkLink Nova's L1 custody contract. At that time, the total loss from L1 ETH custody and ERC-20 bridge was approximately $786,000, and the attack is still ongoing.

BNB Chain announced on platform X that the Jenner hard fork upgrade has been launched on the BSC testnet. The upgrade includes Payment Lane, which reserves 5% of the block gas for eligible payments by default; provides millisecond-level block timestamps for smart contracts; and introduces a new compliance asset standard CAS20.Payment Lane and CAS20 will only be fully enabled after governance, with more details to be announced later.

The criminal case involving Aiden Pleterski, who claims to be the "King of Crypto" in Canada, related to a Ponzi scheme involving digital assets, will be submitted to the jury for deliberation after closing arguments this week. Presiding Judge Shaun Nakatsuru has given the jury final instructions, and the jury is set to begin deliberations on Thursday. Pleterski is accused of defrauding approximately $30 million from fans on social media between 2021 and 2022, and was charged with fraud in 2024, subsequently awaiting trial for over two years.In his closing arguments, Pleterski declared his innocence. He stated, "I am not guilty of these charges, which is why I am not pleading guilty. This would have been proven if I had not been forced to represent myself. That's all I have to say." Due to his choice to represent himself, he is acting on his own behalf in court. If convicted of fraud, he faces a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.In another criminal case, five men are charged with kidnapping and torturing Pleterski in 2022, some of whom are reportedly victims of his scheme. Defendant Deren Akyeam-Pong has pleaded guilty to nine charges and is awaiting sentencing. Pleterski is one of several figures in the crypto industry facing fraud charges; former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 and is serving a 25-year sentence in the United States.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller avoided the question of whether the current interest rate level is appropriate. He stated that there is a general consensus that previous actions have shown results, but no clear conclusion has been reached regarding the need for further rate hikes in the future.

B.AI announced a significant upgrade to the model ranking list, adding four major evaluation dimensions beyond real usage popularity: the popular model tracking weekly token usage ratio, reflecting community selection trends; the call ranking supports real-time statistics of token and API call popularity over multiple time periods; the price ranking provides comparisons of input, output, and weighted prices, facilitating precise cost control; the intelligent ranking combines the Artificial Analysis intelligent index with a cutting-edge scatter plot of cost-effectiveness, helping to quickly identify high ROI models.The new ranking list can meet the needs for exploring cutting-edge capabilities, controlling call costs, and optimizing engineering selection.

Cysic released an update on the progress of the security incident handling, disclosing that 7,200,002 CYS tokens have been burned on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) to offset the previously unauthorized token issuance.Both burn transactions have been confirmed on-chain, permanently reducing the supply of CYS tokens on BSC, bringing it back in line with the project's token economic model.

According to the official announcement, Bitget stock spot has launched rAURE (Aurelion). As of now, the Bitget platform supports a total of 3,031 stock spot rTokens.

According to The Block, the stock price of Nasdaq-listed company Datavault AI plummeted nearly 50% after the company stated that it has been unable to withdraw its stored BTC from the Biconomy cryptocurrency exchange since June 2026.The Bitcoin comes from a stock transaction with Scilex Holding in September 2025, where Scilex agreed to pay $150 million in BTC to purchase Datavault stock and warrants. The BTC was credited to Datavault's Biconomy wallet through an off-chain transfer.

Web3 infrastructure and payment network Diamante announced that its ecosystem has experienced a security breach involving unauthorized activities by malicious actors. Upon discovery, the team immediately activated emergency security protocols and coordinated with exchange partners, market makers, liquidity providers, and listing partners to suspend affected withdrawals and transfers, restrict unauthorized asset movement, and prevent further exploitation.Diamante stated that the investigation has identified the suspected attackers and is coordinating with law enforcement agencies, government entities, and jurisdictional partners in multiple countries to seek legal action and asset recovery. A comprehensive incident review has been initiated to determine the cause of the breach, the sequence of events, the scope of affected assets, and to strengthen the infrastructure. Diamante is committed to ensuring that every affected participant is fully compensated and will continue to update the incident scope, asset recovery progress, and protective measures upon obtaining verified information.

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.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority issued a notice disclosing that it has received a large number of public inquiries regarding fraudulent activities involving counterfeit digital Hong Kong dollar projects. The related scam agreements claim to convert loans into digital Hong Kong dollar assets, deceiving the public into signing agreements. The Monetary Authority sternly clarifies that the related fraudulent agreements and lending projects have absolutely no connection with the Monetary Authority and emphasizes that it will not contact citizens regarding personal financial matters or conduct fund transfers.All institutions participating in the "Digital Hong Kong Dollar" pilot program and other sandbox programs under the Monetary Authority will not raise funds from the public or provide financial management and investment products in the name of the related programs. The Monetary Authority has reported the incident to the Hong Kong Police and reminds the public to verify relevant information through the Monetary Authority's official website. If personal information has been provided to suspicious websites or applications, or if there is a suspicion of being deceived, one should immediately contact the police or the Information Center of the Criminal Headquarters of the Hong Kong Police Force.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, the prediction market platform Predict Fun on the BSC chain is suspected to have suffered a vulnerability attack, with approximately $300,000 of suspected stolen funds transferred from multiple contracts through an intermediary wallet to Relay. These funds are reported to have been transferred to Tornado Cash after cross-chain.

According to Bloomberg, Japanese IT giant GMO Internet has faced a cyber attack, and hackers claim to have released customer information due to the failure to receive a $50 million ransom. It is reported that its foreign exchange trading services have been suspended and are no longer accepting new subscriptions. In addition, all servers of its domain and cloud service Onamae have been compromised, which may affect users.It is reported that GMO Internet operates the cryptocurrency exchange "Z.com EX," which has been licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand and the Ministry of Finance of Thailand. Last week, the exchange disclosed that it had been acquired, with the acquisition involving all shares of the target company held by GMO Internet and its related subsidiaries and shareholders.

According to Initia monitoring, a security fix has been drafted for the vulnerability discovered on October 23, and audits are currently being conducted with security partners.After the audit is completed, Initia will announce a specific plan detailing how to restore support for the affected assets and orderly restart the Initia L1 and Rollup networks. This process is expected to be completed in the coming days.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, two dormant whales that have been inactive for 3 years deposited 2,571 BTC (206.52 million USD) into Coinbase Prime.

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.