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BNB Chain announced the winners of the BNB Hack tokenized stock-themed hackathon. Moi, 4lpha, Redeye, TARE, and Firstshare took the top five spots, with main track prizes of $6000, $4000, $3000, $2000, and $1000 respectively.4lpha won the Best Application Award for Agentic Wallet / Wallet Skills, and Firstshare won the Best Application Award for BNB Agent Studio, each receiving a prize of $2000, with a total prize pool of $20,000.

Chainlink announced that Chainlink 24/7 is now live, providing round-the-clock market data for traditional assets such as stocks and commodities to the on-chain market, covering weekends and holidays, filling the pricing gaps for U.S. stocks from Friday evening to Sunday night and on market holidays. This service is delivered through Data Feeds and Data Streams, using 24/5 session data during market hours, and aggregating quotes from multiple perpetual contract platforms after traditional market close to form a single continuous price reference.Official launch partner Aave is utilizing the 24/7 Data Feeds for its institutional lending platform Horizon, providing round-the-clock pricing for tokenized RWA collateral, initially covering high-volume U.S. stocks. Chainlink stated that 24/5 has already provided delayed pricing for nearly half of the tokenized stocks, supporting over $1.6 billion in tokenized stock pricing across six chains for Ondo, xStocks, Robinhood, and Coinbase.

According to a report by Crypto in America, the cryptocurrency industry organization the Chamber of Digital Commerce (CCI) and members such as Bitwise, Galaxy Digital, and Morpho submitted a 238-page report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), urging the regulatory agency to clarify how existing securities laws apply to on-chain vaults and to develop a differentiated regulatory framework based on the level of control that human operators have over user assets and investment decisions.

According to monitoring data from Arkham, Chainlink repurchased approximately 92,800 LINK in the past two hours, worth about 1.07 million dollars. Compared to last week, the number of repurchased tokens increased by over 4,500 LINK, during which the price of LINK experienced a decline.Additionally, monitoring shows that since the repurchase plan was initiated, CowSwap has been the trading platform for Chainlink to execute related repurchases.

Phase announced the launch of its blockchain mainnet and secured a commitment of $45 million from Kirill Eves, the founder of the payment company Unlimit. Phase stated that there are no external investors, and this commitment covers the development for the first two years of the project and provides funding support for the subsequent two years.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 19:38 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana chain.

On October 29, KR1 plc, a company listed on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, announced the launch of its technical infrastructure operations on the decentralized artificial intelligence network Bittensor. The company stated that it has recently acquired 5,000 network-native assets TAO and has initiated staking as part of its technical infrastructure strategy. Based on the reward rate observed on October 28, the company estimates that the annualized infrastructure income is approximately equivalent to 6.6% of the current value of the deployed TAO holdings.The announcement stated that Bittensor is a layer blockchain that supports subnets, covering services such as AI inference, computing power, training, and prediction, where independent suppliers compete for network rewards based on performance. KR1 supports the assessment of service provider performance through staking and receives a portion of the network rewards. There is no mandatory unbonding period for TAO unstaking, allowing the company to retrieve its holdings immediately after unstaking. Rewards can be retained to expand the scale of productive assets or can be liquidated for subsequent investments and operational costs. The company will also disclose its TAO holdings and related infrastructure income in monthly unaudited updates.Keld van Schreven, Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1, stated: "As artificial intelligence enables more complex tasks to be performed by software, the demand for infrastructure related to supply-side intelligence is expected to grow significantly. Bittensor introduces open competition for the supply of AI services, and the company is focused on how its incentives are forming services that lead to continuous customer payments, as well as how to deploy TAO holdings to enhance the value and income potential of productive digital assets per share." KR1 claims to be the only publicly listed company on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, holding and operating productive digital assets on the relevant network.

Lazaro Campos, the former CEO of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), has joined the London-based stablecoin yield platform OpenTrade as Chairman.OpenTrade stated that the platform processed over $1 billion in transactions in the past year, with a current total value locked of $300 million, up from over $200 million in May. OpenTrade was established in 2023, aiming to help businesses provide yields denominated in USD and EUR, backed by real-world assets, and has raised a total of $32 million to date.

According to the "2026 Crypto Geography Report" released by blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, Sub-Saharan Africa, although the smallest crypto market in the world, became the fastest-growing region globally with an annualized growth rate of 13.4% from July 2025 to June 2026, reaching a total scale of 101 billion dollars. South Africa and Nigeria together account for over three-quarters of the trading share in the region.Among them, South Africa's crypto economy surged 52% year-on-year to 39.3 billion dollars, with strong growth in commercial payment scenarios and cross-border stablecoin flows, becoming a regional crypto hub connecting neighboring countries. Nigeria's crypto scale reached 38.1 billion dollars, ranking third in global grassroots adoption rates, with local trading platforms absorbing half of the inflow funds from the country's centralized exchanges amid changes in the regulatory environment, and Bitcoin accounting for as much as 92% of small P2P transfers.

Japan Tax Free, a Japanese duty-free service provider, announced that it will officially launch the yen stablecoin JPYC tax refund service in collaboration with UPBOND on November 1, providing an on-chain tax refund channel for foreign tourists visiting Japan.According to the new duty-free system implemented in Japan on the same day, tourists must first purchase goods at tax-included prices and then receive the tax refund after customs confirmation upon departure. The new service will issue JPYC to tourists using the wallet infrastructure provided by UPBOND, utilizing the Avalanche C-Chain.

According to a report from the Beijing Daily client, the Market Supervision Administration of Haidian District, Beijing, investigated and handled the city's first illegal case of assisting pyramid schemes using blockchain and virtual currency technology, resulting in a technology company being fined and confiscated a total of over 930,000 yuan.The technology company involved is an outsourcing service provider for a certain public blockchain, offering support such as operations, market services, publicity and promotion, exchange docking, and maintenance. This public blockchain launched the "Atomic Plan" and "Hathaway Plan," which are centered around recruiting people for rebates, using the number of recruited individuals as the basis for rebates, and requiring participants to invest funds to obtain membership qualifications. Despite being aware of the pyramid scheme applications associated with this public blockchain, the involved company continued to provide technical operations, external publicity, and maintenance of virtual currency trading channels, facilitating the flow of funds and the spread of activities related to the pyramid scheme.Ultimately, the pyramid scheme activities of this public blockchain were investigated by public security authorities, the organizers were criminally detained, and the involved technology company was administratively punished with a total fine and confiscation of over 930,000 yuan for providing facilitative conditions.

The BNB Chain execution-oriented Rollup project Matrix announced that it has received additional Series B funding from Shima Capital and Delphi Ventures, bringing the total amount of this round of financing to 8.5 million USD. Previously participating institutions in this round include ParaFi Capital, Tribe Capital, Point72 Ventures, CMT Digital, Lightspeed Faction, BITKRAFT Ventures, and Makers Fund.The funds from this round will continue to be used to advance the mainnet launch, the construction of the ZK validity proof system, and the Stage 2 decentralization process. Matrix is built on the Facet technology stack and is adapted to the BNB Chain PoSA consensus, with no centralized sequencer and no administrative privileges; the transaction order is directly determined by the BNB Chain. The official claim is that it can effectively increase the throughput of the BNB ecosystem by 3 to 5 times. Currently, Matrix testnet Phase 1 has been launched.

On October 29, Sony Group announced the launch of the global Sony Onchain Entertainment Incubation Program, aimed at global creators and startups, supporting the development of entertainment-related products and services based on Sony's blockchain Soneium, and exploring new forms of interaction, community building, and value creation between creators and fans.Selected projects will receive support from Soneium's technological infrastructure, opportunities for collaboration with Sony Group companies, as well as support for business expansion, marketing, community operations, and financing. Sony stated that since 2024, the company has selected and supported 43 projects from around the world through the previous two rounds of incubation programs, and the new plan will further focus on on-chain entertainment, promoting projects from technical validation to commercial application.The application period is from October to December 2026, with project selection expected to continue until March 2027. Applicants must have launched or plan to launch on Soneium, and evaluation criteria include the originality of the entertainment experience, intellectual property applications, community building, business expansion capabilities, and market competition conditions, among others.

Michael Selig, the Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, stated at the CFTC's inaugural Frontier Forum in Washington that imagining a refrigerator autonomously purchasing groceries with funds from staked ETH, or even issuing its own Memecoin, "is no longer science fiction." He believes that when AI agents can hold assets and execute trades autonomously, regulators must make adjustments.Selig pointed out that the CFTC's regulatory framework is built around executing specific financial functions concerning "identifiable market participants," but autonomous software is raising questions about how these rules apply. He proposed that if AI agents identify trading opportunities and execute trades for users, their developers may need to register, who is responsible when the agent goes out of control, how regulators know for whom the agent is trading, and whether a new type of "Know Your Agent" rule, referred to as KYA, is necessary.Selig also mentioned that AI could provide smaller traders and businesses with risk management capabilities that were previously only available to large institutions, but greater autonomy also brings new risks: agents may react unexpectedly to market conditions, agents using similar models may exhibit correlated trading behaviors, and the speed of autonomous trading could complicate market regulation and risk management. Animoca Brands Chairman Yat Siu recently expressed similar concerns to Cointelegraph; Coinbase launched Agentic Wallets in February, and Binance introduced AI Agent Skills in March, allowing agents to trade within user-defined parameters or provide spot order tools.

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.

Decentralized exchange UXUY announced the launch of the stock tokenization service platform uStock, primarily targeting small and medium-sized listed companies in the US and Hong Kong stock markets. The platform plans to provide share issuance, on-chain investor distribution, and post-issuance liquidity services, connecting listed companies with global on-chain investors, using stablecoins such as UUSD as tools for subscription, pricing, and settlement.According to the proposed product mechanism, each uToken corresponds to the economic rights of one share of the underlying stock, covering price changes, cash dividends, and corporate actions such as stock splits and mergers. The underlying stocks are intended to be custodied by licensed brokerages, trusts, and other institutions, isolated through independent asset holding entities. The platform plans to disclose stock custody, token issuance, and asset coverage through a Proof of Underlying asset verification mechanism.uStock will establish an initial liquidity pool for uToken/UUSD using part of the raised funds according to the issuance documents and will introduce on-chain market makers. As the spot market and infrastructure advance, the platform intends to gradually support round-the-clock on-chain trading and explore integration with UXUY's self-developed Perp DEX to expand on-chain perpetual contract trading for corresponding uToken assets.UXUY founder 0xKevin stated, "We are bringing stablecoins into more real asset scenarios, allowing US and Hong Kong listed companies to connect with global investors and capital. In the future, we will continuously improve issuance, trading, and liquidity services around real stock rights, establishing a more long-term connection between corporate growth and global on-chain capital."

Blockaid has released two attacker addresses, example attack transactions, affected contracts, and cross-chain bridge addresses. One of the attacker addresses (0xaCA0...5718) currently has a balance of approximately $11,000.

According to Whale Alert monitoring and Solscan data, at 04:28 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana chain.

Alphabet (GOOG.O) CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the company is developing a streamlined version of Gemini 4 Carbon for over 1 billion users.