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The automated market-making protocol Yield Basis, founded by Curve founder Michael Egorov, announced the launch of a permissionless propAMM, aiming to upgrade its liquidity mechanism on Curve. This design combines market perception pricing with dynamic fees, aiming to increase trading volume, reduce arbitrage losses, and improve liquidity provider returns. According to its simulations over the past 18 months, Yield Basis's WETH position is projected to grow at an annualized rate of 8.5% in ETH terms under the new design, compared to 3.6% under existing parameters.Officials stated that WETH liquidity providers do not need to take additional actions, as the new design will directly affect their respective liquidity pools. The small transaction fee for pulling the pool price back to the market price is 0.50%, and anyone can submit prices or deposit funds, with the relevant code being open source. The WETH pool will be deployed first, and Bitcoin-related liquidity pools will follow after the successful deployment of the WETH pool.According to the announcement, the liquidity pool will charge based on the profits earned by arbitrageurs from trades, retaining about two-thirds of the profits above the minimum fee. The new design features lower single transaction fees, with simulated trading volumes approaching three times the current levels, requiring donations of about one-quarter of the current amount. The Yield Basis DAO owns the strategy, and the Curve Emergency DAO can shut it down in emergencies, while the Curve liquidity pool contract itself remains unchanged. Curve DAO vote 1508 will connect the strategy to the WETH pool and set the reserved profit ratio, while Yield Basis vote 60 will set the LevAMM fee at 1.5% (currently 1.3%), with the donation rate being about 1.2% of the pool value per year (currently about 5%). The above simulations only include arbitrage exchanges and do not account for regular trading and liquidation.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, the Hyperliquid address 0xe81309...6d74 currently holds 19,490.99 ETH long positions, with a nominal value of 45.0456 million USD.At the time of publication, ETH is quoted at 2,311.10 USD.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to 8.083 billion USD, with long positions totaling 3.751 billion USD, accounting for 46.41% of the holdings, and short positions totaling 4.332 billion USD, accounting for 53.59% of the holdings. The profit and loss for long positions is 79.1485 million USD, while the profit and loss for short positions is -29.6134 million USD.Among them, the whale address 0x5b5d..60 has shorted ETH with a 5x leverage at a price of 2322.74 USD, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of 1.9201 million USD.

The cryptographic security vulnerability of the Indian certificate authority eMudhra affects the Ethereum clients Teku and Besu. Researchers found that the private keys of 8 intermediate certificate authorities under eMudhra could potentially be deduced due to insufficient randomness, allowing attackers to forge certificates and trick unpatched software into trusting malicious services.Teku has released version 26.1.3, and Besu has released version 26.1.2, both of which have removed trust in the relevant certificates from their Docker images. If an attacker performs a man-in-the-middle attack, they could trick some validators into sending block fee rewards to the attacker's address; the risk may be higher under specific configurations using external signers. The Teku team stated that the default configuration of the Ethereum mainnet Teku node is not affected, and no action is required, with no reports of the vulnerability being exploited so far.For operators running Teku or Besu directly on the host without using Docker, simply updating the client may not be sufficient; they also need to manually update Java and its trusted certificate list. Operators still using the no longer maintained Java 26 will need to migrate to Java 25.

According to The Block citing local media reports, South Korea's ruling party, the Democratic Party of Korea, will meet on Friday with representatives from the country's five major cryptocurrency exchanges: Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Gopax, to discuss whether to postpone the cryptocurrency tax originally scheduled to take effect in January 2027.The party has proposed a bill to delay the implementation until 2029, citing insufficient infrastructure and difficulties in obtaining transaction data.

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.

EIP-8450 proposal update, intended to introduce a quantum-resistant public key registration mechanism for Ethereum validators, using a hash-based cryptographic scheme, including leanXMSS keys and VRF tree roots.The update clarifies that the registration and replacement of quantum-resistant keys are authorized by BLS signature keys, and sets a replacement delay of at least one Epoch and a replay protection mechanism; this proposal is currently still in the Draft stage and has not yet been deployed.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, the current price of ETH is $2,307.67. The thickest order book is on Binance spot: buy orders amount to $14.0877 million, sell orders amount to $8.4845 million, with buy orders exceeding sell orders by $5.6032 million.Coinbase spot and OKX perpetual buy orders are also thicker than sell orders, but the scale is smaller than that of Binance spot. If a large buy or sell order suddenly appears, exchanges with thinner order books will be affected first, and price fluctuations will be more pronounced.

According to Rootdata, yesterday (Eastern Time October 28), the total net outflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $21.4 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net outflow for the day was BlackRock ETF ETHA, with a net outflow of $44.8 million. As of that trading day, ETHA had a historical cumulative net inflow of $12.036 billion.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow for the day was Fidelity ETF FETH, with a net inflow of $18.8 million.

The non-profit Ethereum development lab Ethlabs announced that Ethereum co-founder Mihai Alisie has joined Ethlabs as an anchor funder, and Payward and Gattaca have joined as contributors.Its initial anchor funders include BitMine, Sharplink, and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin.

According to monitoring by TrustSniffer, on October 28, the stablecoin issuer Tether centralized multiple addresses on the TRON network into a USDT blacklist. The monitoring page shows that at least 33 TRON addresses were marked as frozen on that day.The total USDT balance of the related addresses at the time of the freeze warning was approximately 27 million USD, with the largest single address being about 7.8 million USDT. Tether has not publicly explained the specific reasons for this centralized freeze.

Alex Witt, founding partner of the venture capital firm focused on stablecoin infrastructure, Verda Ventures, announced that he and partner Amit will join Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer. Tether was previously one of the limited partners of Verda Ventures.With the two joining Tether, Verda Ventures, which has been operating for three years, will enter the investment recovery phase and cease investing in new companies to avoid potential conflicts of interest. The fund will continue to manage and support its existing 28 portfolio companies and selectively participate in follow-on financing.

According to monitoring data from Arkham, BlackRock has recently sent nearly $200 million worth of ETH to Coinbase through four transactions, suspected to be a sell-off. The most recent transaction occurred about 15 hours ago, transferring 29,814 ETH, valued at $70.58 million.

According to Gate market data, ETH/USDT is currently priced at $2299.52, with a 24-hour decline of 2.42%.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Binance's perpetual ETH has about 3,911.02 buy orders at the price level of $2,303.00, with a nominal value of approximately $9.0071 million, which is about a 0.23% pullback from the mid-price of approximately $2,308.40 at that time.The total near-term buy orders amount to approximately $84.1636 million, while the sell orders are about $55.3375 million, resulting in a net buy of approximately $28.8262 million, accounting for 20.66% of the total depth.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the Ethereum OG wallet (0x6D3...79E2) deposited all 2,119 ETH, worth 4.99 million dollars, into Coinbase 7 hours ago after being inactive for 3 years.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $259 million, with long positions liquidated at $103 million and short positions liquidated at $156 million. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at $14.1235 million, Bitcoin short positions were liquidated at $43.332 million, Ethereum long positions were liquidated at $13.775 million, and Ethereum short positions were liquidated at $33.608 million.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH falls below 2,239 USD, the cumulative long position liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach 665 million USD. Conversely, if ETH breaks above 2,472 USD, the cumulative short position liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach 579 million USD.

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.

According to official news, Tether announced the establishment of the Swiss non-profit foundation FASE (Financial Access and Systemic Empowerment) on October 28, focusing on four main areas: financial security, financial inclusion, access to basic resources, and responsible AI and robotics.Founding members include Anchorage Digital, Bitfury, Bybit, Chainalysis, Fasanara Capital, Kraken, Opera, Pave Bank, Prosper Global (formerly Mercy Corps), and the Solana Foundation. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will provide technical consulting.The first batch of projects includes: establishing a global youth alliance with Goodwall, aiming to provide anti-fraud education to up to 10 million young people, prioritizing coverage in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia; launching a stablecoin humanitarian aid pilot with Prosper Global, initially covering up to 1 million people; and collaborating with the United Nations Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons to support survivor assistance.