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According to the official announcement from Genius, the Genius App has been launched and provides download links for the App Store and Google Play, integrating trading, social, and creation functions within the BNB Chain ecosystem into mobile.Users can trade via their phones, follow other traders, discover market-focused assets, and share trading insights. The app also includes a token issuance platform, allowing users to create tokens, choose trading pairs, and track new markets.

According to a Reuters report, sources say that the United States and Canada are working to reach an agreement to ease U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and automobile imports.

Elon Musk stated that the construction of the Starlink mobile network is expected to take 2 to 3 years.

Phoenix Technology reported on October 22 that the latest "Refused Operation Application List" from ByteDance's Doubao Mobile Assistant has increased from 151 to 166 applications, with 22 new applications added.The newly added applications cover categories such as travel and business travel, recruitment and workplace, tools and health, and entertainment, including Didi, Didi Enterprise Edition, Air China, Huazhu Club, Lantu Automobile, related apps from Autohome, 58 City, Zhilian Recruitment, Zhiwukong, Keep, Roborock, Tides, Hikvision, Hupu, Mango TV, WiFi Universal Key, Scan All-in-One, Himalaya, and WorkBuddy within the Tencent ecosystem.This adjustment merges financial-related applications under a unified name and will no longer list them separately. Unlike before, where third-party application authorization was required, Doubao Mobile Assistant has changed to directly restrict operations for financial applications, covering areas such as banking, trust services, payments, internet finance, and credit. When this list was first published last week, it included a total of 151 apps.

NFT trading platform OpenSea posted on X that OpenSea Mobile is now open to all users. Users can view their assets, complete transactions, and interact with trading counterparts within the same application.OpenSea stated that the app covers categories such as emojis, artworks, trading cards, and perpetual contracts, supporting over 25 chains and all user wallets.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng responded to community user Spigg regarding the suggestion to launch a BNB phone, stating that he rarely disagrees with Spigg but holds a reserved attitude towards the idea of "walking around with a cryptocurrency phone."Previously, Spigg had proposed launching a BNB phone that natively supports wallets, instant payments and transfers, and can centrally access dApps in the BNB Chain ecosystem, believing that this model would provide a different experience on the BNB Chain.

According to SeeNews, Bulgaria's Postbank plans to add stock and cryptocurrency investment features to its mobile banking app. Postbank is a subsidiary of Eurobank Bulgaria AD. This move signifies that traditional banks are integrating digital assets with securities investment services into retail banking channels. The report was published on October 16, 2026, and currently, the page only displays the title, without disclosing details such as the launch time, supported currencies, and partners.

According to PR Newswire, Solana Mobile, the mobile business of the Solana ecosystem, announced at the Ledger Op3n 2026 event in Paris that the hardware wallet company Ledger has become its first hardware expansion partner. The Solana dApp Store and wallet will merge into the Seeker app and integrate with the new device Ledger Atom, which will be pre-installed on the device's home screen for users to access the Solana ecosystem. Pre-orders for Ledger Atom are now open.Ledger Atom is based on the Android open-source project and features a secure element running Ledger OS, with a protection level of EAL6+, displaying and touch control physically isolated from the Android system. Signing and approval are completed in secure mode, and the device includes tamper-proof and tamper-evident solutions, sold exclusively through the Ledger official website. The built-in app store currently has over 1,500 applications covering categories such as trading, payments, gaming, and AI. Existing Seeker users are unaffected, and developers can reach more devices with a single submission.This collaboration builds on Solana Mobile's opening of the Solana Mobile Stack to Android manufacturers at the World Mobile Communications Conference in March 2026. The SKR token is used to reward user participation, developer building, and hardware vendor integration. Seeker has a transaction volume exceeding $13 billion, with 154 million transactions and over 200,000 devices sold; the company shipped Saga in 2023 and will ship Seeker in 2025.

SpaceX announced the acquisition of wireless spectrum to provide mobile communication services through Starlink satellites, potentially becoming a major mobile operator. This move led to double-digit percentage declines in the stock prices of Verizon Communications, AT&T, and T-Mobile US last Friday.

Doubao Mobile Assistant stated that the 30-day public announcement period for its "Screen Automation Operation Declaration Agreement" (SAEP) ended on October 14, 2026, and it will gradually lift the screen automation operation permissions for third-party applications. Applications that have explicitly declared refusal of operation permissions will not be operated by the agent.After the public announcement period ends, developers can still declare refusal at any time, and Doubao Mobile Assistant will provide feedback within 3 working days. This agreement is aimed at cross-application operations of graphical interface agents, allowing developers to declare their interaction strategies with the agent.

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, SpaceX will acquire the mobile spectrum licenses of Grain Management for approximately 8 billion dollars in cash.

During an interview with The Starting Block at the Digital Asset Summit 2026 Asia, Brian Smith, the president of Jito Foundation, the parent company of the Solana ecosystem trading platform JTX, stated that JTX plans to launch stock trading features within the next two weeks and will release a native mobile app later this fall. The integration of perpetual contracts "may take until later this winter." He mentioned that the team is currently focusing on differentiating the spot trading features.JTX launched in July this year, supporting spot trading for cbBTC, SOL, HYPE, and meme coins, while also offering tokenized stocks and ETFs. The platform charges a fee for each transaction, with 80% of the revenue allocated to Jito DAO for the buyback and destruction of JTO tokens, and 20% distributed to referrers. Smith did not disclose the trading volume since the launch but emphasized the speed of product iteration, stating that the team has two full-time data scientists mining on-chain data to develop in-app discovery features.Smith positioned JTX as a "permissionless Robinhood" for Solana, emphasizing longer holding periods and competitive rates, and noted that other Solana applications tend to focus on early meme coin trading. Regarding perpetual contracts, he acknowledged that Solana "has a lot of work to do" and affirmed Hyperliquid's role in pushing centralized exchange traders on-chain, while stating that Solana is the "king" in the spot trading space.

On September 27, Doubao Mobile Assistant released a statement in the official community regarding the abnormal usage of the Nubia NaviX Ultra phone in Honor of Kings, stating that starting from the evening of September 24, they have received feedback from users that the Nubia NaviX Ultra equipped with Doubao Mobile Assistant displays an abnormal device environment prompt when logging into Honor of Kings or during matchmaking, and users are forcibly kicked offline.Doubao Mobile Assistant stated: Upon confirmation, they have not made any operations on the Tencent game system throughout the process, and there are no violations such as unauthorized clicks, cheats, or simulation behaviors by the AI. The team is still in communication with relevant parties at Tencent, and as of now, they have not received a clear response, for which they apologize. The assistant also advises users not to repeatedly attempt to log into Honor of Kings on this model. If the account has been banned, users can appeal through the official game customer service channels.Tencent has not publicly responded. On September 28, a reporter learned from informed sources that Honor of Kings ensures game fairness through various security risk strategies, and these strategies have been consistently used over the past period without targeted adjustments.

AI Agent Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announced the integration with two major mobile payment platforms in Pakistan, Easypaisa and JazzCash, allowing users to make payments using cryptocurrency, while merchants complete local fiat settlements in Pakistani Rupees (PKR).Currently, AEON has processed amounts exceeding 500 million and continues to expand its local payment network, providing infrastructure support for AI Agent to autonomously complete payments and settlements in more real-world business scenarios globally.

The consumer version of the Doubao Mobile Assistant under ByteDance has been officially released. This assistant is based on the Doubao App and collaborates with mobile manufacturers at the system level, exploring the application of AI in mobile phones around core experiences such as interaction, task execution, local memory, and retrieval.Compared to the technical preview version launched at the end of last year, this consumer version emphasizes stability and everyday usability. The first consumer version will be equipped on the Nubia NaviX Ultra phone, which is currently available for pre-order and will be officially released on September 16.

Solana Mobile posted on platform X that its third-party marketing email service provider Brevo experienced a security incident affecting some customer accounts, including Solana Mobile. The team discovered unauthorized access to its Brevo account, has disabled the account, and is working with Brevo to understand the extent of the accessed information.Solana Mobile stated that, as far as they know, no emails have been sent from their account, but they are continuing to verify. They also remind users that Solana Mobile will not ask for mnemonic phrases, private keys, or wallet recovery information.

The Zcash full node client team, Zakura, has released Zakura Common, a set of cryptographic and protocol libraries for the Zcash ecosystem. Official benchmarks show that the proof generation speed on mobile has increased by over 14 times (over 5 times on desktop), Sinsemilla hash speed has increased by over 21 times, decryption trial speed has increased by over 1.5 times, and zk-SNARK verification speed has increased by 4 to 8 times; in many cases, the waiting time for wallet transaction creation can be reduced from over 3 seconds to under 200 milliseconds.This upgrade does not require a network upgrade and has been open-sourced under the MIT/Apache 2.0 dual license. Zakura 1.3.0 will switch to this technology stack.

According to Cointelegraph, DeFiLlama founder 0xngmi stated that the team had delayed the release of the official mobile application due to the long-standing presence of phishing apps impersonating DeFiLlama on the Apple App Store. The team will only release the official mobile application after all counterfeit apps have been removed to reduce the risk of users falling victim to scams.Yesterday, DeFiLlama founder 0xngmi stated, "We have been trying for months to get a fake app impersonating DeFiLlama removed from the Apple App Store and have continuously reported trademark infringement and impersonation of the official app to Apple.Subsequently, we funded a small wallet, downloaded the app, and as expected, all the funds in the wallet were stolen, so we reported this situation to Apple. As a result, the app was removed by Apple within a few days. We hope to inform other cryptocurrency companies about this so they won't waste time like we did."

According to Jinshi, U.S. telecom stocks fell in pre-market trading due to SpaceX revealing its plans to establish comprehensive mobile services.

According to reports from Huxiu Technology, Jieyue Xingchen is advancing along two strategic lines: one centered around large models, and the other focused on intelligent terminal devices. The mobile phone business has been placed under the independent company "Zhiyue Xingchen," operated by a team with backgrounds in Huawei and Honor, led by terminal president Ni Jiayue. Jieyue's first intelligent terminal phone STEPX Neo was unveiled during WAIC, but the price and mass production schedule have not been announced. Huxiu has learned that Jieyue is building an overseas commercialization team, planning to sell large model APIs (primarily voice models) overseas, and mobile phones will also be included in the overseas sales plan.Jieyue Xingchen's chairman Yin Qi previously attempted the "AI + car" path at Qianli Technology (formerly Lifan Technology), and this time, using mobile phones as the first piece of the terminal strategy aims to establish a closed-loop system of "model---operating system---terminal." The phone is equipped with the Step AOS intelligent terminal operating system, positioned as a carrier for intelligent terminal services, with the business model ultimately returning to Token consumption. Jieyue also maintains model collaborations with 60% of top domestic mobile phone brands, with existing installations exceeding 42 million units, but the potential competitive relationship with its own mobile phone business remains unclear. As of the time of publication, Jieyue Xingchen has not commented.