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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin responded to Ruxandra Teslo on X, stating that he believes AI is extremely knowledgeable and can excellently identify quotes in almost any content, but it is not wise, and therefore can only make the most superficial judgments about the viewpoints a piece of writing attempts to express.Vitalik Buterin noted that this situation is particularly evident when AI analyzes text it reads for the first time, as opposed to analyzing text that already exists in the training data, which comes with a lot of analyses from others. He also mentioned that the knowledge of AI is more easily seen than its limited wisdom, as wisdom may be something that is difficult to verify easily, which is different from intelligence.This reply was directed at Ruxandra Teslo's post. Ruxandra Teslo expressed that the related post made her feel pessimistic about humanity and believed that the discussions of large language models regarding her article are still low-quality content; she was responding to Sichu Lu's statement that AI is better suited than humans to discuss classics at that time.

Whale Alert detected 931 BTC transferred from Kraken to an unknown wallet, worth approximately 75.15 million USD.

Whale Alert detected two transactions of approximately 142 million and 140 million USDT transferred from unknown wallets to Bitfinex.

According to Unfolded, the net outflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs in the United States reached approximately $203 million as of the 26th, remaining largely unchanged overall. Previously, in June, Bitcoin ETFs set a record for a single month with an outflow of $4.5 billion, while the total net inflow from August to September was $6.2 billion, bringing the cumulative net inflow to $57.4 billion.

According to Polygon, the Miden partner mainnet is now live and connected to Polygon's cross-chain aggregation layer Agglayer, which can access the liquidity of the entire blockchain ecosystem.Miden officials also announced that the network is operational on the partner mainnet.

According to PR Newswire, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) announced that its ETH holdings have increased to 6.05 million, accounting for 4.95% of the total ETH supply; the total holdings of crypto assets, cash, and tradable securities have reached $15 billion.Among them, 5.23 million ETH have been staked, and based on the current staking scale, the expected annualized staking income is approximately $318 million. In the past week, Bitmine has increased its holdings by 10,452 ETH, continuing to implement its weekly accumulation strategy.In addition, the company has repurchased 22.9 million shares of common stock in 2026, with a total amount reaching $399.6 million. However, its assets are highly concentrated in ETH, and the overall holding value still faces the risk of cryptocurrency price fluctuations, while staking income also depends on the actual staking scale and yield.

On October 26, B.AI announced the official launch of Android App version 1.3.0. The new version supports 11 language options, breaking language barriers and providing a more convenient AI experience for users worldwide; it also completes a comprehensive performance upgrade, with faster response times and smoother operation.Users can visit the B.AI official website to scan the QR code in the upper right corner, or go to Google Play to search for and download the latest version, enabling mobile AI experiences anytime, anywhere.

According to CoinDesk, a snapshot from Galaxy Research in October shows that out of approximately 21 million mined Bitcoins, about 11.1 million (approximately 55%) are held in addresses that cannot be linked to exchanges, funds, governments, or other known entities. Alex Thorn, the head of research at Galaxy, stated that this indicates that despite the increasing institutionalization, a significant amount of Bitcoin may still be self-custodied by individuals. Xapo Bank believes this reflects the fact that retail investors have been in the market for over a decade.However, this portion of unallocated Bitcoin does not all belong to individuals who have been self-custodying for the long term; it may also include coins that are inaccessible due to lost private keys or the death of the holder, holdings from institutions or over-the-counter traders that Galaxy has not yet identified, as well as custodial assets spread across multiple addresses. The remaining 45% has been allocated, including ETFs from issuers like exchanges and BlackRock, as well as the U.S. government; among them, the single largest holder is "Satoshi Nakamoto (Patoshi model)," holding 1,123,658 BTC.

According to PR Newswire, J.P. Morgan Asset Management announced that its tokenized money market funds MONY and JLTXX have launched on the Solana blockchain, open to qualified U.S. investors. Qualified investors can subscribe and redeem through its institutional trading platform Morgan Money and receive token balances at their blockchain addresses.MONY is a private fund established under Rule 506(c), set to launch in December 2025. At that time, J.P. Morgan will be the first globally systemically important bank to launch a tokenized money market fund on a public blockchain. JLTXX is a government money market fund registered in the United States, designed to support stablecoin issuers under the framework of the GENIUS Act.

According to The Defiant, as JPMorgan launched its token JPMD on Ethereum, 13 counterfeit tokens with the same name appeared in the market. JPMorgan's official documentation warns that the tokens with the same name on other addresses are not related to the bank.The bank's genuine Ethereum token currently shows zero supply and zero holders.

Bitget Launchpool project Axis Robotics (AXIS) is now open for investment, with a total prize pool of 1,333,333 AXIS. The locking channel will close on October 28 at 21:00 (UTC+8). This round of Launchpool has opened 2 locking pools, including:BGB Locking Pool:Total airdrop amount: 1,133,333 AXISVIP user locking limit: 100,000 BGBRegular user locking limit: 10,000 BGBAXIS Locking Pool:Total airdrop amount: 200,000 AXISIndividual locking limit: 3,333,333 AXIS

On October 19, the team from the fully homomorphic encryption company Zama announced that users participating in the incentive distribution platform Merkl on the Zama confidential vault can now directly receive cZAMA rewards in the Zama app. The rewards are settled through confidential transfers, and both the positions and the reward amounts remain confidential from deposit to distribution.In September 2026, Zama launched confidential access to 16 selected vaults on the lending protocol Morpho and initiated the first batch of confidential incentives with Merkl, where rewards are calculated based on encrypted balances. When depositing into eligible vaults, users can activate additional incentive options, granting viewing permissions for Merkl to read encrypted balances to calculate rewards without disclosing personal positions. This permission is enabled by default on the deposit interface, and deposits not shared with Merkl do not qualify for incentives.Confidential vaults accumulate based on the user's confidential vault shares and can be claimed during the ongoing activity; existing public vaults with confidential access have rewards collectively obtained by the vault packaging contracts, which are distributed after the activity ends. Zama recommends claiming confidential activities at the end to reduce multiple on-chain fees. Taking the Flowdesk Confidential High Yield USDT vault on Morpho as an example, the related activity ended on October 12, and eligible depositors can now claim their rewards. Users need to check their earnings in Merkl using their wallet and complete the claim in the Zama app by connecting the same wallet; the amount received will not be publicly disclosed on-chain.

According to official news from IoTeX, the Zanzibar hard fork has been activated on the IoTeX mainnet (block height 53,533,081). According to IIP-59, voter rewards will be calculated and distributed on-chain during each reward cycle, eliminating off-chain services and intermediaries, allowing anyone to directly verify each payment on-chain. The first on-chain distribution will take place the following day.This upgrade also strengthens consensus by checking the proof of holding representative keys, preparing for subsequent BLS signature aggregation. Node operators need to upgrade to iotex-core v2.5.1 without the need to modify configurations or resynchronize.

Zakura has announced an experimental network layer P2Pv2 for Zcash nodes, intended to replace the old protocol inherited from Bitcoin. This layer combines high-throughput networking, resource control, and a consensus engine tested for properties, allowing developers to add services without permission. Zakura states that approximately 50,000 transactions per second require each full node to continuously receive about 100MB/s of block data, while the 25-second block of NU7 can carry a maximum of 2MB, with existing network throughput differing by more than a thousand times from this rate. Tachyon can reduce the proof after entering the block, but the network still needs to propagate a large number of individual transactions.P2Pv2 replaces the protocol stack from about a decade ago with protocols that can be optimized for latency, throughput, or robustness, allowing a secure connection to carry multiple independent services. The transport layer uses its own zakura-quic, based on quinn-proto, utilizing QUIC and TLS 1.3, and authenticating peers with Ed25519 node identity. Related changes remove the dependency on Iroh, allowing nodes to configure socket buffers, flow control windows, timers, and connection admission before the TLS handshake. The new transport directly connects to peer addresses without using relays, external address lookups, automatic port mapping, or QUIC NAT traversal. Nodes sign identities, addresses, protocol scopes, and service IDs, allowing clients to find peers based on specific services.The independent component zakura-header-chain verifies block headers and retains competing branches in a directed acyclic graph, selecting the best qualified chain. Block synchronization schedules requests based on the delivery rates measured by each peer, and a verified commitment tree is used to skip the reconstruction of Sapling, Orchard, and Ironwood trees for each block. Currently, the Mainnet still defaults to the old P2P stack, while the Testnet and Regtest run dual stacks by default, with the native protocol version being p2p-v2/3. Zakura notes that P2Pv2 still has known denial-of-service risks and has not yet become a hardened trust boundary; production hardening, resource control, and block relay protocols are still in progress.

On Thursday, Rockstar released the trailer for the launch of "GTA 6," in which an airplane's fuselage is printed with the words "DacityCoin AudaCity," and a character ignites a neon pink flare on the wing. The term "Dacity Coin" appears for only about two seconds but triggers a surge in on-chain transactions. Within an hour of the trailer's release, a meme coin of the same name on Solana skyrocketed 2900% from a market value of $104,000, reaching a peak of $3.18 million. Since the token was created five days before the trailer was released, traders had ample time to buy in before the surge.The birth of this token stems from game footage of "GTA 6" leaked by the notorious Rockstar hacker "Cyberleek," which featured Dacity Coin, though only a few traders noticed at the time. The coin launched on October 11 on the Solana new listing platform Pump.fun, with its market value briefly soaring to $1.14 million, then falling back to $144,700 and consolidating until it surged again on Thursday. According to DEX Screener data, 24 traders made over $10,000 in profit on this token, with the highest earner turning $1,912 into $44,000. Currently, Dacity's market value is $1.5 million, down about 53% from its peak of $3.18 million.According to the GTA wiki, the game's protagonist, Lucia, is asked to promote the AudaCity brand with parachuting stunts and attract investment for Dacity Coin. If true, the game seems to satirize the various extreme performances that meme coin creators have conducted over the years to promote their tokens. There have been precedents for similar situations: in February 2025, "Fortnite" introduced a fictional cryptocurrency called Dill Bits, after which a real token of the same name appeared on Solana, peaking at a market value of $4.78 million before plummeting 96%; in April of the same year, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called it a scam, after which the coin surged 2700% and then dropped 82% within days. Rockstar has yet to respond regarding Dacity Coin.

On October 15, a staff member from the public relations department of CK Hutchison Holdings told reporters that Li Ka-shing currently has no plans to make a public appearance to respond. Recently, rumors circulating online claiming "Li Ka-shing has passed away" have attracted attention.CK Hutchison Holdings issued a statement on the same day, stating that the related rumors are completely unfounded. The accompanying image in the report is a recent photo of Li Ka-shing published by the Li Ka-shing Foundation in May, and the text also includes the statement issued by CK Hutchison Holdings regarding the death rumors and a stern statement from the Ta Kung Pao.

Vice President Joe Burnett of Strive posted on platform X that investors can now participate in the SATS perpetual preferred stock IPO through Fidelity.