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According to The Block, the decentralized trading protocol Curve Finance has launched StableSwap on the Stellar mainnet, marking its first native deployment outside the EVM ecosystem.Users can now create liquidity pools, exchange assets, and provide liquidity on Stellar without permission.

According to on-chain researcher Spreek, the DeFi protocol Hifi Finance has encountered a DAO governance takeover. The attacker gained control through four last-minute votes funded by Tornado Cash, subsequently minting 25 million governance tokens and transferring users' staked assets, with a total value of approximately 1 million dollars, most of which were RWA tokens.

According to on-chain researcher Spreek, the DeFi lending protocol Hifi Finance is suspected of experiencing a DAO governance attack. An address funded by Tornado Cash cast 4 votes just before the governance vote was about to end, taking control of the protocol's governance.This address subsequently minted 25 million HIFI tokens and transferred all user collateral assets within the protocol, valued at approximately 1 million dollars, most of which were RWA tokens.

According to an official announcement from Ripple, Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) has supported XRP and the US dollar stablecoin RLUSD on its digital asset custody platform. Eligible institutional clients can custody, hold, and transfer related assets through this platform. The two parties are further expanding their digital asset collaboration based on the existing RLUSD reserve custody and Ripple Prime custody partnership.BNY plans to expand support for tokenized assets and investment products on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and collaborate with Ripple, allowing clients to directly mint and redeem RLUSD through BNY in the future. Additionally, both parties are exploring XRPL-based supply chain financing solutions with the working capital platform C2FO, tokenizing trade financing assets such as accounts receivable to broaden investor participation channels.

According to The Block, the RWA protocol Ondo Finance will open subscriptions for OpenAI's pre-IPO tokenized notes next week, allowing private clients to subscribe directly to the notes, which are currently trading in the secondary market.The expectation for OpenAI's IPO has been postponed to 2027, as CEO Sam Altman ruled out the possibility of a 2026 IPO last month citing AI safety concerns.

Bloomberg Markets column Odd Lots released the episode "AI Agents Are Already Changing the Price of Goods" on October 26, subtitled The Future of Fair Pricing. Guest Lindsay Owens from the think tank Groundwork Collaborative stated that the history of price fraud does not support the notion that new technologies will make goods cheaper.Owens mentioned that research from the think tank shows that some consumer-facing AI agents, after understanding users' financial situations, actually recommend more expensive products. Her new book "Gouged: The End of a Fair Price --- and What That Means for Your Wallet" discusses how companies increase charges through data collection and monitoring. This episode also covers AI agents like Meta's Muse, tech companies' claims about agents helping consumers find good deals, and methods of price fraud that existed before the advent of AI.

According to official news from Bitget, the platform announced a collaboration with the structured product liquidity service provider VETA Finance to upgrade its stock dual-currency investment products. This upgrade expands the product pool on top of existing popular targets such as NVIDIA (rNVDA), Google (rGOOGL), and AMD (rAMD), enriching the investment duration options; relying on deeper liquidity support, it offers more competitive annualized returns while optimizing product structure and settlement mechanisms, bringing users a better trading experience and more diverse income opportunities.Currently, Bitget's stock dual-currency investment supports two strategies: "buy low" and "sell high." Users can use USDT or eligible U.S. stock tokens for subscription, and based on preset target prices and investment durations, complete corresponding asset conversions according to the settlement price at maturity and receive corresponding interest income.In addition, Bitget also plans to launch structured products such as accumulation purchase and accumulation sale options (AQ) with VETA Finance based on the rToken ecosystem, expanding the product layout from standardized wealth management to customized solutions, further enriching multi-asset wealth management options under the panoramic exchange (UEX) ecosystem.

Tom Lee stated in an interview that approximately 99% of financial activities are still operating on traditional financial infrastructure, but this situation may create misleading short-term biases, causing investors and businesses to view cryptocurrencies as a niche area and underestimate the potential speed of transformation in the financial system.Tom Lee believes that the current dominance of traditional financial infrastructure does not mean that this pattern will be maintained in the long term. If financial activities gradually shift towards cryptocurrency infrastructure, institutions' reliance on the existing market structure may lead them to underestimate the speed of industry changes. He also warned that banks that have not established cryptocurrency business channels or formulated relevant strategies may face competitive disadvantages as cryptocurrency adoption increases.

Toto Finance, a company that converts physical goods into blockchain tokens, has submitted a governance proposal to the Cardano community, seeking to withdraw 22 million ADA (approximately 5 million USD) from the Cardano treasury to establish a "Cardano Strategic Copper Reserve." Voting will close on November 15. The proposal plans to purchase and tokenize copper that meets COMEX standards, with the token CuTT representing each pound of verified physical copper.According to the proposal, about two-thirds of the budget will be used to purchase exchange-grade copper from COMEX-certified warehouses near New Orleans, while the remaining one-third will cover storage, insurance, auditing, oversight, and Toto's operational costs. If the full budget is spent and the ADA to USD price remains unchanged, copper prices would need to rise by approximately 49.4% to recover the treasury investment. The proposal assumes a purchase price of $6.73 per pound and a selling price of approximately $10.06, with plans to hold for 18 to 24 months and sell in the following year, with net profits and unused funds required to be returned to the treasury before the 36th month.Monty Metzger, founder and chairman of Toto, stated that copper has significant upside potential, with an optimistic scenario predicting an annualized increase of about 30%, approximately 69% over 24 months, which could cover the 49.4% breakeven point, but commodity prices could also decline. Toto retains its commercial rights to the CuTT business for separate financing and hopes to scale the tokenized copper asset to $5 billion. The withdrawal limit of 500 million ADA from Cardano will last until around July 2027, and as of October 16, 457.4 million ADA has been used, with this proposal consuming more than half of the remaining quota.

The Shanghai Financial Regulatory Bureau issued "Several Measures to Promote the High-Quality Development of Digital Finance in Shanghai's Banking and Insurance Industries," proposing to steadily expand supply chain financial services using technologies such as big data and blockchain.The measures propose to standardize the development of accounts receivable financing, supply chain bill financing, warehouse receipt pledge financing, order financing, and other products, while continuously deepening the insurance service layout for advanced manufacturing, enhancing comprehensive risk protection capabilities.

According to the American financial media Semafor, Meta Platforms may officially announce a non-voting stock plan as early as Wednesday during the release of its quarterly financial report, aimed at financing investments in AI, a move that does not dilute Zuckerberg's control.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced the agenda for its inaugural "Frontier Forum." The forum, hosted by the CFTC Innovation Working Group, is scheduled for October 28 and will invite leaders in the field of artificial intelligence to discuss how AI may change the operation of the U.S. derivatives market.CFTC Chairman Mike Selig stated in a statement that super intelligence will transform our financial markets. This forum will focus on how the derivatives market can respond to the influx of machine intelligence and the potential impact of this technology on price discovery and risk management. The forum agenda adopts the term "super intelligence," preferred by U.S. President Trump.The Innovation Working Group indicated that the event will hear insights from leaders of companies such as Ornn, Architect, and Liquid Compute. Additionally, the forum will explore how traders' own AI agents might operate under the CFTC regulatory framework. This is the first event in the "Frontier Forum" series launched by the CFTC Innovation Working Group.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, the South Korean Ministry of Finance and Economy has convened a seminar on virtual asset taxation with five exchange operators: Dunamu, Bithumb, DigitalX, Coinone, and Streami, as well as institutions like the Financial Services Commission, to discuss current taxation regulations, market environment, tax preparation work, and the possibility of delaying or abolishing the tax, but no clear decisions have been made regarding related measures.South Korea's virtual asset taxation policy was established in 2020, originally scheduled for implementation in 2022, but has since been postponed to 2023, 2025, and 2027. The National Tax Service of South Korea is currently preparing relevant details, but matters such as staking still need to be negotiated with the Ministry of Finance and Economy; if the details are announced next month, there will be only about two months left until the planned implementation date.

The lending protocol Secured Finance announced that it has completed recovery and reopened on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Filecoin. The official statement indicated that users did not lose funds, assets have been replenished, and contracts, balances, positions, and order books have all been repaired and verified.The Secured Finance lending market was attacked on September 5, resulting in a loss of approximately $104,000.

Michael Saylor posted on the X platform, stating that this week at ParaFi Investor Day, he introduced digital capital, credit, and equity, and had a fireside chat with Jeff Park discussing digital assets, digital intelligence, and the future of finance.The speech covered topics such as Bitcoin as digital capital, CLARITY regulation, the adoption of Bitcoin banking, reshaping gold-backed credit with STRC, STRC returning to par value, Bitcoin earnings per share, the Strategy triple flywheel, shifting from quarterly dividends to daily dividends, Bitcoin-backed stablecoins, the adoption of digital credit institutions, as well as digital currencies, derivatives, exchanges, regulation, and product development in the AI era.