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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.

The prediction market platform Myriad announced that due to the administrator wallet being compromised, 10 prediction markets have been voided. According to the official statement, the holders on both sides of the affected markets will receive automatic refunds calculated at the price before the attack, but bonuses already received will be deducted.Myriad is a prediction market platform that allows users to bet on the outcomes of real-world events. After the administrator wallet was compromised, the platform decided to void the related markets and promised automatic refunds to the holders. The refunds will be calculated based on the price before the attack, and bonuses already received will be deducted from the refunds.

According to CoinPost, Japan's Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Toshiaki Inoue, stated in the House of Representatives' Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Committee that he will study the introduction of stablecoins into the consumption tax exemption system for foreign tourists visiting Japan, and mentioned a "refund method" for tax refunds after departure confirmation, stating that he will promote responses from the user's perspective.According to the Japan Tourism Agency, the country's tax exemption system will change to a refund method starting from purchases made on November 1: Tourists will purchase goods at tax-included prices, and within 90 days from the date of purchase, upon departure confirmation by customs, they can then receive the consumption tax refund, which will be handled by the duty-free shop or an entrusted refund agency.

DeepSeek API Platform has released a notification regarding service recovery and compensation, stating that between 8:11 and 13:04 Beijing time on October 15, 2026, its service system experienced a failure, resulting in the API service being unavailable during that period. The platform apologizes for this and has stated that a comprehensive investigation and rectification regarding service stability has been initiated, with efforts to streamline and eliminate single point dependencies to prevent similar issues from occurring again.As compensation, the platform will fully refund the consumption amount of user accounts within 7 days (from October 8 to October 14) in the form of bonus credits, which will be automatically credited to the accounts. API billing deductions will first be taken from the bonus account.

According to official news, the DeAgentAI token $AIA has been launched on the South Korean exchange Bithumb's Korean Won market, opening the AIA/KRW trading pair. Its principal-protected staking financial plan has also officially opened. Users can participate with USDC, and upon maturity, the platform will return the equivalent amount of USDC in full according to the product terms, while additionally earning rewards of up to 50% of the actual staked AIA amount.The plan features three staking pools: Ultra, Boost, and Fast, with total AIA rewards over a 12-month period being 50%, 40%, and 35% of the actual amount bought and staked, respectively. The first rewards from the three pools will be distributed uniformly after the fundraising period ends in the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st months, respectively, and will then be automatically distributed monthly. The amount of USDC returned at maturity does not fluctuate with the AIA coin price, and the originally bought and staked AIA will not be returned.The initial open quota is 500,000 USDC, with a minimum participation amount of 350 USDC per transaction, and it will close once full. Users can buy AIA using USDC on the BNB Chain through the official page and complete the staking in the same transaction. For participation methods and complete rules, please refer to the official staking page.

According to The Defiant, Ostium has announced the previous loss compensation arrangements and will officially open the compensation channel this Wednesday, with a total of 3,666 damaged wallets included in the disposal scope.According to the plan, 3,321 addresses with losses not exceeding $1,000 can receive full reimbursement, meaning that this group of small-scale victims can recover all their losses.The remaining 345 wallets collectively bear at least 86% of the total loss of approximately $23.8 million. These 345 addresses with significant losses can choose one of two arrangements: either receive a one-time payment of $1,000 directly or file a proportional claim for the portion of their assets that has not yet been recovered.

According to blockchain data analysis company Bitrace, another leading trading guarantee platform "Welfare Guarantee" began to withdraw all money laundering-related public group merchants last night. The withdrawal scope includes illegal entities commonly known as "Card Connection Back to U" and "Cash Car."Bitrace stated that the "Welfare Wallet" operated by Welfare Guarantee is currently experiencing rapid capital outflow. Since the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) officially announced sanctions against Xinbi Guarantee, the wallet has recorded an outflow of 9.3 million USDT. Bitrace previously mentioned that due to the sanctions against Xinbi Guarantee, abnormal capital outflows have occurred in its secretly deployed sub-guarantee platforms, and a large number of guarantee merchants are rapidly exiting the related market.

Layer1 blockchain Linera posted on X that the LNRA community round commitment period has ended, failing to reach the minimum target of 1.5 million USDC. A total of 617 participants from 69 countries committed a total of 848,271 USDC.The related website will be updated soon to begin processing refunds, which will be returned to the same wallet used at the time of commitment. An announcement will be made once the refund process is live, and further updates will be released after the refund period ends.

Cointelegraph reported that Avici will fully refund all 1,685 users affected by the $500,859 card balance vulnerability.

Matthew Gould, the founder of Unstoppable Domains, stated that the company did not submit an application for its Web3 top-level domains in ICANN's 2026 expansion round and will refund customers who purchased related domains. Gould mentioned that the compliance, application, and bidding costs of incorporating Web3 domains into the ICANN system exceeded the company's expected recoverable sales. This move ends the company's commitment since 2019 that domains like .crypto and .wallet would eventually be resolvable in standard browsers.The application window for this round of ICANN opened on April 30 and closed on August 12, receiving over 1,600 major applications. Gould stated that customers have been notified via email, but the list of affected extensions and refund terms have not been disclosed. Some holders questioned the scope of the refunds, claiming they held the domains based on Unstoppable's commitment to advance the ICANN application. Gould responded that Web3 domains will still serve as on-chain assets for cryptocurrency transactions.Unstoppable continues to participate in ICANN activities as a service provider and previously announced a partnership with Telegram to apply for the .gram domain. Meanwhile, ENS has chosen a different path, with token holders approving the restructuring of the ENS Foundation to pursue the .ens top-level domain in ICANN, but ENS will not apply for .eth, as it is reserved for ISO 3166-1 country codes.

The decentralized exchange protocol atomiq announced that it has made the difficult decision to temporarily take all atomiq swap routes offline. The project stated that, as a small team, it is currently unable to withstand a large number of complex AI-assisted attacks targeting its infrastructure.atomiq emphasized that, due to the trustless nature of the exchange protocol, user funds are not at risk. The related web application remains accessible, and users can request refunds for past swaps at any time. For any questions, users can contact through their support channels. The team thanks its loyal users and states that it will strive to return with a stronger presence.

The Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' office assisted 35 cryptocurrency ATM scam victims in obtaining full refunds totaling $171,332. The related funds stemmed from scam-induced transactions, and the refunds covered all fees.According to Arizona law, only new customers who have been dissatisfied with an ATM operator for less than 10 days are eligible for a mandatory full refund. Victims must contact the operator and law enforcement or the Attorney General's office within 30 days of the transaction date and submit an official report confirming the scam. FBI data shows that in 2025, there were 460 complaints related to cryptocurrency kiosks in Arizona, with adjusted losses of $14.53 million; nationwide, there were 13,460 related complaints, with adjusted losses exceeding $388.98 million, of which individuals aged 50 and above lost over $302 million.

According to SBS, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) of South Korea has begun a comprehensive reform of its system to address compensation issues related to financial fraud, including voice phishing involving virtual assets. The FSS launched the "Financial Fraud Loss Compensation System Improvement Project" on August 6. This project aims to reform the existing compensation calculation system centered on the Korean won, in preparation for including virtual asset losses in the compensation scope starting in October this year.The current system primarily calculates compensation amounts based on losses valued in Korean won, but after the reform, a compensation ratio will be adopted, taking into account the type and quantity of virtual assets involved. Additionally, during payment suspensions, the Korean won exchange value of virtual assets will also be included in the calculations.

According to Jinshi reports, since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration's use of emergency powers to impose tariffs on trade partners was invalid, approximately $100 billion in tariff refunds have been paid. U.S. Customs officials reported to a judge at the U.S. Court of International Trade on Tuesday that this amount accounts for 60% of the total $165 billion collected from the president's "Liberation Day" tariffs.

According to Jinshi reports, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that the company plans to reinvest the tariff refunds in the United States.

Cascade announced on the X platform that the incident involving the withdrawal of CLS funds has been resolved, and the parties involved have cooperated to return all stolen funds.All users holding funds in CLS will be able to receive a 100% full compensation based on the value as of July 15, 2025, 21:08:00 UTC. The claims function will be opened in the coming days.ChainCatcher previously reported that MAX, the administrator of the multi-asset perpetual contract platform Cascade Discord, stated in the channel that the Cascade CLS treasury allegedly encountered a security vulnerability, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.3 million. The platform has currently suspended all trading and withdrawals and has invited SEAL 911 and other third-party security teams to investigate and handle the situation.

A court in São Paulo, Brazil ruled that Coinbase must refund nearly $100,000 to a user who claimed that funds deposited in their Coinbase Wallet disappeared in an unauthorized transaction. Coinbase argued that the wallet's private key is entirely controlled by the user, but failed to prove that the transaction was initiated by the wallet holder, nor did it demonstrate the existence of security measures to prevent this outcome.The court made its ruling based on relevant provisions of the Consumer Protection Law and ordered Coinbase to refund the full amount along with statutory interest.

The security analysis platform GoPlus tweeted regarding the incident where "a user exchanged approximately 1126 ETH (about 2.01 million USD) for 5776 LIT (about 14,000 USD) on Uniswap, resulting in a loss of nearly 2 million USD." The core reason for this incident was not a sandwich attack, but rather backrunner arbitrage within the same block. The routing contract injected a large amount of WETH into a liquidity-poor AVAIL/WETH trading pool, causing the user to buy AVAIL at a severely deviated market price (about 120 times the reasonable price). Subsequently, within the same block, the backrunner executed a reverse trade on the pool with a minimal amount of AVAIL at the real price, withdrawing approximately 1072 WETH, and paid most of it (about 1018 ETH) as builder payment to Titan Builder.

DefiLlama data shows that in the past week, the income returned to token holders from DeFi protocols was mainly concentrated in a few projects, with the top ten protocols accounting for over 80% in total. Among them, Hyperliquid ranked first with approximately $12.3 million, accounting for about 43.9%; Pump ranked second with about $3.5 million, accounting for about 12.6%; protocols such as Aerodrome, Uniswap, and Chainlink also made it to the top. Holders Revenue refers to the value returned to token holders through methods such as token buybacks, burns, or distributions to stakers.