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Solflare announced that new validators are now online. Users can now manually unstake from Solflare (Legacy) and stake to the new validators, or wait for the application update to migrate.The official team will compensate for the rewards interrupted during the migration period, with specific duration and details to be announced later.

The funding scale of the Zcash development grant program continues to expand, with the current net funding estimated at approximately 125 million USD, far exceeding current expenditure needs. Sean Bowe, co-founder of Zcash and current head of Tachyon, has proposed a draft suggesting the termination of the current 8% block reward allocated to ZCG in a future network upgrade.There are currently four proposals in the community regarding the development funding mechanism, which involve terminating ZCG grants, canceling the entire development fund grant mechanism, or gradually reducing the grant proportion to zero. Supporters believe that the current mechanism allows funds to accumulate as the price of ZEC rises, but ZCG is not directly controlled by holders; opponents worry that cutting development funds without alternative solutions may impact the subsequent development and maintenance of the protocol. All proposals are still in the discussion stage and have not yet been finalized.

According to official data from Bitget, the platform's "Peer Program" has completed the final batch of reward distributions. As of now, the program has distributed a total of 8,936,975 USDT in rewards, with a total of 7,308,958 participants receiving rewards. Users can visit the relevant event page to claim their corresponding rewards.

Ethena Pay has begun rolling out the Earn+ feature, which claims that the dollar balance can earn a target annual reward of up to 12%. Initially, it is open to Pro and VIP users, with plans to expand to all users in the coming days. This feature will transfer funds from the main payment balance to an external Upshift vault, where Steakhouse Financial will execute a leveraged USDe strategy on Aave, aiming for a yield higher than the app's existing maximum tiered reward of 6%.According to documents released by Ethena Pay, the vault targets approximately 11 times leverage on Aave v4 on Avalanche, packaging repeated borrowing and reinvestment into a one-click deposit. The specific path involves depositing USDe as collateral, borrowing USDT, and then using the borrowed tokens to purchase more USDe in a loop, with returns depending on whether the USDe rewards can cover the USDT borrowing costs. Ethena Pay states that it only provides the interface and does not guarantee the assets, and users must bear the risk of vault losses, which may result in losing part or all of their invested funds.Ethena Pay claims that the simplified interface does not eliminate liquidation risk; when collateral is insufficient to cover debts, positions will face liquidation, with liquidators repaying debts and taking collateral and rewards. The 12% is only a target and not a guaranteed return, rates may be adjusted downwards, and Earn+ balances do not enjoy the Daily Boost of the main account. This product has no lock-up period, no fees for deposits or withdrawals, and withdrawals are processed to the main dollar account within 24 hours but may be delayed, and are not considered insured bank deposits. The initial total capacity limit for the vault is $4.5 million, with individual limits of $50,000 and $200,000 for Pro and VIP users, respectively, and $20,000 for Standard users.

According to SolanaFloor, Solflare stated that its staking service provider experienced a security incident that affected the keys held for its validators, which are no longer generating staking rewards. Solflare claimed that user funds were not affected, and the delegated SOL remains in the users' own staking accounts, controlled by their keys.Solflare will guide users to migrate to new validators through an app update, and rewards will resume once staking is activated, with plans to compensate migrating users.

Asset management company Grayscale reported that the privacy cryptocurrency Zcash celebrates its tenth anniversary this week. The report states that Zcash's ability to continuously innovate partly stems from allocating 20% of block rewards for developer funding, with the protocol evolving from the Sprout pool to Sapling and Orchard.Launched in 2026, the Ironwood pool adds quantum-resistant addresses and formal verification to address code vulnerabilities. Grayscale expressed hope and expectation that Zcash will continue to expand transaction capacity and prepare for post-quantum era and AI-driven cybersecurity risks, which may require ongoing funding from multiple parties and efficient allocation.

The French Ministry of Finance, the Financial Markets Authority (AMF), the French Central Bank, and the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) jointly suggested to the European Commission to allow third parties, such as crypto platforms, to offer rewards to stablecoin holders under specific conditions. The four institutions believe that such rewards should be regulated rather than outright prohibited.The four institutions proposed that platforms should disclose reward information to holders, must not promise guaranteed returns, and should not promote rewards as savings products; regulators should also monitor the impact of rewards on bank deposits. The French side still supports banning stablecoin issuers from paying interest but opposes extending the ban to staking and lending activities. The European Central Bank and the central banks of EU countries advocate maintaining the ban on interest for stablecoins and including indirect benefits such as rewards and fee waivers, as well as lending and staking activities within the scope of restrictions.The European Commission must submit a review report on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) to the EU legislative bodies by June 30, 2027, and may propose amendments.

The decentralized exchange Osmosis based on Cosmos has terminated the issuance of OSMO tokens and shifted the source of staking rewards from newly issued tokens to protocol revenue.This adjustment eliminates approximately two percentage points of the staking annual yield supported by the issuance, while freezing about 51.9 million previously minted developer tokens.

According to official data from Bitget, the ninth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed. As of now, the total amount in the reward pool has reached 8,499,468 USDT, with a total of 6,651,305 participants.In addition, after users enter the event page to claim their rewards, they will also receive an additional chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary Surprise Blind Box Lottery.

On October 25, according to official news, the ninth phase of the decentralized stablecoin USDD's collaboration with Binance Wallet for the Strategy event will go live on October 27 at 8:00 AM (Singapore time) and will last until December 16 at 07:59. This phase will offer a reward pool equivalent to a total of $700,000 in USDD. Users can participate by depositing at least 100 USDT in the Binance Wallet Strategy section and will automatically qualify for the reward distribution.It is reported that current participants do not need to take any additional actions to automatically join the ninth phase of the event. The entry point for the event is the Binance Wallet Strategy page. For more details, please visit: https://usdd.io.

Bitget has launched a contract ranking competition, which will take place from October 26 at 11:00 to November 9 at 11:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who complete the cumulative contract trading volume tasks can earn up to 18 scratch card opportunities, with a maximum of 1 XAUT reward per scratch.In addition, the event features a trading leaderboard. The top 30 users by total trading volume who meet the corresponding trading thresholds will receive gold jewelry from Lao Pu, gold ingots from Chow Tai Fook, and rewards of up to 1,000 USDT. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.

According to official data from Bitget, the eighth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed, with a total of 7,657,537 USDT awarded to 5,946,778 participants.In addition, after users enter the event page to claim their rewards, they will also receive an additional chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary Surprise Blind Box lottery. The event will last until October 26.

According to official data from Bitget, the seventh batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed. As of now, the program has distributed a total of 6,813,732 USDT in rewards, with a total of 5,239,752 participants.In addition, after users enter the event page to claim their rewards, they will also receive an additional chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary Surprise Blind Box Lottery. The event will last until October 26.

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.

According to DeFiprime, the Arbitrum Foundation opened the Stablecoin Growth Program on October 15 for protocols with stablecoin balances of no less than 1 million USD, requiring selected teams to designate USDG as their primary stablecoin on Arbitrum One. The plan sets a reward pool of 2 million ARB, with the top 10 teams that achieve a 30-day average balance of 10 million USD in USDG each eligible to receive up to 200,000 ARB (with a cap of 200,000 USD). The reward pool is valid until December 31, 2027, and each participant can only claim once. Selection is at the discretion of the foundation, and KYC/AML must be completed; the final agreement may include exclusive terms for protocols and tokens deployed exclusively on Arbitrum. As of October 17, the circulation of USDG on Arbitrum is approximately 33.6 million USD.

According to official data from Bitget, the sixth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed, with a total of 6,182,523 USDT awarded to 4,515,913 participants.In addition, users who enter the event page to claim their rewards will also receive an additional chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary blind box lottery. The event will last until October 26.

Filecoin announced that three advancements have been made this month: the new reward mechanism Solstice will allocate more block rewards to services that bring paying customers to the network, while the rewards solely for consensus mining will be correspondingly reduced, and the unearned portion will be destroyed; the release period for the genesis token is about to end, and the daily new FIL circulation is expected to decrease by approximately 75%.In addition, Filecoin has launched new products aimed at enterprises and AI Agents, including the Filecoin-based storage cloud Integral Spacetime, S3 compatible object storage Fil One, and tools that support AI Agents to directly store files, obtain public links, and make on-chain payments.

According to official data from Bitget, the fifth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed, with a total of 5,130,896 USDT awarded to 3,770,321 participants.In addition, users who enter the event page to claim their rewards will also receive an extra chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary Surprise Blind Box Lottery. The event will last until October 26, and more details can be found on the official Bitget platform.

According to official data from Bitget, the fourth round of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been completed. This round of rewards exceeded 1.1 million USDT, and the cumulative prize pool has surpassed 4.6 million USDT.In addition, starting from October 10, each round of winning users will also receive a surprise blind box, with a winning rate of 100%. The blind box rewards include experience vouchers for contract positions worth up to 10,000 USDT, 5% APR financial interest coupons, and GetAgent Ultra experience cards, among other benefits. Relevant users can directly enter the event page to claim their rewards.