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Cysic has released the latest update on the cross-chain bridge security incident, announcing plans to burn 7.2 million CYS from the foundation reserve by the end of October to offset previously unauthorized minted tokens and bring the token supply back in line with the established tokenomics model. The relevant on-chain burn records will be published once confirmed.
Odaily Report: Bybit today added six stock perpetual contracts — Interactive Brokers (IBKRUSDT), Citigroup (CSTOCKUSDT), American Express (AXPUSDT), Medtronic (MDTSTOCKUSDT), Critical Metals (CRMLUSDT), and Boeing (BAUSDT) — with leverage of up to 25x. A limited-time trading fee promotion is available during the launch period: 0% maker fee and 50% off taker fee.
CoinShares' latest market update indicates that despite risk assets experiencing renewed volatility this week, Bitcoin overall has demonstrated resilience, primarily supported by a rebound in spot demand, improving equity market sentiment, and partial short covering. However, the market is shifting from simply chasing AI narratives to focusing more on corporate earnings realization. Earnings reports from several US companies falling short of expectations have triggered sharp volatility in the stock market, and Bitcoin has similarly faced temporary headwinds.
Oracle announced an upgrade to the Oracle Marketplace, further strengthening its role as a platform for enterprise procurement and partner sales. The new mechanism will enable independent software vendors and service providers to reach Oracle customers more directly, facilitating the sale of AI, industry-specific software, and other solutions through existing cloud budgets and procurement processes.
Oracle announced that it will invest $1 billion into its partner ecosystem over the next four years to help partners address enterprises' demand for AI solutions and services and drive customer business transformation. The investment will cover the Oracle PartnerNetwork, including training and certification, technical support, development and testing environments, cloud migration funding, joint marketing initiatives, and commercialization through Oracle Marketplace. Oracle stated that partners can develop industry applications, integration solutions, AI Agents, and managed services based on Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and related AI services.
In a recent threat intelligence report, Mist disclosed that it received user feedback regarding a GitHub repository named sol-live masquerading as a Solidity interview practice project. The repository conceals commands to download and execute remote scripts in its .vscode/settings.json file, which may trigger malicious payloads when users launch the custom terminal configuration. Analysis by Mist indicates that the associated malware can harvest browser login databases, wallet extension storage, and macOS Keychain files. It also possesses capabilities such as scanning and uploading local files, executing remote commands, providing interactive Shell access, and monitoring the clipboard. On macOS and Linux, execution only occurs if users manually activate the malicious terminal configuration. The attack chain on Windows remains unconfirmed due to issues with quotation mark handling.
Odaily reports: Orochi Network announced an additional $8 million in funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to $20 million. The funds will be used to build verifiable data infrastructure for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. This round received support from MEXC Ventures, Plutus VC, Bolts Capital, Ant Labs, and previous investors, and the project also received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation.Orochi Network stated that its verifiable database zkDatabase has launched on mainnet, having processed over 700 million proofs cumulatively with more than 10,000 downloads. It has established partnerships with projects such as Plume, Lumia, Nexus, and OG, and its alliance has over 120 enterprise partners. The network aims to use cryptographic technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs to verify the authenticity and integrity of asset data, providing data verification and audit infrastructure for applications including RWA, stablecoins, and AI.
According to Bloomberg, Gemini founders the Winklevoss brothers and DCG founder Barry Silbert are expanding their presence in the Zcash ecosystem. The entities they back, Cypherpunk Technologies and Fortitude Mining, have emerged as leading ZEC miners and plan to invest tens of millions of dollars to further increase their hashrate. Currently, Cypherpunk accounts for approximately 20% of Zcash's total network hashrate; Fortitude stated that after its latest batch of equipment is deployed, its share will also reach roughly 20%.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued proposed rules to implement the COINS Act, aiming to further expand U.S. outbound investment restrictions in certain sensitive technology sectors targeting "countries of concern." The existing regime primarily targets entities related to China, while the proposed rules seek to further tighten restrictions on AI and semiconductors on that basis, extending the regulatory framework to encompass additional sensitive technologies and jurisdictions. In the AI sector, certain investments that remain permissible post-filing under current rules will be converted to outright prohibitions; regarding semiconductors, high bandwidth memory, photonic chips, and radiation-hardened chips will also be subject to stricter restrictions. Meanwhile, biotechnology has been added as a priority regulatory domain, covering areas such as brain-computer interfaces and automated laboratory software.
According to the latest episode of the Gatecast podcast, Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han shared the product philosophy and future plans for Gate Money. He stated that Gate is extending its years of accumulated experience into the fields of asset management and everyday payments to reach a broader user base, with the goal of doubling Gate Money's user base within the next one to two years. Leveraging the technical systems, institutional clients, and market-making liquidity built up through years of trading operations, Gate supports exchanges between multiple asset classes; through its global licensing footprint and partnerships with banks and payment networks, Gate Money creates the conditions for users to receive, send, and spend funds. Together, these capabilities form the operational foundation of Gate Money, enabling the platform to reduce exchange and fund transfer costs across different usage scenarios.Through capabilities spanning holding, exchanging, growing, and spending, Gate Money connects various types of assets with everyday needs. Dr. Han used "buying coffee with stocks" as an example to illustrate the consumer applications of assets beyond investment. In eligible regions, users can open bank accounts in their own name, use familiar payment and receipt methods, and have transfers processed by underlying blockchain technology; idle funds can also participate in growth through yield products.Looking ahead, Dr. Han also shared the application prospects of AI Agents providing round-the-clock assistance with asset allocation and fund management. As investment, wealth management, and everyday payments converge, Gate Money will continue to expand the application boundaries of various asset classes, driving Gate's services deeper into more everyday life scenarios.
According to an official announcement, Binance Alpha will delist PTB (Portal to Bitcoin), AA (ARAI), OWL (Owlto Finance), DORA, ELIZAOS (elizaOS), MEMES (memes will continue), and KAKU on October 23 at 17:30. Following the token removal, Binance Alpha will continue to support withdrawals and selling for these tokens.
Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited, a subsidiary of Futu Holdings, has announced the launch of BNB deposit and withdrawal services for eligible professional investors (PIs) in Hong Kong. Eligible professional investors can now deposit assets from self-custody wallets into their Futu Crypto accounts via the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) network, or withdraw to verified whitelisted addresses.
Moonshot AI will soon release Kimi K3.1, which adds a new "medium" thinking intensity setting, supporting four levels in total: low, high, max, and medium. Additionally, today the official Kimi account released a 24-second video, with the model field at the top left reading: Model: Kimi K3.1.
According to an analysis published by on-chain analyst Darkfost on CryptoQuant, sustained tensions in the Gulf region and escalating Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries have kept Brent crude prices consistently above $100. High oil prices are cascading into production costs, service prices, and commodities, embedding inflation deeper into the economy. This may drag down economic growth, constrain market liquidity, and particularly pressure high-risk assets such as Bitcoin. Historical data indicates that when Brent crude enters a strong uptrend and trades above its annual average, Bitcoin's momentum typically slows; conversely, sharp declines in oil prices often coincide with Bitcoin rallies. Oil prices saw a brief dip in July, benefiting Bitcoin, but Brent has since staged a strong rebound. Darkfost noted that there is no simple causal relationship between the two; rather, it is the economic environment driven by high oil prices that poses headwinds for risk assets. Although liquidity could rotate across different markets and continue to support Bitcoin's upside, current macroeconomic conditions are unfavorable for fresh liquidity inflows.
Bybit AI was fully launched this September, enabling users to access all of Bybit's core services through a single chat interface.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain, kimchi received 500 million $kimchi today and posted about the token, which was subsequently retweeted by Pump.fun co-founder alon. Alon later retracted the retweet, and kimchi also deleted the post. The market capitalization of $kimchi briefly surged to $14 million before plunging by over 95%. Lookonchain reported that scammers used multiple wallets to buy $kimchi at low prices and subsequently sold them, netting cumulative profits exceeding $385,000.
According to The Block, the Ethereum Foundation announced a delay of the Glamsterdam upgrade, originally scheduled for October 26 on the Hoodi testnet, to allow for further review of EIP-8037's interaction with mainnet smart contracts. A new activation date has not yet been announced. Hoodi is one of Ethereum's test networks, primarily used to validate network upgrades before they go live on the mainnet.
Gate has released the Singapore special edition of its documentary series "Behind Gate: Dr. Han," which follows a three-day itinerary as its main thread, authentically chronicling the daily work and key moments of platform founder and CEO Dr. Han during TOKEN2049 Singapore, covering multiple scenarios including the launch of Gate Money, keynote speeches, media interviews, client meetings, and an awards dinner.The documentary focuses on the release process of Gate Money and reveals a real clip of Dr. Han using NVIDIA stock to buy coffee before his speech. He subsequently shared this experience in his keynote address to demonstrate the connection between asset management and everyday payments. In the film, Dr. Han states that Gate Money is not only aimed at traders but also hopes to serve a broad global user base, and that the platform needs to maintain innovation while continuously refining its products to meet users' increasingly diverse financial needs.The film also captures heartwarming moments of Dr. Han communicating with team members, discussing customer needs, and preparing a birthday cake for colleagues, revealing an everyday side beyond the tight schedule. Looking ahead, Dr. Han regards Gate Money as a new mission and starting point, and sets out a long-term vision of serving approximately 500 million users over the next five years, demonstrating Gate's strategic direction of continued development toward a comprehensive financial services platform.
Alliance General Partner Imran recently posted on X, sharing his views on a16z crypto's shift toward frontier technology sectors. He noted that a16z provided early endorsement for the crypto industry when Chris Dixon led Coinbase's investment in 2013; Marc Andreessen's 2014 New York Times op-ed "Why Bitcoin Matters" was a key factor that prompted him to transition into the Bitcoin industry. At the time, very few institutions and funds were willing to publicly support crypto, and a16z and USV were the two that took on brand risk.Imran believes that the current development of AI infrastructure has benefited considerably from Bitcoin mining infrastructure and talent flowing from crypto to AI. Shifting toward frontier tech such as robotics, biology, AI, energy, and compute means that the talent and capabilities accumulated in the crypto industry over the past decade can be used to build the entire frontier tech sector. Citing data centers as an example, he noted that public and government resistance to data centers is growing, much like earlier resistance to crypto—yet today nearly all traditional financial institutions have embraced crypto to some extent.
According to Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot stated on Thursday on the bitcoin-dev mailing list that large language models (LLMs) have made certain software vulnerabilities extremely easy to rediscover. Maintaining long-term secrecy is already of limited value and instead delays the release of patched versions, prompting the team to update its vulnerability disclosure policy. The new policy dictates that "easily discoverable" vulnerabilities, which can be identified with minimal cost such as through simple LLM prompts, will be patched as soon as possible across all supported major versions, alongside the simultaneous release of security advisories. Other vulnerabilities will continue to be disclosed based on severity: low-severity vulnerabilities will be disclosed two weeks after the release of the major version containing the fix; medium-to-high-severity vulnerabilities will be disclosed two weeks after the end-of-life (EOL) of the last affected version, typically around one year after the patch release; critical vulnerabilities will be handled through a dedicated process.