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The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Court in Kazakhstan has issued an injunction against cryptocurrency platforms offering digital asset services without authorization, prohibiting Coinbase, BingX, Huobi Global (HTX), BitMart, Bitcoin.com, and WEEX from operating within its jurisdiction, and extending the restrictions to block access to their apps on Google and Apple app stores.
Ondo Perps has now listed the OpenAI Private Market Note, with the ticker OPAIPon. The note provides tokenized economic exposure linked to OpenAI and is now open for 7×24 trading on Ondo Perps' permissionless spot order book, with the trading pair OPAIPon/USDC. OPAIPon is part of Ondo Private Markets, which offers qualified investors tokenized economic exposure to leading private companies, allowing users to participate in trading without waiting for the company to go public and to self-custody the tokens in their personal wallets.
Odaily Report: Four.Meme recently launched OpenFour Boost, an open-source white-label Launchpad solution built on the OpenFour Launchpad OS, designed to help project teams and ecosystem partners quickly build and operate branded token issuance and trading platforms.OpenFour Boost provides ready-made front-end and back-end infrastructure, covering core functions such as wallet connection, token creation, price charts, and trading, while supporting custom branded interfaces and issuance templates. Currently, the solution supports multiple EVM-compatible chains, including BNB Chain.By reusing OpenFour's underlying issuance infrastructure, development teams can customize the Launchpad according to their own product needs and community characteristics without building one from scratch, allowing them to devote more resources to product development and ecosystem operations.
According to an official announcement, Binance Futures will update the leverage and margin tiers for multiple USDⓈ-M perpetual contracts, with the update scheduled to be completed before 14:30 (UTC+8) on October 30, 2026. The contracts involved include APRUSDT, AIOUSDT, TRIAUSDT, WETUSDT, STBLUSDT, IDOLUSDT, GOATUSDT, QUSDT, B2USDT, AIAUSDT, CYSUSDT, DOSUSDT, TURTLEUSDT, AVAAIUSDT, and TRADOORUSDT. Existing positions opened before the update will be affected.
DeepSeek announced that it will fully open-source its internal inference framework DeepInfer, while simultaneously releasing the production-grade token encoder-decoder component deepseek-recipe, to help developers and enterprises optimize the throughput, latency, and deployment costs of large-scale model inference. DeepInfer integrates high-performance operators and a deeply optimized inference engine, supporting capabilities such as distributed inference, speculative decoding, SWA Bounded Replay, and structured output, while maintaining compatibility with NVIDIA and Huawei Ascend platforms. DeepSeek noted that it has already realized high-throughput, low-latency large-scale inference services for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash based on DeepInfer, and future inference code for new models along with subsequent optimizations will continue to be updated within this framework.
According to the official announcement, Upbit has listed the Metaplex (MPLX) KRW trading pair.
21Shares has announced the launch of two physically backed new products: the 21Shares Lighter ETP (LIHT), which tracks the native token LIT of the decentralized perpetual exchange Lighter, and the 21Shares Venice Token ETP (VENC), which tracks VVV, the core asset of privacy-focused AI infrastructure Venice.
According to updates on the 1inch Card FAQ page, the 1inch Card project will gradually cease operations, with new user registration officially closed as of now, while existing cards and accounts remain normally accessible in the short term. 1inch advises cardholders to withdraw or spend their card balances as soon as possible, with all operations to be completed no later than December 18, 2026. Funds on the card are held in custody by the licensed e-money institution Monavate, and account and card issuance technical services are provided by Crypto Life (CL). Even if the aforementioned deadline is missed, according to the issuer's terms, remaining e-wallet funds can still be redeemed within a maximum period of six years after account closure.
According to an official announcement, Binance stated that to maintain the quality of the trading market, it will remove the BONK/FDUSD, JUP/FDUSD, LDO/FDUSD, and WAL/BNB spot trading pairs and suspend trading on October 23, 2026, at 11:00 (UTC+8). The removal of these trading pairs will not affect the normal trading of the related tokens on other pairs across the platform. Corresponding spot trading bot services will also be discontinued at the same time.
According to The Independent, UK digital bank Revolut experienced a widespread service outage on October 20, disrupting both mobile app access and card payments at physical retail locations. In a post on X, Revolut stated that multiple features are currently experiencing service disruptions and some services may be inaccessible, while its engineering team is working urgently to restore operations and has apologized to users. On social media, individuals across the UK, France, and Spain reported being unable to process payments or transfers. As of the time of publication, Revolut's official system status page still displayed "all systems operational," and it remains unclear whether the outage affected all users.
Cysic has issued a service status update stating that the Cosmos explorer is temporarily unavailable, Cysic mainnet operations are unaffected, and explorer access is being restored as quickly as possible. Following the recent security incident, the cross-chain bridge remains paused. Funds related to pending cross-chain transactions remain safely held in the cross-chain bridge contract, and the relevant transactions will be processed once the cross-chain bridge is secure again.
Bitget will list Axis Robotics (AXIS) for spot trading in the AI zone. The deposit channel is now open, and the trading channel will open on October 21 at 21:00 (UTC+8).
SUI has partnered with Samsung Wallet and plans to integrate the Sui network into Samsung phone wallets, allowing users to transfer USDC directly. The related feature is expected to launch first in the United States in the last week of October, potentially reaching approximately 82 million Galaxy devices.
Odaily reports: Crypto analyst Darkfost published a post on X outlining the evolution of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's attitude toward Bitcoin in recent years.In 2017, Dimon called Bitcoin a "fraud"; in 2018, he expressed regret over those remarks and acknowledged the value of blockchain technology; from 2019 to 2020, he said Bitcoin "doesn't appeal to him"; in 2021, he called it "worthless"; in 2023, he said that if he had the power, he would ban Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies; and in 2024, he likened Bitcoin to "pet rocks" and a Ponzi scheme.In 2025, Dimon still criticized Bitcoin for lacking value and being used for money laundering, but later stated that everyone has the right to buy Bitcoin. Now, JPMorgan in its 2027 outlook has listed Bitcoin as the asset with the best long-term return performance.Previously reported, JPMorgan Asset Management released its "2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions" report on October 19, including Bitcoin in its long-term return projections for the first time and forecasting a compound annual growth rate of 10% over the next 10 to 15 years, higher than the 7.5% for U.S. large-cap stocks, 5.5% for gold, and 8.2% for U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs).
According to an official announcement, HTX listed the VICR/USDT perpetual contract on October 20, supporting 1x to 20x leverage for both long and short positions.
Trader degentrading published an analysis noting that Papertrade (@papertrade_xyz) released an explanation regarding the transferability of the PAPER token. The statement indicates that Papertrade is a relatively complex primitive with higher risk management complexity, and the PAPER token is more deeply integrated into the protocol's economic model compared to tokens of most other protocols. The analyst pointed out that, relative to the previous supply model, newer users and miners will obtain a relatively larger share, diminishing the advantage of early mining participants. He believes this adjustment negatively impacts early participants but benefits the protocol's long-term development and organic users.
Odaily reports: The Tesla Roadster has sparked heated market discussion with its "flying car" concept, but controversy has followed accordingly.Recently, CBS News inquired with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which responded that the Tesla Roadster does not meet the FAA's definition of an aircraft. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration subsequently stated that even if the vehicle visually challenges the laws of physics, Tesla must ensure it complies with applicable motor vehicle safety standards, and drivers must also obey local road regulations. In other words: the Roadster is not a flying car.In addition, based on reporting by overseas media outlet MotorTrend and technical conditions, the flight time of the demonstration vehicle that completed three jumps at the Roadster launch event depends on its gas storage capacity. Under full-thrust conditions, the flight time cannot even last 2 seconds, while the subsequent inflation time is as long as 6 to 7 hours. And based on a gas storage capacity of 250 kilograms, under full-thrust conditions, the flight time still cannot last more than 6 seconds. (Dongchehui)
Lighter announced its Lighter Core has launched a binary options product, with plans to roll out a full options trading service next.
According to CoinPost, the Security and Systems Committee of the Japan Cryptocurrency Business Association (JCBA) announced on October 20 the establishment of a Working Group (WG) on Crypto Asset Custody Management and released a draft of the "Practice Set" detailing security countermeasures for principals. The draft contains 347 items across ten major domains, including governance, personnel and physical security, BCP, and re-delegation management, while listing "Key Management and Signature Operation" as a distinct category. Principal service models are classified into five types: Holding, Intervention, Supply, Reference, and Others, and are accompanied by an Excel-based self-assessment questionnaire and a tracking ledger for verification documents. The JCBA emphasized that generic third-party assurance reports, such as SOC2, fall short in adequately assessing crypto asset-specific risks, particularly those related to private key lifecycle management.
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan (@Matt_Hougan) shared a chart on X featuring J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions (31st edition), which has now included Bitcoin in its asset class forecasts. According to the report, Bitcoin’s expected compounded return is 10.0%, its arithmetic mean return is 20.9%, and its annualized volatility is 55.0%. Comparative data for other assets are as follows: • US large-cap stocks: compounded return 7.5%, volatility 18.0% • US small-cap stocks: compounded return 7.7%, volatility 21.0% • Gold: compounded return 5.5%, volatility 17.2% • US aggregate bonds: compounded return 5.6%, volatility 4.7% • US cash: compounded return 3.2%, volatility 0.7% • US real estate investment trusts (REITs): compounded return 8.2%, volatility 17.3% Based on arithmetic mean returns, Bitcoin (20.9%) ranks highest among the assets listed in the report, followed by US small-cap stocks (9.66%) and US REITs (9.55%). By compounded return, Bitcoin (10.0%) also tops all other assets in the table.