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According to official announcements, Bithumb will list the CT/KRW trading pair.
Odaily reports: Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang posted a photo with Hyperliquid founder Jeff and Cognition founder Scott Wu, all of whom were once HRT interns. Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley noted that HRT's two co-founders, Alex Morcos and Suhas Daftuar, founded Chaincode Labs in 2014. The organization is located in Midtown Manhattan, New York, and is dedicated to advancing the Bitcoin network and providing resources for independent innovators in the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Upbit Will List CT/KRW, BTC, and USDT Trading Pairs
Odaily Report: JPMorgan is expanding its JPM Coin USD deposit token to the Ethereum mainnet, offering it to institutional clients. The token was previously launched on Base in 2025 and represents actual bank deposits, enabling near-instant peer-to-peer transfers and settlements around the clock. It is currently available only to JPMorgan institutional clients through Kinexys, does not support public trading, and is not open to retail customers. JPM Coin is a permissioned, regulatory-compliant bank money and is not a decentralized stablecoin.
Aster officially announced that during the period from 00:00 UTC on October 5, 2026 to 00:00 UTC on October 19, 2026, 99% of the platform's daily fees were used for buybacks, with a total of 2.7217 million ASTER repurchased for use by stakers; an equivalent amount of team-allocated ASTER tokens was also burned. Since adopting the upgraded tokenomics model on June 17, 2026, the cumulative burn of ASTER has reached 32.3079 million tokens, bringing the project's all-time cumulative burn to 210 million tokens. As of October 19, Aster's estimated staking annualized yields are: 4.53% for a 26-week lock-up and 24.8% for a 208-week lock-up; actual yields may vary.
Odaily reports: On October 20, Central Time in the United States, SpaceX will release its financial and operational results for the third quarter of 2026. At that time, the SpaceX executive team will hold an audio livestream for the Q3 earnings Q&A, and SpaceX shareholders can submit questions before the meeting and like them; these questions may be shared and answered during the livestream.As of now, the question “When will SpaceX merge with Tesla” has surged into the top three on the liked-questions list, becoming one of the questions investors care about and look forward to most.
Odaily reports: According to an official announcement, Binance has announced an upgrade to the "Write to Earn" program on Binance Square, adding participation rewards based on genuine engagement (comments, likes, and follows). Starting from 00:00 (UTC) on October 19, 2026, eligible creators can earn weekly participation rewards based on the quality of content engagement, in addition to trading commissions. Creators ranked in the top 100 by weekly base commission in the live streaming category can receive additional bonus commissions. Rewards will be distributed in USDC to spot accounts by 23:59 (UTC) on the Thursday of the following week.
According to reports, NeoSoul aims to build an operating system for the agent economy, enabling agents to act, collaborate, evolve, and create value as autonomous economic entities.
According to CoinDesk, the development team behind Zcash's new node software, Zakura, plans to generate a unique viewing key for each ZEC swap conducted via NEAR Intents, while the spending key remains secured by the user's primary account. Under the current architecture, when users swap private ZEC for USDC via NEAR Intents, one of their Zcash privacy addresses is publicly broadcast on the NEAR public chain as a refund address and remains retained after the swap is completed. While this address currently does not leak information, sufficiently powerful quantum computers in the future could potentially reverse-engineer the viewing key using Shor's algorithm, thereby linking all payments received by that account, including amounts and memos. By implementing a "one-key-per-swap" approach, even if a refund address is compromised, attackers will only be able to view payments related to that specific swap. To address the issue of having to scan the entire blockchain sequentially during wallet recovery due to an abundance of keys, Zakura employs Private Information Retrieval (PIR) technology, allowing the wallet to query the location of incoming refunds without the database learning which address was queried.
Senior officials from South Korea's finance ministry plan to hold consultations with major cryptocurrency exchanges on Tuesday, with participants including representatives from Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, DigitalX, Gopax, and the Digital Asset Exchange Alliance (DAXA). Yoo Young-jun, Director General of the Digital Finance Policy Bureau at South Korea's Financial Services Commission, will attend the meeting.South Korea has postponed the crypto tax three times, most recently pushing the implementation date to 2027. Exchanges say that applicable rules for different transaction types have not yet been determined and that infrastructure preparation time is limited, with the industry broadly supporting a further delay of the tax.South Korean Democratic Party lawmaker Park Min-gyu recently proposed a bill that would set the tax start date as January 1 of the second year after South Korea begins sharing data under the OECD Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF). If the first data exchange takes place in 2027, the tax would begin in 2029. (Cointelegraph)
Bitget has launched 8 popular Taiwan-listed stock perpetual contracts, including TWTSM (TSMC), TWDELTA (Delta Electronics), TWASX (ASE Holdings), and TWUMC (UMC). These contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20x leverage, and trade 24/7. As of now, Bitget has supported a total of 364 stock contract underlying assets.
The B.AI platform announced that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has been seamlessly upgraded to the latest V4.1 Flash-1017 version, further optimizing response speed, inference quality, and operational stability to deliver a more efficient and intelligent AI experience for developers and users. This upgrade maintains a seamless switching approach; users do not need to change the model ID, and existing API calls and workflow configurations can remain unchanged to directly invoke the new model capabilities, significantly reducing migration and adaptation costs. B.AI stated that it will continue to track cutting-edge model iterations, providing developers with more stable and cost-effective model services. Log in to chat.b.ai/chat to experience it now.
Ansem posted on X that Papertrade allows users to open and close synthetic 1000x leveraged positions without causing actual market impact. In its first week, the platform distributed over $50 million to PAPER stakers. Its model channels traders' losses to support on-chain liquidity pools, with losses exceeding the pool's size cap distributed to PAPER stakers. Ansem said the model could expand beyond perpetual contracts into speculative games and online entertainment, but whether it can continue attracting users, sustaining liquidity, and achieving long-term growth remains to be validated by market performance.
According to data from Surf, following the October 15 launch of its SurfBoard NFT series on Robinhood Chain, the project recorded a 24-hour trading volume of approximately 256 ETH (~$620,000) on its first day. This places it fourth among Robinhood Chain's major NFT projects, surpassing the first-day trading volume of QUOTRONS, which operates on the same ERC-404 architecture (~246 ETH). On day one, 837 wallets participated in the official pool, executing 1,522 trades.
Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) stated that the ideal path for supporting various cryptographic algorithms lies in EIP-8288: users locally generate arbitrary signatures, produce STARK proofs, and submit them on-chain via a STARK aggregator. This avoids consuming calldata on-chain, so Ethereum no longer needs to add new precompiles. He also noted that if lattice cryptography (Lattice) is proven to be secure against AI attacks, it could still be utilized for accounts, wallets, and similar applications via precompiles in the future. Previously, Starknet co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson pushed back against related views from a16z, arguing that the rich mathematical structure of lattice cryptography makes it susceptible to AI attacks. Furthermore, the simplified variant based on Module SIS only emerged in 2012 and lacks sufficient maturity. He recommended waiting another three to five years until AI has thoroughly stress-tested these approaches before deploying them to custody large asset balances.
Mt. Gox has issued an announcement stating that, given the necessity of completing repayments to creditors within a reasonably practicable scope, the bankruptcy trustee, with court approval, has decided to extend the repayment deadline from October 31, 2026 to October 31, 2027.
According to The Block, Strategy founder Michael Saylor outlined his vision for a "perfect" digital currency at the ParaFi Investor Day: a dollar-pegged, Bitcoin-backed stablecoin offering a yield of 6% to 8%. Saylor stated that this would be the next step in the development of digital capital and digital credit products.
Binance founder CZ announced that the Japanese edition of his autobiography "Freedom of Money" was released today, with more language versions to follow. All proceeds will be donated to charity.
据 The Block 报道，由 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman 联合创立的身份项目 World 于 10 月 18 日（周日）在 Money20/20 大会上发布面向银行和金融机构的 World ID 套件，这是其首个针对特定行业的产品。该套件整合 World ID 应用、World ID for Zoom 和 World ID for Agents（AgentKit）三款现有产品，用于防范客户账户、员工工作流和 AI 代理场景中的深度伪造欺诈与 AI 冒充。 其中，World ID for Zoom 在 4 月启动限量测试后，现已正式开放，Tools for Humanity 同时加入 Zoom 独立软件供应商交易计划。World 将 OpenExchange、Bain Capital、VanEck Funds 和 Outtake 列为设计合作伙伴，但未披露任何已使用该产品的银行，也未公布定价。
10x Research's latest crypto market weekly report notes that the crypto market broadly suffered a sell-off last week, with altcoins declining significantly more than Bitcoin. The 141 tokens it tracks fell 14% on average, while Bitcoin dropped only 3% over the same period.10x Research states that trading volume in the crypto market is currently declining, stablecoin supply continues to contract, and ETF fund flows have turned to net outflows, reflecting mounting pressure on market liquidity.However, options market pricing indicates that pressure remains relatively low, while speculative positions in the CME futures market are near highs, suggesting that the derivatives market has not yet fully reflected the weak performance of the spot market.10x Research believes that investors should focus this week on key Bitcoin technical levels, Ethereum position allocation, as well as capital flows and position changes in the altcoin market.