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Bitdeer announced a weekly Bitcoin update on the X platform, stating that as of October 16, its Bitcoin production for the week totaled 294.2 BTC, all of which have been sold, resulting in a net increase of 0 BTC. Its current Bitcoin holdings stand at 0 (excluding customer deposits).
According to SeeNews, Bulgaria's Postbank plans to add stock and cryptocurrency investment features to its mobile banking app. Postbank is part of Eurobank Bulgaria AD. This move indicates that traditional banks are integrating digital asset and securities investment services into retail banking channels. The report was published on October 16, 2026, but the page currently only displays the headline, without disclosing details such as launch dates, supported currencies, and partners.
Odaily reports: A Solana Foundation official stated that the U.S. GENIUS Act provides regulatory momentum for enterprises and financial institutions to enter the stablecoin space, and is also one of the important background factors behind Samsung's launch of stablecoin payment services. Samsung has announced that starting in the last week of October, it will support USDC cross-border transfers in Samsung Wallet, initially targeting eligible Galaxy users in the United States and covering approximately 82 million devices. Users can transfer USD stablecoins to compatible crypto wallets within seconds with no transfer fees, and can also send remittances to eligible bank accounts in more than 60 countries and regions. The service will use the Solana and Sui networks as its underlying infrastructure, with licensed stablecoin custodian Bastion providing transfer services and Coinbase Prime serving as sub-custodian responsible for safeguarding USDC assets.
Sui announced on X that Slush has integrated Halliday, allowing users to transfer tokens from 25 chains or deposit funds via bank cards, bank transfers, Apple Pay, and other methods. Users can receive SUI or USDC in Slush and click Buy to get started.
In a postmortem article published by Alex Shevchenko (@AlexAuroraDev), lead of NEAR Intents, a vulnerability was identified in the NEAR Intents contract's deposit notification mechanism when interacting with third-party contracts. The attacker deployed a contract that caused the notification call to fail, triggering the token contract to refund the deposits while the NEAR Intents contract retained the deposit records. Through 23 failed deposit transactions, the attacker generated approximately $3.8 million in "phantom funds," which were subsequently withdrawn to external chains via Omni infrastructure. This vulnerability resided in the NEAR Intents contract rather than in the Omni infrastructure. The timeline indicates the attack occurred between September 29 and October 1. The team detected withdrawal anomalies on October 1 and paused the contract within 29 minutes. Thanks to collaboration between the SHIELD security layer, on-chain tracking efforts, and industry security researchers, the attacker fully returned the funds on October 2, and all affected users have been compensated. The postmortem highlighted that existing monitoring only tracked discrepancies between aggregate token balances on the source chain versus NEAR, failing to monitor the mismatch between total user balances and contract token balances. This oversight allowed the attack to proceed undetected for several days. For remediation, the team has completely disabled the deposit notification functionality and implemented new monitoring for discrepancies between total user balances and contract balances. If this invariant is violated, the contract will automatically pause. On October 7, white hat research
According to a post by Fidelity Digital Assets (@DigitalAssets) on the X platform, for most of BTC's history, US real interest rates and BTC price action have moved largely independently, but the relationship between the two has now reached an unprecedented degree of alignment: the correlation between BTC's market cap and the 10-year US real Treasury yield has climbed to its highest level on record. The firm also noted that on Oct. 14, its tracked BTC momentum signal turned positive, with trend and volatility indicators simultaneously supporting the recent price strength, a combination that has historically typically been associated with more sustained rallies. Fidelity added that it will further analyze the drivers behind this shift and monitor whether capital flows can sustain the trend.
According to CryptoSlate, Microsoft and the cybersecurity organization Health-ISAC have obtained a U.S. court order to seize and redirect the domains supporting three services: YAM Store, CoGUI, and Iron Man. These three services sell stolen accounts and phishing tools to fraudsters. Since January this year, they have assisted in sending over 1 billion phishing messages, targeting more than 75,000 institutions across over 150 countries, generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue for operators. Microsoft has disabled more than 20,000 accounts associated with YAM Store and continues to block over 100,000 spoofing and fraudulent domains. According to Microsoft's investigation, these services accept payments in USDT (Tron network) and ETH, with Cloudflare noting that buyers can also pay using USDC. Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs assisted investigators in locating and freezing related assets, though the frozen amount was not disclosed.
As reported by Cointelegraph, a third-quarter report published by the stablecoin payment network Borderless.xyz indicates that the median cost of sending a $200 remittance via stablecoins is 1% (approximately $2), compared to 6.36% (approximately $12.72) for traditional remittances, representing a cost reduction of approximately 84%. This comparison uses Borderless's third-quarter 2026 pricing against World Bank data from the same period in 2025. Regionally, stablecoin remittance costs in sub-Saharan Africa stand at 2.9%, versus 8.46% for traditional methods; in Latin America, they are 1.25% and 5.64%, respectively. For corporate payments, a $10,000 transfer to the eurozone incurs a minimum fee of approximately $26 from the lowest-cost provider, while the median provider across all channels charges $52, and traditional bank wire fees range from $135 to $150. Regarding settlement speed, the median processing time on Brazil's PIX network is 2 minutes, Mexico's SPEI is 3 minutes, and Colombia's PSE is 2 minutes. Traditional SWIFT transfers typically require the next business day, with the slowest 10% taking up to 3 business days. However, success rates vary significantly across networks: Mexico's SPEI sits at 98.6%, Brazil's PIX at 97.8%, Colombia's PSE at 79%, and Costa Rica's SINPE is only 73%.
Odaily News: Payment technology company Marqeta will expand its partnership with Coinbase to provide enterprises with payment card services backed by customers' stablecoin assets. Coinbase will handle stablecoin custody and digital currency-to-fiat conversion, while Marqeta will manage card issuance and payment processing. Coinbase's Base blockchain will provide on-chain settlement infrastructure. The service targets Marqeta's enterprise clients, spanning both the crypto industry and traditional enterprises. Cardholders can spend stablecoins at millions of merchants worldwide that accept bank card payments, and businesses can fund their payment card programs around the clock. The two parties have not yet disclosed specific fees, an official launch date, or the initial stablecoin types supported.
Odaily News: Decentralized perpetual contract exchange Deepsigma has launched a real-time simulated trading platform covering 77 traditional financial markets, including U.S. stocks, stock indices, commodities, and U.S. Treasury yields. The platform is built on the Cypherium blockchain and is being advanced by a team of alumni from Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, Google, and Uber, supporting long and short exposure trading for the relevant assets.Deepsigma's perpetual contracts do not tokenize, custody, or physically deliver the underlying assets; instead, they track prices through external market data sources. The platform currently supports contracts on the S&P 500 Index, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite Index, Russell 2000 Index, Cboe Volatility Index, as well as crude oil, gold, silver, natural gas, and copper.The platform's risk engine employs multiple external price sources, mark prices, circuit breakers, partial liquidations, and an insurance fund, and uses a central limit order book and a clearing layer to handle margin, collateral, and settlement. Deepsigma is also developing a zero-knowledge proof-based decentralized identity framework and configuring off-chain AI analytics tools with unfunded execution permissions; the underlying Cypherium adopts a hybrid PoW and HotStuff Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus mechanism and holds 4 U.S. patents. (Bitcoin.com News)
Brian Armstrong posted on X that Coinbase's new matching engine has increased median order response speed by 60x and improved tail latency by 480x. Coinbase Advanced supports trading of cryptocurrencies, stocks, commodities, and forex.
Odaily News: LayerZero Labs, in collaboration with the a16z Crypto research team, Carnegie Mellon University, and Imperial College London, has released new research findings on Aerie, aimed at improving the aggregation efficiency of post-quantum cryptographic signatures.According to the introduction, Aerie is built upon the previously launched lattice-based polynomial commitment scheme Akita. On a MacBook Pro equipped with an Apple M4 Max chip, using 16 CPU cores without GPU acceleration, it can aggregate 32,768 Falcon-512 signatures in 0.65 seconds, with peak memory usage of approximately 2.1 GiB.LayerZero stated that compared to the previous Orthus scheme, Aerie achieves approximately 1.5x faster proof generation, 38x faster verification, and approximately 1.7x smaller proof size. Additionally, Aerie supports aggregation of ML-DSA signatures standardized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with specific performance data to be released later.This research aims to provide a technical pathway for blockchain to achieve low-latency, post-quantum secure consensus without requiring specialized hardware.
According to Digital Today, Toss Insight, the financial research institute under South Korean fintech platform Toss, released a report titled "DeFi · Tokenized Assets: The Bridge Between Traditional Finance and On-Chain Finance" on October 16. The report indicates that as of early September 2026, the tokenized assets market size was approximately $39.1 billion. Among these, credit products such as U.S. Treasuries, money market funds (MMFs), and corporate loans collectively accounted for about 61%. The report points out that the market is currently concentrated on products with stable yields and high suitability as collateral. While tokenization has lowered investment thresholds, investment eligibility may still be restricted due to product structures and regulations across different jurisdictions. For example, most currently tokenized U.S. equities utilize a cash settlement structure, meaning investors do not actually hold the underlying shares. Tokenized Treasuries and funds are also predominantly open only to accredited investors.
According to an official announcement from Unagi (@Unagi_studio) on the X platform, Unagi has entered court-ordered liquidation proceedings in France. Under the supervision of a court-appointed liquidator, all of the company's assets have now been put up for public sale, and interested buyers can register their intent via the official form provided. Unagi specializes in AI-driven Web3 entertainment, with its product lineup including Persona Journey, Ultimate Champions, and Records.
As reported by PR Newswire, fintech company Jack Henry (Nasdaq: JKHY) has announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud, with plans to provide tokenized deposit services for banks and credit unions through the Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL). Jack Henry will be the first core banking technology provider integrated into GCUL. GCUL is a fully managed distributed ledger service that enables financial institutions to tokenize and transfer funds and assets on a single real-time ledger, while also supporting programmable round-the-clock settlement. According to the announcement, this integration primarily targets community and regional financial institutions, with use cases including deposit retention, providing 24/7/365 instant payments and automated programmable workflows, and improving capital efficiency through automated clearing and multilateral netting without tying up liquidity or requiring upfront funding.
Reflection has released Beam, its first open-weight model, with weights now available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. Beam is a sparse MoE model with 501 billion total parameters and 23 billion active parameters, designed for coding, reasoning, and long-horizon agent tasks. It offers weights in BF16, FP8, and NVFP4 precisions, along with a speculative decoding drafter model. Building on prior coverage of the model's launch, this update provides additional details on the open-source license and available weight precisions.
Odaily reports: Cobo Wallet has announced that its App services will officially shut down on December 1, 2026. Users must transfer out all assets and update any Cobo Wallet receiving addresses previously set on other platforms before 23:59 on November 30, 2026. For assets not transferred out after the deadline, Cobo will charge a monthly management fee of 2% of the remaining account assets, with a minimum monthly charge equivalent to $100.
decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Lighter posted on X teasing that "options season" is coming, hinting at plans to launch options trading products. The official launch date and product details have not yet been disclosed.
Odaily News: French hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger received multiple reports of malicious implants months before its latest security crisis occurred. Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès stated that at least two people had contacted Ledger since December 2025 to report tampered devices, but no public warning was found to have been issued.Security researcher Joe Grand stated that on March 4, 2026, he reported a malicious implant to Ledger. The implant was found in a Nano X purchased through Lazada in Thailand in August 2025. Ledger confirmed the findings and said it would launch an internal investigation, but did not proactively alert customers.Mark Karpelès believes that the increase in the number of reports and the growing sophistication of the techniques used should prompt Ledger to take action and at least remind customers to remain cautious. Ledger declined to comment on how it handled Joe Grand's disclosure, only directing people to view its public statement on X.The Ledger security crisis became public on October 9, involving the loss of crypto assets from wallets sold by Southeast Asian authorized reseller CryptoBilis; Ledger confirmed that one affected device contained an unauthorized implant. Trezor had also previously received reports involving devices tampered with by unauthorized sellers. (Cointelegraph)
Weekly DeFi data released by DeFi infrastructure provider Sentora (@SentoraHQ) shows that total DeFi TVL decreased by $1.34 billion this week, falling to $122.25 billion. Stablecoin supply fell by $1.35 billion during the same period. Sentora noted that the nearly identical decline in both metrics indicates that funds may be exiting on-chain markets.