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According to an official announcement, Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) and Citadel Securities have completed a tri-party repo process using tokenized U.S. Treasuries, marking the first use of tokenized assets on a major tri-party platform. In the transaction, a two-year U.S. Treasury bond purchased by Citadel Securities was recorded as a tokenized security on BNY’s private distributed ledger and settled within minutes, breaking the traditional T+1 settlement cycle. Subsequently, the tokenized Treasury was used as collateral for an overnight tri-party repo, with BNY providing the corresponding funding. BNY stated that it plans to launch digital cash and tokenized deposit features in the future to support institutional clients in conducting on-chain settlement and financing activities, and intends to extend operating hours for its traditional settlement platforms.
According to TechCrunch, Google announced a new feature that allows users to directly run private personal applications on Android smartphones using a standard Google account, without prior public release to the Google Play Store. These apps will not appear in Google Play’s search or browse results and are restricted to exclusive use by their creators.
Odaily reports: Robinhood has announced that its social trading network is now open to all eligible U.S. users. CEO Vlad Tenev said on October 13 that the feature is an in-app feed built around users' trades and performance, allowing users to follow other traders, view shared account activity, and initiate eligible trades directly from posts via the Quick trade function. Tenev said Robinhood Social is now live for everyone, enabling users to share charts, profit and loss, and portfolio allocations, as well as receive news and company updates.The feature began testing in March of this year. Users can choose to make their trading records public, and the platform will not automatically disclose all trades. Currently, the service is only available to eligible U.S. customers and does not yet support sharing futures and multi-leg options trades. Tenev said Robinhood Social will also launch on desktop trading platform Robinhood Legend in the coming weeks. (The Defiant)
Odaily News: Singapore Gulf Bank has adopted BNY's 24/7 USD ledger transfer service, allowing eligible corporate and retail clients to settle qualifying USD payments on weekends and U.S. public holidays.The service supports account funding, corporate payables, and time-sensitive cross-border cash management transactions, with USD able to be settled at any time between eligible accounts held directly at BNY or through correspondent banks connected to the network. Singapore Gulf Bank stated that it is among the first financial institutions globally to adopt the system.Bana Akkad Azhari, BNY's Head of Global Payments and Trade for EMEA, said that round-the-clock USD settlement can enhance institutions' flexibility in liquidity management and meeting urgent financial obligations. The service is only available to eligible institutions and accounts and does not replicate permissionless blockchain settlement models. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Avalanche stated on October 13 that the Korea Securities Depository (KSD) is building Avalanche-based infrastructure connectivity for South Korea's security token market. KSD's technical guidance lists Avalanche alongside Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Fabric as one of multiple ledger technologies planned for support, rather than the sole choice. The project has moved from the testbed stage to the production platform construction phase, with Samsung SDS winning the contract to build it. It is scheduled for completion in February 2027, at which point it will support real transactions and on-chain settlement.
Odaily reports: Boston Fed President Collins said interest rates may need to be raised further before the end of this year to curb inflation. Regarding whether further rate hikes are needed and the timing of such hikes, she said the judgment will depend on upcoming economic data. Collins expects the U.S. economy to continue growing and the labor market to remain near full employment. She said: "In this scenario, as continued efficiency gains support the balance between demand and supply and help cool inflation, inflation will gradually fall back to 2%." But she warned that two other scenarios are almost equally likely. AI demand could drive an investment boom larger than expected, further boosting household spending, overheating the labor market, and keeping inflation persistently above the Fed's target. In addition, price pressures from tariffs and energy prices, especially if the Iran war continues, could prolong inflation challenges. Collins said: "It is important to observe whether high inflation remains mainly confined to energy and AI infrastructure-related sectors while price growth continues to slow in other areas, or whether signs of broadening price pressures are emerging." (Jinshi)
Odaily News: Global automated brokerage Interactive Brokers (IBKR) has announced the launch of a crypto staking service powered by crypto infrastructure company Zerohash. Initially, eligible clients can directly stake or unstake ETH through the Client Portal. Interactive Brokers manages $964.7 billion in client assets and has previously offered trading services for Bitcoin, ETH, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash.Staking rewards earned by clients will be automatically added to their staked positions, allowing them to earn additional rewards. Interactive Brokers CEO Milan Galik stated that staking provides clients with the opportunity to earn rewards on the crypto assets they hold. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Starknet has announced the launch of shadow accounts, allowing users to participate in public DeFi activities through independent addresses under their own control, while keeping the connection between that address and their primary wallet confidential. Shadow accounts are independent pseudonymous addresses on Starknet, funded from users' protected STRK20 balances, with the first integration set to go live tomorrow. The balances, transaction records, and positions across various applications of shadow accounts will still be publicly visible on-chain, but STRK20 is able to protect information about their association with users' primary wallets.
Odaily News: Ripple has partnered with Privy, a wallet infrastructure company under Stripe, to bring XRP Ledger (XRPL) support to the Privy developer platform. Following the integration, developers will be able to integrate XRPL wallets into their applications without having to build wallet infrastructure themselves, enabling wallet creation and management, transaction signing, and more, with support for XRP, Ripple-issued RLUSD stablecoin, and other assets on the network.
Odaily News: MNX, a cryptocurrency exchange built on MegaETH by Manifold Markets, has listed futures contracts that allow investors to trade on the valuations of private AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and Moonshot.These contracts expire at the end of 2027 and do not charge periodic funding fees, but settlement prices may differ from the prices investors pay when purchasing shares in private companies.MNX allows traders to use up to 3x leverage on their available funds, currently does not serve U.S. customers, and plans to expand into markets related to the broader AI economy. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News: Solana research and development company Anza has announced that Alpenglow will go live on Solana mainnet-beta on October 21 at approximately 22:50 (UTC+8), with the migration completed within a single slot. The upgrade, which took 18 months of development, will replace the TowerBFT consensus protocol that Solana has used since the public network's launch, reducing block finality time from several seconds to about 150 milliseconds. Alpenglow combines the latest consensus research with erasure-coded data dissemination technology and is designed for use cases such as high-frequency trading, institutional financial services, Web3 applications, and the AI agent economy.
SpaceXSI (SpaceX Super Intelligence) has launched a unified subscription named The X Subscription, bundling three services: X Premium, Grok, and Cursor. The news was reported by TechCrunch's AI channel. Details such as subscription pricing, launch timing, and specific service tiers were not disclosed.
In an official blog post, Coinbase shares technical considerations regarding its transition strategy for Bitcoin to address quantum computing threats. The article points out that quantum computers pose a potential threat to Bitcoin's existing cryptographic system, and migration efforts require years of advance planning. As one of the world's largest cryptocurrency custody institutions, Coinbase holds approximately 5% of the global BTC supply and has already joined the Bitcoin Security Alliance while investing in open-source research support. Key recommendations include adopting flexible output architectures such as P2MR (BIP-360) or P2TRv2 to support the introduction and replacement of post-quantum signature schemes; implementing a 1-of-2 hybrid transition construct that allows funds to retain both classical and post-quantum signature paths simultaneously; prioritizing stateless signature schemes to mitigate state management risks; and requiring candidate schemes to be compatible with Multi-Party Computation (MPC) to meet institutional-grade custody requirements. Coinbase emphasizes that the handling of legacy funds can be discussed in parallel with technical upgrade work and should not hinder the advancement of post-quantum signature support.
Nature Will has released its first foundational model for the physical world, Natura-1. The model was trained on one million hours of first-person videos showing humans handling various scenes and objects, enabling it to process unseen objects and tasks. Natura-1 supports fine-grained instructions specifying an object's final position and orientation, maintains control when grasping methods change mid-action, executes different tasks with both hands, and tracks objects that have been moved or opened throughout long-horizon tasks to determine the next steps. This announcement supplements earlier breaking news regarding Nature Will's release of the 50-billion parameter MoE model Natura-1, focusing on its physical-world capabilities.
Odaily News: According to monitoring by Bitcoin News, well-known hardware security researcher and computer engineer Joe Grand (social media account @joegrand, also known as "Kingpin") stated that in August 2025, a man in Thailand contacted him, claiming to have discovered a compromised Ledger Nano X. The man had previously purchased a cheap Ledger device online to replace the battery in his existing device. After taking the device apart, he found that it contained a smaller battery, unauthorized circuitry, extra wiring, and an antenna. After the man posted his findings on Reddit, he reportedly did not receive much attention from local police, and subsequently contacted Grand to launch an investigation. This discovery came more than a year before the Ledger supply chain attack sparked major public controversy this week; according to reports, nearly $100 million in cryptocurrency was stolen this week.
According to a Business Wire report, Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR) officially launched its cryptocurrency staking service on October 13, 2026. Eligible customers can submit Ethereum staking or unstaking requests through the staking dashboard in the IBKR client, with rewards credited as additional staked cryptocurrency and accumulating with compound interest. The staking service is powered by Zero Hash. This launch marks a significant step in IBKR's continued expansion of its cryptocurrency offerings. The platform currently supports trading in 20 digital assets, offers crypto trading commissions as low as 0.12% of the transaction amount, and supports stablecoin funding operations such as USDC, RLUSD, and PYUSD. Customers can manage both crypto assets and traditional financial products like stocks, options, and futures on a single platform.
据 The Block 报道，Tether 以未披露金额参投拉美稳定币基础设施初创公司 EFY Finance 种子轮融资。EFY Finance 为 USDT 和 USAT 提供出入金基础设施，并支持跨境支付、账户及托管服务，目前已覆盖 17 个国家的本地银行账户结算，拥有超 25,000 个活跃个人及企业账户。
Xie Jiayin posted on X that Bitget has listed 5 Japanese stock perpetual contract trading pairs, including Toyota Motor, Sony Group, Murata Manufacturing, Taiyo Yuden, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
Aptos announced that the initial token unlock schedule for core contributors and investors was officially completed on October 12, 2026. The four-year plan fully aligned with the schedule published at mainnet launch. Consequently, all tokens allocated to core contributors and investors during the initial distribution have been completely released, leaving no remaining tokens subject to unlocking.
Odaily News: Kostas Chalkias, Chief Cryptographer at Mysten Labs, the core development company behind Sui, announced that the Sui Devnet has completed testing of native quantum-resistant signature transactions. The latest version now supports ML-DSA-65 post-quantum signature verification, which will be used for transaction authorization of regular accounts in the future. Additionally, there are plans to introduce SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s signatures through Move smart contracts to provide protection for high-value asset vaults.Existing accounts will be able to derive quantum-resistant keys from their original mnemonics and update authorization keys through the address alias feature without needing to transfer assets. Sui plans to deploy quantum-resistant vaults to mainnet by the end of 2026 and introduce native ML-DSA-65 accounts to testnet, with the goal of achieving native account authentication on mainnet in Q1 2027. The specific timeline depends on security audits and testing results.