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Odaily Report: In the final weeks before the November 3 US midterm elections, crypto industry-related political action committees (PACs) have further ramped up their political spending, with an overall lean toward supporting Republican candidates. The three major crypto industry PACs have spent nearly $170 million combined, with Fairshake and its affiliated organizations spending $154 million and retaining $56 million for the next election cycle.Additionally, the Digital Freedom Fund, primarily backed by the Winklevoss brothers, spent over $8 million this month, focusing on preventing Democratic candidates from winning Senate seats in Ohio, Texas, and Iowa. The Fellowship Fund, which has close ties to Tether, previously spent $3.8 million supporting Republican candidates and subsequently spent $600,000 supporting Democratic candidates, including $300,000 in support of New York Congressman Ritchie Torres.Although the PACs in question all lean toward supporting Republicans, the industry still positions its political spending as bipartisan, aimed at supporting crypto-friendly candidates. Fairshake's major funding supporters include Coinbase, a16z, and Ripple Labs. The crypto industry's nearly $170 million in political spending this cycle has made it one of the most politically active industries in the current US congressional elections. (CoinDesk——
Bitwise's Q4 staking report shows that Ethereum staking reached 43.8 million ETH, accounting for 35.9% of total supply and hitting an all-time high; net staking inflows in Q3 were 1.99 million ETH, marking six consecutive quarters of net inflows. Solana's active staking increased to 440.5 million SOL. In Q3, Ethereum's average annualized staking yield fell from 2.81% in Q2 to 2.63%, with 96.3% coming from ETH issuance; Solana's gross staking yield dropped from 6.38% to about 6%, with nearly 90% coming from token issuance. The above yields are not net of service provider fees and are not equivalent to the actual yields received by customers.Coinbase stated that staking ETFs and digital asset treasuries are broadening participation channels. Kean Gilbert, head of institutional relations at the Lido Ecosystem Foundation, said that after custodians support staking, institutions can participate through existing custody relationships, and the focus of discussions has shifted to implementation issues such as validator decentralization, code audits, and the proportion of fund staking. Since ETH unstaking may take several weeks, while funds typically need to meet redemptions within one to two days, liquidity remains a constraint for institutions. Gilbert estimates that the average staking ratio for related products in Europe is only 50% to 60%; liquid staking tokens can provide an alternative exit channel, but actual sales depend on market liquidity and price. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, Walmart, Eli Lilly, Carnival, Arcos Dorados, and Cigna have joined the opposition to the tokenized stock trading plan by OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). According to a public notice updated on October 28, 38 of the 62 companies originally slated to list have raised objections, representing over 61%.
According to CoinDesk, the Bermuda government has selected WalletConnect to expand local crypto payment applications, with the ticketing platform PTIX set as the first merchant to integrate, and the related payment functionality is expected to launch in the second quarter of 2027.
The Federal Reserve is about to announce its interest rate decision, after which Fed Chair Kevin Warsh will hold a press conference. Markets expect the Fed to keep the benchmark rate unchanged in the 3.75%–4% range, with investors focused on three key signals: first, whether three or more voting members dissent from holding rates steady and advocate for a hike; second, how Warsh assesses the recent easing of financial conditions and the pullback in U.S. Treasury yields; third, what he says about two consecutive months of above-expectation inflation data, oil prices near $100, and record-high U.S. diesel prices.If more officials signal a hawkish tilt, or if Warsh views looser financial conditions as exacerbating inflationary pressure, market expectations for future rate hikes could intensify, potentially lending support to the dollar index while weighing on risk assets such as Bitcoin. Ahead of the decision, Bitcoin stood at $81,411, up more than 2% over 24 hours; Ethereum, SOL, and XRP also posted gains of over 2% over the same period. (CoinDesk)
XRP Ledger developers are testing a new feature that would allow the creation of blockchain accounts with a zero initial balance, with existing accounts covering the reserve requirement for new accounts, in order to lower the funding barrier for payment applications and automated software to create wallets at scale.The proposal was submitted on October 15 as the SponsoredAccountCreate transaction proposal. Under current XRP Ledger rules, each account must hold at least 1 XRP as a reserve, meaning that creating 100,000 separate accounts would require locking up 100,000 XRP. The new proposal would have a sponsoring account cover this reserve requirement, and a broader fee-sponsorship mechanism in the future could also allow applications to pay transaction fees on behalf of users, though the network's overall reserve requirement would not be eliminated as a result.The feature is expected to lower the barrier to use for scenarios such as embedded wallets, RLUSD stablecoin payments, and automated payments by AI agents. However, the relevant code is still under review, and the sponsorship mechanism it relies on has not yet launched on mainnet. As of October 19, the mechanism had received only 11 of the 35 required validator votes, still short of the 29 votes needed for approval. (CoinDesk)
Odaily reports: Bitcoin rose about 0.8% since midnight (UTC) on Monday to $81,400, after briefly falling below $80,000. Ethereum gained 0.9%, Asian chip stocks led a tech rebound, South Korea's KOSPI rose 6.6%, SK Hynix climbed about 11% on roughly 7x year-over-year profit growth, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.5%.The Federal Reserve is about to announce its rate decision, and the CME FedWatch tool shows the market sees about a 92% probability of rates being held steady. Traders will focus on Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's press conference to gauge whether there is any possibility of a rate hike ahead. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of $176 million on Tuesday, marking a second consecutive trading day of inflows.On the derivatives side, crypto futures trading volume rose 7.5% over the past 24 hours to $163.2 billion, open interest increased only 1.3%, and liquidations rose 38% to $183.6 million. Bitcoin rose 2.3% while open interest actually fell 0.1%; Ethereum rose 2.7% with open interest up 1.7%, indicating the price rebound has not yet been accompanied by large-scale new leverage. ZEC open interest grew 14%, higher than its 6.3% price gain over the same period, making it one of the large crypto assets with the most obvious new position building.In the options market, Deribit data shows that Bitcoin's one-week put/call skew has dropped from nearly 10% a week ago to less than 1%, indicating that demand for short-term downside protection has weakened somewhat, though the one-month, three-month and six-month tenors remain clearly skewed toward puts. Meanwhile, gold futures open interest fell 10%, while open interest for Tether's gold token XAUT rose 11.6%, showing divergent capital flows. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, Google will launch the Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC) security service at the inaugural digital assets conference in New York on Wednesday to help financial institutions such as banks safeguard and transfer cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets.
According to CoinDesk, Securitize (SECZ) announced on October 28 that it is adding Stellar to its supported blockchain list, following prior support for Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche. The agreement was unveiled at the Stellar Development Foundation's annual conference, Meridian 2026, in Lisbon, Portugal. In a statement, Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo noted that the Stellar network has established the fourth-largest ecosystem for tokenized real-world assets. Founded in 2017, Stellar listed on the New York Stock Exchange in July of this year.
Odaily reports: CF Benchmarks, the index provider under Kraken's parent company Payward, has launched CFB Oracle, bringing pricing benchmarks for BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF and CME Group cryptocurrency futures into blockchain applications. The service provides benchmark data across cryptocurrency, equities, bonds, commodities, and forex markets, enabling developers to build products such as on-chain index funds, tokenized portfolios, and derivatives.CF Benchmarks states that its indices currently serve products representing over $120 billion in assets. CFB Oracle now supports Ethereum, HyperEVM, and Robinhood Chain, with plans to expand to other compatible networks in the future. Payward also plans to use the service to provide pricing data for its upcoming U.S. perpetual contract product, which is still awaiting regulatory approval. The service will compete with oracle providers such as Chainlink and Pyth. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, Ethereum developers have fixed a bug in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade that could cause ETH deposited by staking services for new validators to be incorrectly credited to block builder accounts, giving operators the opportunity to withdraw the associated funds. The fix was merged into the Ethereum consensus specification on October 26, having previously been rejected on October 19 due to insufficient support from client teams.
Odaily reports: Bitcoin Core developers have merged a security policy adjustment. For vulnerabilities that can be easily discovered or rediscovered through simple large language model (LLM) prompts, the previous long-term confidential disclosure mechanism will no longer be used. The new rules allow developers to mark such issues as "easy to find" during vulnerability classification, then backport fixes to all still-supported versions and release them as soon as possible through minor version updates, along with a security advisory and some vulnerability details.Previously, Bitcoin Core scheduled disclosure based on vulnerability severity, with medium- and high-risk vulnerabilities usually only made public after the affected versions stopped being maintained. This adjustment stems from AI tools lowering the threshold for vulnerability discovery: in July this year, a Bitcoin Red Team composed of 16 developers used AI models to scan about 390 Bitcoin-related projects and recorded 4,962 findings in one day, of which 85 were listed as critical issues. Developers noted that continuing to extend the confidentiality period for such vulnerabilities can no longer effectively prevent attacks and instead delays the release of fixed versions; however, the new rules also mean that fixes may lack longer testing time. Currently, no vulnerability has been officially marked as falling into the "easy to find" category under the new rules. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, Ethereum researchers have proposed an upgrade draft that aims to shorten the transaction finality time from the current approximately 16 minutes to about 4 minutes, reducing the capital lock-up costs for cross-chain transfer services. Submitted by Fast Finality Research Coordinator Ben Edgington and others, the proposal remains in the draft stage with no specific implementation timeline yet.
According to CoinDesk, the XRP Ledger’s validator support temporarily fell to 26/35, re-triggering the two-week countdown for its vulnerability fix and delaying patch activation to November. Validator support has since rebounded to 31, but due to the reset mechanism, the fix has missed its originally scheduled final activation window.
Odaily — Gate has released its "Q3 2026 Report," showing continued growth in its trading business and a significant expansion of its multi-asset trading product matrix in Q3 2026. According to CoinDesk data, Gate's derivatives trading volume reached $396 billion in September, up 38.2% quarter-over-quarter, ranking among the global top three centralized derivatives exchanges with market share rising to 10.1%. Over the same period, spot trading volume reached $48.8 billion, up 21.9% quarter-over-quarter, while its RWA perpetual contract market share reached 9.1%, ranking third globally.On the TradFi side, Gate's stock and ETF coverage increased to over 12,800 instruments, spanning U.S., Hong Kong, Korean, and Japanese equities, providing users with a rich selection of global asset allocation options. Its tokenized stock business gStocks continued to expand its tradable instruments, with monthly trading volume exceeding 2.5 billion USDT in August, and its comprehensive competitiveness in stock spot trading ranking among the global top two. Gate ETF quarterly trading volume approached 60 billion USDT, with ETF trading pairs supported by the platform increasing to 424; options quarterly trading volume grew 23.8% quarter-over-quarter, and the number of new trading users rose 52.1%, as U.S. stock options continue to broaden traditional financial asset trading scenarios. The launch of stock copy trading further connects stock and ETF trading across multiple markets, enriching the ways users can participate in global financial markets.From crypto asset trading to global stocks, ETFs, CFDs, and multi-asset derivatives, Gate continues to broaden its product coverage and trading scenarios, driving the accelerated integration of digital assets and traditional financial markets while refining its one-stop multi-asset trading service system.
As reported by CoinDesk, the teams behind the MyDoge wallet, DogeOS app network, and merchant payment tool Such App will jointly establish Dogecoin Labs, aiming to expand everyday use cases for DOGE. Dogecoin Labs will partner with the Dogecoin Foundation and oversee operations for MyDoge, DogeOS, and Such App, with MyDoge and DogeOS founder Jordan Jefferson appointed as CEO.
According to CoinDesk, Zcash developers have reached an agreement on the NU7 upgrade, which is scheduled to activate at block height 3,543,405 (expected around November 5). The upgrade will reduce the block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, tripling transaction confirmation speeds. At the same time, 60% of the fees collected per block will leave circulation, with plans to return them to miners beginning in February 2031, while the existing block reward halving schedule remains in effect.
According to CoinDesk, Ripple’s brokerage Ripple Prime (formerly Hidden Road) has enabled institutional clients to trade swap contracts linked to over 100 stocks, commodities, and money markets around the clock, with the option to use its US dollar-backed stablecoin RLUSD as collateral. These swap contracts track the perpetual contracts listed on the Trade.xyz platform on Hyperliquid, are currently provided under Ripple Prime’s British Virgin Islands license, with plans to expand into additional jurisdictions in the future, while trading firm Virtu has already joined as an early client. In a client report, Daragh Maher, Head of Digital Assets Research at HSBC, characterized the offering as a “gradual rather than revolutionary” upgrade, noting that its current market size remains modest compared to traditional finance, with initial activity likely concentrated among market makers, proprietary trading firms, and hedge funds executing basis trades.
Odaily reports: Solana will launch its major network upgrade Alpenglow on Wednesday, one of its largest network architecture upgrades since 2020. The upgrade will replace the existing system with a new validator voting mechanism, using off-chain voting and certificate mechanisms to shorten the target transaction finality time to approximately 150 milliseconds—roughly a 40x improvement over the current ~6 seconds.Alpenglow will also eliminate per-vote on-chain voting fees for validators, replacing them with a fixed admission fee of 0.8 SOL per Epoch, which is expected to reduce related costs by approximately 60%. The upgrade previously underwent multiple testnet restarts and was once rolled back due to a migration failure; after a subsequent successful migration, it paved the way for the official launch. The switch is scheduled to begin at Epoch 1064 and will be completed after a transition of 5,000 slots. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, seven companies including Microsoft, Alphabet, and Goldman Sachs have objected to trading tokenized versions of their stocks on the OKXICE platform, planned by OKX and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), bringing the number of publicly disclosed opposing issuers to 16. The newly added opponents also include Qualcomm, Caterpillar, McDonald’s, and Western Digital. The initial OKXICE announcement covered 63 stock tickers corresponding to 62 companies, 15 of which have already raised objections. Additionally, Cerebras Systems was not on the original proposed listing roster but has also raised an objection.