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Bitget PoolX will launch a new ETH staking campaign, allowing users who lock ETH to share in a 150,000 USDT airdrop. The event runs from 15:00 on October 15 to 15:00 on October 20 (UTC+8), with a maximum staking limit of 1,500 ETH per user. This round of PoolX supports a long-term holding bonus mechanism. The system will apply a 1x additional multiplier to the effective staked amount based on the user's lowest ETH balance held over the past 15 days.
Odaily News: On October 12, the Bank of Russia added Sberbank, the country's largest bank, to the register of institutions authorized to trade digital currencies, allowing it to buy and sell cryptocurrencies in its own name and with its own funds. Six days earlier, Sberbank had been included in the list of digital custody institutions.Sberbank plans to launch its first cryptocurrency products on SberBank Online, SberInvestments, and SberBusiness starting December 1, initially supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT issued by Tether. The exact launch timing depends on decisions by the Bank of Russia and the readiness of accompanying regulations.Under relevant laws, retail investors may trade no more than 300,000 rubles per year through a single intermediary and must pass a knowledge test; using cryptocurrencies to pay for goods within Russia remains illegal. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Ondo Finance has announced that its platform's total value locked (TVL) has surpassed $4 billion, marking a new milestone. Among this, tokenized stocks and ETF assets exceed $1.3 billion, with cumulative holders across its various products surpassing 1 million. Ondo claims it is currently the largest tokenized U.S. Treasury platform.Ondo stated that the platform is expanding from tokenized U.S. Treasuries into asset classes such as stocks, ETFs, portfolios, and private markets. Its Ondo Stocks connects to traditional financial exchange liquidity through a request-for-quote (RFQ) mechanism, and with the support of its wallet and app, enables permissionless transfers of related tokenized assets across Solana, Ethereum, and BNB Chain.
According to CoinDesk, Nasdaq-listed fintech firm Perpetuals.com (PDC) has formally submitted notice to operate a tokenized U.S. stock trading venue under the SEC’s five-year "innovation exemption" framework. The exemption permits specific markets to trade U.S. equities on public blockchains without registering as traditional securities exchanges, provided that the tokens carry identical shareholder rights to common stock, including dividend and voting rights. Perpetuals.com is the second company to apply for this exemption, following OKX and OKXICE, a joint venture between OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. Its U.S. market will be managed by Delaware-based subsidiary Kephas Corporation, facilitating trades through AMM liquidity pools on the Ethereum-compatible layer-2 network Kronos X Public, with the initial trading pair consisting of U.S. stock tokens and USDC. CEO Patrick Gruhn previously oversaw operations at FTX Europe and contributed to the development of early stock token products at both Binance and FTX. A full launch is anticipated as early as mid-November.
stablecoin payment platform Rain has launched an embedded stablecoin wallet that partners can integrate into their own applications, with services including bank cards, virtual accounts, rewards, fiat on-ramps and off-ramps, and global payouts. The wallet supports 12 blockchains: Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BNB Chain, Celo, Ethereum, Monad, Plasma, Optimism, Polygon, Solana, and ZKsync. It can hold stablecoins such as USDC and USDT as well as other crypto assets, and can be used for spending at 175 million merchant locations worldwide through bank cards issued by Rain. The non-custodial wallet is now available to Rain partners, while the custodial wallet and stablecoin balance yield features are expected to launch by the end of 2026.
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)
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.
Nick Johnson, founder of the Ethereum Name Service protocol ENS, has submitted an executable draft proposal requesting that the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) approve the activation of ENSv2 on the Ethereum mainnet. Once the upgrade is approved, the original ENS registrar will pause new domain registrations, while existing domain holders will still be able to renew.ENSv2 will introduce a more flexible domain management and permissions architecture. After domain record synchronization is complete, new .eth registrations will migrate to the upgraded system, and new registrations on both systems may be paused for several hours during the transition; existing holders will not need to migrate, and their domains will remain fully functional. ENS Labs plans to transfer the remaining administrative permissions of the upgraded contracts to the DAO.The proposal is currently still in draft stage and needs to enter the on-chain DAO voting process. According to governance rules, an executable proposal must secure at least 1 million ENS tokens participating and a majority of support within a 7-day voting period. After approval, it must also undergo a timelock of at least two days. The voting date has not yet been announced. (Cointelegraph)
According to Wintermute's weekly market update, Federal Reserve meeting minutes showed most officials expected another rate hike by year-end, with rate cuts unmentioned, while the US 10-year Treasury yield reached multi-decade highs. Consequently, BTC fell 3.2% this week to around the $83,000 level, ETH dropped 7.0%, and the S&P 500 index rose 1.2% to an all-time high. US spot BTC ETFs recorded weekly net outflows of approximately $679 million, marking the largest single-week outflow since June; ETH ETFs saw outflows of $542 million. CoinGlass data indicates roughly $1.19 billion in liquidations within 24 hours near Thursday's low, with long positions accounting for $1.06 billion. ETH faced additional pressure from news that researchers associated with the Ethereum Foundation advised users to migrate to new addresses. BTC's market share rose to approximately 59.5%, representing the most prominent internal signal of the week. Wintermute noted that amid the Fed's inclination toward rate hikes, yields are unlikely to retreat in the short term. Renewed optimism for crypto markets requires simultaneously meeting two conditions: "stabilization of long-end rates" and "spot ETFs resuming net inflows." It advised closely monitoring Wednesday's September CPI data and earnings reports from financial institutions and AI-related companies this week.
PaperTrade posted on X stating that trading volume in the first 6 hours after launch exceeded stock market trading volume; one day after launch, PaperTrade has become a trading platform supporting 1000x leverage, with liquidity pool (LP) size reaching $5 million and $25 million in rewards distributed to staking users.In response to community concerns about the fair launch mechanism and BTC/ETH market manipulation, PaperTrade stated that due to the need to prevent frontend congestion and spam request attacks, small orders cannot enjoy exactly the same priority as large orders, and the team has maximized fairness within these constraints. Some users exploiting the Hyperliquid BBO mechanism to manipulate BTC/ETH was not an oversight in mechanism design, but rather resulted from opening a higher OI cap during the initial launch period to alleviate queuing pressure. As traffic has declined, the team has begun tightening position limits at both the on-chain and relay levels to reduce the profit space for manipulation.PaperTrade added that no system can completely eliminate manipulation, and the goal is to make attacks nearly unprofitable through parameter adjustments, noting that in the relevant incidents, some users ultimately returned most of their profits to the platform due to persistent manipulation attempts.
Odaily reports: Zcash full-node development team Zakura has stated that the network is expected to introduce a quantum-resistant signature opcode in January, enabling hash-based signatures for transparent payments. Zcash's transparent payments publicly display transaction information, while shielded payments hide the sender, receiver, and amount.The proposal combines address rotation with private information retrieval, allowing wallets to switch to a new address after each transaction and reduce public key exposure risk through WOTS hash-based fallback signatures. The Vizor wallet launched its private query feature this week, allowing users to enable it for testing in the settings.Zakura's proposal currently only covers Zcash transparent payments, and the network has not yet confirmed the activation time for the opcode. Ethereum researcher Justin Drake has warned that AI-driven mathematical breakthroughs could crack the relevant signatures in months rather than years; Vitalik Buterin believes it is possible that cryptographic technology could be broken within the next two years. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Less than 10 minutes after Papertrade went live, its notional trading volume has reached $14.4 billion, with Bitcoin and Ethereum contract open interest at $3 billion and $2.66 billion, respectively. According to the project's mechanism, for every $1 lost by platform users, the protocol will mint a certain amount of PAPER along a curve; when the LP balance is below $2 million, every $1 lost corresponds to 100 PAPER minted, and once the LP balance exceeds $2 million, the minting rate will decrease as the balance increases.
Unichain announced on X that it will migrate to OP Enterprise to prepare for native cross-chain interoperability on OP Stack. Once interoperability goes live, users will be able to transfer assets between OP Stack chains without using a bridge, with ETH being the first supported asset. The testnet will migrate on October 13, and the mainnet migration is planned for late October.
Odaily News: Starknet, the Ethereum scaling network built by StarkWare, has stated that it is actively considering transitioning into an independent Layer 1 (L1) network and has set 2027 as its target for becoming the first fully quantum-resistant network. STRK was trading at approximately $0.073 on Friday, up about 20% in 24 hours and more than double its price of around $0.03 in April.StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson said that after becoming an L1, Starknet would be able to control security upgrades on its own without waiting for Ethereum to advance related work. As a Layer 2 (L2) network, Starknet currently relies on Ethereum for security; after transitioning to an L1, it will validate and secure transactions itself.Eli Ben-Sasson pointed out that quantum computers may in the future break the elliptic curve cryptography used by Bitcoin and Ethereum, and that AI's development in mathematics also poses another risk. Ethereum's roadmap is expected to complete core quantum-resistant infrastructure around 2029, while Starknet plans to move that up to 2027; currently, no quantum computer is capable of breaking these systems. (Decrypt)
Starknet has published an introduction to its Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) scheme, stating that StarkWare researchers have verified a quantum-safe locking mechanism on the Bitcoin mainnet that requires no soft fork, no new opcodes, and no changes to consensus rules. The first QSB output was spent on August 26, 2026, in Bitcoin mainnet block 964,199, with the associated GPU computation cost reduced from approximately $320 to about $50. QSB builds its locking mechanism through hash computation, but each transaction still requires substantial computation, and moving assets into the scheme still requires a traditional transaction that carries quantum risk. The transaction does not comply with Bitcoin Core's default relay rules, and there is currently no accompanying wallet, address format, or recovery process. StarkWare stated that QSB is an emergency research solution, and that the long-term solution still requires the introduction of post-quantum signature mechanisms via a soft fork. Starknet's full quantum resistance also depends on the progress of Ethereum's underlying upgrades.
According to The Block, Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued regulatory framework rules for cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which are set to officially take effect on October 16. In the initial phase, the underlying assets of the relevant funds will be limited to Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).
Ethereum contributor Francesco Risitano (@frisitano) submitted the EIP-8440 (Execution Chain Proof) draft proposal on October 9. The proposal leverages a recursive zero-knowledge proof mechanism to prove the validity of all execution payloads from the tip beacon block back to the genesis beacon block, binding them to the beacon chain. Nodes can establish complete execution validity from a weak subjectivity checkpoint to the latest block header using a single proof, enabling constant-time chain synchronization.
Citrini Research released a report stating that the tokenization of traditional assets will give rise to entirely new business models, with fee-generating protocols potentially becoming bigger winners than mainstream public chain tokens.
Odaily News: As the crypto industry discusses whether users need to enter "bunker mode" before AI or quantum computing technologies expose wallet private keys, custody institutions face a more complex challenge: how to upgrade key management, approval, and audit systems before an emergency migration occurs.Project Eleven CEO Alex Pruden stated that institutions have already begun preparing for post-quantum migration outside of blockchain, and different blockchains may adopt different quantum-resistant signature schemes and migration paths in the future. Institutions holding multiple types of assets will face the challenge of simultaneously adapting to multiple cryptographic systems.Quantus co-founder and CEO Christopher Smith stated that AI is accelerating the development of quantum hardware and software, and the tail risk of quantum attacks should be incorporated into portfolio decisions — this is an institutional fiduciary duty.Currently, the timeline for quantum computers to crack Bitcoin and Ethereum's existing public-key cryptographic systems remains uncertain, but the industry is gradually viewing the coming years as a window for establishing migration plans, rather than waiting for an attack to occur before responding reactively. (CoinDesk)
Proposal 39 of Ethereum Layer 2 network Taiko has passed the community veto window and completed execution on both Ethereum L1 and Taiko L2. Following the upgrade, the ERC20Vault of the Taiko bridge now supports Permit and Permit2, allowing users to bridge tokens without initiating a separate Approve transaction; the Ether gas payment limit of the Taiko bridge has also been raised, and a new BridgedERC20V2 template has been deployed on both L1 and L2. Taiko stated that the related features have completed end-to-end testing, covering ETH, ERC20, ERC721, and ERC1155 assets as well as bidirectional bridging scenarios.