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According to a post by the Newton Foundation (@NewtonFndn), the attacker involved in the recent Binance breach appears to have made an operational error, directly transferring approximately 8 million NEWT tokens, along with 17 other tokens (ANIME, ANKR, ARPA, BARD, CELR, DENT, DOLO, FTT, GLM, HIGH, HOT, KNC, LQTY, RARE, RESOLV, SIGN, WOO) to the NEWT token contract address (0xd0ec028a3d21533fdd200838f39c85b03679285d). Valued at current prices, the total amounts to approximately $3.5 million. The foundation stated that the NEWT token contract itself was not compromised. Featuring an immutable design with no owner or administrator, all management rights were relinquished on-chain in 2025, and upgrade functionality has been permanently disabled. As a result, no one, including the foundation, can retrieve these tokens.
According to Odaily, the Newton Foundation stated that the attacker in the Binance hacking incident appears to have made an operational error today by transferring approximately 8 million NEWT and 17 other tokens directly to the NEWT token contract address. The total value of the involved assets is approximately $3.5 million at current prices.The Newton Foundation stated that the NEWT token contract itself was not compromised. Because the contract uses an immutable design, all admin permissions were renounced in 2025, and upgrade functionality was permanently disabled, no one (including the Foundation) can retrieve the tokens mistakenly transferred to the contract. These assets are now permanently locked, and the attacker can no longer control or sell them. The Foundation has shared the investigation results with Binance and will continue to provide assistance.
The Onchain Foundation stated that due to the Binance security incident, it has temporarily suspended the LSK buyback program and expects to resume it next week once the situation becomes clearer. The foundation noted that Binance has confirmed it will cover all losses, so it is expected that this incident will not impact the LSK buyback program. After the buyback resumes, the Onchain Foundation will issue a separate announcement.
Odaily reports: The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has announced a strategic investment in Marketnode, an Asia-Pacific digital market infrastructure operator, to expand institutional investors' access to tokenized real-world financial assets through the Stellar network. Marketnode is backed by Euroclear, HSBC, Singapore Exchange Group, and Temasek, with operations covering the issuance, distribution, and servicing of funds, credit, and structured products, connecting asset management institutions, issuers, distributors, and qualified investors.
According to disclosures from Sky Ecosystem Insights, the Q3 2026 report released by the Sky Frontier Foundation shows that Sky's net revenue reached $37.19 million in the quarter, representing a year-on-year increase of 11.8% and marking six consecutive quarters of positive growth. The net profit margin rose from 31% in the previous quarter to 37.5%. During the same period, total protocol revenue amounted to $99.29 million, up 14.2% year-on-year, while total expenses decreased by 16% year-on-year to $62.10 million. At quarter-end, the protocol's total collateralized assets reached $11.41 billion, with sUSDS supply standing at $4.52 billion, up 118% year-on-year.
According to Tech in Asia, Mirae Asset Securities (Korea)’s Hong Kong subsidiary, Mirae Asset Securities (HK), announced that it has completed an issuance of tokenized financing notes on the Solana blockchain for qualified institutional investors. The notes are denominated in US dollars, have a six-month term, and are floating-rate notes. They are part of the company’s $3 billion guaranteed structured note program (which denotes the total program size, not the issuance amount for this offering). Singapore-regulated digital market infrastructure operator Marketnode served as the authorized distributor, with support from the Solana Foundation, while Mirae Asset handled the token issuance, payment processing, and full lifecycle management. The notes were offered exclusively through a private placement to professional investors as defined under Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Ordinance, and have not been recognized or registered by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.
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.
Initia officials stated that, with support from the Initia Foundation, the 1:1 asset backing for assets affected by the October 23 security incident will be fully restored when the chain resumes operations. The Initia Foundation has approved funding to cover the reserve shortfalls for Noble USDC, WETH, and AUSD0 used as collateral for iUSD, amounting to up to 1.08 million USDC, 105 ETH, and 1.4 million AUSD0, respectively. The specific amounts remain subject to verification and require final transfer approval.
A Galaxy Research report shows that Meme coins' share of Solana trading volume has fallen from over 50% at the end of 2024 to 15%–20% in Q2 2026. In addition, SOL has declined nearly 20% year-to-date, and U.S.-listed spot and staked SOL ETFs recorded outflows for two consecutive weeks this month, totaling approximately $50 million. Meanwhile, Solana's share of on-chain perpetual contract trading volume has dropped from 17% to 6%. The Solana Foundation has reportedly issued a statement saying that Solana's transformation is underway, attempting to shift from a growth model reliant on Meme coins and speculative trading toward more mainstream financial applications such as stablecoins and tokenized assets, in a bid to win adoption from Wall Street institutions.However, with the crypto market downturn and the rise of competitors such as Hyperliquid, Solana faces challenges in transforming its growth model. Market analysts point out that the key to Solana's future lies in whether it can attract stable assets, developers, and users, rather than relying solely on speculative trading to drive growth. (Bloomberg)
Odaily Report: Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has submitted a proposal to stop the automatic allocation of block rewards to the Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) program and redirect the remaining 8% of block rewards originally allocated to the program to the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM). He stated that ZCG currently holds over $125 million in funds and will receive several million more before the funding inflow stops, and that the existing grants program was not designed to manage funds of this scale.According to the draft proposal, ZCG holds 91,452.98 ZEC and approximately $8.8 million in USD-denominated assets, with $2.4 million in outstanding grant commitments. Bowe noted that the current 8% allocation mechanism generates over $68 million worth of ZEC per year, while the Financial Privacy Foundation disclosed that ZCG's spending in the first quarter of 2026 was only $1.53 million. If the proposal is approved, the original allocation percentage will be redirected to the NSM, and the total Zcash issuance will not increase. Meanwhile, the separate 12% of block rewards allocated to the Coinholder-Controlled Fund will remain unchanged. ZCG will still be able to retain and manage its existing assets, continue approving grants, and fulfill outstanding commitments.The proposal has not yet specified an activation block height and has not been included in the currently planned NU7 network upgrade; it would require a future network upgrade to take effect. (The Block)
According to Cointelegraph, Immunefi CEO Mitchell Amador warned that internet users remain at risk of cyberattacks originating from PHP vulnerabilities, particularly on smaller websites that have been slow to apply the upgrade patches released last Wednesday, which could take weeks to complete the updates. He described it as an orchestrated "vulnerability doomsday," characterized by low costs to discover vulnerabilities and high costs to patch them. Amador advised treating any website requiring a login as potentially compromised over the coming weeks, avoiding password reuse, exercising caution when connecting crypto wallets to sites, and revoking unrecognized token approvals. The PHP Foundation previously acknowledged that resource shortages delayed the fix for a critical security vulnerability first identified in 2024. While PHP developers issued emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities on the same day, websites must still manually apply the updates. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince noted that millions of exploitation attempts were recorded across the web within 24 hours of the disclosure, with thousands already underway prior to the announcement. W3Techs estimates that PHP supports approximately 69% of websites using known server-side programming languages. The FBI Cyber Division warned that the flaw could allow malicious actors to "remotely execute code within the PHP core, potentially compromising sensitive data and networks."
Odaily Report: Tether has announced the establishment of FASE (Financial Access and Systemic Empowerment Foundation), a Swiss nonprofit foundation focused on four key areas: financial security, financial inclusion, access to resources, and responsible AI and robotics technology. Founding parties include Tether, Kraken, Bybit, the Solana Foundation, Chainalysis, and Anchorage Digital, among other institutions.FASE's first batch of projects includes a partnership with youth platform Goodwall, planning to provide digital education and anti-fraud tools to up to 10 million young people, with a focus on Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia; and a pilot with Prosper Global to distribute humanitarian aid via stablecoins, initially covering up to 1 million people.In addition, FASE will collaborate with the United Nations Trust Fund to support civil society organizations in multiple African countries that provide assistance to survivors of human trafficking.
According to a post by Bitcoin News on X, an email phishing campaign is targeting FoundationHQ users. Do not click any links in the emails. The FoundationHQ team has not yet issued an official announcement.
Odaily reports: Orochi Network announced an additional $8 million in funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to $20 million. The funds will be used to build verifiable data infrastructure for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. This round received support from MEXC Ventures, Plutus VC, Bolts Capital, Ant Labs, and previous investors, and the project also received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation.Orochi Network stated that its verifiable database zkDatabase has launched on mainnet, having processed over 700 million proofs cumulatively with more than 10,000 downloads. It has established partnerships with projects such as Plume, Lumia, Nexus, and OG, and its alliance has over 120 enterprise partners. The network aims to use cryptographic technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs to verify the authenticity and integrity of asset data, providing data verification and audit infrastructure for applications including RWA, stablecoins, and AI.
According to The Block, the Ethereum Foundation announced a delay of the Glamsterdam upgrade, originally scheduled for October 26 on the Hoodi testnet, to allow for further review of EIP-8037's interaction with mainnet smart contracts. A new activation date has not yet been announced. Hoodi is one of Ethereum's test networks, primarily used to validate network upgrades before they go live on the mainnet.
The Cysic Foundation has issued a notice to the parties responsible for the unauthorized issuance of the CYS token, demanding the return of 275.872 ETH within 72 hours, which accounts for approximately 90% of the confirmed related proceeds. As a bounty for asset recovery, the party may retain the remaining approximately 30.652 ETH. The foundation stated that it has reconstructed key stages of the attack and preserved relevant technical and on-chain evidence; if payment is not received within the deadline, it will escalate the matter and cooperate with law enforcement to launch a criminal investigation.
Sui Foundation and DATA Foundation announced on October 12 that Sui Foundation will invest $30 million in DATA Network (formerly Story) and become the largest institutional holder of the network. DATA Network will upgrade to a protocol natively running on Sui, and the existing independent chain will be retired after the upgrade is completed; DATA tokens will be migrated at a 1:1 ratio, with holders' economic rights and governance rights maintained at least at current levels, and the arrangements for locked and vesting tokens remaining unchanged. Walrus will become the default storage layer for applications under DATA Foundation, and the Trace registry system will be integrated into the Sui ecosystem. Before the upgrade is completed, DATA Network will continue to operate, and the detailed timeline and holder transition plan will be announced prior to the upgrade.
According to Cointelegraph, the PHP Foundation admitted that a critical security vulnerability discovered as early as 2024 has yet to be patched due to flawed decision-making processes and understaffing within the security team, calling the delay a structural failure. The vulnerability could allow unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code on affected servers. On August 11, security firm Calif and OpenAI independently reported the same issue, with Calif also demonstrating unconditional remote code execution, prompting the matter to be elevated to the highest security priority. PHP released emergency patches for two related critical vulnerabilities on Wednesday. Around the time of the patch release, government websites or services in the Netherlands, Finland, France, Germany, and Australia were temporarily taken offline, with the Netherlands shutting down its digital identity service. The Wikimedia Foundation also took some supporting services offline, causing disruptions to certain Wikipedia features. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called on website operators to install the patches as soon as possible. In the crypto sector, monitoring by SlowMist's MistEye service found that out of 1,488 evaluated domains, 793 showed direct PHP fingerprints. Cardano governance organization Intersect temporarily took its member portal offline. Both Coinbase and BitGo stated that their platforms were unaffected. Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao advised users to exercise extreme caution when visiting websites over the next few days. PHP security team
Odaily reports: The PHP Foundation has stated that due to hesitant decision-making and insufficient resources, remediation work for a critical security vulnerability first discovered in 2024 stalled and restarted multiple times, and it characterized the delay as a "structural failure." PHP is a programming language widely used for websites and web applications.PHP has released emergency patches for two related critical vulnerabilities. Unauthenticated attackers could exploit the flaws to execute code on affected servers without logging in. Some government websites or online services in the Netherlands, Finland, France, Germany, and Australia were temporarily taken offline to prepare for patch installation.Security firm Calif and OpenAI separately reported the same underlying issue on August 11, and Calif also demonstrated unconditional remote code execution. Blockchain security firm SlowMist investigated PHP usage in the crypto industry and found direct PHP fingerprints on 793 of the 1,488 domains it assessed.Intersect has temporarily closed its Members Area, Coinbase said it has not found any affected PHP instances, and digital asset infrastructure company BitGo said its platform was not affected. Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao reminded users to exercise heightened caution when visiting websites recently, and OpenAI has released a Codex skill for checking for vulnerable PHP versions. (Cointelegraph)
The Polkadot Community Foundation issued a security warning on the Polkadot Forum stating that versions 3.0.1, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, and 3.0.5 of the browser extension for the third-party wallet Fearless Wallet contain malicious code, which may transmit users' private keys to attacker-controlled servers when unlocking the wallet. The relevant code was added on February 19, 2025, via a code commit titled “TON ecosystem”, and was triggered intermittently from February 2025 to October 10, 2026.