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LayerZero Labs, in collaboration with the a16z Crypto research team, Carnegie Mellon University, and Imperial College London, has released new research results called Aerie, aimed at enhancing the aggregation efficiency of post-quantum cryptography signatures. According to the introduction, Aerie is built on the previously launched lattice-based polynomial commitment scheme Akita.On a MacBook Pro equipped with the 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 states that compared to the previous Orthus scheme, Aerie's proof generation speed has improved by about 1.5 times, verification speed has increased by 38 times, and proof size has been reduced by about 1.7 times. Additionally, Aerie supports the aggregation of ML-DSA signatures standardized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with specific performance data to be announced later. This research aims to provide a technical path for achieving low-latency, post-quantum secure consensus on blockchain without the need for dedicated hardware.

According to official news, Metis Andromeda will make two adjustments in October: support for Stargate will be terminated on October 23, and LayerZero V1 related routing should be disabled by that date; starting October 30, LayerZero Labs' DVN (Decentralized Verification Network) and Executor will no longer provide services for Metis. Additionally, the Stargate V1 liquidity pool will close on December 15 across all chains.The official statement indicates that most holders do not need to take action. m.USDC, m.USDT, WETH, and METIS are issued by Metis's native cross-chain bridge and are unrelated to Stargate; minting and redemption will proceed as usual, and the Ethereum ↔ Metis native cross-chain bridge will also remain unaffected. Users providing liquidity to the Stargate liquidity pool on Metis must withdraw their liquidity before October 23. If there is any staking, it must be unstaked first, and then users should select the Metis Andromeda network in the Stargate application to withdraw.

According to Bloomberg, Jeff Yan, co-founder of Hyperliquid Labs, is seeking the United States to establish rules that can protect its blockchain.He believes that the regulatory responsibilities of Hyperliquid should fall on the financial institutions operating in the market based on that blockchain, namely the application layer, rather than on the blockchain network itself. This regulatory division would allow Hyperliquid to enter Wall Street without having to bear the full compliance burden of traditional exchanges.

Lightning Labs announced the launch of LayerTree on the X platform, which is a non-custodial scaling solution based on Bitcoin that can connect with the Lightning Network.According to the introduction, LayerTree utilizes Covenants technology, allowing a single UTXO to be shared by up to 1 million users. Users do not need to stay online to receive funds and can exit at any time through a single transaction, with funds not expiring due to timeouts.

Lido announced the integration of direct ETH staking functionality for Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Optimism Layer 2 networks into its official staking interface, which was announced on October 15. This process is supported by Chainlink's cross-chain interoperability protocol CCIP, allowing users to directly obtain wstETH on the originating network without manually transferring ETH across chains to Ethereum and back.Lido stated that users' ETH will be exchanged for wstETH through dedicated liquidity pools on the same L2, with the Chainlink price feed reflecting the exchange rate of the Lido protocol rather than the exchange market price. The underlying staking still occurs on the Ethereum mainnet: the ETH deposited by users on L2 will automatically be transferred to Ethereum and staked through Lido, after which wstETH will be sent back to replenish the local liquidity pool. Users receive the wrapped version of stETH, wstETH, which maintains a fixed balance while its value reflects staking rewards.This functionality integrates existing cross-chain infrastructure into Lido's own interface. Lido previously introduced relevant channels for Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism in October 2024, with third-party frontends including XSwap, OpenOcean, and Interport, while Linea followed up in October 2025. In terms of fees, users will still need to pay L2 transaction gas, and cross-chain costs come from the separately funded contract balance rather than staker deposits;

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "LoL: Team WE vs HANJIN BRION - Demacia Cup Global Invitation Playoffs", the "Is" option win rate for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 50% an hour ago to the current 20% (a fluctuation of 30%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the latest weekly report from Binance Research, since August 31, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury has risen by 47 basis points, of which 43 basis points came from an increase in real yields, while the inflation breakeven rate only rose by 4 basis points. The 10-year real yield once reached 2.95%, the highest since 2008.The weekly report also pointed out that since the interest rate hike in September, BTC has risen by 9.3%, ETH by 2.7%, and Layer 2, RWA, and AI tokens have increased by approximately 32%, 29%, and 29%, respectively, while meme and payment tokens have performed relatively poorly.Binance Research stated that the current high real interest rates still exert a suppressive effect on a wide range of risk assets, and future attention should focus on CPI, long-term U.S. Treasury yields, and BTC ETF fund flows.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "LoL: KT Rolster vs Team Vitality - Demacia Cup Global Invitation Playoffs," the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation, rising from 7.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 42.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

TrendForce reported on October 12, citing Chosun Biz, that as AI packaging accommodates more computing and storage chips, the intermediary layer connecting computing chips and HBM is expected to significantly increase in size, making next-generation HBM cooling more important. Samsung Electronics is preparing multiple technologies to address the cooling challenges of HBM4E, which is scheduled to begin mass production next year.Currently, the area of the AI intermediary layer is about 5.5 times the maximum exposure area of 858 square millimeters of an EUV lithography machine. Semiconductor equipment industry insiders expect that the intermediary layer carrying HBM could expand to 9 times, 12 times that area, and ultimately about 40 times. Reasons include limitations in process miniaturization and the popularity of chiplet-style 2.5D packaging, where multiple computing chiplets and HBM stacks are placed on the same intermediary layer, making it difficult for a single advanced process chip to meet AI computing power demands.Samsung is considering hybrid copper bonding and thermal path blocks. The former replaces the micro bumps between stacked DRAM chips with direct copper-to-copper connections, which can reduce inter-layer gaps, make the stack thinner, and improve heat dissipation, a technology Samsung showcased at NVIDIA GTC in March 2026. The thermal path block establishes a dedicated thermal path in the D2D PHY area responsible for high-speed transmission between HBM base chips and GPUs, which Samsung is validating with HBM4E and plans to implement in HBM5. According to ETNews, SK Hynix's iHBM places high thermal conductivity but electrically insulating cooling materials around the heat-concentrated D2D PHY, which is expected to reduce thermal resistance by about 30%.

Circle's Layer 1 blockchain Arc announced in a post on platform X that MoonPay is now live on Arc. Over 30 million users of MoonPay can purchase USDC through credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, bank transfers, and more, directly transferring to the Arc network, providing a consumer funding channel for wallets, applications, and developers on Arc.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "LoL: Natus Vincere vs JD Gaming - Demacia Cup Global Invitation Group Stage", the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 50% an hour ago to the current 20% (a fluctuation of 30%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction event on Polymarket for "Dota 2: Team Synapse vs LEGION - PARI Universe Playoff Qualifiers," the "Any Player Ultra Kill" sub-market's "Yes" option win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90.5% (a fluctuation of 40.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Lamine Brahimi, co-founder and managing partner of the cryptocurrency custody and tokenization company Taurus, stated in an interview with CoinDesk that banks need to meet three conditions to access the newly launched blockchain ledger by Swift: a proprietary permissioned chain that interacts with the Swift ledger, wallet capabilities, and tokenization and smart contract capabilities to integrate Swift's smart contracts.He pointed out that this means the Swift ledger is not a replacement for banks' internal systems, but rather acts as an orchestration layer, helping institutions achieve cross-border, round-the-clock transfers of tokenized deposits, with final settlement still completed through existing arrangements. Banks still need to hold and manage tokenized deposits, digital asset wallets, and related smart contracts themselves. In July, Swift announced that 17 banks were preparing for real-time transactions of tokenized deposits; in August, HSBC and Standard Chartered completed the first real-time interbank transaction, followed by DBS and Citibank completing weekend cross-border USD payments, reducing settlement time from a maximum of two business days to just a few minutes.Brahimi stated that additional infrastructure should not be seen as a flaw in Swift's design; the ledger is still an early product but provides banks with a choice between existing payment channels and tokenized deposits that can circulate around the clock. Taurus announced in August that it had completed Swift integration, providing the aforementioned three layers of capability through a single platform. He added that tokenized deposits were used very little before Swift's announcement, primarily adopted by larger global banks like JPMorgan. The Swift model retains deposits on the banks' balance sheets, distinguishing it from stablecoins issued outside the banking system.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "LoL GAM Esports vs Shopify Rebellion" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 26% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 24%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Binance has now completed the token merger of Stargate Finance (STG) into LayerZero (ZRO). The tokens have been distributed at a ratio of 1 STG = 0.08634 ZRO. The old STG tokens will no longer support deposits and withdrawals.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Dota 2 Team Synapse vs Yellow Submarine" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Any Player Goes Godlike" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 91% (a fluctuation of 41%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW conference roundtable "Next Generation Financial System: Who Will Build It?", Mastercard's Executive Vice President of Blockchain and Digital Assets Raj Dhamodharan looked ahead to the payment landscape ten years from now: the underlying rails will change, new technologies such as stablecoins will be applied more behind the scenes, but the simplicity and trust of user experience will not change. He pointed out that stablecoins' "almost zero-cost transfers" are just the surface; cross-border payments still require a multi-layered combination of local liquidity and compliance systems, "payment rails are just one of the raw materials."Also present, OKX Global Managing Partner and CMO Haider Rafique revealed two sets of industry data: the global stablecoin market size is approximately $250 billion, and there are over 700 million crypto users; he also confirmed that the OKX Card exclusively uses the Mastercard network in markets such as Europe, and both parties are exploring cooperation in payment and AI-driven e-commerce.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Product and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), the OKX on-chain team demonstrated the newly launched DEX trading terminal: integrating popular token screening, on-chain capital flow tracking, social sentiment monitoring, and one-click instant trading, supporting users to customize their workspace.The team introduced that the total trading volume of decentralized perpetual and spot markets exceeded 1 trillion US dollars in the past 30 days; the scale of on-chain tokenized RWA has increased from about 2 billion US dollars to nearly 40 billion US dollars; the DeFi TVL of OKX's high-performance network X Layer has grown approximately 11 times this year, reaching a historical high in September. In addition, OKX has also launched Exchange OS for builders, opening its exchange infrastructure for the creation of on-chain markets.

According to Arkham monitoring, LayerZero has once again purchased over 162,000 ZRO tokens, worth approximately $347,000, bringing its total buyback amount to 2.538 million tokens, valued at around $5.4 million.Meanwhile, the price of ZRO has risen above $2.13 and is approaching the $3 resistance level. LayerZero co-founder Bryan Pellegrino has previously expressed optimism about the long-term development of ZRO, and this buyback has further attracted community attention.

OKX CEO Star responded to community questions regarding the deployment of the OKXICE tokenized stock trading platform, stating that the TSV DEX contract is planned to be deployed on X Layer.ChainCatcher previously reported that, according to Bloomberg, OKX has submitted an application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a tokenized stock trading platform, becoming one of the first major cryptocurrency exchanges to utilize the new U.S. regulations allowing digital versions of publicly traded company stocks to be traded on crypto platforms.The joint venture OKX ICE LLC, established by OKX and the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), plans to apply to provide tokenized stock trading services for 63 companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. According to the SEC's new framework, the relevant issuers have 30 days to opt out, after which tokenized stock trading can commence.