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The cross-chain exchange protocol NEAR Intents released a post-mortem report attributing a $3.8 million vulnerability to a flaw in the deposit notification feature. The protocol deploys a public settlement contract on NEAR that maintains an internal ledger of deposited tokens, while withdrawals transfer tokens out via a cross-chain bridge. The report was published by NEAR Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko on October 16, stating that the attacker withdrew $3.8 million before the protocol was shut down on October 1 and returned all funds within 36 hours of detection, with all affected users fully compensated.The report indicates that the feature notifies third-party contracts when tokens are deposited. The attacker created a contract that intentionally caused the notification to fail, allowing the token contract to refund the deposit while NEAR Intents retained the corresponding ledger credit. Through 23 failed deposit transactions, the attacker accumulated $3.8 million in unsupported balance, referred to in the report as ghost funds, and subsequently withdrew real tokens based on this and transferred them to other chains via the Omni infrastructure. Shevchenko stated that this was a vulnerability in the NEAR Intents contract, not in the Omni infrastructure.Withdrawals occurred between September 29 and October 1. The settlement contract was paused and reopened on October 1, with affected routes gradually restored, and contract-side deposits resumed on October 2. The report noted that the vulnerability went undetected because monitoring only compared the original chain assets with the total balance of NEAR side tokens, without comparing the total internal user balances with the actual tokens held by the contract; the team has since added this check and will automatically pause the contract when there is a balance inconsistency. The fix for the October vulnerability was deployed on October 2, but another serious vulnerability report regarding the same feature prompted its complete removal on October 7, with the relevant researcher receiving a $300,000 reward.

Upbit stated that after MANTRA was designated as a trading warning item, and following a declaration request submitted by MANTRA and the completion of the review, Upbit deemed it necessary to further review the current processing progress and decided to extend the designation period of MANTRA as a trading warning item.

On-chain analyst Murphy posted on the X platform, stating that during the recent decline of BTC, the scale of short-term holders (STH) transferring BTC to exchanges has significantly increased, averaging about 2,200 BTC transferred per hour over a 4-hour period, reaching the fourth highest level since the market rally began in August this year. However, the peak of transfers has fallen below that of October 8, indicating that the potential selling pressure from short-term holders has weakened.In contrast, long-term holders (LTH) transferred an average of only about 480 BTC to exchanges per hour during the same period, which is about one-fifth of the short-term holders. Murphy pointed out that on October 8, long-term holders experienced a peak transfer of about 3,700 BTC per hour, which may be partly related to asset transfers triggered by security incidents involving hardware wallets. However, considering that both short-term and long-term holders experienced large-scale transfers that day, and the rapid decline in BTC prices, there remains actual selling pressure in the market. Murphy believes that during the current decline, the main transfers to exchanges are from short-term holders, while long-term holders remain relatively stable overall, and the intensity of transfers from short-term holders has weakened compared to before, reflecting that the structure of BTC holders still has a certain resilience.

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.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Bitcoin treasury company Hut 8 holds 10,300 Bitcoins, valued at 846 million dollars, and is currently suspected of selling Bitcoin.The wallet associated with Hut 8 (bc1q...xqka) has deposited 1,589 Bitcoins, valued at 130 million dollars, to multiple exchanges in the past two days.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X stating that Michael Saylor explained that Strategy intends to have investors accept selling Bitcoin as part of its overall financial strategy. When Strategy initially sold 32 Bitcoins, the market reacted excessively; subsequently, the market absorbed the sale of thousands of Bitcoins without a negative impact on the price.Saylor stated that when it aligns with the interests of shareholders and credit investors, Strategy must be able to buy and sell Bitcoin.

Bitget has launched the FASTRETAILING stock perpetual contract. This contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and allows trading 24/7. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 356 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

According to Decrypt, over 400 scientists, including "AI Father" Geoffrey Hinton and 2018 Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, published a joint open letter on Tuesday, calling for AI laboratories to default to "physically isolating" models capable of cyberattacks, meaning cutting off their connection to external networks. The open letter stated that in the short term, strong sandbox mechanisms, including network disconnection, should be adopted to implement high levels of containment for AI models with cyberattack capabilities. As of Wednesday, the number of signatories had increased to 450, including Stuart Russell from the University of California, Berkeley, and Ron Rivest, co-inventor of the RSA encryption system from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Before the release of the open letter, AI models experienced a summer of frequent "jailbreaking." In July, OpenAI admitted that GPT-5.6 Sol and an unpublished stronger model had breached closed testing environments, infiltrating the platform Hugging Face, which hosts over a million public AI models; these models were then being tested on the ExploitGym benchmark, which provides 898 real software vulnerabilities, requiring AI agents to convert each vulnerability into a usable attack. Subsequently, reports emerged that OpenAI models had unauthorized access to Australian government systems and obtained information from U.S. federal agencies.

According to The Defiant, asset management company VanEck is seeking to withdraw its filing application for the Lido Staked Ethereum ETF. The proposed fund was originally planned to directly hold stETH and provide investors with exposure to Lido's liquid staking tokens through brokerage accounts.Reports indicate that the fund's registration never took effect, meaning this product failed to enter the formal issuance stage. Lido is the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, and stETH is the liquid staking token it issues, allowing users to stake ETH while maintaining asset liquidity and earning staking rewards.

According to GlobeNewswire, SkyAI (Nasdaq: SKYA) major shareholder Bastion Trading (holding approximately 9.99%) publicly questioned the company's cash tender offer plan.Bastion Trading pointed out that SkyAI quietly sold about 70% of its SOL treasury reserves (from over 2 million to about 600,000) in less than a month, without timely disclosure to shareholders, suspected of violating information disclosure regulations.Meanwhile, the company's board faced overwhelming opposition votes at the 2026 shareholder meeting, raising questions about its legitimacy. Bastion Trading demanded the company fully disclose the details of the SOL sell-off, restructure the board, and improve the acquisition terms (raising the acquisition price from $3 to at least $3.5), otherwise, it would not participate in this tender offer and reserves the right to take legal action.

According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Index opened on October 14, down 71.59 points, a decrease of 0.14%, at 51,598.51 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index opened down 166.08 points, a decrease of 0.61%, at 27,038.3 points; the S&P 500 Index opened down 29.8 points, a decrease of 0.38%, at 7,775.65 points.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, the current price of BTC is $83,443. The thickest order book is on Binance perpetual: sell orders amount to $42.0836 million, buy orders amount to $32.5048 million, with sell orders exceeding buy orders by $9.5788 million.Coinbase's spot sell orders are also thicker than buy orders, but the scale is smaller than that of Binance perpetual. If a large buy or sell order suddenly appears, exchanges with thinner order books will be affected first, and price fluctuations will be more pronounced.

According to Decrypt, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan on October 9. The suspect, 35 years old and of Saudi nationality, has been employed at OpenAI since July 2025 and is accused of using or attempting to use devices to intercept oral communications. He made his first appearance in federal court this Tuesday. OpenAI stated that it has referred the matter to the FBI and thanked the relevant agents and prosecutors for their swift action, while the FBI's investigation is ongoing.OpenAI released a statement on X, stating that the company discovered a sophisticated recording device hidden in the office and used its own model to analyze the device and its origin, ultimately identifying that an employee placed it there a few days prior. According to the criminal complaint, the device was discovered around September 30, plugged into a USB port on the back of a television, wrapped in paper towels, with its contents encrypted, and was installed around September 28. Surveillance footage showed that Alfozan was seen near the conference room multiple times before the device was discovered, but he had neither the authority to enter that room nor to attend the related meetings, which typically involved confidential technical and strategic information.The complaint states that before the device was installed, Alfozan used internal productivity tools to inquire about OpenAI's office building address, conference rooms, room capacities, schedules, and locations of meetings between executives and external partners. A chatbot account associated with his spouse asked between September 24 and 30 how to create a continuous recording device, add Wi-Fi connectivity, enhance real-time listening capabilities, and encrypt the device's SD card.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed on Tuesday with the Dow Jones down 0.35%, the S&P 500 index down 0.02%, and the Nasdaq down 0.15%. SK Hynix and Micron Technology both fell over 3%, Meta Platforms rose over 2%, SpaceX fell 4%, Oracle rose 4%, and Citigroup fell over 5%.The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index closed up 0.14%, and Li Auto rose 3%.

Trader Maji (Huang Licheng) posted on X to comment on the perpetual contract protocol Papertrade. He stated that Papertrade is profitable, there are no useless points, users can immediately receive PAPER tokens, and by staking, they can earn fees. There is currently no reason to use any other perpetual contract protocol.

According to an official post from Ledger, its security team Ledger Donjon is investigating Ledger signing devices sold by the Southeast Asian distributor CryptoBilis, which have been implanted with unauthorized hardware components. Ledger confirmed this matter on October 10 regarding a device belonging to an affected user. Donjon's analysis shows that the implant is located within the device's casing and can read the screen display content—decoding the 24-word recovery mnemonic during the initial setup and transmitting it externally via LTE through a built-in eSIM; this component does not alter the security chip, system, or transaction signature.Currently, all confirmed financial losses related to the incident disclosed on October 9 involve devices sold by CryptoBilis. CryptoBilis has stopped selling Ledger devices. The total number of affected users and the amount of losses have not yet been verified, and Ledger is investigating similar implant reports from other distributors and regions.

Sushi CEO Alex McCurry retweeted the tweet "Blur will deprecate the frontend on November 12" and stated, "Should we acquire Blur? If anyone on the team wants to reach out, I would be happy to discuss."

Recently, there have been reports that Ant Group's AI product "Lingguang" has launched a new version for a small-scale internal test, which is comparable to Meta Muse. In response, Ant Group stated: Lingguang has recently undergone a functional upgrade and is currently still in a very limited internal testing phase.

On-chain analyst Murphy posted on platform X that long-term holders (LTH) of Bitcoin have cumulatively transferred approximately 32,000 BTC to exchanges, marking the second-largest single-day inflow since the significant drop on February 5 of this year. However, during the same period, U.S. government-related wallets transferred about 17,200 BTC to Coinbase Prime. Considering that this platform serves as the official custodian and trading service for the U.S. Marshals Service, these transfers do not necessarily indicate selling.Excluding this portion, the noteworthy potential selling pressure is approximately 14,800 BTC, primarily coming from long-term holdings aged 6 to 12 months and 3 to 5 years. Murphy pointed out that the average coin age of spent long-term holder coins reached 712 days, up from 651 days on July 14, indicating that earlier holdings are gradually participating in turnover. He believes that the distribution by long-term holders during the transition phase between bull and bear markets is not necessarily bearish; the release of periodic selling pressure can help in the redistribution of holdings, with the key being whether market demand can effectively absorb it. If new funds can digest the supply, sufficient turnover may actually reduce resistance for subsequent market movements.