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Community users reported that their VergeX accounts were hacked after receiving withdrawal verification code emails. VergeX team member Tintin stated in the community that only a few users were affected and that full compensation would be provided within 72 hours.

At SEMICON West 2026 held in San Francisco, USA, NVIDIA showcased the prototype of the next-generation Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) solution, named OOI (Optics-on-Interposer). NVIDIA did not disclose the commercialization timeline for OOI, but industry insiders expect mass production to begin after 2030.

According to an analysis by the Slow Mist security team, the cross-chain protocol zkLink was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $783,000.The attacker used residual verification values in transient storage to forge the batch root required for withdrawal verification, subsequently completing 12 withdrawals, including 1 ETH withdrawal and 11 ERC-20 token withdrawals.The attacker first claimed and wrote the verification value through a real cross-chain message, then reused that value in subsequent calls of the same transaction, leveraging the relay and gateway contracts to write the forged batch root.The relevant contracts allow relayers to specify external call targets and parameters, and the verification value was not cleared or bound to the current call; the batch root update only verifies the gateway identity, lacking independent proof verification.

Public Citizen data shows that crypto-related organizations have donated over $200 million in this round of the U.S. election cycle, attempting to influence the 2026 midterm elections and push Congress to pass industry-favorable regulatory rules. One of the current priority goals of the industry is to promote comprehensive digital asset market structure legislation after the Clarity Act was blocked.Fairshake and its affiliated super political action committee (super PAC) are supporting 33 House candidates, including 19 Republicans and 14 Democrats. Coinbase and Ripple each donated $25 million to Fairshake's midterm election efforts in 2025. The Ohio Senate election is a key battleground. Fairshake stated that this election cycle has spent $55 million opposing long-time critic of the crypto industry, Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown, whose opponent is pro-crypto Republican incumbent Senator Jon Husted.The advocacy organization Stand With Crypto, initiated by Coinbase, has endorsed 45 candidates, including 42 House candidates and 3 Senate candidates. The Clarity Act was blocked in the Senate in September, with Democratic lawmakers arguing that it is insufficient to prevent government officials from profiting from crypto businesses. Reports indicate that if the bill cannot advance by the end of the year, the new Congress will need to restart market structure legislation. Coinbase Vice Chairman Ryan VanGrack stated that regardless of who is elected, the industry will still gain more regulatory clarity, but there remains uncertainty about whether legislation can ultimately be completed.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 550,157 SOL were transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase Institutional, worth approximately 52.67 million USD.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Galaxy Digital OTC deposited 47,000 HYPE to OKX 4 hours ago, worth 4.06 million USD.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Binance has placed about 80 buy orders for perpetual BTC at a price level of $77,189, with a nominal value of approximately $6.1752 million, retracting about 0.12% from the mid-price of around $77,280 at that time.The total buy orders at this venue amount to approximately $50.5443 million, while sell orders are about $36.7742 million, resulting in a net buy of approximately $13.7702 million, accounting for 15.77% of the total depth.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, 1.223 million SOL (worth 117 million USD) entered Coinbase Prime through the same deposit address 2 hours ago.

According to official data, in the 7 days ending October 29, Circle issued approximately 10.9 billion USDC, redeemed about 11.7 billion USDC, and the circulation decreased by approximately 800 million.The total circulation of USDC is 70 billion, with reserves of about 71.4 billion USD, including overnight reverse repurchase agreements of approximately 32.9 billion USD; government bonds with maturities of less than 3 months of about 27.5 billion USD; deposits from systemically important institutions of about 10.4 billion USD; and other bank deposits of about 600 million USD.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a newly created wallet address (0x1c75) withdrew 1.15 million LIT, worth approximately 3.31 million USD; 7.995 million ENA, worth approximately 1.51 million USD; and 7.31 million ARB, worth approximately 1.18 million USD.

The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit officially announced the digital asset holdings of its parent company Dunamu's investment subsidiary Dunamu&Partners as of October 2026. The announcement shows that the institution currently holds 2,081.84950412 BTC, with a total selling quantity of zero and no trading records.According to the announcement, Dunamu&Partners stated that if the projects it invests in are listed for trading on Upbit, it will not sell the related digital assets within three months from the date of the first listing, and will disclose changes in holdings at the end of each month through announcements on Upbit.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the address 0xaea...c2416 previously shorted 9,700 ETH with 25x leverage, with a position value of approximately 22.46 million USD, and an opening average price of 2,311.92 USD.This address opened the position on October 27 and closed it during the rebound after the ETH pullback at 18:33 yesterday, with an exit average price of 2,239.5 USD, making a profit of approximately 692,000 USD over five days. During the holding period, this short position once had an unrealized profit of 1.337 million USD.Currently, the account's cumulative profit has increased to 7.57 million USD, partially recovering the 916,000 USD loss incurred when shorting BTC in mid-October.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin today published an article titled "Digital Minimalism," suggesting that in the age of AI, people should consciously reduce their reliance on social media, mobile internet, and website interfaces, regaining control over their digital lives.Vitalik shared three practices: first, reducing direct use of X and instead managing X, Bluesky, Farcaster, and Lens simultaneously through Firefly to avoid information interference caused by algorithmic recommendations; second, he kept his phone in airplane mode by default for 100 consecutive days, connecting only via Wi-Fi to reduce location data leakage and cultivate offline living habits; third, he reduced reliance on websites and web applications, opting for command-line tools to handle some on-chain operations and leveraging AI to lower the usage threshold.Vitalik believes that websites and web applications pose privacy and security risks, while the development of local AI, offline applications, and modular tools enables users to operate computers using natural language, reducing dependence on complex platform interfaces. He refers to this trend as digital minimalism and believes that AI can not only enhance people's efficiency in using the internet but may also allow people to no longer need the internet in more scenarios.

According to the official account of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, a recent case involving U Coin fraud was heard in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, where Wang and others defrauded the victim, Xiao, of 1.2 million yuan under the pretense of purchasing U Coin. The case was initially transferred for prosecution on suspicion of robbery, but the procuratorial authority believed that Wang and others had meticulously set a trap, using false transactions as bait to essentially defraud the victim of U Coin, which constituted fraud. Therefore, they filed a public prosecution with the court.During the trial, the defense attorney presented arguments that the defendants constituted contract fraud. Whether the case is classified as fraud or contract fraud will result in significant differences in sentencing. The prosecutor pointed out that the criminal law stipulates that contract fraud is aimed at maintaining market order, and the contract content must reflect the attributes of a socialist market economy. Virtual currency transactions are illegal financial activities explicitly prohibited by the state and do not fall within the regulatory scope of contract fraud.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale who previously bought HYPE from Galaxy Digital has unstaked 304,600 HYPE after a 3-month silence, worth approximately 27.19 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, a16z affiliated entities have transferred 118,000 HYPE to Wintermute, Galaxy Digital, and Cumberland in batches since yesterday, valued at approximately 10.7 million dollars based on an average price of 90.72 dollars, with the specific use still unclear.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale received 9,625 ETH from FalconX 4 hours ago, worth 21.57 million USD.A certain address withdrew 3,377 ETH from OKX 8 hours ago, worth 7.52 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the circular loan giant (0xc79b...12be) sold 200 cbBTC for a price of $77,458 nine hours ago, exchanging it for 15.49 million USDC.These cbBTC were purchased at an average price of $68,750 from February to July of this year, resulting in a profit of $1.74 million.

Binance released the second progress announcement regarding the security incident, disclosing two key timelines. The announcement was made at 3:33 AM on October 31 (UTC+8).Binance stated that it plans to conduct the first proof of reserves snapshot within 12 hours after the announcement and will publish the results before November 2; at the same time, the technical team's goal is to gradually restore withdrawal services within approximately 34 hours, depending on the progress of security checks.Based on the announcement time, Binance plans to complete the first proof of reserves snapshot by 3:33 PM on October 31, with the goal of starting a phased restoration of withdrawal services by 1:33 PM on November 1.Binance previously stated that it has prepared over $6.34 billion in company funds, of which approximately $5 billion worth of affected token assets are in place, covering about 80% of the stolen assets, with the remaining portion being purchased through on-chain and off-chain channels. Additionally, approximately $3 billion of affected assets have been frozen on-chain.