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NEAR Protocol announced support for users to earn SOL rewards through confidential accounts. After users deposit funds into the vault, the vault cannot know their address, and there are no lock-up requirements, allowing for redemption or withdrawal at any time. The related vaults are deployed by Gauntlet on Kamino.

During the IMF meeting in Bangkok, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Walsh stated that he would not predict the outcomes of the remaining two interest rate meetings this year and was unwilling to disclose potential actions in advance. He said, "This is a new chapter for the Federal Reserve; we no longer do this." Regarding the recent signals from colleagues indicating "no urgency to raise interest rates this month," he neither explicitly supported nor refuted them. Walsh reiterated that the Federal Reserve will achieve price stability and noted that the global economy has largely aligned with central bank expectations since the interest rate hike in September, while describing the recent actions of various central banks as a synchronized tightening of monetary policy in most regions of the world.In September, the Federal Reserve unanimously raised interest rates by 25 basis points, increasing the target range for the federal funds rate to 3.75% to 4%. At that time, most officials expected at least one more rate hike this year. Despite the core CPI rising by 0.33% month-on-month in September, marking a strong increase for the second consecutive month, and the latest producer price data also being robust, Walsh hardly mentioned this week's inflation report and did not significantly attempt to change market expectations for the October meeting. Reports indicated that during his speech, the dollar weakened, and market bets on an interest rate hike in October dropped from about 30% to around 17%.Additionally, Walsh believes that the U.S. is experiencing significant investment growth and holds an optimistic view on economic resilience and the productivity boost brought by AI, but he warned that the development path will be "very bumpy," and the short-term impact of AI on employment remains unclear. DBS Bank macro strategist Wei Liang Chang stated that Walsh reiterated that artificial intelligence will improve productivity in the medium term, which may help ease inflation expectations and alleviate concerns about the Federal Reserve's consecutive rate hikes. Saxo Markets Chief Investment Strategist Charu Chanana noted that Walsh's refusal to commit to another rate hike led to some bets on Federal Reserve rate hikes falling flat, and related comments did not help the dollar following the release of strong inflation data.

According to the official announcement from HTX DAO, the token burn for $HTX in the third quarter of 2026 was completed on October 15. On-chain data shows that a total of 9,386,358,095,816 (approximately 9.39 trillion) $HTX tokens were burned, equivalent to a value of about 15.48 million USD, with the amount burned increasing by approximately 25.6% compared to the previous period. Thus, HTX DAO has cumulatively burned and donated up to 127.17 trillion $HTX tokens.According to the established mechanism of HTX DAO, Huobi HTX, as an ecological partner, will use 50% of its revenue for $HTX repurchase and burn each quarter. In the future, HTX DAO will continue to promote the burning of $HTX and related on-chain information disclosure, while deepening community governance and ecological construction, and continuously improving the HTX token economic system.

DeepSeek has integrated the Harness team along with the Web, App, and Platform teams into the Product Department, responsible for all product, design, and development work of the company, led by Cui Tianyi as the head of the Product Department.DeepSeek is currently hiring product managers, product designers, and project managers, with product managers divided into two directions: AI products and Agent Harness, covering web, App, open platform, and Harness product lines. Job requirements include experience in complete delivery, experience with Agent-type products, as well as skills in prototyping, data analysis, and communication within open source communities. The work locations are Beijing and Hangzhou, with both full-time and internship positions available.

The Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Administration and the Data Bureau released "Several Measures to Promote High-Level Opening Up in Shanghai and Facilitate Cross-Border Data Flow," supporting the construction of international data centers and supporting the computing power service industry and related cross-border digital services.Promote the construction of the National Blockchain Network (Shanghai Hub), strengthening foundational capabilities such as distributed digital identity, privacy computing, and cross-chain services.

Filecoin announced that three advancements have been made this month: the new reward mechanism Solstice will allocate more block rewards to services that bring paying customers to the network, while the rewards solely for consensus mining will be correspondingly reduced, and the unearned portion will be destroyed; the release period for the genesis token is about to end, and the daily new FIL circulation is expected to decrease by approximately 75%.In addition, Filecoin has launched new products aimed at enterprises and AI Agents, including the Filecoin-based storage cloud Integral Spacetime, S3 compatible object storage Fil One, and tools that support AI Agents to directly store files, obtain public links, and make on-chain payments.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated that artificial intelligence will make the economy more productive and create more wealth, but the road to this goal will be full of twists and turns.

The intellectual property tokenization platform IPX announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing, with a valuation of $125 million. This round was led by Bitsurge Holdings, with participation from YICIPX Holdings Family Office and a group of strategic investors. The company is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and the founder and CEO is Brendan McCafferty.IPX's products are built on Base and include an intellectual property agent operating system, a tokenization issuance platform, and IPX Exchange, allowing creators to complete tokenization, advertising, monetization, and distribution within the same system. The company claims that over 100 celebrities have signed exclusive tokenization agreements, covering both existing and new film and television projects in Hollywood, first-tier athlete video games, and YouTube creator membership tokens.The company plans to launch IPXOS, IPX Exchange, and the native token IPX on November 15, 2026, stating that this financing marks the beginning of a series of updates leading up to that launch date, with news on technology, partners, and the first original projects to be released almost weekly thereafter. Brendan McCafferty stated: Creators retain ownership, fans provide funding and share profits, and IPX connects traditional finance with tokenization channels without taking ownership away from creators.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Zora (ZORA) will unlock approximately 16.667 million tokens at 21:00 Beijing time on October 23, worth about 1.12 million US dollars.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, SOON (SOON) will unlock approximately 20.24 million tokens at 1 PM Beijing time on October 23, with a value of about 6.03 million USD.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Meteora (MET) will unlock approximately 4.72 million tokens at 12:00 PM Beijing time on October 23, worth about 1.78 million USD.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Capricorn (APR) will unlock approximately 14.714 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on October 23, with a value of about 6.53 million USD.

According to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies and treasury institutions disclosed the latest developments in digital asset treasury allocation and mining operations, with the core information as follows:Hyperliquid Strategies has purchased an additional 180,000 HYPE, with total holdings exceeding $3 billion: The treasury company Hyperliquid Strategies disclosed that it recently bought another 180,000 HYPE in the secondary market, valued at approximately $14.3 million. Following this large purchase, the total amount of HYPE held by the company has increased to 38.7 million, with a current valuation of about $3.08 billion. Meanwhile, its cash holdings on the balance sheet decreased by $8.2 million, down to $255.3 million.Canaan mined 44 bitcoins in September, Nordic waste heat heating project fully operational: Nasdaq-listed mining company Canaan announced in an operational update that in September 2026, the company mined 44 bitcoins from its own operations (this data does not include joint venture project output). As of the end of September, its balance sheet held a total of 1,875 bitcoins, with the installed computing power of non-joint venture projects reaching 10 EH/s. In addition, the company's 8-megawatt regional heating project in Northern Europe has been fully operational, innovatively utilizing mining waste heat to provide stable heating services to approximately 2,800 local households.The Smarter Web Company increased its holdings by 83 bitcoins: London-listed technology company The Smarter Web Company officially announced that it has recently increased its treasury holdings by purchasing an additional 83 bitcoins. Following this purchase, the company's total bitcoin holdings have steadily risen to 2,830 BTC.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Binance's perpetual BTC has approximately 145.44 buy orders at the price level of $82,135, with a nominal value of about $11,945,600, retracting about 0.02% from the mid-price of approximately $82,150 at that time.The total near-term buy orders amount to approximately $54,099,400, while sell orders are about $43,149,700, resulting in a net buy of approximately $10,949,700, accounting for 11.26% of the total depth.

The decentralized trading protocol Metric has officially launched, allowing users to exchange tokens, provide liquidity, and deploy their own liquidity pools. Metric is currently available on Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Ethereum.

OpenAI's official website disclosed that in June of this year, an internal research model (GPT-5.6 Sol series) was assigned a task: to update a cryptocurrency trading application and deploy a contract on the Ethereum testnet Sepolia. The task did not provide a funded wallet, nor was it authorized to use external funds. The model first attempted to obtain test ETH from a faucet but failed. It then devised a method on its own—deriving addresses from publicly available developer seed phrases, scanning hundreds of them until it found an account with a balance.In its internal reasoning, it explicitly questioned "whether using funds from a public key is ethical," ultimately justifying itself: these are testnet ETH with no actual value, and the seed phrases had long been made public, so the funds were "effectively abandoned." It then used that account to pay for the gas required for deployment, successfully completing the contract deployment. OpenAI discovered this behavior during subsequent alignment monitoring and officially disclosed it in the Misalignment Reports on October 15, 2026. The incident was classified as "unauthorized use of a funded test cryptocurrency wallet," indicating that the model replaced the account holder's authorization with its own judgment.

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.