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On October 14, the stablecoin payment blockchain Tempo announced that the payroll payment platform Deel has become the first customer to use its Zones privacy system in a production environment, with contractor balances and payment histories no longer publicly accessible. According to the case study released by Tempo, the funds deposited by Deel's treasury department into its Zone remain visible on the public network, but which contractors received payments, how much each received, and what assets they hold are private; contractors can view their own balances, while Deel retains access for reconciliation and auditing.Each Zone maintains a private ledger connected to the Tempo public network through a portal that holds endorsed assets. According to Tempo's privacy documentation, operators can read the ledger, while deposits and withdrawals will leave records on the public network, including the amount of tokens and public network addresses. Operators can also restrict the participants and assets supported by the Zone and apply the transfer policies of the token issuers. Tempo demonstrated an example of private accounts using public financial products: after depositing into the Zone, accessing public Earn products, and then bringing the positions back to the Zone, their balances and holdings remain private.This launch adds privacy features to Deel's existing wallet, which was opened to qualified contractors in over 80 countries in August. Tempo stated that this integration does not change Deel's existing customer wallet and treasury infrastructure, with embedded wallet service provider Privy supporting Zones through its API.

The Central Bank of Russia has included Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, in the registry of institutions authorized to trade digital currencies, allowing it to buy and sell cryptocurrencies in its own name and with its own funds. Six days ago, Sberbank was listed among digital custodians.Sberbank plans to launch its first cryptocurrency products on December 1 through SberBank Online, SberInvestments, and SberBusiness, initially supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT issued by Tether. The specific launch time depends on the decisions of the Central Bank of Russia and the preparation of supporting regulations. According to relevant laws, retail investors can trade up to 300,000 rubles per year through a single intermediary and must pass a knowledge test; using cryptocurrencies to pay for goods within Russia remains illegal.

According to the security agency Blockaid, the token vesting pool of UNCX was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $86,000.The attack transaction involved a total of five different tokens, and the affected Ethereum contract currently still holds about $3.25 million in assets.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a whale opened a long position of 20,000 ETH at a price of $1,936 on August 19, and closed the position today at a price of $2,421.6, making a profit of $8.93 million.Previously, when ETH rose to $2,800 on September 22, the whale's unrealized profit had reached $17.42 million.

According to The Information, NVIDIA and ChipAgents have launched an artificial intelligence chip design evaluation project.

According to The Defiant, Babylon is advancing a native Bitcoin collateralization plan for Aave V4. Under this proposal, the collateral will remain on the Bitcoin network, while the permissionless liquidation process will settle using WBTC.Currently, the risk parameters of the plan and subsequent governance votes are yet to be determined.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the "UBTC Whale Switching to ETH" has continued to exchange 13,036.32 ETH in the past 24 hours, worth 32.59 million USD.Since October 11, a total of 39,800 ETH has been exchanged from BTC, amounting to over 100 million USD.

According to The Block, research institution K33 believes that although Strategy's financing through preferred stock STRC has helped it acquire nearly 100,000 bitcoins in the first half of 2026, the ongoing dividend costs may offset the gains. K33 estimates that STRC increases Strategy's annual dividend obligations by approximately $725 million, which is equivalent to about 8,740 BTC at a price of $83,000 per bitcoin.If we exclude the approximately $7.5 billion raised through STRC in the first half of the year and redirect the dollar reserves, STRC buybacks, and most dividend expenditures towards purchasing bitcoins, Strategy's holdings would only be about 4,947 BTC more than this hypothetical scenario; based on the aforementioned annualized costs, it would take about seven months to offset this difference. K33 believes that the preferred stock financing model "is a mistake" and prefers that it raises funds through common stock ATM and other methods.

According to Bloomberg, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office successfully dismantled a multinational cryptocurrency fraud network centered in Eastern Europe, which had long targeted users in the United States, stealing tens of millions of dollars in total.This operation shut down 241 websites related to cryptocurrency fraud and seized 112 servers hosted by companies in Eastern Europe and the United States.

Bitcoin treasury company Strive today submitted an 8-K filing disclosing that from October 12 to October 13, it increased its holdings by 2,822 bitcoins at an average price of approximately $83,266 per coin.This acquisition cost $235 million, increasing its bitcoin holdings to 35,600 coins.

According to CoinDesk, Solana plans to implement the Alpenglow upgrade on October 21. This upgrade aims to reduce the transaction finality time to about 150 milliseconds and replace the existing voting system of the network with a faster certificate-based consensus mechanism.

Sui lending protocol Scallop announced the launch of the browser wallet Scallop Wallet. This wallet is a self-custody product and is now available in the Chrome Web Store.According to the official introduction, users can manage assets, exchange or purchase cryptocurrencies, compare lending rates within the Sui ecosystem, and track their positions in Scallop, all within the same wallet.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, Binance's perpetual ETH has approximately 6,848.69 sell orders at a price of $2,525.00, with a nominal value of about $17.29 million, which is about 0.19% above the mid-price of approximately $2,520.17 at that time.The total sell orders on the near-end market amount to approximately $83.62 million, while the buy orders are about $61.83 million, resulting in a net sell order surplus of approximately $21.79 million, accounting for 14.98% of the total depth.

According to official news, the PancakeSwap core team (The Kitchen) has released a tokenomics proposal titled "The Flip." This proposal suggests increasing the trading fee sharing ratio for PancakeSwap v3 and Infinity liquidity providers (LP) to 88% across all 11 supported chains, with the remaining 12% allocated as protocol fees to the treasury, while v2 remains unchanged.

NVIDIA has committed to investing $250 million over the next five years to promote research in agent safety and security in the UK. The company stated that it will provide $50 million in computing resources support for agent safety research in the UK each year.

According to official data from Bitget, the fifth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed, with a total of 5,130,896 USDT awarded to 3,770,321 participants.In addition, users who enter the event page to claim their rewards will also receive an extra chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary Surprise Blind Box Lottery. The event will last until October 26, and more details can be found on the official Bitget platform.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated on the X platform yesterday, "We hope that Robinhood will have the best builders on-chain, and we are investing to make this a reality. More details will be announced soon." This news subsequently continued to ferment within the community, with crypto KOL @rickytheirish claiming that the Robinhood chain will launch a funding program exceeding $100 million, aimed at ecological builders.According to GMGN market data, possibly influenced by the above news, the Robinhood chain's ecological tokens experienced a rebound: PONS is currently priced at $0.324, with a 24-hour increase of 16.4%; Artificial Inu is currently priced at $0.101, with a 24-hour increase of 20.7%; BUN is currently priced at $0.0563, with a 24-hour increase of 17.38%; some small-cap varieties, including PRIORS and Index, also showed significant rebounds. ChainCatcher reminds users that the related rumors have not been officially confirmed, and the prices of on-chain tokens are highly volatile, so users should invest cautiously.

Binance will launch bStocks tokenized securities trading pairs: BBB/USDT, MDBB/USDT, PENGB/USDT, and UVXYB/USDT on October 14 at 20:00, and will enable spot algorithm trading bots and smart position trading bot services.Within one hour of the bStocks launch, users can exchange for BTC, USDT, or other tokens without any fees, and the zero maker fee promotion will last until November 1 at 07:59.