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As Trump's tariff policy restricts foreign steel supplies, U.S. steel prices have risen to their highest level in over four years, with hot-rolled coil prices increasing by 52%, reaching $1,255 per short ton. This move has boosted the profits of domestic steel producers but raised costs for manufacturers.

According to Jinshi Data, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda stated that Japan's core inflation is close to 2%, marking a policy shift, and the central bank's policy has entered a new phase where inflation cannot be allowed to rise further. Due to core inflation being close to 2% and the financial environment remaining accommodative, the Bank of Japan will continue to raise interest rates and adjust its monetary easing policy. The central bank will discuss whether to adjust the assessment of "core inflation close to 2%" at the upcoming meeting.Kazuo Ueda mentioned that the situation in the Middle East, demand for artificial intelligence, and exchange rates will influence the timing of interest rate hikes. The central bank has been monitoring the impact of the weakening yen and the Middle East situation on inflation. He also stated that it is difficult to make a clear statement about Japan's neutral interest rate, and the stability of 2% inflation is becoming increasingly important. The central bank will focus on consolidating the 2% inflation target. Additionally, Ueda noted that the main takeaway from this week's meeting (including the G20) was the communication with other policymakers regarding the impact of the Middle East conflict and demand for artificial intelligence on the global and Japanese economy, and there was nothing heard that deviated from the Bank of Japan's fundamental views. He exchanged opinions with Federal Reserve Chairman Waller but will not disclose specific details; since the meeting in Asheville, he has not contacted U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen.

The Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC posted on the X platform that the issuance processing of JPYC on the Polygon network experienced delays starting around 14:00. The related issues have now been resolved, and the backlog of issuance applications is being processed in order.JPYC emphasized that the JPYC issuance services on other networks and all redemption processing across networks were not affected by this incident.

The Hong Kong police announced that over the past two weeks, they have received more than 150 cases of WhatsApp account hijacking scams, with total losses exceeding 15 million Hong Kong dollars. Recently, an employee of a local company engaged in virtual currency exchange encountered account hijacking. The scammers blocked the original work group and blacklisted members, copied the group image, name, members, and profile pictures to create a fake group, impersonating a customer representative to request exchanges.The victim, as per usual practice, first transferred cryptocurrency to the designated wallet of the other party. It was only after discovering that the customer account balance was insufficient and calling to verify that they realized they had been scammed, resulting in a loss of over 4 million Hong Kong dollars for the company. The police remind that WhatsApp groups can be forged, but the member phone numbers cannot be exactly the same as those in the real group, and the timestamps of conversations cannot be replicated. They also suggest enabling two-factor authentication and verifying the other party by phone before making remittances, avoiding logging into accounts on public WiFi or public computers.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated that we are seeing synchronized tightening of monetary policy in most parts of the world, which means there is no "free-riding" situation.

The Sharjah Police in the United Arab Emirates, in conjunction with the Ministry of Interior, launched an operation codenamed "End of Battle," successfully dismantling four interconnected transnational crime networks and arresting 33 suspects from 12 nationalities, including key leaders.Investigations revealed that the crime networks were involved in illegal activities such as cyber infiltration, money laundering, digital wallet theft, fraud, extortion, and illegal data trading. During the operation, the police protected over 30 businesses and institutions worldwide, ensuring the safety of assets exceeding $17.7 billion (approximately 65 billion UAE Dirhams), confiscated assets worth over $54.4 million (approximately 200 million UAE Dirhams), and conducted in-depth examinations and evidence collection on more than 3,000 digital wallets.

U.S. Democratic Senator Mark Kelly accused Trump of purchasing $5 million in SpaceX bonds and announced a significant space policy change affecting SpaceX two days later, questioning the corrupt nature of his actions.

According to The Block, the developer of the tokenized asset settlement platform Multiliquid, Uniform Labs, has raised a total of $8 million in seed and pre-seed funding rounds, with the latest seed round led by Polychain, and participation from Strobe Ventures, CMT Digital, Metalayer Ventures, Generative Ventures, and Circle Ventures.Multiliquid supports institutions in converting between tokenized assets and stablecoins through single atomic transactions, and is currently deployed on Ethereum and Solana.

Polygon Labs official announcement, Bor v2.1.3 is officially released to the public, previously distributed in private version form to validators and major infrastructure providers. This update fixes two medium-severity denial-of-service vulnerabilities in BlockSTM V2 parallel block execution, both submitted by security researchers through the Immunefi bug bounty program.Unbounded keccak256 cache issue: Attackers can fill hundreds of MiB of cache during the speculative execution phase by constructing specific transactions, leading to node memory exhaustion and delayed block production. The fix is to set a capacity limit on the shared cache. Repeated code hash calculation issue in parallel execution: A single transaction can cause the parallel processor to take about 11 seconds, severely affecting node activity. The fix is to cache code hash results on a per-transaction basis.In addition, this update also includes several internal hardening measures: the transaction pool address filtering adds interception for EIP-7702 SetCode authorization, RPC batch execution pool concurrency limit fixes, consistency fixes for reading balances across self-destruct boundaries in parallel execution, and an automatic cleanup mechanism for pending transactions (default 3 hours). The affected versions are Bor v2.1.1 and v2.1.2. v2.1.3 is a non-hard fork, and nodes can upgrade individually without coordination. No exploitation records of the two vulnerabilities have been found on the mainnet and testnet Amoy.

According to a report by BBC, multiple X platform accounts under the Irish police (An Garda Síochána) were hacked, including @GardaTraffic with 600,000 followers and @GardaInfo with nearly 300,000 followers. The hackers removed the original brand information from the accounts and posted cryptocurrency promotional content, while also altering the account's geographical location to Amsterdam.Some posts have been flagged by the platform as being associated with banned accounts. The Irish police have been contacted for comments, and the investigation into the incident is still ongoing.

DeepSeek API Platform has released a notification regarding service recovery and compensation, stating that between 8:11 and 13:04 Beijing time on October 15, 2026, its service system experienced a failure, resulting in the API service being unavailable during that period. The platform apologizes for this and has stated that a comprehensive investigation and rectification regarding service stability has been initiated, with efforts to streamline and eliminate single point dependencies to prevent similar issues from occurring again.As compensation, the platform will fully refund the consumption amount of user accounts within 7 days (from October 8 to October 14) in the form of bonus credits, which will be automatically credited to the accounts. API billing deductions will first be taken from the bonus account.

According to the Gulf Times, Sharjah police have dismantled four interconnected cross-border crime gangs, involving 33 individuals and enterprises.The four gangs are suspected of network attacks and data theft, money laundering using virtual assets, stealing digital wallets through social engineering attacks, and violently coercing victims to hand over wallet passwords. After reviewing hundreds of pieces of digital evidence, the police identified the suspects and launched raids.

According to CTV News, the Toronto police announced the arrest of 7 people in a violent kidnapping case targeting cryptocurrency holders and the subsequent investigation, including 3 members of the Canadian Armed Forces, with a total of 82 criminal charges filed.The police stated that the victim was kidnapped on July 25, handcuffed, and beaten, as the suspects attempted to obtain access to their cryptocurrency assets and corporate security systems, after which they were released. The investigation also seized firearms, drugs, and approximately 2,500 stolen military ammunition, and the case is still under investigation.

According to reports from Strait News, in March 2025, Zheng Mouyi, Zou Moumou, and others exploited the weak regulation and difficulty of evidence collection in offline USDT over-the-counter trading to plan a "black eat black" robbery crime under the guise of virtual currency offline trading.The gang raised over 340,000 yuan and invited virtual currency merchants for offline transactions. During the transaction, after the merchant transferred over 40,000 USDT into the virtual wallet controlled by the gang, Zheng Mouyi sprayed the victim's eyes with chili water on the spot and, along with others, violently seized all the transaction funds. After the incident, six involved individuals divided the stolen money. The day after the incident, the public security authorities quickly arrested all involved individuals, recovering most of the stolen funds and returning them to the victim.The Jin'an District Prosecutor's Office legally prosecuted Zheng Mouyi, Zou Moumou, and four others for robbery. In 2026, the court heard the case and sentenced the five defendants to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from five years and seven months to ten years and four months for the crime of robbery.

According to The Block, Starknet developer StarkWare has officially opened its privacy trading service OffMarket to the public, allowing users to trade on Polymarket without publicly associating their positions with their accounts.The service has been undergoing limited testing since August, operating based on Starknet's zero-knowledge technology and shared privacy pool. Currently, the USDC deposit limit for each account is set at $1,000, and StarkWare has stated that it will adjust this limit based on demand and usage. Orders are still executed on Polymarket, facing the same buyers and sellers and market prices.OffMarket is completely non-custodial, with users' private keys stored in the browser, and funds held in Starknet's open-source privacy pool. Polymarket positions are held in contracts by wallets derived from user signatures. OpenZeppelin completed an audit of the privacy pool contract in June, finding no serious or high-risk issues, and StarkWare completed formal verification the following month. StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson stated that the project stems from his long-term investment in the field of financial privacy and mentioned that OffMarket is bringing zero-knowledge technology to Polymarket.A spokesperson for StarkWare stated that OffMarket still cannot prevent others from identifying traders through transaction size or timing, and the market, prices, and transactions themselves remain public. Transfers of USDC from the shared pool to new wallets can also be seen.

According to the official blog of Polygon, Polygon Labs announced the completion of its acquisition of Coinme, and its payment infrastructure product Polygon Open Money Stack (OMS) has officially become a payment platform regulated by the United States.Currently, the platform covers 48 states in the U.S., holds 37 state-level money transfer licenses and 11 exemptions, and has registered as a money services business with FinCEN.