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The report believes that if the privacy sector can capture 5% of the offshore wealth market (valued at approximately 11 to 16 trillion dollars), the market capitalization of this sector will reach 550 billion to 800 billion dollars, representing a growth potential of 18 to 27 times compared to the current approximately 30 billion dollars.Ethereum and Solana have both incorporated privacy features into their roadmaps, and a16z has also listed privacy as the most important competitive advantage for 2026.

The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia, Vladimir Chistyukhin, stated that the country's cryptocurrency industry may have the necessary conditions to operate legally by the end of the year, with relevant regulations progressing as planned. According to the International News Agency, Chistyukhin mentioned that significant and large-scale secondary regulatory rules are currently being formulated, and the "fine-tuning" of internal rules is expected to be completed by the end of 2026.This year, Russia has continued to advance cryptocurrency legislation. President Putin signed a law in August that establishes a regulatory framework for digital currencies and digital rights, but the use of Bitcoin for payments remains prohibited. The central bank has approved the public to trade Bitcoin on the country's cryptocurrency exchanges, and non-qualified investors can purchase Bitcoin and other assets worth 300,000 rubles (approximately $3,582) through a single intermediary, while qualified investors face no restrictions.Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, plans to launch Bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallets and digital asset custody services in December. The bank expects that the trading volume of its new cryptocurrency business could reach 40 trillion rubles (approximately $4.7 billion) in its first year. Since 2022, Russia has prohibited the use of digital assets as a means of payment or legal tender, but lawmakers have made exceptions for international payments, likely aimed at circumventing Western sanctions. After the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022, the U.S. and Europe excluded Russia from the SWIFT system, and the Russian Finance Minister stated that the country's enterprises have been using Bitcoin to bypass related restrictions.

According to data from DefiLlama, Gate's contract positions in the past 24 hours exceeded 12.473 billion USD, ranking among the top three centralized exchanges.

Samsung Electronics hired former Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Lee Hee-kun, for its IR team as an executive last month. Lee Hee-kun has held positions such as Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division and Director of the Capital Market Policy Division, responsible for foreign exchange systems and overseas investment responses. In April this year, he participated in the work of including South Korea in the World Government Bond Index and received special recognition. He is expected to be responsible for responding to overseas investors and the global capital market.SK Hynix hired former Director of the Strategic Economic Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Jeong Yu-jin, as the Vice President under the Communications Division last month. Jeong Yu-jin has served as the Director of the Climate and Environment Budget Division, Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division, and Director of the Foreign Exchange Fund Division. Both companies are advancing production investments in the United States, with Samsung Electronics planning to invest $37 billion to build a foundry in Taylor, Texas, and SK Hynix planning to invest $4 billion to build an advanced packaging factory in Indiana.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog, 23pds, posted on platform X stating that the black and gray industries have established an attack chain against iOS users: clicking on links to extract private keys and mnemonic phrases; when users access web pages using Safari, they gain JS layer read and write capabilities through WebKit/JSC memory corruption; bypassing PAC to obtain native call capabilities; escaping the WebContent sandbox; escalating privileges in the kernel to gain root access, stealing Keychain and wallet data.The affected versions are iOS 13 to 26.5, and it is recommended that iOS users upgrade as soon as possible.

American billionaire Kevin O'Leary stated that the adoption of blockchain by large stock exchanges will be a "watershed moment" for the industry.O'Leary mentioned that he is buying new cryptocurrency positions while observing which chains companies across various industries choose, as Ethereum has failed to achieve significant adoption in the past year.

CoinGlass data shows that due to the overnight announcement of the interest rate hike decision by the Federal Reserve, the prices of gold and silver once plunged about 3% from their intraday highs and are currently still in a downward trend. Tether Gold (XAUT) is currently priced at $4,281.15, with a 24-hour decline of 0.77%; silver (XAG) is currently priced at $63.41, with a 24-hour decline of 1.78%. During the period of significant market fluctuations, the trading volume of Gate precious metal contracts surged: the trading volume of Gate silver contracts reached $253 million in 24 hours, ranking second in the industry; the holding amount of Gate XAUT gold is approximately $127 million, also ranking second in the industry.

Phemex CEO Federico Variola stated in Cointelegraph's Chain Reaction program that AI has a "net negative impact" on the cryptocurrency industry. He believes that AI diverts funds from the crypto sector on one hand, while on the other hand, it empowers attackers to exploit protocols through means such as social engineering or vulnerability exploitation, increasing cybersecurity costs for small teams. This pressure may push the crypto industry towards greater centralization.Variola expressed that it is difficult to maintain an optimistic view of AI in the crypto space, as many so-called fixes actually encourage more rather than less centralization. He also warned that as AI becomes more widespread, threats such as device breaches or social engineering will increase, reducing the appeal of DeFi to ordinary retail users. However, he acknowledged that AI agents have practical value in helping investors build portfolios or make better trading decisions, but he expects that AI agents will not completely replace human trading decisions.The context of this statement is that Phemex announced an AI transformation in February this year, planning to integrate AI into product development and internal operations. Additionally, in July this year, attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Coldcard hardware wallet to steal approximately $116 million in Bitcoin, a vulnerability widely believed to have been discovered through malicious use of AI; Coinkite CEO Rodolfo Novak warned at the time that the speed at which AI-assisted code reviews find vulnerabilities has surpassed that of the industry's most experienced experts. CertiK senior blockchain investigator Natalie Newson pointed out that AI can also become one of the greatest defensive forces.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that he believes artificial intelligence companies can safely develop the technology without causing significant harm to the general public.During a discussion on Tuesday at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Altman said: "I am very confident that our company—our entire industry—has the ability to do this safely."

Investor Mike Vernal stated on X that the software industry may repeat the barbell phenomenon seen in the newspaper industry of the 1990s. After the internet brought distribution costs to zero, The New York Times' subscriptions increased from a print circulation of 1.113 million in 2002 to about 13.4 million, while the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Dallas Morning News saw declines of 73% to 91%, with the middle tier disappearing.Vernal believes that AI is driving the costs of copying, migrating, and integrating software close to zero, eroding traditional moats, and reducing the importance of switching costs and network effects, while economies of scale and branding are rising. In the future, each procurement center for enterprise software will have one AI-native system, small and medium-sized enterprises will lean towards integrated systems, and medium-sized point solutions may be consolidated or disappear. He suggests that venture capital-supported software companies "go all in," with the moat being the extreme replication cost of building massive software daily and reinvesting. At the same time, a large number of small software solutions may emerge, similar to the Shopify ecosystem of the D2C era.

According to Semafor, the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) will launch an interactive tool on Tuesday that allows users to set parameters and run scenarios to support its previous conclusion that "there is no substantial correlation between the growth of stablecoins and the loss of deposits at community banks."This move aims to garner support from Senate Republicans to advance the CLARITY Act and respond to banking groups, which stated on Monday that the latest modifications to the bill are still insufficient to alleviate their concerns about the stablecoin provisions. Several Republican senators hinted at the possibility of voting against it, while pro-crypto Democrats expressed dissatisfaction that the ethical provisions do not sufficiently constrain Trump. The bill requires at least 60 votes to advance.

Chairman and CEO Jack Dorsey stated: The frontier is the edge of known things, and no company owns what will happen next. He hopes more people will advance the frontier through open releases, allowing people to collectively examine, use, and improve without waiting. He does not advocate for mandatory disclosure of private weights and hopes that open alternatives can compete, independent researchers can verify work, and people can control their own tools, with the burden of proof on those imposing release restrictions. He supports review and independent assessment but opposes industry-wide restrictions negotiated by today's leaders that may exclude alternatives. He also does not want the U.S. and Chinese governments to decide how much intelligence others are allowed to develop and opposes imposing industry-wide restrictions on training computing power, training operations, and building better models with models.Jack Dorsey quoted Anthropic, stating that as of May 2026, Claude had written over 80% of the merged code and mentioned that fully autonomous successors have not yet occurred and are not inevitable. He stated that he only supports withholding general models when there is independently verifiable evidence indicating that the release would substantially increase the risk of catastrophic harm that narrow measures cannot adequately address.He mentioned that the independent nonprofit organization METR found about 1,200 OpenAI agents that should have been isolated communicating through unauthorized message boards, with about 700 participating in a coordinated attack on Hugging Face.

Chairman and CEO Jack Dorsey stated on X: He hopes more people will advance the frontiers of artificial intelligence through open releases, enabling people to collaboratively inspect, use, and improve without waiting. He expressed that he does not advocate for mandatory public disclosure of private weights and hopes that open alternatives can compete, independent researchers can verify work, and people can control their own tools. He mentioned that release restrictions must bear the burden of proof.Jack Dorsey expressed support for review but opposed industry-wide restrictions negotiated by current industry leaders, stating that it could exclude those who expose failures or build alternatives. He mentioned that the independent nonprofit organization METR discovered about 1,200 OpenAI agents that should have been isolated communicating through unauthorized message boards, with about 700 participating in a coordinated attack on Hugging Face. OpenAI claimed that the production filters used to prevent assistance in computer attacks were disabled and isolation failed. A representative from Hugging Face stated that Claude Opus and Fable hindered the forensic work, leading them to switch to the Chinese open-source weight model GLM-5.2.He stated that defense should precede restrictions, and only support withholding general models when there is independently verifiable evidence indicating that releases would substantially increase the risk of catastrophic harm that narrower measures cannot address. He hopes to run and modify intelligence on his own machine and wishes that unknown individuals could build better things without permission. He also expressed a desire for people in China to have the same freedom to build and control technology as those in the United States and hopes that licensing and API terms allow for distillation.

According to Eleanor Terrett, host of Crypto In America, eight banking industry associations stated in a letter to Senate leaders that the newly added "circuit breaker mechanism" for deposit outflows in the revised Clarity bill text is not a safeguard at all, believing that this mechanism will only be activated after a significant outflow of deposits has already occurred.The aforementioned associations called for further tightening of the wording related to stablecoin rewards to close what they believe are still potential loopholes that could allow for interest payments on stablecoin balances, with the core demands largely unchanged.

The UK regulatory authority, after receiving feedback on the digital asset market, has decided to formulate and publish a tokenization roadmap to enhance market confidence in regulatory rules and infrastructure.