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The Newton Foundation stated that the attacker in the Binance theft incident seemingly made an operational error earlier today, transferring approximately 8 million NEWT and 17 other tokens directly into the NEWT token contract address, with the total value of the related tokens amounting to about 3.5 million USD at current prices. This includes tokens such as ANIME, ANKR, ARPA, BARD, FTT, LQTY, SIGN, and WOO.The foundation emphasized that the NEWT token contract itself was not attacked. Upon inspection, the contract is immutable, has no owner or administrator, and all management rights were relinquished on-chain in 2025, with upgrade functions permanently disabled. Therefore, no one, including the foundation, can retrieve the tokens that were directly transferred into the contract.The foundation stated that these tokens are now permanently locked, out of the attacker’s control, and cannot be sold on the market anymore. The relevant investigation results have been communicated to Binance, and the foundation will continue to provide assistance.

The commander of the United States Central Command stated that strong blockade measures have successfully prevented Iran from exporting any oil.

According to an analysis by the blockchain security agency GoPlus, on October 29, attackers extracted 22.43 ETH and 11 types of ERC-20 tokens from the Ethereum L1 custody contract of the aggregated Layer2 network zkLink Nova through a single transaction. The total value calculated at the time of the attack was approximately $797,000.The vulnerability originated from the claimMessage function of the Arbitrator contract, which did not clear the temporarily stored message hash, allowing verified messages to be reused. The attackers exploited the publicly callable authorization relayer SyncL2TxHashRelayer to forge the L2 batch root and execute false withdrawals. The zkLink team has confirmed the attack, suspended block production on the Nova network, urgently patched the affected contracts, and temporarily closed the withdrawal channel, with a comprehensive security check to follow.

According to current laws, those who operate virtual asset businesses without declaration can be sentenced to a maximum of 5 years in prison or fined 50 million Korean Won. This law also applies to foreign operators targeting Korean residents. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) stated that undeclared operators are in a regulatory blind spot and may be used for money laundering.In June of this year, DAXA and compliant operators jointly conducted an investigation and found that the average transaction fee of the operators under investigation was between 1.5% and 10%, which is up to 62 times the average level of the top five Korean exchanges (0.16%).

During a speech at the 47th Financial Innovation Forum of the Hong Kong Securities Professionals Association, Chan Ho Lam from the Hong Kong Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau stated that in the face of the wave of cutting-edge technologies such as AI and blockchain, we must not only actively embrace this transformation but also harness the power of technology to jointly write a new chapter for Hong Kong's financial market.Chan Ho Lam mentioned that the Chief Executive of Hong Kong clearly pointed out in last month's "Five-Year Plan" that finance is the foundation and greatest advantage of Hong Kong. In terms of the development of financial technology, Hong Kong is fully promoting the comprehensive application of artificial intelligence in various financial sectors.

According to official news from the decentralized trading aggregator 1inch, the team is aware of the attack on the Binance trading platform and is in contact with them to provide assistance. The risk management team, in collaboration with ZeroShadow, SEAL 911, TRM Labs, and others, has blocked addresses related to the attack on the 1inch dApp, 1inch Wallet, and 1inch API within an hour and continues to add to the list, which is being synchronized with resolvers and integrators.Some 1INCH tokens are among the stolen assets. Since 1INCH is a standard ERC-20 token with no freezing or blacklisting features, the stolen tokens cannot be frozen by anyone. 1inch stated that they will fully cooperate with Binance and law enforcement agencies in the recovery efforts.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 11:53 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana chain.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Folks Finance (FOLKS) will unlock approximately 910,000 tokens at 12:00 PM Beijing time on November 6, with a value of about 2.07 million USD.

The blockchain infrastructure company Gattaca announced the launch of the open-source Ethereum consensus client Silver. The company operates the Ethereum block builder Titan Builder and the relay Titan Relay. Gattaca stated that Silver was built from scratch, aiming to support shorter time slots and post-quantum security while maintaining decentralization, censorship resistance, privacy, and security. Currently, Silver is in the alpha stage, with audits and final testing yet to be completed.Gattaca claims that Silver's state transition function has a p99 latency of less than 10 milliseconds, approximately 10 times faster than other clients. During the mainnet window from October 17 to 20, 2026, Silver, Prysm, Lighthouse, and Grandine processed the same 20,300 canonical blocks. The median block processing latency for Silver was 6.5 milliseconds, with a p99 of 9.5 milliseconds, and the slowest block in the sample was 17.8 milliseconds; the second-lowest median was 33.5 milliseconds, and the second-lowest p99 was 91 milliseconds. All four clients operated as supernodes, subscribing to all 64 proof subnets and hosting all 128 data columns, with the executing client being ethrex v29.0.1.The above comparison used consensus processing metrics available for each client, excluding execution client processing time. Silver is based on Gattaca's Flux framework, using six threads bound to CPU cores for parallel processing, and comes with a low-latency peer-to-peer network, state hash library, formally verified BLS and KZG cryptographic libraries, and a node cluster for penalty protection. In another comparison, supernodes needed to verify about 32 times the proofs and about 16 times the KZG unit proofs relative to the default configuration, with block processing latency and resident memory still within a similar range.

General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of the United States Central Command, reported to Trump on the latest situation regarding the Iran war, focusing on maritime blockades and escort operations. McKenzie also introduced the U.S. military's actions to guide tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the economic pressure measures implemented in conjunction with the Treasury Department.Qatar is promoting the avoidance of war between the U.S. and Iran and restarting negotiations.

The cryptocurrency investment firm 1kx released a report stating that publicly listed companies contributed 16% of the blockchain industry's revenue in 2026, more than doubling from 7% in 2022. The report compiled data from over 2,600 protocols and the financial reports of 104 publicly listed companies, with data up to the third quarter; revenue remains concentrated among a few enterprises, with the top six publicly listed companies accounting for about 50% to 60% of that group's revenue.1kx expects the total revenue of the blockchain industry to decline by 28% year-on-year in 2026 to approximately $100 billion, but the share of publicly listed companies continues to expand. Circle's listing in 2025 brought new trading listings, combined with revenue growth from existing companies, driving the share increase; the blockchain-related revenue of the top ten publicly listed companies in the study has doubled over the past three years. In the first half of 2026, Coinbase and Circle together generated approximately $3.3 billion in blockchain-related revenue, publicly listed Bitcoin mining companies around $2 billion, and traditional financial institutions such as JPMorgan, BlackRock, CME Group, Visa, and Robinhood collectively about $1.1 billion.The report also pointed out that revenue from broader economic activities in the third quarter surpassed blockchain infrastructure revenue for the first time, at approximately $5.3 billion and $5.1 billion, respectively. Categories such as tokenized assets, payments, and prediction markets grew by 58% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, with institutional adoption accounting for a total of 33% of the blockchain's total revenue in the third quarter, and an expected annual share of 30%. Data from RWA.xyz shows that the scale of tokenized real-world assets grew by about 51% over the past year, rising from $26.16 billion in October 2025 to $39.54 billion; tokenized stocks grew 471% during the same period to $3.77 billion.

On October 26, a mining machine running on the FutureBit Apollo Solo solution mined Bitcoin block 973,262, receiving a complete block reward of 3.154 BTC and collecting transaction fees from 2,477 transactions within that block. Multiple block explorers, including mempool.space, marked the discoverer of this block as "FutureBit Apollo Solo," with its coinbase transaction containing text mentioning FutureBit and Apollo.FutureBit stated on X that the Apollo device or Solo Node assembles block templates, allocates work, and submits complete blocks using its built-in solo pool. This is at least the fourth block attributed to FutureBit Apollo Solo, with the previous three being 867,760, 881,423, and 888,737. FutureBit designs Apollo hardware for users who wish to run a full Bitcoin node and mine independently at home, with the latest model, Apollo III, achieving a maximum hash rate of 18 TH/s in turbo mode and integrating a full node.Solo mining is often referred to as "lottery-style mining" due to the extremely low probability of winning relative to block rewards. Against the backdrop of the Bitcoin network's hash rate recently being around 1,070--1,087 EH/s, the expected time for home devices with 10--18 TH/s to mine a block is still measured in centuries at current difficulty levels, but verified successful cases of solo mining continue to appear on-chain. Additionally, the next day, another miner successfully mined a solo block through CKPool Solo.

The deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran stated that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and is under the control of Islamic fighters. As long as the conditions proposed by Iran have not been met, the strait will continue to be blocked.

Phase announced the launch of its blockchain mainnet and secured a commitment of $45 million from Kirill Eves, the founder of the payment company Unlimit. Phase stated that there are no external investors, and this commitment covers the development for the first two years of the project and provides funding support for the subsequent two years.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 19:38 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana chain.

The bank-oriented blockchain project Rayls announced that investors and the team have extended the vesting arrangement for the RLS token. The relevant tokens will be unlocked monthly over four years starting from May 2027, replacing the original unlocking plan scheduled for December 2026.Rayls stated that combined with the lock-up extension announced by the core developer Parfin in August this year, the two arrangements will reduce the circulating RLS by approximately 1.2 billion by 2027, about 25% less than the original plan. At the same time, over 500 million RLS will still be locked as of December 2026. Rayls claimed that the adjusted unlocking pace is slower and smoother. The project is positioned as on-chain infrastructure serving banks, with investors including ParaFi Capital, Framework, Valor Capital, and Alexia Ventures.

The environmental data network Nubila Network posted on X, announcing the token NB unlocking arrangement. The project stated that NB was launched about a year ago and currently has over 20,000 weather stations covering more than 120 countries. The one-year lock-up for investors and advisors will end this week, and the project will not adopt a monthly unlocking schedule over several years, but will release its allocation amount in one go at 01:00 (UTC) on October 31, amounting to 16.25% of the total supply, after which there will be no further unlocking for investors or advisors.The official statement also mentioned that the core team's originally scheduled unlocking shares for this month will be locked for another year, and the core team tokens will not be unlocked before October 31, 2027. The total supply remains at 1 billion NB, and no new tokens will be issued, with mining rewards continuing as usual. After the release is completed, the project will update the circulating supply on CoinMarketCap. The official reminded holders that no action is required on their part and stated that they will not proactively contact users through private messages.

According to a report from the Beijing Daily client, the Market Supervision Administration of Haidian District, Beijing, investigated and handled the city's first illegal case of assisting pyramid schemes using blockchain and virtual currency technology, resulting in a technology company being fined and confiscated a total of over 930,000 yuan.The technology company involved is an outsourcing service provider for a certain public blockchain, offering support such as operations, market services, publicity and promotion, exchange docking, and maintenance. This public blockchain launched the "Atomic Plan" and "Hathaway Plan," which are centered around recruiting people for rebates, using the number of recruited individuals as the basis for rebates, and requiring participants to invest funds to obtain membership qualifications. Despite being aware of the pyramid scheme applications associated with this public blockchain, the involved company continued to provide technical operations, external publicity, and maintenance of virtual currency trading channels, facilitating the flow of funds and the spread of activities related to the pyramid scheme.Ultimately, the pyramid scheme activities of this public blockchain were investigated by public security authorities, the organizers were criminally detained, and the involved technology company was administratively punished with a total fine and confiscation of over 930,000 yuan for providing facilitative conditions.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Ethena (ENA) will unlock approximately 93.75 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on November 5, worth about 18.37 million USD.

Blockaid has released two attacker addresses, example attack transactions, affected contracts, and cross-chain bridge addresses. One of the attacker addresses (0xaCA0...5718) currently has a balance of approximately $11,000.