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According to the official announcement, Gate Money will launch the "Account Opening Gifts" event from October 28 at 16:00 to November 11 at 16:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who complete registration and identity verification, successfully open an account for the first time, and complete a valid bank transfer will have the chance to receive random rewards ranging from 2 to 100 USDT.After the event ends, Gate will randomly select up to 5,000 users who pass the qualification review, with each person eligible to receive a random reward of 2 to 100 USDT. Each individual can claim the reward once, and no trading or purchase of financial products is required. The specific account opening and reward rules are subject to the official announcement.Gate Money is an integrated financial service application within the Gate App, facilitating cross-border capital flow and daily consumption scenarios. Eligible users can directly open a USD bank account in their own name with one click through the Gate App. The platform supports cross-border deposits and withdrawals in four major fiat currencies: US Dollar (USD), Euro (EUR), British Pound (GBP), and United Arab Emirates Dirham (AED) via SWIFT, and integrates functions such as Convert asset exchange, Earn financial management, Gate Card consumption, and Pay payment, achieving efficient connections from global fund transfers, multi-currency asset management to daily payments.

On October 28, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng stated that four data breaches were reported that day. In the cryptocurrency sector, Coinbase vendor Amplitude exposed some users' contact data, but funds were unaffected; South Korean trading platform Bithumb experienced a user data breach.In traditional finance, South Korean securities firms Mirae Asset and Daishin Securities also experienced data breaches. Zhao Changpeng mentioned that it is impossible to prevent breaches from occurring, but users can protect themselves. The leaked trading platform data includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, identification documents, and transaction records, most of which are used for phishing, SIM card hijacking, and social engineering attacks.Zhao Changpeng suggested reducing the information shared and using separate email aliases for each trading platform, so that in the event of a breach, it cannot be linked to other accounts while identifying which service experienced the breach.

According to Cointelegraph, the prediction market platform Kalshi has set a deposit limit of $2,500 per month for users aged 18 to 20, which is one of its new restrictions to curb high-risk trading among young adults.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog, 23pds, stated that the data breach at Coinbase has been confirmed, but it has not yet been confirmed whether passwords or funds have been stolen. Hackers obtained contact information for over 70,000 users.

Web3 infrastructure and payment network Diamante announced that its ecosystem has experienced a security breach involving unauthorized activities by malicious actors. Upon discovery, the team immediately activated emergency security protocols and coordinated with exchange partners, market makers, liquidity providers, and listing partners to suspend affected withdrawals and transfers, restrict unauthorized asset movement, and prevent further exploitation.Diamante stated that the investigation has identified the suspected attackers and is coordinating with law enforcement agencies, government entities, and jurisdictional partners in multiple countries to seek legal action and asset recovery. A comprehensive incident review has been initiated to determine the cause of the breach, the sequence of events, the scope of affected assets, and to strengthen the infrastructure. Diamante is committed to ensuring that every affected participant is fully compensated and will continue to update the incident scope, asset recovery progress, and protective measures upon obtaining verified information.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, Electrum released version 4.8.3 on October 24, 2026, fixing a security vulnerability that had been used in real attacks.Malicious servers can present users with forged transactions and induce them to sign transactions that pay the attacker's address when users attempt to accelerate transactions with a replacement fee (RBF); attackers do not need to obtain the user's private key. Electrum stated that it has received two related reports, one of which involved a user losing Bitcoin after increasing the transaction fee, and advised users to update to version 4.8.3.

According to The Defiant, Robinhood announced that its Earn feature is now available to all eligible users, allowing users to participate in on-chain USDG lending. The funds deposited by users will go into the Morpho vault curated by Steakhouse on the Robinhood Chain.The rewards earned will be used to supplement lending interest, and withdrawals will depend on the liquidity status of the vault. This feature is available to all eligible users, who can earn income through on-chain lending.

According to Tencent news, on October 27, Tencent's cross-border payment platform TenPay Global reached a cooperation with South Korea's Samsung Wallet and Woori Bank to jointly promote the interconnectivity of cross-border QR code payments.After South Korean users come to China, they can use the Samsung Wallet Money e-wallet within Samsung Wallet to scan the WeChat Pay collection code or show the payment code to merchants, allowing them to spend at tens of millions of WeChat Pay merchants within China.

Blink Wallet, a Bitcoin wallet, announced a monthly idle fee of $1 for custodial accounts that have not logged into the app for 12 consecutive months. This adjustment was initiated at the beginning of September through a change in the terms of service and push notifications were sent to inactive users, with the first deduction completed in mid-October. According to a blog post released by the company, users who log back in within 12 months will have the deducted fees refunded.This fee applies only to custodial accounts and aims to alleviate the burden that inactive accounts place on the startup. The announcement stated that these accounts incur ongoing costs related to ledger and infrastructure maintenance, record verification retention, compliance monitoring and reporting, as well as support for claims, which were previously shared by active users through regular in-app transaction fees. Sources told Bitcoin Magazine that approximately 100,000 accounts met the criteria for inactivity at the time of the first deduction, with a total balance exceeding $800,000. The first deduction collected about $45,000, primarily from accounts that had been idle for over a year with small Bitcoin balances. Blink Wallet originated from the Bitcoin adoption wave in El Salvador, initially named Bitcoin Beach Wallet, and was an early custodial Lightning Network wallet that introduced the Stable Sats feature to hedge value against the US dollar. The wallet was spun off from the founding company Galoy in October 2024, operated by Lukas Duczko and a new board, with Duczko holding a controlling stake, while Galoy continues as a service provider and minority shareholder, also establishing the Bitcoin Beach Fund.In recent years, custodial wallets have faced overall pressure, with Wallet of Satoshi, Alby, and Blue Wallet successively halting custodial wallet services and shifting to self-custody infrastructures like Spark. The EU MiCA regulations regarding licensing and KYC compliance requirements are an important backdrop. Blink launched a self-custody wallet supported by Spark in June 2026, and its user base is still adapting to this transition. On September 19, hackers withdrew 6.61 Bitcoins from custodial wallet users through compromised management tools, and the company's investors subsequently announced that they would fully compensate affected users.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao stated today at the BNB Standard Corporation (BNC) Nasdaq bell-ringing ceremony that BNB has evolved from a simple token launched in 2017 into an ecosystem with its own independent blockchain. BNB Chain serves approximately 30 million users monthly, with over 3 million daily users, making it one of the most active blockchains globally and one of the blockchains with the highest liquidity for real-world assets (RWA).Changpeng Zhao mentioned that the block time for BNB Chain is about 0.5 seconds, and the final confirmation time for transactions is less than 1 second. Throughout multiple market cycles, the BNB ecosystem has continuously built infrastructure and expanded into areas such as payments, lending, and investment, with hopes of becoming a platform for users to save, transfer, and build applications in the future.BNC stated that the company will bring BNB to Wall Street. As a Nasdaq-listed company with BNB at the core of its balance sheet, BNC not only plans to hold BNB but will also develop operational businesses around BNB Chain, starting with running its own validation nodes and gradually expanding its business scale.

According to sources citing QuestMobile data, as of August, Tencent's short drama mini-program Green Bubble had 143 million monthly active users. In the first week of October, the weekly active users reached 89.68 million, a 44.1% increase compared to the first week of September. After officially renaming the product in July, the weekly active users approached 90 million within about three months.DataEye monitoring shows that from October 1 to 7, Green Bubble's short drama had a total of 43,000 material placements, with an average daily placement volume increasing by 57% compared to the week before the holiday. The growth mainly came from fully replacing the original short drama mini-program entrance and support from the WeChat ecosystem traffic, which includes Video Accounts. The daily active users of Video Accounts are 600 million, making it a key part of the WeChat ecosystem distribution.Green Bubble continues to expand its content offerings, including live-action dramas, AI dramas, and animated dramas. Currently, Hongguo short dramas are leading in the short drama sector with a free standalone app model, while Kuaishou, Pinduoduo, Taobao, and Baidu have also entered the short drama space.

According to the regional service restriction notice released by MEXC on October 21, the exchange is gradually exiting the Dutch market, requiring local users to transfer their assets by October 31, and plans to complete the exit by November 16.MEXC confirmed that it has not yet obtained EU MiCA authorization. Previously, due to providing cryptocurrency asset services in the Netherlands without permission, the exchange was listed on the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) temporary list of non-compliant entities.Earlier, on October 20, MEXC announced the cessation of services to users in Russia and Belarus. Its user agreement also lists 13 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, and mainland China, as prohibited service areas.

According to a post by Bloom Trading, in response to the recent incidents of wallet asset theft, the platform stated that it will fully compensate all financial losses for 9 affected users (a total of 49 wallets) and will transfer the compensation funds directly into the users' designated new secure wallets, without the need to establish a special compensation fund.

The Bitcoin wallet Electrum officially announced the release of version 4.8.3, stating that this update fixes a serious security issue and urges all users to upgrade. The official statement indicates that detailed information about the vulnerability will be released later.Its GitHub changelog marks 4.8.3 as a security update, with a release date of October 23. The Electrum official website reminds users to only download the software from the official website and to verify the GPG digital signature to confirm the source and integrity of the installation package.

According to the "Q3 2026 Report" released by Gate, the platform's institutional business continues to grow, with cross-market trading, asset custody, and professional fund services further expanding.Among them, CrossEx has seen significant improvements in several core indicators, with quarterly trading volume increasing by 63% month-on-month, asset custody increasing by 902% month-on-month, the number of trading users growing by approximately 315% compared to Q2, and the number of fund users increasing by 95%.In terms of products and infrastructure, CrossEx has added mainstream exchanges, Lighter contracts, real stocks, and ETF trading scenarios, and launched features such as RPI Orders and arbitrage opportunity displays. CrossEx Colo services have officially launched, with order placement concurrency and multiple transaction reporting delays optimized by about 50%, and the highest fees for certain trading scenarios reduced by 50%. During the same period, Gate's institutional cumulative borrowing volume increased by 412.02% month-on-month.In addition, the Gate SuperLink ecosystem has added two banking partners, ABN AMRO and Pave Bank, and deepened cooperation with custodians such as Copper and BitGo. OES clients can now access CrossEx, participating in trading across multiple exchanges through a unified margin pool under an isolated custody model, further expanding institutional clients' cross-market asset allocation and trading options.

According to Slow Fog's Yu Xian monitoring, users should promptly update their iPhone and iPad systems and be vigilant about certain installed apps being poisoned by DarkSword.DarkSword mainly targets iPhone cryptocurrency users for pinpoint attacks and coin theft, exploiting iOS-related vulnerabilities to break through the sandbox and steal various passwords and other private data from the Keychain, as well as local wallet private key files, memos, and other private data.

The cryptocurrency wallet Phantom is opening the Kalshi prediction market to users in the United States, allowing users to trade event contracts directly within the Phantom app. This feature will begin rolling out on October 23 and will gradually expand coverage over the coming weeks. Users must first complete Kalshi's KYC.Transactions will be conducted using the CASH stablecoin in the Phantom Cash account, and funds will be converted to fiat currency for settlement after being transferred to Kalshi. Withdrawals and profits will return to Phantom Cash. Phantom currently shows a fee of $0.02 per contract, with a small additional fee for network transfer.Due to local regulatory controversies, Phantom will restrict market categories in certain states: Michigan temporarily blocks sports markets; Nevada restricts sports, elections, politics, and entertainment markets; Washington state has broader restrictions, including categories such as culture, technology, and geopolitics. Phantom's General Counsel Kevin Jacobs stated that the company believes the CFTC's jurisdiction over relevant products is clear and will continue to comply with existing restrictions in various states.

According to Digital Asset, the Bank of Korea will require virtual asset transfer service providers to report monthly to the foreign exchange information system the end-of-month holdings of users who have conducted cross-border cryptocurrency asset transfers to overseas exchanges, personal wallets, etc., since July 19, 2024, starting from December 2. Even if there are no cross-border transactions in that month, reports must still be submitted.The report covers the number of coins held, the converted balance in Korean won, and the total amount of cross-border inflows and outflows for the month. Dormant accounts, delisted assets, and staked assets are also included in the scope and must be submitted by the 10th of the following month at 17:30. It has not yet been determined whether there will be a requirement to retrospectively submit records of cross-border transfer transactions conducted before the implementation of the reporting system.

The Browser Company announced that it will completely cease the operation of the macOS and Windows versions of the Arc browser on December 22, 2026, and has closed new user registrations. Starting from November 23, the AI features on mobile, login, and tab synchronization will gradually be disabled, and the team will fully shift its focus to the AI browser Dia.Arc was launched in 2022, initially limited to Mac users through invitations, and was fully opened in 2023, with plans to gradually launch on Windows and mobile platforms in 2024. The product design includes a vertical tab bar, independent workspaces, automatic tab organization, split-screen browsing, and allows users to directly modify the appearance of web pages. The official disclosure indicated that Arc had over 1 million weekly active users.Founder Josh Miller stated in 2025 that Arc was too complex for ordinary users, with a high learning cost, and only 5.52% of daily active users frequently used multiple workspaces. The team stopped developing new features that year and shifted to Dia. In October of the same year, the parent company was acquired by Atlassian for approximately $610 million. The reason for the shutdown was that browser security in the AI era requires continuous investment, and engineering and security resources must be concentrated on Dia.