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Odaily reports: Multiple tech companies have urgently blocked 8 intermediate certificates with security vulnerabilities issued by Indian digital certificate authority eMudhra Limited. Due to flaws in the private key generation process of the affected certificates, attackers could exploit forged certificates to impersonate legitimate websites and intercept, read, or tamper with user communications.Mozilla cryptography engineer Dennis Jackson stated in an incident report that after receiving the vulnerability report on October 17, Mozilla independently recovered the relevant private keys, confirming that the generation mechanism has serious flaws and is highly exploitable.Mozilla subsequently blocked the affected certificates in Firefox through OneCRL and released browser updates for desktop and Android on October 20. Cloudflare also updated protections for services including Cloudflare One, WARP client, and Cloudflare Tunnel on Tuesday. According to Mozilla's disclosure, Chrome blocked the relevant certificates on Saturday, Apple devices completed blocking on Monday, and Microsoft platforms took corresponding measures on Tuesday. (Cointelegraph)
Galxe announced that as the Gravity Alpha mainnet is gradually being shut down, most of its core services have been migrated to the Gravity Layer 1 (L1) network. Due to the 7-day waiting period for unstaking and fund withdrawals, users holding staked G tokens or Smart Savings balances must complete the required operations before 11:00 AM UTC+8 on October 26, 2026.
Bybit has announced that starting with App version 5.26.0, the Bybit App homepage will adopt a multi-tab layout, consisting of "All," "Crypto," "Stocks," "Macro Assets," "Earn," and "Alpha."- "Stocks" tab (newly launched): Supports trading over 10,000 stocks and the full range of TradFi perpetual contracts, allows tracking of global index funds, participation in Pre-IPO and IPO Express and other IPO subscription projects, and adds a new "Smart Money Institutional" module to track the capital movements of well-known institutions.- "Macro Assets" tab (newly launched): Brings together commodities, forex, precious metals, and indices, supports BTC versus traditional asset price change comparison, an economic calendar, and a forex cross-rate matrix, with one-click trading.After the redesign, the "All" and "Crypto" tabs have also been optimized, while "Earn" and "Alpha" remain unchanged.Due to local laws and regulations, some of the above tabs, asset categories, or features (including but not limited to "Stocks" and "Macro Assets") may not be available in certain countries/regions, or may differ.
Houthi forces launched consecutive attacks on airports in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, resulting in multiple casualties. The Iranian president declared that the nation is in a state of "total war." Due to conflict spillover, maritime shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has been disrupted, and ultra-large crude carrier freight rates have surged to $77 million.
Odaily News: DeepSeek is nearing the completion of a new funding round, with the scale expected to reach at least 80 billion yuan (approximately $12 billion), significantly exceeding the company's previous fundraising target of about 50 billion yuan. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that Tencent Holdings and CATL have committed to contributing larger amounts in this funding round, and the related financing transaction is expected to be completed soon. Due to a significant increase in market demand and investment interest following the release of DeepSeek's latest AI model, this funding round has exceeded expectations, with the final amount potentially approaching 100 billion yuan.Previously, DeepSeek sought to raise approximately 50 billion yuan, but investor interest in its AI technological progress drove the funding scale to expand further. DeepSeek had already attracted attention from institutions including Tencent and CATL, and has been using financing to expand computing infrastructure, AI model research and development, and team building. Bloomberg LíneaAccording to reports, DeepSeek plans to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) in early 2027, and this large-scale fundraising will provide financial support for its pre-listing development. DeepSeek has gained global attention with its low-cost, high-performance AI models, and is currently increasing investment in next-generation AI technology and computing resources. (Bloomberg)
Decentralized exchange protocol Balancer announced that community voting has approved the BIP-928 ordered liquidation proposal, while the fork proposal BIP-929 was not approved. The protocol's liquidity pools will operate normally until October 30, after which they will transition to a "withdrawal-only" mode and the bug bounty program will be simultaneously terminated. V3 vaults are expected to pause on November 30. Due to the non-custodial nature of the smart contracts, liquidity providers can withdraw funds at any time, and relevant withdrawal guidelines will be published prior to October 30.
OpenAI has canceled its planned near-term release of the GPT-6.1 Astra model after internal testing revealed safety alignment flaws. The safety lead noted that the model regressed in following human instructions and overall honesty.
Odaily reports: Privacy blockchain network Zano has disclosed that an inflation vulnerability involving Gateway Addresses has forced it to plan a rollback of approximately 24 hours of blockchain history, and has urged users to immediately cease all economic activity related to ZANO and Confidential Assets.Zano has promised to compensate for losses caused by the rollback, but has not yet announced the target block height for the rollback, the patched version, the compensation process, the mechanics of the vulnerability, or the amount of unauthorized assets created. Gateway Addresses went live on August 26 with Hard Fork 6. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to TechStartups, Google plans to launch the first experimental satellite for Project Suncatcher on October 1 to test the feasibility of operating AI computing infrastructure in space. Approximately the size of a refrigerator, the satellite will carry four Google TPUs to run Gemini workloads in low Earth orbit hundreds of miles above Earth. It will be deployed on the Transporter-18 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Partnering with satellite company Planet, Google will deploy AI hardware on an existing satellite platform, advancing the first in-orbit hardware test originally scheduled for 2027 by several months. The satellite's solar array is expected to provide approximately 1 kilowatt of power. Due to thermal dissipation limitations in space, the TPUs can currently run Gemini workloads for only about 15 minutes per session before requiring a pause to allow the thermal management system to recover. Google has previously conducted vibration and radiation testing on the Trillium TPU, and plans to explore building large-scale space-based AI computing clusters in the future using solar-powered satellites, TPUs, and high-speed optical communications.
Odaily News: Tim Scott, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, stated on X that nearly all Senate Republicans voted in favor of advancing the CLARITY Act, but the motion failed to pass due to opposition from Senate Democrats.
US Senate Republicans released the latest version of the Clarity Act (Digital Assets Market Clarity Act), adjusting compliance requirements for DeFi entities and credit union provisions. Due to a lack of consensus on ethical protocols, Democrats have expressed reservations, leaving the bill's path to passage uncertain.
Odaily reports: The Hunter Biden Meme token LAPTOP Foundation has announced that the LAPTOP initial liquidity pool launched at a price of $0.05. Due to high market demand, participation by sniper bots, and insufficient initial liquidity from market makers, the price rapidly surged and then fell back in a short period. To improve liquidity, the team will inject 4 million LAPTOP tokens (0.4% of total supply) starting September 10 at 00:00 UTC to incentivize the Aerodrome liquidity pool. In addition, two prediction events in the Predictions allocation have been confirmed to settle as YES, corresponding to 10 million LAPTOP tokens that will be burned, accounting for 1% of total supply.The team also stated that the 30% of LAPTOP held by the founding team will be locked for 6 months and gradually unlocked over two years, custodied by Coinbase Custody; the 30% of tokens in the Predictions allocation will be locked for 12 months. Another 80 million LAPTOP will be claimable by subscribers who joined Hunter Substack before September 6, and any unclaimed portion after the 30-day claim period ends will be burned.
Odaily News, Bonk Guy stated on the X platform that he had previously been pessimistic about Solana, even writing an analysis favoring Robinhood and BNB Chain, arguing that Solana would lose significant market share and attention in this cycle. However, his view has recently begun to shift toward a bullish stance on Solana and its ecosystem.Bonk Guy believes that Solana has recently re-embraced the "trench" culture and has started to more actively promote community projects. At the same time, Solana's management proactively reached out to him to understand how to better align with the community and the "trench" ecosystem. Additionally, Solana officials and core members have recently begun to proactively recognize ecosystem projects such as $STONK and $USELESS.These changes are not simply positive for a specific token, but rather reflect a top-down cultural shift within Solana, as well as management's proactive efforts to address issues in the ecosystem. He emphasized that his past criticism of Solana was never about the technology or infrastructure, but rather about the ecosystem culture and the impact of "extractors" on Solana's new projects and users.Bonk Guy also revealed that his originally planned long-form analysis, which was bearish on Solana and bullish on Robinhood and BNB Chain, will first be shared with the Solana team for reference. Due to the recent changes that have made him more optimistic, he may adjust his views and ultimately publish a more balanced analysis.Bonk Guy concluded: "My Solana bias is changing."
According to Odaily, SpaceX's stock price has recently been fluctuating within a narrow range, but a new wave of buying may arrive soon as the Nasdaq 100 Index undergoes its quarterly rebalancing later this month. Due to lock-up restrictions, SpaceX has a relatively low proportion of freely floating shares, which currently gives it a weight of only 1.25% in the Nasdaq 100 Index, ranking 19th. Despite its market capitalization exceeding $2 trillion, placing it sixth among the index's constituents.Following the next index rebalancing, SpaceX's weight is expected to increase. The adjustments will be announced after the market close on Friday and take effect on September 21. This is partly because more than 1 billion shares have already been unlocked, raising SpaceX's free-float shares from less than 10% of total shares outstanding shortly after the IPO to nearly 30%.According to a report released Tuesday by J.P. Morgan Securities strategists including Min Moon, SpaceX's weight could rise to 1.51% after the rebalancing, which would trigger approximately $12.4 billion in passive net buying of SpaceX shares by index funds and ETFs. Nasdaq data shows that as of the end of the second quarter, approximately $1.7 trillion in assets were tracking the Nasdaq 100 Index, including the Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 exchange-traded fund, widely known by its ticker QQQ.
OrionX, a Chilean exchange backed by Tether, has announced its permanent closure. An audit revealed that over $7 million in client assets had been transferred to addresses outside of custody.
Odaily News: Arthur Hayes posted on platform X, stating that his article "Atencion" discusses the decline in the EUR/JPY exchange rate and its implications as a precursor to a new round of global currency printing.Arthur Hayes said he is currently in the depths of Patagonian winter, engaging in backcountry hiking and skiing. The annual Santa Rosa storm has brought over 1 meter of snowfall to the alpine regions, and the lower temperatures along with several days of settling have stabilized the snowpack, reducing the risk of avalanches. He also mentioned that Federal Reserve Chairman Warsh will deliver a speech in Jackson Hole.Arthur Hayes stated that as the Chief Investment Officer of a family office, he needs to generate profits through investments. Due to his personal lifestyle, he focuses on one or two prices to gauge whether the pace of fiat liquidity injection is accelerating or slowing down, and based on this, he quickly adjusts his portfolio to a long position or moves to cash, never engaging in short selling. He noted that these indicators change over time, and his current macro core indicator is the EUR/JPY exchange rate. The full article was published on his Substack account cryptohayes.
According to an official tweet from Cronos Network, the Cronos network was previously affected by a vulnerability exploit targeting the Tectonic protocol. Validator consensus triggered an emergency halt to block production to protect user assets. The on-chain state has been rolled back to pre-exploit levels, and the network resumed block production at 07:49 Beijing Time on August 31, 2026, starting from block height 90,896,189. Node operators can now upgrade to Cronos v1.7.8 and use the latest mainnet snapshot to restart their nodes. The network remains under continuous monitoring, with select protocols, RPC providers, block explorers, and cross-chain bridges gradually recovering. A full post-mortem report will be released by the team in the near future.
Odaily News: Uniswap founder Hayden said in a post on X that he cannot ignore the theory of correlation trading pairs when observing various things, and noticed that the second-largest Uniswap pool on Base is the Jito staked SOL/BTC trading pair, which aligns with the logic of correlation trading pairs.In an article titled "Correlation Trading Pairs: How AMMs Win the Biggest Markets," Hayden stated that AMMs have the potential to become the core engine of all financial markets, and tokenization will make markets programmable, changing market types, market makers, and the assets being traded.He said Uniswap has been operating autonomously since its launch in 2018, with cumulative trading volume exceeding $4.6 trillion, and has helped increase the proportion of decentralized exchanges relative to centralized spot trading volume from less than 1% to over 20%. As AMMs have developed, their liquidity has gradually formed a structure of correlation trading pairs.He pointed out that AMMs initially achieved product-market fit in the long-tail asset market, and then stablecoin trading pairs developed. Due to the lower capital costs of passive strategies, the demand for professional market making in stablecoin trading pairs has been squeezed.Hayden said traditional financial markets are dominated by market-making firms that integrate capital, trading strategies, execution technology, settlement, and distribution into a single vertical business. Citadel Securities handles approximately 25% of US stock trading volume, with net trading revenue reaching $12.2 billion last year and trading capital of approximately $21 billion.He believes blockchain can unbundle the different components of traditional market-making businesses: code handles execution, shared services provide custody and settlement, and open-source software replaces proprietary infrastructure. The scarce factor of capital in AMMs is capital itself, and participants who can hold inventory at lower costs gain an advantage.Hayden said liquidity providers face lower inventory risk when holding assets with similar price movements, and liquidity will deepen as a result. Ethereum ecosystem assets typically trade against ETH, Solana ecosystem assets typically trade against SOL, stablecoins trade in pairs with each other, and a few high-liquidity trading pairs are responsible for connecting different asset clusters.He noted that once tokenized assets share the same settlement layer, any asset can trade directly against any other asset. For example, NVIDIA/USD can become NVIDIA/SPY and connect to the dollar through SPY/USD; oil companies can trade against oil ETFs or tokenized oil, and private credit can trade against tokenized US Treasury funds.Hayden said traditional market makers typically pursue delta neutrality, reducing risk by denominating in USD and hedging non-USD exposure, which increases market-making costs. A market structure consisting of low-volatility correlation trading pairs and a few high-
Odaily News, Justin Sun stated at the Bitcoin Asia 2026 conference in Hong Kong that the threat of quantum computing to blockchain and the entire financial system is widespread, with traditional banks such as JPMorgan facing the same risks. Due to the highly decentralized nature of the Bitcoin community, which involves multiple participants including miners, exchanges, and WBTC, reaching a quantum-resistant consensus will take a considerable amount of time. Justin Sun stated that TRON has been researching quantum-resistant mechanisms over the past year, having released a quantum-resistant address solution and launched it on the testnet in the first half of this year. The project plans to upgrade the entire network into a mainstream crypto network with quantum-resistant capabilities by the end of this year.
Odaily News Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments' Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm stated that the company's Zcash investment product has been upgraded to the world's first Zcash Exchange-Traded Product (ETP), marking a move of privacy-focused crypto assets into broader compliant investment channels. Following the launch of this Zcash ETP, investors can gain exposure to ZEC through SEC-registered traditional financial products. Grayscale noted that this signifies the Zcash ecosystem, after nearly a decade of development, is entering a new phase of institutionalization.Salm recalled that Grayscale launched the Zcash Investment Trust in 2018, when the ZEC trust product was just one of four products offered by the company. After years of regulatory engagement, the product was recently converted into the Zcash ETP, with the ticker symbol ZCSH. The process of bringing the Zcash product to the public market was not easy. Due to ZEC's privacy features, the company underwent greater regulatory scrutiny when launching its first publicly quoted Zcash fund in 2021, but ultimately completed the product rollout.Data shows that the adoption rate of Zcash's private transaction features has been steadily rising recently. In February 2026, ZEC shielded transactions reached an all-time high of 59.3% of total transactions, and after the latest Ironwood upgrade, it has again approached this level. Currently, the shielded pool holds approximately 4.4 million ZEC, accounting for about 26% of the circulating supply.