The first blockchain with smart contract functionality
Ethereum is the first decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. It was initially described in a white paper by Vitalik Buterin in late 2013 and launched in 2015. This network serves as the foundation for an ecosystem of interoperable, decentralized applications (dApps) powered by token economies and automated smart contracts. Assets and applications designed on Ethereum are built with self-executing smart contracts that eliminate the need for a central authority or intermediary. u2028The network is powered by its native cryptocurrency ether (ETH), which is used to pay transaction fees. Ethereum has the characteristics of being open-source, programmable, private, and censorship-resistant, forming the backbone of a decentralized internet.
Arthur Hayes stated that U.S. policymakers may support the AI industry and government debt financing through money printing, driving cryptocurrency prices higher; if China shifts from limited tightening to large-scale monetary stimulus, it could also boost demand for scarce assets. He is also monitoring financial stress in France, including BNP Paribas-related credit default swaps and French government bond spreads.Catrina Wang, General Partner at Portal Ventures, said that banks and asset management companies have advantages in on-chain financial markets thanks to their existing client relationships. Todd McDonald, co-founder of R3, pointed out that public blockchains can help institutions reach clients beyond their own networks; Justin Kugel, Executive Vice President of Growth at World Liberty Financial, said that user demand for asset management and investment evaluation still leaves room for intermediaries.Chetan Karkhanis, Senior Vice President of Digital Asset Client Relationships at Franklin Templeton, said the company has no intention of issuing its own stablecoin and hopes tokenized money market funds will provide investment returns. Haonan Li, co-founder and CEO of Codex, said that trade routes connecting Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia are driving demand for stablecoin payments; buyers pay eastward for goods, while manufactured products flow westward.Ilya Podoynitsyn, co-founder and CEO of FinHarbor, said that before allocating to crypto assets, companies need to confirm they have long-term idle funds that will not affect daily operations. Michael Camarda, Chief Development Officer of Ethereum treasury company SharpLink, said that both buying back shares and increasing ETH holdings can raise ETH per share; the company has adopted both methods to meet the preferences of institutional and retail investors. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Asset management firm ARK Invest will partner with Securitize (SECZ) to tokenize the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) on Ethereum. The fund provides qualified investors with investment exposure to private and public companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks.This collaboration continues the existing relationship between the two parties, as ARK Invest made a strategic investment in Securitize last year. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News: According to Gate Ventures' latest weekly report, last week's escalation of geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East combined with U.S. core inflation exceeding expectations significantly heightened global market volatility. Brent crude and WTI crude surged 8.33% and 9.36% respectively, returning above $100 per barrel; U.S. August core CPI rose 0.29% month-over-month, higher than expected, pushing the 10-year Treasury yield to 4.97%, with market-implied probability of a September rate hike rising to approximately 86%; spot gold fell 1.82% to $4,349.42 per ounce. U.S. stock indices — the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones — declined 0.80%, 0.66%, and 1.57% respectively; the crypto market weakened in tandem, with BTC and ETH dropping 4.4% and 1.5% respectively. Spot BTC ETFs saw net outflows of $462.7 million, while ETH ETFs recorded net inflows of $197.1 million. The fear index dropped from 71 to 57, indicating a cooling of market sentiment.On the industry front, India launched a $107 million tokenized corporate bond pilot program, further advancing institutional-grade RWA tokenization; Gemini obtained a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, further expanding its regulatory footprint in the Asia-Pacific region; and the Philippine central bank plans to suspend new payment system operator registrations for 12 months, tightening oversight of VASP-related payment activities.On the funding side, a total of 9 financing deals were completed last week, with disclosed total funding reaching $158.4 million, down 88% quarter-over-quarter. Overall, energy prices and inflation expectations remain the core variables driving short-term market trends, while interest in tokenized assets and institutional-grade crypto infrastructure development remains undiminished.
perpetual contract platform RWAperp has announced the completion of $2 million in financing, with a post-investment valuation of $50 million. Participants in the round include Lime co-founder Brad Bao, Cresta AI co-founder Tim Shi, Tesla Autopilot team member Phil Duan, Crux members William Freiberg and Charles Ferguson, as well as members of the a16z and Sequoia Scout networks.RWAperp is a decentralized perpetual contract protocol for traditional financial assets. It is currently live on OKX X Layer and has opened 19 markets, covering BTC, ETH, SOL, Korean and U.S. stocks, the S&P 500 Index, the DRAM Index, gold, silver, and WTI crude oil. Users can settle in USDC, USDT, or USDG and gain leveraged long and short exposure to stocks, indices, commodities, and crypto assets without needing to hold, custody, or tokenize the underlying assets.RWAperp primarily designs its trading, pricing, liquidity, and risk management systems around the trading characteristics of the stock market, and handles situations such as market closure periods, overnight gaps, trading halts, and corporate actions. The platform uses a multi-issuer composite oracle and provides a professional order book trading terminal.RWAperp is also developing Agent Mode. This AI feature is designed to understand natural language trading instructions, analyze market conditions, and gradually support trading execution operations such as opening positions, position management, and closing positions. (The Block)
Polaris has announced the completion of a $1 million angel round, with participation from institutions including the Ethereum Foundation, Fusion (under IPOR), Altitude, Liquity, LI.FI, as well as more than 30 founders and contributors such as Daily Gwei founder Anthony Sassano. The project is a permissionless on-chain yield protocol whose core product is the interest-bearing reserve asset pETH, alongside USDp and GOLDp, designed to provide native yield for any on-chain asset.
Odaily News: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized approximately $560,000 in cryptocurrency and taken control of the domain and servers of a fundraising website linked to Hamas. The U.S. Department of Justice stated that these funds were allegedly intended for use by Hamas's military wing, Al Qassam Brigades.Investigators tracked and confiscated the relevant crypto assets based on three seizure warrants issued on March 25, June 25, and October 10, 2025. Court documents show that the assets involved include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Wrapped Ethereum, Tether (USDT), and TRON (TRX), distributed across 18 addresses controlled by Tether and 3 Binance accounts.According to court documents, encrypted chat groups had directed supporters to visit AlQassam.ps and solicited donations via rotating wallet addresses. After the FBI took over the relevant domain and servers, it obtained information on thousands of individuals who had contacted Hamas to inquire about making donations. (Decrypt)
Odaily reports: Cross-chain swap service Near Intents announced that the $3.8 million in funds stolen in a previous exploit has been fully returned, and the team has closed its investigation. Near Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko had previously issued a 48-hour return deadline to the attacker, providing Bitcoin, BNB, Ethereum, and Solana addresses.The attacker acknowledged wrongdoing in an on-chain message, stating that all funds had been returned and urging others to report issues through the bug bounty program. The incident stemmed from a vulnerability in the interaction between its Omni deposit and withdrawal layer and the main smart contract. Near Intents had suspended services and promised full compensation to users. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Nate Geraci, President of ETF Store, stated that the U.S. SEC has approved the first batch of 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs for listing and trading. Recent SEC filings show that the related products include ETFs seeking to achieve 3x the daily performance of Bitcoin or Ethereum.Geraci noted that less than three years ago, the SEC's lawsuit with Grayscale over a standard spot Bitcoin ETF had not yet concluded, and now the regulatory environment has changed significantly.
Arthur Hayes stated that U.S. policymakers may support the AI industry and government debt financing through money printing, driving cryptocurrency prices higher; if China shifts from limited tightening to large-scale monetary stimulus, it could also boost demand for scarce assets. He is also monitoring financial stress in France, including BNP Paribas-related credit default swaps and French government bond spreads.Catrina Wang, General Partner at Portal Ventures, said that banks and asset management companies have advantages in on-chain financial markets thanks to their existing client relationships. Todd McDonald, co-founder of R3, pointed out that public blockchains can help institutions reach clients beyond their own networks; Justin Kugel, Executive Vice President of Growth at World Liberty Financial, said that user demand for asset management and investment evaluation still leaves room for intermediaries.Chetan Karkhanis, Senior Vice President of Digital Asset Client Relationships at Franklin Templeton, said the company has no intention of issuing its own stablecoin and hopes tokenized money market funds will provide investment returns. Haonan Li, co-founder and CEO of Codex, said that trade routes connecting Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia are driving demand for stablecoin payments; buyers pay eastward for goods, while manufactured products flow westward.Ilya Podoynitsyn, co-founder and CEO of FinHarbor, said that before allocating to crypto assets, companies need to confirm they have long-term idle funds that will not affect daily operations. Michael Camarda, Chief Development Officer of Ethereum treasury company SharpLink, said that both buying back shares and increasing ETH holdings can raise ETH per share; the company has adopted both methods to meet the preferences of institutional and retail investors. (Cointelegraph)
EIP-8363 co-proposer Jérôme de Tychey announced the withdrawal of the application to include the proposal in the Hegotá hard fork, with related discussions on issuance policy shifting to a standalone topic.
SlowMist founder Yu Xian stated that MetaMask Staking preemptively exited from the Lido validator set following an investigation into an infrastructure breach. Issues of this nature with staking nodes generally do not affect the ETH principal, but may impact staking rewards.
Lido stated that MetaMask Staking has taken precautionary measures and exited its operated Lido Ethereum validators following an investigation into an infrastructure intrusion incident, with the related ETH expected to gradually return to the protocol over a period of up to approximately 45 days.
Odaily reports: Cross-chain swap service Near Intents announced that the $3.8 million in funds stolen in a previous exploit has been fully returned, and the team has closed its investigation. Near Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko had previously issued a 48-hour return deadline to the attacker, providing Bitcoin, BNB, Ethereum, and Solana addresses.The attacker acknowledged wrongdoing in an on-chain message, stating that all funds had been returned and urging others to report issues through the bug bounty program. The incident stemmed from a vulnerability in the interaction between its Omni deposit and withdrawal layer and the main smart contract. Near Intents had suspended services and promised full compensation to users. (Decrypt)
according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a whale withdrew 3,283.56 ETH from OKX 4 hours ago, worth $8.85 million, exceeding the 1,099 ETH deposited last time. Over the past week, the whale appears to have sold ETH at $2,709 and then re-entered a position at $2,695.
Over the past 3 hours, an address withdrew 1,420 ETH from OKX, valued at approximately $3.82 million, and subsequently deposited the entire amount into Lido for staking.
Odaily reports, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, an address withdrew 1,420 ETH from OKX over the past 3 hours, worth $3.823 million, at a withdrawal price of $2,692.47, and subsequently deposited it into Lido for staking.
according to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai's monitoring, a certain address has become the address with the highest unrealized profit on ETH positions on Hyperliquid, with an unrealized profit of $16.52 million. This address has been gradually building ETH long positions since mid-August, and currently holds approximately 30,300 ETH, worth about $81.96 million, with an average entry price of $2,134.45 and a return rate of 407.96%. Additionally, this address has placed a limit sell order at $4,000, which is 49% higher than the current price.
According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, a whale deposited 6,595.2 ETH to Coinbase 3 hours ago, worth approximately $17.57 million. Of this, 6,500 ETH was withdrawn from exchanges between June and August 2025 at an average price of $3,040.4, with unrealized losses once exceeding $9.557 million during that period. After holding ETH for about a year, the whale appears to have cut losses and exited, with an estimated loss of $2.443 million and a 12.3% decline in assets.
victims of the Drift hack, a perpetual contract exchange on Solana, began filing claims on October 1. The recovery pool's initial funding stands at approximately $3.11 million against nearly $295.4 million in verified losses. Victims can redeem USDT through DFX tokens, with each $1 of loss converting to roughly 1.04 cents at launch, meaning a $1,000 loss corresponds to about $10.40.The total supply of DFX is fixed at 299,500,810.998 tokens, with each token corresponding to $1 of verified loss from the April incident, and no additional tokens will be minted. Holders can choose to burn DFX to redeem USDT, sell on secondary markets such as Raydium, or continue holding their claims. Completed redemptions are irreversible, and unclaimed tokens will expire after the claims window closes on January 1, 2028.Future funding for the recovery pool includes a portion of daily net protocol revenue from Velocity, the rebranded exchange rebuilt by Drift, up to $127.5 million in USDT committed by Tether, $20 million in USDT committed by strategic partners, and recovered stolen assets. On the first Friday after claims opened, approximately 216,480 DFX tokens were redeemed for about 2,250 USDT, with Velocity's first revenue transfer amounting to 31 USDT; approximately 13,025.9 ETH is spread across 4 Ethereum wallets, another approximately 2,309.4 ETH passed through Tornado Cash, and about $9.2 million in assets have been frozen at other addresses. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily reports: Cross-chain swap service Near Intents announced that the $3.8 million in funds stolen in a previous exploit has been fully returned, and the team has closed its investigation. Near Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko had previously issued a 48-hour return deadline to the attacker, providing Bitcoin, BNB, Ethereum, and Solana addresses.The attacker acknowledged wrongdoing in an on-chain message, stating that all funds had been returned and urging others to report issues through the bug bounty program. The incident stemmed from a vulnerability in the interaction between its Omni deposit and withdrawal layer and the main smart contract. Near Intents had suspended services and promised full compensation to users. (Decrypt)
according to monitoring by Stani Kulechov, Aave founder Stani Kulechov stated that what was exploited was a third-party external adapter built on top of Aave v3, and the Aave v3 contracts themselves were not affected. The FlashLoopAdapter in the Aave v3 Loop Safe module involved had access control vulnerabilities in its open() and close() functions. The attacker forged Safe authentication and arbitrary module execution to steal approximately 114.09 ETH from two Safe multisig addresses, and repaid approximately 1,300 WETH in debt to unlock collateral.
SlowMist has issued a security alert stating that a vulnerability has been discovered in the Aave V3 Loop Safe Module. Attackers exploited forged Safe authentication and arbitrary Module execution to steal approximately 114.09 ETH from two Safe multisig wallets.The attackers bypassed authentication by forging a Safe that always returns true, and leveraged an arbitrarily controllable router and calldata to execute module transactions, transferring weETH and Aave collateral. The attackers repaid approximately 1,300 WETH in debt to unlock the collateral.
Ethena founder Guy Young stated that USDe backing assets currently have no direct exposure to stETH or other liquid staking tokens, and he expects this incident will not impact Ethena.
ether.fi stated that it is aware of the security incident involving Ethereum node operators that occurred previously. Currently, weETH is unaffected and has no related exposure, and all user funds remain secure.
Bitget PoolX is about to launch a new round of its ETH locking event. Users can lock ETH to participate in sharing a $200,000 airdrop, with a personal locking cap of 1,500 ETH. The locking period is from October 5, 15:00 to October 9, 15:00 (UTC+8).This round of PoolX supports a long-term holding bonus mechanism. The system will provide a 1x additional bonus on the locked amount based on the user's minimum holding of the corresponding locked asset over the past 15 days. For more details, please refer to Bitget's official platform.
Odaily reports: Porsche announced on October 1 that it is ending its Web3 project and PIONEERS CIRCLE. The PORSCHE 911 NFT will remain in holders' wallets and on-chain, the PIONEERS Discord server will be converted to a read-only archive, and the @eth_porsche account will stop posting updates.The collection was originally planned to issue 7,500 pieces, with minting opening in January 2023 at 0.911 ETH each, and ultimately 2,363 pieces were minted. Porsche has not announced any token burn, buyback, migration, or redemption plans, and holders can still hold, transfer, or list their NFTs for sale.The PORSCHE 911 NFT has accumulated nearly $20 million in total trading volume, with approximately $38,000 in trading volume over the past year and about $2,900 over the past month. (Bitcoin.com News)
Users can complete withdrawals via the standard Blast interface before October 26. Afterward, assets can still be withdrawn, but require direct interaction with the Blast Bridge contract on Ethereum L1. The team will publish specific instructions before the deadline.
Arthur Hayes stated that U.S. policymakers may support the AI industry and government debt financing through money printing, driving cryptocurrency prices higher; if China shifts from limited tightening to large-scale monetary stimulus, it could also boost demand for scarce assets. He is also monitoring financial stress in France, including BNP Paribas-related credit default swaps and French government bond spreads.Catrina Wang, General Partner at Portal Ventures, said that banks and asset management companies have advantages in on-chain financial markets thanks to their existing client relationships. Todd McDonald, co-founder of R3, pointed out that public blockchains can help institutions reach clients beyond their own networks; Justin Kugel, Executive Vice President of Growth at World Liberty Financial, said that user demand for asset management and investment evaluation still leaves room for intermediaries.Chetan Karkhanis, Senior Vice President of Digital Asset Client Relationships at Franklin Templeton, said the company has no intention of issuing its own stablecoin and hopes tokenized money market funds will provide investment returns. Haonan Li, co-founder and CEO of Codex, said that trade routes connecting Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia are driving demand for stablecoin payments; buyers pay eastward for goods, while manufactured products flow westward.Ilya Podoynitsyn, co-founder and CEO of FinHarbor, said that before allocating to crypto assets, companies need to confirm they have long-term idle funds that will not affect daily operations. Michael Camarda, Chief Development Officer of Ethereum treasury company SharpLink, said that both buying back shares and increasing ETH holdings can raise ETH per share; the company has adopted both methods to meet the preferences of institutional and retail investors. (Cointelegraph)
According to CoinDesk, Utexo, an infrastructure project supported by Tether, plans to issue USDT on the Bitcoin network this month. Utexo has obtained a commercial license to issue USDT on Bitcoin and plans to provide corresponding APIs, SDKs, and cloud infrastructure for exchanges, wallets, and payment service providers. Based on the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin UTXO model, Utexo will keep most transaction data off-chain, with a focus on supporting three types of applications: private USDT transfers, direct swaps between native BTC and USDT, and borrowing using native BTC as collateral without wrapping BTC to other blockchains. USDT was first issued on the Bitcoin network via the Omni protocol in 2014, after which Ethereum and Tron gradually became its primary circulating networks. Following the issuance of USDT on the Bitcoin mainnet, Utexo also plans to further expand to the Lightning Network.
Odaily News: Porsche's Web3 project PORSCHΞ announced on X that the project and the PIONΞERS CIRCLE community have ceased operations. Follow-up arrangements include: the previously issued PORSCHΞ 911 NFT will continue to be held by holders and remain on the blockchain, the PIONΞERS Discord server will be converted to a read-only archive state, and the official PORSCHΞ project X account will no longer be actively updated.Additionally, according to NFTScan data, the current floor price of PORSCHΞ 911 NFT is 0.0794 ETH, with only sporadic transactions recently.
victims of the Drift hack, a perpetual contract exchange on Solana, began filing claims on October 1. The recovery pool's initial funding stands at approximately $3.11 million against nearly $295.4 million in verified losses. Victims can redeem USDT through DFX tokens, with each $1 of loss converting to roughly 1.04 cents at launch, meaning a $1,000 loss corresponds to about $10.40.The total supply of DFX is fixed at 299,500,810.998 tokens, with each token corresponding to $1 of verified loss from the April incident, and no additional tokens will be minted. Holders can choose to burn DFX to redeem USDT, sell on secondary markets such as Raydium, or continue holding their claims. Completed redemptions are irreversible, and unclaimed tokens will expire after the claims window closes on January 1, 2028.Future funding for the recovery pool includes a portion of daily net protocol revenue from Velocity, the rebranded exchange rebuilt by Drift, up to $127.5 million in USDT committed by Tether, $20 million in USDT committed by strategic partners, and recovered stolen assets. On the first Friday after claims opened, approximately 216,480 DFX tokens were redeemed for about 2,250 USDT, with Velocity's first revenue transfer amounting to 31 USDT; approximately 13,025.9 ETH is spread across 4 Ethereum wallets, another approximately 2,309.4 ETH passed through Tornado Cash, and about $9.2 million in assets have been frozen at other addresses. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily reports: Cross-chain swap service Near Intents announced that the $3.8 million in funds stolen in a previous exploit has been fully returned, and the team has closed its investigation. Near Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko had previously issued a 48-hour return deadline to the attacker, providing Bitcoin, BNB, Ethereum, and Solana addresses.The attacker acknowledged wrongdoing in an on-chain message, stating that all funds had been returned and urging others to report issues through the bug bounty program. The incident stemmed from a vulnerability in the interaction between its Omni deposit and withdrawal layer and the main smart contract. Near Intents had suspended services and promised full compensation to users. (Decrypt)
according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a whale withdrew 3,283.56 ETH from OKX 4 hours ago, worth $8.85 million, exceeding the 1,099 ETH deposited last time. Over the past week, the whale appears to have sold ETH at $2,709 and then re-entered a position at $2,695.
Over the past 3 hours, an address withdrew 1,420 ETH from OKX, valued at approximately $3.82 million, and subsequently deposited the entire amount into Lido for staking.
Odaily reports, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, an address withdrew 1,420 ETH from OKX over the past 3 hours, worth $3.823 million, at a withdrawal price of $2,692.47, and subsequently deposited it into Lido for staking.
Bitget PoolX is about to launch a new round of its ETH locking event. Users can lock ETH to participate in sharing a $200,000 airdrop, with a personal locking cap of 1,500 ETH. The locking period is from October 5, 15:00 to October 9, 15:00 (UTC+8).This round of PoolX supports a long-term holding bonus mechanism. The system will provide a 1x additional bonus on the locked amount based on the user's minimum holding of the corresponding locked asset over the past 15 days. For more details, please refer to Bitget's official platform.