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France is planning to extend its 31.4% capital gains tax to stablecoins. The first to warn that it could drive traders overseas? Chainalysis 🦖—the very company that helps the government track on-chain funds every day.

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The amendment has already cleared one hurdle: it was adopted by the French National Assembly’s Finance Committee on October 7. The change is fairly specific. Until now, French residents generally didn’t trigger capital gains tax when swapping Bitcoin for another cryptocurrency. The new rule would treat swaps into stablecoins regulated under the EU’s MiCA framework as taxable events, starting January 1, 2027. France’s current crypto capital gains tax rate is 31.4% ⚖️

In other words, swapping into a compliant stablecoin could mean losing more than 30% upfront. Chainalysis France CEO Francois Volpoet put the contradiction plainly: do you want more taxpayers declaring their assets, or a system where tax rates keep rising while the tax base keeps slipping away?

The real question is where this tax applies. It would cover only stablecoins subject to EU rules, effectively creating a tax-driven price gap between compliant stablecoins and others. And money is very good at flowing to wherever the tax rate is lower 📊

The same batch of amendments includes several other measures: self-custody wallets holding more than €100,000 (about $116,000) would have to be declared, with a maximum fine of $11,600 for failing to report; the offshore tax would be extended to crypto holdings worth about $900,000; and losses could be carried forward for 10 years. The Finance Committee has now rejected the budget revenue section by 31 votes to 3. These provisions must go back to the National Assembly for another vote on October 20. None of them is law yet.

There’s another risk that gets less attention: Chainalysis is concerned that requiring people to declare self-custody wallets could expose who owns crypto. By July this year, Europe had recorded 39 of the 52 violent incidents targeting crypto holders worldwide. France alone accounted for 33—that’s 63.5% of the global total ⚠️

My take: France really does want to push trading into regulated stablecoin channels, making it easier to collect taxes and monitor activity. But using tax differences to distinguish compliant from non-compliant stablecoins gives people a clear reason to move their money elsewhere. Greece, meanwhile, is preparing a crypto capital gains tax of just 10%—the exact opposite approach.

Do you think taxing compliant stablecoins will actually bring in revenue, or will it drive both people and trading away? Let’s talk in the comments 👀

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An exchange holding about 5% of all Bitcoin has suddenly issued a warning: quantum computers could empty your wallet before you know it 🦖

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Google researchers previously estimated that a quantum computer capable of breaking Bitcoin’s encryption—what’s known as a cryptographically relevant quantum computer—could appear as early as around 2029 ⚠️

This isn’t science fiction. Bitcoin wallet security is built on two digital signature schemes, ECDSA and Schnorr. Today’s computers can’t crack them, but once quantum computing crosses a certain threshold, attackers could work backward from public keys to derive private keys and transfer the Bitcoin in those wallets straight out.

This week, an exchange that custodies about 5% of all Bitcoin—nearly a million coins—for banks, asset managers, and hedge funds published a blog post with a blunt conclusion: preparations for a post-quantum upgrade must begin now. The reason is sobering: Bitcoin changes slowly. Consensus changes and ecosystem migrations can take years, so we can’t wait until the day quantum computers are publicly announced before taking action 🔐

Its proposal is quite specific: separate the signature container from the signature itself, so the transaction format can directly accommodate new post-quantum signatures. For now, BIP-360 and P2TRv2 appear to be the best options. It also suggests phased protection, allowing active wallets to first adopt a two-lock structure for each coin, where both traditional and post-quantum signatures can authorize spending. That way, no one has to switch everything over at once.

The biggest headache is wallets that have been inactive for a long time—or whose private keys have been lost. The blog warns that once quantum computing reaches the necessary level, coins in these dormant addresses could be quietly swept away before the public notices. How to deal with them is highly contentious, so it recommends discussing them separately rather than holding up the overall upgrade.

My take: the point isn’t that quantum computers are coming tomorrow. It’s that a market worth about $1.3 trillion is being forced, for the first time, to face an adversary it must start preparing for years in advance. Bitcoin has always relied on the community slowly working toward consensus. This time, moving slowly could itself be a risk.

Do you think we should protect old wallets first, or add locks to new wallets first? Let’s talk in the comments 👀

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#比特币突破8.4万美元
The one-line takeaway: no more rate hikes needed in 2027. Bitcoin bounced back 1.5% overnight, climbing to $83,900 🦖

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New York Fed President Williams’ latest remarks became the direct fuel for this rally. The dollar weakened in response, and Asian stocks turned positive across the board.

But he also left himself some wiggle room, saying there could still be one more rate hike this year. Thursday’s U.S. inflation data will be the real judge.

Let’s get the numbers straight.

Bitcoin rose 1.5% on the day, nearing $83,900 and moving back toward its previous high.
Ethereum gained 2%, returning to around $2,520.
SOL and Dogecoin each rose 2.5%.
Privacy coin ZEC led the way, surging nearly 7% in a day to about $1,270.
XRP, BNB, and HYPE gained 1% to 2%, while Tron (TRX) was the weakest, up less than 1%.

On the macro front, S&P 500 futures rose 0.2%, staying close to last week’s record highs 📈
Asian chip stocks stopped falling, with Samsung and SK Hynix both rebounding and ending a five-day losing streak.
The MSCI Asia-Pacific Index rose 0.7%, recovering from a two-month low.

Oil is adding to the heat: Brent crude rose 0.7% to around $106, while U.S. crude has now risen for five straight days.

In plain English, this isn’t a bull-market signal—it’s a typical rebound in expectations.

Williams said no further rate hikes would be needed in 2027, while also acknowledging that another hike could still be on the table this year.
The market only heard the first half. The dollar came under pressure, and risk assets immediately caught their breath ⚠️

Thursday’s inflation data is the real turning point.
If the reading is cool enough to rule out that final rate hike this year, Bitcoin may get a chance to test $85,000.
If the reading comes in hot, this rally could easily be knocked back to where it started.

So this rise looks more like a dash ahead of the data release.
Rather than chasing prices higher, keep an eye on two things: Thursday’s inflation data, and whether Bitcoin can truly break above $84,000—a resistance level it has repeatedly failed to clear.

Join the discussion in the comments: do you think this is the end of the rate-hiking cycle, or another bull trap?
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A chip hidden inside a wallet’s casing. All it takes is one glance at the screen while setting up the device: 24 words are sent over a mobile network, and $86 million may have vanished as a result 🦖

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On October 13, hardware wallet giant Ledger asked distributors in six countries—Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia—as well as Hong Kong, to stop selling its products and remove all devices from store shelves. The reason: Ledger confirmed that a device had been tampered with ⚠️

The most insidious thing about this chip is that it doesn’t touch the firmware or the security chip that stores the keys. It does just one thing: spy on the screen during setup. When the 24-word recovery phrase appears, it decodes the words and sends them out over an LTE network using a built-in eSIM. In other words, the device’s appearance, packaging, and signature verification all look normal. You’d never know 🔐

It started on October 9, when a problem was reported with devices sold by Southeast Asian distributor CryptoBilis. On October 10, Ledger officially confirmed that one device had been compromised. On-chain investigator Specter traced suspected thefts totaling more than $86 million across Ethereum, Tron, and Bitcoin. Two other researchers estimated the figure at between $72 million and $86 million. But Ledger stressed that it has yet to verify the number of people affected or the total losses.

The fallout has spread across the industry. European electronics retail giant MediaMarkt announced that it would remove all Ledger products from its physical stores and online platforms. Competitor Trezor also announced on October 13 that it would reduce its network of authorized distributors, effective January 1, 2027, and immediately stop supplying those channels. It emphasized that there is no evidence its own devices have been compromised; the move is a response to recent supply-chain incidents 💥

My take: this incident didn’t pierce the encryption—it exposed the final link in the hardware wallet business model: distribution. The industry has long said hardware wallets are the safest option because the keys stay offline and you get the device directly from an authorized source. But this incident shows exactly the opposite: if someone can tamper with a distributor, the device in your hands could look brand-new, have intact packaging, and run clean firmware—and still be a device with a spy inside.

The bigger problem is that you can’t prove the device is clean using conventional methods. You can verify a firmware change with a signature, and check a chip’s serial number. But an independent add-on that only reads the screen and sends a message leaves the device working as usual. That’s why Ledger’s only response has been to halt sales across the entire region: even Ledger doesn’t yet know at which point in the distribution chain the chip was planted.

For everyday crypto holders, there are three things worth watching next: First, will the investigation extend to markets outside Southeast Asia? Second, will tighter controls on distribution force more people to buy hardware wallets directly from manufacturers? Third, will multisig go from an institutional setup to a standard for individuals? Using devices from different manufacturers to create a multisig wallet means that even if one device is compromised, the funds can’t be moved.

Let’s discuss in the comments: Did you buy your hardware wallet from an official source or a third party? What do you check after unboxing it?

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#英国高院裁定钱志敏案适用中国法
Bitcoin has risen 200-fold in ten years: from 2,815 yuan per coin to 560,000 yuan. Victims may ultimately get back only their principal 🦖

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On October 12, the High Court of England and Wales issued a key ruling in the Tianjin Lantian Gerui illegal fundraising case. The property claims of 16,000 Chinese victims to the approximately 61,000 seized bitcoins must be judged under Chinese law. The coins were bought in 2014 at an average price of 2,815 yuan each. Today, each is worth around 560,000 yuan, bringing their total value to more than 34 billion yuan. Victims who register claims are highly likely to recover only their principal plus interest ⚖️

The difference comes down to one word. Under English law, bitcoin is classified as property, so victims can claim ownership of the bitcoins themselves—including the 200-fold increase in value. Chinese law does not recognize bitcoin as property. Judgments involving crypto typically support repayment of the original investment plus interest. Put simply: if you invested 100 yuan and the coins bought with that money rose in value to 20,000 yuan, the law recognizes only your original 100 yuan, plus a little interest. The remaining 19,900 yuan has nothing to do with you.

Lantian Gerui was established in March 2014 and issued 10 wealth-management products promising returns of one to three times the investment. At its peak, it attracted more than 120,000 investors and raised over 40 billion yuan in total. The scheme's operator, Qian Zhimin, also known by the alias “Sister Hua,” used a large portion of the funds to accumulate bitcoin on a certain exchange. Evidence presented in the English court showed that she may have handled as many as 190,000 bitcoins, of which around 120,000 remain unaccounted for 🐋

Repayments collapsed in July 2017. Qian Zhimin fled to the UK using a forged passport. In 2018, she tried to buy a £23.5 million mansion in London with bitcoin, but the deal fell through because she could not explain the source of the funds. In May 2021, UK police seized around 61,000 bitcoins, then worth more than £3 billion—the largest cryptocurrency seizure in law-enforcement history. In November 2025, she was sentenced in London to 11 years and eight months in prison. Accomplices in China had already been sentenced. Across two rounds of compensation, victims have recovered only around 13% of their principal.

What’s even more chilling is that the UK has an asset-recovery incentive scheme called ARIS. If recovered criminal assets have no lawful claimant, 50% goes to the UK Treasury. If victims recover only their principal under Chinese law, the 200-fold increase may have no lawful claimant—and is quite likely to flow into the UK’s coffers. The coins bought with victims’ hard-earned money rose 200-fold, but the gains may end up in another country’s treasury 📈

The ruling is not yet final. The court said the evidence still requires further examination, and the parties may appeal. The 61,000 bitcoins are sitting in a custodial account, fluctuating in value—and continuing to appreciate—every day.

Here’s a point worth remembering: how the property status of crypto assets is determined directly decides whether your coins count as your money. This isn’t a technical issue; it’s a question of jurisdiction. For cross-border crypto, ownership often depends on which country’s court seizes it first, and whether that country’s laws recognize it. The UK High Court ruled that Chinese law applies in the Qian Zhimin case. The implications could affect an entire generation of cross-border crypto holders.

Let’s discuss in the comments: who do you think will ultimately get the 200-fold increase in value? Do the victims have a chance of turning things around on appeal?

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#strategy增持250枚比特币
Someone holding 848,250 bitcoins has an average cost of just $75,444 per coin. Their unrealized gains alone amount to $6.6 billion, yet their own company’s stock has fallen 53% over the past year 🦖

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That person is Michael Saylor. In his latest Bloomberg interview, he made two predictions: first, Bitcoin is back in a bull market; second, it will break above $100,000 again. His strategy company will keep buying—and won’t stop.

First, the hard numbers: as of October 11, his company held a total of 848,250 bitcoins. At the current price of $83,400, they’re worth about $70.6 billion. The total cost of this Bitcoin stash was around $64 billion, or just $75,444 per coin on average. This holding already exceeds 4% of Bitcoin’s capped supply of 21 million coins.

Now, this week’s activity: from October 5 to 11, he spent another $21.5 million to buy 250 bitcoins at an average price of $86,194. The money came mainly from selling his own MSTR shares. Last week, he sold 125,183 shares, raising about $21 million. He still has $18.8 billion worth of stock available to sell, and also spent $192.4 million to repurchase 1,932,145 STRC preferred shares.

The real point of interest is the contrast: the company has been piling up Bitcoin and is sitting on $6.6 billion in unrealized gains, while MSTR stock fell 7% last week, closing Friday at $154.34. It’s down 53% over the past year. The Bitcoin stash profits from having the patience to hold when others don’t dare; the stock losses, meanwhile, test the patience of his own investors. That gap is the signal worth watching next ⚠️

My take: his $100,000 call implies about 20% upside from the current price of $83,400. For someone whose cost basis is only $75,444, it feels more like an effort to boost market confidence. If Bitcoin really gets back above $100,000, the numbers on his 848,250 coins will look very different. On the other hand, if it falls below the $75,444 cost basis, that’s when everyone will have to recalculate 📈

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Behind eight million devices sold, someone slipped a chip into a hardware wallet that can send text messages all by itself 🦖

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On Tuesday, Ledger’s security research team, Donjon, confirmed that some signing devices sold through the Southeast Asian distributor CryptoBilis contained an unauthorized hardware implant. It was designed to monitor the device’s screen, capture all 24 words the moment a recovery phrase appeared, then send the data in real time over an LTE network using a built-in eSIM ⚠️

The most outrageous part of this attack is that it doesn’t touch the secure element, alter the system, or change transaction signatures. The device looks completely normal in your hands, while someone else has already made off with your coins.

Here are the numbers: the implant is a standalone component with its own power supply, and it relies only on the screen. So far, officials have confirmed one affected device. On-chain investigator Specter traced more than $86 million in suspected thefts, while another security outlet put the estimate as high as $103 million, across Ethereum, Tron, and Bitcoin. Ledger itself says it has sold more than eight million hardware wallets in ten years 📉

The timeline is short. On Friday, October 9, a user reported a loss. On Saturday, the company confirmed that one device had indeed been tampered with. It wasn’t until Tuesday that the attack method was made public. European retail chain MediaMarkt has now pulled Ledger products from its shelves, distributor CryptoBilis has halted all sales, and even Trezor and OneKey have rushed to distance themselves.

My take: this wasn’t a software hack; it was a supply chain breach. The biggest selling point of a hardware wallet is supposed to be that your private keys never go online. But if someone has already opened the device before it reaches you, “never goes online” becomes an empty promise. This also helps explain why more and more institutions simply hand their money over to custodians. You may be able to protect your private keys, but that doesn’t mean you can secure the delivery process.

One thing to watch: white-hat hackers have already pointed out that robust tamper detection at the factory and clear accountability throughout distribution would make this kind of attack far more expensive. So the real concern shouldn’t be one particular company, but every hardware distribution channel without end-to-end accountability.

Let’s talk in the comments: would you still dare to read your hardware wallet’s recovery phrase directly off the device?

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#英国高院裁定钱志敏案适用中国法
$5 billion, 61,000 bitcoins, but victims can't get a penny. One sentence from a UK court slammed the door shut 🦖

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On Monday, the High Court of London ruled that the 61,000 bitcoins seized in the case against Qian Zhimin must be adjudicated under Chinese law, not British law. At current prices, the coins are worth more than $5 billion, or around £3.8 billion. The fraud took place 9 years ago and involved 128,000 investors. The money was eventually all converted into bitcoin.

It all began in 2014. Qian Zhimin ran a Ponzi scheme through a Tianjin-based electronics technology company. From 2014 to 2017, she defrauded more than 128,000 investors, then converted the stolen money into bitcoin. She fled to the UK in 2017. British police seized all the coins during a money-laundering investigation, and they have been held for years.

The victims have been trying to pursue the case under British law, because it would allow them to claim direct ownership of the bitcoin rather than queue up as ordinary creditors. But on Monday, Judge Mark Turner sided with the British government. He said that the relevant losses occurred in China, the applicants handed over their money in China, and the misrepresentations were also made there. Therefore, ownership of the property must be determined under Chinese law.

In other words, this ruling did not directly decide who will ultimately get the coins, but it shut off the victims' fastest route. It also significantly increased the chances that the UK Treasury will keep the money. The victims' lawyers at Fieldfisher have already said they will appeal. UK prosecutors say there will be another hearing, first to get expert opinions on whether ownership can be established under Chinese law.

One contrast is worth remembering: the US established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve back in March 2025, putting coins seized by law enforcement directly onto the national balance sheet. According to Arkham, addresses linked to the US government hold $25.8 billion in crypto assets, all seized and not bought with a single taxpayer dollar.

So the real story isn't who's right or wrong. Governments around the world are turning seized bitcoin from evidence into assets ⚖️ The more the price of bitcoin surges, the fiercer the fight between governments and victims becomes 💥 The 61,000 coins are sitting in the UK Treasury, gaining value every day. The longer this goes on, the harder the question will be to resolve.

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#blur拟于11月12日停用blur.io前端
From $1.3 billion to less than $7 million: the Ethereum NFT marketplace that was once the biggest is shutting down next month 🦖

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Blur announced on its official account Monday that its website will officially shut down on November 12, along with its NFT lending service, Blend. Borrowers must either repay their loans before the site closes or face default. Its on-chain contracts will continue to run on Ethereum.

The really striking part isn’t the shutdown itself, but the trading curve behind it. Monthly trading volume plunged from about $1.43 billion in March 2023 to less than $7 million in March 2026—a decline of more than 99.5% in three years.

The platform rose to prominence by taking on industry leader OpenSea. Launched in 2022, it came out swinging with zero fees and token rewards, and by March 2023 had captured more than 70% of Ethereum NFT trading volume. Its website still boasts of over $7.4 billion in cumulative trading volume 🐋

But business is business. In three years, it has earned virtually nothing from transaction fees. Token Terminal records the protocol’s revenue as zero. Traffic built on rewards is hard to turn into sustainable income—and that was exactly what creators criticized it for: undercutting prices and squeezing their royalty shares ⚖️

The timeline is even more telling. Ten days ago, Blast, the Ethereum layer-2 network run by the same team, announced it was shutting down. Its assets shrank from a peak of over $2 billion to around $32 million. The shutdowns are staggered: Blast users have until October 26 to withdraw, and then it’s Blur’s turn on November 12 📉

After the news broke, the BLUR token fell more than 20% that day, trading at around $0.015. The brand has retreated behind the scenes, but the underlying protocol isn’t entirely dead: token holders still have the power to vote on turning fees on or off.

My take is that in this NFT downturn, the most expensive thing was never the floor price—it was the model of using token subsidies to buy traffic. Once the token loses its value, the subsidies dry up, the traffic disappears, and all that’s left is a user base that won’t stick around and a three-year balance sheet showing zero revenue 🦕

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#sk海力士股价下跌7.1%
$803 million wiped out in a day. 86% were longs. 172,000 traders liquidated 💥

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The fuse for this cascade of liquidations was lit in Asia 🦖

Over the past 24 hours, 10 trading platforms liquidated a total of about $803 million in leveraged positions. Long positions accounted for $694 million of that, or 86%. A total of 172,000 traders were liquidated.

The most intense wave came in the last 12 hours, with about $595 million liquidated—nearly three-quarters of the daily total. During that time, South Korea’s KOSPI index briefly fell more than 6%, while Bitcoin dropped below $81,000.

The largest single liquidation was a Bitcoin long worth about $9.65 million, wiped out near $81,773. In crypto, $181 million in Bitcoin positions were liquidated, with Ethereum close behind at $178 million. SOL came to $60 million, ZEC to $24 million, and NEAR to $22 million.

More noteworthy, though, is that a stock name also made it onto the liquidation leaderboard. Perpetual contracts tracking U.S. memory-chip maker SanDisk saw $19.09 million liquidated—more than HYPE at $19.04 million and XRP at $18.78 million. This shows that a considerable share of the leverage on crypto platforms is now tied to chip stocks. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each fell about 8% in Seoul that day, amid concerns over AI valuations and competition from Chinese memory-chip makers.

Then came the reversal. Of the $74 million liquidated over the past four hours, $59 million—or 79%—came from short positions. Bitcoin climbed back above $83,000, while Brent crude held near $106 after a three-day rally.

In other words, this was a classic leverage flush: longs were wiped out first, then shorts got caught in the rebound. Two groups took turns getting hit in a single day. More importantly, Bitcoin is heading into Thursday’s U.S. inflation report with leverage already flushed out. That means the price reaction to the data could be more dramatic than usual, because there’s no leverage cushion left.

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$60 million drained from Ethereum users by frontrunning bots in a year. Now someone is hiding transactions in a black box 🦖

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On Monday, the established blockchain Aptos launched a new feature on its mainnet called an encrypted mempool. In simple terms, it keeps your transactions encrypted after you submit them and until they’ve been ordered and finalized in a block. No one can see what’s inside ahead of time ⚠️

When you submit a large transaction on-chain, everyone on the network can see in advance which contract you’re calling, what you’re trading, and how much. Frontrunning bots exploit that transparency to get ahead of you—or sandwich your transaction—and make money at your expense. According to figures from EigenPhi cited by Cointelegraph, Ethereum users lost about $60 million to these sandwich attacks in a year. In a sample of Solana activity tracked by Bitquery, bots made $29.7 million using the same tactic over 11 months, through roughly 6.9 million attacks that affected around 2.2 million wallets 💥

How does it work? If your wallet or app supports the feature, your transaction is encrypted on your phone before it’s sent to the blockchain. Validators can see your address and transaction fee, but not the transaction contents. First, everyone agrees on the ordering. Once it’s set, the validators collectively decrypt and execute the transactions. The key point is that no individual validator can decrypt them alone, so they can’t peek in advance ✅

There are trade-offs, too: the minimum fee for an encrypted transaction is twice the network’s base minimum. In tests with 50 nodes, each block took about 20 milliseconds longer. Aptos says its approach is different because ordering and decryption are handled collectively by the existing validators, without relying on a separate decryption committee or a trusted block builder.

This isn’t the first move of its kind in the industry. In July 2024, Gnosis Chain launched an encrypted mempool in partnership with Shutter. On Ethereum, there’s also Flashbots Protect, which sends transactions privately to block builders. Whoever can keep transactions hidden until they’re on-chain can help users get picked off by bots less often. Aptos has made it an optional feature on its mainnet, and also added support for institutional large-value transactions and AI agents.

My take: encrypted mempools tackle information asymmetry, not price volatility. They don’t guarantee you’ll make money; they just stop frontrunning bots from making money by peeking at your orders. Adoption will be the real test. If people are willing to pay twice the base gas fee for this protection, it shows just how badly on-chain traders have been hurt by MEV. On the other hand, if no one uses it, it’ll just be another optional feature gathering dust in the corner.

What’s worth watching is whether other major blockchains follow suit—and whether tools like this can genuinely reduce the scale of on-chain MEV.

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A long-established British bank locks $2.45 billion worth of stablecoins in its own vault 🏦

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Standard Chartered’s Dubai branch has announced that it will begin providing custody for RLUSD, the stablecoin issued by Ripple, for institutional clients. The version in custody runs directly on the XRP Ledger. The clients are institutions regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority. The bank won’t just safeguard the assets—it will also have the authority to monitor, freeze, and dispose of the funds.

The next step is even more significant: Standard Chartered plans to connect with an institutional trading platform in London, allowing institutions to use these stablecoins directly as trading margin through what’s known as “collateral mirroring.” The coins stay in Standard Chartered’s custody account, while the trading platform records an equivalent mirrored balance. The coins don’t have to move at all 💰

This design addresses one of the industry’s biggest pain points. In the past, when exchanges collapsed, customers’ collateral held there went down with them. Now, collateral can be locked up with a bank considered too big to fail. Even if the trading platform runs into trouble, the coins remain on Standard Chartered’s books. Standard Chartered is one of the 29 global systemically important banks designated by the Financial Stability Board, and faces some of the strictest capital requirements ⚖️

But the market is still small. RLUSD has a market cap of around $2.45 billion, accounting for less than 1% of the roughly $306 billion stablecoin market. It launched in December 2024 and runs on both Ethereum and the XRP Ledger. This custody service covers only the XRP Ledger version, which received regulatory approval in Dubai just this June 🦖

What’s really worth noting is the bank’s roadmap. It began offering crypto custody in Dubai in 2024. This July, it became the first global systemically important bank in the world to let institutions mint and redeem Circle’s USDC directly. Now it’s bringing Ripple’s stablecoin on board too, connecting the dots between stablecoin custody, minting, collateral, and settlement.

My take: the next stablecoin battle won’t be fought on exchanges, but on bank balance sheets. Once licensed banks take over custody, minting and redemption, and settlement, stablecoins will evolve from a way to transfer money within the crypto world into a standard component of institutional financial infrastructure. Retail investors may not notice much in the short term, but this will determine whether institutional capital dares to enter the market in earnest next time around.

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#ledger确认用户设备遭植入未授权硬件
$87 million drained from more than 450 wallets 🦖
Hardware wallet maker Ledger released a 72-hour investigation update on Sunday. All confirmed victim cases point to the same Southeast Asian reseller, CryptoBilis, which has completely stopped selling hardware wallets.

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The story began to unfold last Friday, when users in Southeast Asia reported that funds had mysteriously disappeared from devices they bought from CryptoBilis. On-chain investigator Specter traced more than $86 million in suspected theft across Ethereum, Tron, and Bitcoin. Ledger has yet to confirm that figure, and has also been unable to explain exactly how the funds disappeared.
Ledger’s official statement says it confirmed that users’ devices had been implanted with unauthorized hardware. Put simply: you think you’re buying an offline cold wallet, but by the time it reaches you, your private keys may no longer be secret ⚠️
The thieves’ full operation has been captured on-chain. Analyst YFarmX found that 2,810 ETH was sent to the mixer Tornado Cash in three transactions, then passed through Zcash’s shielded pool. Around 3.28 million USDC was transferred to three brand-new wallets. Another $15 million in stolen USDT was first swapped for USDD, which Tether can’t freeze, and then swapped back into 5.1 million USDT, of which about 4.23 million was sent to exchange deposit addresses.
Tether froze 10 million USDT on the first day, but 15,475 ETH, 203 BTC, and 10 million USDD are still out there, beyond recovery. The figures sound frightening, but what really hurts is that victims of these devices are often people who have put their entire life savings into them.
More troubling still, someone in Europe has come forward saying they bought a Ledger that had been tampered with in the same way, with strange extra cables and an LTE module inside. They’re calling for the manufacturer to issue a recall. This claim hasn’t been independently verified yet, but if it’s substantiated, the entire hardware wallet industry’s security narrative will have to be rewritten.
To put it plainly, the damage from this incident isn’t about the amount of money—it’s about trust. Hardware wallets sell you one promise: you can rest assured that your private keys will always stay offline. That promise now has a crack in it. If even one device can be tampered with between leaving the factory and reaching its user, no matter how expensive the chip is, it can’t protect you.
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#比特币重回8.4万美元
Bitcoin climbed to $84,254 before getting slapped back down—all in a single day. The crypto Fear and Greed Index crashed from 82 to 56 🦖

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Before the U.S. market opened on Monday, Bitcoin briefly surged to $84,254 on Bitstamp, its highest level since last Wednesday. It then gave back 2.2% over the next two hours, falling back to around $83,000. That leaves it about 34% below last year’s October 6 all-time high.

The first thing weighing on markets is oil. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said Russia is still attacking energy infrastructure, while Iran reported that an oil tanker was hit and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz. WTI crude climbed above $94, and Brent touched $107.25, its highest level since September 16 🛢️

The second is U.S. Treasuries. The 30-year yield touched 5.70%, its highest level since 2002. Money is being pulled into risk-free assets, while Bitcoin pays no yield. It’s one of the toughest macro combinations for Bitcoin this year ⚠️

Market sentiment is also cooling. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index fell to 56 on Monday, in neutral territory. It was at 67 a week ago, while its August 26 peak of 82 was the highest reading of the year. It took less than two months to go from extreme greed back to neutral 📉

Now, the flows: Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net outflows of $484.9 million last Wednesday, their worst single day since June. Another $244.1 million flowed out on Thursday, followed by a modest $21.1 million inflow on Friday. Net outflows for October now total $386.3 million. Ethereum funds have seen outflows for nine straight days, with about $635 million leaving this month.

But the options market is sending a different signal. QCP Capital noted that implied volatility has held firm even as spot prices fell, while the usual premium on put options has narrowed. In other words, the market is becoming less defensive, yet still pricing in the possibility of an upside breakout. Its view: a clean break above $87,000 could put $94,000 in sight.

Order-book data also reflects this tug-of-war. Sell orders totaling around $180 million are stacked near $84,500, while bids below $82,000 are growing. Analyst Rekt Capital sees $83,400 as intraday resistance. The real wild cards this week are Wednesday’s CPI and Thursday’s PPI.

My take: this sell-off isn’t a crypto-specific problem. Stocks, gold, and Bitcoin all fell on the same day—a classic macro-driven trade. Oil prices feed into inflation, and if oil doesn’t come down, it will be harder for the Fed to ease. That means Bitcoin will remain under pressure from Treasury yields. The Fear and Greed Index dropping back to 56 suggests some speculative froth has been shaken out, which may not be a bad thing for what comes next. But for a real breakout, we first need oil prices and yields to give us some breathing room.

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#Ledger确认用户设备遭植入未授权硬件
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$93.2 million was drained overnight from 315 wallets. The weapon was that device touted as the safest hardware cold wallet 🦖

This time, the trouble came from devices sold through Ledger’s official authorized channel. Machines shipped by Southeast Asian distributor CryptoBilis were found to have unauthorized hardware modules implanted in them. In other words, that brand-new-looking, factory-sealed cold wallet in your hands may have been tampered with before it ever left the factory ⚠️

On-chain data is still climbing. Analytics firm Bitquery tracked about $93.2 million involving 315 wallets across 6 major blockchains. Another firm, YFarmX, reported even more sharply: 7 chains, 521 addresses, totaling about $94.5 million. The stolen assets were mainly USDT and TRON tokens. As of October 11, about $81 million was still sitting on-chain and traceable, while some funds had already been laundered through Tornado Cash and Zcash once.

The only good news is that stablecoins can be frozen. Tether has frozen $10 million worth of USDT, something Bitcoin and Ethereum cannot do. Issuers can lock down implicated funds with a single action ⚖️

Ledger’s position is that the problem was limited to this one distributor and that its own internal systems were not breached. But many online are not buying it, because CryptoBilis is an authorized channel listed on Ledger’s official website. One commenter put it bluntly: this is not the distributor’s accident; it is Ledger’s accident. You have to own it.

What’s even more interesting is how market sentiment has been completely shifted. Bitcoin analyst Plan B said he moved his coins into spot ETFs in 2025 and has zero regrets. 21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder added that the security of self-custody depends on your own technical ability; if set up improperly, it will never be better than handing it to a professional institution. On the other side, Blockstream’s Adam Back insists hardware wallets are fine, and that manufacturers simply need to add lessons in threat modeling.

My view: what got shaken this time is not a brand, but the consensus that self-custody equals absolute safety. The attack surface is moving from the chain to the supply chain, from code to shipping boxes. As long as someone handles it along the way, there is a chance it gets tampered with. For ordinary users, what’s worth watching is not whether to change wallets, but where your device actually came from and whether it has been opened a second time.

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#ledger确认用户设备遭植入未授权硬件
$93 million drained from 315 wallets overnight 🦖
The one footing the bill is CryptoBilis, an authorized Ledger hardware wallet distributor in Southeast Asia. On-chain analytics firm Bitquery tracked $93.2 million in crypto assets transferred from 315 wallets across 6 chains, the vast majority in USDT and TRON ecosystem tokens 💥

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Another security research platform, YFarmX, gave an even higher figure: 521 addresses across 7 chains, totaling $94.5 million 🐋
A key development came from Ledger itself. On Sunday, the company confirmed that at least one of the devices involved had been implanted with an unauthorized hardware backdoor after leaving the factory. But it didn’t say whether the stolen wallets were compromised through the same vulnerability, or how the backdoor was installed.
Tether has frozen 10 million USDT connected to the theft. Bitquery said that as of October 11, around $81 million could still be tracked on-chain. Some of the funds passed through Tornado Cash and Zcash, with mixers and privacy coins cutting off the trail ⚖️
Ledger’s official advice is straightforward: don’t activate unopened devices. If you’re already using one, move your assets to a brand-new device and generate a new recovery phrase. That advice alone shows how serious this is.
Here’s the point of contention: Ledger wants to frame the incident as confined to one distributor’s Southeast Asian market, but CryptoBilis has long appeared on Ledger’s official list of authorized distributors. The rebuttal from the on-chain community is: this isn’t just CryptoBilis’s problem—it’s Ledger’s.
My take is that this is different from the fake Ledger Live app phishing attack in April. Back then, you were tricked into entering your recovery phrase yourself. This time, your private keys may have been in someone else’s hands before the device even reached you. For the first time, the security boundary of a so-called cold wallet has been pushed back to the supply chain.
For holders, hardware wallets are still safer than keeping assets in exchange custody. But this incident is a reminder of something else: don’t buy devices from unverified sources. The money you save by buying secondhand or through gray-market channels could be exactly equal to everything in your wallet 🦕
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#fsb警告跨境稳定币监管仍不完善
Stablecoin market capitalization has surged from $206 billion to $306 billion in a year, yet global regulators have admitted that stablecoins have never been through a real crisis 🦖

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The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has just published a report stating plainly that cross-border stablecoin rules have yet to be tested in a severe market crisis. If an issuer runs into trouble, holders may not know who to turn to for redemption—or which country’s laws apply.

First, let’s look at the numbers. At the start of 2025, the total market capitalization of stablecoins was about $206 billion. It has now grown to $306 billion—an increase of a full $100 billion in just over a year. The vast majority are pegged to the U.S. dollar. The market keeps growing, but the rules meant to underpin it are still fragmented, with each jurisdiction doing its own thing.

The report singles out one especially risky setup: the multi-issuer model. Affiliated companies can issue the same stablecoin and share responsibility, while holding their reserve assets across different jurisdictions. If holders can redeem with any company in the group, demand could end up concentrated at one issuer, while the assets that can actually be liquidated are held in another country. In a crisis, moving the money out would only get harder ⚠️

The second timing mismatch is even more serious. Stablecoins trade 24/7, all year round, but the markets for the assets backing them have set trading hours. If a run begins, redemptions may not keep pace with sell-offs, and the coin could lose its peg. That could force issuers to sell reserves and then withdraw deposits from banks—allowing the shock to spill from crypto into the traditional financial system 💥

FSB Chair Andrew Bailey, who is also the Governor of the Bank of England, put it bluntly in his accompanying letter: stablecoins are inherently cross-border, but regulatory progress varies enormously from country to country, and cross-border cooperation is still in its infancy. The report also acknowledges that its recommendations are not legally binding; their implementation depends on member countries taking action voluntarily 🏦

The timing matters, too. The report was released just days before this month’s G20 finance ministers’ and central bank governors’ meeting on the 15th—effectively putting the list of risks on the table in advance.

In other words, this isn’t an attack on stablecoins. It’s a reminder of a simple point: the market has grown by $100 billion, but there are virtually no mechanisms that have actually been tested in a crisis. The faster it grows, the more closely we should watch the parts that haven’t been put to the test.

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#以太坊突破2500usdt #以太坊现货etf上周净流出5.42亿美元
Someone says Ethereum could hit $50,000 this cycle. From $2,552, that would mean nearly 20x—but ETH spot ETFs saw $542 million in net outflows over the past week 🦖
Tom Lee, chairman of Ethereum treasury company Bitmine, recently said Ethereum could reach $25,000 to $50,000 in this market cycle, with a year-end target above $5,000. He also laid out a condition: if Bitcoin climbs above $100,000, Ethereum could reach around $7,500.

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First, let’s look at the numbers. Ethereum is currently around $2,552, up about 2.1% in 24 hours. Rising from $2,552 to $5,000 would require a gain of about 96%; reaching $25,000 would mean roughly 9.8x, and $50,000 roughly 19.6x 💥 His reasoning is that ETH has traded within a similar range for the past five years, and the longer it builds a base, the greater the potential breakout could be.
But the fund flows are moving in the opposite direction. Ethereum spot ETFs saw $542 million in net outflows last week, marking nine consecutive trading days of outflows. BlackRock’s ETHA alone saw $477 million flow out ⚠️ On one side, analysts are calling for a doubling; on the other, real money is being redeemed.
What makes it even more intriguing is that Tom Lee himself is one of the biggest buyers. Bitmine, which he leads, has accumulated around 6.016 million ETH, or 4.9% of the circulating supply, worth about $15.5 billion. He has said explicitly that he’ll stop buying once he reaches 5%, which is about 100,000 ETH away. At the current pace, he could hit that limit in another six to seven weeks. He’s calling for $50,000 while setting a cap on his own buying.
In other words, price targets and fund flows are two different things. A target is a long-term narrative; fund flows are a vote on what’s happening now. Ethereum has a narrative and expectations of upgrades, but new capital hasn’t returned yet. The two things worth watching are when spot ETF outflows stop and turn positive, and whether ETH can first hold firmly above a key level before we talk about $5,000.
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#sui基金会向datanetwork投资3000万美元
Built up 270 million registrations in 4 months, but couldn’t keep its own chain. $30 million is moving the whole thing—people and data included 🦖

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DATA Network has announced it’s shutting down its independent blockchain and migrating everything to Sui, backed by a $30 million investment from the Sui Foundation. The project, originally called Story, only changed its name to DATA Foundation this June. It’s pivoted from IP licensing to a full-stack platform for AI training data.

Here’s the key number: its on-chain registry, Trace, launched in June and amassed more than 270 million registrations in under 4 months, processing over 3 million receipts a day on average 💥 A chain with real business running on it and real money being settled—and the project itself can just decide to shut it down.

Why shut it down? The official explanation is straightforward: maintaining a dedicated chain for a single use case means shouldering all the costs of validators, network security, and infrastructure. Sui has already built these capabilities with Walrus and Seal. Building from scratch would just mean reinventing the wheel.

Put another way: this is worth more than that $30 million. In the AI data sector, the moat isn’t the chain—it’s data supply, provenance, and storage capabilities. The chain is just a foundation that can be replaced. Whoever controls authentic, authorized data is the one sitting at the center of the table.

The accompanying moves are clear, too. Walrus, Sui’s decentralized storage network, will become the default storage layer for applications under the DATA Foundation. Large files will be stored there, and only authorized buyers will be able to access them. Dataset licenses will be managed on-chain like tokens, with the data’s provenance and attached rights recorded ⚖️ and payments settled to the people who provide the data.

There’s plenty of firepower on the application side. Kled, the largest human data marketplace, is bringing in more than 1.5 billion records. There are also Numo and Oto, applications that have already licensed data to leading AI labs and robotics companies.

My take: the real story is the industry signal, not the token price. For the past two years, countless projects have been eager to build their own chain. Now even an AI data protocol with real revenue has done the math: the costs of running its own chain simply can’t be recouped. We’ll likely see more appchains retreat and become protocols within someone else’s ecosystem.

But one thing is still up in the air. The project says the existing chain will continue running until the upgrade is complete. A detailed timeline and transition plan for token holders will be announced before the migration. In other words, users holding the old assets still don’t know how their rights will ultimately be converted. That’s the uncertainty worth watching most closely in the short term.

On the market side, Sui is currently around $1.13, with a market cap of about $4.6 billion, up around 2.7% in 24 hours. Has the market already priced in expectations for the data migration? The question worth watching is this: when the narrative shifts from “I have my own chain” to “I’m on the best chain,” will the valuation logic change too? Do you see this as the industry maturing or the narrative losing steam? Let’s talk in the comments 💰

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