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According to ChainCatcher, crypto exchange Kraken’s parent company, Payward, announced plans to become the first CFTC-regulated deployer of HIP-3* markets on Hyperliquid, an on-chain perpetuals infrastructure platform. Payward will use Hyperliquid as its infrastructure layer to deploy perpetual futures markets for U.S. customers.
Subject to regulatory approval, Payward’s CFTC-regulated designated contract market and derivatives clearing organization, Bitnomial, will serve as the HIP-3* deployer, responsible for creating, listing, and managing the markets, as well as clearing and settling the contracts. If approved, Payward’s CFTC-registered futures commission merchant, NinjaTrader Clearing, will carry the customer accounts.

ChainCatcher reports that France’s Ministry of Finance, the Financial Markets Authority (AMF), the Bank of France, and the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) have jointly recommended that the European Commission allow third parties, such as crypto platforms, to offer rewards to stablecoin holders under certain conditions. The four institutions believe such rewards should be regulated rather than categorically banned.
The four institutions proposed that platforms disclose information about rewards to holders, refrain from promising guaranteed returns, and avoid marketing rewards as savings products. Regulators should also monitor the impact of rewards on bank deposits. France continues to support a ban on stablecoin issuers paying interest, but opposes extending the ban to staking and lending activities. The European Central Bank and the central banks of EU member states, however, advocate maintaining the ban on stablecoin interest and extending restrictions to indirect benefits such as rewards and fee waivers, as well as activities such as lending and staking.

ChainCatcher reports that Bitcoin wallet Blink Wallet has announced a $1 monthly inactivity fee for custodial accounts that have not logged into the app for 12 consecutive months. The change was introduced in early September through an update to the terms of service, and inactive users were notified via push notifications. The first fees were charged in mid-October. According to a blog post published by the company, fees charged will be refunded if users log back in within 12 months.
The fee applies only to custodial accounts and is intended to reduce the burden inactive accounts place on the startup. The announcement said these accounts incur ongoing costs for maintaining ledgers and infrastructure, retaining verification records, compliance monitoring and reporting, and handling support claims. These costs were previously shared by active users through standard in-app transaction fees. Sources told Bitcoin Magazine that about 100,000 accounts met the inactivity criteria when the first fees were charged, with combined balances exceeding $800,000. The first round of charges collected about $45,000, primarily from accounts that had been inactive for over a year and held small amounts of bitcoin. Blink Wallet emerged from El Salvador's Bitcoin adoption movement and was originally called Bitcoin Beach Wallet. It began as a custodial Lightning Network wallet and introduced Stable Sats, a feature that hedges value against the U.S. dollar. In October 2024, the wallet was spun off from its founding company, Galoy, and began operating under Lukas Duczko and a new board. Duczko holds a controlling stake, while Galoy remains a service provider and minority shareholder. The Bitcoin Beach Fund was also established.

ChainCatcher News: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the NBA to jointly safeguard the integrity of professional basketball events in prediction markets. Under the agreement, the two parties will share information, maintain regular communication on integrity matters, and work together to ensure that relevant markets are fair and transparent. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said that the NBA, along with MLB and the NHL, had taken a responsible step to protect the integrity of sports and market participants from abuses such as insider trading and fraud. He also thanked NBA Commissioner Adam Silver for making the integrity of professional basketball and U.S. financial markets a priority.

According to ChainCatcher, Akash Network has announced that the decentralized cloud computing network Akash has initiated Governance Proposal No. 346, which proposes migrating the network from its Cosmos sovereign chain, akashnet-2, to the Solana mainnet. Voting began at 23:02 Beijing time on October 26 and will end at 23:02 on November 2. So far, approximately 98.29% of votes are in favor.
According to the proposal, if it passes and audits of the token and migration portal are completed (expected to take 2 to 3 weeks), AKT will launch on Solana as an SPL token and migrate at a 1:1 ratio, retaining its ticker. The one-way migration portal will remain open for 2 years. AKT that is staked must first be unstaked (a 21-day process) before it can be migrated. The proposal does not set a switchover date; the market migration will require a separate switchover proposal. Akash said Solana was chosen primarily due to factors including operating costs under load, the absence of a single operator, and the concentration of the DePIN ecosystem.

ChainCatcher reports that Seoul police have arrested seven suspects accused of using generative AI to carry out cyberattacks. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said around 90 organizations were involved, and 8.2 million records were stolen. This marks South Korea’s first arrest of suspects in a large-scale AI-assisted cyberattack. The victims included hospitals, universities, private cram schools, golf courses, and subsidiaries of large conglomerates, all of which held large amounts of ordinary people’s names, contact details, and records. One funeral service company lost 1.22 million records, and reports say the cram school data also included information about minors.

ChainCatcher reports that Brett Tejpaul, co-CEO of Coinbase Institutional, said in an interview that the “second wave” of institutional capital into Bitcoin has arrived. He revealed that seven of the world’s largest banks are now operating on Coinbase’s infrastructure and are experiencing their own “Kodak moment,” as they begin moving funds from traditional accounts to on-chain settlement.
Tejpaul said the key driver of institutional adoption has shifted from Bitcoin ETFs to stablecoin payments. Funds can now be transferred from a Citibank account to USDC, moved across chains in one second, and then deposited into a corporate account on the other side. He revealed that stablecoin settlements have reached $400 million per hour, but remain just “a speck of dust” compared with the overall payments market. Payment providers will adopt them at scale before banks do. In addition, Coinbase is connecting U.S. funds to Deribit, which commands 85% of the options market.