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On Oct 25, 2026, 08:54 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has dropped below 740 USDT and is now trading at 739.690002 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 0.82% increase in 24 hours.

South Korea's government appears set to delay taxation of crypto income again, roughly two months before the scheduled January start, News1 reported. Officials are wary that forcing the tax through could fuel pushback from young investors, a core group in the crypto market, at a time when a stock market slump has already soured public sentiment toward asset markets.
A Presidential Office official said the government is discussing a postponement, citing "consideration of the voices of young people, including respect for their asset ladder." Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok said on the 22nd that it was time to reach a conclusion on whether to tax as planned or shore up the system. Party lawmaker Park Min-gyu introduced a bill on the 16th to push the start date back to 2029.
Finance Minister Lee Hyung-il sounded more cautious at a parliamentary audit on the 22nd. "We will hear more opinions from experts and the industry, and since views have also been raised in the National Assembly, we will deliberate as carefully as possible," he said. That is a step back from his stance at last month's confirmation hearing, where he called a January 2027 start desirable.
The tax was originally due to take effect in January 2022 under a December 2020 amendment to the income tax law. Gains from transferring or lending crypto above a 2.5 million won basic deduction would be taxed at 22%, including local tax. Implementation has been pushed back three times, to January 2023, 2025 and 2027, as the market slumped and retail investors argued for parity with domestic stocks, where small shareholders pay no capital gains tax. Shelving the planned financial investment income tax on stocks only intensified the backlash.
Industry players argue the framework isn't ready. Trades on overseas exchanges are hard to capture for tax purposes, which could encourage offshore trading, while tax treatment for different transaction types remains unclear. Exchanges say they need more time to build and verify systems for submitting tax data to authorities.
Officials may also align the start date with the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), which the United States joins in 2029. Under CARF, member countries exchange annual crypto transaction data to curb offshore tax evasion.

According to the announcement from Binance, Binance Futures will launch pre-market trading for the USDⓈ-margined PREDICTUSDT perpetual contract starting at 2026-10-25 06:45 (UTC), with maximum leverage of 5x. The contract’s underlying asset is Predict.fun (PREDICT), a prediction market on BNB Chain that enables users to predict outcomes across multiple categories. The token’s total and maximum supplies are each 1,000,000,000 PREDICT, and the contract will settle in USDT. Its tick size is 0.0001, the minimum trade amount is 1 PREDICT, and the minimum notional value is 5 USDT. Trading will be available 24/7, and Multi-Assets Mode will be supported. During pre-market trading, the mark price will be based on the average of trade prices over the preceding 10 seconds, calculated every second. The funding rate will be 0.005% per four-hour interval during the pre-market period. After pre-market trading ends, the contract will follow standard perpetual futures funding rules, with a maximum and minimum funding rate of +2.00% and -2.00%, respectively. Binance said the pre-market contract will transition to a standard perpetual futures contract when the symbol is listed on spot market(s).

The United Arab Emirates closed additional beaches after an oil spill in the Persian Gulf raised concerns about environmental and health impacts, according to Bloomberg.

Solana Company said Hong Kong’s Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises (OASES) has recognized it as a strategic enterprise and included it in the government’s seventh strategic enterprises list. According to Odaily, it is the only blockchain infrastructure company brought in by OASES in 2026. Solana Company has established an office in Hong Kong to serve as its Asia-Pacific headquarters and regional operations base, with its management team overseeing business in the region. The company plans to operate validator nodes in Hong Kong through its Pacific Backbone program.

Silver closed Friday at $53.83, nearly 56% below its $121.74 record and its weakest 2026 finish; gold fell below $4,000. Traders brace for further losses, according to BeInCrypto: put-call skew rose 10 points in four weeks to minus 3, while hedge funds and commodity advisers sold $2.2 billion in futures in the three weeks to October 13. Oil, inflation and rate concerns, plus weak industrial demand, weigh on prices. Kev_Capital_TA sees $52–$55 support and $39–$45 if $52 breaks; van de Poppe sees $40–$45 as an entry, while Schiff sees value below $54. India authorized roughly 6,500 metric tons of imports, but premiums fell from $2.50 to 45 cents an ounce. The Fed meets October 27–28.

Binance Wallet announced on X that users can access Prediction Markets through the Binance App by selecting Exchange, Markets, Prediction, and Sports, or by choosing Wallet, Home, Prediction, View more, and Sports.
On the web, users can open Binance Web and select Trade, Prediction, and Sports, or access Binance Wallet Web and choose Prediction and Sports. Prediction Markets are available only to users in eligible regions and may not be available to all users.

Whales on Hyperliquid currently hold $8.122 billion in positions, with a long-to-short ratio of 0.87. According to ChainCatcher, Coinglass data shows that $3.781 billion, or 46.56%, is in long positions, while $4.341 billion, or 53.44%, is in shorts. Long positions have unrealized profits of $94.15 million, while short positions show unrealized losses of $40.15 million. One whale address, 0x5b5d..60, holds a 5x cross-margin short position in ETH opened at $2,322.74 and currently has an unrealized loss of $2.432 million.

Blockaid reported an ongoing attack on X100 on Ethereum. According to Foresight News, attackers took control of two of the project’s three Senate seats and sold 400,000 X tokens from the treasury into an empty pool they created. Another attacker then destroyed a Uniswap V3 position held by Freezer, while a third used the same Senate route to withdraw the remaining approximately 550,000 X from a Uniswap V3 liquidity pool. Across three transactions, the attackers have cashed out approximately 4.85 million USDT and withdrawn about 550,000 X. Approximately 12.2 million X remain in Freezer, and the attack is ongoing.

Grayscale named DATA Network (DATA), USD.AI (CHIP) and Pearl (PEARL) as cryptocurrencies targeting AI infrastructure, from training-data licensing to GPU finance and computing. In an October 23 research note, Head of Research Zach Pandl said their long-term relevance depends on adoption and competitive economics, according to BeInCrypto. DATA fell 42.07% in 90 days to $0.15243; the Sui Foundation announced a $30 million investment. CHIP rose 47.98% in 90 days to $0.04386 after Bullish announced a $100 million GPU-loan facility. PEARL surged 528.24% in 90 days to $2.00, but estimated daily issuance of 1.2 million tokens and a $4.2 billion fully diluted valuation versus a $713 million market cap pose risks.

Fidelity Digital Assets research analyst Zack Wainwright said Bitcoin could rise from $100,000 to $200,000 much faster than it took to first surpass $100,000, nearly 16 years after its creation. According to Odaily, Bitcoin News reported on X that Wainwright said Bitcoin had gained nearly 50% by October 12 from its bear-market low of about $58,000 in June, following a recovery path similar to 2022. He noted that returns have narrowed in each market cycle and that past performance does not guarantee future results, while substantial gains in dollar terms remain possible.

Tom Lee said about 99% of financial activity still runs on traditional financial infrastructure, a situation that may lead investors and businesses to view crypto as a niche area and underestimate the pace of change. According to Odaily, Lee said banks without crypto business channels or strategies may face a competitive disadvantage as adoption grows. He added that institutions’ reliance on the current market structure could cause them to underestimate the speed of a shift toward crypto infrastructure.

Uniswap, PancakeSwap, Aero, Pump, and BisonFi ranked as the five largest DEX protocols by trading volume over the past seven days. According to Foresight News, citing DefiLlama data, Uniswap recorded about $13.079 billion in volume, followed by PancakeSwap at $5.892 billion, Aero at $3.538 billion, Pump at $1.938 billion, and Solana-based Prop AMM BisonFi at $1.862 billion. Aero Slipstream, launched on October 22 through the merger of Aerodrome and Velodrome, recorded about $868 million in trading volume.

Stellar’s mainnet vote on the Bell upgrade is scheduled for November 23 at 17:00 UTC. According to ChainCatcher, Stellar updated its Bell upgrade guide ahead of Protocol 30, advising wallets, exchanges, and infrastructure operators to upgrade their software before the November network vote to support new contract addresses beginning with W. JavaScript SDK v17.3.0 is available with encoding, decoding, and validation tools.
Bell enables contract addresses to carry customer identifiers and requires indexers and explorers to adapt to a change in ledger header format. The upgrade also adds ML-DSA post-quantum signature verification and millisecond-level ledger timestamps; regular transactions will continue using Ed25519, and the block interval will remain unchanged. Testnet validators are scheduled to vote on November 3 at 17:00 UTC. The mainnet vote is scheduled for November 23 at 17:00 UTC, and the upgrade will take effect if approved. The dates may change.

On Oct 24, 2026, 15:17 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, Ethereum has dropped below 2,300 USDT and is now trading at 2,291.090088 USDT, with a narrowed 4.50% decrease in 24 hours.

X Money is set to add a feature that lets users send another person $1 by long-pressing the Like button. According to ChainCatcher, Elon Musk announced the addition.

Strategy and Strive must balance bitcoin purchases with rising dividend costs to sustain demand for perpetual preferred stock. Fidelity said the securities funded purchases of 135,979 BTC since 2025 through Oct. 5; Bitwise expects ETFs to remain the larger demand source, according to CoinDesk, while preferreds appeal to yield investors. The market is about $12 billion, and growing issuance raises payout obligations. Strategy spent $193 million repurchasing STRC while buying 267 bitcoin and raised its repurchase authorization to $3 billion. Below-par prices could deter new issuance, and Strategy has sold bitcoin to fund dividends. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs have drawn about $57 billion in net inflows and hold around $106 billion in assets.

The metals trading industry is enjoying a boom for a second consecutive year, with traders earning billions and several leading firms posting record profits. According to Sina Finance, Trafigura Group recorded about $2 billion in metals-trading profit in its fiscal year through September, a record, while Glencore achieved one of its best-ever profit levels. Copper, gold and silver prices rose to record highs, and many traders received the highest compensation of their careers as well as job offers from multiple competitors.

Crypto analyst Ali said $1.26 may mark the lower boundary of XRP’s price channel formed since August; a break below it could lead to declines first to $1.11 and then to $0.98, about 22% below $1.26. According to Odaily, Ali said continued whale selling could push XRP to $0.98. The number of wallets holding 10 million to 100 million XRP fell from 351 to 339 over the past few weeks, while XRP held on exchanges rose from 11.003 billion to about 11.05 billion, an increase of roughly 50 million. Exchange holdings remained elevated over the past week, which Ali said may indicate increased potential selling pressure.

A wallet labeled as a Polygon multisig transferred 52.928 million POL to a staking contract yesterday, worth about $4.82 million. According to ChainCatcher, Arkham monitoring data identified the source address as “0xFA5.” Market analysts said the transfer may support POL and ease downward price pressure, following Polygon’s announcement that it would allocate 27.3 million POL in transaction fees to staking rewards under proposal PIP-92 for the period from October 1 to December 1.

Machi Big Brother's 25x Ethereum long position was partially liquidated after a brief market decline, leaving 252 ETH. According to Odaily, the position had an unrealized loss of about $24,000 and a liquidation price of $2,326.

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said in draft guidance CP26-36 that crypto trading apps that select venues or execution routes for clients based on price, liquidity, cost or speed may need authorization under rules taking effect on October 25, 2027. According to Odaily, existing U.K. crypto firms must submit applications between September 30, 2026, and February 28, 2027.
The FCA identified changing an order, deciding when to execute it, or selecting a route based on counterparty risk or expected outcomes as indicators of discretionary involvement. Automation does not exempt developers or operators, while interfaces that only transmit orders without affecting execution may qualify for a technology-services exemption.
The consultation period ends November 18. The FCA is targeting publication of final guidance in January 2027, while the consultation document also refers to a spring timeline.

Electrum disclosed a high-risk vulnerability exploited by malicious servers to redirect bitcoin payments when users raised transaction fees, affecting versions released before 4.8.3. According to Odaily, Electrum received reports of two related incidents, including one in which a user lost funds.
The attack could intercept a broadcast transaction and replace it in the wallet’s history with a fake transaction sending funds to an attacker-controlled address. When a user increased the fee through Replace-by-Fee (RBF), Electrum could sign the malicious transaction. Attackers also generated addresses with the same final four characters as the intended recipient’s address.
Electrum said the vulnerability was fixed in version 4.8.3 and advised users to update and check recipient addresses and amounts before signing transactions.

The XRPL maintenance amendment fixCleanup3_4_0 reset its activation countdown after losing validator majority, moving its earliest activation window to November 4, subject to continued support. According to Odaily, a snapshot at 07:09 UTC on October 24 showed 32 of 35 trusted validators supporting the amendment, a rate of 91.43%; majority support was regained on October 21 at 14:46:22 UTC. The amendment was first proposed for activation on October 9, but lost majority support on October 21 and had to restart its countdown because it did not maintain support for two consecutive weeks. Under the rules, more than 80% of trusted validators must support an amendment for two continuous weeks; the November 4 window is conditional. The technical fix package covers vaults, lending, AMMs, permissioned trading, trust lines and NFTs.

Trader Bonk Guy, also known as Unipcs, said he lost millions of dollars through overtrading after suffering an eight-figure loss. According to PANews, he said the loss occurred on October 10, 2025, amid systemwide failures at major centralized exchanges and was the largest single-day loss of his career.
In the weeks and months that followed, he continued trading in an effort to recover the losses and prove himself. Bonk Guy said he would have been a better trader if he had forced himself to stop for several months or longer. He added that skill and experience alone do not ensure consistent outperformance, and that market conditions, timing and luck also play a role. He said that sometimes the best move is to stay out of the market and wait for another opportunity.

Stripe and Plasma plan to introduce a stablecoin payment card. According to Odaily, the card is intended to support spending in U.S. dollars, Brazilian reais, euros, Mexican pesos, Colombian pesos, and stablecoins including USDC and OUSD, with a goal of reaching more than 100 countries by 2027. The service is already operating in more than 30 countries, and Stripe’s stablecoin card infrastructure was estimated to process about $1.2 billion in monthly spending as of 2026. Plasma operates a blockchain designed for stablecoin transactions and the Plasma One neobank app; its multi-currency accounts are set to migrate to Stripe’s card infrastructure.

According to Jin10, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Iran's position would not change even if a new conflict with Israel and the United States broke out. Tensions between Tehran and Washington had been escalating. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump said Washington might carry out another small-scale “Epic Fury” military operation. Araghchi said, “People have recently been talking about the possibility of a new war, but I am already thinking about the postwar situation. Whether or not war breaks out, our policy will not change.” He added that the other side had already tried twice and seen the results, and that if it wanted to try again, it should know the outcome would be no different from before.

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will report third-quarter earnings next week, with SK Hynix scheduled to release its results on Wednesday and Samsung on Thursday. According to Sina Finance, market estimates put their combined operating profit at about KRW 185 trillion ($139.4 billion), supported by rising memory-chip prices and continued growth in HBM demand. Samsung previously forecast third-quarter revenue of KRW 195 trillion and operating profit of KRW 107.4 trillion in its earnings preview. Investors will watch the companies’ progress supplying next-generation HBM4 chips for platforms including Nvidia’s Vera Rubin. Strong demand for conventional memory chips and high-end HBM products is also expected to support SK Hynix’s results. On Friday, SK Hynix said it had suspended plans to list its U.S. subsidiary, Solidigm, citing market conditions. The decision followed shareholder opposition and regulatory concerns that a separate listing could harm minority shareholders; regulators are reviewing the matter.

CMCC Global, which manages $500 million, plans to launch two tokenized Bitcoin funds: Crest Fund and Liberty Bitcoin Accumulation Fund. According to Odaily, Bitcoin Magazine reported the plan in a post on X and said the Liberty fund targets an annual net BTC yield of 8% to 12%.

Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on employees' computers starting Oct. 26 (Monday), allowing only Microsoft Copilot, which passed a security review. According to ChainCatcher, Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio reported the decision.
Mikael Wettercrantz, the agency's director of digitalization, wrote on the staff intranet that using AI services without a formal contract could have consequences for information security. He said the agency had identified several cases of improper use of open AI services, involving the sensitivity of information entered and the handling of AI-generated content. Without formal agreements, consumer AI tools send user queries to external company servers, and U.S. law allows authorities to require companies to hand over data.
The Government Offices retained Copilot after adjusting its security settings following a review; ChatGPT and Claude did not receive the same treatment. Some employees can still access the two blocked tools through an AI platform built internally by the agency.
The Swedish Tax Agency and the National Board of Institutional Care have previously introduced similar bans. The Swedish Police Authority is expected to make a decision soon, while an internal audit at the Swedish Transport Administration found that about 10 AI services were being used “widely and at high risk.”

Dragonfly partner Haseeb Qureshi challenged DFINITY founder Dominic Williams' patent infringement allegation against NEAR Intents, saying the relevant patent had been approved only about a month before the disputed period. According to Odaily, Williams said NEAR Intents' chain-abstraction feature used threshold ECDSA signing technology that DFINITY had licensed only for Internet Computer, and alleged that a person fired by DFINITY in 2021 helped advance the work.
Qureshi questioned the timeline, saying the patent was approved in late July this year and NEAR modified the algorithm in September. Under Williams' timeline, Qureshi said, the period between patent approval and the algorithm change may have been about one month. He added that the patent remained an application before formal approval and argued that actions before approval could not directly be deemed infringement.
The algorithm was first published in an academic paper under a CC BY license, which NEAR cited in its implementation. Qureshi questioned whether Williams' public accusation was justified in that context. The dispute concerns the patent approval timeline, the basis for using the technology and whether NEAR's implementation constitutes infringement. The statements remain the parties' respective public positions.

South Korea's government and the Bank of Korea plan to revise the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act this year to regulate stablecoins as payment instruments and establish a virtual asset monitoring framework. According to Odaily, the Bank of Korea is coordinating with the government on oversight of cross-border digital asset transactions and plans to develop an international cooperation framework to combat illegal digital asset trading.
South Korea is also drafting a Digital Asset Basic Act covering exchange licensing and rules for stablecoin issuance. Financial Services Commission Chairman Lee Eog-weon said Thursday that discussions on the bill were nearly complete and that the government would move to enact it as soon as possible.

Borr Drilling said its Prospector 5 drilling rig sank offshore Gabon on October 24 during jacking operations, leaving five people missing. According to Sina Finance, preliminary information indicated that a “punch-through” incident occurred during preloading. There were 115 people aboard; 110 have been confirmed safe, while five remain unaccounted for. Borr Drilling has activated its onshore emergency response team and is working with local authorities and client BW Energy. Prospector 5 is contracted to support BW Energy’s drilling operations offshore Gabon.

Binance Wallet announced on X that the Swiss Round features G2 vs. TOP, described as a near 50/50 matchup, and GEN.G vs. LYON, with LYON facing a 90% favorite. The post also promoted a prediction contest offering a PS5 Pro and a share of a 150,000 USDT squad prize pool.

Arthur Hayes received about $11.73 million in USDC from Galaxy Digital and Flowdesk, with about $6.96 million remaining to be accounted for. According to Odaily, Onchain Lens monitoring showed that Hayes (0x6cd...7e21) transferred about 8,000 ETH, valued at approximately $18.69 million, before receiving the USDC.

Xapo Bank CEO Seamus Rocca says wealthy bitcoin holders are increasingly borrowing against BTC and seeking yield, reflecting a shift from speculation to private banking. About 45% of Xapo customers earn BTC interest on dollar savings; the bank advertises a 4.1% variable base rate and a temporary 4.6% introductory rate for eligible new members, according to CoinDesk. Customers are split between profit-takers and holders who borrow rather than sell. Rocca said traditional banks’ caution creates an opening for Xapo, while lower geopolitical and regulatory uncertainty could help bitcoin reach $250,000 over the next two to three years.

U.S. third-quarter GDP and September PCE data are due Thursday, while Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon are scheduled to report earnings next week. According to PANews, citing Jin10, the Federal Reserve will announce its rate decision at 02:00 (UTC+8) on Thursday, followed by a monetary policy press conference with Fed Chair Kevin Warsh at 02:30. At 20:30, the U.S. is scheduled to release its preliminary annualized third-quarter GDP growth, September core and headline PCE inflation rates, weekly jobless claims through October 24, and September personal spending. The eurozone’s October industrial confidence and final consumer confidence readings are due at 18:00. Friday’s calendar includes the October Chicago PMI at 21:45. Europe switches to winter time on October 25.
Microsoft and Alphabet are scheduled to report after the U.S. market closes on Wednesday, with Amazon due after the close on Thursday. Other earnings include Verizon on Monday; Boeing and Coca-Cola before the market opens Tuesday and Visa after the close; Intel after the close Thursday; SK Hynix on Wednesday; and Samsung Electronics on Thursday.
The report also recounted market moves from the past week: U.S. chip and AI-related stocks rebounded early in the week as investment rotated toward healthcare and financial shares. Meta’s capital spending plan renewed concerns about AI valuations and returns on Wednesday, and a selloff spread across technology stocks on Thursday, sending safe-haven flows into U.S. Treasuries and the yen. Houthi attacks on Saudi energy facilities pushed Brent crude to a five-month high that day.

Hardware wallet maker Keystone confirmed that a security breach at its website exposed some customers’ addresses and order details. According to ChainCatcher, Keystone said it acted immediately after discovering the vulnerability and blocked unauthorized access. The company has fixed the vulnerability and said payment details, recovery phrases, and private keys were not affected. Keystone said it will continue strengthening its security measures.

A Polymarket wallet with losses exceeding $1.1 million bought a $50,000 position on AL to defeat TES, with an average entry price of 64 cents and an unrealized loss of $4,400. According to Odaily, the position was placed in the League of Legends World Championship Swiss-round prediction market for the AL-TES match.
The teams were set to meet at 1 a.m. today in the second round of the 2026 World Championship Swiss stage. Both had lost their opening matches and entered the 0-1 group; the match was scheduled as a best-of-one.

Infinite Node Foundation (NODE), the holder of the CryptoPunks intellectual property, said it accepted a donation of Punk Strategy and took over its management; its first move was to reduce the token’s trading fee from 10% to 5%. According to Foresight News, Punk Strategy was launched in September 2025 by TokenWorks, the team behind an on-chain financialization experiment. The protocol uses trading activity for its token to buy CryptoPunks and list them for resale, then uses the proceeds to buy back and burn tokens. It was the first token launched in TokenWorks’ Strategy series. NODE said Punk Strategy was developed by an independent team and had no prior affiliation with NODE or the original CryptoPunks creators. Foresight News previously reported that Yuga Labs sold the CryptoPunks intellectual property to Infinite Node Foundation in May 2025.