Suspected Sonic Labs-Related Address Transfers 11.78 Million S Tokens to Binance, Valued at Approximately $5.55 Million

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According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) ordered the Korea Communications Commission on October 30 to block domestic access to two unregistered virtual asset operators, including terminating their services. On the same day, the Digital Asset Exchange Association (DAXA) referred three entities—Aegis Ventures, TetherMax, and SuperTrust—for investigation over alleged violations of the Special Financial Information Act and unregistered virtual asset business operations. The FIU ordered blocks on TetherMax and SuperTrust; Aegis Ventures has no independent website or mobile application, so it was not included in the block request. Under current law, unregistered virtual asset operators face a maximum penalty of five years in prison or a fine of 50 million won, and the law also applies to overseas operators serving South Korean residents. The FIU noted that unregistered operators operate in regulatory blind spots and may be used for money laundering. In June this year, a joint investigation by DAXA and compliant operators found that the average transaction fees of the identified unregistered operators ranged from 1.5% to 10%, up to 62 times the average level of South Korea’s five major won-based crypto exchanges (0.16%).

Beating AI News: Factory has released Droid 1.0, a coding agent runtime framework, introducing procedural tool calling (Code Mode) as its default execution method. The feature allows AI to first write JavaScript scripts, then sequentially call tools hundreds of times via the scripts, eliminating the need to re-request the large language model every few steps, thus reducing model call frequency and token consumption. For example, migrating and verifying 151 Linear tickets required 36 model calls and 3.1 million input tokens via the traditional approach; with Code Mode, only 2 calls and around 61,000 tokens were needed, a ~98% drop in input tokens. In broader tests, task costs for Claude Opus 5.5 saw a ~15% reduction. Factory also optimized cross-model tool calling strategies, caching, and task execution mechanisms. In its official Terminal-Bench 4 self-test, using the same GPT-6.1 Sol model, Droid scored 3.5 points higher than Codex, with a 12% lower successful task cost, though execution time increased by 10%. It’s worth noting that Code Mode is not a new technology: Cloudflare and Anthropic previously unveiled similar solutions, while Pi, OpenCode 2.0, and DeepSeek Harness also support the feature.

According to data from BIT Stock Platform, Intel fell more than 23% in U.S. pre-market trading. The company’s fourth-quarter performance guidance was far below market expectations, weighed down by factors including an explosion at its Israeli factory, weak PC demand, and limited supply of AI chips. Amazon dropped over 7%. The company’s third-quarter net sales stood at $201.9 billion, missing market forecasts; its earnings per share (EPS) declined 3% year-on-year to $1.89. The storage sector was broadly lower in pre-market trading, with SK Hynix down more than 6% and SanDisk down over 3%.

The Onchain Foundation announced that it has temporarily suspended its LSK token repurchase program amid the Binance security incident, and expects to resume the plan next week after the situation becomes clearer. The foundation noted that Binance has confirmed it will bear all losses, so the incident is not expected to impact the LSK repurchase program. A separate announcement will be released once the repurchase program restarts.

According to an official announcement, Huobi HTX launched PFE/USDT and VLO/USDT perpetual contracts on October 30, supporting long and short positions with leverage ranging from 1x to 20x.