21Shares: Bitcoin Could Rebound to $100,000 by End of Year, Current Trend Aligns With Post-Halving Cycle Characteristics

According to CNBC, Michael Selig, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said in an interview while discussing the Binance hack incident that he hopes to provide a federal-level option for such trading platforms to register with the CFTC.

Binance CEO He Yi said the recent hack involved approximately $6.3 billion in assets, and with assistance from industry partners, around $3 billion in assets has been frozen. She thanked all industry parties for their support, and stated that Binance will use its own corporate funds to cover the stolen assets, ensuring full parity with user funds. Regarding withdrawal arrangements, He Yi noted that the withdrawal suspension has lasted nearly a day, and is expected to resume within the next 42 hours. The pause was implemented to protect remaining assets; the team is currently rebuilding the security environment, wallet configurations, and conducting security reviews. Withdrawals will only be re-opened once the environment is confirmed secure and poses no risk to user assets. He Yi clarified that Binance’s daily revenue and held assets are mostly in cryptocurrencies, which align with most of the currencies involved in the stolen funds. Only a small portion of assets needs to be purchased via on-exchange or over-the-counter (OTC) channels, meaning it is not necessary to deploy the full $6 billion+ to repurchase coins in the market. On reserve verification, Binance will update its Proof of Reserves (PoR) in the coming days for users to verify their own assets. Regarding the investigation, He Yi said that based on current reviews from security and technical teams, the incident is a complex multi-vector attack. Future operations will be more cautious. Binance will release a detailed technical security audit report in the future, and invite industry participants to jointly build security environments and standards. She also stated that Binance will not abandon tracking the attackers, will collaborate with global law enforcement agencies to continue tracing the attack team and stolen funds, and will take further actions in security investment and combating hacking.

According to Bloomberg, Uber has joined a blockchain-based corporate treasury investment pilot that uses HSBC’s tokenized deposits to buy Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market fund on Thursday and sell it on Sunday. Unlike traditional banks and markets, which typically exit investments on Friday ahead of weekend closures, this transaction generated roughly 1.5 extra days of returns. The pilot is a joint initiative by HSBC, Franklin Templeton, Tradeweb, and Fireblocks, with liquidity and settlement provided by the Canton Network. Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks, stated that large amounts of idle cash sit in gaps between corporate payments, and this model can boost interest income while keeping funds accessible. He forecasts hundreds of companies will adopt this framework in the next 18 months. Manish Kohli, HSBC’s Head of Global Payments, added that the pilot has confirmed the technology is ready for deployment and rollout to other U.S. clients, with future plans to explore adding investment options beyond Franklin Templeton.

The U.S. Secret Service said investigators are collaborating with private sector partners including Circle to identify, freeze, track, and recover stolen funds from Binance.

Renowned trader Bonk Guy stated that while BTC has pulled back from $79,000 to $77,000 and many altcoins have also fallen, they have shown relatively better resilience than BTC. He added that Binance appears to have repurchased most of the stolen funds: of the roughly $6.3 billion in stolen assets, around $3 billion has been frozen. He anticipates the frozen assets will be returned, and a significant portion of the remaining stolen assets may also be recovered over time. For the market outlook, Unipcs believes BTC could still dip briefly to form a local low, but he is optimistic about the market in the coming weeks to months. He judges that most of the altcoin correction is already complete, and thinks going long on altcoins at current levels, alongside buying in batches during potential future pullbacks, carries a higher success rate.

Flash news from Dongcha Beating AI: Z Finance’s exclusive report states that Zhou Chang, a core leader of ByteDance’s Seed division, has left to launch a startup focused on Physical AI, and has secured backing from top-tier US dollar funds. On October 26, multiple media outlets including The Paper and Jiemian News received responses from sources close to ByteDance that Zhou Chang had not left the company. Zhou Chang previously served as technical lead of Alibaba’s Tongyi large model, joined ByteDance in 2024, initially in charge of multimodal interaction and world models. In 2025, after Yang Jianchao went on leave and Feng Jiashi departed, visual generation businesses such as Seedream and Seedance were gradually placed under his management. In June this year, the Seed Robotics team, previously led by Li Hang, also began reporting to Zhou Chang; ByteDance was at the time recruiting an embodied intelligence lead to report directly to him. However, Z Finance notes that Zhou Chang’s management scope began contracting in the second half of this year, with more work transferred to Zeng Yan. Zeng Yan is the core R&D lead of Seedance 2.0, who joined ByteDance via campus recruitment in 2021. She persisted in efforts to train a video model with at least 200 billion parameters, and secured internal computing resources with support from Wu Yonghui and Zhou Chang. Physical AI aims to advance AI beyond understanding and generating digital content to perceiving, predicting, and acting on the physical world. The world models, multimodal, and robotics businesses Zhou Chang previously oversaw are all relevant to this. However, it has not yet been disclosed whether the new startup will focus on foundational models, simulation platforms, or robotics hardware.