Lawson will test Japanese yen stablecoin payments in August, while Netstars launches multi-stablecoin merchant services.

According to official announcements, ViaBTC has confirmed its attendance as a strategic partner at the 9th Crypto Summit 2026, held at Moscow’s MTS Live Hall from October 28 to 29. The summit will gather miners, investment institutions, crypto exchanges, technology service providers, and policymakers to discuss topics including mining infrastructure, digital asset markets, and regulation. ViaBTC is currently among the world’s top four Bitcoin mining pools and operates the largest Zcash (ZEC) mining pool by hashrate. During the event, Anton, ViaBTC’s Director of Business Development, will join a roundtable discussion focusing on changes in the mining landscape. Drawing on ViaBTC’s experience supporting miners through multiple market cycles, he will explore how mining firms can respond to market pressures, improve profitability, and identify new growth opportunities. Alina, the company’s Business Manager, will deliver a speech sharing practical advice on using mining pool services to help miners manage their daily mining operations more efficiently. Additionally, the ViaBTC team will connect with miners and industry partners at Booth S-02 for face-to-face exchanges, sharing a decade of mining service experience and discussing collaboration opportunities. ViaBTC hopes to gain deeper insights into miners’ actual needs through this event, while continuously enhancing the stability of its mining services and the flexibility of its revenue management.

According to monitoring by ai_9684xtpa, a whale that allocated $8.09 million to accumulate altcoins in early October is still increasing its holdings. Over the past 10 days, it has added roughly $2.7 million, bringing its total position value to $10.79 million, with an accumulated unrealized loss of around $1.904 million. Details of its holdings and losses: 2.55 million ZRO at an average entry price of $2.08, with an unrealized loss of approximately $970,000; 6.3 million WLD at an average entry price of $0.5189, with an unrealized loss of about $568,000; 5.77 million BAT at an average entry price of $0.1981, with an unrealized loss of roughly $288,000; and 20 million CHIP at an average entry price of $0.04928, with an unrealized loss of around $77,000.

Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrst?tter announced in a post that core developers last week decided to delay the Hoodi testnet upgrade to Glamsterdam, following a ChainSecurity report uncovering compatibility and security issues between EIP-8037 and certain smart contracts. Identified problems include: residual gas may rise during transaction execution, causing underflow in some gas counting logic and triggering rollbacks, or activating code paths that should not execute, making transactions appear successful. Additionally, some contracts may incorrectly calculate gas consumption during calls, leading to underestimated usage. ChainSecurity previously noted it has found 13 real-world cases and is conducting responsible disclosure with affected projects. Wahrst?tter said further reviews of related contracts will be carried out this week to assess follow-up solutions, which may require collaboration among application developers, core developers, auditors, and node operators. In the worst scenario, protocol specifications may need adjustment. He urged application developers and auditors to verify their contracts’ compatibility with EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, and report issues promptly.

Charlie Bilello, chief strategist at Creative Planning, stated in a post that Bitcoin has declined 7.3% year-to-date and gold has fallen 7.5%, making them the two worst-performing major assets of 2026 so far. He noted that such a situation has never occurred in any previous year.

Paradigm CTO Georgios Konstantopoulos announced in a post that Solar’s EVM code generation (codegen) feature will be released this week. The tool is over 100 times faster than solc, and can generate gas-efficient bytecode without requiring any assembly code.

U.S.-licensed broker and tokenized stock infrastructure provider Alpaca tweeted that its entity Alpaca Clearing & Custody ME Ltd (Alpaca Middle East) has received in-principle approval (IPA) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) for its financial services license application. Following the approval, Alpaca Middle East plans to offer brokerage services and virtual asset custody services within the scope of FSRA’s final authorization. Alpaca clarified that in-principle approval is not equivalent to a full financial services license, and until the license is obtained, Alpaca Middle East is prohibited from conducting regulated activities in or from ADGM.