South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) will operate its virtual assets task force until 2028, in preparation for the implementation of the Digital Asset Basic Act.

Senior Advisor to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Mike Selig and Head of the Innovation Working Group Michael Passalacqua explained that, after the Clarity Act hit a roadblock, the CFTC is advancing the Reg CAM (Crypto Asset Markets) framework, which aims to provide crypto asset trading platforms with a voluntary option to join the unified national regulation led by the CFTC. This arrangement is primarily targeted at platforms offering leveraged, margin, or financing trading to retail clients, allowing them to escape the fragmented regulatory patchwork of state money transmission licenses. Pure spot trading without leverage generally remains outside this mandatory framework. Passalacqua noted that the goal is to offer an optional federal path, but it remains unclear whether the industry will view this as an attractive compliance approach. The relevant rulemaking is currently in the comment period.

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Crypto.com’s prediction market trading platform and Novig filed a lawsuit against Missouri officials in federal court last Friday, seeking a judge’s order to block the state’s enforcement of its sports event contracts. Earlier, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway sent cease-and-desist letters to six platforms including the two in September, ordering them to either stop offering sports event contracts to state residents within 30 days or obtain a state license and pay a 10% tax. Crypto.com’s lawsuit notes the letter was incorrectly addressed to Foris DAX, Inc. instead of the trading platform itself, and that Missouri’s constitution only allows two mobile sports prediction licenses – both already issued – making obtaining a license unfeasible. The two platforms argue the Commodity Exchange Act grants the CFTC "exclusive jurisdiction," which preempts state law. Notably, Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood, and Underdog – which also received cease-and-desist letters in September – had not filed suit in Missouri federal court as of Sunday; Kalshi had previously been in "ongoing discussions" with the attorney general’s office. Currently, multiple U.S. federal appeals courts are divided on whether "federal law preempts state regulation": the Sixth and Ninth Circuits ruled against Kalshi, while the Third Circuit supported it. Given the Eighth Circuit (which covers Missouri) is hearing a similar appeal in the Kalshi case from Iowa, Novig has requested the court to issue a preliminary injunction during the litigation to maintain the status quo.

，据 HTX 行情信息，比特币突破 82,000 美元，24 小时涨幅 0.64%；以太坊突破 2400 美元，24 小时涨幅 0.31%。

Galaxy Research Head of Research Alex Thorn points out that Bitcoin’s weakness in October is tied to weak growth in corporate Bitcoin reserves and net outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs. Using the “institutional absorption vs. long-term holder address distribution” metric for analysis, the calculation is: spot ETF net inflows plus net additions to corporate reserves, minus the amount of Bitcoin that has been dormant on-chain for over five years and reactivated. Data shows that as of October 18, the year-to-date net value of this metric stood at roughly negative 127,300 BTC, meaning the distribution of old coins from long-term holding addresses has overall outpaced institutional uptake. The analyst also noted that the year-to-date net inflow of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs returned to positive territory in September and has barely held steady since, currently at around $355 million, with a small net outflow recorded so far in October.

Qubic announced that between 23:42 UTC yesterday and 01:26 UTC today, attackers exploited insufficient randomness in the seed of some wallets to access and siphon approximately 2.94 trillion QU tokens from 1,404 Qubic wallets. The root cause lies in the seed generation mechanism, not the Qubic protocol itself. Affected seeds include those created in any iPhone or iPad browser before October 18, 2026, those created in Mac Safari on the same date, and those generated via the Qubic iOS App before July 2025. The network has been halted at tick 85,371,949. 87.1% of the stolen funds remain in the Qubic network and are frozen, while the remaining 12.9% has been transferred to MEXC, with the associated receiving accounts also frozen. Qubic said the seed generation issue has been fixed in version 4.26.4. Subsequent actions will be decided by the Computor quorum per network rules, and a full technical report will be published after a fund recovery plan is finalized.