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The crypto platform Walt announced the launch of an independent application, expanding its business beyond Telegram after operating as Wallet in Telegram for nearly five years. Walt was renamed from Wallet in Telegram on September 28, stating that the product has exceeded the initial wallet functionality. The new application provides users with an independent entry for trading and investing, while the original Telegram product can still be accessed using the same account. Existing users can log in with their Telegram accounts, and new users can register via Telegram, Google, or Apple.According to its official website, Walt offers over 200 cryptocurrencies, more than 100 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, as well as perpetual contracts linked to cryptocurrencies, metals, and energy, and provides yield products on assets such as stablecoins, Gram, Solana, Ethereum, and Tron. Walt users can transfer cryptocurrencies to other Telegram users for free; on-chain transfers to external wallets require payment of standard blockchain network fees and service charges, for example, sending any amount of USDT on the TON network requires a fee of 1 USDT.Walt CEO Andrew Rogozov stated that Walt initially started as a simple bot for purchasing cryptocurrencies, but has now evolved into a complete investment platform used by tens of millions, having previously built crypto products within Telegram and now opening up to everyone. Prior to the release of this independent application, Walt launched AI-assisted perpetual contract trading through Mira, ChatGPT, and Claude on October 20, which can read real-time perpetual contract prices, analyze positions and risk exposure, and open and close positions. Order execution is set to default to closed, and the agents cannot withdraw or transfer funds.

The founder of hardware wallet company OneKey, Yishi, stated that the security incidents involving Binance and previously Bybit indicate that even if wallet private keys are not leaked, attackers may still steal assets by infiltrating the signature approval system. BlackRock's Bitcoin spot ETF IBIT holds approximately 815,000 BTC, valued at about $63 billion, and is currently primarily custodied by Coinbase.Although IBIT has introduced Anchorage Digital as an additional custodian, there are no plans for asset transfers at this time. Yishi pointed out that BlackRock has not separately purchased insurance for the Bitcoin held by IBIT, and Coinbase's commercial crime insurance coverage is $320 million, shared among multiple clients. The custody agreement stipulates that the liability limit for each cold storage address is $100 million. In the event of a significant theft where assets cannot be recovered or adequate compensation obtained, losses may be borne by ETF holders. There is currently no evidence to suggest that IBIT has become a target of attack.

The Ethereum Foundation forwarded tweets related to the privacy tool Kohaku, expressing support for the development of privacy-protecting wallet tools. In response to the attacks and exploits that occurred over the past week, the Ethereum Foundation pointed out that privacy and security should not be viewed as mutually exclusive goals. Setting privacy protection as a default feature helps reduce the risk of attackers exploiting users' on-chain historical records to carry out attacks.According to developer Jordan Enev, the Kohaku team is working to make privacy protection a standard feature of Ethereum. Currently, its SDK has integrated privacy protocols such as Railgun, Privacy Pools, and Tornado Cash, with development progress becoming increasingly mature, and they are calling for more wallets to promote related integrations.

The decentralized trading protocol Uniswap has launched an ETH/USDC trading pool, which uses a separated fee mechanism for buying and selling, applying different fee standards for buy and sell transactions.This pool is implemented through the VolatilePair Hook, which will charge temporary fees on trades that reverse significant price fluctuations, aiming to retain more arbitrage value for liquidity providers.

On October 8, the XRP Ledger activated the PermissionDelegationV1_1 feature, allowing account owners to authorize other accounts to perform specific tasks without relinquishing control of the account's master key. According to the monitoring site XRPL Dashboard, such upgrades require over 80% support from trusted validators for two consecutive weeks; based on the current 35 validators, at least 29 must support it. The countdown for this feature was reset in September due to the support rate falling below the threshold.This feature allows enterprises to split permissions by function. Stablecoin issuers can authorize compliant accounts to approve new customers while keeping the master key offline. Authorized accounts use their own keys to sign and can only perform the granted operations; owners can change or revoke these permissions at any time. Each authorized account can receive up to 10 permissions, which limit the types of operations they can perform, rather than automatically setting spending limits. Banks have previously separated payment and compliance responsibilities at the employee level, and this upgrade enforces such division at the ledger level.According to a report shared by Evernorth, a subsidiary of XRP Treasury, the network held an average of $3.72 billion in tokenized assets and $539 million in Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin in the second quarter, totaling approximately $4.26 billion. Official guidance advises users not to delegate PaymentBurn permissions before separately fixing activation; this permission is intended for assistants to destroy tokens but, under certain conditions, also allows for the creation of new tokens. This warning pertains to tokens issued on the ledger rather than newly minted XRP.

EIP-8363 co-sponsor Jérôme de Tychey announced the withdrawal of the application to include the proposal in the Hegotá hard fork, and the discussion on the related issuance policy will shift to an independent topic.

SpaceX (SPCX.O) announced that the Super Heavy rocket separated from the Starship as scheduled.

UsePaid posted on X that X Money payments have currently been suspended, and the team is addressing the payment issues. Existing balances remain secure, and related fees will continue to accumulate.UsePaid stated that before restoring full payment services, a web portal will be launched as a temporary fund application channel, and they are committed to resuming payment operations as soon as possible.

On-chain analyst Willy Woo stated that currently about 4% of the global population holds S&P 500 assets, 4.5% hold gold, and 5% hold Bitcoin (BTC), and suggested that the future penetration rate of Bitcoin will determine its role attributes.He indicated that at a holder population percentage of about 5%, BTC is still primarily viewed as a financial asset; if this ratio rises to about 50%, it could signify the emergence of a pattern of "separation of money and state."

In response to the abnormal volatility in the SK hynix perpetual contract market, Hyperliquid stated that the platform is an unlicensed blockchain, and the HIP-3 market can be independently deployed and operated by different teams. The xyz:SKHYNIX perpetual contract is deployed and operated by the Trade.xyz team, which is currently investigating the incident and will announce progress after reaching a conclusion.Hyperliquid also explained that HIP-3 deployers can independently push the market's mark price, oracle price, and external perpetual price inputs. If a pricing mechanism similar to that used by platform validators for operating perpetual contracts is adopted, the protocol only provides one of the three median components, namely the on-chain latest transaction price, the best buy price, and the best sell price median, while the other two components are provided by the deployer, who jointly determines the final mark price.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, global companies listed on the US stock market have disclosed the latest real announcements regarding digital asset transformation and ecological strategic investments. The core dynamics are as follows:Canton sells traditional business to fully transition to blockchain clearing: Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: $ CNTN) officially announced that it has sold its biotechnology R&D department Gravitas Life Sciences, LLC to Gravitas Collective Corp. The transaction was completed on July 17, 2026. The company clearly stated that this divestiture is an important milestone in its transformation into an operating company, and in the future, it will support the Canton Network through Canton Coin and promote the on-chain digital transformation of traditional financial markets as a strategic investor.Empery Digital invests $20 million in cross-industry computing power electricity park: The US-listed company Empery Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: $ EMPD), which adopts a Bitcoin fund management strategy, announced that it has completed a $20 million preferred stock investment (holding approximately 8%) in Cardinal Data Power, Inc. (CDP) on July 20, 2026. CDP focuses on building electricity-driven data center parks, and this round of financing will support its construction of the first gigawatt-level data center park covering over 3,000 acres in West Texas (Phase I is planned to be operational in 2027, with a long-term plan exceeding 5GW) to meet the next generation of AI and computing power energy demands.

According to a report by Bloomberg, Meta Platforms Inc. has completed the operational separation from Manus and has stopped data sharing between the two companies. According to informed sources, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has effectively established a firewall between itself and the Chinese company Manus. The sources stated that since the beginning of this month, Meta has prohibited Manus and its employees from accessing the internal data systems of the American company. The sources also indicated that Meta's employees are therefore unable to use Manus's tools for internal projects. Due to the involvement of internal decisions, these sources requested anonymity.An internal memo seen by Bloomberg News shows that Meta is gradually winding down Manus's operations. The memo indicates that employees have been instructed to migrate existing Manus projects to Meta's systems and not to undertake new work on the artificial intelligence platform. Informed sources stated that these measures aimed at separating the operations of the two companies mark a step forward in the eventual divestiture of Manus.

Aave announced that its bug bounty program has been updated to better align rewards with the risk status of each part of the ecosystem and to simplify the review process. The maximum reward for critical vulnerability fixes for Aave V4 and Core Aave V3 has now been increased fivefold.

According to Cointelegraph, the Bank of Italy is urging the EU to consider building a tokenized version of the SEPA payment system to keep up with the pace of financial innovation.SEPA, or the Single Euro Payments Area, aims to unify cross-border payment standards within the Eurozone. The Bank of Italy believes that with the development of tokenization and blockchain payments, the EU needs to assess the upgrade path for existing payment infrastructure.

According to Bloomberg, 39 signatories, including Nasdaq, Stuttgart Stock Exchange Group, and various financial technology associations, are calling on the European Commission and the European Parliament to treat the distributed ledger technology pilot system as an independent legislative fast track and to separate it from the EU market integration and supervision scheme.The signatories stated that if the overall negotiation process takes too long, Europe may fall behind the United States in DLT applications, and they demand the removal of asset class restrictions, an increase in the total trading volume cap to €150 billion, and the elimination of license time limits. The letter also mentioned that the United States has established a stablecoin regulatory framework through the Genius Act and is rapidly establishing a leading position in the tokenized asset field.The European Commission is currently promoting a rapid resolution of the entire regulatory scheme and views it as a key part of the Capital Markets Union plan. Financial Services Commissioner Maria Luis Albuquerque has previously called for all legislative proposals to be passed in sync.

Vitalik posted on the X platform, stating that we should maintain an open attitude towards the current separation of the Ethereum beacon chain and execution clients, believing that the complexity of running two daemons and having them communicate with each other is significantly higher than running a single daemon.Vitalik pointed out that Ethereum's goal is to allow users to use the network in a self-hosted manner and have a good user experience, which in many cases means needing to run their own nodes. However, the current way of running nodes adds unnecessary complexity. He suggested that in the short term, a more standardized foundational packaging solution could allow users to install Docker images of different clients and achieve more convenient communication. At the same time, as the LeanEthereum consensus scheme matures, the overall architectural design should also be reconsidered in the future.

According to The Block, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network Base announced that it will no longer rely on Optimism's OP Stack and Superchain architecture, instead opting for a "unified stack" operated independently by Base.According to the official blog, Base will integrate core components that were previously scattered across multiple teams and code repositories (including key modules like the sequencer) into a unified codebase "base/base" to reduce coordination and maintenance costs, and to optimize deeply for its own needs.At the same time, Base will also reduce its external dependencies on Flashbots, Paradigm, and others. In terms of governance, Base will adjust the security committee structure, replacing the original Optimism-related seats with newly added independent signers.Despite the shift towards an autonomous technical architecture, Base stated that the protocol will remain open source and publicly standardized, welcoming third-party developers to create independent clients and maintain cross-upgrade compatibility. Base is currently the largest network in the OP Stack Superchain ecosystem.