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According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, the cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service provider Blockchain.com plans to complete its initial public offering (IPO) this year, aiming to raise approximately $500 million, with a target valuation range of $4 billion to $6 billion.Informed sources stated that if the listing process requires it, the company is also willing to accept a smaller issuance plan. Blockchain.com reached a valuation of $14 billion during the last peak of the cryptocurrency market, and this target valuation is significantly lower than that level. In May of this year, the company secretly submitted a draft registration document to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to pave the way for a potential IPO, at that time not disclosing the number of shares to be issued or the price range.This listing plan comes as the capital market environment for cryptocurrency companies is reopening. Since mid-August, when the U.S. Treasury announced a significant increase in long-term Treasury bond repurchases, the price of Bitcoin has risen by more than 30%, driving an overall rebound in the cryptocurrency market. However, market conditions remain challenging; according to Bloomberg data, the stock prices of recently listed companies Gemini, BitGo, and eToro have fallen by about 50% to 80% from their post-listing highs.

According to PR Newswire, Brazilian fintech company NG.CASH has completed a strategic financing of 15 million dollars, led by Blockchain Capital. Since its establishment in 2021, the company's total financing has exceeded 65 million dollars.It is reported that NG.CASH holds two licenses issued by the Central Bank of Brazil for direct credit companies and payment institutions, and is applying for a virtual asset service provider license. Since its establishment in 2021, NG.CASH has surpassed 10 million accounts, with platform transaction volume reaching several billion dollars.

Zano, the privacy blockchain, announced a network update stating that the core team discovered a serious vulnerability in the Gateway Address, allowing unauthorized ZANO and fUSD to enter circulation. Investigations show that the wallet's payment keys or the privacy of ordinary transactions were not compromised, and Zano's core consensus mechanism was also unaffected.The team has developed a solution to clear all unauthorized activities by coordinating a network upgrade. To ensure network integrity, the Zano blockchain has been restarted from block height 3,833,000 (i.e., before the 6th hard fork), affecting approximately one month of on-chain historical records. Nodes, miners, stakers, and related services need to adopt the emergency update as soon as possible.The team stated that they will work with affected projects to address the losses and will announce compensation and claims processes, striving to compensate the community. Technical reasons and related code review results will be disclosed in the follow-up.

Vitalik posted on the X platform, stating that he attempted to briefly explain the true meaning of the plans for Ethereum that forked after Hegota. Ethereum is no longer just a blockchain; it is a hybrid architecture that combines blockchain with modern cryptography, enabling more powerful features.Related plans include FOCIL, EIP-8288, streamlined consensus, state management, formal verification, memory pool improvements with privacy features, and long-term obfuscation techniques.

Israel will implement a "complete blockade" on the West Bank until next Saturday.

Payment company Block announced the integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network into the x402 payment standard. The x402 protocol can complete verification and unlock data through Lightning Network invoices and payment preimages after the server returns an HTTP 402 payment request.Steve Lee, head of Block's open-source Bitcoin development department Spiral, stated that this integration is aimed at instant, low-cost micropayment scenarios. Block has not yet disclosed the timeline for integrating this standard into Cash App, Square, or Bitkey, and the related Python implementation still needs to be tested through real nodes.

Yuga Labs' Vice President of Blockchain, Quit, posted on the X platform stating that the claims portal for the NFT theft incident currently under construction is expected to go live in the next few hours, and a dedicated address nftsaresafu.eth has been created to accept ETH and other token donations.Quit mentioned that in addition to spending a significant amount of time, he paid approximately $7,500 in gas fees last night to handle related matters and thanked the community for their support through channels like X Money.Previously, it was reported that the NFT marketplace Magic Eden appeared to have a security vulnerability, with white hat hackers transferring 3,832 NFTs from hundreds of wallets, valued at approximately $1.5 million.

Summer Mersinger, former commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will step down as CEO of the industry advocacy organization Blockchain Association at the end of the year and leave the organization. The organization announced on Friday that Mersinger will officially resign on October 16, and her predecessor, Kristin Smith, will return as interim CEO. Mersinger joined Blockchain Association in June 2025, after leaving the CFTC three years before the end of her second commissioner term.When discussing her departure, Mersinger stated that she came here from the CFTC because she believes the industry deserves clear rules and a credible and unified representative to speak for it in Washington. The Blockchain Association highlighted Mersinger's work in promoting the GENIUS Act and helping to achieve regulatory clarity at the SEC and CFTC in its statement.Notably, the organization did not mention the Digital Asset Market Clear Act currently under consideration in the Senate. This bill failed to gain enough support from Democratic and Republican lawmakers in a procedural vote earlier this month, and many experts expect the legislation to be shelved until 2027. The Blockchain Association did not immediately respond to inquiries about Mersinger's plans for 2027.

According to monitoring by Blockaid, Limit Break on Ethereum is currently facing ongoing attacks. The attackers are using Limit Break Payment Processor V2 to impersonate NFT holders and purchase authorized NFTs at a zero price. Currently, about 3 transactions have resulted in approximately 1.7 million dollars worth of NFTs being stolen.Blockaid reminds users who have authorized Payment Processor V2 as an NFT Operator to immediately revoke the relevant authorization. Simply canceling orders or Master Nonce will not lift this permission.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Block has joined the x402 Foundation and is providing Bitcoin Lightning Network support for the AI agent-oriented open payment standard x402.x402 embeds payments directly into HTTP, allowing AI agents to autonomously pay for goods, services, and other agent tool fees. Block stated that the Lightning Network is suitable for the billions of instant, low-cost micropayments expected to be generated by the agent economy.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has made it clear that commodity companies will not be penalized for allocating investor funds to tokenized assets. The CFTC also pointed out that the current regulatory framework allows institutions to use blockchain technology to maintain official records.

According to Blockaid monitoring, Meter.io's Meter Passport on the BNB Chain is under attack. The attackers are minting a large amount of uncollateralized wrapped tokens wMTRG through cross-chain channels and have already sold some of the tokens on PancakeSwap.Currently, the attackers have minted approximately $2.3 million worth of wMTRG through about two transactions, and the attack is still ongoing.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "The United States Announces the End of the Iran Blockade," the sub-market "October 15" for the "Yes" option has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 49.5% an hour ago to the current 18.5% (a fluctuation of 31%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Hester Peirce, a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), stated at the SIFMA Digital Assets Conference that regulators should reconsider traditional financial monitoring methods, shifting from "collecting more data" to utilizing new technologies for more precise verification.Peirce mentioned that technologies like zero-knowledge proofs can verify whether users meet requirements such as age, citizenship, accredited investor status, or sanctions lists without disclosing underlying personal information like names, income, or addresses.Hester Peirce suggested that the federal government and regulatory agencies adopt attribute-based verification when technically feasible and allow registered entities to rely more on third-party identity verification to reduce the redundant collection and storage of sensitive information.Peirce also stated that public blockchains have permanent, public, and auditable transaction records, and combined with blockchain forensic tools, they are expected to enhance the ability to track illegal activities while reducing unnecessary data collection.

According to GMGN data monitoring, the market capitalization of the Meme coin RuneScape Gold (GP) on the Solana chain briefly surpassed 30 million USD, reaching a historic high, currently reported at 27.4 million USD, with a 24-hour increase of over 101%. GP is themed around the classic game "RuneScape" gold and is paired with tokenized gold GLDx. A 3% tax is charged on each transfer of GP, and the accumulated fees are periodically converted by StonkFun and distributed in GLDx form to eligible holders proportionally, forming a mechanism of "holding coins to earn exposure rewards to gold prices." It is a highly volatile Meme asset that integrates nostalgic gaming narratives, trading tax dividends, and the concept of tokenized gold.ChainCatcher reminds users that Meme coins generally have no practical use cases, and price fluctuations are significant, so investment should be approached with caution.

According to PR Newswire, Blockchain.com and the New York Stock Exchange Group (NYSE Group) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), planning to provide Blockchain.com’s global users with trading access to tokenized U.S. listed stocks and ETFs through the digital ATS platform previously announced by NYSE, with the implementation still pending regulatory approval.The cooperation includes two-way market data distribution: ICE Data Services, a subsidiary of NYSE, plans to distribute Blockchain.com’s cryptocurrency market data and analysis to its subscription clients; Blockchain.com will integrate data sources from ICE and NYSE to provide real-time stock quotes for over 44 million registered accounts.Citi Institute predicts that the market size of tokenized assets will reach $5.5 trillion in the baseline scenario by 2030. Tokenized stocks offer advantages such as fragmented ownership, round-the-clock trading, access for global investors, and faster on-chain settlement.

The official Cosmos Hub announced on platform X that the validators have successfully restarted the Cosmos Hub network as scheduled, block production has resumed, the network is operating normally, and they will continue to monitor the network status and provide further updates.

According to Cointelegraph, the European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) stated in a joint risk update that advancements in quantum computing could undermine the cryptographic systems that secure blockchain transactions, communications, and databases.Google Quantum AI researchers estimated in March that the number of physical quantum bits required to break the cryptographic techniques used by many cryptocurrencies is about 20 times less than previously estimated. There currently exists no computer capable of executing such an attack.Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp and others proposed in February to gradually phase out the current signature scheme and to restrict the usage of untransferred funds five years after the proposal is activated; this proposal has not yet been adopted. The Ethereum Foundation plans to enable Ethereum's execution, consensus, and data layers to be resistant to quantum attacks by December 2029.

According to Blockaid monitoring, the QiDao Protocol stablecoin miMATIC on Polygon is currently still in a depegged state, reported at approximately 0.86 USD, about 14% lower than its 1 USD peg price.Blockaid stated that the depegging situation is still ongoing as of now.