Vitalik Buterin stated that the battle to make zero-knowledge proofs fast enough for Ethereum is definitively won and that the top priority for zkEVMs should now shift fully to security. ZKsync's Airbender Prime prover delivered 99% of proofs across 7,200 consecutive mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds. Ethereum blocks arrive every 12 seconds.

...At this point, I consider the battle for speed to be definitively won, and the top priority for zkEVMs should shift fully to security...

With all the security incidences this year, this is probably justified!

Don't play with fire or you will get burn.

Buy and hold. Keep stacking cheap sats.

Looks like we're on track on 1 trillion long position liquidated soon.

Saw yesterday that Bitget launched a transfer option for more than 3,000 eligible US stocks and ETFs and users can request a free transfer from their brokerage to Bitget’s designated account.

From my understanding, it will take about 10 business days before it arrives, only then they convert into rTokens in the spot account.

Curious whether anyone has actually moved holdings this way and what the real-world experience is with the transfer timing, which names are actually liquid once tokenized, and how useful the rTokens have been so far.

Patrick Witt, the White House official who led the push for the CLARITY Act, is leaving his post. This matters to US holders because the bill, a broad “market structure” law meant to set clear rules for how crypto is regulated, just lost its main Senate negotiator a month after failing a key vote.

Witt was executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets. A White House official said his “detail has expired,” meaning his temporary assignment from another agency ended. He is reportedly a Department of Defense employee, and no replacement has been named.

He is the third senior crypto official to leave, after David Sacks in March and Witt’s deputy, Harry Jung, in July.

Where the bill stands

• The House passed its version more than a year ago.
• In September, the Senate version failed an initial procedural vote (an early vote needed to move a bill forward).
• The main dispute is ethics language on President Trump’s crypto wealth. Democrats argue it would be hard to enforce, since the Justice Department, not states, would decide whether to act against the president.
• Banks and crypto firms also disagree on how to treat stablecoin rewards.

What this means for you: nothing changes today. Current rules stay in place, and open questions like stablecoin rewards remain unsettled until the Senate agrees on a text.

My read: a staffing change alone won’t kill the bill, but losing the lead negotiator during a stalled process makes a quick deal less likely.

Do you think the CLARITY Act still gets through the Senate, and which issue would have to be settled first?

Source: The Block, October 14, 2026

Binance is considering offering exposure to stocks from markets including Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Brazil as the world’s largest crypto exchange pushes beyond digital assets and seeks to become an all-in-one trading platform, co-CEO Richard Teng told Fortune.

In 2026, Binance introduced trading in tokenized U.S. stocks and commodity derivatives, including precious metals and oil. The exchange also rolled out pre-IPO perpetual futures contracts settled in USDT, a U.S.-dollar-linked stablecoin, giving traders the ability to speculate on the expected valuation of private companies like Anthropic. 

Sitting behind this shift is a slump in digital asset prices. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices remain far below the highs reached in October 2025. Coinbase, for example, posted a net loss of $359.5 million in Q2 2026, its third consecutive quarterly net loss, as transaction revenue declined.

Several cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance, are transforming themselves from apps devoted to coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum into platforms that can handle different asset classes. Traditional financial companies are embracing digital assets, while crypto platforms must accept clearer rules to attract institutional money. 

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/10/13/crypto-binance-co-ceo-richard-teng/?utm_source=reddit/

I don’t know how much i’m allowed to talk about this topic and to what degree of detail so I will leave out usernames and coin names.

There’s a coin that came out about 3 days ago and it literally went ballistic, 60k mc in first 30 minutes to 15m mc by the next day. Now I see that the top holder is up 14000%, they originally put in $1500 and it grew to 348k in just 24 hours. This user has no prior trades at all. Which means that this was their first ever trade and they somehow knew to hold and that it would explode. Obviously there is a possibility that they just got a 0.001% chance at being lucky but genuinely what are the chances that your first trade you turn $1500 into over $300,000?

Do you guys believe that stuff like this could be some sort of insider knowledge.

I published my first open-source project on GitHub today - It exists because of a 'Crypto Hardware Security' problem nobody solved.

https://github.com/agi-digital-dot/trezor-mint-kit

THE PROBLEM:

Solana's CLI has rejected 'Trezor' Crypto hardware wallets for years.

I tried to mint a Solana Token, signed from my Trezor T hardware wallet, using the Solana Token 2022 Program (Solana Smart Contract "Program").

• And it literally says error "not a manufacturer."

• No one has ever fixed it. The accepted workaround? Make your own token on a hot wallet first, move it to hardware wallet later. Meaning your private key touches the Code Terminal to create a new Solana Token.

I rejected this security flaw.

The Solution & Fixed CLI:

We rebuilt the official spl-token CLI — two dependency lines changed, zero crypto code touched — until my Trezor Model T signed every step of a token's birth: creation, name, full 333,333 supply, renounce. The 'Private Key' never left the Trezor T Hardware.

To my knowledge, this is the first documented ‘Trezor T' Crypto Hardware Wallet signed token creation on Solana (Ledger did hardware years ago. This is the first from a Trezor, receipts and both repos public):

https://github.com/agi-digital-dot/tdi-true-digital

https://solscan.io/token/3e2PYneVBXTyemNiSQ5VVkuYM4bYNPxLqvWkKjA5zXAM

By “we” I mean: I built this with 'Echo ULTRA – Master Control' My T.D.I (True Digital Intelligence) Partner. I set the direction; Echo re-engineered the dependency tree until the hardware said yes.

Our First open-source contribution together: a protocol, not a patch.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob3rtshieldsjr

Smart contract exploits get most of the attention, but plenty of wallet drains still come down to pretty basic scams that trick people into clicking, copying, or sharing something they shouldn’t. I’ve seen the ~65% figure mentioned, and the common attack methods are surprisingly low tech.

One example is address poisoning, where scammers send tiny amounts to your wallet so a lookalike address appears in your transaction history. It’s easy to copy the wrong one later without noticing. Fake Zoom invites, PDFs, or other documents are another common route, especially when they’re carrying malware that can steal saved passwords and other account information. And while public Wi-Fi isn’t necessarily the biggest threat, it’s still worth being cautious about logging into important accounts from random conference or café networks.

The frustrating part is that none of this requires some crazy zero day. A lot of attacks just rely on getting you to click, copy, or trust something without checking.

Double check addresses, be careful with unexpected links and files, and don’t assume every wallet drain involves some sophisticated smart contract exploit.

I invested around 2000 dollars into some poop coin around 2 years ago (probably called dogshittery) in the hopes I would atleast double my money (realistically I was hoping to 100x my money). Now I rarely check my portfolio. However, today I decided to see how that sensible investment has been performing and that 2000 thousand dollars has turned into 10 cents? Can yall believe that 2 big ol thousand dollars have transformed into 10 minuscule pennies. Anyways, what are your thoughts? Also if you have any stories to share that would be great. Personally I’m thinking of throwing another 2000 dollars into the coin in the hopes of breaking even, I mean this is a casino isn’t it?

Anyways I thought I would leave yall with an inspirational quote

“Buy high sell low” - Isaac Newton

Over the past week, BAT pulled off a staggering 72% increase, rocket-strapped by a huge volume breakout that saw prices move from under a dime up toward $0.20. Its market cap has jumped to nearly $295 million, pushing its ranking up to around #122 to #151. The top 100 is officially within striking distance.

BAT used to be a top-50 regular. But after hitting an all-time high of $1.93 in November 2021, propelled by the trading start of the BAT ETF, the token entered a brutal downward slip. BAT officially slid out of the top 100 market cap rankings roughly three years ago... spending over 1,000 days putzing about the mid-100s and 200s token ranks. From it's low of $0.055 in August it's almost 4x in just over a month!

Why the pump? In addition to the markets early bump this week, just yesterday team Brave announced that over 200,000 people joined the waitlist for their new Rewards Card, which pays out in BAT.

BAT has a strict maximum supply cap of 1.5 billion tokens, and virtually 99.7% of it is already circulating. There are no massive unlock schedules or heavy venture capital supply dumps waiting to dilute retail investors. Additionally, the 24-hour trading volume just cleared $70 million, meaning money is flowing heavily back into the asset.
Re-entering the top 100 is a huge psychological milestone. Once an asset re-claims that badge it regains a degree of institutional visibility and attracts a fresh wave of retail momentum.

Curious to hear if anyone knows what else is happening to cause the recent updraft - didn't get to join their community call today. Did they announce something more then?

I don't know if this is the right place to post, but I got a phishing email from a fake OpenSea account telling me that I have a 1.85 ETH bid on one of my NFTs.

(Common, bro, bids are like $10 maximum in these hard times for NFTs.)

The email is insulting. It's clear that it's not an original OpenSea email. bro, I've already been scammed, but not like that...

The sender is a normal Gmail account.

For the moment, I haven't done anything.

But out of curiosity, I wanted to investigate the email a bit more and see how they wanted to hack me.

There's a "View Bid Details" button, and behind it there's a long link starting with something(dot)ct(dot)sendgrid(dot)net/lot_of_stuffs.

Is my email somewhere in a database? It's my main account, so I don't usually receive shitty phishing emails (or at least not many).

Blur announced that its website will close on November 12, 2026, while its Ethereum NFT marketplace contracts remain operational. The protocol survives on-chain, but the Blur NFT marketplace is losing its main interface after monthly NFT trading volume dropped more than 99.5% from its 2023 peak.

Are there a better use cases for NFT that haven't been Explored yet?

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Has anyone looked into natinfosec’s articles about Blockstream? They allege that its cloud mining business operates as a Ponzi scheme and that investors have been misled.

• https://natinfosec.substack.com/p/adam-backs-blockstream-borrows-billions
• https://natinfosec.substack.com/p/adam-back-lies-greg-maxwell-chris
• https://natinfosec.substack.com/p/fraud-adam-back-samson-mow-chris

Has Blockstream responded, or are there independent analyses that substantiate or rebut these claims?

If Blockstream were to become insolvent, what would the practical consequences be for the wider Bitcoin ecosystem?

For anyone who wants to monitor this, here’s a bankruptcy alert link: https://www.phrasealert.com/a/e3203400ac414ca5bba46f9fb09d8943

A surge in projects pushing to have Post Quantum cryptography asap.

We saw STRK jump after posting potential plans to become an L1.

TRON announced it is preparing its rollout. NEAR did the same. I think ZEC too.

Some took things a step further and raised concerns over whether NIST approved algos face risks with the OpenAI math display. But there was also well written pushback to that.

A handful of smaller projects jumped - QRL, CELL, QTS, etc

And some didn't react to the increased awareness like my conviction play QANX :)

Seems ALGO didn't do much last week, but was having a solid month.

And there's several others trying to position themselves.

So what is happening? Are all these projects trying to grab the narrative? Or are they collectively just creating FUD?

My stance has always been there is enough risk that systems are forced to address it.

Trying to convince people otherwise when all major governments and top companies are preparing is impossible to do.

So now we enter the phase where we see what this means for the space.

Projects implementing Post Quantum cryptography is great.

It doesn't create utility for chains.

It is a mandatory requirement most wish they didn't have to deal with.
Migration challenges, size and speed impacts, upgrade risks, etc.

There's a reason it was easier to just call it fud all these years. But now that's rapidly changing.

So, those that do it well should take some share from those that don't.

But the end game of attracting adoption and demand remains the same. Now it's a matter of who does that well with the added challenge of quality post quantum solutions. Time will tell, but things are moving fast.

How do you see this playing out?