Odaily Planet Daily News: Coinbase announced that its enterprise services department has launched two new features - Global Payouts and Payment Links, allowing businesses to make payments in USDC stablecoins, achieving instant settlement, low transaction fees and cross-border frictionless payments.
Coinbase stated that traditional business-to-business (B2B) payments are plagued by high fees, slow settlement times, and cross-border friction. The new tool aims to streamline supplier payments, eliminate the risk of chargebacks, and provide API integration to support automated batch payments. Businesses can send USDC from their platform balance or a linked bank account, and counterparties can receive the funds directly or by creating a Coinbase account via email.
In addition, merchants can generate a shareable USDC payment link, allowing customers to pay instantly using wallets such as Base, MetaMask, or Phantom, without network fees. USDC balances in business accounts will automatically be included in the USDC rewards program, which currently has an annualized yield of 4.1% and can be withdrawn to a bank account at any time. Coinbase claims this program provides a low-cost, efficient, and compliant digital payment solution for businesses worldwide. (crowdfundinsider)
According to Odaily Planet Daily, OKX founder and CEO Star stated in a post on the X platform that OKX will not "cooperate" or "acquiesce" to influential opinion leaders in ordering and manipulating the market. Star noted that while such actions may generate short-term traffic or individual profits, OKX's mission has never been to sacrifice the interests of retail investors.
He emphasized that OKX consistently adheres to the principles of neutrality, objectivity, and prudence, and is committed to creating a fair, secure, and transparent market environment. This is both a responsibility to users and part of the global regulatory requirements (Market Surveillance Program). Star reminded users that the market is risky and that investment should be cautious. He also urged a rational view of volatility and sentiment.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, Jack Mallers, founder of Strike, a Bitcoin Lightning Network payment company, wrote on the X platform that Bitcoin, being the most sensitive to liquidity, will lead the market rebound. Traditional financial markets will face widening interest rate differentials and pressure on banks, and Bitcoin is playing a role. Bitcoin isn't meant to hedge the financial system, but to replace it. This isn't a "transaction," but a transition. Bitcoin has no ceiling, just as fiat currency has no floor, so the easiest way to invest is to buy Bitcoin.
Earlier news revealed that Jack Mallers has joined Twenty One, a Bitcoin company backed by Tether, as its CEO. The company is backed by stablecoin issuer Tether, SoftBank Group and Wall Street investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald. The company’s articles of association clearly stipulate that it will focus on accumulating Bitcoin assets, and its current holdings have exceeded 40,000 BTC.
Odaily Planet Daily reported that according to monitoring by crypto analyst Ember @EmberCN, an institutional address that received an investment allocation of 30 million UNI in 2020 transferred 1.697 million UNI to the market maker Wintermute in the past 5 hours, with a value of approximately US$10.29 million.
After the transfer, the address still holds approximately 24.9 million UNI, with a total value of approximately US$149 million based on the current price.
1. The Chairman of the U.S. SEC stated: The U.S. has lagged behind in the crypto space for a decade and establishing a regulatory framework is a top priority.
2. Aster has updated its Stage 3 trading points rules: both spot and perpetual contract trading volume are included, and fraudulent practices such as wash trading are strictly prohibited.
3. Trump's second son: He has never discussed cryptocurrency with his father, but he firmly believes that blockchain is the future of finance;
4. He Yi again responded to the Binance Alpha airdrop issue, stating that the issue will be resolved.
5. The large-scale profitable addresses on COAI are suspected to be operated by quantitative groups, not the project itself;
6. imToken issued a security statement: The randomness of wallet private keys is safe and no users were affected;
7. Binance Alpha: Merlin Chain (MERL) second airdrop launched, claiming threshold: 240 points.
8. The SLERF contract price is now 4x higher than the on-chain price, possibly due to arbitrage fluctuations caused by the suspension of deposits on CEXs.
9. A new wallet withdrew 744,000 LINK from Binance two hours ago, worth $12.44 million.
10. Vitalik issued a post calling on ZK and FHE developers to measure efficiency loss with "performance ratio";
11. Binance: Users who meet the points requirements can claim the Alpha airdrop at 4:00 PM today.
Meme platform Four.Meme has announced the launch of a "Token Name Protection" feature to improve fairness and prevent confusion about project names. This mechanism will automatically trigger when a token is in the bonding curve phase of Fair Mode and the number of holders exceeds 100.
Once triggered, the token name and ticker will be locked for 72 hours, and no new Fair Mode tokens with the same or similar names can be created during this period. The system also cross-checks Free Mode and Fair Mode to ensure that no duplicate names are created between the two modes.
Officials stated that this move is intended to maintain a cleaner and more transparent meme creation environment and ensure that each project has a unique identity. Currently, this feature is still in the testing and optimization stage.
According to crypto analyst Aunt Ai @ai_9684xtpa, OKX has opened SLERF deposits, and the spot price has plummeted from $0.23 to $0.07982, almost matching the on-chain price. Meanwhile, the Binance Futures price has also fallen back to $0.07856.
According to the latest data from Odaily Planet Daily, Momentum, the leading decentralized exchange (DEX) and liquidity hub in the Sui ecosystem, has exceeded US$23 billion in cumulative trading volume.
Since breaking through US$20 billion on October 12, trading volume has increased by more than US$3 billion in just 6 days, an increase of about 15% from the previous week, continuing the strong growth momentum.
Odaily Planet Daily reports that in response to community users' repeated complaints about the Binance Alpha airdrop being "difficult to claim" and "reaching the point where it's impossible to claim," and calls for Binance to rewrite its rules, Binance co-founder He Yi issued a statement on the X platform, stating that the issue will be resolved. Previously, users had also raised concerns about the use of technology to make the Binance Alpha airdrop "difficult to claim." He Yi responded, "I'll handle risk control, and I welcome any suggestions for a comprehensive technology solution."
Odaily Planet Daily reported that Paul Atkins, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said at an event in Washington, DC that the United States "may have lagged behind by about ten years" in the field of encryption, and that establishing a sound regulatory framework has become a top priority to attract innovators to return and promote industry development.
Atkins noted that the SEC’s goal is to “build a strong system where innovation can flourish” and ensure that the United States is once again the center of the crypto space. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily Planet Daily reports that Aster, the perpetual swaps DEX, has announced an update to its Stage 3 trading points calculation rules on the X platform. Trading points will now be calculated based on factors including, but not limited to, transaction fee contributions and liquidity (market maker orders). Both spot and perpetual swaps trading volume will be included, and points will be updated hourly based on total fees incurred. Aster strictly prohibits any abusive trading behavior, including but not limited to wash trading, market manipulation, or other fraudulent activities. Aster reserves the right to adjust, freeze, or revoke Rh points at its sole discretion if such activity is detected in an account.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, according to monitoring by crypto analyst Ember @EmberCN, a new wallet created just two hours ago withdrew 744,000 LINK from Binance, worth approximately US$12.44 million, with an average withdrawal price of approximately US$16.7.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, on October 18th, Trump's second son, Eric Trump, stated in a CNN interview that he "never discussed cryptocurrency with his father," but acknowledged his father as a staunch supporter of the industry. Eric stated that the crypto industry broadly supported Trump during the campaign, and that Trump also believed blockchain represented the future of finance. He stated, "Everything can be done better, faster, and cheaper with blockchain. If we ignore it, America will be left behind."
According to crypto analyst Ember @EmberCN, the group of large profitable addresses on COAI mentioned by Bubblemaps is most likely an external quantitative or arbitrage group, rather than the project's address.
Yu Jin pointed out that the methods used by these addresses to withdraw BNB from Binance and their creation dates (all on March 25th) were highly similar, indicating they were the same entity. However, since July, these addresses have been actively trading dozens of Alpha tokens almost daily, with thousands of transactions per day. Statistics show that each address has traded over 240 tokens and over 45,000 transactions in the past 30 days, consistent with quantitative or arbitrage bot (BOT) operations.
imToken has released a security statement addressing concerns about the randomness of non-custodial wallet private keys, sparked by recent US law enforcement news. Officials stated that users of the imToken software wallet and imKey hardware wallet are unaffected.
The statement noted that the imToken software wallet generates private keys locally using a secure random number source on iOS and Android. Its core codebase, TokenCore, has been open source and auditable since 2018, and private keys are never transmitted over the internet. The imKey hardware wallet uses a true random number generator (TRNG) within its secure chip to generate mnemonics and private keys. imToken emphasized that both products are non-custodial and do not store user private keys or mnemonics. Users are reminded to properly back up their mnemonics.
Binance Alpha has announced the second wave of Merlin Chain (MERL) airdrops. Users with at least 240 Binance Alpha Points can claim 125 MERL tokens on the Alpha event page. If rewards are not fully distributed, the point threshold will automatically decrease by 15 points every hour.
The official reminder is that claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points, and users must complete the claim within 24 hours, otherwise it will be deemed as giving up.
