Odaily reports that according to market sources, Alphabet, Google's parent company, saw its stock price drop nearly 10% in after-hours trading today following the release of its third-quarter earnings report in the early morning.

Possibly driven by market volatility, according to CoinGlass data, the total open interest of GOOGL contracts across all exchanges grew 64.32% over the past 24 hours, currently valued at approximately $637 million; among them, Bitget's GOOGL contract open interest reached $52.6894 million, surging over 69% in 24 hours.

Odaily reports: Sarah Court, Chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), said at a parliamentary hearing on Thursday that the agency has not yet received any applications from prediction market operators. She noted that such platforms may face gambling regulation in Australia rather than financial market regulation, and that any operating license application would face strict scrutiny.

Court said that the trading mechanism of prediction markets is similar to binary options, which Australia has already banned, featuring an all-or-nothing outcome, and that the underlying assets are often unrelated to investments or financial markets. She also noted that although Australian users can directly access relevant overseas platforms, they are not protected by local financial regulation and have difficulty obtaining measures such as dispute resolution and client fund protection.

In August of this year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority required internet service providers to block the Polymarket website and classified it as an illegal online gambling site. (Bloomberg)

Odaily Report: The EIP-8450 proposal has been updated, aiming to introduce a quantum-resistant public key registration mechanism for Ethereum validators, adopting hash-based cryptographic schemes, including leanXMSS keys and VRF tree roots. The update specifies that BLS signing keys authorize the registration and replacement of quantum-resistant keys, and sets a replacement delay of at least one Epoch along with an anti-replay mechanism; the proposal is currently still in the Draft stage and has not yet been deployed.

Odaily reports that BNB Chain announced on X platform that the Jenner hard fork upgrade has launched on the BSC testnet. The upgrade includes Payment Lane, which reserves 5% of block Gas by default for eligible payments; millisecond-level block timestamps for smart contracts; and a new compliant asset standard, CAS20. Payment Lane and CAS20 will only be fully enabled after governance approval, with more details to be announced later.

Odaily reports: Ethlabs, an independent non-profit Ethereum research and development organization, has announced that Ethereum co-founder Mihai Alisie has officially become its core funder, with Kraken's parent company Payward and Gattaca joining as new funding institutions.

Ethlabs was founded in June of this year by five former Ethereum Foundation researchers. Prior to this, the organization had already received funding from two major Ethereum treasury companies, BitMine and SharpLink, as well as from Ethereum co-founder and Consensys CEO Joseph Lubin.

Odaily reports: Singapore police stated that at least two cases involving tampered Ledger hardware wallets have been reported since September 10, with combined losses of approximately S$3.5 million, equivalent to about $2.7 million. Preliminary investigations found that some Ledger wallets purchased at retail stores in Singapore contained malicious hardware components.

Singapore police are in contact with Ledger, which is reviewing the affected cases, and the police investigation is ongoing. On October 13, Ledger asked retailers in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong to suspend sales of its devices. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily reports: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Hyperliquid has permanently burned 49.87 million HYPE, worth approximately $3.89 billion, accounting for 4.99% of its 1 billion maximum supply. In the past 24 hours, 19,700 HYPE were burned, worth approximately $1.59 million; estimated 24-hour fee revenue is $1.69 million, with cumulative revenue of $1.38 billion.

Odaily: According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain address created a new wallet and deposited 4 million USDC into Hyperliquid, then went long on 3,000 XMR with 5x leverage, worth $1.77 million.

Odaily reports that according to Onchain Lens monitoring, World Liberty Financial (0xFef...14B4) deposited 156.31 million WLFI to Binance, Gate, Coinbase, and MEXC, valued at approximately $8.06 million.

Odaily reports: Gate Money connects account payments, asset exchange, and everyday spending, with its services underpinned by collaboration among international banks, payment institutions, custody providers, and clearing institutions. Eligible users can use bank accounts in their own name to manage fiat funds by currency, process deposits and withdrawals, and send and receive digital assets through supported blockchain networks. The availability of each feature depends on local regulatory requirements, the service capabilities of partner institutions, and user eligibility.

On the compliance front, Gate has obtained a MiCA license and a Payment Institution (PI) license in the EU, its Dubai entity has obtained a VARA license, and its Australian entity has completed AUSTRAC registration as a digital currency exchange provider, with these qualifications applying to the respective entities and approved business activities. Gate US holds 37 state-level Money Transmitter Licenses (MTLs), covering 47 U.S. states and territories. On asset transparency, Gate's latest proof of reserves shows that the platform's total reserve size has risen to USD 8.688 billion, with an overall reserve coverage ratio of 118.49%; BTC reserves reached 25,727, with a reserve ratio of 121.60%; ETH reserves stood at 449,042, with a reserve ratio of 123.78%. Collaboration with financial institutions, compliance qualifications, and verifiable reserves together form the foundation of Gate Money's services, supporting the platform in meeting fund payment and asset management needs beyond trading. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily Report: In the early hours of October 29 Beijing time, the Federal Reserve announced it would keep the federal funds rate unchanged in the 3.75% to 4.00% range, in line with market expectations. The decision passed by a 10-2 vote, with Governor Cook and Cleveland Fed President Hammack dissenting in favor of a 25 basis point rate hike. The statement noted strong economic expansion, with inflation still elevated. Following the announcement, U.S. stocks gave back modest gains, while Treasury yields and the dollar index edged higher. In response, Huobi HTX Chief Analyst Cloud commented that the two dissenting votes indicate a clear hawkish voice within the committee, and that Warsh's decision not to provide forward guidance while only emphasizing bringing inflation back to 2% in a timely manner effectively leaves the uncertainty over rate hikes fully intact for December.

September CPI has already hit a five-month high, with approximately 76% of surveyed institutions expecting another rate hike in December. This pause does not equate to a dovish pivot, and dollar liquidity constraints continue to tighten. For crypto assets, every rebound in short-term rates and the dollar will first pressure altcoins, then test Bitcoin's ability to absorb the selling pressure. Ahead of the midterm elections and the end of earnings season, the market remains in a high-volatility window.

Note: The content of this article is not investment advice and does not constitute any offer, solicitation, or recommendation for any investment product.

Odaily: According to Lookonchain monitoring, over the past 5 days, a whale holding both AAVE and WLD has continuously transferred tokens to multiple exchanges, with a cumulative transfer of 152,000 AAVE, worth approximately $21.3 million; additionally, 45.17 million WLD were transferred, worth approximately $21.4 million, totaling approximately $42.7 million.

Odaily Report: According to TrustSniffer monitoring, Tether has concentratedly added multiple addresses to the USDT blacklist on the TRON network. The monitoring page shows that at least 33 TRON addresses were flagged as frozen on that day, and the combined USDT balance of the relevant addresses at the time of the freeze alert totaled approximately $27 million, with the largest single address holding about $7.8 million in USDT. Tether has not yet publicly explained the specific reasons for this concentrated freeze.

Odaily reports: According to Gate data, the U.S. dollar index edged higher during Thursday's Asian session but failed to extend its gains further, though it remained above the 102.00 integer level. In addition, the dollar index remains near the two-week high reached on Wednesday, as traders await the release of key U.S. macroeconomic data to find new drivers for the trend.

The preliminary U.S. third-quarter GDP reading and the personal consumption expenditures price index are due later today. With the market betting on a Fed rate hike in December, investors will be closely watching these data for more clues on the Fed's future policy path. Therefore, if the data come in strong, it will further reinforce market expectations and push the dollar index higher. Meanwhile, given that the Fed signaled a hawkish rate pause on Wednesday, even if these key data fall short of expectations, the market's immediate reaction may be relatively limited. At the same time, regional mediators led by Qatar are working to push for the resumption of U.S.-Iran negotiations to prevent another outbreak of war. However, the geopolitical risk premium remains, which means that even if the dollar index sees a technical pullback, it is more likely to attract dip-buying, and any decline may be relatively limited.

Odaily reports that Adam, a researcher at Greeks.live, posted on X that Coinbase INTX has launched options trading. Its USDC options share liquidity with Deribit, and the trading interface is close to the style of US stock trading software, so users familiar with the Coinbase interface can transition to it smoothly. The platform is currently still invite-only, some features are not yet fully ready, and its functional completeness is not on par with Deribit.

Odaily: According to Arkham monitoring, BlackRock has sent nearly $200 million worth of ETH to Coinbase through four transactions over the past two days, suspected of selling off. The most recent transaction occurred about 15 hours ago, transferring 29,814 ETH, valued at $70.58 million.