Odaily News: Global automated brokerage Interactive Brokers (IBKR) has announced the launch of a crypto staking service powered by crypto infrastructure company Zerohash. Initially, eligible clients can directly stake or unstake ETH through the Client Portal. Interactive Brokers manages $964.7 billion in client assets and has previously offered trading services for Bitcoin, ETH, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash.
Staking rewards earned by clients will be automatically added to their staked positions, allowing them to earn additional rewards. Interactive Brokers CEO Milan Galik stated that staking provides clients with the opportunity to earn rewards on the crypto assets they hold. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X that OneKey has terminated its partnership with reseller CryptoBilis and is offering free replacements after Ledger confirmed that devices sold through this reseller contained unauthorized hardware implants. Blockchain investigator Specter estimates related losses exceed $86 million. Ledger has not yet confirmed the total losses and stated that confirmed cases involve only CryptoBilis inventory, not its own channels. OneKey CEO Yishi Wang said no users have reported losses so far, but user asset security cannot rely on luck.
According to Odaily, USDC Treasury burned approximately 135 million USDC on the Ethereum network at 01:42 today, valued at approximately $135 million, and the burn transaction has been successfully confirmed. Circle minted approximately 168 million USDC on the Ethereum network at 00:49 today.
According to Gate data, gold (XAUUSD) has fallen to $4,150/oz, currently trading at $4,149.80/oz, down 0.5% over the past 24 hours.
According to Bitcoin Treasuries monitoring, Super League (SLE), the U.S. Bitcoin treasury subsidiary of Japan's Metaplanet, purchased its first Bitcoin—1 BTC in total—prior to the completion of the transaction. This move will enable Metaplanet to access capital markets spanning two continents.
Odaily reports: Bitcoin News posted on X that Jeonbuk Bank is said to have begun issuing Korean won loans to enterprises collateralized by Bitcoin, and local Korean media called this a first for a Korean commercial bank. The Bitcoin is held by a third-party custodian; enforcement rule changes effective October 1 allow the bank to recover funds by selling the collateral through a court ruling without actually taking possession of the Bitcoin. The loan size, interest rate, and loan-to-value ratio have not been disclosed. A representative of Jeonbuk Bank told Chosun that one loan has already been issued.
Odaily reports that Base has launched the Earn & Borrow solution, providing an end-to-end technology stack for platforms to offer floating-rate stablecoin yield and crypto-collateralized loans to eligible users, built on Base infrastructure and third-party lending markets. The yield users earn from depositing stablecoins such as USDC primarily comes from interest paid by borrowers on overcollateralized loans, and the solution can integrate with lending protocols such as Morpho and Aave. The average yield on USD stablecoins in Base lending markets is 4.45%, excluding incentives.
Odaily News: Starknet has announced the launch of shadow accounts, allowing users to participate in public DeFi activities through independent addresses under their own control, while keeping the connection between that address and their primary wallet confidential. Shadow accounts are independent pseudonymous addresses on Starknet, funded from users' protected STRK20 balances, with the first integration set to go live tomorrow. The balances, transaction records, and positions across various applications of shadow accounts will still be publicly visible on-chain, but STRK20 is able to protect information about their association with users' primary wallets.
Odaily News: 21Shares has launched a synthetic exchange-traded product (ETP) based on Anthropic's valuation on the Vienna Stock Exchange, with ticker symbol CLAU, providing investors with unleveraged exposure to Anthropic's pre-IPO valuation.
The ETP does not represent direct ownership of Anthropic shares, whether before the company's listing or after the IPO is completed. Its return exposure comes from a Total Return Swap that tracks a reference rate constructed by Kaiko, which is based on Anthropic perpetual futures prices on Binance.
21Shares stated that the product is designed to allow investors to participate in the valuation changes of private AI companies through traditional financial market instruments, providing a new investment channel for high-growth technology companies that have not yet gone public.
Odaily News: Ripple has partnered with Privy, a wallet infrastructure company under Stripe, to bring XRP Ledger (XRPL) support to the Privy developer platform. Following the integration, developers will be able to integrate XRPL wallets into their applications without having to build wallet infrastructure themselves, enabling wallet creation and management, transaction signing, and more, with support for XRP, Ripple-issued RLUSD stablecoin, and other assets on the network.
Odaily: U.S. President Trump stated that we will make a decision on Iran very soon, the Houthis' actions are very bad, and he has already spoken with the Saudi Crown Prince. (Jinshi)
Odaily News: Solana research and development company Anza has announced that Alpenglow will go live on Solana mainnet-beta on October 21 at approximately 22:50 (UTC+8), with the migration completed within a single slot. The upgrade, which took 18 months of development, will replace the TowerBFT consensus protocol that Solana has used since the public network's launch, reducing block finality time from several seconds to about 150 milliseconds. Alpenglow combines the latest consensus research with erasure-coded data dissemination technology and is designed for use cases such as high-frequency trading, institutional financial services, Web3 applications, and the AI agent economy.
Odaily reports that Strategy stated its "Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index" rose to 34% in the third quarter of 2026, indicating that major global banks' adoption of Bitcoin and digital asset-related services continues to increase, though the overall level remains at an early stage. Among them, Fidelity ranked first at 77%, JPMorgan Chase at 47%, and BNY at 46%.
Strategy noted that the index increase this quarter was mainly driven by several developments, including expanded access to Bitcoin ETF/ETP products, growth in institutional custody services, and the development of lending businesses using BTC as collateral. Meanwhile, advancements in stablecoins and asset tokenization also contributed to the index increase. As traditional financial institutions gradually explore digital asset infrastructure, Bitcoin-related services are extending from investment products to custody, financing, and financial application scenarios.
Odaily reports that the Coinbase Quantum Advisory Council has released a position paper on quantum computing and blockchain, recommending that preparations for Bitcoin's post-quantum migration begin before the threat from quantum computing becomes clear, and stating that adjustments to consensus rules and migration across the entire ecosystem could take years. Coinbase currently custodies approximately 5% of Bitcoin's total supply and is advancing post-quantum preparations for its own systems while discussing related proposals with Bitcoin developers and researchers. The paper recommends evaluating P2MR, P2TRv2, and hybrid schemes that run traditional signatures in parallel with post-quantum signatures, while also comparing candidate algorithms such as ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, and FN-DSA; the paper is not a final proposal or formal conclusion.
