Odaily reports: The French Ministry of Finance, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the Banque de France, and the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) have jointly proposed amendments to the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), requiring crypto platforms to bear responsibility for certain customer losses when they proactively offer access to DeFi protocols without reviewing those protocols or ignoring known security risks.

France proposes that platforms review relevant protocols before providing DeFi access, continuously monitor for vulnerabilities and suspicious activity, and support the certification of protocols and smart contracts. The relevant requirements would apply fully to significant crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), with proportionally adjusted obligations for smaller platforms.

France also proposes transferring supervisory authority over significant CASPs from national regulators to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), and lowering the current EU threshold of 15 million daily active users. Additionally, France suggests re-examining the asset-referenced token (ART) category and adjusting the electronic money token (EMT) framework to cover multi-currency stablecoins. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily: According to an official announcement, South Korean crypto exchange Upbit will list the AXIS token on the KRW, BTC, and USDT markets.

Odaily: South Korean credit card company Shinhan Card has announced that it has signed an agreement with Japanese electronic payment instrument trading service providers SBI VC Trade and SBI XDC Network APAC to test yen stablecoin payments for tourists and cross-border trade settlement between Japan and South Korea. The agreement was signed on Tuesday, and the testing scope includes stablecoin card payments, wallet-to-wallet payments, and cross-border settlement, as well as evaluating anti-money laundering and fraud detection mechanisms.

The initiative aims to support cross-border payments and settlement between South Korea and Japan and improve payment convenience for tourists. In the first eight months of 2026, tourist exchanges between the two countries exceeded 10 million visits, including 7.42 million South Korean visitors to Japan and 2.7 million Japanese visitors to South Korea.

Shinhan Card announced in April this year that it had completed a proof of concept for stablecoin payments and cross-border settlement. SBI VC Trade registered in March 2025 as Japan's first electronic payment instrument trading service provider and can handle USDC. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily reports: After Solana trader Kimchi (@kimchi1x) joined Pumpfun, the namesake Meme coin $Kimchi completed its surge in an extremely short period: social platform records show that approximately 10 minutes after launch, the token's market cap reached $30 million, and after about 1 hour it briefly broke through $40 million. Pumpfun co-founder Alon has publicly confirmed the partnership between the two, stating that Kimchi is participating in the platform's creative direction; Alon also believes that $Kimchi is blurring the boundary between crypto trading and popular culture, forming a new social trading narrative.

On-chain analyst Ai Yi stated that Kimchi's associated wallet withdrew approximately 1.35 billion PUMP from trading platforms over the past 3 hours, worth about $6.43 million; Kimchi is said to hold 75.32% of the total supply of $KIMCHI, and their X account bio has also been changed to @pumpfun. Around this holding ratio, market attention has rapidly concentrated on token distribution and their personal influence.

One address bought 9.91 million $Kimchi with 8 SOL, approximately $848, then sold 4.88 million tokens for 1,045 SOL, approximately $111,000; the address still holds 5.03 million tokens, valued at approximately $171,000, with cumulative profits reported at approximately $282,000. Another on-chain record shows that this trader invested $849.29 when the market cap was only $85,700, then added another $160.2, and has currently sold half of the tokens to realize approximately $111,000 in profit, with the remaining position showing unrealized gains of approximately $162,000.

Odaily Report: BNB Standard (formerly CEA Industries, Nasdaq ticker $BNC) has appointed former YZi Labs investment partner Alex Odagiu as CEO, while announcing it will participate in BNB validator node operations. The company stated that Odagiu joined YZi Labs' five-person investment team in 2021, where he participated in BNB ecosystem development, BNB Chain MVB entrepreneur mentoring, and tokenized equity business. On October 26, Odagiu will join the board, management, investors, and ecosystem partners to ring the Nasdaq opening bell, commemorating the company's rebranding and management transition.

The leadership change is interpreted by the market as BNB Standard shifting from governance restructuring to an execution phase. Related views suggest that after YZi Labs and the former board reached a settlement on June 23, the board now has 3 seats held by each side, with both jointly selecting a seventh independent director; Odagiu's appointment as CEO gives the BNB ecosystem side stronger influence over both the board and management. The company had previously been at a standstill with no sustained BNB purchases, and the market is now beginning to expect it to resume token accumulation and node operations.

BNC's core positioning is as a U.S. equity treasury company holding BNB. Market discussion has particularly focused on its management incentive mechanism: related leaks suggest that the new CEO's compensation is tied to "net BNB holdings per share" and BNB's stock price, which could drive the company to increase BNB holdings and enhance asset value. Another set of market data indicates that BNC's stock price is approximately $5.4, while the BNB value held per share is about $7.10, with mNAV consistently below 1; supporters argue that if the discount narrows to around 1, BNC could gain more upside elasticity than directly holding BNB. Some views also compare this trading structure to GBTC, which previously traded at a discount, and regard it as one way to participate in the BNB narrative through U.S. equity channels.

Odaily reports: NVIDIA has launched the NVIDIA OpenShell reference architecture, designed for building, running, monitoring, and constraining AI Agents across enterprise infrastructure and edge systems, while strengthening governance, isolation, and security controls. The architecture is built on the OpenShell secure runtime and combines NVIDIA Vera Rubin, Vera CPU, and BlueField-4 DPU.

Among these, Vera Rubin handles model inference, Vera CPU is used to run the Agent harness and tool calls, and BlueField-4 continuously monitors Agent behavior and enforces hardware-level policy controls through NVIDIA Sentry; when an Agent exceeds established software boundaries, Sentry can isolate and halt it within milliseconds.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the Drift Protocol attacker who stole over $270 million has once again deposited 24,885 ETH, worth $61.3 million, into Tornado Cash, and currently still holds 56,569 ETH, worth $139.3 million.

Odaily reports: NVIDIA today launched DSX POD, a complete "AI factory" reference design based on the Vera Rubin architecture. Built by partners inside modular containers, it is integrated and validated before delivery. Once the container arrives on site, it only needs to be connected to pre-prepared power, cooling, networking, and other supporting infrastructure to be immediately operational—dramatically shortening the deployment cycle from six months to as fast as 14 days. DSX POD shifts the integration and installation of compute, networking, cabling, rack-level power, and liquid cooling into manufacturing facilities, reducing the extensive planning, construction, specialized labor, and logistics work required for traditional on-site builds. Factory-tested containers lower the risk of component delays and costly, error-prone on-site operations, shortening the path to model training and production inference and enabling customers to begin generating tokens and revenue sooner.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said: "AI factories create value when they start producing tokens, not when construction is completed." "With DSX POD, we bring factory-level precision and speed to AI infrastructure buildouts, cutting deployment time from months to weeks and enabling customers to scale capacity faster and bring revenue-generating production online sooner."

Odaily reports that according to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale is selling SOL, having deposited 240,000 SOL worth $25.3 million to Binance, OKX, and Bybit over the past 24 hours.

Odaily: Bitcoin ecosystem infrastructure service provider UniSat recently announced its phased plan to bring USDT to the Bitcoin network. The initiative, pursued in collaboration with Utexo, aims to make USDT a practically usable stablecoin asset within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

According to official disclosures, the integration will unfold in three phases. In phase one, UniSat will support the receipt, sending, management, and asset verification of USDT in UniSat Wallet and UniScan; in phase two, USDT trading pairs will be introduced to the trading engine UniHexa, enabling users to trade Bitcoin-native assets with USDT; in phase three, the team will work with developers to explore USDT applications in scenarios such as payments, financial services, gaming, and AI Agents.

According to official information, the current focus is on completing the USDT integration for the wallet and UniScan, followed by advancing UniHexa trading support, with specific progress to be announced as implementation proceeds. The team also plans to share its technical experience in RGB and USDT integration with other wallets and development teams to reduce duplicative development efforts.

Odaily: Aethir today announced a major adjustment to the ATH tokenomics mechanism. Starting November 2026, the platform will daily extract a portion of network fees to burn ATH, permanently sending tokens to a public burn address (0x000...dEaD), with the burn scale fluctuating based on actual network computing usage. Meanwhile, the fixed platform fee will be replaced by a floating network fee, with rates reading market conditions in real time via TWAP—rates decrease and the burn proportion increases during weak markets. The Cloud Host emission schedule remains unaffected, fees are capped and will never exceed the value of Host rewards. A burn Dashboard will go live simultaneously with the first burn, and the mechanism has been audited by CertiK.

Odaily reports that, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a Kaito multisig address transferred 8 million unlocked KAITO to an address (0xd21...2629). That address received another 2 million KAITO through a separate transaction, bringing the cumulative inflow to 10 million KAITO. The next unlock is scheduled for November 20, 2026, valued at $4.9 million, accounting for 7.29% of the circulating supply.

Odaily Report: According to the Aster page, the Predict.fun token PREDICT is now searchable in the trading list, supporting up to 5x leverage, and related trading is expected to officially launch tonight at 8 PM.

According to Odaily monitoring, an address traded BTC for a total of 37 rounds between September 18, 2026 and October 21, 2026, with a win rate of 100%. From 07:02 to 16:50 on October 21, 2026, it reduced its long position and completed closing it, involving 104.81036 BTC, valued at approximately $8.6991 million based on the reference price used for position valuation. The weighted average execution price for closing this BTC long position was approximately $83,068.30, and the weighted average execution price for opening the position was approximately $82,971.69.

Address: 0xf517639a8872e756ac98d3c65507d2ebc25cc032; Total PnL: $476,300 (sample as of 2026-10-21 02:02)

BTC trading rounds: 37; Win rate: 100.00%

Statistical period: 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-21

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, 40 minutes ago, a Kaito multisig address transferred 8 million KAITO to an address, worth $2.25 million. This intermediary address had received 7 million KAITO from the same source three months ago, which may be related to the large unlock on October 20. According to the token unlock schedule, 12.1 million KAITO will be unlocked on October 20, accounting for 5.01% of the circulating market cap.