CZ, the founder of Binance, posted on X platform, stating that there are deepfake videos related to "me" promoting some tokens I have never heard of. Previously, CZ had warned the community to "be careful of scams when deepfake videos appear on other social media platforms."

The smart contract wallet Argent has launched the Telegram Accelerator Program, which aims to connect Telegram users to Ethereum and Starknet. Currently, application channels are open and will close on November 1st. The official will fund up to 20 high-quality teams, with each team receiving $25,000 in start-up capital and up to $1 million in subsequent funding.

Cobo co-founder and CEO Shenyu Yu posted on X, "Recently, I sorted out a batch of old addresses from 1000 days ago. Some of the old contracts in these addresses still have funds, but they are not displayed on the frontend. Thanks to Arkham for timely reminding and helping to retrieve these funds. I truly feel the warmth and progress of the industry."

According to CryptoQuant's data, since October 7, 2024, more than 63,000 BTC have been sent to cryptocurrency exchanges, including approximately 28,000 BTC on October 7, 23,500 BTC on October 8, and approximately 12,000 BTC on October 9.

On October 12th, the Avalanche Foundation announced that an agreement has been reached to repurchase all 1.97 million AVAX tokens sold to the LUNA Foundation (LFG) in April 2022, pending approval from the bankruptcy court. This ensures that LFG does not violate the original agreement on token usage and protects the tokens from the complexity of bankruptcy trustee liquidation, while returning the 1.97 million AVAX to the foundation's holders.

On October 11th, Santiment, a cryptocurrency market research firm, posted on social media that Bitcoin hit a low of $58,900 in the early morning, marking the lowest point in three weeks. However, market data shows that traders believe this drop is a buying opportunity and the narrative has turned bullish. In addition, US CPI data met expectations and the market still believes there will be a 25 basis point rate cut in November.

Tezos network equity holders Josh Jarrett and his wife Jessica Jarrett have once again filed a lawsuit against the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding the tax treatment of their tokens. In the latest lawsuit filed on October 10th in the Tennessee federal court, the Jarretts argued that the tokens they created through staking should be considered property and only taxable upon sale, not before. They believe that staking tokens involves creating a "new property" because no one else owned them before, making them similar to "a farmer's crop, a writer's manuscript, or a manufacturer's product" in that they do not generate any income before being sold.

Scam Sniffer has detected that KOR Protocol's official X account has been hacked and phishing tweets have been posted.

Cross-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero has announced on Twitter that it has launched on the Unichain testnet. Developers and applications that connect to more than 90 chains can now explore Unichain through LayerZero. Earlier, Uniswap development team UniswapLabs announced the launch of its own L2 network, Unichain, which is built on Optimism's OPStack technology.

Scam Sniffer has warned on X platform that there are phishing ad links in the search results for Chainlist on Google. If users connect their wallets and sign the phishing link, their funds will be stolen. Users are reminded to be cautious.

According to the latest network data, Bitcoin's computing power reached a historic high of 698 exahashes (EH/s) per second on October 10, 2024. This new record surpasses the previous record of 693 EH/s set on September 8.

Canadian cryptographer Peter Todd, who was identified as Satoshi Nakamoto in the HBO documentary "Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery," has been forced into hiding. Todd claimed that documentary director Cullen Hoback used misleading evidence to come to the wrong conclusion, and that it has put him at risk of security threats, including potential kidnapping and robbery. Todd said he agreed to appear in the HBO documentary because he believed it was about the history of Bitcoin, not an attempt to uncover the truth.

QCP Capital analysts believe that the uncertainty surrounding the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on Tuesday night is affecting the US stock market and, in turn, the cryptocurrency market. The analysts pointed out: "Macro-economic uncertainty is currently dominating the cryptocurrency market, with a 30-day correlation with the MSCI Global Stock Index reaching 0.6, the highest level in nearly two years."

Alliance has released a 2024 trend report on cryptocurrency startups, which provides insights into trends observed from the application data and their potential impact on the wider startup ecosystem. The key points are as follows:

On September 11th, Veda Labs founder Steph Vaughan tweeted that the official X account of the DeFi yield protocol had been hacked.

On October 23rd, Celestia Labs announced the concept verification of the Mammoth Mini test network, with an average unlicensed data throughput of 27 MB/s. Many improvements of Mammoth Mini (such as FBSS) have completed the research phase and entered the design phase, while others (such as Vacuum! and the redesigned QUIC-based p2p stack) are in the prototype and MVP stages and undergoing iterative improvements. The core developer community hopes to propose these improvements when they are ready for deployment in 2025.

Startup Exowatt has announced its ceramic battery technology to address the energy needs of data centers. The company claims that its technology can store solar energy for months, helping to address the rapid growth of power consumption in data centers. The company has received $20 million in seed funding, with investors including a16z and Alterman. According to reports, Exowatt has accumulated orders of 1.2 gigawatts, mainly focused on data centers and encryption mining projects in the United States.