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According to Alex Shevchenko, NEAR Intents general manager, $3.8 million stolen in a vulnerability exploit has been fully refunded. The refund was completed hours after Shevchenko gave the identified party a 48-hour repayment deadline. The investigation into the incident has been halted.

According to data submitted by the Financial Supervisory Service to a ruling party lawmaker, South Korea's top 10 securities firms paid 7 billion won in compensation for 113 system failures affecting 19,055 customers between 2024 and August 2026. Program errors were the leading cause, accounting for 51.3% of incidents, followed by external system disruptions at 31.9% and hardware failures at 15.9%. Kiwoom Securities led in compensation payouts with 3.8 billion won across 13 incidents, representi

According to SPDR Gold Trust holding data, the world's largest gold ETF reduced its holdings by 0.855 tons on October 2, bringing total assets under management to 1,055.696 tons.

According to Rappler, GCash parent company Mynt on October 3 priced its initial public offering at P6.60 per share, significantly lower than the anticipated P10, reducing the implied market valuation from P669 billion to approximately P442 billion. More than 20 cornerstone investors, including Capital Research, Fidelity International, and HSBC Asset Management, committed roughly P36.5 billion to the deal but only after demanding the steep discount. Mynt's first-half 2026 financial results showed

According to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, Canary submitted a revised Pepe ETF filing on October 3.

According to E Daily, on Sept 30, U.S. memory chipmaker Micron posted record quarterly revenue of $54.23 billion for fiscal 2026 Q4, up 379% year-over-year and surpassing market expectations of $51 billion. The company also provided upbeat guidance, projecting fiscal 2027 Q1 revenue of $61.5 billion versus analyst consensus of $57 billion, citing sustained memory demand from AI data centers and potential multi-year supply shortages. South Korea's semiconductor exports reached $60.3 billion in Se

According to CoinDesk, on October 3, BNY is in talks with Payward, Kraken's parent company, on a broad digital asset partnership. The potential collaboration covers custody, wealth management, trading, payments, and financial market infrastructure. Services would be delivered through Payward Services, the company's B2B platform for banks, exchanges, and asset management firms.

According to the UK Maritime Trade Organization, an oil tanker's captain reported the vessel was struck by an unidentified flying object on its port side on Oct 3, in the waters approximately 4 nautical miles off Eastern Oman. All crew members are safe, and no environmental impact has been reported.

According to ChainCatcher, as monitored by Liquid24/7.xyz, the Hyperliquid address 0xefe4c0...194b added 311.65 BTC longs worth approximately $26.33 million on October 3. Following the increase, the address now holds 486.6 BTC longs with a total notional value of approximately $41.11 million, currently facing an unrealized loss of approximately $0.724 million.

According to CoinGecko, Bitcoin consolidated between $82,500 and $85,600 this week, supported by spot ETF inflows but capped by rising U.S. Treasury yields. U.S. 10-year Treasury yields climbed to 5.3%, the highest since 2007, increasing the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $2.699 billion in net inflows through September, though outflows of $148.7 million occurred on September 30, while over 24,000 BTC moved off exchanges in the past five days. The

According to Apple's announcement on October 2, the company will strengthen macOS permission controls to provide users with greater transparency when AI agents request full access to their computers. The move comes as Meta's Muse AI agent faces scrutiny after tech columnist Jason Aten reported the assistant may have accessed his private messages without explicit authorization. Apple will require users to take "significantly more explicit" actions to grant applications Full Disk Access—a system f

According to Onchain Lens, a newly created wallet withdrew 198,290 HYPE tokens from Coinbase Prime, equivalent to approximately $17.29 million based on current pricing. The wallet currently holds all 198,290 HYPE tokens, now valued at around $17.22 million. HYPE is the native token of Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetual futures trading platform.

According to Porsche's Oct. 1 announcement, the German luxury carmaker shut down its NFT project. The company launched 2,363 digital artworks out of a planned 7,500 Porsche 911 NFTs in November 2022. Existing NFTs remain with holders on the blockchain; the Discord community will transition to read-only archive and the X account will become inactive. Porsche 911 NFT prices plummeted from over $4,000 in early 2023 to around $200 currently. The collection's trading volume hit $20 million historical

According to ChainCatcher, Blast Layer 2 network announced the halt of operations today due to insufficient network revenue to cover maintenance costs. Following the announcement, South Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb added BLAST to their watchlists. BLAST token plummeted over 40%, now trading at $0.0002433 with a market cap of approximately $24 million.

According to Zhitong Finance, on Friday, the Hang Seng Index ADR rose 60.65 points or 0.25% to close at 24,032.94, based on proportional calculation from Hong Kong market close. Among major blue-chip stocks, HSBC Holdings rose 0.93% to 150.889 Hong Kong dollars, while Tencent Holdings declined 1.05% to 416.773 Hong Kong dollars.

According to Zhitong Finance, on Oct 3, Hang Seng Index October futures closed at 23,831 points, down 44 points or 0.184%, trading at a 141-point discount. Open interest totaled 137,122 contracts, an increase of 11,545 contracts; net open interest stood at 51,041 contracts, up 10,988 contracts.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, USD-KRW fell to 1,343.60 won overnight on October 3 after September nonfarm payrolls increased just 29,000 versus market expectations of 90,000. The unemployment rate rose to 4.2%, and the dollar index dropped below 102. The currency declined more than 20 won from its intraday high of 1,366.20 won as investors anticipated slower rate hikes. The Group of Seven announced plans to release 100 million barrels of crude oil and diesel reserves to stabilize fu

On October 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit temporarily suspended enforcement of Minnesota's law banning AI nudification tools, a major legal victory for xAI. The court halted execution of the law, which took effect on August 1, while xAI's constitutional challenge proceeds. The law prohibits service providers from offering tools that generate or modify realistic nude or sexualized images of identifiable individuals. Violations carry civil penalties up to $500,000 per offense.

According to analysis by Hankyung Epic AI on October 3, Samsung Electronics' average price target from 24 securities firms reached 498,125 won, representing an 80.5% increase from the October 2 closing price of 276,000 won. The median target stood at 500,000 won. SK Hynix saw similar momentum, with an average price target of 3.286 million won from 24 securities firms, up 78.5% from the October 2 close of 1.841 million won. The median target for SK Hynix was 3.3 million won.

According to SEC Chair Paul Atkins, the Securities and Exchange Commission this week proposed a framework to address regulatory gaps for investment advisers and funds that legally custody crypto assets. The proposal updates custodial rules under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, which were designed for traditional assets and have not been substantially revised in decades. Atkins noted that new crypto asset custody capabilities often lag asset launches by