[Lighter CEO says fixed income could be DeFi’s next growth opportunity]

Vlad Novakovski, CEO of Lighter, said at Korea Blockchain Week that fixed income markets, including bonds and interest rates, could become DeFi’s next growth opportunity. Lighter has already launched a related product, introducing its US10Y perpetual futures in August to track the 10-year U.S. Treasury, with up to 20x leverage. The product allows users to take positions on U.S. interest rates and Treasury prices on a DeFi platform without a brokerage account.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170441

[BTC rises above $84,000]

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $84,000. BTC is trading at $84,011.46 on the Binance USDT market.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170442

[Robinhood says Mirae Asset interest is an honor, sees room for Korea collaboration]

Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood’s senior vice president and general manager for crypto and global business, said at Korea Blockchain Week 2026 in Seoul today that it was an honor for Mirae Asset Securities, one of South Korea’s leading financial platforms, to take interest in Robinhood and use it as a reference in developing its business. According to IT Chosun, Kerbrat added that demand has been rising this year as interest in South Korean equities, including semiconductors and AI, has grown, and said tokenization and blockchain technology could become key tools for expanding market liquidity. In that context, Kerbrat said there could be room for collaboration if blockchain becomes more active in South Korea, where demand for stocks is strong.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170443
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[U.S. court dismisses class action over LIBRA and M3M3 tokens]

A U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has dismissed a class action lawsuit filed against Hayden Davis, Kelsier Ventures, and former Meteora CEO Ben Chow over the issuance of the LIBRA memecoin and the M3M3 token tied to Argentine President Javier Milei. The court found that the plaintiffs failed to sufficiently establish Meteora as a legally liable party and that the defendants’ alleged violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act did not meet key requirements, including a pattern of ongoing criminal activity.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170444

[South Korean court rejects CP Labs suit over order to return customer assets]

A South Korean court has dismissed a lawsuit by CP Labs, formerly Coinplug, challenging an administrative order from South Korea’s Financial Services Commission after the company failed to return customer assets following the shutdown of its digital-asset exchange service.

The Seoul Administrative Court’s second administrative division, led by Presiding Judge Kong Hyun-jin, on Oct. 1 rejected CP Labs’ request to cancel the corrective order. CP Labs had operated the exchange and continued to hold and manage user balances after ending operations on Nov. 30, 2020. After the assets were not properly returned, the Financial Services Commission in November last year ordered the company to notify users about the asset return process, return user assets and transfer them to a foundation, submit details on its compliance with the order, and cooperate with an inspection by the Financial Supervisory Service. CP Labs filed the administrative suit in December last year, but the court rejected the claim.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170445
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[Bithumb to temporarily suspend XLM, AQUA withdrawals and XLM deposits]

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will suspend Stellar Lumens (XLM) deposits and withdrawals, along with Aqua (AQUA) withdrawals, from 10:00 a.m. UTC today to support the Stellar Lumens network upgrade.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170446

[Bitcoin averages 18.52% gain in October since 2013]

Bitcoin has posted an average gain of 18.52% in October from 2013 through 2025. The median gain was 12.73%, with rises in 10 of the 13 Octobers and declines in three.
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[Bitcoin spot demand remains weak, on-chain analyst says]

Bitcoin spot demand remains weak, according to on-chain analyst Darkfost. BTC apparent demand now stands at negative 112,500 BTC, indicating newly issued supply is still not being fully absorbed by long-term holding and accumulation across the network. Still, that marks an improvement of about 94,500 BTC from negative 207,000 BTC on Sept. 20. With the demand gauge still in negative territory, Darkfost said spot buying remains difficult to view as strong and added that Bitcoin could face a further pullback as the market looks for a level where genuine buying demand emerges.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170448

[South Korean prosecutor proposes FIU-led crypto freeze under anti-money laundering law]

A proposal has been raised to let South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit freeze assets held on domestic exchanges for up to six months at an early stage when criminal proceeds are converted into virtual assets, Digital Asset reported.

Kim Byung-jin, a prosecutor at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, outlined the measure in a paper titled “Criminal Proceeds Converted Into Digital Assets and Ways to Introduce an Early Freeze System,” published in the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office journal New Trends in Criminal Law. The paper proposed adding an FIU-led early freeze system for digital assets to the Act on Reporting and Use of Certain Financial Transaction Information.

Under the proposal, the process would follow a structure of an investigative agency request, an FIU review, and a freeze by a virtual asset service provider. If an investigative agency requests a freeze based on a specific case and supporting materials, the FIU would separately review whether there are reasonable grounds to determine the digital assets are linked to criminal proceeds or other illicit property and whether a freeze is needed to prevent transfer or concealment. If the FIU recognizes those conditions, South Korean virtual asset service providers would be asked to restrict withdrawals, transfers, or disposal of the assets.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170449
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[Hana Card signs MOU with Tether to expand digital asset payments]

Hana Card has signed a three-way memorandum of understanding with Tether and Hana Bank to explore potential cooperation on digital asset services, The Asia Business Daily reported today. Hana Financial Group also completed regulatory acceptance of a virtual asset service provider filing from South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit on Sept. 18 through BitGo Korea, a joint venture established with digital asset custody specialist BitGo, giving it an institutional foundation for digital asset custody services for domestic institutions and corporations.

According to the report, the group appears to be building a digital asset value-chain ecosystem spanning issuance, custody, payments, remittances, and tokenized securities, including payment-sector cooperation with the world’s two largest stablecoin issuers, overseas remittances based on Dunamu’s GiwaChain, and early infrastructure development for security token offerings, or STOs.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170450
See more: https://view.asiae.co.kr/article/2026100115122344172

[Binance to list CT/USDT perpetual futures with up to 20x leverage]

Binance announced the addition of CT/USDT perpetual futures at 7:45 a.m. UTC today, with support for up to 20x leverage.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170451

[Euler Finance V2 deploys multi-collateral vault engine on Ethereum mainnet]

Euler Finance V2 has deployed its Multi-Collateral Vault Engine on the Ethereum mainnet, Bitcoinist reported.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170452

[AWS to end managed blockchain service, halt new sign-ups on Oct. 29]

Amazon Web Services will shut down its fully managed blockchain service, Amazon Managed Blockchain, according to Digital Asset. The company will stop accepting new customers on Oct. 29 and plans to end the service for existing customers in September 2027. Amazon Managed Blockchain has provided fully managed blockchain infrastructure that lets users build applications based on public and private blockchains. The service has allowed companies to access blockchain networks or query data within the AWS environment without building and operating blockchain nodes and related infrastructure themselves.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170453
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[a16z says GENIUS Act lays groundwork for shift to on-chain finance]

A16z Crypto’s head of policy, Miles Jennings, said the U.S. GENIUS Act has established a key legal framework supporting the shift to on-chain finance. Jennings said, according to The Block, the law would make it much harder for a future administration hostile to the crypto industry to reverse the on-chain transition already underway.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170454

[Lloyds Bank completes cross-border stablecoin settlement pilot with Visa]

Lloyds Bank announced on its official website that it has completed a real-time cross-border payment pilot based on stablecoins with Visa. In the seven-day pilot, Lloyds Bank bought USDC through Archax, an exchange under the UK Financial Conduct Authority, and settled $750,000 with Visa. The transaction took one hour. The pilot marks Visa’s first stablecoin settlement program with a major UK banking group.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170455

[Upbit to suspend deposits, withdrawals for GMT, JPYC, POL on Polygon hard fork]

Upbit announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for STEPN (GMT), JPYC and Polygon Ecosystem Token (POL) starting at 9:00 a.m. UTC today due to a hard fork affecting digital assets on the Polygon network.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170456

[Charles Schwab analyst says rising U.S. debt may fuel BTC gains into year-end]

Jim Ferraioli, an analyst at major U.S. financial firm Charles Schwab, said the U.S. debt load has reached $40 trillion, exceeding the size of the overall U.S. economy, and said that could revive the “Debasement Trade,” a strategy built around hedging against currency debasement by bidding up assets, according to BitcoinTreasuries. Ferraioli added that such an environment could become fuel for Bitcoin gains as the year-end approaches.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170457

[ZeroDev raises $6.7M to expand ERC-4337 smart accounts]

Next-generation smart account builder ZeroDev has raised $6.7 million to expand ERC-4337 smart accounts, Bitcoinist reported.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170458

[Strive SATA has capacity to buy more than 400 BTC]

The amount raised yesterday by Strive’s preferred stock SATA is enough to buy more than 400 BTC, according to Bitcoin Treasuries.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170459

[Global bond yields hit multi-decade highs as Brent tops $100]

Global bond yields are hitting their highest levels in decades, with the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield reaching 5.34% and the UK 30-year yield touching 6%, according to Solid Intel. Brent crude has also risen above $100 a barrel.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170460

[BTC long-term bullish structure remains intact, upside still possible]

Bitcoin’s MVRV Z-score has remained above its 365-day moving average, preserving a long-term bullish structure, according to a CryptoQuant analysis by contributor Trader_Gemini. Trader_Gemini said the 365-day moving average has historically served as a key support level in bull markets after the MVRV Z-score breaks above it. While a short-term pullback remains possible, the structure still favors further gains as long as the indicator holds above the 365-day average, the analyst said. A clear break below that level without a recovery, however, would be a major warning sign that the long-term bullish structure is weakening.
https://coinness.com/en/news/1170461