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In brief Ethereum developers have called off Monday’s Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet after auditor ChainSecurity flagged security issues with its gas changes. The firm said the changes could let some smart contracts permanently record failed operations that their code was designed to keep retryable. ChainSecurity said it has found 13 real-world examples and is contacting affected projects, as the Ethereum Foundation assesses how many contracts are exposed. Ethereum developers have postponed the planned activation of the network’s Glamsterdam upgrade on its Hoodi test network after security firm ChainSecurity found problems with how the upgrade changes gas, the auditor…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Exchange Tokens Are Being Redesigned Around One Question: How Do You Stop People Leaving? The airdrop cycle of 2024 and 2025 produced a repeatable pattern, and everyone in the market can recite it. A protocol announces a points programme. Volume climbs. Wallets multiply. The token generates, the airdrop lands, and within weeks a large share of the supply has been sold and a large share of the activity has moved to whichever protocol announced points next. The mechanism worked exactly as designed. It bought attention and volume…

In brief Bitcoin hasn’t moved more than 6% over the past month, and every top five cryptocurrency has failed to move more than 2% over the past seven days. Market analysts say that a boring market isn’t a bad sign, that it could actually be an early sign of an incoming bull market. One expert says Bitcoin is in “wait and see mode,” as investors wait for the Federal Reserve’s rate decision on October 28. Bitcoin hasn’t budged more than 6% over the past month, per Decrypt data, and is currently sitting at around $81,735, down 1.2% on the day.…

In brief Brent crude rose 2.6% to $111.66 a barrel, its highest in five months, as the Nasdaq fell 1.5% and the S&P 500 lost 0.8% by mid-morning in New York. South Korea’s Kospi fell 3.52%, Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped 2.65% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 3.03%, a week after the Kospi’s 7.57% plunge on Oct. 15. The 10-year Treasury yield stood at 5.03%, up from 3.97% before the Iran war, with the Fed’s next rate decision due Oct. 28. Brent crude, the global benchmark price for oil, jumped 2.6% to $111.66 a barrel on Thursday, its highest level…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: PancakeSwap’s ‘The Flip’ vote would boost liquidity providers‘ share of certain trading fees to 88% while cutting daily CAKE emissions to 7,000. PancakeSwap holders are being asked to decide how much value should go to liquidity providers and how much new CAKE the protocol should continue issuing. Voting has opened on ‘The Flip’, a proposal first outlined to the community earlier in October. Under the plan, liquidity providers on v3 and Infinity pools would keep 88% of swap fees, up from roughly two-thirds on many pools.…

In brief Tesla’s third-quarter net income fell 43% to $787 million on flat revenue of $28.05 billion, as research spending rose 69% and capital expenditures more than doubled to $4.73 billion. Tesla began producing Optimus humanoid robots in Fremont, California; Musk targets 20,000 a week but says that will take at least a year, with outside deliveries around the end of 2027. Tesla says it is trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of 2026 while a federal safety audit is open, with its sworn answers to regulators due October 30. Tesla’s profit fell 43% last quarter to…

In brief The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Ireland €3,252,618 (about $3.6 million) for breaching safeguarding and outsourcing rules between November 2020 and August 2025. Regulators found the firm relied too heavily on its U.S. parent for compliance, lacked local oversight expertise, and let its designated safeguarding account stay underfunded for lengthy periods; Coinbase admitted the breaches. It’s Ireland’s second action against Coinbase’s European business in the last year. Coinbase’s Irish arm has been fined roughly $3.6 million by the Central Bank of Ireland for failing to properly protect customer funds, the regulator’s second enforcement action against the exchange’s…